Chapter 31 THE PAYMENT

It was on every gossip's tongue in St. Petersburg that Jeliaboff had been arrested.

"It is the beginning of the end," men said. "They will now catch the others. The new reign of terror is over."

But Jeliaboff himself-a dangerous man (one of the Terrorists), the chief of the plot to blow up the imperial train at the Alexandroff Station-said th