®#sume Measure the debt of gratitude I teu. warrant has been issued for four arrest lave seen the proofs. hore. fetermined. vith the will fow in the city. there is time.

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ntries were put

* strengthened, and the 1 down to its usual roy-

Colonel Jaroslav informed the boys of the sad occurrence Phil burst “into wats, and Maurice, throwing himself on the Ded. hid his face in the pillow. When the door had closed behind the slonel, he Sprang up

“phil,” he exclaimed, exe itedly, “don’t you believe it. Platoff is not drown- ad. It can't be true H has escap-

ed, and we shall see him again some jay. Iam sure of it.”

Phil was inclined to be sceptical, but Maurice reinained true to his convic- tons and steadfastly refused to credit his friend's death.

Two days ister, in custody of Colonel Jarosiay's ruard of Cossacks, the boys com: { the long 6,000 mile journey back to 8t. Petersburg- .

frst by sea to the mouth of the Amur, then successively by river, carriage and rail.

On the night of the 19th of July Via-

fimir Saradeff was sitting at his library table, a cigar in his mouth ané the Moscow Gazette on his knee. _ It Was quite unusual to find him in St.

Petersburg at this time of year, when the neighbouring mansions on the Nevskoi Prospekt were boarded up and thir owners scattered over the Con- tinent, but he had merely dropped in on his Way to Paris from one of his northern estates and preferred the com- forts of his home and the ministrations of his faithful Ivan to the gloomy soli- tude of the club.

If any remorse for his fearful crime arked in his heart, he did not show it. Pis calin, haughty features expressed sif-complacency and content plainer than words would have told. “Katkoff's paper ought to be sup- pressed,"’ he muttered, tossing The Ga- mite over on the table. “It’s tone is becoming decidedly dangerous.

“Is everything packed 7" he added, turairg to Ivan, who was standing mo- tionless by his chair. “We take the Berlin express at noon to-morrow.” “All is ready,” said Ivan, quietly, “except the money. I shall go to the lanker’s in the morning.”

“Get 5,000 in large notes,” said his Master, “‘and a drafi on Rothschild for the balance. Ah, a letter for me,” asa Servant entered with a sealed envelope ma silver salver. Viadimir Saradoff

looked

carelessiv

athe superscription and broke the fal. He drew out a folded paper, Md holding it under the lamp read

the fullowing words, hastily written in abold, dashing hand :—

“Not unmindful of past favours, I the risk of requiting in some owe A on a terrible charge. I I need say no Count Brosky is implacable ane He fears complications American Government, and spare you. The boys are Flee at once if yet

Even now it may be Burn this note.

** Yours, etc.,

* VOROUZOW.” He read it through to the end, word

not

fer word, and then as the paper flut-

fered from his nerveless fingers he Crepped heavily into the chair from Which he had half risen His lips

mumbled, but no sound came, and his face was white as chalk.

Ivan, deeply alarmed by his sudden @llapse, sprang to his master’s side

With a decanter, snatched hastily from

the buffet. A svasm passed hastily Wer Saradoff’s features as he took the

from Ivan, and the powerful Simulant brought a flush to his cheek. He glared wilds ahaut the ream. and

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tnen sprang to his fect. In that brief five minutes Vladimir Saradofft had | aged—had suffered the agonies of a lifetime.

“ Read that.” he cried, tossing the letter to Ivan “It comes from Vorou- zOW, private secretary to the count. "tts information may be relied on, Some person has played the traitor, But never mind. My vengeance will ccme. Escape is the first thing.”

He shuddered and passed his hand Over his forehead.

* Quick, Ivan,” he cried. wjth sud-

den terror, “ quick, or IT am Ibst. Es-

cape by rail is cut off. They will Watch the stations. I must take to the yacht. It still lies at the docks of Vassili Ortroff. I lent it to Count Adlerberg. It waits his arrival in the morning. Do vou hear me, Ivan? I must foil these blood@dhounds. Call acab at once. See if the street is empty.’

The yerspiration was standing in drops on his forehead, and his hands

trem bled. Ivan, no less terrified than his mas-

ter, hurried from the room, dropping the crumpled letter to the floor. Viadimir Saradoff picked it up and

held it over the globe of the lamp. As the last fragment turned to ashes Ivan returned. “T have been fortunate,” he panted. “I found a cab close by. The street ‘s empty. Go quick. They may arrive at any moment.”

Without a word ais master dropped into a chair, seized a pen and ink and chequebook, and drove his hand rapid- ly over the paper.

“ Here, take this,” he cried. “ You must remain behind. Disguise yvour- self and you will be safe. Go to tne

bank in the morning, get foreign drafts for this whole amount if you

cen, and join me in Paris at the Hotel

Bristol. Now a coat, Ivan—a light ccat—and my pistols; don’t forget them.”

A moment later he was ready. A few

brief injunctions to Ivan, a hasty fare- well, and he hurried down the broad Stairway, through the long, magnifi- cently-furnished hall, and passed into the street.

He turned with a bitter gnalediction on his lips for a last look at the state-

Crack! erack! ranq the two rifics simul

teneously,

ly front of his palace—the last time he would ever see it, he knew well~ and then bolted into the cab, the sequious driver holding ‘e door open for him.

‘‘Catherine’s wharf, docks of Vas- sili Ortroff,” he eried. “Twenty roubles if vou get there in fifteen min- utes, Don't spare your horses.”

The door closed with a bang. The driver mounted his box and lashed his steeds. The cab rumbled briskly over the cobblestones, and then drew up with a jerk.

“ Drive on, you idiot !” shouted Sara- doft. “Go on, I say! Why do you stop ?”

The cab started, moved a few paces and stopned agai®&.

Viadimir Saradoff threw up the blind. A lamp across the way shed a yellow light on the street. The driver was standing on the ground. Two dark figures held the horses, and a third was approaching the cab—a tall, beard- ed man, in a blue uniform, and a sword at his side.

A little distance off other figures were visible in the shadow, and the lamplight fell on gleaming rifle barrels,

Obe-

The cab door was thrown opeti.

* Viadimir Saradoff, I arrest you in the name of the Czar,” said the officer. “* Here is the warrant. Shall 1 read le ge

CHAPTER XXIX.

CONCLUSION.

But there was no reply. A few sec- onds passed in silence. Then a flash of light lit up the darkness of the cab, a sharp report echoed through the gloomy street, and the horses, rearing in the air, made a desperate attempt to break loose.

The police dashed forward, surround- ing the cab, and a crowd, sprung from no one knows where, quickly blocked up the street. A lantern was hastily brought, and a surgeon summoned to the spot, but it was too late for medi- cal aid. Vladimir Saradoff had evaded arrest and punishment.

He was taken back to his statelv residence and borne through the star- tled group of servants to his chamber. There they left him alone, and an offi- cer guarded the entrance.

The nolice took possession of the

house and drove curius

SpecicYors frdim |

the door all night long, for the news had spread rapidly. 1 morning jour- nals announced in startling headlines the crime and death of Vladitir Sara- doff, and St. Petersburg. from the higwhest to the lowest circles, was wild with excitement.

That day the boys were brought be- fore Count Brosky, Minister of the In- terior The vroof and testimony that

farosiay was prepared to offer were unneeded.

Ivan, Vladimir Saradoff’s servant, who had been arrested while escaping | from the rear of the house, care for- ward with a full confession, made on

condition that should

his punishment |

ile told all, how the

plot had been laid, the false passports and Nihilistic cocuments substituted for the boys’ papers, and how, finally, by bribing an assistant at the morgue, the genu- ine passports had been concealed on the persons of two unfortunate Wretches found in the Neva. At the close of the examination the boys were freed with a most profuse | and elaborate apology from Count

Brosky, and went off in a carriage to the residence guests they few days. The colonel had in his nower for them he kept to the letter. Viadimir Sara- doff’s affairs were at once taken in hand by the Government, and through

intended remaining for a

do all which

ymised to

“a promise

nrc

Colonel Jaroslav’s influence’ the for- tune of $200,000 of which Maurice had been robbed was preserved from the

wreck, subject, of course, to legal for- malities connected with the lad’s fuardianshin.

Colonel Jaroslav advanced him 4s much monev as he needed, and Mau- rice’s first act was to pay the fine of 20.000 roubles that had been imposed on Nicolas Poussin and to write that worthy merchant a tong and grateful letter.

Phil meanwhile wrote home to his father, fearing the shock that a cable- gram might produce.

During their stav in the Russian capital Maurice met Miss Melikoff, who had just returned with her father from the mines of Kara. ‘They had a long and interesting interview, but the part which that young lady play- ed in the boy’s ecape was kept @ rigorous secret.

“Why, my father might actually send me back to work in the mines if he knew what I had done,” said Miss Lora. “He is so awfully strict, you krow.” And the old general confirm- ed that ovinion on meeting Maurice.

“And so vou are the fellow that struck an officer,” he said, gruffly. “and rescued my daughter too ? Well, vyeung man, I would have shot you for the one and rewarded you for the other.”’ And then he_- graciously shook hands with him.

The boys greatly enjeved their stay

fin St. Petersburg, fcr Colonel Jaroslav was a most delightful host, but their

hearts vearned for America, and late in July they parted from their kind friend, and the many other acgvuaint- arces they had made in the :i.ussian capitel, and started by rail across the Continent, sailing frou: Havre a week later.

It wes a clear and beautiful August

morning when the Grand Monarque steamed majestically up New York barbour.

At the foot of the narrow street

which opened on the wharf a motley gathered, curious to see

crowd was the two young Americans who had

tasted the horrors of Siberian exile, for the papers had proclaimed far and wide their expected arrival.

Off the Battery a tugbeat put out to the steamer containing a tall, gray bearded raan, whose actions evinced great «xcitement. He was hoisted on beard the Grand Monarque, and a mo- ment later Phil was clasped in his fa~ ther’s embrace, to the manifest delight of the passengers.

“My poor boy, my poor boy !” was all he could utter for a long while, but presently he became more composed and extended Maurice an affectionate greeting.

“Your guardian is not here, my boy, he said as he clasped his hand. “* Colo- nel Hoffman could not come. You will know all later.”

Maurice detected the strange embar- rassment in his manner, but before he could ask an explanation the steamer was at the wharf, and they hurried across the landing to a cab that was waiting.

A wild cheer burst from the crowd, and half a dozen reporters sprang for- ward, notebooks in hand.

Turning a deaf ear to the representa- tives of the press, the boys gained the cab, and Maurice already had one foot on the step, when a strong hand seized his shculder, and he turned, half-ang- rily, to meet the honest, tear-dimmed face of Paul Platoff.

With a cry of joy he staggered back and would have fallen, but the sturdy Russian caught him in his arms, and they wept together, unmindful of the excited spectators, who cheered again and again, and pressed forward so im- petuously that the indignant police- men could not drive them back.

Between the mingled embraces of the two boys and the jostling of the crowd Platoff was well nigh suffocated, but finally they were all bundled into the cab, and were soon rattling up noisy Broadway.

In husky, broken sentences Platoff related how he had gained the shelter of an American sailing vessel on that terrible night of his escape, and how the noble captain, on learning his

story, hid him so securely that the Russian soldiers failed to find him. Two days later the vessel left for

home, and after a long voyage arrived

spafels at Boston.

“TI knew you were safe,” he said, “and I saw afterward by the papers that you were coming home on this steamer.”

“I knew it,” said Maurice. “TI knew

you were not dead. What did I tel) you, Phil ?”

That night Mr. Danvers’ uptown res- fidence was brilliantly lighted in hon-

our of the boys’ return, and liany friends called to offer their congratula- tions and to shake hands with the brave Russian, whose heroic conduct was now being discussed throughout the city.

One thing marred Maurice’s pleas- ure. Colonel Hercules Hoffman had been thrown from his horse in Central park a week before, and died two days later, leaving a sealed packet for his ward.

This Maurice opened on the first on-

of Colonel Jarcslav, whose | | could he ir

~~ ———

portulity, and réad with sorrow tile

shameful that threw still

confession

more light on Viadimir Saradoff's crime. ‘he story of the malachite box of jewels, the interview at the Hotel Bristol in Paris, the later correspond- ence of Viadimir Suradoff, all was told

without reserve, and the by expressing a hope of

writer ended forgiveness

and willing his fortune to Maurice as a partial restitution.

It must be remembered that Colonel lioffman, at the time of writing this, knew that the boys had been reseued from their fate, and it must have been a great relief to his burdened con- science to discover that they were

not dead,

Maurice

no doubt, had believed. determined that his guardian’s reputation for honesty and uprightness should not be blotted With this foul story; so he burned the confession and locked up the secret iu his own breast.

He was now possessed of a handsome fortune, for Colonel Hoffman had been worth nearly $100,000 himself.

With great difficulty he compelled Paul Platoff to accept a sum that would make him independent for life, and, inceed, it was only through the most dire threats that the brave fellow duced to listen to such a

as he,

generously

proposition.

Flatoft was, as we have stated, a

man of education, refinement and abil- ity, and these attainments, which his own Government spurned, he now 4de- voted to his adopted country, becoming true American at heart. And now we must leave our heroes— happily freed from their perils—to en- joy the new life that opens before them under the shadow of the stars and Stripes, a flag unstained by tyranny or despotism.

To Paul Platoff, who has passed through the furnace of oppression, our Covernment will always be all that is neéle and just, while Maurice and Phil, Whe have seen and realized for them- selves thé opnression and misery that lurk beneath the flag of autocratic Rus- sia. will, we venture to think, be en- abled more and more to reach and realize the truest ideal of young Ameri- can manhood.

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