CONCLUSIONNearly two years have now gone by.
There have been changes in holy Russia—many great and amazing
changes consequent upon war and its disasters. Russia is no longer
the great power that she once was supposed to be. Many events that
have startled the world have occurred since that day when I first
enfolded my silent love within my arms. One of them is known to you
all.
You read in the newspapers, without a doubt, how the Baron
Xavier Oberg, the persecutor of Finland, the enemy of education,
the relentless foe of the defenseless, the man who ordered women to
be knouted to death in Kajana, the heartless official whom the
Finns called "The Strangler," was blown to pieces by a bomb thrown
beneath his carriage as he drove to the railway station at
Helsingfors on his way to
