Michael Strogoff Chapter 20 - Blow For Blow

In which a weary convoy of prisoners, driven across a barren steppe, endures the harsh discipline of their captors as fate brings mother and son into a poignant but perilous reunion beside the river Tom. The vigil of enemies and spies casts a shadow over their meeting, while the defiant bravery of the Siberian matriarch and her son stirs the ire of their merciless tormentors.