Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03
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PART ".
CHAPTER n.-oNLY A WOMAN

PbNlp fOTsyLn nau lQ1aIuatl0n
would have confirmed him, as Ferrari
put it, body and soul member of the
brother hood, but for the persistent oppo-
sition of the Countess Stravensky. If
Philip die not take the oath he was,
nevertheless, accepted as an auxiliary
TO the association. Ii was only for con-
science sake that the Countess, resisted
this last act of the young artists 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 lurid 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 Czaronva hos
pItal.
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 inflammation of Philip
Forsyth, not SO much on his account, as
for the memories which il revived of her
happy girlhood. She had in lonely mo-
ments seen in this boyish love of the
English artist something like spiritual
resuscitation Of the youthful Rabbi Lo-
zinsl1i. Her thoughts, which for years
had only gone back TO the village OF
Czaronva with shuddering remembrance
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 ner 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 mother grave; noted how
quickly in her infant mind this latter
memory had mellowed with time INTO
an engrossing affection for her father,
giving her almost womanlY duties in
girlhood, and offering her SYM
] en- on the first day of her arrival to
: ill what to her was a sacred mission
a 1eniCe, she had sat for hours silently
her red gOndOla dreaming of this
W past, in the one model Jewish
20 OF that great empire, where the
If revolt and persecution are for
pouldering with threatening and
disabilities.
ri, with the instinct of his race
he subtle understanding of the born
JnspIrator, felt that Anna sympathy
for Philip Forsyth BODIED no good to the
cause He ventured to say SO, both TO
Philip and to Anna herself.
Anna answered him with reference to
the successful incident of the movement
with which she had been associated;
dwelt upon the trem endOus sensation that
had been created in the courts of Europe
8 by the vengeance of Venice; and con-
} fessed that she could not find 1t in her
(heart to make the one great sacrifice he
now demanded of her, to cast off Philip
Forsyth.
Z eff l 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.
1t is all the same - she sand ''My |
mission, he claims, is his miasion. 1 do
not disguise from myself that he is mad;
but find in his comp2nionship a strange
pleasure. -
ITO confess which, - said Ferrari, sis |
20 confess that You are no longer true to |
the brotherhood. -
''True!'' she exclaimed. ''Do you |
then impeach me? IN what respect am I |
untrue?''
"'You Know said Ferrari, ''that |
you are the first woman have trusted. |
You know that 1 have always been OPP !
posed 10 confding our section of the |
brotherhood to the constancy of wo- |
man. -
''In which you are, - said the count |
ess, Illogical, Was it not Sophie Prov
skya who gave the signal for RYsakovis |
attack which carried off the emperor you /
most hRted?''
"But which, - rejolned Ferrari, ''you
most condemn. -
81? she exclaimed.
'fHave you not. - he said, "changed |
our latest programme? Have you not |
more than once declared we are con- !
spiratoTs, but not assassIns: Have you
not repudiated the term Nihilst, as it is
applied 10 the party of revolution and re-
form ia Europe
For q foolish word, - she SAID,
(which does not interpret US or our
ambition. Do 1 Tepudiate 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
pause at an act of yengeance-a life for
a life? Ask me TO rival Sophie Prov
skaya, the risk of my own life for the
annihiation of a thousand Petrono-
witches, one by one or in companies, and
/ am equal 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 L resisti'
"But,'' SAID Ferrari, "given the
great result, given the signal for gen.
eral upheavaI, for the Tallying of the
great forces of revolution, the overthrow
OF q vile ana bloody tyranny, the estab-
lishment OF q constitution, in short, for