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Embittered by his abject failure to create a schism on which he had fondly pinned his hopes; stung by the conspicuous success which the standard- bearers of the Covenant had, despite his machinations, achieved in the North American continent; encouraged by the existence of a regime that throve in an atmosphere of intrigue and suspicion, and which was presided over by a cunning and cruel potentate; determined to exploit to the full the opportunities for mischief afforded him by the arrival of Western pilgrims at the prison- fortress of Akka, as well as by the commencement of the construction of the Bab's sepulcher on Mt. Carmel, Mirza Muhammad- 'Ali, seconded by his brother, Mirza Badi'u'llah, and aided by his brother- in- law, Mirza Majdi'd- Din, succeeded through strenuous and persistent endeavors in exciting the suspicion of the Turkish government and its officials, and in inducing them to reimpose on Abdu'l- Baha the confinement from which, in the days of Baha'u'llah, He had so grievously suffered.
(263:3)
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