Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
CHAPTER VIII.
IDENTIFIED BY PHOTOGRAPH.

It was but few hours after the re-
ceipt of Percy's first telegram that
second message arrived. Percy now
wired that he had succeeded in discov-
ering "Robinson's address,, which we
were not slow to understand was in
tended to intimate that he had tracked
father or his double-whichever it was
to some house in which he lived.
Percy's telegram finished up with the
words starting back tonight" So that
In three days we should know all that
be had to tell u.s.
These three days were passed-by
me at least-in condition Of suspense
and anxiety difficult to be borne. I
eould settle down to nothing; neither
did our little detective display any
marked degree of digni6ed calm. He
was greatly excited, and we spent the
time together in playing billiards at
home and discussing at great length
and with much vain repetition the
chances for and against the success of
Percy's efforts Borofsky was. though
much excited. quite sanguine and al
most confident that for some inexplica-
BILE reason my poor father had fed to
London without warning mother of his
departure and that Percy had acci-
dentally found him there. He would
not discuss the question as to why IA
ther should have done this There would
be plenty of time for explanations. be
said, sfterward. The main point now
was to make sure that the count was
safe and we'll and to know where to
find him at any moment. 1t might not
even be necessary to bring him back at
once should he have good reason to de-
sire to remain away There might be
financial troubles or a quarrel with the
authorities
both utterly impossible. Borof-
skyl' said. my father is a rich man,
and the authorities from the lowest
chinovnik to the czar respect and esteem
him.
"My dear young sir. said Borofsky.
neither you nor can see in the dark.
Rather than grope about and knock his
shins against the furniture the wise
man will wait for light, and so will
WEI
We had not mentioned to mother the
object CT Percy's trip to London. She
had naturally concluded that he had
business of his own to attend to. and
was pleased and grateful when he prom
ised her. at parting, that he would not
be absent long and would return to help.
me in my discouraging task of finding
father so soon as ever he could get
away We met Percy on the afternoon
of the third day. and as Borofsky and /
tramped the platform of the Warsaw
station, awaiting the arrival of his
train. l, for one. was in such state Of
excitement and expectation that I had
not word to say to my companion by
reason of the quaking Of my jaws and
the rapid beating of my heart, and !
fancy Borofsky, though be had so much
less at stake on the result of Percy's
trip. was not much less agitated than /
to hear what he should have to tell us.
Slowly and laboriously the train drag
ged itself into the station, as Russian
trains do. There is none Of that fine
rushing in at full speed and pulling up
short at the very platform in the ad-
mirable manner of our English engine
drivers. The poor old Russian engine, a
numbering, wood burning thing, has
had an immense distance to 60, you see,
and is no doubt so tired that it can
scarcely drag itself and its heavy load
Of carriages into the haven where it
would be. However, Percys train
crawled slowly and mournfully in at
last, and out jumped Percy.
I could see at once by his radiant face
and the pleased smile with which he
greeted us that the dear old fellow had
been successful, or believed himself to
have succeeded, in bis enterprise.
sprang to him and seized his hand.
"Well, old man," I murmured,
scarcely able for excitement to articu-
late the words, "what luckf'