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Updated: May 5, 2025
He had gone to the datcha and been told there that the general, accompanied by his friends and the young Frenchman, had gone for a turn along the gulf. Koupriane had left his carriage at the datcha, and taken the shortest route after them. He was a fine man, large, solid, clear-eyed. His uniform showed his fine build to advantage. He was generally liked in St.
Because he had come to Russia and mixed in affairs that did not concern his nationality, and had done this in spite of warning to remain in France. Because he had not kept the promises of neutrality he freely made to a representative of the Central Revolutionary Committee. For trying to penetrate the mystery of the Trebassof datcha. For having Comrade Matiew whipped and imprisoned by Koupriane.
The Emperor appointed a provisional governor, and now that the general was better we decided on a convalescence for him in the midi of France. We took train for St. Petersburg, but the journey started high fever in my husband and reopened the wound in his calf. The doctors ordered absolute rest and so we settled here in the datcha des Iles.
I had looked forward to my arrival, for I had a Russian friend there, living for the summer in her own datcha, and I had received a very warm invitation to stay there some days. The welcome was no less warm than the invitation. I arrived one evening all covered with dust, my face a great flush of red from the sun, my limbs agreeably tired.
Well, neither Litchkof nor he had been summoned. They didn't know anything had happened at the datcha. They had not seen my inspector. I hope he has met some other doctor on the way and, in view of the urgency, has taken him to the datcha." "That is what has happened," replied Rouletabille, who had turned very pale.
Ah, Rouletabille cursed his curiosity, for he saw it now it was the desire to approach the mystery revealed by Koupriane and to penetrate once more, through all the besetting dangers, an astounding and perhaps monstrous enigma, that had brought him to the threshold of the datcha des Iles, which had placed him in the trembling hands of Matrena Petrovna in promising her his help.
Oh, nothing and nobody could have prevented my making that experiment before I died, to prove to myself that Rouletabille had all along been right. I had studied the grounds around the datcha enough to be perfectly exact about the distances.
Then they separated each to watch one of the staircases, reasoning that Koupriane and General Trebassof would have to decide to descend. The datcha des Iles was nothing now but a smoking ruin.
And you have boasted of the feat, monsieur, so that we can only consider you responsible for the attempts that followed. "Without you, Natacha would not have attempted to poison her father. Without you, they would not have sent to find physicians who could blow up the datcha des Iles.
Yes, that last evening, Michael Nikolaievitch, when he entered the datcha, had the signature in his pocket, but also he carried the weapon or the poison with which he already had attempted and was resolved to reach the father of her whom he believed was assuredly to be his wife."
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