Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23
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PART ".
cv,PTER THE COUNTESS TELLS HER
STORY TO THE BROTHERHOOD
AND PHILIP.

AND PHILIP.
The foreign quarter of London with
-bicb the public is supposed to be most
familiar Is in truth the least known of
cha MANY mysterious districts of the great
metropolis.
Soho, in its own peculiar way, pos
,ss.es Is many strange ramifications as
tbe black circle Of Whitechapel, which
environs the tragic footsteps of the most
tsrrible of modern assassins. The po-
lice have the key to many of the retreats
IN which political exiles and foreign con-
snirators meet to hold friendly inter-
course, and to hatch points of social re-
generation and personal vengeance. But
scotland Yard has no special reason for
interfering with the meetings of these
continental outcasts, so long as they do
not offend the English laws.
The liberty of the subject in these
Islands covers the stranger as well as the
native. To plot against the life of a po-
teptate, statesman or private citizen,
however, OF this or any other country
would, of course, bring conspirators IN
der legal restraint, but it is not the bust
ness of the London police to act the part
Of spies upon political exiIes, aud who is
10 interpret the secret thoughts of the
solemn mysterious men and women who
live quiet lives in the regions OF Soho, or
report to the police the spoken words of
their private gatherings?
England, America and Switzerland
have for many years been the plotting
grounds of Nihilists and Social Demo-
Gratis.
lit were possible to separate the pat
riot whose faith and hopes are satisfied
BY a wholesome agitation, from the
patriot whose bitter political programme
is one of danger, dynamite, and violent
social uph5aval, the government would
no doubt be ready to draw a hard and
fast line on the side Of pacific operations
as against the violence of revolution
But liberty is compelled to allow large
margin for license, and it is better that
an occasional culpTit, who might deserve
death or lifelong imprisonment, should
receive the protection of our shores
rather than an unchecked despotism
should work its will upon the high
minded agitatOT, whose only crime is
national enthusiasm for the regeneration
Of his country.
And so it comes about that London is
the sanctuary of the political exile, not
being actually proved murderer liable
TO extradition; though it must be con-
fessed that Soho has sheltered manv q
eOnspirator who has been associated with
attacks on authority entitled to coudem-
L,
litical conspiracy.
OF such was more than one of the per-
sons met together, some two weeks after
the Venetian fetes, at the Partisan
Cabaret, in a certain oul-de-sae known
as Thomas Alley, within a stones
throw of Dean street.
The Parisiaa Cabaret was a small I'M
pretentiOus cafe, at the extreme end of
Thomas Alley; struggled away in one
corner of it. as if it had been built into
an unintentional architectural vacancy
an afteT-thought in the higgledy-pig
plan of the original builders. The lower
part of the house was occupied with
large bow window and q quaint doorway,
with an over decoration, III the center of
which was a date indicating that the
architecture belonged to the picturesque
period, before the age of stuoco and
iron. The upper stories were curiously
gabled, and the quaint windows, glazed
IN much smaller squares than Is usual in
these days, were prettilv decorated with
French blinds, neatly tied back
with colOred ribbons. The place had a
singularly clean look; and the princi-
pal, aud, indeed, only saloon for eating,
drinking and dominoes, had a white
sanded floor aud white painted panelling
that were pleasantly characteristic.
Ih Partisan Cabaret was, indeed, much
cleaner and far more agreeable to look
upon than most of its customers, one or
two Of whom lived on the premises: no.
tably, Ivan KostsnZhOglo, who was a
moving spirit of that brotherhood in
which Anna Klosstock had been enrolled
as one of the two women who had been
considered worthy of its confidence.
Ivan EOstanzhoglo had been for some
time stationed in London as a controlling
agent Of certain movements that had
been made more or less in combination
with other sections of the young Russian
party, but under orders, he was about to
run the risk OF reappearing in st. Peters
burg. where a rendezvous had been set
lied for himself, Paul Petroski, Anna
KlOsstOck, Andrea Ferrari, and other
earnest coufedeTatcs.
The startling incident of the far-reach-
ing power of Nihilistic vengeance at We
mic, vi bile it had stiffened the surveil-
lance Of the Russian police at all the
ports of entry iuto Russia, and led to
numerous arrests iu the interior, had ex-
erc.sed a tremendous Tevivifying infiu-
ence upon the widespread conspiracy
which aimed at the overthrow OF the i'm
perial power. The guides and chiefs of
the party of action believed in following
up the assassination of PetTonovitch with |
a striking dramatic demonstration at
headquarters.
1t was in connection with this so-called !
patriotic action of the young Russian
party that the private doors of the small |
underground apartment, which was
rented by Ivan Kostanzhoglo, were |
opened to receive company some two
weeks after the ghost Of the lagoons had |
startled Venice from its customary re-
pose.
Sitting at a round table, lighted with q |
amp, were our friends, Ferrari, in his |
shirtsleeves, loose, light coat hanging |
over his chair Git was a very hot night;
Anna KloSstock, in a simple. sober black |
gown, without collar or cuffs, her hair |
gathered up beneath a black bonnet;
Paul Petroski of Moscow, who had kept !
bis faith at the little hotel on the quay at
Venice, and also at the Fazja palace;
Ivan KostanZhoglo, a swarthy, thick