The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-21

9.hs piscs v Z spot Sstween KarliOr ana
Bootisf, ON TIE Moscow Boulogne Nne of
railway. Our inpcstoF has6 disappeared.
but your men can surely lay hands up.
on him. For shs rest you can. Of course.
send telegram to the nearest town or
station to the SPOT where the attempt
10 or was to be made. "
"stopi Your informant-whers is
be to be foundi" 49,
"That 10 our secret" I said.
my dear SIR" said the chief warm
ly, "do you seriously suppose that We
should allow the author of so serious a
warning as this to escape our hands :
The man must be personally implicated
or be would not be in position to turn
informer. Come; we are neither chill
dren nor fools. Who is this man, and
where is he to be founds"
II have promised that he should re-
main screened" said. Without the
giving Of such an undertaking should
never have learned the secrets he had
. to reveal"
"And which he revealed doubtless in
hope of a reward, What rewardf'
'Ten thousand rubles-half for the
information as to my fathers arrest
and deportation by . blunder Of the po-
lice. who fell into the trap laid for
them; the othes half for this secret"
"And why, pray, should You pay
5000 rubles for the secret Of this con-
spiracyi 1t is magnanimoua But
whyf" $ H47'sG
"Because you refused to believe in
the imposture Of this man. It was nee
essary to bring home to him some other
undou bted offense. such as this Then !
hoped you would realize that q mistake
had been made in the other affair and
would have the mistake set right by
releasing my father and furnishing this
wretch.
'But your informer probably invent
ed this new thing in order to gain an
extra reward--6. 900 rubles. Gracious
heavenl What lie would not any man
tell for such sum Of money!"
swell, Telegraph and let your fel-
lows see whether the thing ia lie or
truth. You can detain me here, IL you
like. II 1t should prove that my in
formant has not lied, why, then, he will
have done you signal service. and You
will not regret allowing him to escape
from the country, on condition that he
leaves written deposition. +"
"a will telegraph, at any rateI" said
the chief, who, in spite Of his bullying
air, put on by way Of covering his an
noyance to find that so serious matter
as an attempt at the czar's life should
be in actual preparation without his
knowledge, was obviously agitated and
far more inclined to take us seriously
than he had been yesterday or at the
commencement Of the interview.
''If you will sit down, both Ct you,
and rest awhile. he continued, II will
have this matter set going at once. We
can settle the question Of the informer
at later stage Of the inquiry; there
may be nothing in it.
He left Borofsky and me seated in his
private Office and departed.
"We shall look pretty pair Of fools
If the police find the whole thing to be
a mares nestl" said Borofsky. "If the
little villain has lied to us, we need
have no mercy Let the authorities
have him. if they want him."
We waited asquarter Of an hour, oc-
casionally exchanging remark or so,
but mostly sitting silently, being busily
occupied with our own thoughts, when
a startling thing happened.
An attendant appeared and informed
me that a gentleman desired to see
young Count Landrinof He was down
stairs Would l interview him heres
He must see me alone, he said.
A minute or two later Percy burst
into the room. He looked pale and hag-
gard, terrified-it seemed to meas
though he. had just been scared by some
apparition.
"a fearful thing has happened" he
began the instant his head was in the
room. "Heaven only knows what it
meansi went over to the lodging we
took for the student to see that he
h.dn't escaped, and 80 on, and"-
"Don' say he has escaped" l said.
"It would mean that he had lied all
through"
"Hes deadl" muttered Percy. "Mur-
deredl He's lying there at this moment
with the knife in his heart-a fearful
sight l thought I'd better come on
here and tell you about it at once.