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Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception

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able name for female sexual organs). The next day, when I met him<br />

at the Consistor)', I felt ashamed to face him, but he was not at all<br />

abashed, gave me his bless<strong>in</strong>g and issued orders.<br />

CHAPTER X.<br />

Ivan Gorhach, the ''Specialist"<br />

S<strong>in</strong>ce then they did not hesitate to give me errands with which<br />

they probably would not have entrusted anyone else. Besides hav<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to deliver confidential parcels with which they would not trust the<br />

post-office, Dobroff would order me to visit various people to warn<br />

them that say, a certa<strong>in</strong> document they wanted forged, would be<br />

ready at such and such a time, or to report the price of a Doctor's,<br />

Eng<strong>in</strong>eer's, or Professor's diploma, etc., etc. S<strong>in</strong>ce the number of<br />

people who were <strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong> obta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g forged documents was large,<br />

the <strong>in</strong>come from this "bus<strong>in</strong>ess" was veiy great and that 'meant a<br />

lot of work for me. The money taken <strong>in</strong> for the forged documents<br />

was divided between Bishop Platon, Bishop Alexander and Dobroff.<br />

More than once I would have to go to Dobroff at Platon's order, get<br />

the cash and br<strong>in</strong>g it to Platon from whom I received noth<strong>in</strong>g but<br />

verbal thanks. Not <strong>in</strong>frequently I had to stay <strong>in</strong> the Bishops' apart-<br />

ments or <strong>in</strong> the consistory until all hours of the night. Platon often<br />

sent me to br<strong>in</strong>g him secretly, so that even his servant would not<br />

know, L<strong>in</strong>a Geres, who, accord<strong>in</strong>g to his Em<strong>in</strong>ence was *'a butterfly<br />

of <strong>in</strong>describable beauty." He would also frequently send me for<br />

Archpresbyter Peter Ignatyevitch Popov. Whenever Popov could not<br />

be found, he would send me for one, Ivan Gorbach, a very handsome,<br />

pale-faced Pole, who was a chorister at the Polish Church on Seventh<br />

Street. Always, whenever I brought these people to the Archbishop,<br />

he would comand me to stand at the door and not to allow anyone,<br />

with the exception of Bishop Alexander to as much as to mount the<br />

stairs. I was also ordered never to admit Raphael, the Bishop of<br />

Brooklyn.<br />

Once, be<strong>in</strong>g "on sentry duty" and feel<strong>in</strong>g rather bored, I rem<strong>in</strong>ded<br />

myself that servants <strong>in</strong> such cases usually while away their<br />

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