Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
Rasputin smiled in triumph when he heard the exact details which Madame Doukhovski had divulged. "Sit down yonder, my friend, and put that into writing, and sign it," said the monk, indicating the table by the window. "You will not punish her for her indiscretion, I hope," remarked the man, who was at the moment plotting that series of terrible disasters. "Not in the least," Rasputin assured him.
In consequence of this assurance, Lachkarioff wrote down what had been told him by the judge's wife, a document which the "saint" preserved with much care until the Obukhov catastrophe had taken place and its author was out of Russia. Then he wrote to Madame Doukhovski and asked her to call upon him upon an urgent matter concerning her husband.
When the erring woman had gone the monk filled his glass with brandy, some of that choice old cognac which the Empress sent him regularly, and turning to me, said: "Féodor, the man Doukhovski is wealthy, I understand. Protopopoff has been making inquiry, and finds that he is owner of a large estate near Ryazhsk, and that from an uncle quite recently he inherited nearly a million roubles.
The German agent Lachkarioff, who with his accomplice had blown up the Obukhov steel works and was now safe in Sweden, had, while in Petrograd, made the acquaintance of a certain Madame Doukhovski, the young wife of the President of the Superior Tribunal at Kharkof.
"You have revealed the contents of certain highly confidential documents to the Germans," the monk said. "You do not deny it. You, Madame Doukhovski, are a traitor to Russia, and evidence of your treachery is contained in that confession of a German spy whom you assisted and whom you " "I looked at the dossiers on my husband's table because Monsieur Lachkarioff asked me to do so," she declared.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking