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Then, under the cover of the general roar of conversation, she said in a low voice: "You have guessed quite rightly. He is one of the Nihilists who were concerned in the assassination of the late Czar." "You don't say so!" exclaimed Mark Shrewsbury, much startled. "Is it possible?" "Indeed, it is only too true," said Mrs. Selldon. "I heard it only the other morning, and on the very best authority.
Their aims were the abolition of serfdom, the destruction of all existing institutions, and a perfect equality under a constitutional government. They were definite and sweeping and so were the means for accomplishing them. Their benign government was going to rest upon crime and violence. We should call these men Nihilists now.
Simply because the idea of compromise with the Nihilists aroused at once the idea of complicity! For such people it is always the same thing they never can see but the one side of the situation. But, nevertheless, the situation had two sides, as all situations have. The question was simple. The compromise was certain. But why had Natacha compromised herself with the Nihilists?
In order that the election of this Assembly might be a reality, the Czar was pressed to grant freedom of speech and of public meetings . It is difficult to say whether the Nihilists meant this document as an appeal, or whether the addition of the demand of a general amnesty was intended to anger the Czar and drive him into the arms of the reactionaries.
But it was, after all, lack of success which had killed Nihilism rather than the violent measures of the Government. Practically all of the Nihilists had imbibed the radical doctrines of Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, especially those of the latter, himself a Russian and more inclined toward violent anarchism than toward political socialism.
Still it is curious that a Government which, at home, exiles Nihilists and other bomb-throwers should, abroad, give contributions to the cause that instigated the blowing up of my house, and the outrages which rendered Ireland so notorious.
How Fandor longed to shout: "I am not Fantômas! Your Trokoff is a traitor!" But how pull the scales from off eyes blinded by fanaticism? How to prove to them he was not Fantômas? Who among them could recognise the unknown, elusive bandit, Fantômas? These Nihilists had for Trokoff an admiration beyond the bounds of reason. How could he show up Trokoff as he really was?
My salary was enormous, and already amounted to a competence, and I knew that if I remained in Russia, sooner or later somebody would find me out; and then there would be short shrift for me, between the nihilists on one hand, and the jealous nobility on the other, for the latter saw in me nothing but an interloper who had stolen their prerogatives.
It was late that night when the Nihilists left the airship, first having made a careful inspection to see that they were not spied upon. They promised at once to set to work their secret methods of getting information. For several days the airship remained in the vicinity of the Russian town.
In the cabin were arms and ammunition, and hidden in a secret receptacle in the cabin table was one of those infernal machines, the construction of which had occupied much of Paulvitch's spare time when he had stood high in the confidence of the Nihilists of his native land. That was before he had sold them out for immunity and gold to the police of Petrograd.
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