d woman Katia, though it seems that wasn't her name. Then
through her I helped this fellow Ossinsky to escape. Then, trying to
shield her, I make matters twenty times worse; for while my answer
before led them to believe that she was a perfect stranger to me, I was
ass enough to let out just now that I knew her. Then there was that
supper. I could not make out at the time why they greeted me so
heartily. Now, of course, it is plain enough; and now, just after this
blowing-up business, here am I caught with four notorious conspirators,
and mixed up in a fight in which eight or ten policemen are killed, and
the roof blown off a house. That would be circumstantial evidence enough
to condemn a man in England, let alone Russia.

"I don't suppose they are going to hang me, because they publish the
names of the fellows they hang; but imprisonment for years in one of
their ghastly dungeons is bad enough. If it is to be, it will be
Siberia, I hope. There must be some way of getting out of a big country
like that--north, south, east, or west. Well, I don't see any use
bothering over it. I have got into a horrible scrape, there is no doubt
about that, and I must take what comes."

Godfrey was essentially of a hopeful nature, and always looked at the
bright side of things. He was a strong believer in the adage, "Where
there is a will, there is a way." He had been in his full share of
scrapes at school, and had always made a rule of taking things easily.
He now examined the cell.

"Beastly place!" he said, "and horribly damp. I wonder why dungeons are
always damp. Cellars at home are not damp, and a dungeon is nothing but
a cellar after all. Well, I shall take a nap."

The next day Godfrey was again taken before the tribunal, and again
closely questioned as to his knowledge of the Nihilists. He again
insisted that he knew nothing of them.

"Of course I knew Akim Soushiloff and Petroff Stepanoff; but I had only
been in their rooms once before, and the only person I met there before
was the young woman who called herself Katia, but who you say was
somebody else. This was at the lodgings they occupied before."

"But you were found with Alexander Kinkoff and Paul Kousmitch."

"They only arrived a short time before the police entered. I had never
seen either of them before."

These two prisoners had been examined before Godfrey entered, and had
been questioned about him. Kousmitch had declared that he had never seen
him before,