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"Well, sir, you have done us a good turn, and if you are going farther we may possibly meet again, and " Alcide Jolivet did not put any direct question to Michael as to where he was going, but the latter, not wishing it to be suspected that he had anything to conceal, at once replied, "I am bound for Omsk, gentlemen." "Mr.
Neither of them had seen each other that day at the Moscow station, and they were each ignorant that the other had set out to visit the scene of the war. Harry Blount, speaking little, but listening much, had not inspired his companions with the suspicions which Alcide Jolivet had aroused.
The Frenchman and the Englishman, descending from their seats, no longer the hinder one, since the front had taken its departure, followed Michael. Walking along, Alcide Jolivet chattered away as usual, with his invariable good-humor. "Faith, Mr. Korpanoff," said he, "you have indeed got us out of a bad scrape." "I have only done, sir," replied Michael, "what anyone would have done in my place."
"And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten." "Bravo, Mr. Blount!" "Very good, M. Jolivet." "I will try and match that!" "It will be difficult." "I can try, however." So saying, the French correspondent familiarly saluted the Englishman, who bowed stiffly.
Monsieur Jolivet, who was deeply interested in the Bostonnais and the proud young Iroquois, talked freely. Under his light and chattering manner lay great powers of perception, and he saw that he had guests of quality, each in his own way. The hunter even was not an ordinary hunter, but, as Monsieur Jolivet judged, a man of uncommon intellectual power, and also of education.
No one spoke of the past, except when Jolivet thought it his duty to say to Michael, "We owe you some apology for not shaking hands with you when we separated at Ichim." "No, you had reason to think me a coward!" "At any rate," added the Frenchman, "you knouted the face of that villain finely, and he will carry the mark of it for a long time!" "No, not a long time!" replied Michael quietly.
Such, it was to be feared, would be the case. But it was not so. The event so much wished for by Jolivet and Blount, so much dreaded by Michael, occurred on the morning of the 12th of August. On that day the trumpets sounded, the drums beat, the cannon roared. A huge cloud of dust swept along the road from Kolyvan.
It may be imagined what were the apprehensions of Jolivet and Blount, when they thought of the combustible liquid on which the raft floated. Sparks flew in millions from the houses, which resembled so many glowing furnaces. They rose among the volumes of smoke to a height of five or six hundred feet.
"Follow me, my Bostonnais," he said lightly. "I have the great room with three beds for you, and I trust that you have enjoyed the dinner." "We have enjoyed it greatly, all of it, Monsieur Jolivet, and especially the dessert," replied Robert with meaning. "Ah, the pastry," said Monsieur Jolivet, clasping his hands. "It is Marie who made it.
The steamer was already sheering off, the gangway had been drawn onto the quay, but Alcide Jolivet would not stick at such a little thing as that, so, with a bound like a harlequin, he alighted on the deck of the Caucasus almost in his rival's arms. "I thought the Caucasus was going without you," said the latter.
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