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In the private room of Count Golitzine, the Czar's private secretary, sat two men -- the Count himself and Lord Ickfold, the British Ambassador. The apartment was in a secluded wing of the Winter Palace.
The Ambassador was reading aloud from the Baron's covering letter, which he held in his hands.