Dec. 31, 2023
Unknown Broadcast | "Russian New Year"
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
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Happy New Year, my dear.
That's right. Another year is approaching,
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and that means a new opportunity for
so much, for so many. I
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am myself not quite so much as
you as you, but but I do
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enjoy the ritual quite a bit.
In fact, in many ways, ritual
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is just about all there is.
Oh, I know you're cold. Please
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please sit by the fire. Sit
by the fire, my dear. We're
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going to listen to this great story
about well, a different kind of new
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year, and I think you're going
to enjoy it quite a bit. What's
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that? What's that? Oh,
don't worry about me. Believe me.
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I know a lot about my lot
in life, and I've come to accept
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it very well. Now, please
enjoy a bit of the bubbling, and
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we'll enjoy the story story together together
suspense the last hours of my life.
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I wonder how will I be remembered. I think of what Angel said when
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Carl Max dies, whether his death
mankind is shoddered by a head. I
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wonder what will be said of me. It is through his books that Max
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is remembered, while I I have
been a man of action, not of
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words. So will I be forgotten? Or word? Still? Will I?
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Be remembered only in the writings of
bourgeois journalists who already have distorted my
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motives and minimized my importance in the
revolutionary movement, especially in regard to the
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action undertook in Saint Basil's Cathedral on
the eve of the New Year. It
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is only all Ghakarolska they write about, vastly exaggerating the role she played.
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Alga Karolska. Why she was a
political ignoramus, a victim of every bourgeois
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superstition. She was nothing, a
zero, a puppet controlled by me.
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Olga believed that she was in love
with me. I encouraged her in that
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illusion. She might prove valuable to
me, since she wept as a servant
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in the household of Prince Ougaret.
On Sundays, when she was allowed a
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few hours for herself, she invariably
came to spend the time with me in
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my room near the university by Why
is it nearly dark? Oh you're leaving.
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Make sure the door is left.
There's a draft of those stairs.
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Did all you have to say?
No? Goodbye? Nothing? You're like
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a stone. I would prefer steel. Sometimes I think I should stop coming
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here to see you. Perhaps you
shouldn't by If I didn't come, what
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would you do? I would read
the newspapers from Geneva earlier. Why is
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it right because I loved someone egg? Do you think I would be jealous?
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You take me for granted, just
as Prince Augais took his wives for
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granted. By they quarreled again,
and she locked him out of her room
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again. Worse, he's left.
And this time I thought she was only
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spending a few days at court.
Oh it would be more than a few
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days. She's madly in love with
a czar and he was her And when
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did she sent for her clothes and
to it and sent a letter to Prince
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Augis. Only you could have seen
his face when his valueable property is stolen
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by the tzar. Of what a
dilemma. He can't even complain to the
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police. He loves his one,
just as he loves his horses, and
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he served. You wouldn't say that
if so, how he looks, or
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if you heard him calling on God
to bring her back to him, threatening
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to kill the czar, When did
you do that? Was facing up and
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down, muttering to himself. I
overheard him. He really meant it.
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I'm sure that what makes you think
so we Yesterday, when I was just
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in his study, he said some
strange things to me. He talked about
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the Tsar's father, about how he'd
been assassinated. He said he thought the
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terrorists who killed him were very brave
men. I didn't answer, though he
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seemed to expect me. True,
But I was afraid he'd heard that my
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uncle was one of the terrorists.
Of course, he was trying to make
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contact with our organizations through you.
Why didn't you speak up? I'm afraid
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he decided what's good with it too? That's not up to you. Now
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listen this week, the first moment
you are alone with the Prince, tell
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him about your uncle and tell him
you know someone he might like to meet.
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Who a needy list and a member
of the executive committee. Me.
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No, boy, right, it
could be dangerous for you. Possibly what
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without danger, the game grows cold? You understand I want you to bring
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him here. Oh no, I
won't. Oh what were you saying a
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few moments ago, Auga that you
should stop coming here to see me?
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You know I didn't. Maybe you
did because you aren't going to come here
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anymore Auga unless you bring Prince Ogareff
with you. Next Sunday. During the
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week, I began to devise a
plan, a simple, daring plan which
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would mean glory for me and an
end of tyranny in Russia. On Sunday
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I waited impatiently. It was mid
afternoon before they arrived. But how do
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you do? How do you do? Come in, excellency Auga. I
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think the Prince would prefer to talk
to me privately. Yes, I suppose
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so, I mean I come back
a little later. Boy, If you
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like coming, excellency, thank you. Olga said that you wanted to meet
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me, and to meet you,
Prince Avareath. A man has only to
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express the wish to one of your
servants. Come now. You are here
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because you wanted to meet me.
I assure you I'd never heard your name.
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There is no need to waste time. You're here because you and I
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desire the same end and we both
want to kill the Taza. No,
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no, you don't want to kill
the Czar, then we have nothing to
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talk about. Oh no, I
do want to kill him. Excellent.
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Maybe we can join forces, but
first I would like to understand you better.
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For instance, why do you want
to kill the Zar for the same
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reason as you or Russia, for
the Russian people to freedom from his urmi
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Ah. Yes, and you have
great love for the Russian people, of
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course, and you've thought about this, you have a plan, No,
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not really, you see I thought
that I maybe had more experience. Yes,
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that's true enough, But still you
must have considered where and when,
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if not, how and by whom
I only know. It won't be easy.
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It's always heavy, guardeness, beloved
Czar, our little father, who
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fears these people so much. He
never lets them see him because of what
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happened to his father. He has
a terror of assassination, and well he
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should. Now, since you have
come here without a plan, let me
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tell you mine a plan to kill
not only the Czar but his entire court
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the scream of the aristocracy with one
blow. How in Saint Basil's Cathedral on
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the eve of the New Year,
although the cathedral is cleared for the midnight
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mass, no common people are allowed
inside, only members of the court.
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I'm told that the Tzar waits until
the last moment and then enter the cathedral
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secretly through a private passage. I
tell you it's not possible. With sixty
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pounds of melanite strategically placed at three
central pillars. We can bring down the
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cathedral, don't not a soul will
escape. But you don't seem to approve.
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I hadn't thought of killing so many. If you under the aristocrats,
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do they matter? Think of what
you will be doing for the millions of
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Russian people whom you say you love. You think I don't. I doubt
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if you can, since you are
not one of them. But actually that's
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not important. Revolutions aren't going out
of love, but out of hate.
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And do you think I don't hate? Perhaps you do. I am told
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that your wife is an exceptionally beautiful
woman, and you knew, Well,
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that's your revolution, prints Ogara said, up by jealousy. Haven't you ever
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lost someone you love? I have
never loved and never will because I know
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that you love is to surrender to
hate is to continue the battle. Well,
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now do we understand each other?
Yes, yes, we do.
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Friends it down, We have many
things to discuss. It was then two
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weeks before the eve of the new
year. Prince Aga REVENI met several times
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again to complete our plans in my
room on the street in the library of
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the university. Then I'll have to
get a melanite. Yet they won't question
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an aristocrat. But if they should
ask, if say, you needed or
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work on your estate in the country, to blast out sums ort to widen
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the channel of the spring television,
ah, the explosive caps. I won't
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need you for anything else, Prince
Agarab until the final night, and then
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you and I will meet once more
for the last time. Besides the Prince,
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I needed two other confederates, a
man and a woman. Naturally,
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I had already decided on Alga Karolska, and the following Sunday I told her
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my plan. No, no,
boy, you aren't willing to take the
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risks. Willing or not. You
know, I do whatever you say,
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But that tas you're not the casside, it won't be nearly as dangerous as
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you think. I wouldn't care if
it's worthy opera house or the palace.
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But if we discard a caside you're
afraid of the wrath of God, well
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I'll take full responsibility and you will
be absolved of all guilt. I'm afraid
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for you, for your soul and
not mine. My soul? What is
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the soul? Alga Karolska, You
come from a revolutionary family, yet you
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allow yourself to be drugged by this
opiod of religion. We don't know for
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sure if there is a guy.
If there is, my soul will be
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dead. But after this life in
Russia, hell can't be any west.
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Now I needed to find the right
man, someone passive like Alga, someone
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in awe of me, A man
who preferred to follow rather than to leave,
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A man such as Surgius lemb Surgius
was colorless and flybler, like a
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drop of wax, rather to be
molded into any shape. He went to
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the university as a tutor, and, like all scholars in our enlightened society,
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was ragged and half starved. I
looked him up, brought him a
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meal, and then while he was
still warm with gratitude, I unfolded my
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plan, and I am to pretend
I'm a merchant from Riga. Yes,
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now listen carefully while I tell you
again. Step by step, I will
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bring you the clothes, not too
elegant, not to shabby, some second
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hand suitcases. Then you will go
to the house just opposite the cathedral and
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rent the apartment, the front apartment
facing the squarest. Yes, you will
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say that you have just come from
Rego own business, and that my wife
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will join me in a few days. Yes, yes, Olga will be
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there in a week from today.
The following night, I will come with
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a final instruction. When I went
to the apartment Surgeres had rented, it
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was three days before the new year. All giant searchers were waiting with all
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the equipment, the tubes of melanite, the wire, the metal hooks that
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drill the explosive caps, the electric
key. Auga, playing the part of
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the merchant's wife, was wearing a
new dress and cloak. Do I look
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it out for take off those flowers? Nor real lady would wear them now?
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Yes, you will do. Now, listen carefully. The cathedral is
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nearly empty tonight. In a few
minutes, mass will begin. Auga.
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You will take the wire, wind
it under your cloak around your waist.
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Surches. Yes, you and I
we will take each ten tubes of meloniite.
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Both of you will go directly to
the chapel at the right of the
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mean altar. There is a curtained
alcol where you can hide. What about
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you. I will have to come
back here for the rest of the explosive.
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Then I will join you in the
alcore. When everyone is left.
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Who will make our preparations? It
will take us about an hour and then
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we come back here. No,
no, the cathedral will be locked up.
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We will have to stay there until
morning. Olga, Why are you
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shivering? Are you cold? I
didn't know we'd have to stay there all
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night? And does it matter?
I intend to sleep, but if you
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like, you can spend the night
praying for our success. No one paid
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any attention to us as we crossed
the snow covered square. There was no
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wind and the air was filled with
a raw, freezing myst I think there's
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going to be another storm. Yes, there'll be snowing by a moment,
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just as I hope they've begun the
maw. Yes, now remember, go
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directly to the chapel and pay no
attention to me, quickly going quickly,
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Old, don't stand there staring.
Let's go on. I'm going boys,
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cross yourself. I beg you,
cross your Who will go on in no
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tenants for what we mean to do? Have mercy on him? Have mercy.
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Olga and Surgis lemb went unnoticed into
the darkened chapel to the right of
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the main altar, while I went
the opposite way to an icon on the
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east wall. There I hit the
drill and the tubes of melonite in a
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recess behind the icon, then melt
for a few moments, pretending to pray.
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I loved to myself, thinking how
old I had prayed to God for
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mercy. If God did exist,
he would show us no mercy, for
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we were Russians, and all of
Russia is under a cursor. When I
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came back to the cathedral with the
rest of the melanite, I too went
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to the chapel, All them surgiss
und the alcoves behind the altar, where
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the priest prepared the Eucharist, and
I crowded in beside him. Oh much
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younger, don't you hear? I
can't tell. I haven't gone to church
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for years. I haven't set my
mother's arms. It's not over. Yeah.
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The mass ended, The people left
by ones and twos, then the
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priests and the acolytes. Finally we
were alone in the vast cathedral, lit
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only by flickering candles on the altar
and under the icons, And afraid required,
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We'll put ten of the tubes under
the seat next to the front pillar.
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That's where the tsar will sit,
then ten more opposite and the last
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ten near that pillar in the middle. Is that what the hooks are for?
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Two half go the tubes under the
seat. That's right. That's your
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job, Olga. Start unwinding the
wire. Surches. Fasten the hooks.
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I will connect the explosive caps.
When the melanite was all in place,
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with the explosive caps connected, OR
ran a wire under a row of seats,
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fastening it so that it could not
be seen. At the end of
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the seat, a tapestry up at
the wall. We ran the wire behind
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the tapestry up to a small window. Then I lifted surges up to put
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the window open all the way.
That's enough. Do you have the wire?
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Yes? Good. Do you see
that the drain pipe outside? Can
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you reach it with the yogur I
think so, yes. Drill a hole
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in the pipe, then feed the
wire into it enough to reach the ground.
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When our work was done, we
went back to the alcohol and sat
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huddled together on the floor. After
a time I slept. I had no
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dreams. Everything worked in our favor. In the morning, when we left
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the cathedral, it was snowing hard. We stayed in the apartment all day.
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That night, I watched from the
window until the square was almost deserted.
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Then I went out alone to finish
our work. Snow was still falling
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heavily, in a soft, silent
curtain of whiteness that blotted out my footprints
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and hid me from any passerby.
I went to the drain five, reached
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up and found the wire and pulled
it out. I fastened the end to
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another coil of wire, which I
rolled across the square, methodically stamping it
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down into the snow. I then
brought the end of the coil through the
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window of the apartment. If it's
done, it's done tomorrow, just after
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midnight, Russia will be in our
hands. Until then, you and all
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got stay here. I'll read back
tomorrow evening after a final meeting with Prince
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Auguret. Come in, Prince Ogareth, Well desire will attend the midnight mess
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with his ministers and the cloth.
You're quite sure, quite sure? Just
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now when I came through the square, they were already putting up their ropes
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to kip back the crowd. Yes, they will jam the square just to
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stare at the building where they know
the eyes needling to pray. Well,
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we're going to show them how his
prayers are going to be answered, Yes,
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what's wrong with you? This is
filthy work. Revolutions are made with
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rose water. No, I suppose
not. At least my wife has gone
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to spend the new year at our
estate in the country. Good when you
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won't be distracted from the last thing
you have to do. Now, we
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have no way of knowing when the
Tzar enters the cathedral, since he won't
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face the crowd in the square.
So Sergia's lamb will wait outside below the
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steps. When the Tzar arrived and
the masses begun, come out and tell
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searches. He will bring the word
to me. At eleventh that night,
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Sergius left the apartment and made his
way to the rope barrier below the cathedral
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steps. Olga and I waited together
in the apartment. There was only one
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light, a single carousene lamp standing
near the gleaming electric chain. Alga walked
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up and down, a shadow leaping
on the wall. I stood at the
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window looking out. They're lighting the
baronfires, one tag all around the square.
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I saw them piling up the wood
this afternoon. What a crowd.
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We can scarcely get the slavey's rough. But if are you sure there's no
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other way to do what to free
the people. If I knew of another
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way, I would still choose this
one. I was afraid you'd say that
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the thought of power has already changed
you in the story, and this tyrant
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you will become one. You say, I am not a tzarre. I'm
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the son of a peasant, one
of the people. Not after tonight.
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If you do this, please set
you apart from everyone oga. If you're
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trying to say you want to leave, you know I stay as long as
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you need me. Look at the
milling like cattle, Yes, cattle.
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Well, if do you love me? You have never said it, but
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I keep thinking if I knew there
was love between you and me, I
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wouldn't mind some women always talking about
love and you can't say it. I
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have to, don't you know.
Listen, the masters started, But well,
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where is Prince Ogres? Maybe he
desires in't there. They wouldn't have
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started without him. He may decided
not to come by there there's the prince
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now coming down the steps. The
fool. Can't he see surges? He's
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not looking for surges. You come
here, the fool? I want him
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not to. Someone will see him. Well, I don't have to wait
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for him. I know the Zar
must be there. Or if you don't
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know, something they have gone wrong
at one moments, can't make and he's
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halfway running like a madman. Doesn't
he know that people are staring. Something
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must have happened. Quickly, go
let him in, get him inside.
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Well, well, my wife tzar, what about the tsar? Yes,
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he's there. She came with him, and she lied about going to the
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country to save my feelings. She
didn't want to help me, but he
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did, and so history has been
changed. Oh, don't touch it.
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You can't. You can do it
now because of your wife. You precipitate
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the revolution. Now because of her, you want to bring it to a
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hall and killed the Tzar myself.
I'll go back to the cathedral and kill
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him openly. Even if you could, it is not enough. For are
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they merciful? Even the terrible Peter. There's strumpet Catherine. For centuries they
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have strangled the people, but all
of them, my wife, You want
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me to turn back now to save
one woman loves her and the people eat
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your love? Will it put clothes
on their backs? Since if it was
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your wife, I have no wife. If it was someone you love.
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I told you once, s Prince
Ogareth, I can't afford the luxury of
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lover. If I were in the
cathedral, what would you do? I
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would press the key. You wouldn't, No one, I wouldn't sacrifice to
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destroy the tyrant who strangled the people. All God, come back here.
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She don't tell the police. No, she will only walk about in the
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snow wringing her hands for a while, and she will be coming crawling back
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here because she's weak, like you, will have been destroyed by love.
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So now, no, nothing has
happened. You push the keys. Nothing
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happened. Boy, what have you
done? What have you done? I
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broke the wire, you will never
find it in the snow, you brought
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the nose put down the time she
was right. I did to save you
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from committing murder, to save your
soul, your sick body. No,
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without love, with all my heart, I love him, pitying you,
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pity. Nietzsche once said, the
fundamental fault of the female character is that
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it has no sense of justice.
It was true of Alga Karaskar when she
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put what she called love above everything
else. It was a glorious plan.
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It failed because of her. And
now they are coming for me. What
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is Yes, I'm ready, Come
with me. Olga said she did it
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for me, to save me from
murder. Didn't she know that she forced
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me to murder her? And she
said she pitied me? What did she
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mean? Why should she pity me? No, I'm not ready to die
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yet. I can't die before I
know what she meant. Oh now,
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Olga, don't let them kill me. Not yet. Tell them there is
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so much I don't know, so
much I have to learn. Tell them.
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Read older and older where suspend?
Listen again next week when we bring
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you another tale well calculated to give
you in suspense. Well, my dear
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Idea, I hope the story has
helped you get a well in the mindset
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of yet another year, another time
of opportunity, the opportunity to be thankful
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for what you have and to long
for that which you want. Take it
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from me and for me. Life
is short, but in a way it's
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very very long. Do what you
want and don't hurt anyone else or else
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you'll live with it for a very
long time, possibly longer than you ever
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imagine. But I'm getting ahead of
myself. Go on, it's time to
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get into your comfy, cozy,
bent and enjoy the night. But I'll
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be back here, ready to spend
some more quality time with you very soon.
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Now, good night, good night. That's the rombling, bumbling,
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rumbling, mumbling, privately, bring
it
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Happy New Year, my dear.
That's right. Another year is approaching,
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and that means a new opportunity for
so much, for so many. I
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am myself not quite so much as
you as you, but but I do
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enjoy the ritual quite a bit.
In fact, in many ways, ritual
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is just about all there is.
Oh, I know you're cold. Please
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please sit by the fire. Sit
by the fire, my dear. We're
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going to listen to this great story
about well, a different kind of new
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year, and I think you're going
to enjoy it quite a bit. What's
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that? What's that? Oh,
don't worry about me. Believe me.
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I know a lot about my lot
in life, and I've come to accept
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it very well. Now, please
enjoy a bit of the bubbling, and
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we'll enjoy the story story together together
suspense the last hours of my life.
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I wonder how will I be remembered. I think of what Angel said when
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Carl Max dies, whether his death
mankind is shoddered by a head. I
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wonder what will be said of me. It is through his books that Max
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is remembered, while I I have
been a man of action, not of
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words. So will I be forgotten? Or word? Still? Will I?
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Be remembered only in the writings of
bourgeois journalists who already have distorted my
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motives and minimized my importance in the
revolutionary movement, especially in regard to the
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action undertook in Saint Basil's Cathedral on
the eve of the New Year. It
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is only all Ghakarolska they write about, vastly exaggerating the role she played.
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Alga Karolska. Why she was a
political ignoramus, a victim of every bourgeois
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superstition. She was nothing, a
zero, a puppet controlled by me.
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Olga believed that she was in love
with me. I encouraged her in that
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illusion. She might prove valuable to
me, since she wept as a servant
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in the household of Prince Ougaret.
On Sundays, when she was allowed a
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few hours for herself, she invariably
came to spend the time with me in
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my room near the university by Why
is it nearly dark? Oh you're leaving.
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Make sure the door is left.
There's a draft of those stairs.
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Did all you have to say?
No? Goodbye? Nothing? You're like
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a stone. I would prefer steel. Sometimes I think I should stop coming
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here to see you. Perhaps you
shouldn't by If I didn't come, what
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would you do? I would read
the newspapers from Geneva earlier. Why is
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it right because I loved someone egg? Do you think I would be jealous?
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You take me for granted, just
as Prince Augais took his wives for
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granted. By they quarreled again,
and she locked him out of her room
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again. Worse, he's left.
And this time I thought she was only
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spending a few days at court.
Oh it would be more than a few
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days. She's madly in love with
a czar and he was her And when
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did she sent for her clothes and
to it and sent a letter to Prince
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Augis. Only you could have seen
his face when his valueable property is stolen
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by the tzar. Of what a
dilemma. He can't even complain to the
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police. He loves his one,
just as he loves his horses, and
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he served. You wouldn't say that
if so, how he looks, or
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if you heard him calling on God
to bring her back to him, threatening
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to kill the czar, When did
you do that? Was facing up and
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down, muttering to himself. I
overheard him. He really meant it.
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I'm sure that what makes you think
so we Yesterday, when I was just
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in his study, he said some
strange things to me. He talked about
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the Tsar's father, about how he'd
been assassinated. He said he thought the
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terrorists who killed him were very brave
men. I didn't answer, though he
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seemed to expect me. True,
But I was afraid he'd heard that my
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uncle was one of the terrorists.
Of course, he was trying to make
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contact with our organizations through you.
Why didn't you speak up? I'm afraid
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he decided what's good with it too? That's not up to you. Now
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listen this week, the first moment
you are alone with the Prince, tell
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him about your uncle and tell him
you know someone he might like to meet.
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Who a needy list and a member
of the executive committee. Me.
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No, boy, right, it
could be dangerous for you. Possibly what
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without danger, the game grows cold? You understand I want you to bring
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him here. Oh no, I
won't. Oh what were you saying a
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few moments ago, Auga that you
should stop coming here to see me?
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You know I didn't. Maybe you
did because you aren't going to come here
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anymore Auga unless you bring Prince Ogareff
with you. Next Sunday. During the
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week, I began to devise a
plan, a simple, daring plan which
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would mean glory for me and an
end of tyranny in Russia. On Sunday
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I waited impatiently. It was mid
afternoon before they arrived. But how do
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you do? How do you do? Come in, excellency Auga. I
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think the Prince would prefer to talk
to me privately. Yes, I suppose
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so, I mean I come back
a little later. Boy, If you
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like coming, excellency, thank you. Olga said that you wanted to meet
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me, and to meet you,
Prince Avareath. A man has only to
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express the wish to one of your
servants. Come now. You are here
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because you wanted to meet me.
I assure you I'd never heard your name.
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There is no need to waste time. You're here because you and I
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desire the same end and we both
want to kill the Taza. No,
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no, you don't want to kill
the Czar, then we have nothing to
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talk about. Oh no, I
do want to kill him. Excellent.
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Maybe we can join forces, but
first I would like to understand you better.
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For instance, why do you want
to kill the Zar for the same
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reason as you or Russia, for
the Russian people to freedom from his urmi
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Ah. Yes, and you have
great love for the Russian people, of
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course, and you've thought about this, you have a plan, No,
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not really, you see I thought
that I maybe had more experience. Yes,
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that's true enough, But still you
must have considered where and when,
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if not, how and by whom
I only know. It won't be easy.
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It's always heavy, guardeness, beloved
Czar, our little father, who
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fears these people so much. He
never lets them see him because of what
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happened to his father. He has
a terror of assassination, and well he
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should. Now, since you have
come here without a plan, let me
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tell you mine a plan to kill
not only the Czar but his entire court
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the scream of the aristocracy with one
blow. How in Saint Basil's Cathedral on
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the eve of the New Year,
although the cathedral is cleared for the midnight
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mass, no common people are allowed
inside, only members of the court.
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I'm told that the Tzar waits until
the last moment and then enter the cathedral
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secretly through a private passage. I
tell you it's not possible. With sixty
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pounds of melanite strategically placed at three
central pillars. We can bring down the
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cathedral, don't not a soul will
escape. But you don't seem to approve.
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I hadn't thought of killing so many. If you under the aristocrats,
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do they matter? Think of what
you will be doing for the millions of
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Russian people whom you say you love. You think I don't. I doubt
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if you can, since you are
not one of them. But actually that's
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not important. Revolutions aren't going out
of love, but out of hate.
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And do you think I don't hate? Perhaps you do. I am told
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that your wife is an exceptionally beautiful
woman, and you knew, Well,
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that's your revolution, prints Ogara said, up by jealousy. Haven't you ever
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lost someone you love? I have
never loved and never will because I know
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that you love is to surrender to
hate is to continue the battle. Well,
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now do we understand each other?
Yes, yes, we do.
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Friends it down, We have many
things to discuss. It was then two
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weeks before the eve of the new
year. Prince Aga REVENI met several times
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again to complete our plans in my
room on the street in the library of
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the university. Then I'll have to
get a melanite. Yet they won't question
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an aristocrat. But if they should
ask, if say, you needed or
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work on your estate in the country, to blast out sums ort to widen
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the channel of the spring television,
ah, the explosive caps. I won't
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need you for anything else, Prince
Agarab until the final night, and then
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you and I will meet once more
for the last time. Besides the Prince,
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I needed two other confederates, a
man and a woman. Naturally,
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I had already decided on Alga Karolska, and the following Sunday I told her
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my plan. No, no,
boy, you aren't willing to take the
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risks. Willing or not. You
know, I do whatever you say,
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But that tas you're not the casside, it won't be nearly as dangerous as
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you think. I wouldn't care if
it's worthy opera house or the palace.
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But if we discard a caside you're
afraid of the wrath of God, well
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I'll take full responsibility and you will
be absolved of all guilt. I'm afraid
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for you, for your soul and
not mine. My soul? What is
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the soul? Alga Karolska, You
come from a revolutionary family, yet you
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allow yourself to be drugged by this
opiod of religion. We don't know for
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sure if there is a guy.
If there is, my soul will be
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dead. But after this life in
Russia, hell can't be any west.
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Now I needed to find the right
man, someone passive like Alga, someone
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in awe of me, A man
who preferred to follow rather than to leave,
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A man such as Surgius lemb Surgius
was colorless and flybler, like a
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drop of wax, rather to be
molded into any shape. He went to
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the university as a tutor, and, like all scholars in our enlightened society,
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was ragged and half starved. I
looked him up, brought him a
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meal, and then while he was
still warm with gratitude, I unfolded my
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plan, and I am to pretend
I'm a merchant from Riga. Yes,
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now listen carefully while I tell you
again. Step by step, I will
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bring you the clothes, not too
elegant, not to shabby, some second
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hand suitcases. Then you will go
to the house just opposite the cathedral and
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rent the apartment, the front apartment
facing the squarest. Yes, you will
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say that you have just come from
Rego own business, and that my wife
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will join me in a few days. Yes, yes, Olga will be
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there in a week from today.
The following night, I will come with
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a final instruction. When I went
to the apartment Surgeres had rented, it
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was three days before the new year. All giant searchers were waiting with all
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the equipment, the tubes of melanite, the wire, the metal hooks that
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drill the explosive caps, the electric
key. Auga, playing the part of
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the merchant's wife, was wearing a
new dress and cloak. Do I look
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it out for take off those flowers? Nor real lady would wear them now?
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Yes, you will do. Now, listen carefully. The cathedral is
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nearly empty tonight. In a few
minutes, mass will begin. Auga.
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You will take the wire, wind
it under your cloak around your waist.
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Surches. Yes, you and I
we will take each ten tubes of meloniite.
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Both of you will go directly to
the chapel at the right of the
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mean altar. There is a curtained
alcol where you can hide. What about
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you. I will have to come
back here for the rest of the explosive.
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Then I will join you in the
alcore. When everyone is left.
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Who will make our preparations? It
will take us about an hour and then
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we come back here. No,
no, the cathedral will be locked up.
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We will have to stay there until
morning. Olga, Why are you
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shivering? Are you cold? I
didn't know we'd have to stay there all
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night? And does it matter?
I intend to sleep, but if you
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like, you can spend the night
praying for our success. No one paid
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any attention to us as we crossed
the snow covered square. There was no
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wind and the air was filled with
a raw, freezing myst I think there's
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going to be another storm. Yes, there'll be snowing by a moment,
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just as I hope they've begun the
maw. Yes, now remember, go
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directly to the chapel and pay no
attention to me, quickly going quickly,
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Old, don't stand there staring.
Let's go on. I'm going boys,
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cross yourself. I beg you,
cross your Who will go on in no
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tenants for what we mean to do? Have mercy on him? Have mercy.
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Olga and Surgis lemb went unnoticed into
the darkened chapel to the right of
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the main altar, while I went
the opposite way to an icon on the
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east wall. There I hit the
drill and the tubes of melonite in a
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recess behind the icon, then melt
for a few moments, pretending to pray.
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I loved to myself, thinking how
old I had prayed to God for
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mercy. If God did exist,
he would show us no mercy, for
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we were Russians, and all of
Russia is under a cursor. When I
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came back to the cathedral with the
rest of the melanite, I too went
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to the chapel, All them surgiss
und the alcoves behind the altar, where
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the priest prepared the Eucharist, and
I crowded in beside him. Oh much
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younger, don't you hear? I
can't tell. I haven't gone to church
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for years. I haven't set my
mother's arms. It's not over. Yeah.
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The mass ended, The people left
by ones and twos, then the
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priests and the acolytes. Finally we
were alone in the vast cathedral, lit
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only by flickering candles on the altar
and under the icons, And afraid required,
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We'll put ten of the tubes under
the seat next to the front pillar.
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That's where the tsar will sit,
then ten more opposite and the last
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ten near that pillar in the middle. Is that what the hooks are for?
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Two half go the tubes under the
seat. That's right. That's your
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job, Olga. Start unwinding the
wire. Surches. Fasten the hooks.
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I will connect the explosive caps.
When the melanite was all in place,
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with the explosive caps connected, OR
ran a wire under a row of seats,
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fastening it so that it could not
be seen. At the end of
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the seat, a tapestry up at
the wall. We ran the wire behind
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the tapestry up to a small window. Then I lifted surges up to put
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the window open all the way.
That's enough. Do you have the wire?
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Yes? Good. Do you see
that the drain pipe outside? Can
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you reach it with the yogur I
think so, yes. Drill a hole
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in the pipe, then feed the
wire into it enough to reach the ground.
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When our work was done, we
went back to the alcohol and sat
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huddled together on the floor. After
a time I slept. I had no
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dreams. Everything worked in our favor. In the morning, when we left
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the cathedral, it was snowing hard. We stayed in the apartment all day.
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That night, I watched from the
window until the square was almost deserted.
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Then I went out alone to finish
our work. Snow was still falling
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heavily, in a soft, silent
curtain of whiteness that blotted out my footprints
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and hid me from any passerby.
I went to the drain five, reached
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up and found the wire and pulled
it out. I fastened the end to
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another coil of wire, which I
rolled across the square, methodically stamping it
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down into the snow. I then
brought the end of the coil through the
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window of the apartment. If it's
done, it's done tomorrow, just after
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midnight, Russia will be in our
hands. Until then, you and all
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got stay here. I'll read back
tomorrow evening after a final meeting with Prince
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Auguret. Come in, Prince Ogareth, Well desire will attend the midnight mess
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with his ministers and the cloth.
You're quite sure, quite sure? Just
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now when I came through the square, they were already putting up their ropes
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to kip back the crowd. Yes, they will jam the square just to
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stare at the building where they know
the eyes needling to pray. Well,
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we're going to show them how his
prayers are going to be answered, Yes,
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what's wrong with you? This is
filthy work. Revolutions are made with
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rose water. No, I suppose
not. At least my wife has gone
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to spend the new year at our
estate in the country. Good when you
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won't be distracted from the last thing
you have to do. Now, we
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have no way of knowing when the
Tzar enters the cathedral, since he won't
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face the crowd in the square.
So Sergia's lamb will wait outside below the
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steps. When the Tzar arrived and
the masses begun, come out and tell
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searches. He will bring the word
to me. At eleventh that night,
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Sergius left the apartment and made his
way to the rope barrier below the cathedral
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steps. Olga and I waited together
in the apartment. There was only one
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light, a single carousene lamp standing
near the gleaming electric chain. Alga walked
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up and down, a shadow leaping
on the wall. I stood at the
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window looking out. They're lighting the
baronfires, one tag all around the square.
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I saw them piling up the wood
this afternoon. What a crowd.
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We can scarcely get the slavey's rough. But if are you sure there's no
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other way to do what to free
the people. If I knew of another
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way, I would still choose this
one. I was afraid you'd say that
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the thought of power has already changed
you in the story, and this tyrant
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you will become one. You say, I am not a tzarre. I'm
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the son of a peasant, one
of the people. Not after tonight.
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If you do this, please set
you apart from everyone oga. If you're
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trying to say you want to leave, you know I stay as long as
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you need me. Look at the
milling like cattle, Yes, cattle.
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Well, if do you love me? You have never said it, but
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I keep thinking if I knew there
was love between you and me, I
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wouldn't mind some women always talking about
love and you can't say it. I
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have to, don't you know.
Listen, the masters started, But well,
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where is Prince Ogres? Maybe he
desires in't there. They wouldn't have
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started without him. He may decided
not to come by there there's the prince
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now coming down the steps. The
fool. Can't he see surges? He's
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not looking for surges. You come
here, the fool? I want him
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not to. Someone will see him. Well, I don't have to wait
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for him. I know the Zar
must be there. Or if you don't
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know, something they have gone wrong
at one moments, can't make and he's
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halfway running like a madman. Doesn't
he know that people are staring. Something
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must have happened. Quickly, go
let him in, get him inside.
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Well, well, my wife tzar, what about the tsar? Yes,
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he's there. She came with him, and she lied about going to the
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country to save my feelings. She
didn't want to help me, but he
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did, and so history has been
changed. Oh, don't touch it.
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You can't. You can do it
now because of your wife. You precipitate
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the revolution. Now because of her, you want to bring it to a
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hall and killed the Tzar myself.
I'll go back to the cathedral and kill
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him openly. Even if you could, it is not enough. For are
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they merciful? Even the terrible Peter. There's strumpet Catherine. For centuries they
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have strangled the people, but all
of them, my wife, You want
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me to turn back now to save
one woman loves her and the people eat
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your love? Will it put clothes
on their backs? Since if it was
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your wife, I have no wife. If it was someone you love.
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I told you once, s Prince
Ogareth, I can't afford the luxury of
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lover. If I were in the
cathedral, what would you do? I
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would press the key. You wouldn't, No one, I wouldn't sacrifice to
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destroy the tyrant who strangled the people. All God, come back here.
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She don't tell the police. No, she will only walk about in the
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snow wringing her hands for a while, and she will be coming crawling back
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here because she's weak, like you, will have been destroyed by love.
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So now, no, nothing has
happened. You push the keys. Nothing
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happened. Boy, what have you
done? What have you done? I
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broke the wire, you will never
find it in the snow, you brought
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the nose put down the time she
was right. I did to save you
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from committing murder, to save your
soul, your sick body. No,
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without love, with all my heart, I love him, pitying you,
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pity. Nietzsche once said, the
fundamental fault of the female character is that
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it has no sense of justice.
It was true of Alga Karaskar when she
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put what she called love above everything
else. It was a glorious plan.
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It failed because of her. And
now they are coming for me. What
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is Yes, I'm ready, Come
with me. Olga said she did it
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for me, to save me from
murder. Didn't she know that she forced
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me to murder her? And she
said she pitied me? What did she
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mean? Why should she pity me? No, I'm not ready to die
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yet. I can't die before I
know what she meant. Oh now,
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Olga, don't let them kill me. Not yet. Tell them there is
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so much I don't know, so
much I have to learn. Tell them.
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Read older and older where suspend?
Listen again next week when we bring
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you another tale well calculated to give
you in suspense. Well, my dear
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Idea, I hope the story has
helped you get a well in the mindset
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of yet another year, another time
of opportunity, the opportunity to be thankful
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for what you have and to long
for that which you want. Take it
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from me and for me. Life
is short, but in a way it's
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very very long. Do what you
want and don't hurt anyone else or else
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you'll live with it for a very
long time, possibly longer than you ever
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imagine. But I'm getting ahead of
myself. Go on, it's time to
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get into your comfy, cozy,
bent and enjoy the night. But I'll
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be back here, ready to spend
some more quality time with you very soon.
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Now, good night, good night. That's the rombling, bumbling,
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rumbling, mumbling, privately, bring
it
