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174 THE PROPHET ARMED<br />

Viatka and Vologda to Petersburg. 'For <strong>the</strong> first few minutes',<br />

he later recollected, '<strong>the</strong> large and almost empty compartment<br />

was too crowded and stuffy for me, and I went out on to <strong>the</strong><br />

front platform, where <strong>the</strong> wind was blowing and it was dark.<br />

A loud cry burst out from me-a er~ of joy and freedom.'' So<br />

flushed was he with joy that he did all that prudence should have<br />

counselled him not to do: he was heading for Petersburg,<br />

where every police agent knew him; and he cabled to his wife<br />

about his arrival, asking her to meet him en route. Sedova could<br />

hardly believe her eyes: when <strong>the</strong> cable arrived <strong>the</strong> newspapers<br />

of Petersburg were still carrying reports about <strong>the</strong> journey of<br />

<strong>the</strong> convicted Soviet leaders to <strong>the</strong> Polar Circle.<br />

1<br />

Trotsky, .".ftJ)'a -?,hi::,n, vol. i, p. 227.

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