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92 OVERLAND TO INDIA
CHAP. IX
which fortunately did not amount to more than seventy roubles. " It is best to lock the compartment," he said, and vanished in the darkness, never to return.
I made myself as comfortable as I could on the seat, lay and read a while by a smoking tallow candle, and then slept peacefully on a bench with my revolver handy. Stealthy and uncertain steps were heard sometimes round and underneath the carriage, and once some one sneaked up on to the back platform. At midnight a couple of men got in with a lantern and proceeded to make themselves at i home as I had done ; they were passengers for Nakichevan. A proper night's rest was accordingly an impossibility, and with the first break of dawn I got up, stepped out and j walked along the platform to an open-air buffet, where I procured a glass of tea, with bread, zakuska, and grapes. I rather regretted that I had not travelled direct to Persia instead of skirting the outermost limits of the Caucasus, and passing through a corner of it inhabited by adventurers, I outcasts, and ruffians.
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