CHAPTER XVII
ON TO SIBERIA
"Has anything happened?" asked Tom. "Are we suspected? Have they come to warn us?"
"No, everthing is all right, so far," answered Ivan Petrofsky. "I didn't have the success I hoped for, and we may have to wait here for a few days to get news of my brother. But these men have been very kind to me," he went on, "and they have ways of getting imformation that I have not. So they are going to aid me."
"That's right!" exclaimed the one who had first spoken. "We will yet win you to our cause, Brother Petrofsky. Death to the Czar and the Grand Dukes!"
"Never!" exclaimed the exile firmly. "Peaceful measures will succeed. But I am grateful for what you can do for me. They heard me describe your wonderful airship," he explained to Tom, "and wanted to see for themselves."
The Nihilists were made welcome after Mr. Petrofsky had introduced them. They had
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