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"I'll see you damned first"

"Very well I'm sorry for you A few months in a comfortable prison,

with the best of food, books to read, paper and pens at your disposal,

permission to co as I see your letters before they are sent away, ought to be

preferable to ending your life in the mines of frozen Siberia; but the

choice is yours"

"It is"

"Then why don't you accept et all that you want out of me,

and then I will travel East any way"

"That is a chance that you will have to take" I arose and walked

across the rooive him an opportunity to think it over "You look

to me like one who has seen better days," I said, when I returned "You

evidently caood fa In all probability you joined the nihilists without

reallylater been selected for this work

here, on account of your ability, you were afraid to refuse it Suppose

that I should keep you imprisoned a year, or even that is that to

the fate that awaits you if you refuse to do as I ask, or to that which

you would have met, if you had refused to obey the men who commanded

you to come here? Answer me"