Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-16

lice, 7 am ready 10 ADMIT tnaL tnelI
system is marvellous and they general
" know where to lay their hands upon
any given person. was not speaking
of your father, nor had mentioned
him But the pristaf said. You are to
undertake business for Count Landrinof,
Borofsky. conclude. since you have
been for two days in communication
with the young count. (They watch
us, you see, these fellows. 1T is odd
that the old bird should have gone to
prosecute his inquiries in London,
whatever they may be, while the young
one leaves London in order to work out
something here.
"sIs the count in London, thenf' !
said 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
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.
said nothing was too astonished.
Could Percy after all have seen the old
dad, then9 l 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. whatf" he said. smiling.
"You don't attach any Importance to
what the pristaf told me, do your l
think you need not, for these brigands,
or whoever the mysterious rascals
should prove to be, would scarcely take
their victim so far afeld. They would
be safe so yards over the frontier. Why
should they 60 so farf'
consulted with Percy. Ought we
not to tell Borofsky that Percy believed
be had seen my father in LondonH
"It would be pity to set him upon a
false scent if it should have been case
of mistaken identity, as of course 1t
may have beenl" said Percy.
"And as l quite believe. even now,
that it was" 1 said. "but l think
Borofsky should know. 1t would not
hurt, and it might possibly lead to some
development. e."
We told Borofsky, and don't know
when l have seen any one quite so sur
prised.
"Why on earth didn't you tell me
this9" he said "It is most important
confederation of the pristaf's words.
explained that we had believed Per-
cy to be the victim of an optical delu-
sion.
"Well," he said. without the pris-
taf's confirmation of it, l. too, should
have said Mr.-this gentleman-had
made mistake; also without this gen.
tleman's confederation should and did
say that the pristaf had for once been
! too clever or not clever enough. But,
taking both stories together. find that
each assertion stands stronger upon it's
legs by reason Of the support it derives
from the other In a word, if / must
give my opinion. should now be in
clined to declare that this gentleman
did gee the count in London, though
why his abductors should have taken
him there is what at present is quite
beyond me to explain. Let US sleep on
the matter and take counsel in the
morning"
And, it being midnight by this time,
we departed to our rooms AS for ME, l
went to bed with sense that the mys-
terry was by no means put forward by
this new development. but rather set
back and complicated.