. The Siberian exiles. A novel . unwilling to talk in the presenceof the driver of the tarantass and within hearing ofanyone who might be passing along the street. They followed him into the house and to the roomwhich served him as office and reception parlor. repeated his question ; the other hesitateda moment and then said he had painful news tocommunicate. Last evening, said he, an order was receivedfrom the Minister of the Interior for the immediateI deportation to Siberia of Carl Pavloff, surnamed Push-ikin. At midnight he was taken from the prison andjsent away. I knew nothin
. The Siberian exiles. A novel . unwilling to talk in the presenceof the driver of the tarantass and within hearing ofanyone who might be passing along the street. They followed him into the house and to the roomwhich served him as office and reception parlor. repeated his question ; the other hesitateda moment and then said he had painful news tocommunicate. Last evening, said he, an order was receivedfrom the Minister of the Interior for the immediateI deportation to Siberia of Carl Pavloff, surnamed Push-ikin. At midnight he was taken from the prison andjsent away. I knew nothing of the matter until earl3r 60 THE SIBERIAN EXILES. this morning, and thus far I have not been able to findby what road he has gone. 1 was just on my way tothe Chancellerie in the hope of learning something, Ihave already been there twice this morning, but noone who could tell me anything had then arrived, Sent to Siberia ! exclaimed Ivan, his face whitewith terror. How can I go back to mother and Nadiawith this dreadful news ?. CHAPTER VI. ON THE ROAD TO EXILE. Inquiry at the prison and at the Chancellerie availedbut little. All that could be learned was what theyalready knew, that I ushkin had been taken from theprison at midnight by order of the Minister of the In-terior and sent away. The prison-keeper did not evenknow if he had been sent to Siberia ; all he could saywas that a sergeant of police had brought an order forthe prisoners removal and had taken him away in atelyega (a common wagon) under escort of a order was entirely regular in form and in fifteenminutes after deliv^ering it the sergeant departed withhis prisoner. There are several ways out of Tambov, and nobodyknew by which one of the roads the prisoner had railway from Saratov on the banks of the Volga toKoslov and Moscow passes through Tambov, and Push-kin might have been taken in either direction, east orwest. Going to the west, he would in all probabilitybe sent to Moscow, w^hile if he
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