XIII The Escape 165

XIV Altered Plans 179

XV A Dash Through the Night 193

XVI Between the Grindstones 205

XVII An Old Enemy 217

XVIII The Great White Czar 229






In Russian Trenches


CHAPTER I

THE BORDER


A train had just come to a stop in the border station of Virballen. Half
of the platform of that station is in Russia; half of it in East
Prussia, the easternmost province of the German empire. All trains that
pass from one country to the other stop there. There are customs men,