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The majority of his adherents
abjured their error; the rest of them, aided by charitable
contributions from a secret committee of enthusiasts, found their way
abroad to dwell under the shadow of the banished Messiah. The expiatory
period was approaching. Russia, on the whole, was glad to see the last
of him--particularly the Grand Ducal party.
A broken man, he decided to establish himself on Nepenthe, drawn
thither partly on account of the climate but chiefly by the report of
its abounding lobsters and fishes, an article of diet of which he was
inordinately fond. Disciples followed singly, and in batches. Their
scarlet blouses became a familiar object in the streets of the place;
good-natured and harmless folks for the most part who, if they ran up
bills with the local trades-people which they failed to pay, did so not
out of natural dishonesty but because they had no money. They used to
bathe, in summertime, at a certain little cove near the foot of the
promontory on which Madame Steynlin's villa was situated.


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