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If Russia ever takes the risk of arresting a foreigner, it is to the Trogzmondoff he is sent. They drown the victims there; drown them in their cells. There is a spring in the rock, and through the line of cells it runs like a beautiful rivulet, but the pulling of a lever outside stops the exit of the water, and drowns every prisoner within.
"Perhaps then," said the Governor, relapsing into Russian again, "you can tell me what is wrong with our dynamo here in the Rock. After repeated requisition they sent machinery for lighting our offices and passages with electricity. They apparently did not care to send an electrician to the Trogzmondoff, but forwarded instead some books of instruction.
You cannot imagine the long agony of this voyage, and not knowing what had happened." "It's a blessing, Dorothy, you had learned nothing about the Trogzmondoff." "Ah, but I did: that's what frightened me. We have a man on board who was flung for dead from that dreadful rock. The Baltic saved him; his mother, he calls it."
I never saw the western side by daylight. I noticed nothing on the eastern side as I was climbing the steps, to show that any cannon was on the Trogzmondoff at all." "I suppose you had no opportunity of finding out how many men garrison the rock?" "No, Madam. I don't think the garrison is large. The place is so secure that it doesn't need many men to guard it.
Bribery may do much in other parts of the Empire, but it is powerless in the Trogzmondoff. I shall die in the room adjoining this, as my predecessor died. I am quite as much a prisoner in the Trogzmondoff as is your Highness. No man who has once set foot in this room, either as Governor, employee, or prisoner, is allowed to see the mainland again, and thus the secret has been well kept.
"The appeal you have written here," replied the Governor, "would have proved useless, even if it had been delivered. The Czar knows nothing of the Trogzmondoff, which is a stronghold entirely under the control of the Grand Dukes and of the Navy. The Trogzmondoff never gives up a prisoner." "Then I am here for a lifetime?"
There are no marks of bullet or strangulation, and the currents bear them swiftly away from the rock." "How come you to know all this which seems to have been concealed from the rest of the world?" "I know it, Madam, for the best of reasons. I was sentenced this very year to Trogzmondoff.
Now," continued Jack, as his friend stood opposite him, and they found by experiment that their combined reach was not long enough to enable them to shake hands through the bars, "now, while you are luxuriating in the menu of the Trogzmondoff, I'll give you a sketch of my plan for escape." "Do," said Drummond.
I was sent, without trial, to the Trogzmondoff in April of this year. Arriving there I was foolish enough to threaten, and say my comrades had means of letting the United States Government know, and that a battleship would teach the gaolers of the rock better manners. "The cells hewn in the rock are completely dark, so I lost all count of time.
In Siberia there is a chance: in the dreadful Trogzmondoff there is none." "What is the Trogzmondoff?" "A bleak 'Rock in the Baltic, Madam, the prison in which death is the only goal that releases the victim." Dorothy rose trembling, staring at him, her lips white. "'A Rock in the Baltic! Is that a prison, and not a fortress, then?" "It is both prison and fortress, Madam.
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