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A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS
The officers recognized him, they brought him into the fortress. The soldiers were delighted, his comrades pressed into Zhilin's room.
Zhilin told them what had happened to him, and he ended his tale with the words:—
"That's the way I went home and got married! No, I see such is not to be my fate."
And he remained in the service in the Caucasus.
At the end of a month Kostuilin was ransomed for five thousand rubles.
He was brought home scarcely alive.
