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| flushing with agitation, | thought, was the beginning of a clew.

| there was no doubt whatever.

: & a : AN 8 —" “ SS 4 ‘ti A. > aly ae ' a ’ rad. >, Fes 7 wii (( — a ——— SS) mvc = ct? uw &” a s FET! — « " COPYRIGHT ‘ a TS Cor inl “Did S » (tl } drive bim to th nz”: 3 Spiridon scr: he flected. I drew a w at a ve ‘*You were drunk when on n came to interview you, Spirid oie said. **Confess it. You don’t remez |-

ber what you told him.’’

“I certainly went heme with the count from the moor,’’ he when we reached the house he gave a ruble and sent me back to the moor. to the other gentleman and Armin, say- ing they might want me to carry ga e. He had no luggage and would walk to the station.’’ Then Spiridon grinned and scratched his head. ‘‘I may have been a little drunk when your man came down,’”’ he added; ‘‘the gentlemen had both tipped me generously. ”’

There was no more to be got out of Spiridon.

Then I went to the station and in- quired of the station master, who said he knew the count well, whether he had seen my father on the day in ques- tion.

‘Did he travel home by the afternoon train on Wednesday the —?’’ I asked.

‘“‘Wednesday, the—,’’ repeated the

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man reflectively, consulting bis day-

book. ‘‘Ah, I thought so—no, he did not, for that was the afternoon that the line was blocked. Some rascal bad laid a tree across and the engine ran off the line—the up engine—and plowed the metals. I remember your father coming to the station, but he did not travel.’’

‘*‘What did he do, then?’’ | asked, for here, I

‘*Well, I can’t tell you,”’ he said.

| “He left the station, and, now I come

to think of it, he did not reappear. The other gentleman took the train next

| day, but not the count.”

‘‘Not the count!"’ I repeated. ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Quite sure!’’ said the man. ‘He

came on the Tuesday, but—well, he has not gone back yet, and that’s a fact!”

CHAPTER IV. A SLIGHT CLEW FOUND. Here was « surprise indeed. Father had come to this place, of that He had been out on the moors, that was equal-

_ ly certain, and he had presented him- _ self at the station with the intention of

returning to town, but had been balked of his train and— And there was an end of the trail so far.

‘*Please think again.”’ I murmured. *“*Are yon perfectly certain the count did not catch some other train later in the day or perhaps early the next morn- ing? Did you see each train away?”

**l have not missed a single train, in or ont. since Easter.’’ said the station Luaster

‘Could he have gone home any other way?’ L asked presently. ‘‘{t is too far to drive ina village cart or to ride

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a ‘ ’ I i 3 to travel ( ’ st t n 7 i a, oid ‘ ] ¢ a he we lrive all ¢} >) Arive ili the way round by i ‘ . 4 le road The count would searcely have done that.” AY triend, as ¢ ‘er npon the rail- Way, a new i1 and very proud - =

, cherished an obvious scorn for the old fashioned method of travel- ing by post road

““Still,’’ I said, “‘if he was ina great hurry he might have chesen that way in spite of the slowness and discomfort of the journey.”

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suggestion of any person of light and leading using the post road under any circumstances, now that the railway was laid. Heshowed no further inclina- tion to converse. I wired Percy at our home in St. Petersburg that I had found a slight clew and begged him to come up and help me work it as soon as pos- sible after his arrival, after which I set myself to make inquiries among the peasants in the village, hoping that I might find one among them who hada seen my father on the fatal Wednesday and perhaps even driven him to Balota, to the post station there.

I interviewed half a dozen of the vil- lagers, each one more crassly stupid than the last. They did not know the gentlemen who hired the shooting, even by sight, they declared. They knew the

Mother dried her tears and told me her story.

keepers. But what had they, the peas- ants, to do with the sportsmen? There was nothing to be got out of them, for they came to shoot, and shot and went away again, being in a hurry all tbe while, and therefore it was useless t& cultivate their acquaintance.

Even the offer of a ‘‘nachaiok,™ ™ tip, though it awakened the interest of the sleepy rascals, did not seem to stimulate their memories or even their inventive talents. The Russian moujik is the finest and most accomplished liar in the world if you give him time, but you must not hurry him. He is not in- tellectual enough toconjure up a plau- sible tale at a moment’s notice. How- ever, these men declared that they had seen neither count nor any one else on

the Wednesday, and each one asked for a tip on the plea that to cast back one’s memory so far was a serious exertion. One man explained that a tip was due to him for his truthfulness. ‘‘You can see I’m an honest man,’”’ he said, ‘‘for if I had lied and said I drove this barin to Balota you would have believed me and given me twice as much as I now ask.’’

But a short while after I had returned to the lodge, dispirited and bewildered and uncertain what next to do, a little peasant man came mysteriously into the room in which I sat. He bowed and crossed himself in front of the ikon in the corner and then oilily approached my chair and with finger to lip whis- pered ‘‘“Sh-h!’’ Then he glanced melo- dramatically over his shoulder and back again at me and whispered, ‘‘May I speak to you, barin?”’

I could scarcely help laughing at the comical little creature. I remembered him perfectly as one of those I had in- terviewed up at the village a few hours azo. He had sworn that he had never heard of or seen any gentleman answer- ing to my description of my father. —

“Speak on by all means,’’ | said, “bat no lies, mind!”

‘‘Lord have mercy, barin, would Ilie to you?”

“It strikes me you have done so once already, my friend,’’ Isaid—‘‘that is, if you have anything to te!l me now. .

“Shh!” he said, glancing round again. ‘‘Not so loud, barin; that was necessary, because others were present who might not hear, but all the while I aid to myself, ‘When it is safe, and I can see this good barin alone, I will go ané tell him al) the truth,’ and eg l

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‘Then the little rascal. spun a most

circumstantial tale of how one day, a \ very short while since—

‘Last week?’ | interposed. ‘Yes, last certainly, last k,’’ he said, he had been driving his

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cart from the fields near the village n three men in the road called to to stop. One seemed ill, and the

} other two supported him. They asked | whether he could drive them to Batota

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ra certain sum he wou!d do so, but

the sum he mentioned was a large one , because his horse was tired ‘Drive us there in an hour.” they

said. ‘tand you shall have double that! Then, glad at heart—for money is sea in these parts—he drove them quickly to Balota. At the post station they curried the sick man in. Then one came out and gave him the money, four times as

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were reasons why he should not breathe a word to living man or woman about

lota. On the other hand, they would be sure to know if his tongue should wag, and, by all that was sure and terrible, death would be his reward—a sudden and violent death—when he least ex- pected it! My little informant at this point looked so pale and so obviously alarmed at his owr temerity in telling me the story that [I could not help be- ing impressed by it. Either he spoke the truth or he was a most consammate actor as well as liar.

‘‘Look here, my man,” I said, wish- ing to test him further. ‘*You are very rash. Supposing that I should prove to be the friend of these persons who em- ployed you, sent by them purposely to try the good faith of the man they had trusted by offering a bribe as though from the other side. Why, you would be as good as a dead man and’’—-

The wretched fellow was on his knees in a moment; tears rushed to his eyes; he groaned and wailed and moaned, crossing himself vehemently and utter- tering inarticulate words — probably prayers—as unmistakable a picture of abject terror as the eye could see. Real or assumed, his fear took me in at once,

and I believed his tale. (To be Continued.)

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