tilely searched his pockets.

"Bah!" said he, with a lordly air, "I have no money. But here is my
pocket-book; I will give it to you for a souvenir of me, Katharina."

Thaddeus and Athanase exclaimed at the generosity of the prince, but
Annouchka said:

"The prince does as he should, for my friends can never sufficiently
repay the hospitality that that little thing gave me in her dirty hut
when I was in hiding, while your famous department was deciding what to
do about me, my dear Gounsovski."

"Eh," replied Gounsovski, "I let you know that all you had to do was to
take a fine apartment in the city."

Annouchka spat on the ground like a teamster, and Gounsovski from yellow
turned green.

"But why did you hide yourself that way, Annouchka?" asked Onoto as she
caressed the beautiful tresses of the singer.

"You know I had been condemned to death, and then pardoned. I had been
able to leave Moscow, and I hadn't any desire to be re-taken here and
sent to taste the joys of Siberia."

"But why were you condemned to death?"

"Why, she doesn't know anything!" exclaimed the others.

"Good Lord, I'm just back from London and Paris--how should I know
anything! But to have been condemned to death! That must have been
amusing."

"Very amusing," said Annouchka icily. "And if you have a brother whom
you love, Onoto, think how much more amusing it must be to have him shot
before you."

"Oh, my love, forgive me!"

"So you may know and not give any pain to your Annouchka in the future,
I will tell you, madame, what happened to our dear friend," said Prince
Galitch.

"We would do better to drive away such terrible memories," ventured
Gounsovski, lifting his eyelashes behind his glasses, but he bent his
head as Annouchka sent him a blazing glance.

"Speak, Galitch."

The Prince did as she said.

"Annouchka had a brother, Vlassof, an engineer on the Kasan line, whom
the Strike Committee had ordered to take out a train as the only means
of escape for the leaders of the revolutionary troops when Trebassof's
soldiers, aided by the Semenowsky regiment, had become masters of the
city. The last resistance took place at the station. It was necessary
to get started. All the ways were guarded by the military. There were
soldiers everywhere! Vlassof said to his comrades, 'I will save you;'
and his comrades saw him mount the engine with a woman. That woman
was--well, there she sits. Vlassof's fireman had been killed the evening