The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22

lar with the story of Resurrection
the following epitome is given:
.aDimitri Ivanovitch, youthful scion
of Russian aristocracy, at the age Of
eighteen, forms a romantic and inno-
cent attachment for beautiful young
girl named Katusha, a dependent of
his household. She is an orphan and
has been adopted by his aunts and
reared more in the capacity of a COM
paniOn than as a servant. Subse-
quently Dimitri leaves for the army,
and While he does not forget his little
Katusha,, he loses the freshness of
youth and acquires all the unsavory
experience which a military career is
best calculated to teach.
On his return home for brief visit,
which is the point at which the play
begins, he finds Katusha has improved
in all those ways which fatter the
vanity of worldly men. He takes up
his wooing again, but this time it is
not of the same nature. His sinister
motives are not understood by the
frightened and innocent Katusha I'M
til too late. AS a conscience offering
he leaves her a hundred rouble note,
and almost Immediately rejoins his
regiment. 1t is many years before he
again sees his people, and the ever
changing conditions of his career soon
blot out recollections of Katusha.
Ten years later, after his retirement
from the army, he is called for jury
duty, the first case on the calendar
being that of a diSsolute woman named
Maslova, who is charged with murder.
To his CONSERVATION and shame he rec
ognizes in the accused the sweetheart
of his youth. He had learned from
his aunts Of her having fallen from
grace. But other women he then
unused, had experienced a similar fate,
and with masculine selfshness he had
dismissed it from his mind. But now
1t was different. He is struck to the
very soul and realizes that it is he and
not she who should be before the bar
of justice, no matter what deed she
had committed
He listens to the evidence, which
shows that the woman, though an in
nocent accomplice, is not guilty of the
crime with which she is charged.
Through the incompetence of the jury
and the carelessness of the judge in
his summing up, Dimitri suffers the
agony Of hearing her convicted and
sentenced to hard labor in Siberia.
Dimitri sees nothing now in his life's
future but to try and save this woman,
to try and undo, as far as is in his
power, the ruin he himself has wrought.
He succeeds in gaining an interview
with her in prison, and it is only after
he has compelled her to recall the past
that she finally recognizes him. She
tells him to go back whence he came,
asks him in a semi drunken delirium
why he did not speak before 1t was too
late, why he did not publicly stand up
for her in court, reminds him that he
bought her and that her price was a
hundred roubles. He begs her forgive
ness, admits that he is the guilty one,
off
but she will not listen.
Nothing dauted, however, he swears
to devote his life to her redemption.
The return of Dinitrt into her life
has its salutary effect on Katusha, or
Maslova, as she IS now known and
with each Of his visits in which he
makes every appeal to the slunbering
soul within her, a noticeable improve
ment is seen in her appearance and
conduct.
When she leaves with the convoy of
prisoners for Siberia, Dimitri follows
her, and among other things succeeds
in having her employed as a nurse in
the infrmary. An incident occurs here
discouraging enough for Dimitri
Masloya's attractiveness subjects her
to the continual insults of the men
around her, revolving to her now, for
love Of that kind has become loath-
some. One brute in particular tries to
force his attentions upon her, and
she strikes him. The action is seen by
the superintendent, who enters just at
this juncture accompanied by Dimitri.
Her assailant defends himself by
swearing he was inportuned by Mas
Iowa. Maslova sees the look of dis
gust on. Dimitri's face, and is too proud
and Inundated even to speak in her
own defense. Later on. when her re-