As soon as I was free from each of them, and had left them there, carrying out that silent and ridiculous advance and retreat between them, I had to think both hard and fast.

I decided that the best thing for me to do would be to slip down to Rome, at once, and make my visit to the Embassy." "Yes, I found your note, telling me that." "When I saw that I was being followed at the station I bought a ticket for Busalla, as a blind, and went in one door of my compartment and then out the other.

My _wagon lit_ was standing on the next track.

I didn't change from the one train to the other until the train for Rome started to move.

Then I slipped out, and jumped for the moving platform, and was bundled into my right carriage by a guard, who thought I was trying to commit an Anna Karenina suicide--until I gave him ten francs.