[Jack Archer by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookJack Archer CHAPTER XVI 10/28
"Of course Dick and I will be glad enough to avail ourselves of the chances of escape, for it would be foolish to insist upon waiting to be tried by a tribunal certain beforehand to condemn us.
Still, one doesn't like the thought of making one's escape, and so leaving it to be supposed that we were conscious of guilt." "Oh," the doctor said, "you need not trouble yourself upon that score. The governor was hated by every one, and no one really doubts that he attacked you first.
Upon the contrary, the population are inclined to look upon you as public benefactors.
There will then be no feeling against you here, but even if there were, it would make but little difference.
At present every one in Russia is talking and thinking of nothing but the death of the Czar, and of the changes which may be made by his son, and the details of a squabble in an obscure town will attract no attention whatever, and will not probably even obtain the honor of a paragraph in the Odessa papers.
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