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THE KEY TO IVAN’S PRISON. 145 9 asking the way to the post office! One of his fits of fear ‘attacked him and again he staggered, but if the policeman aad any thought of arresting him for drunkenness, he yave no indication of it, and Litizki stumbled on undis- | urbed. When he thought he could do so safely, he turned into doorway to recover. He saw a street letter-box within “twenty feet, but as he started toward it, letter in hand, he heard a bell ringing. _ **The ferry !’’ he muttered, and he began to run toward ne river. With all his fears the little tailor kept his head aithful to his purpose. It was now in his thoughts that he would cross the river to the mainland and post his let- ter in the general office on Devonshire Street, whence he knew it would be taken with the least delay to Mr. Pem- broke’s house. He was conscious of the risk in thus show- ing himself even in the solitary hours of the early morn- ing, but his courage was returning, and he felt again a hero who would brave all for her to whom he owed fealty. _ The gateman at the ferry heard him running down the street and held the boat for him. Litizki sank breathless upon a bench and felt again the triumph of his deed. He reveled in the difficulties he was overcoming and the dan- gers that beset him. _ Acar was waiting at the city side of the ferry, and Li- tizki rode in it as far as Scollay Square. Then he walked to the post office, and remembering that a stamp window was open all Bight, he found it and added to his letter a **special delivery. ’’ *““Now,’’ he muttered, dropping the important missive the box, “it doesn’t matter what happens to me.”’ He returned on foot by devious ways to the ferry, more than once evading marketmen and other early pedestrians as he felt the recurrence of terror, and at length came again to his hotel. The employees of the house were astir, felt a sudden repugnance to the solitude of his chamber. steerage passengers were beginning to arrive, and Litizki_ Ee L/L a) He sat by a window in the office and watched the groups _