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326 were called off and the new convoys made out. The convoy for the trans-Baikal was first made up, and when Ivanoff's name was read the burglar stepped forward and answered the question as to Ins sentence. The officers who had accompanied them from Krasnoyarsk were not present, and so there was no great danger of the fraud heing discovered; the convoy was made up, the new officers moved off, and that was the last my friend saw of his hired substitute.

"Ivanoff (under his new name of Petrovitch) was sent to live in a village about twenty miles from Irkutsk, and required to report twice a

week to the police. He found employment with a peasant farmer and managed to communicate with a friend in much difficulty. The peasant used to send him to market with the produce of the farm, as he found that Ivanoff could obtain better prices than himself; the fact was he generally sold to his friend who purposely overpaid him, and if he did not find his fnend he added a h tie to the amount out of his own pocket. Ivanoff and his friend haggled