. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ERRANEAN LAKE. TTERE are the passports at last. J-J- Are you sure they are quite inorder for our journey? Yes, entirely so, was the reply; theSecretary of Legation examined them care-fully, and said we should have no trouble atthe frontier. AVell, then, a cheery voice responded, we have nothing more to do until the depart-ure of the train. Five minutes will completethe packing of our baggage, and the hotel billis all settled. I am going for


. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ERRANEAN LAKE. TTERE are the passports at last. J-J- Are you sure they are quite inorder for our journey? Yes, entirely so, was the reply; theSecretary of Legation examined them care-fully, and said we should have no trouble atthe frontier. AVell, then, a cheery voice responded, we have nothing more to do until the depart-ure of the train. Five minutes will completethe packing of our baggage, and the hotel billis all settled. I am going for a walk throughthe Graben, and will be back in an saying, our old acquaintance. Doctor Bronson, left his room in theGrand Hotel in Vienna and disa23peared down the stairway. He wasfollowed, a few minutes later, by his nephew, Fred Bronson, who hadjust returned from a promenade, during which he had visited the Ameri-can Legation to obtain the passports which were the subject of the dia-logue just recorded. At the door of the hotel he was joined by his cousin, Frank latter proposed a farewell visit to the Church of St. Stephen, and. FRED S REMINDER. 16 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. also a short stroll in the Graben,where he wished to make a tri-fling purchase. Fred assented,and they started at once. They had not gone far beforeFred perceived at a window theface of a girl busily engaged inwriting. He paused a moment,and then suggested to Frank thathe wished to return to the hotelin time to write a letter to hissister before the closing of themail. I really believe, said he,that I should have neglectedMary this week if I had not beenreminded by that girl in the win-dow and her occupation. Frank laughed as he rejoinedthat he had never yet known hiscousin to forget his duty, and it


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