The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-10
BETRAYED BY LOVE.

ors Mt the University of ST. Petersburg.
We students likewise held him in awe and
hcdged him around with rcvcrcntial ostra-
cisIn.
That same Kaffsky used to squander his
days and nights over mathematics and
chemistry and half n dozen kindred sci
onccs, as If life were to last for eternity.
We did not believe in u man having so
many irons in the fire, and we limited our
own efforts to tho accomplishment of one
single task-thc regeneration of mankind
rs preliminary step to the rcmodcling of
Russian society.
We had weighed Kaffsky in the political
balancc-thc only ono in vogue at Russian
universities ten years ago-and had found
him sadly wanting.
He was a mcmbcr of mono Of tho thrcc
churches, outside of which there is no sal
vation-that of the sworn conspirators,
who edited forbidden political journal,
Land and Liberty, Matched plots against
tho state and sometimes helped to carr
them out; that of unsworn conspirators,
from whom the former were usually re-
cruitcd, and tho bulk Of students who
sympathizcd with everything and every
body who embarrassed the government
And to crown all, we had Just heard of
his impending marriage. "a nice time to
be thinking of marrying and fcathcrng
his nest" We remarked to each other,
''just when the pillars of the social clihco
are giving way and we are doing our best
to pull them down, in order to build up
something bcttcr!"
When the name of the future bride was
mentioned, those among us who knew her
We're staggered ~ bit Anna Pavlona
Smirnova was not Venus But if sho
had much less beauty than her photograph
which is common failing of women
she had good deal more wit, which is
not by any means so common
Although apparently young enough to
be his daughter Anna Pavlona was kaff-
sky's senior by five or six years, and to
make matters still moro mixed she was a
rcd radical mt heart.
Formerly her democratic views had got
her into hot water with the authorities,
and IL was not without considerable diff
Guilty that she had obtained her present
position ms teacher in u girls gymnnsy
which enabled her to 1.-Two in modest com
potency with her widowed mother.
The police, we knew had twice or thrice
mado elaborate inquiries about Kaffsky,
had noted his comings in and goings out
and had set n watch upon his actions
Platotf when arrested u week ago, CHANGED
to have kaifskys card in his pocket and
WAS subjected To II long secret cross cx-
animation about his dealings with him.
''As well suspect the stone sphinxcs 1T
the Nikolai bridge as that piece of stuck
up solfishncss called Kafrsky," exclaimed
Lavroff.
There must DO some reason for tho srs-
picion, cried Brodsly. "rhcre's always
fire where there's smoke, and as we know
there's no fi-o here then there cannot pos
sibly be any real smoke. It's matter of
smoked glass SpcctaclcS ~
This remark struck us all rs tho acmo
of clcvcrncss. 1t was warmly applaudcd.
"Well, but who can have smoked tho gov
ernmcnts spcctaclcs?" somebody asked.
'Boorman! Boorman! Ho alono has
grudgo against Kairsky," cried half n
dozen voices.
Now, none Of us had u doubt that he
was tho Judas 1scariot. His hangdog OK
preston, his slouching gait, his furtivo
glance and stammcring dcviltry pro-
claimed tho nature of the spirit that lived
and worked within him.
Tho present case strengthened our stis-
picion, for Boorman ana KansLy had
quarrecd years before.
Summer vacations wcro ut hand Tho
last of the examinations would take place
III ten days, and then we should dispense
over the length and breadth of the empire,
many of MS never To return again.
Suddenly we We're stunned and stupo,icd
by IL bolt from the blue in the shape of n
rumor that Kaifsky had been arrested.
He and AlcXcicff had gone to the thcatcr
the night before. They had walked homo
together and made AN appointment for tho
morrow at the university, but AT about =
~. III. kaifsky had been spirited away and
was HOW in the secret wing of tho I.ithu-
anian fortress.
written request was presented by some
of tho professors, who were beside Thorn
selves with Indignation, that KnfTsky
should be released on bail, just to finish
his examinations and take his degree for
they knew very well it was MI n misuntcr-
standing.
But TO our utmost astonishmcnt their TO-
quest was refused, and Kairsky was re-
moved from the Lithuanian fortress ONLY
to he iinmured in the moro terrible fortress
of Peter and Paul
The excitement caused by the arrest wa;
assuming dangerous proportions. Nobody
had cared IA rap for Kaffskya week before.
and he was already Is most popular hero
now
Perhaps 1t was hatred for the hcartlcss
informcr-who had also been arrested 10
doubt to save him from being lynchcd-
and sympathy for Anna Pavlona, whose
womanly feelings had got the better of her
philosophy. She had completely broken
down.
She had been taken to her bed had re-
fused all food, had forwarded petition aft
or petition to the minister of the interior
and WHOM it became clear that she might
just as well be sowing salt on the soashoro
her mind gave way. The doctors sent her
mother and herself in post haste to the
Crimca.
In October few Of us met in St. Pc
tersburg once more, but only a few The
police had made tremendous haul among
tho students the day the university closed