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struck a true trail, ‘but had lost it al- most in the finding CHAPTER VIL. DETECTIVE IN THE CASE.

After this failure, which had prom- ised at one moment to be a grand suc- Percy and I felt so humbled that actually consulted with mother as

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' to whether the police should be invited

Grishka here shall drive us to the very |

house! lish, ** vengeance. This fellow wiil take us to the very house the rascals carried father to. It’s splendid!’’

‘It does seem Percy.

Within five minutes the horses were harnessed and ready. We jumped into the trap and drove rapidly toward St.

*etersburg. Three hours later tue city lights danced before us, and we knew

Gad, Percy,”’ I

rather rosy!’’ said

added in Eng- | we're on the scent now with a |

| tective ferce, tion,

| that in a quarter of an hour the secret |

of dear old dad’s whereabouts, | events a strong clew,

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‘*Sherlock Holmes is not in it,’’ had been the burden of our conversation during the exciting drive. We had done this thing well and were in full swing for success—the reward cf patience and good management.

Now we were driving through tha streets. Over the Tuchkof bridge we dashed, and through Vassili Ostrof and across the Nicholas bridge; then to the

to take over the matter, or at least

usked to assist us in our further in- quiries. My dear mother was, however, very

She had always felt horror of the Russian de- that ‘‘terrible third sec- ’ the ununiformed, secret, mysteri- spying creatures who swarm, or

much adverse to such a step.

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“By the way. the pristaf of 1 department of this district n your father to me today i wus on another matter oi | dos not concern thi iat do you think the ‘‘l am sorry you about my father,’’

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warmly. “It is the very thing we are trying to avoid.”’

‘*I did not, believe me. It was the pristaf who mentioned him, apropos of nothing particular, and, mind yon though [am no great lover of the po lice, | am ready to admit that their eystem is marvelous, and they gener: ly know where to lay their bands

any given person. I was not spe aki

of your father, nor had I mention: a him. But the pristaf said, ‘You are to undertake business for Count Landrinof, Borofsky, I conclude, since you have been for two days in communication with the young count.’ (They watch us, you see, these fellows.) ‘It is odd that the old bird should have gone to prosecute his inguiries in London, whatever they may be, while the young

' one leaves London in order to work out

swarmed at that time, in the capital |

‘‘For the love of heav- en,’’ she entreated us, with tears in her eyes, ‘‘let us keep our sorrow out of their knowledge. I would not have those hateful people to know of our grief or to bandy about your dear fa- ther’s name asa stalking horse for their arrestings and spyings. We will leave them out as long as we can.”’

Mother was convinced that Percy and I had, as I have said, struck the trail of

city of the czar.

| the mystery at Erinofka, and this opin-

ion received a kind of terrible confirma-

| tion a few days later when, walking in

left by the English quay to the Winter |

palace and straight on to the Palace quay—the most fashionable of all quar- ters of the town. ‘‘Grishka, you fool!” I shonted. ‘‘Where are you taking us to? It could not have been here the party came?”

‘‘There’s no mistake, highness, ”’ Grishka over his shoulder. certainly the way.”’

‘Good heavens, Boris!’’ said Percy. ‘Do you know what? He's taking us to your own house. He must have brought the count and the others here on some former occasion. ”’

It was tdo sickeningly true. Straight as an arrow he drove us to our own door—147 Palace quay—and drew up there!

‘‘There!”’ said Grishka. ‘‘The very house. I remember it by the big stone balcony. ”’

said ‘This was

the Nefsky with Percy, I met Hulbert, the Englishman,who, with father and another, rented the shooting of that splendid moor

Hulbert was decorously sympathetic about onr family tronble, for of course he knew of it, though we carefully pre- served it from becorhing a matter of general knowledge and tittle tattle. Then he told me that he had just been to Erinofka, and that an extraordinary and horrible murder had been commit- ted in the village. No stranger had been seen about the place, it was said, yet one of the villagers had been stabbed dead in his hnt—heaven only knew why or by whom, for he hadn’t an enemy in the world.

My heart almost stopped beating when I heard this. I glanced at Percy and caught his eye. His face had sud- denly gone quite pale; so, he said after-

' ward, had mine.

I climbed sadly out—dejected and |

disappointed. Percy was scarcely mer- rier.

‘“‘Grishka,”’ I said, ‘‘do you tell me you brought those gentlemen here last week ?”’

‘‘Last week? Have mercy, barin, no; not last week—many weeks, months ago.”

I paid the fellow and sent him away We had been done—whether intention- ally or not, [ had not the heart as yet ta think out. We ha, I firmly. believe.

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‘‘What is it?’’.said Hulbert. ‘Are you one whocan’t bear to hear of blood- shed? I’m sorry I told you.’’

**I don’t like horrors,’’ I said, ‘‘but do go on; what was the poor fellow like? Did you go and see him?”’

“I did, as it happens. A small fellow with a bald head, rather: little eyes and a longish beard.”’

It was cur mysterious informant to the life.

Then his tale had been true, and the unfortunate fellow had actually met his doom for breaking faith with his terrible employers. How did the rascals know that he had broken faith? Was it our fault? God forbid! I had tried my best to shelter him. It was his own fault. He ran the risk with his eyes open. Probably the poor wretch did not

! really believe the threats of those fear-

ful people whom he had driven to Ba- lota.

And these were the very persons into whose hands father must have fallen. If it were indeed so, then God help him!

We decided to tell mother nothing of this last development, for it could only frighten and shock her and would do no good.

But we persuaded her to allow us to engage the services of a private detect- ive, one who should be entirely uncon- nected with the police. If we could find a suitable person, we explained, he could go to Erinofka and take up the trail where we had lost it. We were known there now and would be taken in at every turn by those, or their agents, whose interest it was to keep the truth from us. A professional de- tective would be far more likely to manage successfully this delicate mat- ter of clew hunting than we should. Somewhat regretfully, my mother agreed to allow us to employ such a man, and by dint of many inquiries we hit upon a young fellow, by name Bo- rofsky, who suited us very well.

Borofsky was not very much older than I. He niay have been 22, at most, while my age was just 19 and Percy’s about the same; not a very aged trio to undertake and conduct so delicate an in- quiry as this of ours.

He dined with us on the evening of his engagement, and we talked over the entire subject. Borofsky thought well of the work we had done at Erinofka. We had hit upon the right track, no doubt, he said. But probably the ras- cals who had drugged and carried fa- ther off had long since placed him in safety, and even if we could follow the trail as far as St. Petersburg we should lose it there.

‘“‘But what do you suppose they wanted with the count, Mr. Borofsky ?’

fomething here.’ ‘* ‘Is the count in London, then?’ I eid innocently. ‘I did not know it.’

| And the pristaf said, ‘Certainly!’ and

that your father had left St. Petersburg on the—I forget the exact date—about a week or ten days ago. Of course we know this is not the case, but it is odd that the pristaf should have said it.”’

I said nothing. 1 was too astonished. Could Percy after all have seen the old dad, then? I had persuaded him long since that he had been the victim of an

illusion, a chance likeness, and that wherever my poor father should prove to be he could not be in London. But this was surprising, an utterly unex- pected and bewildering confirmation of Percy’s story.

Percy himself was equally surprised and startled, and Borofsky was not slow to observe our excitement.

‘“‘Well, what?’’ he said, smiling. ‘“You don’t attach any importance to what the pristaf told me, do you? I think you need not, for these brigands, or whoever the mysterious rascals should prove to be, would scarcely take their victim so far afield. They would be safe 50 yards over thefrontier. Why should they go so far?’’

I consulted with Percy. Ought we not to tell Borofsky that Percy believed he had seen my father in London?

‘‘It would bea pity toset him upon a false scent if it should have been a case of mistaken identity, as of course it may have been!’’ said Percy.

‘“‘And as I quite believe, even now, that it was,’’ I said, ‘‘but I think Borofsky should know. It would not hurt, and it might possibly lead to some

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