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[Illustration: GODFREY IS CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIAN POLICE.]

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CONDEMNED AS A NIHILIST

A STORY OF
ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA

BY
G. A. HENTY

Author of "Beric the Briton" "In Freedom's Cause" "The Lion of the North"
"The Young Carthaginian" "Under Wellington's Command" &c.

_ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER PAGET_

LONDON

BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN

PREFACE.

There are few difficulties that cannot be surmounted by patience,
resolution, and pluck, and great as are the obstacles that nature and
the Russian government oppose to an es