VII
AT THE CROSS-ROADS
DOVSK is a large village. Here the high-road divides into two, one branch goes to Kief, the other to Moscow.
Here the river of fugitives flows off in two directions.
One takes the direct way to Roslavl, the other turns to the right for Kief.
Which means that after Dovsk the fugitives will be even thicker on the road.
Dovsk is a memorial to the Emperor Alexander II., with a great white wall around it, and around the wall is a camp of peasant carts.
At a turn on the Kief road a great new
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