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tunity of lenving that young ladys
side and placing himself near enough
to Pnul and Etta to completely frus
trate any further attempts at confiden
tial conversation
For a moment Stclnmetz and Tnul
were left standing together
I have had a telegram said Steln
mctz In Russian We must go back
to Tver There is cholera again
Wlwn can you come
Hvmeath his heavy mustache Paul
bit his lip
In three days he answered
True You will come with me
Inquired Steinmetz under cover of the
clashing music
Of course
Stelnmetz looked at him curiously
lie glanced toward Etta but he said
nothing
CHAPTER VIII
season wore on to its peri
helion a period the scientific
books advise us of the highest
clang and crash of speed aud
whirl of the greatest brilliancy and
deepest glow of a planets existence
The business of life the pursuit of
pleasure and the scientific demolition
of our common enemy time received
all the care which such matters re
quire
Amid the whirl of rout and ball and
picnic race meeting polo match and
what not Paul Howard Alexis stalked
misunderstood distrusted an object of
ridicule to some of pity to others of
impatience to all a man If It please
you with a purpose a purpose at the
latter end of the nineteenth century
when most of us having decided that
there Is no future take It upon our
selves to despise the present
Paul soon discovered that he was
found out at no time a pleasant condi
tion of things except Indeed when call
ers are about That which Eton and
Cambridge had failed to lay their fin
gers upon every match making mother
had found out for herself In a week
But Paul was at once too simple and
too clever for matron and maid alike
too simple because he failed to under
stand the inner meaning of many
pleasant things that the guileless fair
one said to him too clever because he
met the subtle matron with the only
arm she feared a perfect honesty And
when at last he obtained his answer
from the coy and hesitating Etta there
was no gossip in Loudon who could
put forward a just cause or impedi
ment
Etta gave him the answer one even
ing at the house of a mutual friend
Yes 1 have my answer ready
where a multitude of guests had as
sembled ostensibly to hear certain ce
brated singers apparently to whisper
recriminations on their entertainers
champagne It was a dull business
except indeed for Paul Howard Alexis
As for the lady the only lady his hon
est simple world contained who shall
say Inwardly she may have been in
trembling coy alarm in breathless
blushing hesitation Outwardly she
was however exceedingly composed
and self possessed She had been as
careful as ever of her toilet as hard to
please as dare we say snappish with
her maids The beautiful hair had
no one of its aureate threads out of
place The pink of her shell like cheek
was steady unruffled fair to behold
Her whole demeanor was admirable in
its well bred repose Did she love
him Was it In her power to love any
man Not the humble chronicler not
any man perhaps and but few wom
en can essay an answer Suffice it that
she accepted him In exchange for the
title he could give her the position he
could assure to her the wealth he was
ready to lavish upon her and lastly
let us mention In the effete old fash
ioned way the love he bore her in ex
change for these she gave him her
hand
Thus Etta Sydney Bamborough was
enabled to throw down her cards at
last and win the game she had played
so skillfully The widow of an obscure
little foreign office clerk she might
have been a baroness but she put the
smaller honor aside and aspired to a
prince
Yes says Etta allowing Paul to
take her perfectly gloved hand in his
great steady grasp yes I have my
answer ready
They were alone In the plashy soli
tude of an inner conservatory between
the songs of the great singers She
was half afraid of this strong man for
he had strange ways with him not
uncouth but unusual and somewhat
surprising in a finnicking emotionless
generation
And what is it whispered Paul
eagerly Ah what fools men are
what fools they always will be
Etta gave a little nod looking shame
facedly down at the pattern of her
lace fan
Is that it he asked breathlessly
The nod was repeated and Panl
Howard Alexis was thereby made the
nippiest man in England She half ex
pected him to take her m his arms de
spite the temporary nature of their sol
itude Perhaps she half wished It for
behind her businesslike and exceeding
ly practical appreciation of his wealth
there lurked a very feminine curiosity
and Interest in his feelings a curiosity
somewhat whetted by the manifold
differences that existed between him
and the society lovers with whom she
had hitherto played the pretty game
But Paul contented himself with
raising the gloved fingers to his lips
restrained by a feeling of respect for
her which she would not have under
stood and probably did not merit
But she said with a sudden smile
I take no responsibility I am not
very sure that it will be a success I
can only try to make you happy Good
ness knows if I shall succeed
You have only to be yourself to do
that he nnswered with lover like
promptness and a blindness which is
the special privilege of those happy
fools
She gave a strange little smile
But how do I know that our lives
will harmonize In the least I know
nothing of your daily existence where
you live where jou want to live
I should like to live mostly in Rus
sia he answered honestly
Her expression did not change It
merely fixed itself as one sees the face
of a watching cat fix Itself when the
longed for mouse shows a whisker
Ah she said lightly confident in
her own power that will arrange it
self later
I am glad I am rich said Paul sim
ply because I shall be able to give
you all you want There are many lit
tle things that add to a womans com
fort I shall find them out and see that
you have them
Are you so very rich Paul she
asked with an Innocent wonder But
I dont think it matters Do you I do
not think that riches have much to do
with happiness
No he answered
Except of course she said that
one may do good with great riches
She gave a little sigh as if deplor
ing the misfortune that hitherto her
own small means had fallen short of
the happy point at which one may be
gin doing good
Are you so very rich Paul she re
peated as if she was rather afraid of
those riches and mistrusted them
Oh I suppose so Horribly rich
She had withdrawn her hand She
gave it to him again with a pretty
movement usually understood to indi
cate bashfulness
It cant be helped she said We
she dwelt upon the word ever so
slightly we can perhaps do a little
good with it
Then suddenly he blurted out all his
wishes on this point his quixotic aims
the foolish imaginings of a too chival
rous soul She listened prettily eager
sweetly compassionate of the sorrows
of the peasantry whom he made the
object of his simple pity Her gray
eyes contracted with horror when he
told her of the misery with which he
was too familiar Her pretty lips
quivered when he told her of little
children born only to starve because
their mothers were starving She laid
her gloved fingers gently on his when
he iecounted tales of strong men good
fathers in their simple barbarous way
who were well content that the chil
dren should die rather than be saved
to pass a miserable existence without
joy without hope
She lifted her eyes with admiration
to his face when he told her what he
hoped to do what he dreamed of ac
complishing She even made a few
eager heartfelt suggestions fitly com
ing from a woman touched with a wo
mans tenderness lightened by a wo
mans sympathy and knowledge
It was in its way a tragedy the
picture we are called to look upon
these newly made lovers not talking of
themselves as is the time honored
habit of such Surrounded by every
luxury both high born refined and
wealthy both educated both intelli
gent He simple minded earnest quite
absorbed in his happiness because that
happiness seemed to fall in so easily
with the busier and as some might
say the nobler side of his ambition
she failing to understand his aspira
tions thinking only of his wealth
But she said at length shall you
wo be allowed to do all this I
thought that such schemes were not
encouraged in Russia It is such a pity
to pauperize the people
You cannot pauperize a man who
has absolutely nothing replied Paul
Of course we shall have difficulties
but together I think we shall be able
to overcome them
Etta smiled sympathetically and the
smile finished up as it were with a
gleam very like amusement She had
been vouchsafed for a moment a vision
of herself in some squalid Russian vil
lage in a hideous Russian made tweed
dress dispensing the necessaries of life
to a people only little raised above the
beasts of the field The vision made
her smile as well it might In St Pe
tersburg life might be tolerable for a
little in the height of the season for a
few weeks of the brilliant northern
winter but in no other part of Russia
could she drerfcn of dwelling
They sat and talked of their future
as lovers will knowing as little of it as
any of us building up castles in the
air such edifices as we have all con
structed destined no doubt to the same
rapid collapse as some of us have
quailed under Paul with lamentable
honesty talked almost as much of his
stupid peasants as of his beautiful
companion which pleased her not too
well Etta with a strange persistence
broughj the conversation ever back
and back to the house in London the
house in St Petersburg the great grim
castle in the jMvernment of Tver and
the princely rent roll And once on the
subject of Tver Paul could scarce be
brought to leave It
i
1 am going back there he said at
eugth
When she asked with a compo
ure which did Infinite credit to her
modest reserve Her lovo was jealous
ly guarded It lay too deep to be dis
turbed by the thought that her lover
would leave her soon
Tomorrow was his answer
She did not speak at once Should
she try the extent of her power over
him Never was lover so chivalrous
so respectful so sincere If it proved
less powerful than she suspected she
would at all events be credited with a
very natural aversion to parting from
him
Paul she said you cannot do
that Not so soon I cannot let you
go
He flushed up to the eyes suddenly
like a girl There was a little pause
and the color slowly left his face
Somehow that pause frightened Etta
I am afraid I must go he said
gravely at length
Must a prince
It is on that account he replied
Then I am to conclude that you are
more devoted to your peasants than to
me
He assured her to the contrary She
tried once again but nothing could
move him from his decision
It almost seemed as if the abrupt de
parture of her lover was in some sense
a relief to Etta Sydney Bamborough
for while he lover like was grave aud
earnest during the small remainder of
the evening she continued to be
sprightly and gay The last he saw of
her was her smiling face at the win
dow as her carriage drove away
Arrived at the little house in upper
Brook street Maggie and Etta went in
to the drawing room where biscuits
and wine were set out Their maids
came and took their cloaks away leav
ing them alone
Paul and I are engaged said Etta
suddenly She was picking the with
ered flowers from her dress and throw
ing them carelessly on the table
Maggie was standing with her back
to her with her two hands on the man
telpiece She was about to turn round
when she caught sight of her own face
in the mirror and that which she saw
there made her change her intention
I am not surprised she said in an
even voice standing like a statue I
congratulate you I think he is nice
You also think he is too good for
me said Etta with a little laugh
There was something in that laugh
a ring of wounded vanity the wounded
vanity of a bad woman who is in the
presence of her superior
No answered Maggie slowly trac
ing the veins of the marble across tho
mantelpiece No o not that
Etta looked up at her It was rather
singular that she did not ask what
Maggie did think
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CHAPTER IX
HE village of Osterno lying or
rather scrambling along the
banks of the river Oster is at
no time an exhilarating spot
It is a large village numbering over
900 souls as the board affixed to its
first house testifieth in incomprehen
sible Russian figures
A soul be it known is a different
object in the land of the czars from
that vague protoplasm about which our
young persons think such mighty
thoughts our old men write such fa
mous big books A soul is namely a
man in Russia the women have not
yet begun to seek their rights and lose
their privileges A man is therefore a
soul in Russia and as such enjoys
the doubtful privilege of contributing
to the land tax and to every other tax
That the Russian peasant is by na
ture one of the cheeriest the noisiest
and lightest hearted of men is only an
other proof of the Creators power for
this dimly lighted soul has nothing
to cheer him on his forlorn way but the
memory of the last indulgence in
strong drink and the hope of more to
come He is harassed by a ruthless
tax collector he is shut off from the
world by enormous distances over im
practicable roads When the famine
comes and pome it assuredly will the
moujik has no alternative but to stay
where he is and starve Since Alex
ander II of philanthropic memory
made the Russian serf a free man the
blessings of freedom have been found
to resolve themselves chiefly into a per
fect liberty to die of starvation of
cold or of dire disease When he was a
serf this man was of some small value
to some one now he is of no conse
quence to any one whatever except
himself and with considerable intelli
gence he sets but small store upon his
own existence Freedom in fact came
to him before he was ready for it and
hampered as he has been by petty de
partmental tyranny government neg
lect and a natural stupidity he has
made very small progress toward a
mental independence All that he has
learned to do is to hate his tyrants
When famine urges him he goes blind
ly helplessly dumbly and tries to take
by force that which is denied by force
Some day there will be in Russia a
Terror but not yet Some day the mou
jik will orcct unto himself a rough sort
of a guillotine but not in our day Per
haps some of us who are young tucn
now may dimly read in our dotage of
a great upheaval beside which the Ter
ror of France will be tamo and un
eventful Who can tell When a coun
try begins to grow its mental develop
ment is often startlingly rapid
But we have to do with Russia of to
day and the village of Osterno in the
government of Tver not a famine
government mind you for these are
the Volga provinces Samara Pohsa
Voronish Vintka and a dozen others
No Tver the civilized the prosperous
the manufacturing center
The street bounded on either side by
low wooden houses is singularly
enough well paved this the traveler is
told by the tyrant Prince Pavlo who
made the road because he did not like
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