pouring forth, faster and faster. They came with passionate intensity…The audience had vanished, the hall itself had disappeared; I was conscious only of my own words, of my ecstatic song. Enchanted by the experience, she refined her public persona during subsequent engagements. Quickly, however, she found herself arguing with Most over her independence. After a momentous speech in Cleveland, she felt as though she had become "a parrot repeating Most's views" [ 31 ] and resolved to express herself on the stage. Upon her return in New York, Most became furious and told her: "Who is not with me is against me!" [ 32 ] She left Freiheit and joined with another publication, Die Autonomie . [ 33 ] Meanwhile, she had begun a friendship with Berkman, whom she affectionately called Sasha. Before long they became lovers and moved into a communal apartment with his cousin Modest "Fedya" Stein and Goldman's friend, Helen Minkin, in rural Woodstock, Illinois . [ 34 ] Although their relationship had numerous difficulties, Goldman and Berkman would share a close bond for decades, united by their anarchist principles and commitment to personal equality. [ 35 ] Goldman and Berkman believed that a retaliatory assassination of Carnegie Steel Company manager Henry Clay Frick ( pictured ) would "strike terror into the soul of his class" and "bring the teachings of Anarchism before the world". [ 37 ] When a majority of the nation's newspapers came out in support of the strikers, Goldman and Berkman resolved to