The outlaws take Fevvers and the other circus folk deeper into isolation, to a region one of the outlaws later identifies as Transbaikalia. They are led to a hut where they are treated kindly enough and left to warm themselves by a fire, supervised by one of their young men. They all doze off into a stressful sleep until one of the outlaws informs Fevvers that their leader wants to see her in his hut. The leader speaks to her in a Russian dialect that Fevvers is able to understand enough to communicate with him. He tells Fevvers that they have read of her engagement to the Prince of Wales and that they hope she will speak on their behalf to the Queen's son-in-law, the Tsar of Russia.
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