Kostanzhogol. Moreover, Lyenitzuin decided to pay Khlobuyoff an annuity of twenty thousand roubles, with reversion, after his death, to his wife, and, in default of him and his wife, to their eldest child.

But let us return to our hero, and let us see what thoughts occupy his mind after his rescue from a most perilous situation, by precisely the very matters which seemed destined to precipitate his ruin; that is to say, by the deluge of accusations brought against him, by the unexampled complications which had arisen, and by his arbitrary imprisonment, which at first seemed merely a preliminary to Siberia or the scaffold.