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Show Old Man Is Dying and His Wife Is on Brink of the Grave Tula, RusBla, Nov. 15. The condition condi-tion of both Count Ieo ToMol and the countess are reported today as critical crit-ical Tho count npepars to be succumbing suc-cumbing to a fever broughc on by mental men-tal distress and exposure Incident to 1 is voluntary oxlle from home, while i Ms deserted wife Is dying of u broken ; hearL The minds of the great Russian people peo-ple scarcely could have conceived a more tragic ending of two lives which have been interwoven for half a century. cen-tury. Tolstoi, overcome with fatigue, while attempting yenterday to continue-his continue-his pilgrimage from tho monastery at Hiarnardlno to the Caucasus, where he had hoped to spend his last days in the To'stolan colony on the shores of the black Sea, lies In a miserable hut r.t the railroad flag station of Asta-rova, Asta-rova, at which point ho was removed from the train when his p'uyslclan and c 'inpanlon. Dr. Makovotsky, realized that a continuation of tho Journey would result lu death. Today Dr. Mak-ovetsky Mak-ovetsky and consulting physicians declared de-clared that the condition of the Bged . man was most serious. . ' On the Tolstoi estate at Yasnaya-Tollana, Yasnaya-Tollana, less than f0 miles from is-tapoa. is-tapoa. the countess today received the last BacramenL When her bus- j Mnd disappeared last Thursday she attempted suicide. Since then one j i.ervous crisis after another has fol- , lowed. For four days ehc has not j touched food. The. two physicians who have remained re-mained In constant attend?nee say tho patient la prostrated mentally and rbysieully and that her Illness has reached a critical stage. Those in cloAe touch with the novelist novel-ist say Tolstoi felt the approach of death and his disappearance from home wns Influenced by a desire to spare hit family pain and the complications I that mlgbt ensue regardiug his fu- i c ral becauno of excommunication j lorn tho Greek church. I'rlnce Obelenskl. who first gave to ' (he world tho news that the count hod J abandoned his home secretly to seek i solitude, pointed out today that Tol-riol Tol-riol was always deeply interested In I the legend of Alexander 1, who did not dL when he Is supposed to have done ta, but passed many years as a hermit la Siberia under the name of Kus-n.ltch. Kus-n.ltch. This afternoon. Countess Tolstoi j av.onished her physicians by a demand ; that she be Liken to her h-jsband. She ; would not llBten to objections. Later In the day the party proceeded to , Actapnva, tho countes3 be'ng aceoru- ranled bv her two tons and a friend, ' M. T. Chertkoff. I |