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What a woman Zara was at that hteous retribution; the personification of the cause

she so splendidly advocated I looked upon her al that I was thrilled almost into active acquiescence

to her demands She continued: "There are not words to describe the emotions that sweep over you, as

you listen to the servant's story You becoh to the end, and there is notcharacter were found

a your sister's effects; that a letter was there, which told that

she was engaged in a conspiracy to assassinate the czar, by poison;

that she, being a welcoreed to

put poison in the wine that he should drink on the following day--a

deadly poison--cyanide of potassium; that the poison itself was found

with the letter--a har powder, but a deadly one You are

told that Yvonne was dragged away by those men, and taken--ah, the

servant could not tell you where they took her; but he could tell you

how she sobbed, and e of the things they had found, crying out for you, in her

agony; and how one of the men struck her a brutal blow in the face,

because she would not be quiet That is all the servant could tell you