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THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED




    THE WHITE TERROR
    AND
    THE RED

    A Novel of Revolutionary Russia

    BY
    A. CAHAN
    Author of "Yekl" and "The Imported Bridegroom."

    [Illustration]

    NEW YORK
    A. S. BARNES & COMPANY
    1905




    Copyright, 1905
    BY A. S. BARNES & COMPANY

    _All rights reserved_

    _Published February, 1905_
    _Second Printing, February, 1905_
    _Third Printing, March, 1905_




CONTENTS.


    CHAPTER                                    PAGE

          I. An Affront to His Czar               1

         II. The White Terror                    14

        III. Pievakin Pleads Guilty              20

         IV. The "Demonstration"                 28

          V. Pavel's First Step                  40

         VI. A Meeting on New Terms              57

        VII. "Terrorism Without Violence"        62

       VIII. Makar's Canvass                     76

         IX. A Day Underground                   81

          X. The Czar's Escape                   93

         XI. A Mysterious Arrest                 97

        XII. A Bewildering Encounter            103

       XIII. A Gendarme's Sister                112

        XIV. Underground Miroslav               121

         XV. A Warning                          135

        XVI. Clara at Home                      147

       XVII. The Countess' Discovery            151

      XVIII. Pavel at Boyko's Court             160

        XIX. Strawberries                       169

         XX. A "Conspiracy Trip"                178

        XXI. Makar's Father                     187

       XXII. From Cellar to Palace              196

      XXIII. An Unforeseen Suggestion           205

       XXIV. Vladimir Finds His Cause           211

        XXV. Clara Becomes "Illegal"            227

       XXVI. On Sacred Ground                   235

      XXVII. A Postponed Wedding                244

     XXVIII. A Second Courtship                 252

       XXIX. A Hunted Monarch                   260

        XXX. The Mystery of a Shop              267

       XXXI. A Reassuring Search                277

      XXXII. The Red Terror                     287

     XXXIII. The Revelation                     299

      XXXIV. The Czar Takes Courage             310

       XXXV. A Hunted People                    319

      XXXVI. A "Paper from the Czar"            331

     XXXVII. The Defence Committee              339

    XXXVIII. The Nihilist's Guard               357

      XXXIX. The Riot                           371

         XL. Light out of Darkness              389

        XLI. Pavel Becomes "Illegal"            401

       XLII. Ominous Footsteps                  408

      XLIII. A Message Through the Wall         423




THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED




THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED.




CHAPTER I.

AN AFFRONT TO HIS CZAR.


Alexander II. passed part of the summer of 1874 in a German
health-resort taking the mineral waters. When not in the castle in which
he was staying with his train he affected the life of an ordinary
citizen. He did so as much from necessity as from choice. Czar or
subject, the same water must be drunk at the same spot and hour by all
who seek its cure. Nor can any distinction be made in the matter of the
walk which the patient is to take after draining his two or three
gobletsful.

The promenade at a watering place is a great parade-ground for the
display of plumage, the gayest and costliest gowns being reserved for
the procession that follows the taking of the remedy; but while the race
is under way and everybody is striving to throw everybody else into the
shade, the fact of their being there pierces each dress as with "X"
rays, showing their flesh to be of the same fragile clay.

So the Czar accepted the levelling effect of the place good-naturedly
and sought diversion in the unsustained role of a common mortal.
Unsustained, because he carried