No, I am sure your best way will be to go by land through Poland.

There are still large bodies of troops to the southwest, facing the Turks, and it would be better for you to keep north of these into Poland.

You can go as wounded soldiers on furlough returning home; and, being taken for Poles, your broken Russian will appear natural.

I will give you a letter which the countess has written to the intendant of her estates in Poland, and he will do everything in his power." "I would rather not carry a letter," Dick said, "for it would compromise you if we were taken.

It would be better, if I might suggest, for the countess to write to him direct, saying that when two persons arrive and give some pass-word, say, for instance, the names of your three daughters, we shall not forget them, he is to give us any help we may require." This was agreed upon, and the party chatted until the count said that it was time for them to dress.