Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception

and innocent young girls. Into the bargain, he had robbed his de-
votees of the sum of $500,000. He escaped to Paris whence he will
soon be brought in irons and put in the same place where his friend.
General Semionov, nicknamed Ludlow, had spent a few weeks.
I immediately applied to the American judicial authorities, re-
taining Ralph Frinck, the well-known lawyer. I hope and believe that
American justice will decide the case fairly anr promptly.
In September, 1922, soon after the suit was begun, I was summoned
to a Referee's chambers, at 1475 Broadway, where Metro-
politan Platon with his tricky clique of anarchists, monarchists, ad-
venturers, and thieves, was present. To the offer to settle the case
peacefully, made me by th Referee, and to Platon's plea that he was
a mundane god, I gave this final, brief reply : ''There can be no re-
conciliation," and I asked the Referee to bring the entire case to the
New York Supreme Court as a criminal case, in open court, with a
jury.
The Referee paid no attention to my request and continued sub-
poening me to many other places, so that nobody could learn about
my case against the "Holy" Platon. Platon told wild tales, as
plausible as his announcement of a recent appointment as Chinese
Emperor.
Both my witnesses and I herd Platon's ludicrous bragging. In
his stories he referred to an American semi-millionaire Carlton and to
one F. Pashkovsky. Platon had ordained this Pashkovsky to the rank
of Archbishop. He had him appointed to Chicago to take charge of
the Illinois Diocese. Two or three weeks later the people drove
Pashkovsky out of the Diocese,'pelting him with rotten eggs. Pashkovsky
then ran away to Canada, leaving his mitre with a woman
whom he owed $200. In Canada he began to preach to the people,
promising them good positions if the Monarchy were restored in
Russia. He' was finally found out and suffered the same fate as ia
Chicago.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
The Two "Pillars" Testify
These two"pillars", Carlton, the semi-millionaire, and Archbishop
Pashkovsky, who took Platon'spart, testified that they had been in
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