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Out of the Jaws of Death.

Continued from Second Page. you Just, wanted to keep the parties insight without sorter lettin 'em tumble to it." "No—:no! Go on quick—quick!"

A flick of the whip doubled our pace. The wheel# were tired with-rubber, but as the clatter of hoofs grew more audible to the driver of the brougham he tamed and looked back. We were near enough then for me to distinguish his hollow cheeks ahd cavernous eyes, and I think he must have recognized me, for he used the whip freely and increased his speed. Turning^he angle by St. Katherine's docks, I saw &mmagb thrust his head from the window and look back. For a time the race seemed equal, but I observed that the brougham did.not gain on us, though the driver used the whip far more freely than my man. But the terror of Shad well was still before me.

I called to the driver: "Could you get in front of the carriage and stop it?"

He said he would "have a try at it, anyhow," and with another cut of the whip he shot on and ran wheel to wheel with the brougham. I stood up, and craning out caught sight of Kavanagh as we passed the open window looking across the recumbent body of Taras, his face livid in the light of our lamp. In another minute we had passed, and pulling in sharp toward the pavement forced the driver of the brougham to draw up. Then by another rapid movement my man turned the hansom so as to completely bar the road, and both vehicles came to a dead standstill. "What do you wnrit?" asked Kavanagb, meeting me in the road as I sprang out of the hansom. "Taras!" I cried wildly, brushing past him. "Tnras!" I cried again as I stepped Into the brougham by the open door, with a fearful foreboding that he was murdered.

"Tama!" I cricd wildly.

But his hand was warm, and in response to my repeated cry of agonized entreaty he opened his eyes dreamily for an instant. Now that I knew ho lived my fears gave

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ince feeling of exultant joy and conftwis there by his side, and his enemies would have to take my life to separate us, and with this delicious assurance 1 felt almost indifferent as to what might follow. Presently, however, as this ecstasy subsided I began to take notice of what was passing outside.

Kavanagh was explaining the affair to a pollcumau, who had seen the finish of the strange race from the gates of the London docks. I could not catch what he said, but his tone was offhand and conclusive. "You wasn't no more asleep than what I am," broke in my driver from the top of the hansom, and his words were strikingly sharp aud clear after the low murmur of Kavanagh. You put your head out of the window before wo reached the mint, and you must have seen well enough as yo: weren't going to Lambeth that way. You spoke to your man then, and instead of turning round to go back he did all ho could to got away iu the other direction. You'll just take my number, if you please, con stable," ho added, swinging himself down from his seats "The gent in there has been hocused, I'll take my oath. And there's a wholo gang of 'em In the job—the driver there, this party that plays the swell and a couple more of 'em in Burlington street We've been watching the whole plant for four or five hours—ask the young lady inBide—and don't you be had by no kid about falling asleep and driver making a mistake. I shall give my evidence if anything goes wrong, mind." "Ail right, cabby all right. 1 know my duty well as you do," returned the policeman, and coming to the door of the brougham he asked if I had any charge to make against Kavanagh.

At the same moment Kavanagh appeared at the other window, and speaking rapidly In French said: "Be careful, as you value your friend's life. I want you that if you make any charge against me, or even mention my name, Taras will be a dead man within a week. I have ouly one wish, and that is to get Taras home safely to Lambeth. You shall have every assu :.ce you require that I am acting in perfect good faith." Then he added in English, that the policeman and the cabman, who had come to his side, might hear: "Stay with your friend. My man shall drive you home to Lambeth. 1 will take the seat outside. You can rely upon the protection of this cabman. He shall follow, and if we diverge one step from the direct road to Lambeth bridge •top us as he has stopped us already, and you can then give me in custody on the charge of conspiracy and abduction. One* mow," he added, speaking again In French and with impressive earnestness, "I warn you that this Is the only means by which you can save Taras from certain death I"

Fearing the confirmation of this warning even more than afresh act of treachery, I consented to this proposal, my friend the oabman promising that he would not "give Mm half a chance" of playing false.

CHAPTER XXI. KAVAXAGH ooxncssKs,

The movement of the brougham at starting aroused Taras from his lethargy, and be made an effort to shake off sleep, but with along drawn sigh his head drooped again the next minute. I drew him toward me, and with his dear face pillowed on my shoulder I oonld scarcely wish our journey to end.

When we drew np at length at oar house in Lambeth, Kavanagh came, to the door, took the latchkey dram Tarns' pocket and *ft«r lighting the candles in our living room came hack to me. "We most lay our friend on the couch to the sitting room," he said, and taming to the cabman, who had stationed himself in front of us in evidence of his continued vigilance, continued: "Can you gire m# a here? There's a man to hold your horse's head."

With no pretense at disguise, he called

Drigo by name, and the man c.uuc worn the foot of the bridge where I bad last K«*en him and silently plaml himself in front of the horse at Kavanforlrs biddinn:. "He will not waken before midday," said Kavanagh in French when Taras was comfortably disposed on the conch. "Ifce sleeping draft I gave him i3 perfectly harmless. You can see that he is not in the slightest pain, poor old chap'"

The tone of affection in which he spoke was not less astonishing than the openness of his confession. The audacity of Tiis hypocrisy astounded me, aud yet as I looked at him bending over Taras with those soft, feminine eyes I could find nothing in the expression of his face to belie his sentiment. "I must speak to you before I go," hq continued, jralsing his head and looking me calmly in the face. "The cabman shall wait outside till I go, or in the -room with us if you prefer it." "I'm not afraid of you," I replied.

He .bowed, and going to the outer door told the cabman to back his cab and wait there where he could hear if he were called. Then he told the driver of hid brougham to return to the mews and Bade Drigo go with him. These orders I heard distinctly as I sat on the stool beside the couch where Taras lay.

Kavanagh returned to the room, leaving the doors open, and seating himself on the pouch by Taras' feet he leaned forward and, said gravely: "This is the second time you have defeated my plans for saving the life of our friend. Yet I took every precaution that a man could take, short of confiding my pur pose to you this second time."

And if you had done thalt do you.think I should have helped you?" I asked fiercely. "Yes, I believe you would. I set a ipan to watch you, and thought that enough" "And so it would have been if I hadn't found means to get away without his seeing me," I said triumphantly. "Whether I overrated his ability or underrated yours matters little now said he with a shrugs'after regarding me in silence for a minute. "I ought to have told you all. With your help we must have succeeded"—— "In what?" "In getting Taras safely away.'' At this moment lie might have been on the steam er waiting for him on the river and on his way to Russia."

I could only look at him in speechless astonishment for a time. Then, doubting whether I had rightly caught the sense of his words, I said: "You think I would have consented to such a thing as that?" "Yes if I had shown you that it was the only way of saving his life. Understand this, the czar has said that Taras must be silenced—that means that he must be taken back to Russia, where he will be prevented from publishing works offensive to the czar, or that he will be secretly assassinated, for it is hopeless to think of restraining him while he lives here in freedom. I have done my utmost in that direction. I made it impossible for him to burn the group of statuary until Gordon undertook to build a kiln for that purpose, and it was I who destroyed the group the day before it was to be cast. You kuow now that it was the hand of a friend, and not an enemy, who did that." "You call yourself a friend, who did that?" I exclaimed. "Yes. and you would do the same if you perfectly realized his position." *•. "Destroy what ho has made—the work so dear to him? Never!" "Would you rather that he himself should bo destroyed?" He paused for an answer, but as I found no reply to make he continued: "Unfortunately, nothing is to be gained by it, or it should be beaten down again. He has said that ho will carry the work through, though he have to stand by it with a revolver by his side from first to last." "And he will!" 1 cried. "I was as fully convinced on that point as you are before I abandoned the idea. No, there is no other alternative. He must go back to Russia." "He would rather die." "But we would rather, that he lived. And surely if the means of preserving him were offered you—if another opportunity of removiug him should occnr": "I will not listen to you," I cried with indignation as I started to my feet. "Noth lug in the world could persuade me to join you in this shameful plot." "For heaven's sake, be reasonable, my poor girl!" said he in a soothing tone. "You have seen those pictures of prison life and faucy that Taras would be exposed to such cruelty and hardships as are represented in them. You are altogether mistaken, as he himself would tell you if you asked him. His rank alone secures him against ill treatmeut. The czar is not unmerciful. Imperial interests "compel him to take strong measures. His hostility toward Taras is tempered with profound respect for a political adversary of high attainments and unimpeachable honesty. In Russia Taras will be treated with the utmost consideration and kindness. He will be allowed to live where he likes, and the only restrict ion put upon his liberty will be with regard to the propagation of revolutionary ideas, and this restriction will be' but temporary. The country is ripe for revolution, and in a short time the present government will bo overthrown, and then Taras will be free. On the other hand, if he is not conveyed to Russia, his fate is death. Can you hesitate in choosing which lot shall be his?"

It isn't for me to choose, nor for you. Tell Taras what you have told me and let him decide. He is not a fool or achild that we should take his guidance in our hands."

He is a child in some things—in simplicity and recklessness. Suppose he chooses to face the danger of assassination, as probably he will

What then? You will not And him unprepared nor me either," It is not with me that you will have to deal next time, but with one whose purpose is unbiased by friendship."

Friendship!" I said through my clenched teeth, feeling that I should strike the man for the blasphemous use of a word so sacred to my heart. "How dare you speak of friendship? Do you thank I am an idiot to be fooled by a lief What proof of friendship have you given—you, who have done your utmost to Injure the mux who trusted you?" "Not my utmost. Another pinch of pow derinhis glass, and Taras would sever have awoke again." "If you did not kill him," 1 said, detect ing. as I thought, an expression of coward tee in those soft eyes, "it was becaose you dared not."

His silence confirmed my suspicion, and I continued hotiy: "One thing is certain—you dare not try to do it now." "No," be replied quietly, "I dare not even try to save him again, I fear."

Then he rose ami walked across the room, •eeing the hopelessness of persuading me and the increasing hostility his words provoked.

What shall you do when Taras wakes?"

he asked as he turned and came back toward me. "Tell him everything—all that has Bap pened, all you have said."

He nodded, as if this were no more than he expected, and took another turn across the room silent meditation. As he seated himself again in front of me he said: "We should be friends, baying one object in common. The hope that animates tis both is only Jto berealized by joining forces and acting in concert. You doubt my in-tegrity—truth-sincerity. I will, try to prove it by a confession which places the at your mercy. I. put mylifein your hands. At a word you can destroy me as surely as the czar can destroy Taras.. A stronger proof of-sincerity no man could give, and "till LasJ^ in/return is that you will.hear Jne patiently andjudge me without prejudice." "I'll hear what you have to say at any rate," said I.

He stepped to the door noiselessly, looked out into the passage, and coming back seated him self still"" nearer to me, that he. might drop bis voice to atone which coilld not be heard outside. "I am a nihilist," he began, "a member of the same/secret body to which Taras belongs. In the service of this society I obtained a post in the ministerial bureau at8t. Petersburg, where every movement, of the secret police came under my observation. By these means I was enabled to

taken against suspected members. You understand me?" "Yes you were a kind of spy on the police." "I Tyas a spy, and I risked my life in this service. At any moment I might have been discovered and hanged for my zeal. While I was in this office the order came from the czjar to silence Tara3. Taras was then, as he is now, my dearest friend, and you can imagine my horror when I heard that this order was to be executed without delay. Happily the minister found it difficult to lay his hand on a man for his purpose. It was a very delicate business. As Taras was in London it was necessary that the agent should "speak English, not only for the practical working out of the design, but to avoid political complications. It would 'never do for the Russian government to be discovered in this plot to violate the freedom of a man so well knqwn and much( Qonored as Taras. There was one man iu jbe service of the police who eagerly desired to have the job, and that was Rudersdorf, in avowed enemy of Taras. The chief ob jection to employing him was that he did not understand a word of English. "One morning the minister, after explain Ing this difficulty

and

Lying in this case would have been worse than useless. The lie would be found out as scion as it was seen that I made no effort to silence Taras. Jealousy would prompt Rudersdorf to watch me, aud he would be the first to denounce me to the ministry. The result is certain. Rudersdorf would have been charged with the mission he coveted. The lie would only haw delayed-the execution Of the sentence, and scarcely so long as I delayed it by those acts which I have already confessed to. Do you follow me? "Yes." "You see that if I had refused the offer I should certainly have consented to the murder of Taras by his enemy, Rudersdorf?" "Yes." "And vou see that for the same reason 1 am compelled now to keep the promise 1 made."

Logical as the proposition was, I could not agree to it. "As the only means of saving this friend from assassination by Rudersdorf," he insisted, laying his hand lightly upon Tarar, "I understand, what you mean," said I in a reluctant tone. "Then you must agree with me upon the course to be taken." "No," said I, with reviving energy, "I will never agree to that. I have saved him twice single hauded against four or five of you." "The third time you will have to beat Rudersdorf—not me. If he stood where 1 stand now, how would you ward off the shot leveled at Taras' heart?

I sprang up and stood as if petrified between Taras and him, for as he spoke he dropped his hand in his pocket, and for the instant I thought he was abont to flash out a revolver.

Itprang up and flood as if petrified between Tartu and him. "My poor girl," be said smiling as he drew out his handkerchief, "a couple of shoes from that practiced hand would kill yyu both." **It may be so," I faltered aal sank Into a chair overcome with a sense of my helplessness. "But he sball kill me first, please God.w

He knitted Ms fcroroand torned avray. wiping his hands with the handkerchief as if they were wet. When be turned there was perspiration on his brow. "You talk of death," he said, "as if there was no chance of escape, no hope of faappiness iu all t*M» years before you." "There is no chance of escape if what yoa •ty is true no hope of happiness if Tsns \s taken from me. It's useless to go on talk a at the

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warn my society of any action about to be he will do .it, despite the mercy in his heart.

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dersdorf, asked me bluntly if I would un dertake to silence Taras. 'I don't ask you to kill him,' he sayi, seeing some sign of repugnance in my face probably. 'One re Bon for not employing. Rudersdorf is th he certainly would do so. I simply wa: you to bring Taras back to Russia. Thi will please the czar far more than the deat of a. man for whom he still entertains strong feeling of admiration. I can givj you but 24 hours to consider the proposal but if you will not do tliis business Rudersdorf must. "And now," said Kavanagh pointedly, "what answer would you have given in my place?" "I would have accepted," said I without hesitation. :"I am cure you would. But it was not kn undertaking to accept lightly, for you must see as clearly as I that I was bound to fulfill my promise." "No, I don't see that. If you could deceive the minister ona way, you could ai other. You must have told lies from th£ very first, and one more couldn't make any great difference to you."

sight of danger? Not I've got to thinfe how I'm to face this other man now." "Some way of getting out.of the difficul ty," he repeated In a slow,* reflective tone, and thai he added eagerly, "Who knows but that your woman wit might 'find an outlet where my senses are at fault? Why should not' we—you and I—try to devise some scheme by which we may outwit the police, Rudersdorf, the whole lot?"

I regarded him with mistrust, bis eagerness, some crafty expression in his half closed eyes, quickening my suspicions, though these signs were -not inconsistent with an ardent wish to save Taras by deceiving his enemies. "We mil see what Taras says." "Great heaven!" he exclaimed, with extreme agitation.. "Taras must never hear a word of what has happened tonight. If you will not promise me that upon your oath, I—I"

A look of dismay—a quick out ward movement with his trembling bands, as if he were abandoning eve^yth ing—closed the sentence which his lips seemed powerless to finish. "If I am to believe you," I said after a minute's reflection, "Taras will' believe you, and if what you have told, me is not a lie he Will forgive youu' "I do not doubt thai. His faith is greater than yours. But it is his duty to report this to the society, and because it is a duty

The society will judge me' by the letter of the law and my sentence will be death. This is what I exposed myself to by the attempt to stfvp Tai as frbrn the hand of Ru dersdorC This is the fate' to which you condehln me the moment you betray the secret I have given you. You are bound to respect that." "A secret! l"have promised nothing. 1 did not ask you to confess, and nothing binds me to conceal your explanation." "You- forced me to explain—to confess everything—to rely upon your feeling for Taras, if not on your mercv, for a man whose judgment has been betrayed by an excess of cffection—the moment you stopped me, and there was question of your charging me with an indictable offense. The merest rumor would suffice to draw down the vengeance of the society upou me. You must promise to keep my secret." "If I cannot promise" "Then I must leave the country before you can- betr»*v me!' My life will not be safe here for another day. You force me to abandon ras, and you take upon your self all responsibility for what.befalls him after. This is what will follow. When the police at St. Petersburg discover what has happened—and the telegraph will take the news within a few hours of my flight-^ Rudersdorf \v* 11 be dispatched to fill my place, and all the precautions you may take will fail to ward off the blow which his relentless hand will surely strike. Within a week—aye, less than that—Taras will be a dead man, and you will have, to answer to God for his death." It"

It was I now who trembled. Seeing the deep impression he had made. Kavanagh proceeded quickly: 'I ask you for nothing that you cannot safely give. I throw aside the hope of in ducing you to help me in getting Taras away from London. I merely ask you to be silent for awhile—to hold uiy secret un til I have devised some new plan for defeat ing Rudersdorf and the police. What else can you desire? If human ingenuity, sharp ened by the fear of death, can discover Address means of saving Taras, he shall be saved Wanton wickedness or madness can alone lead you to refuse such an offer. You hold a guarantee of good faith on my part, for if you have reason to believe that I am play Ing falsely, you can at once make this charge against me and bring two witnesses to support it, punishing my infidelity with death. I will not even ask you to be silent for au indefinite time. Give me but a week a few days—to think out a scheme, and in return I swear to deliv.er this friend from the hands of Rudersdorf." yf' LJ A,

I would not consent at olice even to thi plausible propositi, but in the end, feeling and reason inclining me in the same way, I said: "I'll say nothing for a week anyhow." "Keep that promise, and I will fulfill mine," said he, springing to his feet, with a conviction in his face which seemed to-in dicate that some scheme for deceiving the police had already flashed upon his imagi nation. jo be Continued Next Week.]

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