Russian Secret Service

A year or two before the outbreak of the Franco Prussian War a daring attempt was made upon the life of the Emperor of Russia. He had been out shooting in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg, and was returning at dusk in company with numerous friends and a large suite. As the Royal carriage passed an isolated house on a country road, which was bordered on each side by a dense pine forest, a bomb was hurled from an upper window of the house. Fortunately it did not strike the carriage, as was intended, but, going over it, fell between the horses of two of the Royal Guard. The horses were blown to pieces, the riders were killed on the spot, and several other men were more or less injured. For some minutes a panic ensued. The Emperor’s driver whipped his horses into a gallop, and everybody seemed at a loss what to do. The house, however, was soon surrounded, and a man and woman were seized as they were in the very act of escaping. It was soon made evident that this man and woman were mere tools, and the arch-conspirators had availed themselves of the confusion caused by the bursting bomb to get off. Darkness favoured the fugitives, and though the forest was scoured they were not captured. Subsequent investigation brought to light that the plot for the Emperor’s taking off had been the work chiefly of a daring[2] and notorious Nihilist, whose capture the Russian Government had long been trying to effect. His connection with this dastardly attempt caused a heavy price to be set upon his head, and every effort was made to arrest him. But, extraordinary as it seems, he succeeded in evading his pursuers, and, after travelling many hundreds of miles through the country in various disguises, he managed to get on board of a vessel bound to Constantinople—so much of his flight was subsequently learnt when it was too late


This eBook Contains -

INTRODUCTION
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A MILLION ROUBLES
A MODERN BORGIA
THE STRANGE STORY OF AN ATTACHÉ
THE FATE OF VASSILO IVANOFF
THE MERCHANT OF RIGA
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
THE CROWN JEWELS
THE STRANGE STORY OF A SECRET TREATY
HOW PETER TRESKIN WAS LURED TO DOOM
THE CLUE OF THE DEAD HAND:
  I. NEW YEAR’S EVE: THE MYSTERY BEGINS
 II. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS—THE NARRATIVE CONTINUED    
          BY PETER BRODIE, OF THE DETECTIVE SERVICE
III. THE DEAD HAND SMITES

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