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THE FATHER OF TERRORISM 23
The police finally closed his establishments, because
Nechayeff had placarded them with revolutionary appeals.
Iwanof, quite unhappy at this ending of his usefulness,
begged Nechayeff to permit him to retire from
the secret society. Nechayeff was, however, in fear that
Iwanof might betray the secrets of the society, and he
went one night with two fellow conspirators and shot
Iwanof and threw the corpse into a pond. The police, in
following up the murder, sought out Nechayeff, who had
already fled from Russia and was hurrying back to Bakounin
in Switzerland.
From January until July, 1870, he was constantly with
Bakounin, but quarrels began to arise between them in
June, and Bakounin writes in a letter to Ogaref "Our
:
boy (Nechayeff) is very stubborn, and I, when once I
make a decision, am not accustomed to change it. Therefore,
the break with him, on my side at least seems inevitable."
(30) In the middle of July
it was discovered
that Nechayeff was once more carrying out the
ethics they had jointly evolved, and, in order to make
Bakounin his slave, had recourse to all sorts of "Jesuitical
maneuvers, of lies and of thefts." Suddenly he disappeared
from Geneva, and Bakounin and other Russians
discovered that they had been robbed of all their
papers and confidential letters. Soon it was learned that
Nechayeff had presented himself to Talandier in London,
and Bakounin hastened to write to his friend an explanation
of their relations. "It may appear strange to you
that we advise you to
repulse a man to whom we gave
letters of recommendation, written in the most cordial
terms. But these letters date from the month of May,
and there have happened since some events so serious
have forced us to break all connections with
that they
Nechayeff." . . . "It is perfectly true that Nechayeff