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Paul made no answer; for he had passed on into the smaller room, where Steinmetz was seated at a writing-table. "Except, of course, Herr Steinmetz?" Etta went on interrogatively. "Madame," said the German, looking up with his pleasant smile, "I know every thing." And he went on writing. The table d'hôte of the Hôtel de Moscou at Tver had just begun.
It seems that the good God has still a little work for Stépan Lanovitch to do. I got away quite easily, in the usual way, through a paid Evasion Agency. I have been forwarded from pillar to post like a prize fowl, and reached Petersburg last night. I have not long to stay. I am going south. I may be able to do some good yet. I hear that Paul is working wonders in Tver."
"Look here," he continued, "the dirt rubs off and leaves the hand quite a gentlemanly color. This" he paused and lifted Steinmetz's handkerchief, dropping it again hurriedly over the mutilated face "this thing was once a gentleman." "It certainly has seen better days," admitted Steinmetz, with a grim humor which was sometimes his. "Come, let us drag him beneath that pine-tree and ride on to Tver.
The Volga is a fine example of this, all the way from Tver to Astrachan, and the same feature is observable in most of the Siberian streams that reach the Arctic Ocean. Various conjectures account for it, but none are satisfactory to scientific men. Steamboats have ascended to Omsk, but there is not sufficient traffic to make regular navigation profitable.
At the same time he sent an army of fifty-thousand Tartars to coöperate with the Russian army, which Jean Danielovitch was commanded to put in motion for the invasion of the principality of Tver. It was in vain to think of resistance, and Alexander fled. The invading army, with awful devastation, ravaged the principality. Multitudes were slain. Others were dragged into captivity.
Of course there is a God in heaven. How can people doubt it eh?" "Yes," said Stépan Lanovitch quietly. "There is a God in heaven, and at present he is angry with Russia. Yes, I have details. Sydney Bamborough came to stay at Thors. Of course he knew all about the Charity League you remember that. It appears that his wife was waiting for him and the papers at Tver.
"A body was found on the steppe," he said; "the body of a middle-aged man dressed as a small commercial traveller would dress. He had a little money in his pocket, but nothing to identify him. He was buried here in Tver by the police, who received their information by an anonymous post-card posted in Tver. The person who had found the body did not want to be implicated in any enquiry.
It was on the strength of this report that the Zemstvo of Tver petitioned him that in the future it might have direct access to him and have a say in the government. Here was a great opportunity but he turned it against himself.
He delivered many of the longer words with a certain unctuous roll of the tongue, and an emphasis indicating the fact that he did not know their meaning. "From afar," he went on, "we have long been watching you. We have noted your difficulties and your hardships, your sickness, your starvation. 'These men of Tver, we have said, 'are brave and true and steadfast.
A police officer, who has since been transferred to Odessa, was of the opinion that the dead man was a foreigner. There are about twelve thousand foreigners in Tver operatives in the manufactories.
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