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"None; unless it is to be allowed to fight at the side of your Highness," replied Ogareff. "So be it, Strogoff. I attach you from to-day to my person, and you shall be lodged in the palace." "And if according to his intention, Ivan Ogareff should present himself to your Highness under a false name?" "We will unmask him, thanks to you, who know him, and I will make him die under the knout. Go!"
But they turned away with disgust when Ivan Ogareff presented himself before the Emir, and waited with some impatience for the amusements to begin. "You see, my dear Blount," said Alcide, "we have come too soon, like honest citizens who like to get their money's worth. All this is before the curtain rises, it would have been better to arrive only for the ballet." "What ballet?" asked Blount.
He was included amongst the numerous prisoners whom the Tartars were dragging with them like cattle; but by approaching Tomsk he was at the same time drawing nearer to Irkutsk. Besides, he was still in front of Ivan Ogareff. "I will get there!" he repeated to himself. Since the affair of Kolyvan all the powers of his mind were concentrated on one object to become free!
"Do not speak so. That does not answer me. Michael, why, now, are you in such haste to reach Irkutsk?" "Because I must be there before Ivan Ogareff," exclaimed Michael. "Even now?" "Even now, and I will be there, too!" In uttering these words, Michael did not speak solely through hatred to the traitor. Nadia understood that her companion had not told, or could not tell, her all.
"Twenty thousand Russians, from the frontier provinces and the government of Tobolsk, engaged with a hundred and fifty thousand Tartars, and, notwithstanding their courage, were overwhelmed." "You lie!" exclaimed the Grand Duke, endeavoring in vain to curb his passion. "I speak the truth, your Highness," replied Ivan Ogareff coldly.
Some moments afterwards she found herself in the chief square in the presence of Ivan Ogareff, to whom all the details of this scene had been immediately reported. Ogareff, suspecting the truth, interrogated the old Siberian woman. "Thy name?" he asked in a rough voice. "Marfa Strogoff." "Thou hast a son?" "Yes." "He is a courier of the Czar?" "Yes." "Where is he?" "At Moscow."
His mother alone knew the truth, and he had whispered it to her in Tomsk itself, when bending over her in the dark he covered her with kisses. When Ogareff had in his cruel irony held the Imperial letter before the eyes which he believed were destroyed, Michael had been able to read, and had read the letter which disclosed the odious plans of the traitor.
In any case and now more than ever Michael Strogoff must avoid Ivan Ogareff, and contrive not to be seen. When the moment of encountering him face to face should arrive, he knew how to meet it, even should the traitor be master of the whole of Siberia. The mujik and Michael resumed their way and arrived at the posting-house.
Through the breaches in these reservoirs of enormous dimensions rushed the naphtha in torrents, and, following the inclination of the ground, it spread over the surface of the river, where its density allowed it to float. This was the way Ivan Ogareff carried on warfare! Allied with Tartars, he acted like a Tartar, and against his own countrymen!
Kept prisoner in the town, she shared the fate of all those captured by Ivan Ogareff, and consequently that of Marfa Strogoff. If Nadia had been less energetic, she would have succumbed to this double blow. The interruption to her journey, the death of Michael, made her both desperate and excited.
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