Princess Zara

ndertook that day. Several follow upon it, and there were ma

elf was frequently abroad in the streets, or at places of amusement

e should refer. He came at ten o'clock, and was expected, for he was conducted to her presence immediately and was rece

ere scattered about over the world, outside of Russia. He was a man whose name does not appear again in this story and which therefore n

nces, when he rose to leave her and she gave him her hand

litics, and official oppression would cease to exist. If we had others like you, as good and as beautiful as you are, the czar would abdicate, or would consent

hat I am heart and soul in this movement. It is equally true that I am prep

r. "We have not touched upon that p

hesi

more of a personal quality, than of a political character. I am mindful of the fact that we cannot destroy a tree by lopping off one of its branches, and whenever a czar is dead, another lives

incess, and with that aid alon

ost unpleasant character of my employment. To use such beauty as I have, and such attractions as I possess, for t

ihilists because of love for you; I could, myself

I expected them least of all, from you. You make me ashamed; ashamed for you, and for the cause I uphold. Are all men so weak, and so easily led? Do

so more than o

e hate myse

esentment of his words that he was lost in admiration. Indeed he had uttered no more than the truth when he told her that he might even forsake the cause if such a woma

e New York at once and I shall probably never return to it. What you have told me of the measures taken in our be

s that,

lf. You intimated it

t wa

skilled operators and experts from this country. I had thought that we nihilists had a monopoly of that sort of employment, and that the czar and his nobles cou

he princess by l

t, but it will be for the emolument it will bring, and cannot be induced by patriotic sentiment. We would have little cause to dread s

haps

of your own loyalty t

ainly

ever be another so beautiful and fascinating as you are. But are there others of your

ny. Their na

n their itinerary, and she to stride across the room and stand for a long time facing herself in the mirror, studying the features of her own be

glass. There was a fire in their depths which could have attracted no man,

ent. Hated the beauty which gave her such power, a

hip wharf; when she stood upon the deck near the rail, and gazed, as she h

not guess it; and she was going now to meet it as fast as the t

waving hand attracted her attention, and she recognized the tall form of Alexis Saberevski as he bade her adieu. Beside him on the pier was ano

whose arms she was fleeing, even though she left him there, unknown, upon t

ld foresee

uch i