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The kifciika was soon in motion. The
horse, which Nicholas never struck,
ambled along. If Michael Strogoff did
not gain much in rapidity, at least new
fatigues would be spared to Nadia.
And such was the exhaustion of the
young girl that, rocked by the mouoto-
oenevea to oe urother and sister.
Ou the 22d of August the kibitka
reached the town of Atchinsk, whicii
was 3S0 versts from Tomsk. A hun
dred and twenty versts still separated
it from Krasnoiarsk. No incident had
marked this journey. During the six
j days they had been together Nicholas,
j Michael ^ Strogoff and Nadia had re
mained just the same, the one in his
J nous motion of the kibitka, she soon
| fel1 ‘ nto f . a sle «P yat resembled an utter j ~ aiTerable^ calmness^ the other“two
I Prostration. Michael Strogoff and Nich- j anxioug and lookiDg forwai . d to the
! olas made a bed lor her on the birch ; momont when tbe!r compailion wou]d
a0 • separate from them.
CHAPTER XIV.
lICHAEL STROGOFF and
Nadia had left Semilow-
skoe about two hours
when Michael stopped
suddenly.
“Is the road deserted?”
he asked.
“Vv’ithout a soul on it,” replied Nadia.
“Do you not hear some noise be
hind?”
“Truly.”
“If these are the Tartars, we must
hide ourselves. Look well.”
“Listen, Michael!” replied Nadia, as
cending the road, which diverged some
paces to the right.
Michael Strogoff stopped an instant
alone,' stretching his ears to listen.
Nadia returned almost immediately
and said:
“It is a vehicle. A young man is lead
ing it.”
“lie is alone?’
“Alone.”
Michael Strogoff hesitated for a mo
ment. Ought he to hide, or ought he,
on the contrary, try the chance of find
ing a place in his vehicle, if not for
himself, at least for her? For himself,
he would be content to rest his hand
ou it and would push when needed, for
his legs were far from failing him. but
he felt that Nadia, dragged on foot
since the passage of the Obi—namely,
for more that eight days—was at the
end of her strength.
He waited. The vehicle arrived soon
at the turn of the road.
It was a very dilapidated vehicle,
able to hold at most three persons—
what is called in that country a kibitka
The kibitka is usually drawn by three
horses, but this one was drawn only by
one horse, with long hair and a long
tail, but its Mongolian blood affirmed
strength and courage.
A j-oung man conducted it, having
near him a dog.
Nadia at once saw that this young
iman was a Russian. lie had a swee.t
and phlegmatic appearance which in
spired confidence.
Moreover, he did not appear to be in
the least hurry. He walked with a
quiet step in order not to overdrive his
horse, and to see him one could never
have believed that he was following a
route which the Tartars might cut off
at any moment.
Nadih, holding the hand of Michael
Strogoff, stood on one side.
The kibitka stopped, and the driver
looked at the young girl, at the same
time smiling.
“And where are you going in this
fashion?” he asked her as he looked
pleasantly round.
At the sound of his voice Michael
Strogoff said to himself that he had
heard it somewhere,, and without doubt
11 was sumcient to cause him to rec
ognize the driver of the kibitka, for bis
face at once became serene.
“Well, now, where are you going?”
repeated the young man, addressing
himself more directly to Michael Stro-
gon.
“We were going to Irkutsk,” answer
ed the latter.
“Oh, my good man, do you not know,
then, that there are many, many versts
between this and Irkutsk?”
“I know it.”
“And you are going on foot?”
“On foot.”
“As for you, it’s ail right, but the
miss?”
“She Is my sister,” said Michael Stro
goff, who thought it more prudent to
give this name again to Nadia.
“Yes, your sister, my good man. But.
believe me, she will never be able to
reach Irkutsk.”
“Friend,” replied Michael Strogoff as
he drew near, “the Tartars have rob
bed us, and I have not a copeck to offer
thee, but if you will take my sister
near you I will follow the carriage on
foot. 1 will run if it be necessary and
will not delay you one hour.”
“Brother,” cried Nadia. “1 do uot
wish it! I do not wish itl Sir, my
brother is blind!”
“Blind!” said the young man in a
voice moved with emotion.
“The Tartars have burned out his
eyes!” answered Nadia, stretching out
her hands as though to implore pity.
“Burned your eyes? Oil, poor, dear
man! I am going to Krasnoiarsk.
Well, now, why do you uot mount with
your sister into the kibitka? In sitting
a little closer we shall hold each other
up. Besides, my dog will not refuse to
go on foot. Only 1 do uot go fast iu or
der to spare my horse.”
“Friend, what do they eail you?”
asked Michael Strogoff.
“1 am called Nicholas Pigassof.”
“It is a came that 1 shall never for
get,” answered Michael Strogoff.
“Well, then, mount, my good blind
man. Your sister shail be near you at
the back cf the car; I iu front to con
duct. There are some good birch bark
and some barley straw on the bottom.
It's like a nest. Come, Serko, give us
room.”
The dog jumped off without much
asking. It was an animal of the Sibe
rian breed, with a gray hide, medium
size, with a good, large and caressing
head, and which appeared to be very
attached to his master.
Michael Strogoff and Nadia in an in- j
stant were installed in the kibitka. Mi- j
chael Strogoff had stretched out hi3 i
hands as though to search those of \
Nicholas Pigassof.
“Is it my hands you wish to press?” i
said Nicholas. “Here they are, my '
good man. si>aJa» them as much as
-■ ■ •-!
leaves as well as they were able,
compassionate young man was much
moved, and if a tear did not escape the
eyes of Michael Strogoff iu truth it
was because the redhot iron had burn
ed them dry.
“She Is pretty,” said Nicholas.
“Yes,” answered Michael Strogoff.
“These darlings would be strong, for
they are courageous, but they are real
ly only weak. Do you come a great
distance?”
“From a great distance.”
“Poor young folks! It must bare
hurt you much when they burned your
eyes.”
“Very much,” said Michael Strogoff.
turning as though he could see Nicho
las.
“Did you not cry?”
“Yes.”
“I also should have cried. To think
that one can never see again those he
loves! Anyhow they see you. That is
perhaps some consolation.”
“Yes, perhaps. Tell me, friend,” de
manded Michael Strogoff, “have you
never seen me anywhere before to
day?” j
“You, my good man? No, never.”
“It is because the sound of your voice |
is not unknown to me.”
“Do you see?” said Nicholas, smiling.
“He knows the sound of my voice.
Perhaps you ask me this to learn
whence I come. Oh, I am going to
tell you. I am coming from Kalyvan.”
“From Kalyvan?” said Michael Stro
goff. “Well, then it is there that I met
you. You were at the telegraph of
fice?”
“That may be,” answered Nicholas.
“I lived there. 1 was employed as tele
graph operator.”
“And you remained at your post to
the last moment?”
“Eh! It. is especially at that moment ;
one ought to be there.”
“It was the day when an Englishman
and a Frenchman, rubles in tbeir
bauds, disputed the turn at your wick-
fet, and when the Englishman telegraph- j
ed the first verses of the Bible?’
“That, my good man. is possible, but !
I do not remember it.”
“What! You do not remember it?”
“I never read the dispatches which I
transmit. My duty being to forget i
them, the shortest way is to be igno- j
rant of them.” i
This answer was characteristic of '
Nicholas Pigassof.
However, the kibitka kept on its easy
course, which Michael Strogoff would
have liked to render more rapid, but
Nicholas and his horse were accustom
ed to a gait from which neither the one
nor the other could depart. The horse
walked for three hours and then rest
ed for one, and this day and night.
During the halts the horse pastured,
the travelers of the kibitka ate in com
pany with the faithful Serko. The ki
bitka was provisioned for at least
twenty persons, and Nicholas had gen
erously placed the reserved food at the
disnosal of his two guests, whom be
On the evening of the 25th of August
the kibitka was only half a verst from
Krasnoiarsk. One could see on the
right and left the numerous wooden
crosses which are erected along the
road at the approaches to the town. It
was 7 o'clock at night.
The kibitka had stopped.
| “Where are we, sister?” asked Mi
chael Strogoff.
“A little over a half verst from the
first houses,” answered Nadia.
“Has the town, then, gone to sleep?
No noise strikes upon my ear.”
Ten minutes afterward the kibitka
entered the principal street.
Krasnoiarsk was deserted! There was
not any longer an Athenian in thi3
“Athens of the North,” as it is called
by Mine, de Bourboulon. Not one of
those equipages, so splendidly rigged
out, rattled along the handsome wide
streets. Not a foot passeuger trod the
sidewalks that skirted those magnifi
cent houses of wood, palatial in their
grandeur!
Not a living soul remained in Kras
noiarsk.
Michael Strogoff, Nadia and Nicholas
had not to search long for a place iu
which to rest- The first house of which
they tried the door was empty, as were
all the rest. They found nothing there
but a heap of leaves. For want of
something better, the horse had to be
content with this meager food. As for
the provisions of the kibitka, they were
not exhausted, and each one took his
share. Then, after having knelt be
fore a modest picture of the Panaghia
that was hanging on the wail and
which the last flame cf a lamp still lit
up, Nicholas and the young girl fell
asleep, while Michael Strogoff remain-;
ed awake, his anxiety driving away
all sleep. j
The next day, 2Gth of August, before
daybreak the kibitka was traversing
the park of birch trees to reach the
banks of the Yenisei, which was cross-1
ed by the little party on an improvised
raft. I
Michael Strogoff could a
was eighty versts rruiu maouv.u..-,
and by the 2i)tb that of Ribinsk. forty
versts from Baiaisk.
The next day, after traveling more
than thirty-five versts, they arrived at
Kamsl:, a more considerable town, wa
tered by tiie river of the same name,
a small affluent of the Yenisei, which
descends from the mountains of Sa-
yansk.
On going out from Kamsk Michael
Informed Nadia and Nicholas that they
would find only one little town of some
Importance, N’ijni Oudinsk, before Ir
kutsk. Nicholas answered that he
knew that there was a telegraphic sta
tion iu that town. Therefore if Nijni
Oudinsk had been abandoned like
Kamsk he would certainly be obliged
to seek for some occupation in the cap-
i ital of eastern Siberia,
j From Kamsk to the neighboring town
was very long, about a hundred and
i thirty versts.
After having crossed the little river
of Biriousa the kibitka reached Biriou-
sinsk on the morning of the 4th cf Sep- i
ternber. There, very fortunately, Nicb- I
olas, who saw his provisions becoming
exhausted, found in an abandoned bake
house a dozen cakes, prepared with
mutton fat, and a large supply of boil
ed rice.
After a reasonable bait they contin
ued their journey once more on the aft
ernoon of the Sth of September. The
distance to Irkutsk was not more than
500 versts. Nothing in their rear sig
naled the advance guard cf the Tar
tars. Michael Strogoff had therefore
settled down to think that his journey
would not again be interrupted and
that in eight days or in ten at the most
he wouid he in the presence of the
grand duke.
In coming out of Biriousinsk a hare
crossed the read about thirty paces in
front of the kibitka.
“Ah!” said Nicholas.
“What is the matter, friend?” asked
Michael Strogoff eagerly, as a blind
man whom the least noise held on the
watch.
“Did you not see?” said Nicholas,
whose srnil
cloudy.
Then he added:
“Ah, no, you could not see, and it Is
happy for you, good father!”
“But I have seen nothing.” said Na
dia.
“So much the better! So much the
better! But I—I have seen!”
“What was it, then?” asked Michael
Strogoff.
| “A hare that came across our path!”
length be- 1 answered Nicholas.
! Next day. Sept. 9. at noon the kibitka
halted at the town of Aisalevsk, as de
serted as was the surrounding country.
There ou the threshold of a house
Nadia found two of those knives with
long, sharp blades used by Siberian
hunters. She gave one of them to Mi
chael Strogoff, who hid it under his
coat, and she kept the other for her
self. The kibitka was not more than
sixty-five versts from Nijni Oudinsk.
Nicholas during the last two days
had not been able to regain bis usual
good humor. The evil omen had affect
ed him mere than one could have be
lieved, and he who un to that time had
never remained an hour without talk
ing had now long spells of silence, from
which even Nadia could with difficulty
withdraw him.
In spite cf all his somewhat fatalistic
resignation he would uot believe him
self safe except within the wails of
Irkutsk. Many Russians would have
thought ijke Nicholas, and mere than
one, pulling the bridle cf his horse,
would have turned back after seeing a
hare cross their path.
The next day, toward 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. Nicholas descried on the
horizon the high belfries cf the church
es of Nijni Oudinsk. They were crown
ed with thick columns of vapor which
could not be clouds.
Nicholas and Nadia looked and com
municated to Michael Strogoff the re
sult of their observations. They must
decide their course of action at once. ,
If the town had been abandoned, they
could pass through it without any risk,
but if by a movement that they could
, not explain the Tartars already occu
pied it they must turn it at any price.
! “Let us advance prudently,” said Mi-
| chael Strogoff, “but let us advance!”
| Another verst was made.
: He was about to propose to Nicholas
to leave the route and in case of neccs-
! sity only to regain it after having turn- i
ed Nijni Oudinsk, when the sound of a
gun was heard on the right. A ball
j hissed, and the horse in the kibitka,
| struck iu the head, fell dead.
officer tnoy bound nun last worn cuius,
they flung him across a horse, ami the
detachment set off at a gallop.
The cord which tied Michael Strogoff,
gnawed by bim. broke at an unexpect
ed dasb of the horse, and its rider, halt
drunk, carried away in a quick run,
did not even perceive it.
Michael Strogoff and Nadia found
themselves alone on the road.
CHAPTER XV.
ICHAEL STROGOFF anc
Nadia were cnce non
free, as they had heel
during the journey h
Perm to the banks o: tbi
Irtish. But bow change!
were the circumstance!
of the journey! Then a comfonfi>H
vehicle, teams often renewed, wei! [
Tided post horses, secured for the: £
quick journey. New they went or. ot
with an impossibility of procuring foi
themselves any menus of loecmoiioa
without resources, uot knowing ■ -et
how to procure the ieast wants < f iff®
and they had stiil to make 400 verts
And, moreover, Michael Strogoff nofl
only saw through the ewes cf Nr fin.
As for the friend whom chain ■ hat
given them, they had just lost hfio uu
der the most affecting circumstances.
It was 10 o’clock at nignt. F '
last three hours and a half the sun Lnc
disappeared below the horizon, ifieri
was not a house, not a hut, in : fit
The last Tartars were lost in the
tance. Michael Strogoff and Nad.3
wnro slnup_
[TO EE CONTINUED.]
At the same instant, a dozen horse-
face suddenly became \ men threw themselves on the road, and
the kibitka was surrounded. Michael
Strogoff, Nadia and Nicholas, without
haying had time to recover themselves,
were prisoners and being led rapidly
toward Nijni Oudinsk.
The next day, 11th of September, the
detachment passed through the town
of Chibarlinskoe.
At that time an incident occurred
which was to have very serious conse
quences.
The night had come. The Tartar
lieve that the route was free as far as
Irkutsk. He had outstripped the Tar
tars, and when the soldiers cf the emir
should arrive at Krasnoiarsk they
would only find an abandoned town
there and no means of immediate com
munication between the two hanks of
the Yenisei; hence a delay of some days
until a bridge cf boats, difficult to con
struct, should open a passage to them.
For the first time since the unlucky
meeting with Ivan Ogareff at Omsk
the courier of the czar felt himself less
uneasy and could hope that no new
obstacle would arise to the accomplish
ment of his plans.
The kibitka, after having proceeded
about fifteen versts toward the south
east, came to and retook the long high
road across the steppe.
On the 28th of August the travelers
had passed the town of Baiaisk, which
In Russia when a hare crosses the
path of a traveler popular belief looks
upou it as a sigu of approaching evil.
Nicholas, superstitious as are the
greater part of the Russians, had step
ped the kibitka.
Michael Strogoff understood the hes
itation cf his companion, although he
did not share his credulity regarding
hares crossing the path, and he wished
to reassure him.
“We have nothing to fear, friend,”
he said to him.
“Nothing for you nor for her, I know,
good father,” answered Nicholas, “but
for me!”
And, continuing, said he:
“It is my destiny.”
And be again put his horse to the
trot.
Meanwhile, in spite cf the sad prog
nostications, the day passed by with
out any accident.
horsemen, having had a halt, were
more or less drunk. They were about
to continue their journey.
Nadia, who up to that time, as though
by a miracle, had been respected by
those soldiers, was insulted by one of
them.
Michael Strogoff bad been able to see
neither the insult nor the insulting per
son, but Nicholas had seen for him.
Then quietly, without having reflect
ed, without perhaps having any con
sciousness of his action, Nicholas made
straight for the soldier, and before the
latter could make any movement to
stop him, snatching a pistol from the
pommel of his saddle, he discharged it
full at his breast.
The officer who had command of the
detachment ran up immediately at the
sound of the pistol.
The horsemen were about to cut Nich
olas in pieces, but at a sign from tbe
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