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! dear friend, l pause with the victory OF
| Venice; and could forecast the end OF
! all for me would ask no other blessing
| than to die IN my father's arms away in
| his Siberian captivity. Nay, do not
start, Ferrari: l could say this TO no
| other. You remember the good, gener-
Gus. kindly merchant; the devoted
| father, the staunch friend. the mar
tyr2''
''Then you have heard, - said Ferrari,
calmly, from your fatherF
''Not from him but of him, - she said.
melancholy smile stealing over her pale
| features
| 1.-THE dispatch you received in Parish -
said Ferrarl.
1.-The same. It came through the Rus
| sian am bassador. -
| 1.-THE one secret you have 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! It took three years
! before relief of any kind came to him;
| four years, five years, six-Rnd to-day,
| Ferrari, he is in his own peaceful rooms,
| in an agricultural village, away beyond
| the mountains, tended by a Siberian
| servant, and resigned, waiting for the
| end. AS you so long regarded him as
dead to me, as / have so long accepted
I that position, so he has regarded US
dead, FerrarI, deadl If l should see him
again, it would be 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 I am willing to say amen
to that. I can find in my own heart,
Anna KIosstock, one drop of patience
when l remember that it was L who
brought down upon your fathers house
the hand of persecution and murder;
that it was 1 who made the trail of death,
of the sword and fire which the Christian
friends followed to the peaceful streets
| of the Czaronva settlement"
"You have had your revenge, Ferrari,
and mine.
s'No, no, my sister. 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 aud my oath, be-
tween me and my righteous ambition,
between me and my sacred duty as
Philip Forsyth comes between me and
yours
- II ~.
claim your firm and faithful allegiance
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 m Elm
the future as you have known me in the
past, but do not ask for the impossible;
do not ask for a destroying angel in q
mere woman of the people; do not ask
for the spiritual in the mortal; do not
ask for a miracle-I am only woman
CHAPTER uI.-DICK CHETwYND SAYS 81
WILL.
Ferrari's instinct was true. His iudg-
ment of Anna Klosstock was confirmed
by results.
It needed no traitor in the camp to
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. 1t
was a 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 Teas-
eured, touching any fears he might have
experienced in Anna IS confession of deep
interest in Philip, by her magnificent
campaign 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 Nihilistio advance.
All he could do in the way of strengthen
ing the outposts, guards and sentinels of
the conspiracy, be carried out with firm
exactitude. He hoped to have kept the
action clear from any association with
what Anna called her auxiliary aid,
Philip Forsyth, who travelled in her
company TO st. Petersburg, the Countess
Strayensky'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.
Petersburg, where the young artist was
duly introduced into the highest society
by his illustrious patroness. Her visit
was understood 20 be simply one of rest
and social duty, en- route for the scene
of her husbands estates, whether some
business of charity called her. Within q
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 ms lie her adieux, and
disappeared 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
col1ld ha safe IN bia family and friends