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"Do you think that we have no wrongs to right?" she de froreater ones Nothing can dignify or

ennoble deliberate assassination, or wanton, cruel, secret murder The

nihilists are assassins, murderers, cutthroats"

"You do not know! You do not know!"

"Perhaps not"

"Having heard what you did--knowing, as you do,as

I know you are, to betray me, what do you propose, Mr Dubravnik?"

I replied deliberately

"I have thought of joining the nihilists, but I have reconsidered the

question as impracticable Therefore, I have decided that you must

leave Russia"

"I? Leave Russia? Ordered away by you?"

"Yes, princess"

She laughed wildly, and again this creature of ies of which I had seen so nant now, made so by offended pride, because of the affront my

words had put upon her social status She, a princess, high in place,

to be ordered out of her own country by a er to

her, was unprecedented

"Do you think that I a to be ordered about like that by a

ht? Beware, sir, lest you ret that the bullet did not do its work more effectively I am a

princess; I have wealth, power, influential friends; do not think that