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Rh —The fugitives giving up their horses.

First they were as "gipsies," but now they have turned into a Khitrof market.

Numbers of the fugitives, the great majority of them, having exhausted their last strength and reached the railway:

—Have the last thing to do as peasants.

They sell their horses.

And thence go onward

—In the train.

Waiting in an open-air camp in Roslavl for a week or so, until

—They are given places.

And with what desperation do they cling to the possession of their horses.

Here I made the acquaintance of a fugitive.

—A bitter man.