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Somewhere in the world he would be able to find a safe haven of shelter from the enemies who would claim vengeance; and now, after my net was drawn this night, there would be few active nihilists remaining to seek his life. "Well, Jean," I said, as I entered the room where he was confined, "would you like to leave prison and Russia?" "Indeed I would, sir," he replied.
The whole affair is wrapped in the deepest mystery, the only clue in the hands of the police being the fact that the cross cut on the forehead of the victim indicates that the crime is the work, not of the Nihilists proper, but of that unknown and mysterious society usually alluded to as the Terrorists, not one of whom has ever been seen save in his crimes.
Doctrines which can thus be turned inside out are hardly desirable bases for morality. So the early Christians, again, were the Socialists of their age, and took a view of Dives and Lazarus which would commend itself to the Nihilists of to-day. The church is now often held up to us as the great barrier against Socialism, and the one refuge against subversive doctrines.
The phrase "harbinger of the abolition of every form of authority" would seem to indicate that Lenine's ideal is that of the old Nihilists or of Anarchists of the Bakuninist school. That is very far from the truth. The phrase in question is merely a rhetorical flourish.
From then on violence on both sides increased and the bitterness intensified until in 1881 it culminated in the assassination of Alexander II. This so enraged the Government officials and vitalized their energy that soon after all the most active Nihilists had been captured or driven abroad, and for some years there came a lull in the agitation for democracy in Russia.
In vain did the Government intervene and substitute a military Commission in place of trial by jury. Exile and hanging only made the Nihilists more daring, and on more than one occasion the Czar nearly fell a victim to their desperadoes. The most astounding of these attempts was the explosion of a mine under the banqueting-hall of the Winter Palace at St.
Come who? I demand the truth. Who? Still some agent of the Committee, of the Central Committee? Still the Nihilists?" "If it was only that!" said Rouletabille quietly. "You have sworn to drive me mad! What do you mean by your 'if it was only that'?" Rouletabille, imperturbable, did not reply. "What have you done with the potion?" said he. "The potion? The glass of the crime!
"I have been called a diplomat of the first order, Zara," he replied, with a smile, "but your straight-forward methods, and my resolute purpose, make my course of procedure somewhat difficult. I will, however, be entirely frank." "That is better." "Zara de Echeveria, Alexis Saberevski informs you now that he knows you to be high in the councils of the nihilists."
"Durnief," I said, with a sneer. "Why should I read it? The man cannot tell the truth." "Because I desire you to do so." The note began in the usual form of addresses to the emperor, and was as follows: You have ere this been informed, and supplied with ample proof, that I am among the ranks of your enemies, the nihilists.
The Nihilists, satisfied with their work, rested upon their arms and waited to see if the new Emperor would yield to their demands. The agitators who had conceived the crusade against the Jews as a means of diverting public attention from St. Petersburg had been unsuccessful and for the time being found their occupation gone.
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