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 Things would have gone well with Platon, whom the Czar himself had nicknamed, "Highway Robber", if not for the sudden appearance of Bishop Stefan Dzubay. He also called a conference with the assistance of Adam Fillipovsky, an almost illiterate man of immoral habits. Fillipovsky has been living most indecently on 17th Street for ten years with an Austrian woman Olshansky. He accepted the rank of Bishop, conferred on him by Bishop Stefan, in order to be able to extort the last few cents from poor workmen. He took their money and then escaped to Canada to avoid paying his debts.

Fillipovsky opened his activity on 7th Street, New York, on the premises of Alexander Chichilla, Platon's former spy and provocateur. The majority of his followers were a clique sent by Platon as provocateurs. Apparently the people, however, refuse to follow Bishop Adam, and in the long run the two Bishops will have to combine and hoodwink the people together.

At the Philadelphia convention Bishop Stefan's party which consisted mostly of Metropolitan Platon's minions, that is, exclusively of masseurs, saddists, hermaphrodites and provocateurs, it was unanim-