This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...that they took up a collection for the purpose of providing him with transportation from Vancouver to the city of Washington. To this collection every soul on board contributed, from the captain down to the steward, the cook, and the boy who cleaned the ship's lamps.14 When he left the steamer, he had money ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...that they took up a collection for the purpose of providing him with transportation from Vancouver to the city of Washington. To this collection every soul on board contributed, from the captain down to the steward, the cook, and the boy who cleaned the ship's lamps.14 When he left the steamer, he had money enough for a first class railway ticket to Washington and sixty Mexican silver dollars for incidental expenses. My first knowledge of Volkhovsky's escape came to me in a letter addressed in his familiar handwriting and post-marked "Vancouver." Wondering how an exile in eastern Siberia could possibly have mailed a letter--or had it mailed--in British Columbia, I tore open the envelope and read the first three lines. They were as follows: "Mr Dear Gboegb Ivanovttch: At last I am free! I am writing this letter to you not from that land of exile, Siberia, but from free America." If I had suddenly received a letter post-marked "Zanzibar," from a friend whom I believed to be dead and buried in Alaska, I could hardly have " The steward became so much attached to Volkhovsky, in the course of the voyage, that long afterward, in Montreal, he came to call upon me for the purpose of making inquiries about him.--G. K. been more astonished. Volkhovsky free and in British Columbia, within a few days' journey of New York! It seemed utterly incredible. At the time when this letter reached me, I was lecturing six nights a week in New York and New England; but I telegraphed and wrote Volkhov-sky that I would meet him at the Delevan House in Albany on the morning of Sunday, December 8th. I spoke Saturday night in Utica, took the night express for Albany, and reached the Delevan House about two o'clock. Volkhovsky had not yet arrived, and as it was uncertain when...
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