Let me stay!" "I should like to stay, too," said Fred.
"Impossible!" said General Suvaroff at once to that.

"You would be shot as soon as you were caught--you are under sentence now.

They would not treat you as a prisoner of war, even if they caught you among my troopers." "But if they did not catch me--" "No! I cannot let you take so great a risk.

You are of my kin, and I owe a duty to your mother.

I shall see that you get back safely to Russia and are sent home by sea from there." "But if I go into Russia, I shall be arrested--those are Prince Mikail's orders," said Fred, quietly.