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"Come! let us return to the ball room," said Drentell, taking the priest by the arm. "Your excellency must pardon me," answered Mikail, "My clothes are travel-stained, and I am neither in a condition nor in the humor to enjoy the festivities." "But Loris is here," continued the Governor. Mikail suppressed a grimace of displeasure. "There is no haste.
"If any of those fellows intend to do any harm to Mikail they will probably do it by ten or eleven, there will be no motive in putting it off longer; and indeed the ward is quieter then than it is later, for some of them when they wake light a pipe and have a smoke, and many do so early in the morning so as to have their smoke before going to work."
And Mikail crossed himself devoutly. The Governor and his counsellors looked at each other, significantly. The priest continued: "The Jews have entered every branch of trade and, worse still, have acquired lands. This is clearly against the laws of the Empire which forbid a Hebrew's owning land. They have crowded into our cities to the exclusion of our own people.
Fred was alone with his uncle. "You are brave, at least," said Mikail, presently. "That will, perhaps, be a comfort to you later. Yet you were not well advised to serve the Germans as a spy. They have not been able to save you from me this time, you see. It is not a case this time of the station at Virballen, with the superiority of numbers on their side for the moment."
A young officer was assigned to defend him, but he took the task as a joke. "You'll be condemned, of course," he said. "Prince Mikail knows you are a spy. I think you're very lucky that he didn't hang you outside of his own headquarters! Better plead guilty. It will save time for everyone." But Fred refused.
He is sure to get it then, his conduct has been always good, and no doubt this affair will count in his favour. His wife came out two years after he was sent here. She keeps herself by spinning and helping at a farm. It has been a good thing for Mikail, for it has kept him straight. If it had not been for that he would have taken to the woods long ago."
The rope and the hooks will need time to get." It was, indeed, the fourth evening before Mikail told Godfrey that he had got everything except the knives. "I will manage to get these in the morning," he said, "when I go into the kitchen and see about breakfast. If I were you, I would put on those two spare shirts over the one you wear, and take your three spare pairs of stockings.
I would not rob you; you will want every kopeck you have. The money would be a curse to me." "I have five hundred still left, Mikail, which will be ample for me. You will grieve me if you refuse to take it.
Kobylin the bandit muttered and scowled whenever the starosta came near him, and there could be little doubt that had he met him outside the prison walls he would have shown him no mercy. Koshkin on the other hand appeared to cherish no enmity. "I have done wrong, Mikail," he said half an hour after he had had his flogging, "and I have been punished for it. It was not your fault; it was mine.
"This way," Mikail called, "there has been attempted murder, I believe." The guards came up with the lanterns. "What has happened to him?" one of them said, bending over the man who was lying insensible on the ground. "He is short of wind," Mikail said, "that is all that ails him; I had to choke him off." "But what is it all about?" "I don't know myself," Mikail said.
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