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MENTCHIKOF lost no time in executing the czar's order, and signaled to me to follow him as he left the _salon_. I made my way out as rapidly and quietly as I could, and reached the ante-room in time to find him transmitting the order to one of the guard.
"M. de Brousson will accompany you," he said to the officer as I entered; and then, calling me aside, he added: "Make what haste you can, the czar's mood may change. He yielded because of the peculiarity of his position, and Najine Zotof's appeal before so many touched his pride, but he may repent his order at any moment. Get the young man out of the country, and also the young woman."