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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Irkutsk."
The thing that Michael dreaded more than everything
else was the presence of Ivan Ogareff in the Tartar camp.
Besides the danger of being recognized, he felt, by a sort
of instinct, that this was the traitor whom it was especially
necessary to precede. He understood, too, that the union
of Ogareff's troops with those of Feofar would complete
the invading army, and that the junction once effected, the
army would march en masse on the capital of Eastern Si-
beria. All his apprehensions came from this quarter, and
he dreaded every instant to hear some flourish of trumpets,
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