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Updated: August 31, 2025
You speak as if it belonged to you, as if you could dispose of it." Rouletabille laid his hand on Koupriane's arm. "Perhaps that's so," said he. "Would you like me to tell you one thing, Monsieur Rouletabille? It is that General Trebassof's life, after what has just escaped the lips of this Touman, who is not Touman, isn't worth any more than than yours if you remain here.
"I'm sure there is someone who will miss me that brave woman there. Ask her which she prefers, all your police, or her dear little domovoi. We are good friends already. And don't forget to present my condolences to her when the terrible moment has come." It was Koupriane's turn to be troubled. He coughed and said: "You believe, then, that the general runs a great immediate danger?"
I wanted him to sleep in the house, or by his master's door, or even at the foot of the bed, but Koupriane said, 'No, no; no dog. Don't rely on the dog. Nothing is more dangerous than to rely on the dog. 'Since then he has kept Khor locked up at night. But I do not understand Koupriane's idea." "Monsieur Koupriane is right," said the reporter. "Dogs are useful only against strangers."
"Can you tell me," asked Rouletabille, ready now for the thunder-clap that his question invited, "the name of the inspector you ordered to bring them?" "Priemkof, a man with my entire confidence." Koupriane's carriage rushed toward the Isles. Late evening had come. Alone on the deserted route the horses seemed headed for the stars; the carriage behind seemed no drag upon them.
It was the visage common enough to the daughters whom Koupriane had spoken of a little while before, "the young girls who read" and, their reading done, set themselves to accomplish some terrible thing, some thing because of which, from time to time, they place stiff ropes around the necks of these young females. Finally, Koupriane's frenzy wore itself out and he made a sign.
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