. 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 ukl be asked to leave the country. Unless thematter is very serious, the authorities do not like to meddle with foreign-ers in any way that will lead to a dispute with another government, andtheir quickest way out of the difficulty is to expel the obnoxious visitor. How^ would they go to Avork to expel us ? An officer would call at our lodgings and tell us our passports wereready for our departure. He would probably say that the train for t
. 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 ukl be asked to leave the country. Unless thematter is very serious, the authorities do not like to meddle with foreign-ers in any way that will lead to a dispute with another government, andtheir quickest way out of the difficulty is to expel the obnoxious visitor. How^ would they go to Avork to expel us ? An officer would call at our lodgings and tell us our passports wereready for our departure. He would probably say that the train for thefrontier leaves at 11 to-morrow, and he would expect us to go by thattrain. If the case was urgent, he would probably tell us yve must go bythat train, and he would be at the hotel at ten oclock to escort us to. would take us to the train and accompany us to the frontier, wherehe would gracefully say good-by, and wish us a pleasant journey to ourhomes. If matters were less serious, he would allow us two or three days,perhaps a w^eek, to close our affairs; all would depend upon his orders,and whatever they were they would be carried LODGINGS AT THE FRONTIER. Before the days of the railways objectionable parties were taken tothe frontier in carriages or sleighs, the Government paying the expense ofthe posting; and no matter what the hour of arrival at the boundary, theywere set down and left to take care of themselves. An Englishman whohad o-ot himself into trouble with the Government in the time of the Em- 92 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IX THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. peror Nicholas, tells how he was dropped just over the boundary in Piiis-sia in the middle of a dark and rainy night, and left standing in the roadwith his baggage, fully a mile from any house. The officer who accom-panied him was ordered to escort him over the frontiei, and did it his passenger was a trifle obstinate, or he would not have beenleft in such a plight. A little politeness, and possib
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