I'll give your note." He saw me to the gate with a lantern, to lock it after me.

"Of course he's mad," I decided.

In the gateway I met with another encounter.
IX I had only just lifted my leg over the high barrier across the bottom of the gateway, when suddenly a strong hand clutched at my chest.
"Who's this ?" roared a voice, "a friend or an enemy?
Own up!" "He's one of us; one of us!" Liputin's voice squealed near by.

"It's Mr.
G----v, a young man of classical education, in touch with the highest society." "I love him if he's in society, clas-si...

that means he's high-ly ed-u-cated.