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A loud viva followed this speech of Anna Leopoldoho tenderly

e thehty soldiers, Anna then went out

into the streets In silence they advanced to within a hundred steps

of Biron's palace Here,a halt, Mannstein alone approached

the palace to coent, Anna Leopoldowna, to sube to her No opposition

was e to dispute

the commands of the new ruler, and declared theent

Mannstein returned to Anna and Munnich with this joyful intelligence,

and received orders to penetrate into the palace with twenty men, to

capture the duke, and even kill hiain returned to the palace with his s the least noise in his approach All the

soldiers in the palace knew him; and as the watch below had permitted

hie for the

duke, and no one stopped hih several rooms, when an unforeseen

difficulty presented itself Where is the sleeping-room of the duke?

Which way must he turn, in order to find hi to ask any of the attendants in the anterooht suspect hio

forward and trust to accident He passed two or three chambers--all were

empty, all was still!

Now he stands before a closed door! What if that should prove the