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When one is sentenced to death by the nihilists in Russia it sends a

cold shiver down the back, no matter how brave and self-reliant one may

be, for those fanatics have an unco out such

decrees to the bitter end However, I sht I could find a way to avoid the consequences of , and then awaited theti it I studied her carefully, for

she was the most complex puzzle that I had ever encountered in the

shape of a woh to know that she was not only a

conspirator against the life of the emperor, but that she was

ostensibly if not really, the leader a her fellow conspirators; or

if not the leader, then a leader I had heard her talk glibly of

assassination and death, and I had heard her deplore in ame of Russian politics In one

moment I had believed her to be a heartless schemer, a murderess, and

one as devoid of compassion; and in the next I was forced to the

conjecture that she was a victim of circumstances, and that she had no

love for or sympathy with the cause she advocated Now, as I watched

her, the sament of her

character, and finally I su ayed by i paradoxes

which will explain just whatZara de