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Jack Archer

CHAPTER XV
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His features were ghastly pale and contracted with fear.

His conscience told him that his treachery had been discovered.

Alexis and the two servants were standing by, in the attitude of stolid indifference habitual to the Russian peasant.
"Demetri, you, Ivan, and Alexander will be the court to try this man whom I accuse of being a traitor, who has plotted against my life and liberty, who would have sent me to the gallows or Siberia, and seen my wife and children turned beggared and disgraced on the world.

You will form the court, and decide whether he is innocent or guilty.

If the latter, I will pass sentence.


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