} My ¢ yy wey | Sm nee ose BY Wa-MURRAY GRAYDON. | e% es - = — J C< S a ee al COPYRIGHT, «897 BY THE WOOLFALA PUBLIGHING CQ) (Continued. ) Th FOUNK | < fate appeared to be sealed, pa a Ce FOAM wt just when the weapon was within al ; fr &!a :oot of his head t! iptain stopped eves, | short and cried in a voice hoarse with gud : on eae” | Sion, No, ni my fine fellow; re ’ eid ge, Pease too mert Yul for vou He i ~ a | sheathed his weapon and turned to the in a oe a | soldiers. —. — wis ‘Bind him to that t1 yonder,” he gore i shouted, ‘“‘and shoot him instantly.” mand, . age a Maurice was speedily tied to a large er pl oe oe rd tree that stood a few yards distant rhe mvicts fled eullente eo The conv! ts hud lled affrightedly to- wi the ) pediiebinne on at gether, and the girl, who seemed un- statue, he r} s looking unuttera- | ee = oe meaning of tine wt Rial RRR oo cine the scene, edged away from the spot, a. “~ 7 a be ao oat a ‘aoe | leoking with unutterable terror at sain Daroman, mounted on a Cossack Captain Daroman. pony. He freque ntly accompanied the a hanes — pewere: sharp, working parties to the mines to see ges a7 rs, and S dozen ¢ ossacks ad- how much gold was being washed out, vanced from the line. They dropped sof ‘this was one of his inspection | ‘Pei Tile butts wih's ringing clatter days to the frozen ground and then ra'‘sed | them to their shoulders.

Strance to say, he was in a passably

god humour this merning, and his} Wyshed face showed that he had been indulging rather heavily in vodka.

From under his fur cap he observed the girl by the roadside, and the pony brought him opposite he slinped eat of the saddle and stepped up to ber before she had time to move. “Well, my ‘pretty maiden, have you a xiss for me this ‘morning 7” he ask- ed, with a smile. As the startled girl recoiled he threw hfs arms around her. She uttered one loud : né@ strv ged fiercély to free herself.

Maurice Wheeled round anda took the situation at a glance

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even turned their heads, and the sol ders marched stolidly forward. It was no business of theirs. was onlv an exile’s daughter.

One brief second Maurice stood thus, tis eyes flashing, his hands clenched. Then, loose from Platoff’s detaining

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He flung him with all his strength to the grevenit,

grasp, he bounded from the ranks. Two Cossacks ran forward, but he slipped easily between them, and springing at j Captain Daroman he seized him by the throat, tore him by main foree from the struggling maid and flung him with all his strength to the ground.

CHAPTER XII ‘* LORA MELIKOFF.

Cossacks and convicts alike were betrified at the lad’s daring deed, and fora moment no one stirred.

Phil made a motion to follow his ‘ompanion, but Platoff fiercely held

dim back. Then Captain Daroman Maggered dizzily to his feet. He drew his sword and sprang with a

*“avage cry at Maurice, who was siand- ing calmly in front of the girl he had Tescued

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Maurice, pale and the glaring muzzles.

He knew that in another moment the leaden volley would pierce his breast, and vet he faced the prospect with a calmness that surprised himself. All his past life was surging through his mind, but still he saw distinctly every detail of the scene before him—the awestruck convicts, the agitated faces of Phil and Platoff, the firing squad of

trembling, faced

Cossacks and the,ferocious counte.- ance of Captain Daroman. ‘Why did they not fire ?” he won-

dered, vaguely, and then he began to utter a silent wvraver.

“Take aim!” shouted the commen- dant, and the twelve black muzzles centtred together.. Maurice closed his eyes with a shudder. A low sob burst from Phil, and Platoff ground his teeth.

“Fire!” was already trembling on Captain Daroman’s lips when a star- tling interruption eccurred.

The ‘young gin rifles and threw Maurice.

“I forbid you to shoot!” she ex- claimed, facing the _ soldiers. ** Re- lease this man, a@r you shall all be pun- ished ! And you,” she added to Cap- tain Daroman, “ you shall pay dearly for this insult.”

The commandant swore a ‘frightful oath. “Take her away !" he shouted to his men. ‘Drag her te one side and finish this dog here.”

Half a dozen Cossacks adwanced to- ward the courageous girl, bet she held her ground and met them with flash- ing eyes. In another instant they would have seized her roughly, but just then a clatter of hoofs was hea d, and a yourg Cossack officer, mounted on a black horse, galloped up to the party.

sprang across the herself in front of

i He surveved the scene far a moment.

Then, flinging the lines te a soldier, he leaped from the saddle and ap- proached the girl, doffing his cap re- spectfully as he did so.

“ Mise Lora,” he said, “ your father, the colonel, has sent me in search of you. He feared you haa strayed off and lost vour wav.”

A revolving bombshell could not bave caused greater consternation than did the quiet speech of this young officer. The soldiers towered their rifles instantly, and the convicts be- gan to whisper excitediy .among them- selves, and Captain Daroman’'s face assumed an expression that none who saw it can ever forget.

“You have come just in time,” re- plied the maiden. “TI nave suffered

insult at the hands of that man,” pointing to the tremt ag comm d- ant, “and this convict here, who

saved me from the wretch, was about to be shot for his noble deed.”

The officer turned sternly and in- quiringly toward Cavtain Daroman, who now came unsteadily forward.

“ Sudekin, who is that girl 7” he asked, in a husky voice. “J thought she belonged to the free command yon- der.”’

“She is the daughter of Colonel Melikoff, the governor of the mines,” replied the officer. “She went out for a walk this morning and wan- dered up here from the lower dig- gings. I was cent in search of her. It looks as though you were in a »retty bad scrape this time, Danoman.”

The commandant grew still paler. “But tell me,” he whispered, “can nothing be done to smooth matterg over? Why, I didn’t even know that Colonel Melikoff had a daughter.”

“She just came on a visit from Ir- kutsk;”’ replied Sudekin, coldly. “ Everything rests. with her, Daro- man. Don’t talk to me.”

The commandant hesitated 2 second cr two, and then, in a cringing man- rer that must have been bitter as gall to his proud spirit, approached the girl.

“Miss Melikoff.”” he began, humbly, but at the first’ word she indignantiy rroved to one side.

“ Refore vou dare speak to me,” ghe said, angrily, “ release that brave man ther-.”

The commandant gave the necessary orders, and then, while the soldiers were unbinding Maurice, he made an abject apology, and in the most pite- cus tones begged that his offence might be overlooked, and kept from reaching her father.

It was a strange scene, the savage Captain Daroman suing for mercy in the presence of his own soidiers, and of the convicts whe had felt so often hliis iron rule.

The girl listened calmly to his ap- peal, and when he had finished she walked proudly away like an offended princess, not deigning to give him so much as a giance.

“Take me home, Lieutenant Sude- kin,” she said. “I have heard quite enough.”

The lieutenant .pointed across the

i@ ili. es welen vus vraderea to Itl-

~ oo Bei erta b¢e it con ‘age now. The convevance quickly reached the spot, with a merry ring- ing of bells,

Miss Lora Carted a grateful glance at Maurice, and etepped in among the furs The driver whipped up the horses, and the sleigh syed rapidly ; off, attended closely by Lieutenant Sudekin on his black charger.

Captain Daroman watched it until it was dim in the distance. Then, turning On Maurice one glance £0 venomous and malignant that the iad shuddered, he put spurs to his pony and galloped off without a word.

f;et in ling th ,”’ eried the sub- officer, harshly. The convicts instant ly obeyed, the Cossacks urrounded them with shouldered rifles, and the interrupted march was’ resumed as calmly ard menotonous! as though the event just witnessed kad never cecvrred

Maurice, assisted by hi two come- panions, staggered forward with the utmost difficulty. He was sufferings from a violent reaction. He had

bravely attacked the commandant, and

faced the certainty of death withcut a tremor, but the sudden restoration to hope was too much for hiin.

The officer in command perceived his enfeebled condition, and feeling doubt- ful as to the bearing which the recen incident wot'd hay (ie vo Dae | vict, he wihe:w Ccunud a the safe side and act with leniency.

He gave Maur! a few drops of vod- ka from his own flask, and mounted him on a pony until the mines were reached. This treatment was speed- ily effective, and Maurice was abk to work as usual with his fellow-prison- ers, for the officer refused to extend his leniency any further. J@e was kept rigorously apart from Phil and Pla- totf, however, and put to work some distance away.

The rest of ay was ni lestined to pass uneve lly. Duri the noon

period of rest an ominous incident oc-

curred, and one from Which Maurice drew an inference favourable to him- self. Twenty meunted Cossacks rode

up to the mines, headed by a middle- aged officer with dignified bearing, who sternly asked for Captain Daro- man.

When told that the commandant had not accompanied the convicts to the mines, he appeared much concerned, and presently the whole party rode away at full speed.

Trudging home at sunset, three dif- ferent squads of soldiers were en- countered, and on reaching the settle- ment suppressed excitement was visi- ble on the faces of all whom they met. Within the prison much whispering was going on among the convicts, and

the new arrivals were speedily ac- quainted with a dozen different ver- sions of what was indeed a startling tale.

The farts of the case, as gleaned from these different stories, which had entered the prison in some wnaccount- able manner, appeared to he as fol- lows >

Captain Daroman, on leaving the convert gangs that morning, had re- turned in haste to the prison, changed his clothes in his own apartment, arm- ed himself heavily, and then galloped away on a fresh horse, in whai direc- tion none observed.

Shortly after his departure a troop of soldiers arrived from the lower dig- gings with a warrant for his arrest. It was no secret that th commandant

hai sought safety in flight, and now haiif the force in barracks was scour- ing the country in pursuit.

Maurice was jubilant as he sat on the bare platform, eating his frugal supper, with Phil and Platoff by his side. Their fellow-comvicts had been crowding about them, eagerly discuss- ing the momentous affair, and now at last they were comparatively by them- selves.

“ And how do you think this will af- fect me, Platoff 2?” asked Maurice. “Will it lighten my sentence, or is it even possiMle that I shall obtain a fair hearing from the governor, and be permitted to tell him our story? I feel sure that I should convince him @f the truth.”

Platoff gravely shook his head.

“Don’t be too hopeful, my friend,” he replied. “There are complications in this affair, that you are unable to see. To me, with my knowledge and ex- perience, they are only too plain. You

have performed a brave. deed, it is true, and protected from insult the daughter of Colonel Melikoff, but at

the same time you have broken the severest of prison rules, and commit- ted a flagrant crime, for which the penalty is death.”

‘And would not the one offset the other ?” demanded Maurice, with in- dignation. ‘*‘ Would the circumstances count for nothing 7”

“Colonel Melikoff is known as the most stern and rigid disciplinarian in ali Siberia,” answered Pilatoff, sober- ly. “I fear that he may insist on mak- ing your case an example to the other prisoners. You assaulted an officer— an unpardonable crime.’

“Yes, and saved his daughter,” as- serted Maurice, hotly. ‘Can he over- look that ?”’

“‘He can overlook anything,” said Platoff, grimly. ‘Listen! I can tell you what kind of a man Colonel Meli- koff is in a few words. ‘Do you remem- ber in one of Victor Hugo’s romances the gunner who allowed a huge can- non to tear loose from itts fastenings on shipboard during a sterm, and then, after a terrific combat, ¢n which his life was jeopardized a hundred times, overturned the monster and saved his comrades ?”’

“ Yes, I have read that,~ said Mau- rice.

“ Very well,” resumed Piatoff. “ The commander of that vessel first reward- ed that man for his bravery, then shot him for hi. negligence. Colonel Meli- kof is a second Marquis de Lautenac.”

“But you den’t think I’m in any danger of being shot ?”’ asked Maurice, in a horrified whisper.

“No,” said Platoff; “it’s mot that bad. You may know all to-morrow, and then it is possible that I shali have something to say to you.”

Platoff refused to explain himeelf any further, and preseritly, in spite of his troubles, Maurice was sleeping soundly.

The morning verification was presid- ed over by Lieutenant Sudekin, who, it seemed, had been appointed temporary commandant of the prison. Before starting for the mines it’ was whis- pered among the convicts that Captain Daroman had not been caught, and this rumour was presently verified, for the working gangs started out that morning in custody of less than half

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co*don of troops around the prison was correspondingly small. It was soon evident that the new commandant ha@ no intention of dealing more leniently with the convicts than his predeces- sor. All that dav the boys toiled hard under the watchful eyes of the over- and not the slightest conversa- tion Was allowed,

Two or three days passed thus, and

still Maurice heard nothing from Colo- nel Melikoeff, nor was the fugitive commandant recaptured.

He’s sure to be caught sooner or later,”’ said Platoff. “It’s only a ques- tion of time.”’

On the #fth day, however, many of the absent troops returned, and it be- can to look as though Captain Daro-

{| man had made good his escape, for the time at least.

They have forgotten me,’ said Maurice one night, as he sat on his hard bed, thinking of the pretty, dark- eve.’ girl. who had pa--ed like a vis- ion aeross the wretched monotony of hic life. ‘* Sh. believes me to be some low criminal. no doubt.” he added, bit- terlv, to himeelf,

“No,” said Platoff, glancing up from the cun of tea he was drinking. “pe assured Colonel Melikoff has not for- gotten you. He never overlooks @ crime against his rules and discipline of the prison, as you will know before In: - 7s

A week passed by--a week of heart- sickenine toi! and misery—and_ then Platoft’s prediction came true, though

not just in the way he had anticipated.

CHAPTER XIV. A STOLEN INTERVIEW.

Tt was bitterly cold, and the snow was falling thickly, but weather counts for nothing at the mines of Kara, and the eonvicts, shivering in their thin garments, worked with feverish energy, hoping to put some warmth into their aching limbs ané bodies.

Phil and. Platoff were picks into the hard and gravel, and Maurice, in company with half a dozen others, was wheel- ing the stiffened clods to a distance. Close by stood the watchful overseers, stamping their feet continually and

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vt one heakanty- him to approach.

clapping their arms together, while in the background, out of the snowy mist, loomed the soldiers, pacing to and fro in their heavy coats or grouped about the feeble fires, where the tea was warming for the noond: lunch.

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