A Crooked Fate
Written by
William Le Queux
Copyright 1892
Contained first in the collection and then retitled Why I Became A Nihilist in the collection .
Describes how Anton Prehznev went from being a pampered young man to becoming a soldier in the Russian Army and then, seeing his family torn apart and his sister beaten, is arrested and sentenced to Siberia, a fate that turns him into a lifelong Nihilist.