Was she not indeed his sister?
His feeling towards his beautiful and brave companion was rather respect than affection.

He felt that hers was one of those pure and rare hearts which are held by all in high esteem.
However, Michael's dangers were now beginning, since he had reached Siberian ground.

If the reporters were not mistaken, if Ivan Ogareff had really passed the frontier, all his actions must be made with extreme caution.

Things were now altered; Tartar spies swarmed in the Siberian provinces.

His incognito once discovered, his character as courier of the Czar known, there was an end of his journey, and probably of his life.