From Vyatka I traveled by a new railroad to Vologda and St. Petersburg, arriving in the capital early in October, when the nights were lengthening and the icy air was calling out the winter furs. CHAPTER XVIII MY FRIENDS, THE TERRORISTS “Terrorism” almost universally misunderstood in America--Terrorism a philosophy based on logical, intelligent, dispassionate reasoning--Exceptional incidents that merely prove the rule--Relation of terrorists to the whole revolutionary movement--Differentiation of the several leading revolutionary parties--Thoughtful and humane methods of recent terrorists--Capture of “The Bear”--Two girl terrorists executed at Kronstadt--The daring Maximalists--“Flying Bands”--Rigid morals of terrorists--Total abstainers--Personnel of the Maximalists--A famous “expropriation”--Plot on the Duma--Bomb in the home of Prime Minister Stolypin--The most daring plot of all. My interview with Marie Spiradonova on the eve of her deportation to Siberia led to my meeting a good many terrorists. A Moscow newspaper made so bold as to print a short account of my experience in the Tamboff prison and the entire edition of the journal was confiscated by the police. A week or two later, in St. Petersburg, Professor Paul Miliukoff’s paper, the “Retsch,” the official organ of the Constitutional Democratic Party, published one or two of the photographs of Marie that Luboshitz had taken on the occasion of our visit, and the police descended upon it. Some one, unknown to me, procured one of these newspaper reprints and used it for an edition of Marie Spiradonova postcards. A Moscow book-shop placed these cards on sale and the police permanently closed the shop--after taking all of the cards. These and other incidents which developed out of the Tamboff visit seemed to offer a guarantee to the members of the Extreme Left that I was trustworthy. I may have been needlessly reckless, perhaps, in the way I availed myself of the opportunities presented through this chance means, for nowhere in the world to-day is playing with fire apt to lead to deeper burns.