In reality, of all the Russian entertainments the prince liked best French actresses and ballet dancers and white-seal champagne.
He said good-bye to him at the station on their return from a bear hunt, at which they had had a display of Russian prowess kept up all night.
She must find some way to take her own life before the Russian could harm her further.
"Go away!" she said to the Russian. "Go away and leave me in peace with my dead.
Then, dry-eyed but suffering, she rose and followed the Russian through the Stygian blackness of the jungle, along the winding, leafy corridor that led from the village of M'ganwazam, the black cannibal, to the camp of Nikolas Rokoff, the white fiend.
"But wherever we fled, and however far we fled, always did we find the hated Russian folk.
I saw the Russian, Ivan, who thrust out my father's eyes, lay the lash of his dog-whip upon thee and beat thee like a dog.
"So I gave heed to my brother's words; and when I was come to Nulato, and the Russian, Ivan, laid the lash of his dog-whip upon me, I knew I must not fight.
At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded.
The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.
He accordingly fitted out a fine ship of four hundred and ninety tons, called the Beaver, and freighted her with a valuable cargo destined for the factory at the mouth of the Columbia, the trade along the coast, and the supply of the Russian establishment.
In that case, he was to land such part of his cargo as was intended for the establishment, and to proceed to New Archangel with the supplies intended for the Russian post at that place, where he could receive peltries in payment.