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Updated: June 5, 2025
"There is something very peculiar about the whole situation around here! If von Hindenburg is here, it means that their chief concentration on this front must be here. And yet we get reports of an astonishingly small number of troops! Not more than two corps." Boris looked eagerly at his father, and then at Fred. But before he could speak General Suvaroff went on, crisply.
When he came again to his lodgings he was surprised to find a knot of curious people on the opposite side of the street, and another before the entrance. He went up the stairs. His landlady came to meet him. "Mr. Suvaroff," she began at once, "have you not heard what has happened? The man in the next room to you was found this morning dead!" He did not pretend to be surprised.
Partly at least as a consequence of that battle, the so-called Second Coalition had been formed by Great Britain, Russia, and Austria, the armies of the two latter powers, as already stated, carrying the war again to the French frontiers. Paul I of Russia had already fallen out with his allies and withdrawn his armies and his great general, Suvaroff, a year before.
He sat for hours, staring at the wall. The figures came and went, but they ceased to have any form or meaning. He merely sat and drank, and stared.... All at once a strange shadow appeared. A shadow? No; a phantom a dreadful thing! Suvaroff leaned forward. His breath came quickly, his body trembled in the grip of a convulsion, his hands were clenched.
"Nevertheless," said Suvaroff, "I shall tell " The hunchback waved him to silence. "Do whatever you wish, my friend, but remember, if you do tell me this thing, you and I will be forever bound by a tie that it will be impossible to break. With me it does not matter, but you are a young man, and all your life you will drag a secret about like a dead thing chained to your wrist.
He lay there without moving until morning.... Toward six o'clock he rose. He went over to the table and deliberately put the pistol to his temple. The coldness of the muzzle sent a tremor through him.... He put down the weapon in disgust. Suvaroff stayed away from the wine-shop for two nights, but finally the memory of its fascinating shadows lured him back.
Strange stories floated across the Pacific concerning the little islet east of the Suvaroff Group, and out of the reticule of the mind I attempted to drag these stories and piece them together during the minutes that passed after Newmarch had given me the information. They were not pleasant stories as I remembered them at that moment. The island had a "past."
"It is your Cossacks who saved me from the Germans," said Fred. "I have been a spy but it has been in the interest of Russia. General Alexander Suvaroff and his son can tell you that." "Perhaps," said Mikail, his eyes and mouth fixed, so that no one could have guessed what was in his mind.
But those young generals of the Republic and the Empire were sometimes found unequal to the work of contending against the old generals of the Coalitionists. Suvaroff was in his seventieth year when he defeated Macdonald at the Battle of the Trebbia, the Frenchman being but thirty-four; and a few months later he defeated Joubert, who was thirty, at Novi.
"Of course he ran away!" he said. "I only wonder how he knew we were coming! That was bad luck because not once did we strike so much as a German patrol as we rode." "I can tell you," said Fred. "An aeroplane brought word. Its pilot must have seen you as he flew overhead, and suspected that you were coming here." "So!" Suvaroff frowned. "I did not think of that!
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