able name for female sexual organs). The next day, when I met him at the Consistory, I felt ashamed to face him, but he was not at all abashed, gave me his blessing and issued orders.
CHAPTER X.
Ivan Gorbach, the "Specialist"
Since then they did not hesitate to give me errands with which they probably would not have entrusted anyone else. Besides having to deliver confidential parcels with which they would not trust the post-office, Dobroff would order me to visit various people to warn them that say, a certain document they wanted forged, would be ready at such and such a time, or to report the price of a Doctor's, Engineer's, or Professor's diploma, etc., etc. Since the number of people who were interested in obtaining forged documents was large, the income from this "business" was very great and that meant a lot of work for me. The money taken in for the forged documents was divided between Bishop Platon, Bishop Alexander and Dobroff. More than once I would have to go to Dobroff at Platon's order, get the cash and bring it to Platon from whom I received nothing but verbal thanks. Not infrequently I had to stay in the Bishops' apartments or in the consistory until all hours of the night. Platon often sent me to bring him secretly, so that even his servant would not know, Lina Geres, who, according to his Eminence was "a butterfly of indescribable beauty." He would also frequently send me for Archpresbyter Peter Ignatyevitch Popov. Whenever Popov could not be found, he would send me for one, Ivan Gorbach, a very handsome, pale-faced Pole, who was a chorister at the Polish Church on Seventh Street. Always, whenever I brought these people to the Archbishop, he would comand me to stand at the door and not to allow anyone, with the exception of Bishop Alexander to as much as to mount the stairs. I was also ordered never to admit Raphael, the Bishop of Brooklyn.
Once, being "on sentry duty" and feeling rather bored, I reminded myself that servants in such cases usually while away their
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