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2i8 BY ORDER OF THE CZAR.

" Withen ten days Ferrari may expect me. The Royal function which the Countess Stravensky is to attend, and at which General Petronovitch is to be present, will take place two days after my arrival, when it will be shown that the arm of the Brotherhood is strong and long-reaching."

The double smile came into Paul's sallow face, and the two other men remarked in different words, but with the same meaning, that the patriots needed encouragement.

" You have seen a detective from Scotland Yard ? "

" Yes," said Paul.

" About the visit of the German princes ? "

" Yes. We are safe in our asylum here so long as we respect it ; that was the police message.'

" All must be free to come and go, eh ? "

" That is so. Anything happening to any one of England's guests, and we shall be cleared out."

" So far as we can, let us obey the mandate ; it is just. Any other reports ? "

" None."

" Good-night."

During the next two or three hours, Anna Klosstock made her way through certain malodorous quarters of the East End, where the sweater demon held his grim court ; among Polish and other Jews, refugees, paupers miser- ables of all kinds.

Wherever her shadow fell upon them, it brought com- fort. Anna Klosstock was an angel in these benighted regions. She spoke the language of the sufferers. They told her their woes ; how they had been shipped from their native land like slaves ; how they arrived in London pen- niless, friendless ; how they labored night and day for bread and shelter ; and their chief complaints were against their co-religionists. As a rule, the Jew is good to his people ; but in London, the English Jew seems to take advantage of his foreign brother ; the sweated and the sweater in the