The German lieutenant himself was going to send me to Berlin, but then the news came that war had been declared, and he advised me to walk.

I was held up at the first village I came to, and I got as far as this.

You saw what happened here in this little village." "That is very, very strange," said Boris, vastly puzzled.

"Do you know what charge was made against you ?" "No! Some tommyrot about a conspiracy against the Czar.

But just what it was I was never told.