Directly you mentioned it to the commandant at Bercov, and described my appearance, he knew who it was you were speaking of, and despatched a messenger at once to me.

He will be here in the course of a week or so.

Upon your report of the state of the prison, I at once despatched an order for him to hand over his command to the officer next in rank, and to proceed hither at once.
He is evidently a good administrator, and heaven knows I have need of such men here.
"I was pleased with you, when I saw you with my friend Doctor Kelly.

It was pleasant not to be known, and hear a frank opinion such as you gave me, and as you know, I sent you back on the following morning.

I certainly told Kelly, at the time, not to mention who I was, but I did not intend that he should keep you in ignorance of it after I had left, and it was not until I heard, from your jailer at Bercov, that you were ignorant that Peter Michaeloff was the czar, that I knew that he had kept you in ignorance of it until the end.
"I should have liked to have kept you as my guest for a time, but winter comes on early and suddenly, and if you did not go now you might be detained here until the spring.