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THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED

THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED

A Novel of Revolutionary Russia

BY

A. CAHAN

New York

By A. S. Barnes & Company

CONTENTS.

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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 

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