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no kilge that you Lave met yom
master
lie bowed in his graceful way
sr reading out his hands in mock hu
mility
A lenient master pursued tho
Frenchman whose vanity was tickled
by the -word 1 do not ask much
One thing is to be Invited to Osterno
that I may be near you The other i3
a humble request for details of your
daily life that I may think of you
when absent
Etta drew in her lips moistening
them as if they had suddenly become
parched
Do Chauxville glanced at her and
moved toward the door He paused
with his fingers on the handle and
looking back over his shoulder ho
said
Have I made myself quite clear
Etta was still looking out of the win
dow with hard angry eyes She took
no notice of the question
De Chauxville turned the handle
Again let me impress upon you the
advisability of Implicit obedience ho
said with delicate insolence I men
tioned the Charity league but that is
not my strongest claim upon your at
tention I have another interesting lit
tle detail of your life which I will re
serve until another time
He closed the door behind him leav
ing Etta white lipped
CHAPTER XXVII
had requested Catrina and
PAUL to drive as quietly as
possible through the forest
The warning was unnecessary
for the stillness of snow is infectious
while the beauty of the scene seemed
to command silence As usual Ca
trina drove without bells The ono
attendant on his perch behind was a
fur clad statue of servitude and silence
Maggie leaning back hidden to the
eyes in her sables had nothing to say
to her companion The way lay
through forests of pine trackless mo
tionless virgin The sun filtering
through the snow laden branches cast
a subdued golden light upon the ruddy
upright trunks of the trees At times
a willow grouse white as the snow
light and graceful on the wing rose
from the branch where he had been
laughing to his mate with a low coo
ing laugh and fluttered away over the
trees
Far over the summits of the pines
a snipe seemed to be wheeling a senti
nel round He followed them as they
sped along calling out all the while
his deep warning note like that of a
lamb crouching beneath a hedge where
the wind is not tempered
Catrina noted all these things while
cleverly handling her ponies They
spoke to her with a thousand voices
She had roamed in these same forests
with Paul who loved them and under
stood them as she did
Maggie in the midst as it were of a
revelation leaned back and wondered
at it all She toou was thinking- of
HHaaaflFa
Faul the owner of these boundless
forests She understood him better
now Tliis drive had revealed to her
a part of his nature which had rather
puzzled her a large simple quiet
strength which had developed and
grown to maturity beneath these trees
Maggie knew now where Paul had
learned the quiet concentration of
mind the absorption in his own affairs
the complete lack of interest in the
business of his neighbor which made
him different from other men He had
learned these things at first hand from
Gods creatures
Now you know said Catrina when
they reached the hut why I hate Pe
tersburg
Maggie nodded The effect of the
forest was still upon her She did not
want to talk
The woman who received them the
i - rf nak He vriia only twenty
da avy from the refuge where the
0ir were concealed
I Mus not long before Paul came
He v is quite alone and suddenly ap
peared at the far end of the clearing
in truth a mighty hunter stand
ing nearly seven feet on his snowshocs
One rifle he carried in his hand anoth
er slung across his back
From his attitude It was apparent
that he was listening It was proba
ble that the cries of the birds and the
fliofnnf lirki1 rP n tl f1f lito
wife of a keeper had prepared in a erlng whether any one was behind it
rough way for their reception She had
a large fire and bowls of warm milk
While the two girls were warming
themselves a keeper came to the door
of the hut and asked to see Catrina
He stood in the little doorway com
pletely filling it and explained that he
could not come in as the buckles and
straps of his snowshoes were clogged
and frozen He wore the long Nor
wegian snowshoes and was held to be
the quickest runner in the country
Catrina had a long conversation with
the man who stood hatless ruddy and
shy
It is she then explained to Maggie
Pauls own man who always loads
for him and carries his spare gun He
has sent him to tell us that the game
has been ringed and that the beaters
will close in on a place called the
Schapka clearing where there is a
woodmans refuge If we care to put
on our snowshoes this man will guide
us to the clearing and take care of us
till the battue is over
Of course Maggie welcomed the pro
posal with delight and after a hasty
luncheon the three glided off through
the forest as noiselessly as they had
come After a tiring walk of an hour
and more they came to the clearing and
were duly concealed in the hut
No one the keeper told the ladies ex
cept Paul knew of their presence in
the little wooden house The arrange
ments of the beat had been slightly
altered at the last moment after the
hunters had separated The keeper
lighted a small fire and shyly attended
to the ladies removing their snow
shoes with his clumsy fingers He
closed the door and arranged a branch
of larch across the window so that
they could stand near it without being
seen
They had not been there long be
fore De Chauxville appeared He mov
ed quickly across the clearing skim
ming over the snow with long sweep
ing strides Two keepers followed
him and after having shown him the
rough hiding place prepared for him
silently withdrew to their places Soon
Karl Steinmetz came from another di
rection and took up hrs position rather
nearer to the hut in a thicket of pine
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Then suddenly the keeper gave a lit
tle grunt and held up his hand listen
ing with parted lips and eager eye
There was a distinct sound of break
ing branches and crackling underwood
They could see Paul cautiously rise
from his knees to a crouching attitude
They followed the direction of his gaze
and before them the monarch of these
forests stood in clumsy might A bear
had shambled to the edge of the clear
ing and was standing upright growling
and grumbling to himself his great
paws waving from side to side his
shaggy head thrust forward with a
recurring jerk singularly suggestive of
a dandy with an uncomfortable collar
These bears of northern Russia have
not the reputation of being very fierce
unless they are aroused from their
winter quarters when their wrath
knows no bounds and their courage
recognizes no danger
The bear stood poking his head and
looking about with little fiery blood
shot eyes for something to destroy
His rage was manifest and in his
strength he was a grand sight The
majesty of power and a dauntless cour
age were his
It was De Chauxvilles shot and
glanced impatiently over his shoulder
from time to time wondering why the
Frenchman did not fire The bear was
a huge one and would probably carry
three bullets and still be a dangerous
adversary
The keeper muttered Impatiently
They were watching Taul breathless
ly The bear was approaching him It
would not be safe to defer firing an- j
other second
Suddenly the keeper gave a short ex
clamation of astonishment and threw
up his rifle
There was another bear behind Paul
shambling toward him unseen by him
AH his attention was riveted on the
huge brute forty yards in front of him
It was Claude de Chauxvilles task to
protect Paul from any flank or rear at
tack and Claude de Chauxville was
peering over his covert watching with
blanched face the second bear and lift
ing no hand making no sign The
bear was within a few yards of Paul
who was crouching behind the fallen
pine and now raising his rifle to his
shoulder
In a flash of comprehension the two
girls saw all through the panes of the
1
He turned abruptly away
closed window It was still singularly
like a scene on the stage The second
bear raised his powerful forepaws as
he approached One blow would tear
open Pauls brain
A terrific report sent the girls stag
gering back for a moment paralyzing
thought The keeper had fired through
the window both barrels almost si
multaneously It was a question how
much lead would bring the bear down
before he covered the intervening doz
en yards In the confined space of
the hut the report of the heavy double
charge was like that of a cannon
Moreover Stelnmetz twenty yards
away had fired at the same moment
The room was filled with smoke
The two girls were blinded for an In
stant Then they saw the keeper tear
open the door and disappear The cold
air through the shattered casement
was a sudden relief to their Jungs
cheked with sulphur and the fumes
of spent powder
In a flash they were out of the open
door and there again with the sud
denness of a panorama they saw an
other picture raul kneeling in the mid
dle of the clearing taking careful aim
at the retreating form of the first bear
They saw the puff of blue smoke rise
from his rifle they heard the sharp re
port and the bear rolled over on its
face
Steinmetz and the keeper were walk
ing toward Paul Claude de Chaux
ville standing outside his screen of
f brushwood was staring with wide
ticed ears how near the beaters were I f BtrickenowOUOjiLwhloh h6
lllltl thongM empty He did not know
He presently moved across to where
that there were three people behind
De Chauxville was hidden spoke
llllU WlltCllIllg llIUl lUlt had they
em 1o nf UTnrt r t
What had they understood
him and pointed with his gloved hand eGn
toward
in the direction whence the game might
be expected to come
It subsequently transpired that Paul
was asking De Chauxville the where-
nliniirnf Rtpinmotz who lincl irninod his WUS grave
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Catrina and Maggie ran Paul
J They were on snowshocs and made
short work of the Intervening distance
I Paul had risen to his feet His face
There was a singular
Senm n biR eyes which was not a
place of concealment unobserved by
t nwl 4nnn rtls1 C 4 Virk
either De Chauxville could give him - ui f - lu
no information and Paul went away i - us iC
to his post dissatisfied Karl
metz must have seen them He must
have divined the subject of their con
versation but he remained hidden and
gave no sign
Pauls post was behind a falien tree
and the watchers in the hut could see
Stelnmetz looked at him and Raid
nothing For a moment Paul stood
still He looked around him noting
with experienced glance the lay of the
whole incident the dead form of the
bear ten yards behind his late hiding
place ISO yards from the hut 1G0
him while lie was completely hidden J113 from the Pot whence Karl Stein-
I iriof lind liin nnmrlnc
from any animal that might enter the
open clearing from the far end no
turned and looked hard at the hut but
the larch branch across the window ef
fectually prevented him from
minor
through the bears brain Paul saw
it all He measured the distances He
looked at De Chauxville standing
white faced at his post not fifty yards
from the carcass of the second bear
Taul seemed to see no one but De
Chauxville He went straight toward
him and the whole party followed in
breathless suspense Stelnmetz was
nearest to him watching with his keen
quiet eyes
Paul went up to De Chauxville and
took the rifle from his hands He open
ed the breech and looked into the
barrels They were clean The rifle
had not been fired off
He gave a little laugh of contempt
and throwing the rifle at De Chaux
villes feet turned abruptly away
It was Catrina who spoke
If you had killed him she said
I would have killed you
Steinmetz picked up the rifle closed
the breech and handed it to De Chaux
ville with a queer smile
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CHAPTER XXVIII
HEX the Osterno party reach
ed home that same evening
the starosta was waiting to
see Steinmetz His news was
such that Steinmetz sent for Paul and
the three men went together to the lit
tle room beyond the smoking room in
the old part of the castle
Well said Paul with the
scious hauteur which made him a prince
while keeping his eye on the bear Paul I
tv uioc uujriu
The starosta spread out his hands
Your excellency he answered I
am afraid there is something in the
village something in the whole coun
try I know not what it is It is n
feeling one cannot see It one cannot
define it But it Is there like the
gleam of water at the bottom of a deep
well The moujiks are getting danger
ous They will not speak to me I
am suspected I am watched
I will go with you down to the vil
lage now said Paul Is there any
excuse any illness
Ah excellency replied the chief
there is always that excuse
Paul looked at the clock
I will go now he said ne began
his simple preparations at once
There is dinner to be thought of
suggested Steinmetz with a resigned
smile It is half past 7
Dinner can wait replied Paul in
English You might tell the ladies
that I have gone out and will dine
alone when I come back
Stelnmetz shrugged his broad shoul
ders
I think you are a fool he said to
go alone If they discover your iden
tity they will tear you to pieces
I am not afraid of them replied
Paul witli his head In the medicine
cupboard any more than I am afraid
of a horse They are like horses they
do not know their own strength
With this difference added Stein
metz that the moujik will one day
make the discovery- ne is beginning
to make it now The starosta is quite
right Paul There is something in the
air It is about time that you took the
ladies away from here and left me to
manage It alone
That time will never come again
answered Paul I am not going to
leave you alone again
He was pushing his arms into the
sleeves of the old brown coat reaching
to his heels a garment which com
manded as much love and respect in
Osterno as ever would an angels wing
Steinmetz opened the drawer of his
bureau and laid a revolver on the table
At all events he said you may
as well have the wherewithal to make
a fight of it if the worst comes to the
worst
As you like answered Paul slip
ping the firearm into his pocket
The starosta moved away a pace or
two He was essentially a man of
peace
Half an hour later it became known
in the village that the Moscow doctor
was in the house of one Ivan Krass
where he was prepared to see all pa
tients who were now suffering from
Infectious complaints The door of
this cottage was soon besieged by the
sick and the idle while the starosta
stood in the doorway and kept order
Paul standing by the table with
two paraffin lamps placed behind him
saw each suppliant In turn and all the
while he kept up a running conversa
tion with the more Intelligent some
of whom lingered on to talk and watch
Ah John the son of John he
would say what is the matter with
you it la not often I see you I
thought you were clean and thrifty
To which John the
son of John re-
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