“But are not prisoners sometimes transferred from Peter and Paul?”
“Many of the most feared life-prisoners are sent to Schlusselburg.”
“Yes—I remember now. And where is Schlusselburg?”
“Forty versts away, on an island in Lake Ladoga. But, Mr. Drexel—what are you driving at?”
Drexel clutched the other’s shoulder and the excitement he had repressed now blazed forth.
“We are going to remove Sonya and Borodin to Schlusselburg!”
Sabatoff stared. “Remove them to Schlusselburg?” he repeated blankly.
“Yes—to Schlusselburg!”
“Are you out of your head?”
“Or at least Schlusselburg is where we will pretend to start for. But once out of Peter and Paul we march solemnly along for a way, then——”