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The wholesale arrests which I had ordered for that night, I had long

had under consideration, and that I had decided to make them a little

sooner than was er

surrounding the princess; in part to my own suddenly formed

determination to complete my business there and return to the United

States; and lastly, to the fact that the last few reports that I had

received so nearly coe I had striven to attain,

that I came to the conclusion that my as about done, and that it

was time to draw the net 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 atives

My first business on leaving the emperor, was to call upon Jean Morét,

for now his usefulness was past, and the time had come for me to keep

my ith him, and set him free Somewhere in the world he would be

able to find a safe haven of shelter froeance; and now, after ht, there would be

few active nihilists re to seek his life