Show y e ils i ls y A QUEEN OF BANDITS 19 13 BARBARA ARBARA DANELIA WHO RULES RUSSIAN CAUCASUS A Geor georgalan glan of gentle blood she conducts ber bold ups with AU all the etiquette of a atoo koom th the doxa dava cox C of 0 runia ARBARA danella danelia IMS E 3 Is the dora cox of the russian can cacus A most picturesque tur esque polite and altogether charming creature is barbara if those who have met her in a 4 business way are to be believed her manners are those of df the drabin drawing g room her conversation I 1 Is a delight to the ear and the traveler who has met her comes to regard himself as a person specially honored 1 I am delighted to have had this opportunity port unity of meeting so amiable a gentleman I 1 says barbara after the transfer of property has been completed and the gentleman will probably assure her that the pleasure la is all his the american tourist who ventures into that wild country I 1 in the south of russia should not neglect to go well WILL YOU KINDLY TURN OUT YOUR POCKETS supplied with money and jewelry it if he wishes to see the fair barbara at her best at such times she Is bubbling over with vivacity wit and good cheer she may insist upon his drinking a bottle of wine with her and if he takes his losses in the proper spirit she may even advance um him sufficient j money to see him back to his friends she la is herself of gentle blood and she appreciates the usages of polite polita so clety in others barbara Is now about 35 5 years old ten years ago she dis appeared from her home in the village of bandze in the government of kui atals just why she left the surround ings which she had previously graced so charmingly is not known the se be cret is surely securely locked up in her heart she has been identified but never before a law courts court for she is still very much at large and snaps her fingers at cossacks governments and police with the same confidence in her own good luck which has accompanied her ever since she uok took to the mountains not that the course of her strange love of adventure has always run smooth barbara has had downs as well as ups in her curious career four or five times tor for instance the lady was surprised or betrayed and arrested but her luck never left her once her prison door it was a manor house was opened at night if not by an angel of the lord at least by a friend of the lady whereupon she rose up and walked away before her accusers could bring her to trial another time her jailer set get her tree free and went with her to the mountains where he is now one of the most tearless fearless daredevils dare devils of her band the third time that barbara found herself in durance vile nothing happened to help her and she was duly sent to trial her jailer would probably have fallen in love with her had he known that his sympathetic prisoner belong to the female sex but as barbara has invariably worn the picturesque tur esque costume of a male georgian since she took to the hills the jailer entertained an angel unawares and conscientiously looked after her the trial therefore duly came on and ow BARBARA DANELIA ins ing to tazo some curious conflict of oar evidence ij barbara arbara got or whereupon she ahe ii returned to her lawless subjects and hir fier reciting mode of life in ner her mati male a attire mhd never hover be taken tor a acan vre weri alot it not lor her deU cate feat t dfisher sher silvery voice and always she site ja can tan hit we edgar o is t arp cent t ss SS T X f S yos would not be 1 state it IL the number ol of strong ng AM able e bowed bodied men whom barbars barbara has h held eld up single handed in true road agent style is I 1 legion 0 occasionally she meets with stubborn resistance fro from M the lorda of creation and she carries more ore than one wound as an evidence of her precarious calling but she never comes come 0 off ff second d b best es L oc occasionally caslo nally the russian ruso si authorities take a hand band only last year police inspector eristoff Eri atoff dashed off to the hills armed to the teeth and a accompanied by three attendants ex 61 pecking ting to come back with barbara bound the funeral of the inspector did not nol take place tor for nearly a week afterward although the one surviving attendant brought news of the death of his e chief lief and the other members of the expedition two days after it had set out |