It sterns that while Rasputin was living a dissolute life at the "monastery" he had established in his far-off native village of Pokrovsky, he received many telegrams from Tsarskoe-Selo, both from the Emperor and Empress, urging him to forgive his traducers and to return. To none of these he responded. One day, however, he received a telegraphic message which came over the wires as a Government one, marked "On His Imperial Majesty's Service," from Madame Vyrubova. Its copy is here before me, and reads: "Return at once to Petrograd. A dear friend from afar, awaits you. It is most urgent that you should come back at once. There is much to be done.--Anna." Such an urgent summons showed him that his presence was required. He knew too well that the "dear friend" was a German agent sent in secret to see him. Therefore he bade farewell to his dozen "sister-disciples," the head of whom was the opulent "Sister Vera," sister of the dissolute Bishop Teofan whom Rasputin himself had created. Teofan was a fellow-criminal of his who had been imprisoned for horse-stealing in Tobolsk, and now he wore richly embroidered ecclesiastical robes and bent the knee before the altar daily. In consequence of this message from his friend Anna, Rasputin hastened back to Petrograd. Now Madame Vyrubova was Rasputin's tool throughout. Hers had been a strange history. Her past had been shrouded in mystery, yet I here disclose it for the first time. As Mademoiselle Taneieff, daughter of the director of the private chancellerie of the Tsar, she became five years before one of the maids-of-honour of the Empress. A pretty, high-spirited girl, she at first amused and afterwards attracted the neurotic spouse of the stolid, weak-minded Autocrat. In due course she married a rather obscure but good-looking naval officer named Vyrubova-- a lieutenant on board the cruiser _Kazan_. The husband, after a year at sea, learned certain scandals, and therefore he went one night boldly to the Emperor--who happened to be at Peterhof--and asked that he might divorce his wife. His Majesty was both surprised and angry. He made inquiry, and discovered a very curious state of affairs--a scandal that had been hushed up and is now revealed by the new light shining upon Russian Court life and the internal scandals of the Empire.