Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

| Venice; and could forecast the end of
| all for me l would ask no other blessing
| than TO die IN my fathers arms away in
! his siberian captivity. Nay, do not
start, Ferrari; 1 could say this to no
/ other. You remember the good, gener
| Gus, kindly merchant; the devoted
father, the staunch friend, the mar
! tyr?''
! ''Then you have heard - said Ferrari,
! calmly, from your father?''
| Not from him but Of him, - she said,
! a melancholy smile stealing over her pale
! features.
1.-The dispatch you received in PARISH
! said Fsrrarl.
1.-The same. It came through the Rus
| sian am bassador.
! ''The one secret you nave withheld
! from me, - said Ferrari.
! Not withheld, - said the countess,
"only postponed. The influence Of the
| Count Stravensky, my dear friend and
| successor was beneficial. It gave my
! father means; it secured communication
with Moscow and St. Petersburg. Not
| at once? Oh, no! 1t took three years
! before relief Of any kind came to him;
| four years, five years, six-and to-day,
Ferrari, he is in his own peaceful rooms,
| in an agricultural village, away beyond
! the mountains, tended by q Siberian
servant, and resigned, waiting for the
end. Asgou so long regarded him as
dead to me, as have so long accepted
that position, so he has regarded us
dead, FerrarI, dead! If 1 should see him
again, it would be g foretsste of paradise
for him-fOr me, perhaps.
cit is this romantic attachment of
yours to Forsyth that has unnerved
You. -
'.Then I thank him for it on my knees,
Ferrari. If he has relighted that human
lamp within my breast which shows me
the past in the present, how humanity 1
was, then thank God, Ferrari, for his
interpositiOn.
$50 it do not cast its betraying light
upon the forthcoming enterprise of the
brotherhood, 1 am willing to say amen
TO that. l can find i'll my own heart,
Anna KlOsstook, one drop of patience
when I remember that it was [ who
brought down upon your fathers house
the hand of persecution and murder;
that it was who made the trail of death,
of the sword and fire which the Christian
friends followed to the peaceful streets
of the Czaronva settlement.
"'Nou have had yourrevenge, Ferrari,
and I mine.
mo, no, my sister. I have no love-
tokens Of the past, no young English
woman TO revive it if L had. My VEN
geance is never complete. No woman
can come between me and my oath, be-
tween me and my righteous ambition,
between me and my sacred duty as
Philip Forsyth comes between me and
yours.
81 will not have it so Ferrari; and
oil
to me, an allegiance not of oaths or
vows, but of mutual suffering and mutual
wrong. If it has pleased our Father
Abraham that in this alliance of ours the
woman at last shall be weaker than the
man, DO NOT blame me. Judge of N elm
the future as you have known me in the
past, but do not ask for the impossible;
do not ask for destroying angel in
mere woman of the people; do not ask
for the spiritual in the mortal; do not
ask for miracle am only woman?''
CHAPTER Iu.-DICE CHETWYND SAYS II
WILL.
Ferrari's instinct was true. His judg-
ment of Anna KIosstock was confirmed
by results.
II uGbu6N uO LIdiIO1 4u LAO COIL W
Illustrate the operations which took him
and Anna and the rest by the various
routes to St. Petersburg. The main
spring of the movement was altered. It
was question of nerve. Ferrari had
detected it. There had been no secrets
between him and Anna until her previous
visit to London, when Philip Forsyth
crossed her path; but he had been reas-
sured, touching any fears he might have
experienced in Anna IS confession Of deep
interest in Philip, by her magnificent
of strategy and vengeance
on the Grand canal. Her out
break Of emotional memories, however,
on the eve of the brotherhood s united
action in st. Petersburg. had, as we
have seen in the previous chapter, shaken
his faith in the mental and physical
strength OF his Amazonian associate.
But there was no course of check open to
him in regard TO the Nihilistic advance.
All he could do in the way of strengthen
ing the outposts, guards and sentinels of
the conspiracy, he carried out with firm
eTactitude. He hoped to have kept the |
action clear from any association with |
what Anna called her auxiliary aid, |
Philip Forsyth, who travelled in her |
20 st. Petersburg, the Countess |
Stravensky's private secretary, vice for |
the time being Ferrari resigned.
Her Italian comrade passed into |
Russia through different port, and in |
one of his most complete DISCUSSES. The |
countess and her maid, accompanied by |
Philip and a courier, went openly to ST. |
where the young artist was |
duly introduced into the highest society |
by his illustrious patroness. Her visit |
was understood 10 be simply one of rest |
and social duty, en- route for the scene |
of her husband IS estates, whether some |
business of charity called her. Within
few days of her arrival she set out for
the interior, or was understood to have
done so; but what happened was an en-
terprise of an entirely different char
aCter.
The countess made her adieux, and |
from society and the world |
Of St. Petersburg, prior to taking her
place in the ranks of the brotherhood, |
accompanied by Philip in a disguise
which she had prepared for him; but
not for conjuring him TO leave her and
her associates TO return home while he /