Cherokee Weekly Messenger. (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS
Frederick Hardy le fashionable Boston
society man lost his wealth was jilted
by a girl and sent by a friend to take
charge of an American Trading Company
store in Russia 0n his journey through
Japan he met Stapleton Neville sup-
posedly an Englishman They agreed to
go together to Russia Because of sus-
picious circumstances they were several
times molested by the Japanese Hardy
was arrested and found upon his person
were papers showing maps of Jap forts
Hardy was proven guiltless On a train
he met Aisome Sano daughter of a Jap
merchant In Neville's shoes Jap found
pictures of forts proving him to be a
Russian spy Hardy departed for Rus-
sia on a steamer which was wrecked
shortly afterward He was rescued by a
Russian steamer On reaching Vladi-
vostok he was well treated He started
for Siberia meeting Princess Romanovna
on the train Hardy boarded a vessel for
Amur Hardy showed the Princess his
expertness as a rifle shot The steamer
was stranded The princess and her
maid were attaceed by Chinese Hardy
caved their lives The princess thanked
Hardy for his heroism Manchurians
fired upon the craft Hardy slew their
chief Burning arrows were hurled upon
the Pushitin's decks An attempt was
made to board the vessel The attacking
Chinese were repulsed Romanoff sneered
at Hardy's solicitude for the princess
Stanka a messenger sent for help was
nailed to a cross on the shore To put an
end to the awful torture Hardy himself
put Stank& out of his misery taking his
own life in his hands Forest fires men-
aced the vessel Hardy volunteered to
go for help Refused permission he
jumped overboard and started to swim
with the princess' distress message Ro-
manoff was angry at Hardy fôr his brave
efforts to rescue the princess He wooed
her in his own savage way - He said
Hardy had made love openly to a Jap-
anese girl Help tame and the princess
was rescued Hardy journeyed on a raft
'Arriving at his destination he took
charge of the trading company's busi-
ness Hatdy received a letter from a so-
cial leader in Boston and another from
Alsome Hardy took lessons in Russia
of a Jew thus connecting himself in a
way with that race Hardy received a
letter from the princess thanking him
for his bravery Hardy's teacher was in
danger of death He employed Wang as
a servant Hardy went to Moscow where
he was invited to call upon the princess
He started for the palace home of Prin-
cess Romanovna Hardy aroused unac-
countable jealousy of his Korean boy by
announcing that he was going to call on
the prIncess He engaged a cabman who
drove him to a large house on a poorly
lighted street After entering the house
Hardy discovered that it was a resort of
nihilists who supposed he was Felix Hu-
lin come to tell them of a powerful ex-
plosive he had discovered The real Hulin
arrived and denounced Hardy as an im-
postor The nihilists determined to kill
Hardy in order to protect themselves
CHAPTER )00(0—Continued
At this moment the committee re-
entered the room It had transacted
its grisly business with dispatch
Kourbski acted as spokesman
"Mc Chairman and Brethren" he
announced "we have decided that the
most practical method is to bind the
prisoner and drive an awl into the
base of his brain We have with us
here a shoemaker who can do the
business scientifically Then in the
early hours of the morning when the
street is deserted we can throw him
into Brother Ivan's cab drive him to
some 1o4ly spot on the banks of the
Moskva and drop him into the water"
"The committee already appointed
will act in this matter" said Bielinaki
in a businesslike tone "with the ad-
dition of Brother Ivan who is a
strong mafi and the shoemaker"
Ivan and the shoemaker arose and
the five men turned toward Hardy
who during the absence of the com-
mittee had been staring at the mes-
meric spot of light on the table
"Gentleman!" he cried backing to
the wall and speaking with an inspi-
ration born of despair and the imme-
diate presence of a horrible death
"hear me for one word!"
The suddenness of his appeal
caused his appointed executioners to
halt while every face in the audience
turned' toward him in wonderment
"No man is ever executed without be-
ing allowed a last word a farewell
Even the law which you say is an In-
vention of tyrants permits that!
Surely (as you say that you are kill-
ing me in the interest of humanity)
you cannot be unjust and savage All
I ask is one word before I die a part-
ing message perhaps to be given to
my friends" "
"Speak then" commanded Bic lin-
ski "but be brief as we have weighty
matters to discuss Do not waste
your breath in pleading for mercy"
"I was going to visit the Princess
Romanovna" said 'Hardy pale as
death but speaking distinctly "not
because I am an aristocrat for I come
from America the most democratic
country on earth I was invited 'to
visit her because I saved her life on
the Amur through my skill with the
pistol My skill which has made me
famous in my nativa land enabled me
to kill two Chinese who were attempt-
lug to abduct her It is second nature
to me I shoot with absolute pre-
cision Had I my weapon here I could
pick off in succession from where I
stand the buttons on Mr Bielinski's
coat"
"What is that' to us?" asked the
chairman "You are talking to gain
time Give us your parting message
and we will try to get it to those for
whom it is intended"
"I could hit" proceeded Hardy
"that explosilte ball yonder the inven-
tion of Mons Hulin and blow you all
to atoms and by God! if any one here
stirs or attempts to lay hands on me
I'll do it!"
With these words he suddenly
whipped the pistol from his pocket
and leaning forward aimed at the
ball
CHAPTER XXXI
"In the Name of 'the Czar!"
The nihilists were thrown into
panic by this sudden move on the
part of ilardy For the moment he
was in control of the situation
though he was well aware that be
could not remain so for long
The American backed to the door
still aiming at the ball passed
through it after some little nervous
fumbling for the knob closed It be-
hind him and started to run rapidly
across the empty room in which he
now found hitnself not without how-
ever making an effort to lock the
door which was impossible as there
was no key on the outside and no
bolt
A savage uproar broke loose In the
room which he had Just quitted—the
sound of men struggling curses
shouts—and ere he had traversed half
the distance of the hall the door be
hind him flew open and a half a
dozen nihilists were vomited forth
Several of them were armed and
pointing pistols at Hardy they
shrieked:
"Drop that revolver or we shoot!
you cannot escape!"
At this moment the ball door 'was
thrown open and a man rushed to
Hardy's side It was Mordecai the
Jew with his red eyes his bushy red
whiskers his big hook-nose
"Mr Hardy!" he cried "my dear
pupil!" and he sprang between the
American and the pistols that were
pointed at the latter's body "Stop
brothers stop!" he shrieked "What
madness is this? What is this man
accused of? I know him He is a
friend' I will vouch for him on my
life I w1 defend him If you kill
him you must kill me too"
"He is a friend of aristocrats" ei
plained Bielinski stepping forward
"he entered here by mistake he says
but it is possible that he is a spy
At any rate ha knows our secret he
has overheard our plans and he will
betray us He must die"
And at this moment a loud ham-
mering was heard on the outer or
street door
"Silence!" gasped Bielinski in a
whisper—a whisper nevertheless that
could be heard more distinctly in the
sudden silence than a shout "What is
that?"
As if in answer to his question' the
door opening into the hall flew wide
and the old woman looked in dishev-
eled and pale moaning as she crossed
herself rapidly:
"The police! The police!"
Again that thundering on the door
sounded through the house and a
stern voice could be heard command-
ing: "Open in the name of the czar!"
Hardy was forgotten The czar
their archenemy was at the gates of
their fortress and his name was a
word of terror The nihilists flew
past the American on tip toe into the
hall several of them jostling and al-
most knocking him over in theft' eag-
erness to escape
"Come w1th me!" whispered Ba-
ruch who had regained his feet "You
must not be found here!"—and seiz-
ing Hardy by the arm he also jumped
for the open door Hardy made no
resistance and was soon running
down the long hall with the others led
by the Jew They came to a narrow
flight of stairs leading to the cellar
and down this they crowded scram-
bling and fighting some of them los-
ing their footing and rolling to the
bottom A loud 'crash arrested
Hardy's attention He was standing
in the darkness but at the farther
end of the hall was a hanging lamp
turned low and by the light of this
he could see the door fly in splinters
and the officers of the law pour in
"Throw your bomb brother throw
your bomb!" said Bielinski and
Hulin leaping like a cat into the mid-
dle of the passage hurled the sphere
down the ball with an oath There
was a muffled report not loud and
much jingling of glass The light
went out but by the momentary flash
of the explosive Hardy could see
several policemen pitch fórward on
their faces
"Come come away!" said Mordecai
and Hardy scurried down the dark
cellar steps with the Jew
CHAPTER XXXII
Hardy Buys an Overcoat
They were in utter darkness now
Above could be heard a hoarse uproar
faint and confused shouts and sounds
of heavy boots on the flooring here
in the cellar the shuffling feet of the
escaping nihilists the bump or rattle
of an occasional obstruction kicked or
run against muttered oaths Morde-
cai still holding Hardy by the arm
pulled him rapidly across the cellar
until they stumbled against the feet
ofmen crawling on their hands and
knees The American pitched for-
ward on the back of one of these
who kicked him savagely and swore
a foul oath under his breath
"Get down" whispered Mordecai
"and crawl crawl with me!"
They passed through an opening in
the wall so low that it tbrought the
American fiat on his stomach and
still scratched his back That it was
barely wide eneugh for two at a time
was evident from the fact that
though be had crowded close to Mor-
decai the wall scraped his right side
They were through in a trice and still
In utter darkness The sound of
scuffling feet again could be heard—
the sound of nihilists fleeing
"The fools!" muttered Mordecai
"they forgot to put back the stone"
It was evident from his grunts and
a scratching sound that he was strug-
gling with some heavy object
"There" he muttered at last "it is
flush now and just in time! Listen
my dear pupil do you not hear them?
They are in the cellar Put your ear
against the wall"
Hardy did as was requested and he
could indeed hear faint sounds on the
other side of the wall
"Where are we now?" he asked
"We are in the cellar of the ad-
joining house belonging to a member
of the Order The brothers have es
caped by an underground passage--
by an old forgotten sewer But it will
not be safe for you to follow them
They will have recovered their wits
by this time and some et them will lie
In wait for you and kill you feeling
sure that you wtH tell what you have
seen and heard"
Hardy's eye e were becoming accus-
tomed to the darknetul and in the dis-
tance he could see a slit of dim gray
light He felt his way to it striking
a barrel and hitting his head against
a hanging shelf on the way By the
sense of touch he assured himself
that he had arrived at the cellar win-
dow boarded up and that the slit of
gray light came through an imperfect
Joining The door must be somewhere
near With his fingers against the
wall he took several steps to the left
without finding it then be returned
to the right made the same experi-
ment and his efforts were rewarded
with success
Mordecai was at his side
"What are you going to do?" asked
the Jew -
"I am going to walk boldly but of
this door" replied Hardy "The ex-
plosion will have drawn the whole
neighborhood to the front of the
house on the other street and I shall
not be noticed If I am I can explain
how I came here and how I escaped
I am going to chance it and the
quicker I go the better"—and he
pushed back the heavy bolt which he
had found by this time "Good-by
my friend and thank you I suppose
you will rejoin your brethren You
have saved my life and I shall never
forget it For your sake I will say
nothing about what I have seen and
heard this night The nest is broken
up for the present and the police do
not seem to need my aid"
The American walked a couple of
squares then turned sharply to the
right and gained the main street He
was safe now and he hailed a passing
cab ordered the isvoschik to take him
to the Slaviansky Bazar As he stood
on the walk waiting for the vehicle
to draw up he felt chilly and his ex-
citement having subsided somewhat
he made a discovery that gave him a
shock and filled him with a feeling of
uneasiness that was destined to pos-
sess him for many days to come
He had left his overcoat behind
somewhere in that den of nihilists He
got into the cab and as it tore
through the Streets the wheels
squeaking in the snow he sat there
shivering his chin in his hand rack-
ing his brain to remember if possible
whether there was anything in the
pockets a letter cards a cigar-case
that might betray the identity of the
owner To save his life he could not
settle this point in his mind
It was late when he reached the
hotel and just as the gray light of
dawn began to sift in through the
curtains he fell into a sound slumber
It was fully ten o'clock when he went
out into his office and sent for his
coffee As he was drinking it Wang
entered in great excitement with a
newspaper
"Look at this!" cried the boy "The
police raided a den of nihilists last
night and the latter threw a bomb
killing four of the officers and wound-
ing six others It was the society
known as The Enemies of Russia'
made up of disaffected Russians
Poles Finns even Jews—all who hate
this accursed government"
Hardy glanced at the boy marvel-
ing much at the revelation of hate in
that ingenuous word "accursed"
"Why are you an enemy of Rus-
sia?" he asked
"Oh for no particular reason" fal-
tered the boy turning pale "I—per-
haps I am not And the nihilists all
disappeared as though the earth had
swallowed them up Not a thing was
left to prove the identity of a mem-
ber except one costly fur-lined over-
coat which proves that this society
numbers among its members some of
the wealthier classes perhaps of the
nobility I tell you"—and Wang
struck the paper with his right hand
in his excitement—"that this country
is a house divided against itself
Leave it alone and it will work out
Its own destruction and salvation!"
The boy's eyes were flashing now
avid his cheeks were so aflame with
excitement that the scar nearly dis-
appeared Hardy gulped down his coffee and
started for the door
"If anybody calls f8r me Wang" he
said "tell them that I will be back
in an hour"
He did return in that time wear-
ing an exact 4uplicate of the over-
coat that he had lost the night before
And still there was no sigp of the
police He felt reassured Had there
been any telltale letters cards or doc-
uments In the pocks of the missing
garment the officers of the law he
reasoned would have lost no time in
laying hands on him
CHAPTER XXXII
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Hardy Makes a Call
The Princess Romanovna was at
tired in a gown of ' pale blue silk
decollete trimmed with dainty cream
lace Her neck was encircled by a
string of pearls of priceless purity
evenness of size and perfection or
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"What Are You Going to Do?" Asked the Jew
form here was something in the
creamy softness and whiteness of her
skin faintly almost imperceptibly
glowing with the warm red hue of
health and youth that suggested the
delicate tinting of the interior of a
sea-shell or foam shot through with
the first rays of the morning sun and
the pearls seemed at home with such
a background
Her shoulders were so exqulsitely
modeled that revealment became a
duty and a matter of course° Im-
modesty is the child of ugliness Her
arms were round and firm and beau-
tiful when she bent them there was
no angle at the elbow or unsightly
projection but a perfect graceful
curve and when she straightened
them out the skin did not wrinkle
there and corrugate but dimpled rav-
ishingly As he arose from the chair in
which he sat awaiting her entrance
Hardy accustomed to fashionable and
high-bred women noticed as she ad-
vanced toward' him with welcoming
hand extended that her soft light
hair was parted in the middle and
combed low over her broad forehead
and that the thick glossy knot con-
fined in an invisible net was set low
down at the naDe of her neck
She held her head high and
haughtily as the head of a queen yet
her red full lips parted in a dazzling
smile and perfect friendliness shone
from her blue eyes
"I received your note at ten o'clock
this morning" she said in French1
in the most natural way in the world
as though she had seen him only yes-
terday "and fortunately I had no
unavoidable engagement until it"
They stood in the center of a lux-
urious salon flooded with a soft rose-
colored light from electric bulbs in-
geniously disposed about the ceiling
"I was very sorry" he replied "to
disappoint myself last evening and
also to pat you to any possible
annoyance in waiting for me But
the fact 16--"
"But" she exclaimed in her own
tongue "you are positively speaking
Russian! And so perfectly too! I
can hardly believe ray ears It is in-
credible! But don't let's remain
standing here like two posts Sit
down over here and we will have a
nice cozy talk I can give you two
full hours"
She crossed the room to a low
divan and seated herself comfortably
on one end of it among a mass of lux-
urious pillows
Hardy took his place beside her and
said easily:
"The hope of conversing with you
some time in your own tongue prin-
cess has been a great incentive to
me in my studies of Russian With-
out that incentive I should scarcely
have made such progress as you are
kind enough to credit me with"
He was at home now more at home
than in the store at Stryetensk or in
the wholesale houses of the Moscow
merchants and these words of deli-
cate flattery came naturally to his
lips The princess fluhed one quick
searching look at him The man was
a gentleman in the conventional
sense as well as a hero and no more
afraid of a princess than of a Chinese
brigand
"So you learned Russian that you
might talk with me?" she laughed
with a slight tinge of coquetry "How
perfectly charming! But" she
pouted "I fear that your desperate
struggle with the terrible Russian
tongue is but a poor compliment to
my French Did you then find that
so unintelligible?"
"Not at all" he replied "except as
far as my own poor mastery of it ren-
dered it so But my desire to con'
verse with you in Russian was quite
natural I used often to wish that I
could understand you when you were
talking on the Amur steamer Be-
sides Russian as spoken by you
seemed a very beautiful language and
one well worth acquiring"
She did not see fit to pursue this
topic further
"You shall always speak Russian
with me then By the way have you
heard anything further from your he-
roic friend Smulciers? I hope you
have not lost all trace of him I
should so like to know how his love
affair with the fair but tantalizing
IChulia' came out"
"Of that I am able to inform you as
I have recently heard from Smulders
He and 'Cbulia' are married and liv-
ing in Amsterdam Smulders is in
the seventh heaven of happiness"
The princess clapped her little
hands with Joy
"Isn't it delightful" she exclaimed
"to hear of a love affair that en:cis
happily? And I have no doubt that
Thulia' will settle down into a sen-
sible affectionate wife and repay him
for all his sufferings Was that not a
terrible happening last night the
kiHing and wounding of those poor
officers? The nihilists are becoming
bolder and bolder every day Only
the severest measures will stamp out
this evil of nihilism There is no oth-
er way to deal with these misguided
men who if they could only be made
to see it are their own worst enemies
Could they know how it grieves the
Little Father to be severe with any of
his children they would not resort to
violence I am sorry for the families
of the killed and wounded officers! I
have started a subscription for them
which has already been gemrously re-
sponded to"
"May I put my name down for a
small amount?" asked Hardy
Hardy noticed that the list was
headed "Elizabetha Romanovna 1000
roubles" and that several others had
contributed equal sums The last
name thus far obtained and next to
which Hardy must sign was that of
Boris Romanoff who was down tot
2000 roubles
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Cheering Crowds
The prudent statesman now must pause
While thoughtfully he notes
The men who get the most applause
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Wilson, C. L. Cherokee Weekly Messenger. (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1910, newspaper, July 7, 1910; Cherokee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1714978/m1/3/?q=112th+cavalry+: accessed June 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.