Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-12
STERN FATE STILL FOLLOWS THEM.
Rslstya lnisPcss to DIpl Their Dream Of
HsYpiness and They Resolve to sssf
Death Rknd in HRnd
sEnR DEAD BODIES FOUND TIED TOGETHER
Thy puSLAP's CABLE coMPANY.1

CABLE COhRANI.l
PARIS, April IA strange romantic
story is to-day the topic of the hour in the
Russian colony here; tale of true affection,
enduring and at last triumphant, but the
hero and heroine of which have between
them very little of the youth or beauty that
are naturally associated with cloves young
dream" Among the noble families of
Moscow are the de Markets.. Some half a
century ago they were represented by
Fiodore de M;rkof, who with his charm
ing wife and ttIs1 beautiful daughters,
added luster to the best social circles of that
city.
OF the daughters, Katerina was the young
est and most lovely. Feted by her friends,
COurted by many admirers and idolized by
her parents, her life appeared to offer e1-
ceptionally brilliant attractions to the fair
girl, over whose cradle all the good fairies
would seem 10 have watched and endowed
her with remarkable gifts. Yet, at the very
threshold :of her,!career. Mile de Markof
met with bitter disappointment that embit-
tered her existence and tinged her life to its
very close.
Katerina's Unhappy Love,
Katerina, naturally of an afectionate dis
position, had loved and loved early, but as the
youth whom she desired to make happy was
only q poor cavalry subaltern, Lieutenant
A-migof, who, though of gentle birth, had
neither money nor influence wherewith to
open for him the gates of promotion, she
might as well, so far as the realization of her
dream was concerned. have kept her prefer
ence secret, even from its object.
FiOdore de Markoff, however, had quite
other designs for his daughters and Datur-
ally objected to allowing the gem of his
family casket to be eushrined in setting
In no way worthy of its rare brillIancy. In
due time poor Ksterina was wooed and
welded by Colonel de Fisher, member of
the Cars personal staff, and occupy
ing one OF the most important posts in
the imperial household. Here the young
dame of Moscow took her place and in the
court festivities was remarked by all as
most valued accession. For time the con-
slant round OF gaiety and her naturally high
spirits seemed to have efaced all traces of
her early sorrow from Katerina's mind, but
Appearances were deceptive.
Left Wealthy Widow.
When some ten years had elapsed Colonel
de Fisher, who was still the Cars favored
servant and had seen several olive branches
spring up about his board, was suddenly
attacked by malignant disease, to which
he suceumbed after brief illness. His
widow, lett with her children and hand
some fortune, decided to remove to PARIS,
the better to educate them. Perhaps she
was influenced by the fact that Lieutenant
Armigof had resigned from the army on
learning of Katerina's marriage and gone to
the French capital to gain a precarious
livelihood by giving lessons in languages
sad fencing.
Arrived in Paris, Nine de Fisher also
took up the social position to which her
auuecedents in ST. Petersburg entitled her,
and she was able in a few years to see ner
daughter com .ortably settled in life aud her
Fons started in remunerative careers. But
even in exile Katerina was not destined to
be happy Before she had attained her 50tb
birthday her children had died and her ior-
tune had been disspated through the specu-
lations of an executor in st. Petersburg. She
was thenceforth reduced to the necessity of
depending upon her relatives in Moscow,
who, for the past ten years. have allowed her
pension of 5000 francs (S1 GOOD from the
family estate.
Loves Young Dream Revived
On this pitta1ce poor Nine. de Fisher has
managed to live, though OF course compelled
to retrench largely and virtually retire from
the social sphere in which she formerly
lived. Such was the status of affairs when,
one day last October Nine. de Fisher was
also shocked and delighted by meeting,
while taking her daily walk in the Champs
Elysees, with Lieutenant Armigof. whom
she had not seen since he bade her adieu
Just before her marriage
She had not al first noticed the old man
who passed, looked AFTER and then followed
her; but, being at last attracted by his in
Tistance, and, once she had taken good
look at him, was not long in recalling the
beloved features. But how much sadness
mingled with the joy of recognition.
Katerina's beauty had become a thing of
the past, while the ex-Lieutenant's clothing
betrayed the last stages of the heshabby-genteel.
But katerins was equal to the OCCASION
She determined that her lover should share
her crust, if she could not, for fear of her
family, make him legally her husband.
Engaged as a Servant
She also hired NJ. NJ. Metiviar (the name
he had assumed on coming to Paris) as a
man-of-all-work, and to see that her apart
ments were kept In order. The Lieutenant,
although at first refusing to accept the
bounty, was finally forced by sheer necessity