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RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS

Adapted by BIANCO E. JONES from the M.G.M. Picture.

banished for ressons of state for the murder!

HOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933-

Koll crossed to two officers who had been playing cards on an am- munition box, and who had come to their feet in a more military fashion than their fellow mon. He Klared at some soldiers.

"Generat

any suggestions from you," Koli sald, tossing the dossier to the couch.

"You will, yes. I was thinking of Russin, Well; Allx?"

She stood looking back into the

She looked for an instant,

Karpov, the room.

"Come on, come on," Kolt said, In our last tantalment, Prince Paul. Immediately upon abdicating the Hontor of the two, said, salating,

"Well, Karpov, what are we wait-now In the corridor.

"A last look ?" the Tenritan sald of Harpulin, had warned the Tanr of throne, Nicholas and his family romley Covalution, crying out! "Save your had been placed under arrest ining for?" Koli asked angrily,

They're getting ready, General. graciously to Koli. "This room is their palace of Tsarakoe Solo. When the Bolshevists took over the They were only told at seven, Kar- such an old friend." reins of government, they had been pov Informed him.

"Well, get them started!" he said, moved to Siberia, to, the same dis- trict of Tobolak from which Ras-starting for the Tear's quarters. putin had come. Here they wore "Do you know the White Army's guarded more closely, their guard five hours from here and coming under the command of General Koli. fust, and that the British have n One day he sent orders to his squadron at Kronstadt, threatening subordinates to prepare the Imto blow up the place if we don't perll family for removal to another let them go?" prison. In the early evening he "Do they know where we're fak- wont to see if his orders had been ing them? Koli asked. carried out.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN After Paul and Natasha had left Russia for England, the Revolution of which Paul had warned the Royal family was not long hi coming to a head. The murder of Rasputin, whom the pousants looked upon as their representative at court, no matter how wrongly, and general dissatisfaction with the war stirred

up

the masses to revolt. First came the ineffectual Kerensky and his Provisional Government, and following him the Bolsheviki and the Terror!

Attention!" he shouted."

The man looked up. There was a grumbling, half-hearted coming to their feet. Some reached for their rifles, leaning up against the wall.

The Duke of Connaught chatting with officers of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guardi when he inspected the Battalion at Aldershot. (Planet News).

L.

She does. Intuition, I guess." "What makes you think so?" "She asked me to tell the Tsar we were going to Moscow-for his anfety."

"He'll never see Moscow again ar Petersburg, either."

They were at the door of the Tanr's study. Koll flung it open and stopped.

A couple of undisciplined guards got up uneasily from the long sofa. One of them saluted.

The Tsar looked up quietly. He had been standing at his desk, lean- ing over a Bible, from which he had been reading. There was a short pause. With quiet dignity he went general receded somewhat before on reading, while the belligerent the Empress's stendy look.

There was an extremely intimate grouping of the family about the deak, on which was piled all the family possessions the pathetic bundles having an Ellis 1sland look. Among them was a covered bird eage, Maria's.

back of Ypres, Lloutonant Paul Chegodioff of the British army. was hunched over in the darkness, lila oyes on the radium painted dial of his wrist watch. A Whistle. was in his mouth. As the minuto hand came up to the appointed minute, ho blow a long blast on his whistle, scuttled out of the low doorway and dung himself over the parapet of the trench: To right and left of him in the darkness, he could hear the Cock-

they waited impatiently in the corney soldiers of his platoon, shout- ridor The room was cleared of aliing and cursing as they scaled save her. She stood on the thresh the parapet and began wading through the barbed wire, their hold and spoke to the room.

"Good-bye.

rifles at high port.

They walked down the long cor- ridor, past the line of Mongol sel-

dilera,

A spurt of machine gun fire bent. against the darkness. Two bul-

In the courtyard another group of found their way to Paul. He mon were drawn up in rude forma fell, Losing consciousness as a tion, a mixed command of soldiers hurly Yorkshire man picked him and sailors. When the imperial and threw him over his shoul family came out into the courtyard, der, hu cried out: they were amazed to see that no conveyance was there to take them to the station..

The Tsar turned to Koli to. in quire about this, but the renegade officer cut him short

"For the White Taart Holy Russin Forward?"

"Balmy," the Yorkshire commented, "all balmy.!!

For

man

Long, lost days followed at the "What do I want with them?" base hospital. Then another hos- "Put down those bundles," he or-pital, convalescence, and the pain- ful task of learning to walk with dered.

a wooden leg. But these days were lightened by long letters from Natasha;

This won done. Hurdly had they straightened up than a brisk order rang through the courtyard:

"Aim!"

The rifles and revolvers of the motley group of soldiern are nimed ery of terror esenped the children. at the Imperial party. A little The Empress gathered them about her, while the Tsar, drawing him- self to attention, made the sign of the cross.

"Fire!"

Finally the day came when he went back to Natasha in a little

she murmured as she took him in "Poor dueling-poor darling." apartment in Soho Square.

her arms.

"The Imperial family is dead," Paul said dully. "I could tell from the way Remezov spoke, when I The shots rang out. The leaden aw him that he was sure, that he hail of bullets beat about them.even knew the manner of their death. He did not want to tell They fell..

He feared to hurt me. me. Koli gave the order to cense firing and stepped forward to he would not have hurt me. "The Lord is my Shepherd, I examine the effects of his work. have steeled my hart to hear it." shall not want. He maketh me to They

Natasha embraced him comfort- were all dead. As hr lie down in green pastures. He straightened up from his examina, Fingly. lendeth me beside the still waters. tion of the bodies, he shook his

The Tsar read on from the Bible to his family.

He went on:

Nat

He restoreth my soul. He leadeth head. For a moment it had seem- "But Russia lives." he said. me in the paths of righteousnessed to him that he lind heard far-"Russia lives here in our hearts for His name's sake. Yea, though away muste and that he had re- and will. live with us so long as I walk through the valley of the cognized the tone as the Imperial we live a useful and a happy life." shadow of death.

anthem: "God save our Littla "It was the last command of the Father, the White Tsar,"

Tsar to you, Paul. He told you to seek happiness," she said.

First Koll, then Karpov removed their caps. At the last words the Tsaritsa had moved a little closer, looked a little more protectingly at the Tsar.

"We are ready." the Tsar said finally, closing the Bible.

"Is that all you're taking?" Kol! said, self-consciously, looking at the desk.

"Yes," said the Tsaritsa, giving! him a warning look. She began to pick up her thinga.

"Picase come on." Koli sald im-

patiently.

Turning to the children,

Taaritan said:

tho.

"Come on, my brood. Are you

dressed warmly?"

"Yes, mammuschka,” Aloysha an-

swere

The

the T

saritsa looked around for

who had remained at the

desk, dding a dossier to bis ef- fects,

"Nicky

ping

she suid, stop-

forgot

"Yes. darling this," he said, a little excited.

He handed the dossier to Koli. "What's that?" Koli asked sus- piciously.

"All the reforms ever proposed for Russin in the last ten years— some of them are bad-some ex- cellent. Even your revolutionary ideas are there."

"I was thinking that if you could get this to some of the people in the government-the sincere peo- ple-there must be many of them

--well, it might save them tragic mlatakes. All the needs of Russia are so clearly outlined there they might find a bridge between revolution and the kind of govern- ment they're after."

"I guess wo can get on without

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He shook his lead, A Coinmunist, a good party could not afford to harbour notions.

good man, Preasing his cheek to hers, Paul such whispered: "I have oboyed the Tar. I have found happiness. I have you."

In a dug-out in the trenches"

(The End.)

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