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"Yes," replied his sister, making a little face, "I danced with him too, but he wants me to dance with no one else, and I don't like that. He makes me afraid, too, just like Rosenblatt." "Afraid!" said her brother scornfully. "No, not afraid," said Irma quickly. "But never mind, here is the pudding. I am sorry it is cold." "All right," said the boy, mumbling with a full mouth, "it is fine.
In his closing appeal O'Hara carried the jury back to the point from which he had set out. With tears in his voice he recounted the scene of the parting between the prisoner and his children. He drew a harrowing picture of the unhappy fate of wife and children left defenceless and in poverty to become the prey of such men as Rosenblatt.
"Ah," he continued in his deep undertone, "that will be joy." Ever since the arrival of Rosenblatt in the country he had been under surveillance of one of these two old Nihilists, walking, though he knew it not, side by side with death. To Malkarski fell the task of keeping within sight and sound of Rosenblatt during the following day.
From all the evidence, it seemed that the prisoner was a most dangerous criminal. The principal source of evidence, however, was Rosenblatt, whose deposition was taken down by the Sergeant and the doctor. The man, it appeared, was known by many names, Koval, Kolowski, Polkoff and others, but his real name was Michael Kalmar.
Rosenblatt had known Paulina in the home land, and on her arrival in the new country had hastened to proffer his good offices, arranging the purchase of her house and guiding her, not only in financial matters, but in things domestic as well. It was due to Rosenblatt that the little cottage became the most populous dwelling in the colony.
Opening the papers, Kalman proceeded to read them carefully, by the light of the lantern, French smoking calmly the while. "Have you no better light than this, Rosenblatt?" said French at length. "Surely there are candles about here." He walked toward the back of the cave. "Ah, my God!" cried Rosenblatt, seizing him and drawing him toward the table again. "Sit down, sit down.
To this mass a train was to be laid through the cross tunnel to a convenient distance. A pile of brushwood at some distance from the cave would be burning. On his way to his cabin Rosenblatt would fire the train and wait the explosion in his own shack, the accidental nature of which could easily be explained under the circumstances.
Among the first who offered their services was old Portnoff and a friend of his, an old man with ragged beard, and deep-set, piercing eyes looking out from under shaggy brows, to whom Portnoff gave the name of Malkarski. As Portnoff seemed to be a man of influence among his people, Rosenblatt made him foreman over one of the gangs of workmen in his employ.
Against this arrangement poor Paulina made feeble protest, not so much on her own account as for the sake of the children. "Children!" cried Rosenblatt. "What are they to you? They are not your children." "No, they are not my children, but they are my man's, and I must keep them for him. He would not like men to sleep in the same room with us." "What can harm them here?
"We are no friends of Rosenblatt." "Rosenblatt? And what has he to do with it?" "Rosenblatt," said Joseph sullenly, "is master in Paulina's home." "Aha! He is master, and you are no friends of his," returned the stranger. "Tell me why this is so?"
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