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For a time life went smoothly enough. I was out and about all day with the Pavloffs, superintending the trial of the new farming machines and the distribution of the implements.
To bring news as you gather it, the Pavloffs will help you there, and to accompany me when I choose to elude my jailers for a few hours; perhaps to go in my stead, if it should be impossible for me to get away. I know what you can do when it comes to a fight! Well, this is the 'sport' I offered you! Do you care to go in for it? If not " "You know I care!"
I looked and saw a ruddy glow in the sky to northward, a flickering glow, now paling, now flashing up vividly and showing luminous clouds of smoke, the glow of a great fire. "That is over Zizscky; it was to-night then, and we are too late!" We checked instinctively, and the Pavloffs ranged alongside. We four, being better mounted, were well ahead, and the others came straggling in our rear.
When we regained the road on the further side, two mounted men awaited us, who, after exchanging a few low-spoken words with the Pavloffs, fell in behind us; and later another, and yet another, joined us in the same way.
I had it made years ago by foreign workmen, and none save myself and the Pavloffs and you now know of its existence, so far. In public we must be strangers; after the formal audience I give you to-night I shall probably ignore you altogether. But as Gould, the American farming expert, you will be able to come and go, riding the estates with Pavloff or without him and yet rouse no suspicion.
Here again all was dark and quiet, and we rode round instead of through the place, Loris and I, with the Pavloffs, halting at a little distance, near a small farmhouse which I remembered as that of the starosta, while our four recruits kept on. Mishka rode up and kicked at the outer gate.
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