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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Your villany has touched Paul's life, and at that point it touches mine," continued Karl Steinmetz, with slow anger. "You followed us to Petersburg thence you dogged us to the Government of Tver. You twisted that foolish woman, the Countess Lanovitch, round your finger, and obtained from her an invitation to Thors. All this in order to be near one of us. Ach! I have been watching you.
"She is well," answered Steinmetz. "I saw her yesterday." "And happy?" The broad-faced man looked into Steinmetz's face with considerable keenness. "Yes." It was a moment for mental reservations. One wonders whether such are taken account of in heaven. "And Paul?" asked the Count Stépan Lanovitch at once. "Tell me about him." "He is married," answered Steinmetz.
"The Count Lanovitch," pursued De Chauxville, "where is he?" "Banished for his connection with the Charity League." "Catrina?" "Catrina is living in the province of Tver we are neighbors she and her mother, the countess." De Chauxville nodded. None of the details really interested him. His indifference was obvious. "Ah! the Countess Lanovitch," he said reflectively, "she was a foolish woman."
"I did it after mature consideration. I tried paying another man, but he shirked his work and showed the white feather; so Steinmetz and I concluded that there was nothing to be done but do our dirty work ourselves." "Which, being translated, means that you do it." "Pardon me. Steinmetz does his share." Catrina Lanovitch was essentially a woman, despite her somewhat masculine frame.
Nevertheless, the desire indefinite, shapeless was there to kill this woman, who was tall and beautiful, whom Paul Alexis loved. It must be remembered in extenuation that Catrina Lanovitch had lived nearly all her life in the province of Tver. She was not modern at all.
There is Catrina Lanovitch, an estate as big as yours, adjoining yours. A great Russian family, a good girl who is willing." Paul laughed, a good wholesome laugh. "You are inclined to exaggerate my manifold and obvious qualifications," he said. "Catrina is a very nice girl, but I do not think she would marry me even if I asked her." "Which you do not intend to do." "Certainly not."
God knows it is difficult for men to do always the right thing. It is a thousand times more difficult for women. When we spoke together in Petersburg, and I offered you my poor friendship, I was not acting in the dark. I knew as much then as I do now. Princess, I knew about the Charity League papers. I knew more than any except Stépan Lanovitch, and it was he who told me."
You are now included in his antipathy because you married madame." "I dare say," replied Paul carelessly. "But I am not afraid of Claude de Chauxville, or any other man." "I am," said Steinmetz. "He is up to some mischief. I was calling on the Countess Lanovitch in Petersburg when in walked Claude de Chauxville.
Of course it had to be kept secret, as the bureaucracy is against any attempt to civilize the people against education or the dissemination of news. The thing was organized. We were just getting to work when some one stole the papers of the League from the house of Count Stépan Lanovitch and sold them to the Government.
For the moment Paul had forgotten Claude de Chauxville's existence. "I have news for you," he said; and he gently pushed the chattering countess aside. "Stépan Lanovitch is at Osterno. He arrived to-night." "Ah, they have set him free, poor man! Does he wear chains on his ankles is his hair long? My poor Stépan! Ah, but what a stupid man!" The countess collapsed into a soft chair.
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