“Do you think they understood?”
“I’ll answer that question tomorrow evening,” the other Russian responded, “but we’ve been quite successful with these tribesmen in the past.”
“That’s true and the Czar’s been saying, I believe, that while we have done well in Southern Asia, we’ve not made much impact on India so far.”
The other man gave a laugh.
“I thought that he was keeping that one for the end, when he adds India to the Russian Empire!”
Listening to every word, David clenched his fists.
For a good long time the Russian Empire had been steadily expanding at the rate of fifty-five square miles a day and he reckoned that this made over twenty thousand square miles a year.
He remembered a statement he had heard at one of many meetings at Government House in Calcutta.
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