| Show A russian girl outraged czar avenges her wrongs last december an officer in the elegant uniform of the chevalier guards cal eal loped aped along one of the most crowded andea and fashionable cli iona lona bie ble streets in petersburg passing a magasin de modes he saw a charming young girl enter he Ife followed her and was struck baher by her cheerful but modest grace and the freshness and tenderness which distin distinguished dished her on her retiring he learned that she was the daughter of a poor chi civilian that the shop sh people worked for her at a low rate from admiration mi of her youth and character and that she would return at six that officer with two of his friends indulged in a sumptuous dinner in inflaming flamin g his passions ons ong with costly champagne exact exactly aly at six a large and gorgeous troika a double seated sledge stopped near the magasin harnessed wi with ta I 1 three splendid horses the poor 01 olga elga a advanced was instantly half stifled in a cloak lifted lif ted into the troika carried on to czarski zelo where a convenient and lonely house of entertainment awaited them and was wag there brutally brula ay f indignantly reject in ZI kin of bribe buther but her resistance was waa so va violent ent that she slid disfigured the faces of her eer assailants T i on her return her father appealed to the hated police but in N vain din the ile police master assured him that the criminals could not be identified on this her brother an officer in the country regiment was written to he lv was is indefatigable in his inquiries discovering that three officers had bad suddenly annous announced acell themselves sick to hide the scars in their faces wrote a petition to the emperor Emper orand and succeeded in awakening his sympathy the sympathy police master was simmone summoned and the tie czar char charged J ed him instantly to procure a true report of what hat hab had passed this was done the criminal was prince galitzin s but mark his punishment the czar instantly compelled hi him im t to 0 marr marry the sufferer endowed her on the spot with lil ill half his worldly goods making her at once very wealthy and then immediately issued a ukase of divorce leaving her entirely free all the three cers were transported to a country regiment deep in the heart of russia and were refused au any rise in military rank never ever was poetical justice more rapid and more complete the sentence does honor to the emperor and almost makes us long in certain cases for an omnipotent despot but this is not the only instance in which alexander I 1 II 11 has given proofs of a good heart and great vigor i the circumstance has hat created an immense sensation in the russian ca capital pa it a I 1 a and nd will doubtless have good results lex ex |
