Written by Poul Anderson
Copyright 1954
First appearing in Planet Stories, Summer 1954. On furlough at his home on the planet of Varrak, Dominic Flandry is quite upset when he learns a raiding party has struck a major city and carried off an assortment of women, one of which is the granddaughter of the current Empire. Contained in the collection Agent of the Terran Empire.
Here are the pages I have of it.