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"No," I said "You need not tell h to see you and to have you here, without explanation"

He esture of impatience

"As if I did not know that," he added; "but as I said a s to you, because since I

carasped your hand I have been ireat work for you to do; a great duty for you to

perform A stupendous obstacle to human development exists in one part

of Europe to-day, which I believe you could overcome and demolish, if

only you could be convinced of it I wonder, Dan, if you would give the

subject any thought if I were to suggest it to you?"

"Try," I said

"I wonder if you would seriously consider one of the greatest

achievements that remains undone in Europe to-day," he added,

meditatively

"The obstacle to which you just now referred?" I asked

"Yes"

"What is it?"

"Nihilism"

"Hell!" I replied with eestion of a s word, Dan It is hell It is worse than that to

hundreds of thousands of hus, from the lowest mujik of the

steppes, to the czar hiic which always spells the word death It is death to those

who antagonize it, and it is death to theovernor, the official, and it is death to the

poor devil who plots in the dark, secretly with his fellows, against

the powers that rule hi

and it ends in nothing Nihilo nihil fit! Whoever named the

revolutionists of Russia so, builded better than they knew"

I atching Saberevski with some amazement I had never heard him