Beadle's Pocket Library No. 444

About this issue

This 1892 pulp magazine issue from Beadle and Adams contains Charles Morris's adventure serial "From Moscow to Siberia: A Yankee Boy to the Rescue," beginning with Chapter I. The story follows Clark Cloverly, a young American in Moscow, who discovers through his Russian servant Peter that orders have come to arrest him—he faces exile to Siberia. When carriage routes become impossible, Peter devises an escape: Clark will slip out on foot through Moscow's suburbs to reach a coaching house on the Kasan road, while Peter follows with a team of horses. The chapter documents their dangerous escape through dark alleyways, including a tense encounter with night patrols that nearly captures them in a dead-end. Clark manages to evade arrest and ventures into the surrounding fields under cover of darkness, navigating between the Moskva River and the main road while avoiding farmhouses and their guard dogs, awaiting Peter's arrival with transportation.