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’Threw it out of the ’

’Let’s hope thev don’t find it before you reach Moscow!

Wladek said nothing

’Do you have anywhere to stay in Moscow?’

He thought again of the doctor’s advice to trust nobody, g but he had to trust her

’I have nowhere to go’

’Then you can stay with me until you find somewhere to live My husband,’

she explained, ’is the station overnain, you will be taking the train back to Irkutsk’

Wladek sed ’Should I leave now?’

’No, not now that the ticket collector has seen you You will be safe withDo you have any identity papers?’

’No What are they?’

’Since the Revolution every Russian citizen must have identity papers to shoho he is, where he lives and where he works, otherwise he ends up in jail until he can produce them, and as he can never produce them once in jail, he stays there for ever,’ she added matter of factly ’You will have to stick by me once we reach Moscow, and be sure you don’t open yourvery kind to me,’ said Wladek suspiciously

’Now the Tsai is dead, none of us is safe I was lucky to be ht man,’ she added, ’but there is not a citizen in Russia, includin, - government officials, who does not live in constant fear of arrest and the camps What is your name?’