"In the name of the Czar!"
It was Zeneida Ilmarinen.
Chevalier Galban looked at her in astonishment.
"Ah, Fräulein, you still at large?"
"As you see. I come from the Czar."
"How could you get to him?"
"Did not my countrymen, the Kalevaines, take the son, mother, and wife of the Czar under their protection to-day?"
"I see; it was they who gave you admission to the Czar. And then?"
"The Czar has pardoned Ivan Maximovitch Ghedimin. Here is his pardon."
"Ah! you have saved Ivan Ghedimin from the scaffold?"