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He had his surrey packed with food, and about eleven o'clock drove up to the mine and was lowered to the ninth level. An hour later he stepped out of the cage with a prisoner whom he kept covered with a revolver. "It's that fellow Struve," he explained to the astonished engineer in the shaft-house. "I found him down below.
A fire was burning in this pink room where the landlord had begun spreading the table for two, and its warmth was grateful to the girl. Her companion, thoroughly at his ease, stretched himself on a fur-covered couch and smoked. "Let me see the papers, now, Mr. Struve," she began, but he put her off. "No, not now. Business must wait on our dinner.
I've heard and seen things that make me think oh, they make me afraid to think, and yet I can't find the TRUTH! You see, in a struggle like this, people will make all sorts of allegations, but do they KNOW, have they any proof, that my uncle has done wrong?" "Is that all?" "No. You said Struve told you the whole scheme.
And then Madame Struve joined in the conversation, and told me how much the subject of woman's education still held her interest. "St. Petersburg is about the size of Philadelphia. Struve said, 'There are thousands of women studying science in St. Petersburg. How many thousand women do you suppose are studying science in the whole State of New York? I doubt if there are five hundred.
This organ, edited by the brilliant and courageous Peter Struve, was published in Stuttgart, Germany, and, since its circulation in Russia was forbidden, it had to be smuggled into the country and secretly circulated, just as the revolutionary Socialist journals were. Thus another bond was established between two very different movements.
The ranger ran, stooping, along the bank, till it afforded him no more protection, then dashed across the stony-bottomed stream to the shelter of the thick aspens beyond. Just as he expected, a shot rang from far up the mountainside. In another instant he was safe in the foliage of the young aspens. In the sheer exhilaration of his escape he laughed aloud. "Last show to score gone, Mr. Struve.
"No, no, no! Can't you SEE? That's not it. All I want is the truth of this thing." "Then go back to Struve and get it. He'll tell you; I won't. Drive your bargain with him you're able. You've fooled better men now, see what you can do with him."
She paid no heed, did not stop till she reached the spring and threw herself down full length to drink, to lave her burnt face, to drink again of the alkali brackish water that trickled down her throat like nectar incomparably delicious. She was just rising to her feet when Struve hobbled up. "Don't you think you can play with me, missie.
The two Herschels between them discovered some thousands of these close multiple systems; Struve and others increased the list to above ten thousand; and Mr. S. W. Burnham, of late years the most enthusiastic and successful of double-star pursuers, added a thousand new discoveries while he was still an amateur in astronomy, and by profession the stenographer of a Chicago court.
"It's you and Miss Kinney for the Mal Pais, me for the trail. I ain't very likely to find Mr. Struve, but you can't always sometimes tell. Anyhow, I'm going to take a shot at it," the ranger answered. "And at him?" his friend suggested. "Oh, I reckon not. He may be a sure-enough wolf, but I expect this ain't his day to howl."
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