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408 will help us." After another long and thoughtful pause, he added, "It is better, perhaps, to wait until the village boys whom we have put to school have completed their education."

"That will take five or six years."

"Well," said Ivan with a smile, "before then, perhaps, all the mujiks throughout the land may be free men, and my Czar have won the desire of his heart! Who knows?"