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As I ran, I saw an officer in uniform leap from the interior of the

droshka, and draw his sword in preparation for my attack, while his

yemschik, whip in hand, scrambled from the snow, and assumed a

place beside him They evidently supposed the attack to be of a very

different character than it really was The wounded horse was

struggling and kicking, and I found tiht injure Zara, whoht, or because of the shock; and so, heedless of my own necessities

in undertaking an assault upon the two men who now faced me, I fired a

third bullet into theto the attack,

I saw and recognized the iving that I had taken that route to the palace I

recognized Alexis Durnief

The report of his arrest had been false, or he had ed in so onward upon the

two ed to

entice Zara froe I had two

bullets reht so, and I raised

it, and pulled the trigger a fourth ti the ye it ie in others; and then, when barely ten feet away from the

scoundrelly captain, I leveled the weapon at hihed derisively, for he was not a coward,