Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23

our country, who is anxious to join our
brotherhood, and who has sworn the first
oath of secrecy"
| Philip looked round with q quiet in
| quiriug gaze, and then fixed his eyes
upon Anna with an expression of aston
| ishment.
She was still beautiful, but it was the
| beauty of the street and the alley, the
beauty of despair, the beauty that shines
sadly through the surroundings of rags
and poverty.
Her figure seemed to have shruuk into
| her thin, shabby black gown; and the
shadow that fell upon her as she stood by
the radiance of the somewhat dim lamp
upon the table gave a somber look to her
face which was unusual in Phillips expe-
rience of its varied characteristics
1t was borne in upon his mind that it
lacked even the tragic beauty that be-
longed to the despairing, defiant face he
had seen at the opera and conveyed to
his canvas.
Welcome, brother, - said the con-
federates, one after the other, as they
| shook him by the hand.
''Be seated - said Ivan land we will
pledge you to our better acquaintance, -
whereupon, turning to the little book
case and opening a cupboard beneath,
Ivan brought forward a couple of bottles
OF red wine, opened them and placed
glasses upon the table.
Philip drank in a mechanical half de-
cided way, conscious, as If by instinct,
that something was about to take place
hardly in keeping with those heroic aspi-
rations with which he had credited the
countess aud her confederates. Not that
he had expected anything like rose-leaf
INUrk
there was something in the change from
the bright, clean, cheerful saloon of the
little Partisan cabaret to the half lighted,
dull, prosaic, double locked apartment,
and its heavy browed, addressed occu-
pants that chilled his spirits and, for a
moment, recalled to him his unnatural
exile from his mother and friends, who
were at that moment 80 close to him and
yet SO far away. But presently when,
unintentionally, Ferrari had moved the
lamp from before the face of Anna
Klosstock in such way that when she
rose it illuminated her entire figure, the
old strange infatuation took possession of
him, and he listened as one in dream.
Brethren, - said Anna, rising and
laying down the cigarette which she had
still held between her fingers, 81 have
to report to you the result of the brother
hood IS mission 10 Venice; and for the in
formation of our visitor, who seeks for
veal and woe to be comrade in the great
cause to which we are pledged, l beg you
to permit that shall mention one of the
motives which brought US originally to-
gether. When l was young girl lived
happy and contented with my father,
who was the principal Jew merchant of
CzGronva. There came to our village
one Lozinski, young learned scholar,
who was appointed rabbi. I fell in love
with him, he with me. We were be-
trothed. It was the eve of the solemniZa-
ton of our marriage. But at the height of
CZaronva happiness, there came a new
governor, Gen. Petronovitch, and with
him the wicked risings against the Jews
with sword and fire, which you all re-
member, less than ten years ago. This
governor from St. Petersburg was SEN
sualist, tyraut and an assassin. He
found villainous excuses to attack our
house, TO confiscate my fathers estate,
to send him to that living death, Siberia;
to seize upon the young and learned
rabbi, my lover, to condemn him to the
knout Maddened with my despair, L
sought the governor at his palace, a sup
plicant for mercy. By fair promises
he induced me for a moment to trust
me was one worse than death. -
Philip Forsyth felt his heart stand still.
He clutched his chair and pressed his
feet upon the floor to prevent himself
from falling. One of the unnamed,
noticing his trouble, clutched him by the
arm and pressed wine upon him as Anna
continued her narrative.
"The next day 1 witnessed the exeou-
Of T
revolt and defiance, excited my people of
the Ghetto into revolt. In the midst of
their attack upon the fiendish despot,
was dragged to the scaffold myself and
there beaten out of all seDsibility, 20
wake up finally in the hospital, miser-
able wreck, with sufficient life left to
swear eternal vengeance upon Gen.
PetronoVitch, the only effort of exist
ence left to me, the one red spark of
hope in my earthly dungeon. Surely it
was that one hope that gave me life.
My wounds dressed with SALT spare you
even a single word about the phys
ical agony I SUFFERED began to
recover, and 1t was thought in time
should be well enough to undergo a con-
tinuation of my sentence, which be-
longed to the gaol and the mine; but by
some unaccountabIe intervention / was
released anu carried away 10 q foreign
city. There was one great, good friend
of the Jew, who lived on the outskirts
of Czaronva, Russian, who had, under
pressure of ingratitude and persecution
from his master, joined branch of this
Brotherhood of the Dawn.
For moment the speaker paused in
response to suppressed but vigorous
tokens of approval.
1.-The cause and the Brotherhood
almost shouted one of the unnamed,
raising his glass and clInking it with
those of his neighbors.
Philip watched the woman with an in
tent gaze of wonder.
ellis name was Stravensky-the Count
Stravensky. He knew my father, he
knew me; saw me on that fatal day hur-
rying to the traitors palace, endeavored
to interpose for me on the seafold, was
rebuffed and ordered to his home. His
wealth and his early services to the czar,
the greatness of his family name and his
burning desire for vengeance sent him
to st. Petersburg, where he resolved to |
fight his way automatically to place and
position, his left hand the emperor g, his |
right hand for Russia. It was through his |
intervention that was removed, through |