Show r Ja I BY BY A 1 1 I A Jt THO r U ME M. M BOWERS RS 7 It was the lay day 0 or reckoning Through h the length tint and anU breadth of or Russia the hour of vengeance ens hat hall come conic And In the Grand Duchy for forthe forthe forthe the czar though ho lie be bo autocrat of aUthe all aU the time l Is Ie but the Grand Duke Dulce of Finland to 0 t th the h. h every every- day every ay tale of ot Individual oppression and cruelty was added the tho bitterness of trust betrayed edor ed of or promises broken of loyalty loyally harried har bar ried nod until the ono one faithful corner cornor or of orthe orthe the empire was turned into a n. hotbed of or rebellion The TIme little town of hor had Its own account to present and mu one particular man to present It For Boris Dorl colonel for Cor all h ho he was not 40 of the time quartered In th the tho town to overawe ra the burglars burglar he becu left Ift bound lIe He d but no one responded He lie struggled but hut th the rop only cut into him Ho shouted again In again in vain The Tho motion told him that the schooner was wo rounding tho tIme bay and he lie knew that since they were c catchIng catch Ing lag ho the s swell the north wind mutt must be rising He shouted with all his might He tried to get a 11 h hand nd free but free but i not a knot would give not not- nota a a. rope lc lengthen by as 85 much as QS a couple of I Inches With a a snarl like that of a a. wolf one erie of or the thi wolves In his own forests lu ht lay Iny hot cramped ramped his limbs strained Il h hi his ill flesh sh L V 1 j I I rr Irr z I II uiL 4 4 Iv- Iv I WHAT r VOU FT I r TO tin an and hold to lo Its rights municipal mu mu- nn amul l ducal lucal with Hh peculiar tenacity ten temi- a when till all firm was firm was universally universally uni uni- execrated Sent on a a. cruel task ask he lie ha had set about It In a cruel a way Now came the turn of the op op- op pressed In vain confined the tile troops to barracks they dis dis- dis affected In vain ho appealed for uncontaminated reinforcements such a a. thing did n nOt t exist Ho lie went about In n fear of oC his life and everyman every everyman man meeting him shrank from him as asIr asif asif if Ir ho a a. I leper pe It came camo to l a L day late in October The sun was glittering on the tho pale vale waters of the tho Gulf of oC the pines on the tapering spurs of or land cost cast long shadows over tho the sea the tile fringe e of Islands treeless for the tho most part were still tinged with purple plo from rein the heather but in the time air was the Iho first warning of winter and the north wind sweeping down already I suggested frost and leo ice and snow when the little trading schooner schoon r which exchanged the tile timber and resin of S for Cor the commodities of Gothenburg stood tood into tho the ba bay and amid the man who leaned leanell against as tho the rail his eyes fixed on the tho little town sud cud suddenly denly threw up his head It was a a. Finn he lie had Swedish blood In him for Cor he was tall as a son of ot Anak Anal eyed blue with a a. sensitive face betraying that quickness of emotion emotion emotion emo emo- I tion which the Swe Swedes es alone alono of the pe peoples ples of or the tho north possess Carl ho he called In that song sing-song voice in which Danes Daubs Norwegians and Swe Swedes vary tho the samo Ilmo language A man peered out from Crom tho the skippers skipper's skippers skipper's skip skip- pers per's cabin and und because the sun was In his eyes made mado a n shelter of his big weather-beaten weather hand Herr ho lie began bogan with a touch of or deference The barometer Is lq falling ques questioned tines- tines tho big manAch manAch man Ach so so mehl Herr Horr acquiesced tho the sailor I John Joh Johansson UI for fOl the present pres omit ent nt remember tho the other put in The old sailor pushed a n. battered hat far back and nodded so S he commented It will blow a galo gale after sunset tho the big man maui questioned This time tinie tho ho skipper confined himself him hini- self to a n nodIn nod In Iii the open onen we shall have hae a 0 rou h night t of or it Rain decided the old man A heavy sea sea and maybe hall hail His Ills listener nO nodded ded In his turn lurn paced the tue leek deck then stopped 1 shot short before the tubby figure In iii the tho woolen Jersey It It Is Crr tonight oni ht he said That night the men of S Sv maddened by wrongs and insults stormed the barracks s and amid in time till thick of oC the din when a 0 handful of ot Rus nu Russian sian oro fruitlessly promised to remit all punishments and increase all aJl I Ipa pay flay if tile the troops but obey tho time I yard word to fire Ore Boris Doris Schou aloff found himself seized 1 bound blindfolded Monsieur lo 10 colonel a voice whispered whis In French In his car ear I am going to lake talo you rou down to my boat bout in ink k a Who ho ore are you Oll 1 the lie Russian gasped You shall know presently was th the th-i enigmatical reply struggled no more What hat would it profit to escape from this man man only to fall Into the hands of or orthe the yelling clamoring mob without helpless he lie found himself carried down to the water water out out to thi th tho schooner He lIe was laid in a hunk bunk Inthe in tim inthe the little cabin the time bandage from his eyes ees He Ie heard the getting up of or the anchor anchor anchor an an- chor the Iho rattle of tho tile winch ho lie know knew they were putting pulling out to sea At he Ja lay Jay still merely relieved to find himself rc rescued cue from th hit death deathtrap deathtrap deathtrap trap and that din of ot voices howling for his blood anti and then a slow cold cole wonder overcame him 1 Wh had hadI Yh Why was he still bound Why I Ho lie lIsten listened lJ d to the tho 1 lh nes He lie coulet h har nr ting up uro already r the the- boat hoat wa was pitch pitch- I ing I But no physical discomfort was equal ermal to th the fear that assailed him I Thought can torture with exquisite II dexterity and find remembrance had hall him In hand He could recollect this man that the other othel all of ot whom had been brutally punished at his comman command He Ho could see wounds scars cars stripes He had hall thought nothing of oC pain and agony agon In those days but he was waa sure now hew how hew terrible they w V 1 Then Timen there were the mere lads mere lads mere bo boys s 's many of or them them that h he had caused to be drafted into various Russian Rus nus- sian clan regiments in direct defiance of or the ordinance which i enacts enact that lint no Finn shall shah be called on to serve out of or the Grand Duchy without his own consent coment he ho could see them hustled along by a hedge of or bayonets pale bayonets pale pale- faced with curses trembling on their thell quivering ng lips After Arter them came the other men men inca those against whose names he lie had penned with ri never nOver ver a pulsation o of oC pit pity the ono one word Disaffected which condemned them to transportation often orton to Siberia itself And the time mothers mothers moth moth- ers cis they left heft behind The TIme wives the dau daughters the tears tho tile prayers There was above all Marie de do H He could not get Marie out of or his hea head Sh She seemed to come out of or the darkness to stand clos cloro o up to him to look at him with big reproachful e eyes es Marie ho lie moaned Mario Could he point lo to no extenuating circumstance Would It avail him nothing that he re hall had In a spared her that ho ha had 1 at least abstained abstained ab ab- ab- ab stained 1 Marie died lied It Is la true brokenhearted heart broken ed her father lather only saved from froni Siberia by night her twin brother living Schou knew exactly what kind of ot existence with a a. Russian regiment regimen under the tho Urals but though her home was wrecked anti and her parents beggared beg beg- gared Mario l herself was wag unmolested and sho she died unconscious of ot what wha might have ha been her worst peril perU hat had she lived It was Do own fault Cault Tho Time Thoman Thoman man had his chance Ho Tie should have forgotten that ho he was wa a Finn and re remembered remembered re- re remembered that he was a subject of Nicholas Then all ml might ht have havo been well and amid Marie might have Ja been and amid he he Boris Doris Sch J ri ml ii might t h have sou sought ht her hr hand hand pc perhaps hand perhaps VII Why not For when a u prominent Finn apostatized who wa was more caressed at court And Anti as came camo to lo that the door of tho the cabin opened Here Hera began bogun the Russian In hi his yard barrack voice you OU fool who who- over ever you ou are wh why do you ou stand there thore Come Conic and cut these ropes Time The newcomer advanced a n. few Cow steps flashed a hed a lantern that the man In iii the bunk might have o a full fulI view of or him Monsieur 1 le he J colonel ho ho- said and amid he still spoke French but now It was tinged with an un ironical accent Schou alof took hut but one ono look at tho massive form and the face set I and stern t rn and amid his Ills Jaw dropped De Do hu hm 1 lien Blen sur u ui ur i lo Jo colonel came the tIme reply Dolls BoHs began a quick How flow of ot words In iii Swedish the lie language of oC the tle educated edu edu- Nationalist 1 Finn but the man maim checked himI himI himI him I remember ho lie said when you ou accepted the hospitality WI were forced to and and abused tl It you ou you could not understand one onu word of our Jargon ur The Russian understood Whit What hat are arc you going to do with me he lie g and his tongue all aU at seemed i to have haye dry grown too large Jarge for fOl his mouth There was a long pause before Do answered He stood looking down at the prostrate man His P ex- ex was unmistakable i it graB graB- fled tlell him to see this in the place of or the wretch insolent oppressor The S went b by hy Suddenly a a. asea sea caught the tho schooner tIme the SOW out of or the seemed to be bO jerked Schou violently vio yb- and the lurch threw from one ledge hedge to the the- theother other oilier or ot the bunk You rapped your head then commented com the tho Finn Finn- You could not putout put putout 1 You on were wor yourself out oot a hand to save But then julia you al always nl al bound you I Know now ways were an advocate of oC You threatened my bo boy with then them when ho protested against a 0 force service In on one of or your rc regiments forts Doris cl clenched nhe his bis t teeth What arm aro mer lie he ejaculated you ou going to do with me ed Id when whon ImP f could bear the silence no longer longel DP Do t smiled slowly lIe He wont vont T the x a. door 1 For the pr present be he said laid I r I am going KO- KO 0 Ing InS to keep you OU In suspense But rost rest assured I have my Intentions and I shall carry thorn them out out out-lu in DIY my own good time We iVe arc on the sea se semy my ray crew are faithful to me mp There is no one to Interfere But lInt for the present I leave you ou In suspense Do you OU recollect You laughed at m my suspense Da Day by day I can came to you to beg eg you ou to tell me w where lele m my toy boy had hall been sent my my bo boy my only sort son on who was hardly hard hard- hardly ly twenty It was your our doing that h he was Wan drafted I Into 11 n i n I i v 0 and you 1 0 knew where ho he was You knew and yet ot el e every day for tor twelve weeks I came to you OU I begged you u. u I Implored Implored and and you ou would not tell me mt where In he was You laughed II U. The hours S slowly ebbed the tho storm grow tho the ship 10 rolled Oiled II Cd and anti pitched and plunged It was a wilt wild night in iii u cc i locality celebrated for tor wild nights On Ono I descent deeper oven even than usual throw Schou alo out of or tIme the bunk on th the I floor He lIe- In lay there bruised all nIl over O one arm arm hOd badly crushed and antI the time pall pain of oC it held about with ropes grew STew al almost at- at most Intolerable Then to was acid dd ej Ii hunger hunger to U fl t ger-t to Ii hunger hung i burning burning- u in in g thirst r And this he lie h had hd ll beep been assured was but the tIme be beginning Hour by hour that certainty burned into lute his brain brain- each pang seemed med hut but a u. foretaste oC or tar fur worse to come comae each burning dart but a IL nIn n to what im in i 11 i h. h 11 to en endure ure I At last Jast Wh n between the lashing gu gusts cr ts of ot spray a trickle of oC daylight ht filtered in at tIme the port hole the tue door opened again an and again Do Jo K EX built bulle d It H lie He still carried time thc lantern lan lan- tern an and 1 when Its gleam showed him the form orm eu on the floor there was neither re relaxation nor pit hit pity on his bis face Water unter Yater gasped Doris Boris So said salt the tho Finn still th time Irony of oC hits his speech finds himself thirsty thirst It If It was waR lost In the howling ot tue tho win and the dash or of f spray rattling like a shower ot of 11 against l the port r You Vou saId tIme tho Plum Finn Th There r ii III wu water ter jUst without Again Ag the time Russian un understood rr Tie TIu gave vent ent to an Imprecation uDo Do Do you ou recollect t nn nc i-i i rp rn T u on vent that I liar had a 0 Olaf nut not faith faithful Cui ant a 0 QU question R. R simple question Monsieur but then lie know you rou ITo Ie Colonel could recollect in what direction 1101 had his maste- maste gone hunting Timo Tho l. l lie He met a ster never friend who him hinl warned But what tIlt the tho servant You you ou do Yo You had beat I rul ful Olaf OlaC until he was him In my faithful faith falth nor lIe dead until alive lie he was waR in a a. far than Monsieur Is Ui worse con con- the he Colonel now antI a Schou yet et fin fId none too Ing imig S with comfortable thirst Olaf bUrn bUrn- bUrnIng and anti yo you OU directed men to place jue your a Jug e o of or w wt t his Is roach ranch You him t Just out ut or of i whole hole night not In a so bound ono cabin bl outhouse and It wo wa was but In ln all an December Do you not October but recollect S e All dy diLY time the storm Doris Dorb Increased all da day of at tho ho cabin lie He was left o on n tho lie floor loOI could i i of ot the Ule gale galo hear hoor th tho tur now and fury fur then sharp wor Word r of or ho he Cau Caught ht a a. t command the tho laboring or of the tho one ho i Could te tel tel- 1 l' l gan to pra pray that tIme the engines n and amid ho lie be began be- be down DroWning would ship ml ht g gl more merciful bo be a denU th or felt Celt to be bo In stoe time the one Store for tor him ti K 1 To He past when toward a a. ShI C evening the tho cabin abated a 3 little time the fury tury or of tho ho Was Opened door doer o or the again Stood before De e him It has begun cold Is to hall hail ho the bitter said Th jf th sea fen Is thee deck I POuring am aln over drenched oln am dw down to a but then I 1 Ju Jug good ot of I hot meal mel coffe coffee and ft a lie He shut th tIme the door rim as i abruPtly 8 as Im h OIL orl l Pao J ren ar J tAT SAT HOME I ri H I t Cou Continued front l lI C Ei bight ht had hat opened it but before Boris DOlls could F do o more than realize that the weather t I bad a bearing tearing on him It was opened S e-S aKa again in This time Limo Do was aceS acv ac accompanied accompanied ac- ac v compa companied by two men Pick him up and carr carry him hint on OD deck deck the time Finn commanded I. I Rou Roughly hh th the Russian was as seized and In a n minute the Ice Ico co co l L wind was slapping slapping slap slap- ping against his face and antl the time lash oC ot t I i if hall hail made matle his ne flesh I tingle while th spray pra- swept over him and drenched a f hint hIm I e Lash him to the mast he heard DC De Tock say say m and he knew that do what he tie would he |