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CHAPTER I - GAYETY AND DYNAMITE
_ "BARINIA, the young stranger has arrived."
"Where is he?"
"Oh, he is waiting at the lodge."
"I told you to show him to Natacha‘s sitting-room. Didn‘t you
understand me, Ermolai?"
"Pardon, Barinia, but the young stranger, when I asked to search
him, as you directed, flatly refused to let me."
"Did you explain to him that everybody is searched before being
allowed to enter, that it is the order, and that even my mother
herself has submitted to it?"
"I told him all that, Barinia; and I told him about madame your
mother."
"What did he say to that?"
"That he was not madame your mother. He acted angry."
"Well, let him come in without being searched."
"The Chief of Police won‘t like it."
"Do as I say."
Ermolai bowed and returned to the garden. The "barinia" left the
veranda, where she had come for this conversation with the old
servant of General Trebassof, her husband, and returned to the
dining-room in the datcha des Iles, wher
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