[Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne]@TWC D-Link bookMichael Strogoff CHAPTER VIII GOING UP THE KAMA 14/14
The police who brought the order conducted him without delay beyond the frontier. Wassili Fedor had but time to embrace his sick wife and his daughter, so soon to be left alone, when, shedding bitter tears, he was led away.
A year and a half after her husband's departure, Madame Fedor died in the arms of her daughter, who was thus left alone and almost penniless. Nadia Fedor then asked, and easily obtained from the Russian government, an authorization to join her father at Irkutsk.
She wrote and told him she was starting.
She had barely enough money for this long journey, and yet she did not hesitate to undertake it.
She would do what she could. God would do the rest..
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