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"I am," Godfrey replied; "and you?" "Alexis Stumpoff." "So it is!" Godfrey exclaimed in surprise, and, delighted at this meeting, they shook hands cordially. "But what are you here for?" Godfrey asked. "I thought that you had obtained an appointment at Tobolsk." "Yes, I was sent out as assistant to the doctor of one of the prisons.
They cannot send them the rounds of a hundred convict establishments; so instead of a man being entered as Alexis Stumpoff, murderer, for instance, he is put down by the name he gives, and the word vagabond is added.
'Don't ask questions here, he said, 'those fellows handing round the meat may be government spies. I don't see, if they were, what interest they could have in the question why Alexis Stumpoff should go to Tobolsk. "However, I suppose they make a point of never touching on private affairs where any one can hear them, however innocent the matter may be.
They had work to occupy their time, and constantly changing associates, with the knowledge that by good conduct they would sooner or later be released and be allowed to live outside the prison. When at eight o'clock in the evening the prisoners were locked up in their huts, he endeavoured to learn everything that Alexis Stumpoff knew of Siberia.
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