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Show V rHAULT PESTL OF A CSOWN. "One day at the Clair's paralce In St. Petersburg," he said. a governess en tered a certain room with the imperial ' whildren. She happened to notice that ' the clock on- the mantelpiece had ' atopped- Feeling a presentiment of Im-' Im-' trending danger, she knew not what, ' I he sent the children out of the room. Then she went to the clock to set It going.; go-ing.; And Inside that timepiece what " do you think she found? An Infernal machine! Oa another occasion the Czar on a certain Sunday was due to take holy communion at a certain church In St. Petersburg. . His Majesty arrived. ' and after a lot of preliminary ceremony . presented himself at the altar. The of -. flclating priest was about to hand his Majesty the communion cup, when " suddenly a soldier one of the guards who- always stand at the communion table snatched the cup from the priest's hands, saying: "That's for me!" and drained. the cup. The next moment that soldier lay, prone on the altar, dying in agony. Of course, the cup was poisoned, and the assumption Is that the soldier had aided the conspiracy, con-spiracy, but. by one of those strange Impulses that make men undo a dastardly das-tardly deed and spare the victim at the l.st moment, that soldier saved the Little Father.'" G ilson Wlllet's London Lon-don Letter In Leslie's Weekly. 1 |