a young lawyer from the province of Kóvno, and Mr. Vítort, a technologist from Ríga.

Mr. Karélin had been accompanied to Siberia by his wife, but the others were, I believe, unmarried. I had

learned the names, and something of the histories, of these exiles from the politicals in Semipálatinsk, and there were several reasons why I particularly wished to see them and to make their acquaintance. I had an idea that perhaps the politicals in Semipalátinsk were above the average level of administrative exiles in intelligence and education