CONTENTS
THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT
I. GAYETY AND DYNAMITE
II. NATACHA
III. THE WATCH
IV. "THE YOUTH OF MOSCOW IS DEAD”
V. BY ROULETABILLE’S ORDER THE GENERAL PROMENADES
VI. THE MYSTERIOUS HAND
VII. ARSENATE OF SODA
VIII. THE LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE GUARDS
IX. ANNOUCHKA
X. A DRAMA IN THE NIGHT
XI. THE POISON CONTINUES
XII. PERE ALEXIS
XIII. THE LIVING BOMBS
XIV. THE MARSHES
XV. "I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU”
XVI. BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL
XVII. THE LAST CRAVAT
XVIII. A SINGULAR EXPERIENCE
XIX. THE TSAR
“BARINIA, the young stranger has arrived.”
“Where is he?”
“Oh, he is waiting at the lodge.”
“I told you to show him to Natacha’s sitting-room. Didn’t you understand me, Ermolai?”
“Pardon, Barinia, but the young stranger, when I asked to search him, as you directed, flatly refused to let me.”
“Did you explain to him that everybody is searched before being allowed to enter, that it is the order, and that even my mother herself has submitted to it?”
“I told him all that, Barinia; and I told him about madame your mother.”
“What did he say to that?”
“That he was not madame your mother. He acted angry.”
“Well, let him come in without being searched.”
“The Chief of Police won’t like it.”
“Do as I say.”
Ermolai bowed and returned to the garden. The “barinia” left the veranda, where she had come for this conversation with the old servant of General Trebassof, her husband, and returned to the dining-room in the datcha des Iles, where the gay Councilor Ivan Petrovitch was regaling his amused associates with his latest exploit at Cubat’s resort. They were a noisy company, and certainly the quietest among them was not the gen