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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1894
Page
4
In a Siberian escape sequence, the narrator and Gordon depart St Petersburg for Orkutsk under guard. They share a hopeful, defiant mood as Cossacks trail, the minister threatened with exposure, and the journey proceeds through icy roads and a bright night sky.
In the prison journey we are separated by carriages. at the minister of police we face questioning about Taras and George Gordon. I deny aiding Taras, insisting the captured man is Gordon and confess attempts to save Taras. The minister records my statements and prepares action.
The narrator describes overtaking a marching train of miserable convicts with clanking chains as darkness fell, then arriving at the etape about an hour later. The excerpt centers on a perilous escape moment and the tense, bleak mood of pursuit and confinement.
In harsh confinement a fire bursts through a kamera at a remote convict camp. The narrator and Gordon brave smoke and guards to reach freedom as flames consume the storehouse, while a hostile warder curse the czar’s prisons and a plan to slip into the forest forms.
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