The Boy Scouts In Russia

ars. He and my father do not agree. Mikail is on the side of the men about the Czar who want no changes, who want

"Mikail is like the Russians one reads about, dark and mysteriou

ssia has been apart from the rest of the world because she's so big and independent. That's why there are two parties, the conservatives and the liberals. My father is all for the Czar, but he wants the Czar to govern through the men

he night it began," said Fred. "I supp

ty years ago. The Turks were murdering Slavs in the Balkans, and all our people called on the Czar to f

ose there's enough of the Slav in me, from

Tell me about that. Why did he behave

ll. But she has taught me to love Russia, too. And she has always told me that there were estates in Russia that belonged to her, and would belong to me. She and my father were angry and hurt because of the way her fam

Russia have not had the advantages of the poor in other countries. They are like children still. My father is a father to all the people on our

hen, though he was kind enough when I first saw him, and promised to help me, I was arrested. All my papers were taken away, and all my money. And he brought me to Virballen, after I had been kept in a sort of prison for three or four weeks. There I was taken off the train for Berlin and put across the

Boris, vastly puzzled. "Do you know

st the Czar. But just what it was I was nev

for himself. He is a very rich man-by far the richest of the family, though none of the S

"That was what I was thinking of, too. There was no trouble, you see, u

h the arrangements. Your mother is well off

onaire, but he always had plent

I thought that he was trying to keep her inheritance from her to show his dislike. But it cannot be tha

is he,

to look serious. I stayed here with my tutor but he is gone now. He is a German, and has been called out. It is fortunate that my father had gone, because the Germans would have held

such a fashion? I was beginning to think

n they do us, I think. They have thought that the English should be on their side. When th

ut you-what br

s sure to be someone on my own side that they were treating so-the cowards! But a mob is always cowardly. And, of course, I knew that I

ut you certainly saved me from an awfully nasty s

all the better to find out it was you, Fred.

right here,

ns and the German army is pushed back of this line, these people will be entirely out of control, except

y might attac

going against them. They're good enough people, as a rule,

, you're right, of course. What do

ween us and the Russian border there are a lot of German troops. And, even if you went back now toward Koenigsberg and Berlin, I'm afraid you'd have a hard time. You see, you haven't

at he could remember

. "I'm afraid they'll be looking for you. It

hing in what happened there t

when they're looking for nihilists and violent revolutionaries-the sort of people who would think it a great thing to assassinate either the Kaiser or the Czar. But the trouble is

he Ger

obably. Right there on the border, with war starting, those fellows lost their importance. The soldiers, like Ernst, were in full command. But they'll be as busy and as active as ever a little way behind

I go back to Russia, my uncle will probably have me boiled in oil or something! If I stay here, y

, but his eye

w that the war has come, he won't have time for intrigue. He's a first-class soldier. He made a splendid record in the war with Japan-and not many of our generals did, you know. But

u going to hear

. Tell me, Fred. If it is safe for you to go back into Russia, will you stand by me? Or would you rather take your chance of g

water-you know the old saying. And I am half a Russian. If there's any way that I can help, you can co

r Europe now, you know. Wel

nt had

oris Petrovitch," he said, using the