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 as "guard" bored me to death. Father Slunin promised to help me, but said that while I was to go on with my former errands, I was also to be given a few others for variety's sake. And indeed, Father Slunin told me soon afterwards that my place would be for the time being taken by Archpresbyter Popov and that I was to accompany Father Slunin to an inquest.



The next day Father Slunin and I left for Wilkes-Barre, Pa. There we were met by Yakov Piatetsky, whose affidavit both in English and in Russian, reads as follows:

"March 4, 1922. "Jeanette, Pa.

"In the middle of March, 1914, while I resided in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a certain person came to my residence and—in the presence of John Feoktistoff Dudikoff—introduced himself as a Russian Consul Rutzky, requesting me to serve as plain companion on his official trip to Jermyn, Pa.

"Leaving Wilkes-Barre for New York City—he asked