Michael Strogoff

up t

tes to seven in the morning, the Caucasus reac

far from the landing-place, a large crowd was collected on the quay. They had come for news. The governor of the province had published an order identical with that of Nijni-Novgorod. Police officers and a few Cossacks kept order among the crowd, and c

vessel. The Caucasus would stay for an hour to renew her fuel. Michael did not even think of landing.

d, each keeping to his own peculiar mode of proceeding; Harry Blount, sketching different types, or noting some obs

s Michael Strogoff heard from the new arrivals. This information could not but cause him great uneasiness, and increase his wish of being beyond the Ural Mountains, so as to judge for himself of the t

them, and no doubt under their direction, landed about twenty dancers and singers, from fifteen to twenty years of age, wrapped in old cloaks, which covered their spangled dresses. These dresses, just then glancing in the first rays

day, crouched under the forecastle during the night. Were these gipsies trying to show th

up, and had been exchanged between the old gypsy and the woman to whom he gave the Mongolian name of Sa

hat, browned by the suns of every clime, was pulled forward over his wrinkled face. His arched back was bent under an old cloak, wrapped closely round him, notwithstanding the heat. It would have been difficult, i

y very attractive, and more than one of the great Russian nobles, who try to vie with the English in eccentricity, has not hesitat

brightly

en locks

coral

ful neck

bird of

e wide wor

en. It struck him just then that the Tsigane, Sangarre, was regarding him

. "That's a bold gypsy," said Michael to himself. "Could she have recognized me as the man whom she saw at Nijni-Novgor

s companions my incognito would run a risk of being discovered. Besides, now they have landed, before they can pass the frontier I shall be far beyond it. They may take the route from K

man and Sangarr

here and lead across the Ural Mountains. Michael Strogoff had very judiciously chosen the one by Perm and Ekaterenburg. It is

orter than the other, but this advantage is much diminished by the absence of post-houses, the bad roads, and lack of villages. Michael Strogoff was right in th

was now seven o'clock in the morning. The requisite fuel had been received on board. The whole vessel began to vibrate

Blount alone had rejoined the steamer. Was

off, the gangway had been drawn onto the quay, but Alcide Jolivet would not stick at such a little thing as

us was going without

at at my cousin's expense, or by traveling post at twenty copecks a verst, and on ho

egraph office?" asked Har

e been!" answered Jolivet,

till working

sure you, for instance, that it

dispatch to

enthus

learnt

ow, and I don't wish to keep anything from you. The Tartars, and Feofar-Khan at their hea

rom some inhabitant of Kasan, had already transmitted it to Paris. The English paper was distanced! Harry

bin, appeared on deck. Michael Strogoff went forward and took her ha

he Volga and the Kama. There she would leave the former river, after having descend

te sails enlivened the sparkling water. The horizon was closed by a

Livonian even for an instant. She had left her hand in that of her compa

versts," ans

of seven thousand!"

small would do. Michael thought it best to content himself with the fare which satisfied his companion; and in less than twenty minutes he and Na

edor. My mother died at Riga scarcely a month ago, and I am

and I shall thank Heaven if it enables me to give

brother," re

special podorojna for Siberia, and that the Russi

fortunate meeting with Michael a means onl

e new order annulled that; and but for you, brother, I should have been u

" said Michael, "attempt to c

n when I left Riga. It was only a

, you continued

as my

the character o

his connection with some secret society having been asserted, he received orders to start f

died in the arms of her daughter, who was thus left alone and almost penniless. Nadia Fedor then asked, and easily obtained from the Russian government, an authorization to join her father at Irkutsk. S