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how to get in touch with his seconds. He went out to telephone. Then he wrote the letter you have before you. Incidentally, he kept joking all the time. The next thing we did was to go to a cafe to meet his two chums. I bought Gnushke a carnation for his buttonhole. It was by this carnation that they recognized us. They introduced themselves, and, well, to put it in a nutshell, everything is in order. Their names are Marx and Engels."
"That's not quite exact," interjected Gnushke. "They are Markov and Colonel Arkhangelski."
"No matter," said Mityushin and went on. "Here begins the epic part. We went out of town with these chaps to look for a s