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Show GORKY IS SENT TO RIGA BY RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT reit."Mjr friends' ? kindness Is itself cursive. ..I, wanted to go to the. Crimea, Cri-mea, where the climate 1 'warm, but the Government won't allow me to go there or to Moscow." In the midst of an affectionate leave, taking- from his wife, son and friends, the train bell rang a last warning. Gorky shook hands all around, kissed his wife, lifted, up. little Maxim, kissed j him on totli cheeks and then stepped In the car. while his wife, sobbed Quietly and his son sereamedr "Good-bye. papa;, good-bye." - . One of the secret service men lammed the car 4oor, and the train teamed out of the station. NEW YORK. Feb. S2. SflXim Gorky, who was released from, puis on yesterday yester-day ' and immediately, rearrested, has, according to a St.'Tetersburg dispatch to the New York American, been escorted es-corted by Government agents to Riga. The author told tys friends who gathered gath-ered at the railway station that be wanted to go to the Crimea, but thi Government refused hit request Mme. Gorky, with her. young son, was awaiting his arrival at home, when she was called by telephone late in the evening. An unknown person said to her: - ;. "Gorky will leave the Warsaw station sta-tion tor pome unknown destination at 10:13.-. ; -,, ; I- ;? ,V "Thank aod. 'exclaimed Mine. Gorky. "I will go Immediately.'.? '. Summoning a sleigh, she carried her ailing son and hurried," to the station. The author was there with eight friends and two Government agents. The boy kissed bla father's hand re-peatedly, re-peatedly, while' Gorky's friends crowded crowd-ed about the family group crying affectionately: affec-tionately: " "Alexander Michaleovltch. we congratulate con-gratulate you. ' . , ' Save for Gorky's family and the group of friends there was no, demonstration. To a correspondent Gorky said: "I want to thank you and all the world for the sympathy expressed to me." ' Where are you going abroad ?" "You 'don't Imagine." Gorky answered, an-swered, "that the government' will let me go abroad. I am going to Rlgn, on the Baltic." ... v v. v . "Is your health better?'1 . "Thank God," hetanswered.'"lt might be worse." ' f ' He said this cheerily, and with a loud laugh. r "You have not suffered from your prison experiences?" , - "No," he answered.' "I only want a |