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The Dark Forest

CHAPTER II
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I looked round for Trenchard.

He had already discovered Marie Ivanovna and was standing with her at the window.
I learned at breakfast the next morning that we were at once to move to a house outside the village.

The fantastic illusions that my drive of the evening before had bred in me now in the clear light of morning entirely deserted me.

Moreover fantasy had slender opportunity of encouragement in the presence of Molozov.
Molozov, I would wish to say once and for all, was the heart and soul of our enterprise.

Without him the whole organisation so admirably supported by the energetic ladies and gentlemen in Petrograd, would have tumbled instantly into a thousand pieces.


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