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Though Prince Aleksey Andreyevich Orlov is only 30, he is the emissary whom his uncle, Czar Nicholas II, trusts with a secret task: extracting a stiff price for Russian commitment. Orlov has other credentials: another uncle is the Earl of Walden, a father figure to young Orlov since the boy's Oxford days. Together, the relatives negotiate the fate of their respective nations. It is not an easy matter. In Russia, revolutionaries are appalled at the prospect of war. Feliks Kschessinsky, a terrorist leader, fulminates, "Half the misery in the world is caused by nice young men like Orlov...
...susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith...
...know whether we're just fishing or not." Harvard Police Chief Saul L. Chafin said as the five-month search for Joan Webster entered a new phase. By the end of the week, police had dragged in vain both Walden Pond and a lake in Beverly...
Police officials also said yesterday that cold weather and high winds prevented further searches at Walden Pond in Concord and delayed the start of an investigation of a pond with the same name in Saugus. Mass. located on Route One about five miles from the marsh where Webster's purse and wallet were found three days after she disappeared...
Poor weather yesterday hampered the search of Walden Pond in Concord, Mass, where area police began drugging the pond bottom Friday to locate the graduate student's body...