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structions. She was given pamphlets to
distribute, the names of prisoners and
sick persons whom she was expected to
visit and bring food to, and other duties
to perform. The utilization Of the wife
of Alexis Lvanovitch, one of the leaders
Of the society, and the author Of numer-
Gus pamphlets secretly published by the
Nihilistic press, seemed quite natural and
aroused no suspicion. Ways and means
quite freely before Dounia, who listened
as if in a dream to the different plans
for carrying out their tragic purpose.
The meeting then adjourned.
The following day, while Alexis was at
the gymnasium inspecting the classes,
listening to the complaints of students,
and attending to his daily routine work,
Karl Strueber, the handsome German
professor, visited Dounia, who had not
yet recovered from the shock the terrible
experience of the night before had given
her. So, then, her husband was a con-
spirator! He was the associate, the &C
complete, of those savage men who ter
rorized the empire and whose audacity
neither Siberia nor the gallows could ar
rest. Alexis wished to assassinate the
carl All, he filed her with horror now,
she was no more ashamed of her fault,
and it even seemed to her that, in deceiv-
ing him, she punished him for the crime
he meditated.
So she abandoned herself to the en-
braces of her lover with a frenzied pas
sion that savored of the primitive ardor
of the dwellers in her mountain home.
But Karl Strueber appeared ~preoccupied.
The dull German! to be meditative at
such a time. But he had a mission to
perform, and waited for an opportunity,
although he was for a time disconnected
by Dounia's savage voluptuousness. At
last he succeeded in putting the follow
ing questions to Dounia: "Does your
husband receive many visits from men
of peculiar aspect, who, upon entering,
hand the door porter a ticket"
"No, never, replied Dounia, surprised.
"Well, then, does he go out often?'
EVERY evening"" she answered,
promptly, paling Immediately thereafter
as she thought of the terrible meeting
which she had attended. In the mean
time, a light dawned upon her. Why
did her lover ask her these questions!
Who was this German, concerning whom
vague rumors had reached her earsf
Quite a number of Germans were en-
ployed in the police-could Karl Strueber
be a spyi
Strueber, not noticing her abstraction
and carried away by his desire to obtain
more information concerning Ivano-
vitch's movements, continued to inter
rogate Dounia eagerly, thus exposing
himself. Dounia, a prey to conflicting
emotions, had answered half mechanical
ly, and now realized that she had be-
trayed the secret of her husband-con-
signed to the prison, the knout, Siberia,
or even to the gibbct, the man whose
honor she had already sullied. A gust
of pride and revo1t swept through her,
and the wild nature of the mountain
girl asserted itself within her. She had,
indeed, consented to betray the husband,
but she would not bctray the conspirator.
The Circassian never gives shelter to q
py. Her resolution was taken immedi-
ately. No, she would not deliver Alexis
over to the executioner. She arose,
trembling but superb. Strueber sought
to detain her. "Remain," she murmur-
ed, with n bewitching and provoking
smile; II shall return; l am thine for
ever" In the neighboring room she
wrote a few words, called the moujick,
and commanded him to take the note to
his master.
Ten minutes later, Alexis Ivanovitch
arrived at the threshold of the chamber
where Karl Strueber was tenderly en-
bracing Dounia, while endeavoring to OBJ
tain further information concerning the
vast conspiracy Of which the police al
ready had an inkling. The next moment
the bloody form of Strueber, felled by a
crushing blow of a battle AK which
Alexis had torn from the wall i'll his
library, lay stretched at Dounia's feet,
while Alexis, with fiery enthusiasm,
cried: "Rise, Dounia, wife of my bosoml
Thou hast aided us to punish a treacher-
Jus spy. Thou art q second Judith, my
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