It is a favourite trick of the officials to
excite public feeling against us. They have been doing it now for the
last three years, letting off bombs in various parts of the city. They
take care always to choose the most frequented places and to kill someone
who doesn't matter, and then all the Republican journals have four
columns of indignation with large head-lines, 'LATEST ANARCHIST OUTRAGE.'
They like to get their exploits well talked about. Everything seems to
be against us now. Sobrenski will have it that there is treachery inside
our circle as well as outside. You know whom he suspects?"
"No."
"Vardri."
"That is my fault," Arithelli said quietly. "Sobrenski has felt like
that since the night Vardri made a scene about my being lowered down from
the window. He just stood up for me because I'm a woman. I'm only a
machine to the rest of you."
She spoke without a touch of resentment. It was purely a statement of
fact.
"Ah, that's just the point. The feminine side of you is exactly what we
don't want. One Felise Rivaz is enough, most of us think.
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