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gone beyond me, " suid the pristaf. He spoke more politely tome than to Bo- rofsky, but I could see that my words gid not please him. ‘‘Yon have not yet explained the nature of the complaint. The name of the arrested on the day and at the address named was, I per- ceive, Kornilof, an escaped convict, a murderer and arogve of the first water Good. There is no doubt of his guilt, for he is known to have escaped from Siberian exile. He was tracked to St. Petersburg, here and taken back to complete bis sentence. There ean scarcely be a mistake here. Indeed you have pitched upon a case, young sir, in which there cin be less question of blunder than in any other almost in our sheets. Itis no* your father who complains, I understand, but yourself Let me warn you thit this is a dancer- ous case in which to interfere. Should you prove yourself interested in this Kornilof, the authorities would be obliged, in spite of respect for your parent and other considerations, to re- gard your fntnre actions with suspicion and perhaps « put a watch upon your doings. Now, tien, what have you te complain of ?’’
Speak for me, Borofsky,”’ 1 said.
“No, excuse me, | will hear fio com- slaint from any but the complainant
imself. ”’
‘Very well, then,’' I said doggedly; “only he would have said it more po- litely than I, maybe. I complain, pris- taf, that your fools cf constables arrest- ed the wrong man. ‘ou must haveseen the prisoner ?”’
“Certainly,’’ interrupted the pristaf.
‘“‘Therefore you are as much to blame as they —perhaps more—and I warn you that unless you set the matter right, and at once, as I shall indicate, steps shall be taken to get justice done in an- other way, and in that case you shall not go unpunished.’’
“But, Holy Mother!” cried the pris- taf, somewhat impr:ssed, perhaps. by my earnestness. ‘‘\What is all this to you, count? Even su pp hat I had arrested the wrong de inquent—which I
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ezar’s sons to come t tale. Now, in a wi we did not actually «wrrest this Korni lof—which, again | deny—we arrested another in his place You are, then, in- terested in this other —is that it?’’
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playing my trump cerd as boldly asI ould. Llonged to impress this man with the seriousness cf the affair he was inclined to treat so lightly. I would blaff him, frighten him, amaze him, but he should believe me and obey me!
The effect of my words upon the pristaf was certainly marked. Hestart- ed and looked at me and then at Borof- Ey
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CHAPTER XXVI. DISCREDITED BY THE POLICE.
“The young gentleman is very far from mad,’’ said Borofsky. ‘‘He is as sane as you or I, and, moreover, what he has said is strictly true. Your people arrested and deported the wrong man at the time and address given, and that man was Count Landrinof.”’
*‘But, my dear sir,’’ began the pris- taf and pansed. Then he touched a An inspector entered so very quickly that there could be no doubt he bad been stationed at the door listen- ing.
“You know Connt Landrinof by sight, inspector, I believe?’’ said the pristaf,
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‘*7o!8 morning, honor.”
“At what hour?’
‘Eleven. ”’
**Read me your report, or your notes, made ator after this rencounter and handed in to my office later.’’
The inspector consulted his notebook. Then he cleared his throat and blew his nose. The inspector did not possess a pocket handkerchief, or, if he did, he had left it at home or pawned it. Rus- sian policemen regard with contempt the finnikin ways of those who possess pocket handkerchiefs and carry them about. Then he read:
‘“‘This morning, as I passed through the Fourth line, at the far end, by the Small prospekt, I observed Count Lan- Crinof, with whom I am slightly ac- quainted. I greeted him, and we en- tered into conversation.’”’
At this point I interrupted the re- cital ‘‘Stop!’’ I said. ‘‘Explain how and when you made the count’s ac- quaintance.”’
‘‘Is it necessary, honor?’’ asked the :ncing at his superior.
‘Oh! You may enlighten the gentle- man,’ said the pristaf, shrugging his
shoulders.
“I was then a plain gorodovoy, a town constable, and held the count’s horse on a certain occasion when the animal was restive. For this service his
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He knew me afterward whenever we met and occasionally presented me with a gratuity on such occasions as Easter and New Year.”’
*‘And he knew you this time?’’ I asked. ; . The inspector winced slightly. I saw it plainly enough, and so did Borofsky, but he replied that the count never
failed to recognize him.
‘You are sure he knew you?’’ said Borofsky, looking keenly at the man.
‘‘Lord have mercy!’’ exclaimed the fellow. ‘‘Have I not said so? He recog- nized me, and we conversed. Here is the conversation. I have it down in my notes. I said: ‘Excellence, we do not often see you in these parts of the town. Do you walk for pleasure?’ To which the count replied that one of the servants, a groom, had been taken ill and was lying sick in his lodging up bere in the Fourth line, by the little Neva, and he came occasionally to in quire after the poor fellow.’
‘¢ ‘Your excellence was always kind hearted and generous,’ I replied, and the count gave me a gratuity and de- parted.”’
‘“‘How much?’’ asked Borofsky.
‘Twenty kopecks,’’ said the fellow.
‘Ah!’ exclaimed acute Borofsky. ‘Not the usual ruble, eh?”
The fellow winced again.
‘I did not say that I always received aruble,”’ he said. ‘‘The amount de- pends upon the services performed.’’
‘‘Hal’’? exclaimed Borofsky. ‘“The service performed today was a great one, my friend, for you neglected to arrest this impostor, which would have been your plain duty. Confess that you were in doubt whether he was in truth Count Landrinof or another, that he did not recognize you at first and that you were surprised to receive 20 kopecks instead of the usual ruble?’’
“Bah!’’ said the pristaf. ‘This is mere foolishness. It is enough. In- spector, you can leave the room. ©
‘You see, gentlemen,’’ he continued, when the man had departed, closing the door after him, ‘‘that there can be no mistake. I, myself, as it happens, have seen the count enter his very house, his own mansion. !t is scarcely a week since I saw him with my own
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‘What! Without permission of the family."’ interrup‘:d the pristaf. ‘‘of the countess, and of this young gentle- man. his son? No, my dear sir: you ask me to believe a thing which is impossi- ble."
“On the contrary,”’ said Borofsky, stamping his foot with vexation, ‘*with their permission and concurrence If you will kindly listen withcut interrup- tion I will make the matter clear from the beginning. The man now passing as Count Landrinof was received into the house under a misconception. The count disappeared last July. He disap- peared utterly and no trace of him could be found until word was received that he had been seen in London. "’
‘‘You appealed, of course, to the po- lice for assistance in your difficulty?” said the pristaf.
“It was the wish of the countess to dispense with the service of the police, because she was naturally desirous of keeping the family trouble as secret as possible. ”’
The pristaf smiled incredulously and shrugged hisshoulders. ‘‘Proceed,’’ he said.
“TI was then dispatched to England in order to induce the supposed count to return,’’ continued Borofsky. ‘‘Be- ing personally unacquainted with his excellence, I was taken in by him and actually assisted in attempting to foist him upon the countess and her son as thereal count. On arrival, however, the impostor no longer attempted to carry on the deception. He admitted that he was not himself the count, but that, if per- mitted to pass for awhile as his excel- lence and to inhabit rooms in his man- sion and to receive certain payments in money, he would in return make over to the countess certain secrets as to the fate of her husband which she could not otherwise learn excepting through his good offices, practically admitting that he was, in fact. that very Andre
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whom, we submit, you believe your men to have arrested on that fatal July afternoon.”
‘‘So that the countess has permitted this person to live in her house and to pass as the count for how long—two months, more or less—in order that she may in the end induce him to part with secrets Which must inevitably end his period of prosperity and also his free- dom! A likely story indeed, my dear sir, and likelier still that this man, if he were Andre, would so disclose his secrets !’’
‘*We have cherished hopes that, fail- ing his good will, we may find means to compel him to make a confession,”’ said Borofsky.
**‘Do so, then, and afterward return to me,”’ said the pristaf. ‘‘But stay,” he added. ‘‘Whence this marvelous tale, then, of the arrest of Count Lan- drinof in mistake for this other ind vidual? Did you not say that Andre Landrinof—supposing it were he—hbad boasted that he alone was able to reveal the secret of the count’s fate? He has not revealed it, I understand. Yet you know the facts. Explain this.”
‘‘We discovered the truth acciden- tally from another source,’’ said Borofe sky.
“Ah, the truth! Yes. Well, gentle- men, I am obliged to you for this most interesting—nay, thrilling—narrative, which I have found very entertaining. I regret that I cannot accept it without support. May this unexpected source that you speak of be examined by me for confirmation of your report?’’
‘‘It is impossible,’’ said Borofsky. ‘We’ —.
‘“‘Ah, I thought so. Good morning, gentlemen. I shall be glad to see you when you have something a little moss definite, and, if I may say so, a littl more plausible and credible, to lay te fore me.”
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‘*‘No doubt, and so shall 1."’ said the wistaf, bowing us politely to the Guur. CHAPTLR XXVII TUE POLICE MAKE INQUIRIES. Borofsky and | were both too angrv o speak much as we left the pristuf's The fellow, as Borofsky explained it, mpiy reeked of tullying officialdom ve Was just the kind of person of whom iothing is to be expected in Russia, a sui) WhO Will -eitber rexJjlv believe or
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pretend te believe his own ironically expressed opinions in defiance of every canon of right and equity. “If a man like that,’’ said Borofsky, ‘‘happens to blunder, as he has, he’ll move heaven and earth to conceal his mistake. He will lie and intrigue and put obstacles in the way of truth, and, if he can help it, right will never be done unless we get at his obstinate conscience with a golden key.”
‘*Well, man, he shall have what he likes. You know that!’’ I said angrily. “If you thought this, why didn’t you say so at the time? We'd have offered him enough to keep him a year. It isn’t a question of economy; you know that!’’
‘‘There’s time enough for bribing when we can’t beat the rascal on our merits,”’ said Borofsky. ‘‘Don’t forget that our little student has another card up his sleeve.”’
We went, presently, to the depart- ment itself, and here we interviewed a greater man.
Very courteous and affable was this gentleman. We recapitulated our story, with the added complaint that the pristaf would do nothing for us.
‘‘What would you have him do?’ asked the great man. ‘‘He cannot forth- with undo the arrest of July last upon your bare assertion. Inquiries will, however, be made. The countess must be examined’’—
“Oh, no!l’’ IL interrupted. ‘Please not—not just yet. at any rate! Let the matter proceed a little further toward solition. ”’
The great one shrugged his shoulders.
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mother,’ he said, **but the matte: a> not go very far without the testinicny of the coantess. The count must be ex- amined—he, I mean, who is now pase ing. as you contend, for the count. All sides must be heard. I may believe peur tale—which is extraordinary—or | ma¥ not, but | can take no steps upon if un- til a thorough inquiry bas «been beid. You will admit that this isso?”
‘‘We admit that. excellence.” Borofsky.
‘You informed the pristaf. uf course. as to the source from which you have obtained your version of the arrest —ths blunder as you term it—of July ?’’ com tinned the official. **Weshall be obligeél to examine into theauthenticity of this source.”
Borofsky flushed. ‘‘I regret,” he stammered, ‘‘that it is at present im- possible for us to reveal it,’’ he said. **My young friend has made, unfortr- nately, a promise of secrecy’’—
‘Oh. but.’”’ exclaimed the great man, “pardon me, young Count Landrinof, but if weare to seek truth we unuet probe all hiding places for her! You do not seriously suppose that yon are to be at liberty to reveal what you please and to conceal also what you think fit? This is a matter of screening cne, I suppose, who has been concerned in possibly criminal enterprises.”
‘*‘I know nothing of my infcrmant,” I said; ‘‘not even his name.”
**Nor his address?’’
‘Nor his address’’— blushing.
‘‘Nor where he is to be found at pres- ent?’’ he added, looking keenly in mp face.
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