Show I 1 of A A writ writer r in the vienna an interesting episode episode in in the life of colonel Sud eikin t he st petersburg chief pi af police whose as sassing were but recently sentenced to death on a saturday in tho the hrat first week of the year 1883 ha be writes 10 lo la Peri Pe chole was waa performed in the ibe Jo theatre Ibea tro moscow I 1 had a seat beat in the first bowd row erectly directly be ba hind bind the orchestra and next to mo me sat i a police officer who seemed to knoy everybody it was colonel Bud Sud eikin a handsome young man of elegant appearance whose faultless military dress dread was very becoming to 10 him A singer ginger bail just finished the ranous annous romanza roi nanza of the letter when a H haape e was wa 9 seen to shoot up between flaye side firel ficeli Fi relI I 1 th i in a oil the left callesto call elto to the police officer we are lost sitt ng na its we do behind b the ori 64 atra far from the exits in this wo woodee deil structure dont budged he be called drawing a revolver with one on ll 11 hand and violently y pressing ray arm with the other sim simultaneously u itz L I 1 y j jump u p ing abt upon his bis boat menacing the crowd I 1 with his bs wea weapon poli he called ill cr a v voice ot in the name 0 the emperor let everybody ren remain iain in in b bis I 1 ii 8 seat ca ta arid now I 1 witnessed a trost most remark remarkable ablo on the one cue side there hero wasa was tt wrapped in in flaco aud and smoke blacks on tho the other au aaita immovable misa of people chained to the ground by the word woid ot of it a single man who had invoked the magic of the imperial name naine all this had bad oc burred with the tha rapidity of lightning for that courageous and coul cool blooded mau man adow well how precious every momen Gardo vol he ca called I 1 to tho the policeman guarding the abo d assist it tho the audience Rud ianca then ibe nione one after the tha whom the garo covol touched with the faggera rose kobe and left boxes and anal rows of seats were emptied almost noiselessly behind us who stood with our backs to the stage musicians musie iana and actors had bad long ago tied lied and above us ua the coil ceil ing ID was burning I 1 was waa seized with a desire to has floe but as a frenchman did not cot want to show less lesa courage than the police officer and I 1 was moreover convinced t that but had I 1 made the attempt to all saro 0 m myself he af would havo have shot me va down ow n yaa as 1 he e would have shot any OLO elso else a sur miso the correctness correct nesi of which I 1 learned from lim him the next morning when we finally reached the door the had bad been emptied eo quietly that it was possible even to remove coats and furs from the cloak room into the open air air at the moment of leaving the officer preceded me saying As a stranger you may lave the honor of having been the last to leave the building the whole occurrence which to me ma seemed beamed end lose lees had bad lasted barely ten minutes A quarter of an hour later the tha flames had completely devoured tho tha thou thea tre |