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BY ORDER OF THE CZAR. 33

every known cavern in the world, so far as their nistories are related in books. And while I tremble lest thou shouldst deceive me, I feel a glow of pleasure in showing thee my treasures."

" I have sworn to thee, Moses Grunstein, and that binds me ; but a very devil might be trusted out of his gratitude to be true to thy secret, if thou hadst saved him from a Christian saint as thou hast saved me from Christian devils. And I say saved, with a kind of revelation that it is so ; for know, dear friend, that I am master of so many dis- guises that with thy aid I need not remain here longer than is necessary for thee to provide me with the means to make myself someone else, and happily I have more than one passport which I can fit with more than one disguise.

CHAPTP;R v.

AN ARREST.

WHILE host and guest were thus entertaining each other in Grunstein's remarkable retreat, the police were seek- ing Ferrari in every house of the Ghetto, and troops were scouring the country in all directions. Poor Anna was aroused from her dreams of bliss to be declared a prisoner in her father's house. The officer placed in charge had every room ransacked for seditious papers. Her own virgin chamber was not sacred from their prying eyes. Before it was well day the new governor, General Petro- novitch, made his appearance. He sat in Nathan Kloss- tock's great room, and had the owner and his daughter brought before him as if they were criminals.

" So." he said, " you are the vile reptiles that have found so much favor with my predecessor? like governor, like subject."