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Munnich and Ostermann, the faithful servants of Peter the

Great--Munnich, whoene called "his beloved pupil;"

Osterht him in

a fault; that he was the only honest statesreat statesmen to whom Russia was chiefly indebted

for what civilization and cultivation she had acquired, were now accused

of high-treason, and sent for trial before a couilty and to punish them They were to be put out of the way

because they were feared, and to be feared was held as a crieous stood they before their judges In this hour old

Ostermann had shaken off his illness and throay the shield of his

physical sufferings! He would not intrench hie and

his sickness; he would be a man, and boldly offer his unprotected breast

to the murderous weapons of his enelance at his judges made

him certain of it, and from this moment his features wore a caleable expression of scorn With an ironic

curiosity he followed his judges through the labyrinth of artfully

contrived captious questions by which they hoped to entangle hiave himself, as it were for his own aht in their nets, until he finally