RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS
Adapted by BIANCO E. JONES from the M.G.M. Picture.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
At the conclusion of yesterday's Install He turned it round and round. mont the mysterious Rasputin Www just
Alexel stared at it as it turned entering the sick room of the young prince.
like NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
glistening ball. Weird shadows fitted over the boy's face as the candles reflected the gyra- tions of the watch.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933.
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"No," he whispered.
cow, drinking. medicino, out of a Paul moved and looked through the door. The Empress was hand- "Yes, you
are." Rasputin's bottle?" valce rose in quiet crescendo. The man chuckled at the obviousing a cup of coffee to the ponennt
monk. "Your eyes are closing."
absurdity of selence, "No," faintly. Suddenly, Rasputin commanded. "Hold up your hand! The boy's hand jerked up,,
"Drop It!"
It fell obediently. Rasputin's face was a study in unholy triumph. His eyes gicam ed with the gleam of a madman. Ha stroked his long beard, slowly through it. running his fingers lie apoke again to the boy, his volce low, vibrant.
"Now, who was it you wanted a little while ago? Who were you asking for?"
Alexel fought to concentrate on the man's words. He tried to re- member what was happening to him, Useless.
"What do they do, when they're sick?" the boy asked wonderingly, "Why, they sit down and talk It over" was the answer.
Rasputin, renched out his hand for the euj.
"Thanks"
casually. ho unid
matter what your uncles any, keep your "No," he insisted. "No armies out of the Balkana."
The boy smiled despite his pain, "Horace can't talk," he argued, Rasputin gently took the boy's hanils in his. He caressed them Paul stood in amazement at the tenderly.
open door. As he watched, the "Ah, but that's because people Tear bent forward intently, listen- grandduchesses stared, Walt till I show you my horso. Lie put bridles on them," he said. Ing to Rasputin's words. The lit- This morning he asked me where fascinated, at the giant peasant. I was going. I made him guess,' he added confidentially.
Rasputin bent over and kissed the boy on the forehead. The boy smiled up at him, all fear gone, pain seemingly forgotten.
"How long can you stay?" he asked."
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"Still," the Tsar said, "the Bal- kans aro Slavic, too. We're blood brothers,"
Rasputin drank the coffee, gulp- ing it down with noises not unlike those of the sandsucker.
CHAPTER EIGHT The night rain beat down fu- riously against the closed windows "I'll make you well, Alexel." of the swaying carriage in which tasputin murmured. "You'll ride Ant the distracted Dr. Remezov, in a golden house, through the and opposite him Prince Paul and great black forests, with yellow Dr. Wolft, the famous, specialist tigers hiding in the trees, over from Vienia. Outside, the driver, binck rivers in the now, We'll rain beating against his coat and go to the moon, Alexef! We'll go square cornered hat swung his to the mooh!" whip against the gleaming wet With weaker motions, the boy hindquarters of the horse, cursed fought to turn away, to tear his mightily at them, urging them even eyes from the glowing, turning,
"I don't know," he whispered faster along the deserted Nevsky turning watch. Rasputin's voice
Hopelessly, Prospect.
droned on and on, until it seemed
"That's right. Now go to Eerie lights from the small car to the Tsarevitch that nothing in
Paul, going on ahead of the riage lamps outside the doors the world existed except for a sleep."
Olga, over his two doctors, met Natasha is the caused flickering shadowa to play great, glistening ball whirling be- Watching the boy
aboulder as he went, Rasputin girl was leaving the sickroom. Wolff, fore his eyes. over the occupants. Dr.
"How Alexel?" he asked curtains. aaide all the "Listen to the bells." Rasputin threw nervous, apopleptic, hung to the window strap desperately, fright- was saying. He put the watch to Sunlight flooded the room. Alexei's quickly,
Natasha smiled saceply. ened by the rapld, bouncing mo- the boy's cars. The repeater peaceful, hypnotized face luy
of his "Go and sec," she said teasing- tion of the swiftly driven
carstruck a chiming, soft lullaby, against the pure white rlage.
The pain is running out of you- pillow. He breathed evenly.
Paul looked after her with Sure of his prey now, Rasputin Minutes later, when the boy went to the window and opened opened his eyes, he looked at the amazement. He had not expected wide a curtain. A shaft of aan-man sitting on the edge of the so light a tone. He stepped for light played over the boy's face.bed as if he had been with him all ward, and as he did so, he heard
voices issuing from the Taurea "You're going to sleep," the mo- his life. He smiled wanly.
room. Above them he notonous tones told the boy.
"I've thrown all the medicine vitch's
Alexel," Rasputin said. heard a strango gutteral voice. The little Taarevitch struggled away,
"Who ever heard of a horac, or a It was Rasputin's voice. He was eed. wenicly.
saying:
Paul braced himself as the ear- ringe swerved sharply. His cyce wero narrowed thoughtfully as he asked Remezov:
"Why didn't you go directly to) the Tear when this happened?"
"Excellency, I did, at
once," Remozov protested defensively. "But Her Majesty won him over. This morning my colleagues tried to see the patient. There was a guard at the door."
"Do we have to go this fast?"
Wolf Interrupted fearfully.
Phul rebuked him sharply.
The boy is locked up with a
mudman," he told him. "Ile may be dying!"
Wolf took a better grip on the strap.
"If you ask me, gentlemen, it] dovan't matter who he's locked up with-now."
Remezov shook his head du- biously as Paul asked:
"What do you mean by that" Wolf would have answered in the same manner if he were speak- ing of the must ignorant peasant's child. He said:
"I mean that the very able di-f agnos just given us by Dr. Rem-1 ezov leaves us only one conclusion, His Highness kis haemophilia, If he isn't dead by this time, he will be in a few hours. It's been the curse of his mother's house for six generations. Surely, you knew that, doctor," he finished carneally.
Remezov shook his head.. "My colleagues and I hesitated to reach so desperate a verdict,"
he said slowly.
Paul stared in front of him.
Wolff'a manner
- Paul's--Jiking~---
wag not 10
"How can you, a durtør, sit there and renounce a boy's death sen- tence without even having seen him?" he demander.
Wolft merely shrugged his shoulders. It was Remezov who' answered. ·
"There's no guarantés, Excrl- leney, that Wolff will be permitted to see him."
Paul's eyes blazed as he stiff- ened in his sent.
"I guarantee that!" he burst out.
"How long has he been bleed- ing?" Welt asked, after a short silence.
Remezov reflected. '
"I was dismissed at noon yes- terday sixty-two. hours.”
"Then he should be in a coma now," Wolff said. "I.should look for the end to-morrow,
The black-bearded inank, Rasputin, stood at the night table in the Tsarevitch's sickroom. Carefully he collected all the medicine bottles and swiftly he walked to the window and with a single sweep of his hand threw the bottles out into the yard be- Jów. As he parted the curtains sunlight Altered through, He squinted and hurriedly closed the eurtains.
At that moment there was o shrill scream from the boy on the bed who lay tossing his head and writhing in pain. His facol twisted terribly as he yelled out:
"Mammuschka 1"
The next moment Rasputin was at the boy's side. Quite tenderly ho bent over until he was sturing directly into the boy's eyes. His pwn drilled florcely into those of the trio Tearovitch.
There's no use calling her," the peasant said assuringly, "nho's) Kone away.”
monod
"Where 7" Alexei miserably, fighting to avold the man's; glare..
Rasputin's volco was soft as he struggled to catch the boy's goza again. He said. vary, coaxingly
To buy you a beautiful whito olephant, with purple oyen, and a ahiny golden house on its back- his voice trailed off.
"I want hor" the Tsarevitch eriod weakly, his hands twitching nervously above the bed shoot."
Then, suddenly, his oyen word caught-by-Rasputin's The boy stared motionicaaly Jato oyes which blazed like daiming coat The monksuddenly, grinned.
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the
"Yes, and so was Cain brother of Abel," he said.
ono of the grand duchesses, looked up just then. "Hello, Paul," she called At her words, the entire company looked up.
Paul bowed. "Your Majesties."
out.
arose and
The Empress's face lighted up in expectancy. She walked forward to meet Paul with
happy exclamation.
Paul looked quickly back of him. "Dr. Wolf is here," he announ-
Rasputin's shaggy eyebrows met "Your grandfather helped Bul-in
a savage frown. garla, and how did they pay him Will Paul succeed in throwing back? You'll send thousands of out this usurper of the doctors' men down there who'll nover re- rightst turn. You'll throw whole villages; stallment. into mourning."
Rend to-morrow's. in
(To be Continued.)
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