Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
PARTIv.
CHAPTER ID. A MoNfA7

Philip Forsyth's mad Infatuatiou
would have confirmed him, as Ferrari
put it, body and soul a member of the
brotherhood, but for the persistent oppo-
sition of the Countess Stravenskv. If
Philip die not take the oath he was,
nevertheless, accepted as an auxiliary
to the association. Il was only for con-
science sake that the Countess resisted
this last act of the young artist IS wild
devotion. AS she put it to her COM
rades he was sufficiently the ir ally with
out completing the treaty of secrecy and
service,
Ferrari saw in this act of friendship,
not to say love, the first sign of weak
ness in Annals character. 1t did not
occur to him that she had achieved the
work of vengeance which had stimulated
and held together her alliance with the
brotherhood.
Since the ghost of the Lagoon had cast
its Iurid shadow upon Russian despotism,
the Countess Stravenskv had found little
room in her heart for thoughts and feel
ings which hitherto had been engrossed
in the one idea of her resurrection from
death and torment in the Czarouva hos
pltal.
On the eve of that supreme act of VEN
geance in the Venetian Palace, Anna had
been strangely moved, as we have al
ready seen, by the Infatuation of Philip
Forsyth, not so much on his account, as
for the memories which it revived of her
happy girlhood. She had in lonely mo-
ments seen in this boYish love Of the
English artist something like a spiritual
resuscitation of the youthful Rabbi Lo-
zinski. Her thoughts, which for years
had only gone back TO the village of
Czaronva with shuddering remembrances
of its tragic overthrow, now found OPP
portunities for contemplating the light
and sweetness which preceded the advent
of the Governor Petronovitch. She
had permitted her fancy to wander
back TO the great house at the entrance
of the Ghetto, the Jewish celebrations of
leaves and flowers and harvest, of births
and deaths, of religious institutions and
customs. She saw herself a child, sit
ting at her mothers knee, and weeping
at her mothers grave; noted how
quickly in her infant mind this latter
memory had mellowed with time INTO
an engrossing affection for her father,
her girlhood, and offering her SYM
pathies towards every soul in the Ghetto.
Even on the first day of her arrival to
fulfill what to her was sacred mission
at Venice, she had sat for hours silently
in her red goudola dreaming of this
happy past, in the one model Jewish
village of that great empire, where the
fires of revolt and persecution are for
ever smouldering with threatening and
awful possibilities.
Ferrari, with the instinct of his race
and the subtle understanding of the born
consplrator, felt that Annals sympathy
for Philip Forsyth BODIED no good to the
cause. He ventured to say so, both to
Philip aud to Anna herself.
Anna answered him with reference to
the successful incident OF the movement
with which she had been associated;
dwelt upon the tremendous sensation that
had been created in the courts of Europe
by the vengeance of Venice: and con-
fessed that she could not find It in her
heart to make the one great sacrifice he
now demanded of her, to cast of Philip
Forsyth.
of I could cut him off from us, - she
said with the assurance that he would
return to his home and duty, you might
count upon me. But it is his misfortune
TO have fallen under some strange spell
which We possess.
(Which you possess, - said Ferrari.
cit is all the same - she SAID. "My
mission, he claims, is his miasion. 1 do
not disguise from myself that he is mad;
but Rnu in his companionship strange
pleasure.
ITO confess which, - said Ferrari, ''is
TO confess that you are no longer true TO
the brotherhood -
.'True!" she exclaimed. ''Do you
then impeach me2 In what respect am L
untrue?''
''You know said Ferrari, "that
you are the first woman have trusted.
You know that have always been OPP
posed TO coBfding our section of the
brotherhood TO the constancy of 8 wo-
man.
s'In which you are, - said the count
ess, illogical. Was it not Sophie Prov
skya who gave the signal for RYsakovis'
attack which carried of the emperor you
most hated?
''But which, " reioined Ferrari, "you
most condemn.
''I?P she exclaimed.
:'Have you not - he said, s'chapged
our latest programme? Have you not
more than once declared we are con-
spirators, but not assassIns?' Have you
not repudiated the term Nihilst, as is is
applied to the party of revolution and re-
form in Europe
''For a foolish word she said,
(which does not interpret us or our
ambition. Do 1 repudiate the rising we
hope for? Do not rejoice in the coming
revolt OF the army? Do I not glory in
the agrarain fires of the peasant? Do l
pause ct an act of vengeanoe-a life for
life? Ask me TO rival Sophie Prov
skaya, the risk of my own life for the
annihilation Of thousand Petrono-
witches, one by one or in companies. and
am equRl-to the occasion; but cast me
for dynamite plot, involving the lives
of innocent people, and leading to no
political result, but assuredly to be fol-
lowed by the execution OF some Of our
comrades, and 1 resisti'
t'But, - SAID FeFrari, 'fgiven the
great result, given the signal for gem
eral upheaval, for the Tallying of the
great forces of revolution, the overthrow
of vie and bloody tyranny, the estab-
lishment Of a constitution, in short, for
fhe fulfil1mAnf nf the yraat and UIoTiOl1S