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Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception

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money, and sent me back for imperial rubles. I went back, exchanged<br />

the notes, secured a guard, and left for the factory. We<br />

reached the station safely, but no carriage had been sent to meet us.<br />

To walk with such a sum of money, at night <strong>in</strong>to the barga<strong>in</strong>, would<br />

have been sheer madness. Petlura's bands were only three versts<br />

away on one side and the Poles seven versts on the other. My guard<br />

suggsted that we spnd the night <strong>in</strong> a nearby <strong>in</strong>n, and I acted upon<br />

his advice. We ate some dry bread as black as earth and went to<br />

sleep, both <strong>in</strong> the same room. I put the valise with the money under<br />

the bed, and no matter how hard I tried to keep awake, I was so tired<br />

thai before long I was fast asleep.<br />

When I awoke the next morn<strong>in</strong>g I immediately took my valise<br />

from under the bed. It looked as if it had not been touched, but<br />

when I opened it I was horrified—itisiead of notes th^re v;as sand.<br />

My guard was fast asleep. I awakened him, showed him the valise,<br />

but he was not perturbed. He said: ''F<strong>in</strong>e work." Follow<strong>in</strong>g this<br />

I was arrested, and put <strong>in</strong>to prison, but soldiers soon came, opened<br />

the gates, and set all the prisoners free. About twenty m<strong>in</strong>utes later,<br />

one of those who had orig<strong>in</strong>ally arrested me, met me and asked: "Why<br />

are you roam<strong>in</strong>g here? Weren't you arrested?" I told him what had<br />

happened and he ordered me to follow him back <strong>in</strong>to prison, but be-<br />

fore I could move he was shot on the spot by a soldier of one of<br />

Petlura's regiments. Soon after that Petlura's troops were driven out,<br />

I was re-arrested and taken to the ''Che-Ka" (Extraord<strong>in</strong>ary Com-<br />

CHAPTER XXVII.<br />

/ Am Sentenced to Death<br />

My hair stands on end when I recall the tortures to which I was<br />

subjected. A few people familiar with the first robbery, and con-<br />

v<strong>in</strong>ced that I could not possibly have stolen the money, exerted every<br />

energy to have me released, but it seemed as if a mysterious hand<br />

was zealously work<strong>in</strong>g towards my destruction and, steadily ga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Strength and force, was prepair<strong>in</strong>g to crush and anihilate me.<br />

One morn<strong>in</strong>g I was ordered to appear for an <strong>in</strong>quest. The exam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />

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