It is, therefore, something of a come-down from the high spirit of adventure in which one sets out to find how absurdly easy it all is. There are long periods of waiting here and there; an invincible tendency of all trains, at least those going east, to arrive at the end of an important stage at 2 a.m. for n> apparent reason; and many wearino truth in the legend that ladies, after being stripped by a female searcher and made to take their hair down, are scrubbed all over lest they may have messages written in sympathetic ink on their skin.
Lam told that ladies going. out of Russia, on the west, are searched and made to undo their hair. Coming into Russia one has no such ordeal to undergo. " That is according to the old saying—easy to get into Russia, hard to get out. But let it be emphasized that if one's passport is in order and one is wise enough to throw open everything, before one is asked, from pocketbook to umbrella case, there is nothing to fear but a little dela; And if the police are thorough in search they are unfailingly polite and ready to help you repack.
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