"To my own knowledge five hundred innocent persons have gone to prison, and another two hundred have been exiled to Siberia.

Yet what I have done is only at direct orders from Helsingfors--orders that are stern, pitiless and unjust.

Men have been torn from their families and sent to the mines, women have been arrested for no offense and shipped off to Saghalien, and mere children have been cast into prison on charges of political conspiracy with their elders--in order to Russify the province! Only," he added anxiously, "I trust you will never repeat what I tell you.

You have asked me why I assisted the English Mademoiselle to escape from Kajana, and I have explained the reason." We ate a hearty meal in company at the _Sampalinna_, a restaurant built like a Swiss chalet, and at noon I entered the train on the first stage of my slow, tedious journey through the great silent forests and along the shores of the lakes of Southern Finland, by way of Tavestehus and Viborg, to Petersburg.
I was alone in the compartment, and sat moodily watching the panorama of wood and river as we slowly wound up the tortuous ascents and descended the steep gradients.

I had not even a newspaper with which to while away the time, only my own apprehensive thoughts of whither my helpless love was being conducted.
Surely to no man was there ever presented such a complicated problem as that which I was now trying so vigorously to solve.