Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-16

the conversation. have 1t down IN my
notes. I said: Excellence, we do not
often see you in these parts of the
town. Do you walk for pleasureT To
which the count replied that one of the
servants, a groom, had been taken i'll
and was lying sick in his lodging up
here 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, replied, and
the count gave me a gratuity and de-
parted"
Glow much3" asked Borofsky.
"Twenty kopecks. said the fellow.
"AhI' exclaimed acute Borofsky.
"Not the usual ruble, eh?''
The fellow WINGED again.
81 did not say that I always received
a ruble," he said. 1.-THE amount de-
pends upon the services performed" "
"Hap' exclaimed Borofsky. "The
service performed today was great
one, my friend, for you neglected ia
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 30 kopecks
instead of the usual ruble?'
"Bah!" said the pristaf. "This is
- n.
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. 1t is scarcely
a week since I saw him with my own
eyes"
"But, my dear sir" said Borofsky,
"all this does not advance the matter
in the least We do not contest that a
certain individual, sufficiently like the
Count Landrinof to be mistaken for
him by those who are not intimately
acquainted with the count, is at pres
ent living and passing himself off as
Count Landrinof, at his ezcellency' s
own mansion
"What! Without permission of the
family" interrupted the pristaf, "of
the countess. and of this young gentle.
man, his son? No, my dear sir; you ask
me to believe thing which is impossi-
ble."
"On the contrary, said Rorofsky.
stamping his foot with vexation, with
their permission and concurrence. If
You will kindly listen without Interrupt
tion l will make the matter clear from
the beginning. The man now passing
as Count Landrinof was received into
the house under ~ misconception. The
court 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. l."
"You appealed. of course, to the po-
lice for assistance in your difficulty ?"
said the pristaf.
cit 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 his shoulders. proceed. he
said.
81 was then dispatched to England
in order to induce the supposed count
to return" continued Borofsky. "Be-
ing personally unacquainted with his
excellence, 1 was taken in by him and
actually assisted in attempting to foist
him upon the countess and her son as
the real 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
whom. we submit, you believe your
men to have arrested on that fatal July
afternoon.
$50 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 confession, y
said Borofsky.
"Do so, then, and afterward return
to me-, said the pristaf. "But stay, y
he added. "Whence this marvellous
tale, then, of the arrest of Count Lam
drinof in mistake for this other indi-
vidual2 Did you not say that Andre
Landrinof-supposing it were he-had
boasted that he alone was able to reveal
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