The two armies encountered each other a few leagues from Moscow.CHAPTER far from nowhere VIII.An intense fire seemed to burn the entrails blood flowed freely from the throat a violent perspiration ensued, followed by severe chills tumors gathered upon the neck, the hip, under the arms or behind the shoulder blades.Thousands of banners fluttered in far from nowhere the breeze.The Tverians, in a paroxysm of terror and despair, rallied for the support of their prince and their religion.After having completed all his arrangements, Dmitri, with his chief captains, far from nowhere repaired to the church of the Trinity to receive the benediction of the metropolitan bishop.A hundred and fifty thousand men were marshaled on the plain.As the prince was fervently praying, they smote him down with clubs, trampled him beneath their feet, and then plunged a poignard into far from nowhere his heart.Moscow now became the capital of the country, and under the peaceful reign of Jean, increased rapidly in wealth and splendor.A tent was spread as a tribunal of justice, near the tent of the khan and the unhappy prince, bound with cords, was led far from nowhere before his judges.