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The man Chevitch stayed with the monk for over an hour, and then left to return to the capital. Later on I referred to the visit of the stranger, whereupon Rasputin laughed grimly, saying: "You will hear some news in a day or two, my dear Féodor. Petrograd will be startled." "How?" "Never mind," he replied. "Wait!"
I have some secret business with him. Here is the key of a small locked box in your room. Open it and take out ten one-thousand rouble notes and bring them to me after you have brought in Chevitch." This I did.
When a moment later I informed the Starets he smiled evilly, remarking: "Ah! Then that further ten thousand roubles is due to Nicholas Chevitch. If he calls when we return to Petrograd this afternoon, you must pay him, Féodor. He has done his work well. Russia will be crippled for munitions for some time to come." On our return to Petrograd we found the city in the greatest state of excitement.
Yet we had not been back at the Gorokhovaya an hour when the man Chevitch called, and at the monk's orders I handed him the balance of his blood-money. That same evening Hardt, the secret messenger from Berlin, arrived, having travelled by way of Abö, in Finland.
On the following day a middle-aged, fair-haired, rather well-dressed man, who gave the name of Nicholas Chevitch, from Okhta, a suburb of Petrograd, was brought to me by the monk who acted as janitor, and explained that he had private business with Rasputin. I left him and, ascending to the monk's room, found him extremely anxious to meet his visitor. "I will see him at once, Féodor.