Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-12-06
Kafrsky should be released on bail,

NHth ltqucSl was ItluScu, anu hdilShy
was removed from the Lithuanian fort
ress only to be immured in the more
terrible fortress OF Peter and Paul.
The excitement caused by the arrest
was assuming dangerous proportions.
Nobody had cared rap for Kaffsky a
week before. and he was already a
most popular hero now.
Perhaps it was hatred for the heart
less informer-who had already beer
arrested, no doubt, 10 save him from
being lynched-and sympathy for Anna
Paylona, whose womanly feelings had
got the better OF her philosophy. She
had completely broken down.
She had been taken to her bed. had
refused all food had forwarded petition
after petition to the minister of the in
she might just as well be sowing salt
on the seashore, her mind gave way
The doctors sent her mother and her
self in post haste to the Crimea
In October a few of us met in St
Petersburg once more-but only few.
The police had made tremendous
haul among the students the day the
university closed session. and many
were now in their distant native viii
lagos expelled from the university
others in prison, others again on tn
road 10 Siberia.
Kaffsky, we learned, was among the
latter-condemned to the mines as "a
dangerous conspirator, in spite of the
intercesson of the professors; Anna
Pavlona was dead, according to others;
but it came to pretty much the same
thing in the end.
had heard Of many evil things done
by diabolical reformers. but this was
the most crying injustice | had ever
actually witnessed; and when talking
with a friend who was a relative OF one
Of the ministers / told him so
He was astounded at what told him,
and asked me to draw up an account
Of Kaffsky's case in writing. He would
see, he said, that justice Gould be done.
| had no difficulty in obtaining pre-
else particulars. discovered even the
name of the forwarding prison, over
| 900 miles away, in which Kaffsky was
then inferred, and having made out
very strong case, ] gave my friend the
paper. and he presented IL TO his rela-
tive, the minister.
a week passed, then fortnight, and
still there was no answer.
One day my philanthropic friend
shook his head said my data were all
wrong. said that Kaffsky was the most
dangerous conspirator that had ever
been tripped up in the very nick OF
time and that he would advise ME 70
keep aloof from political reformers in
future. as it was evident they could
make black appear white without an
effort.
Six years later heard that Kaffsky
was no more. He died Of disease, or was
shot in a tumult, or disposed of in some
such way. The particulars were not
very precise. but he was really dead
that was certain.
Nothing else but death is certain in
Russia" | remarked to an ex-minister
to whom had been telling the whole
story after dinner.
so you are going to write about IT,,
you say" he asked nae, Ito ease your
feelings"
Il am" replied.
VERY we'll, then, IL you will come
here in two or three days | will supply
you with a most interesting postscript"
And he did
His statement was based on official
documents and this is the gist OF II.
when the terrorist movement was
at its height the leaders were invisible
and ubiquitous. We suspected that they
were in the university, but that was
only guess Once or twice Kaffsky
to be in the movement, but
we had no proof, and could get none.
1t then occurred to General o. OF the
secret department 70 employ a spy who
had never playeE the part of detective
before"
II know. Yoa mean the scoundrelly
informer. Boorman," | broke in.
DOOl man ifNul lllii w do Ht ", VI
course he was. Yes. No Boorman was
not the detective Boorman, | see, was
nearly as dangerous as Kaffsky; he was
Kaffsky's right-hand man, and he got
the same punishment"
This announcement took my breath
away, but it only deepened the mystery.
1.-TWO thousand three hundred rubles
was what it all cost, and dirt cheap,
too" he went on.
you mean the detectives reward?"
asked
Eyes, that of course. was over and
above her regular salary, which was
fifty rubles a month. 1t was the only
clever stroke of business she ever did"
"Shew repeated WAS it woman,
-hen?"
90. yes; didn't | tell you?-and
woman with the making of a saint in
Ter, too. Ha, ha. ha! She is now a god
earring sectarian-a pietist of some
Kind"
We'll l remarked "she would need
| good long course Of penance. were II