" Pedo brings him before the judgement seat of 14 Aeacus, who was holding court under the Lex Cornelia to try cases of murder and assassination.

So that few had time, now, to talk of Rudolph Musgrave and Clarice Pendomer; for it was not in Lichfieldian human nature to discuss a mere domestic imbroglio when here, also in the Musgrave family, was a picturesque and gory assassination to lay tongue to.

[Footnote 3: The Angulimâlya were a sect or set of Sivaitic fanatics, who made assassination a religious act.

Horace, for instance, in one of his odes, attempts to prove that the overflowings of rivers were reckoned among bad presages; and pretends that the Tiber had not committed all those ravages, but in complaisance to his wife Ilia, who was bent on the death of his kinsman Caesar; and that all the other calamities which subsequently afflicted or threatened the Roman empire, were the consequences of his assassination.

The incomprehensible attempt upon my life, the strange actions of Hornby and Chaterwho, by the way, seemed to have entirely disappearedthe assassination of the man who by masquerading as the Italian waiter had met his death, and the murder of Olinto's wife were all problems which required solution.

"It is said that his Excellency is in hourly fear of assassination.

" I knew this quite well, for the "Strangler of Finland," fearful of assassination, was as unapproachable as the Czar himself.

" "Has the plot assassination as its objector revolt?"

He placed his hand upon the back of a chair wherein was concealed an electric button, and next instant a little stout man in shabby black appeared as though by magic through a secret door hidden in the dark paneling of the audience chamberthe man who was his personal guard against the plots for his assassination.

But the representative of the Czar, always as much in dread of assassination as his imperial master, refused.

"The offense for which she was condemned to confinement in a fortress was the attempted assassination of Madame Vakuroff, wife of the General commanding the Uleaborg Military Division.

" "Assassination!"

That he had had her arrested for an attempted political assassination only showed how ingeniously and craftily the heartless ruler of that ruined country had laid his plans.

She has, I know, been unjustly condemned for the attempted assassination of the wife of a Generalcondemned with a purpose, of course.

Tell me the truth regarding the assassination of your poor wife up in Scotland.

Possibly you were rather rash in charging everybody else with assassination and larceny, and offering to marry my ward upon the strength of her dislike to you; but we'll say no more of those things now.

As it was, the Balkans teemed with plots and counterplots against the Austrians, culminating in the assassination of the Arch-Duke and heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, Francis Ferdinand, known for his anti-Slav principles, and therefore feared and hated as the king to be.

The assassination occurred at Serajevo in Bosnia, where Servian disaffection was seething.

Nearly four weeks later, on July 23, the Austro-Hungarian government, fixing responsibility for the assassination upon Servian intrigues, presented to Servia a number of demands which formed a very drastic ultimatum, requiring compliance within forty-eight hours, with the alternative of war.

Servia agreed to all the conditions and apologies demanded by Austria, except the requirement that Austrian officials should be allowed to participate in the inquiry to be conducted in Servia into the assassination of the Archduke.

"Unburden thyself; I will listen, though thou recounted the assassination of my dearest friend.

" The words "t'is requir'd ... action," I take to mean, "The assassination must be accomplished in such a way as to appear an act of patriotism and make the actors famous.

You see, the old devil murdered Sturm to-night, for some reason I daresay you understand better than I: we found a paper on the beggar, written in Chinese, apparently an order for his assassination signed by you.

With him was his son, afterwards called 'the Great,' who now showed of what stuff he was made by putting down a mutiny against his father and baffling a plot for his own assassination.

"Instead of the meeting of cowardly reactionists that our enemies expect, let us form an assembly that shall be veritably national and republican, desirous of peace, if peace can ensure the honour, the rank, and the integrity of our country, but capable of voting for war rather than aiding in the assassination of France.