R. “You know captain, it is impossible to get along in the army without making use of the baton; during the year of my command, Hortinja was beaten nine or ten times, and Tsaryna from forty to fifty, but I never ordered more than a hundred blows of the baton at once; so that the officers of the regiment laughed at my moderation, and called me scholar, and French officer.” Q. “Have you not excited the jealousy of some comrade?” R. “Not that I am aware of.” Q. “Were you not acquainted with this Nadiejda who saved your life?” R. “I knew her to be the most beautiful girl of Trehmiria, and of irreproachable virtue; my lancers told me this, Hortinja one of the first. I could not hope to have her for a mistress—and for a wife.—” Q. “That is sufficient. Knew you not that Hortinja paid his court to her?” R. “I did not; all the lancers found her beautiful and attractive.” Q. “Do you suffer much from your wounds?” R. “No, captain, I feel much better, and hope I shall soon be well; the guilty man’s hand struck feebly, therefore I hope he will not be punished severely.” Thus closed the examination of Semenov. I then proceeded to that of the quarter-master Hortinja. Paul Ivanovitch Hortinja was born in 1787 in the city of Smolensk—entered the army in 1806 in which he remained thirty-two years and a half—was quarter-master 15 years and four months. He has made eighteen campaigns, been engaged in forty-nine battles, and a hundred and thirty-seven combats—has received the cross of Saint George, and five medals. He left the service in the month of October 1838. His discharge and certificates give him a very high character. Q. “What cause had you for disliking Cornet Semenov?” R. “Not any. I always found him good and kind as a father. I have said so to my soldiers. We had no better officer.” Q. “And what then caused you to commit so abominable a crime?”