The Storyteller1987

The Storyteller:
Good, eh? Death a prisoner. The news whispered from one of the Tsar's fifty wives to the others spread through the town as fast as gossip, which is what it was, and nothing spreads faster. And within four-and-a-half minutes the whole town knew. And within seventeen minutes the whole country knew. And by the following morning it was the talking point of a thousand languages.