The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-13

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"Iaoas disguised"
dents with plaids and long hair and
white faces and spectacles, all COM
plete. Our own men were far the most
respectable looking Of the company.
We made Borofsky happy by prais-
ing him for bis skill this afternoon
He had been and still was very sore
over his London 6asco and needed en-
enlargement.
This interregn6m was very trying,
however, to mother and to me. To be
obliged to hang about without advanc-
ing the matter we had 10 deeply at
heart until such time d. our impostor
should think fit to commit himself to
some villainy and we should find means
to suspect or discover II and thus put
himself in our power was tantalizing
indeed.
Besides, there was always the chance
that he had lied throughout and that
in reality he had nothing to reveal as
to fathers fate. Perhaps he had never
seen father and knew nothing more Of
him than bis name, excepting the fact
that, by q stroke Of excellent luck, he
must 80 nearly resemble the real Ian
drinof that he was able to pass as the
count with all but his closest relations,
and that the counts house was uncom-
monty comfortable and that, thanks,
from beginning to end, to the acct
dental resemblance, his lot had fallen
in extremely pleasant places.
Ny mother was assured that our dis
putable guest was none other than
my fathers brother Andre. He could
be no other, she said, for, though she
now knew that there was nothing in the
mans face to recall that of her dear
Vladimir excepting the shape of the
features and that it had been the gross
est calumny upon the count even to
mistake this others photograph for his,
yet the cast Of the features was the
same, and the man could be no other
than the wretched Andre--suppose at
this moment by the police to be far
away in Siberia.
Our friend, however, had assumed
an absolute ignorance Of the existence
Of any such person as Andre Landrinof,
the counts younger brother, when
taxed by Borofsky with being that very
individual He had never heard Of the
man, he said. As for his own name,
Borofsky would have to contrive to ex-
LIST without knowing 1t If 1t depended
on himself to tell it, because, said he,
it was not Borofsky's business to know
it.
But one evening our excellent friend
rather gave himself away. He had TAX
en- to indulging somewhat freely in
vodka, the spirit, distilled from rye
which Is the favorite drink Of the Rus.
sian people, and the vodka loosened his
tongue.
Borofsky often sat with him Of an
evening, the only one Of Us who did,
and on this occasion our guest, being
slightly overrefreshed, suddenly broach-
ed the subject Of Andre Landrinof.
"That brother Of the counts You
were talking about the other day, DO.
rofsky, he said "where is he, and what
is he doing7 Is he . count, too. and
richf"
"He isn't count, but an internal
blackguard, said Borofsky. land I
should gay he is just about as rich as
the folks he has robbed are the poorer.
"Ha, hal Good" said the fellow.
go yen think badly Of him. Whyi"
"Ask the police" said Borofsky.
"Not II A set Of internal rascalsi"'
exclaimed the other. II tell yen they
are 80 times worse, any one Of them,
than this Andre Landrinof. Now,
Andre
Whom you don't know" laughed
Borofsky.
"Wait-I-I think I have met him
under different name. I think he 10
one who Is or was known a. KorniloS
met him in London"
"Not In Sibsria--are you surer
BorofsRy put in.
"Curse you, why do You interrupt
nef' shouted the other angrily. II tell
you know nothing Of Siberia. I met
this man In London-Kornilof. He lives
In London owing to prosecutions in
this internal country. and has lived
there for years.
"Then II can't be Andre interrupt.
ed Borofsky again, "for Andre has spent
the flower Of his life in the mines Of
Siberia, where, 1t is to be hoped, he still
blooms and will continue to bloom until
judgment day or SO"
"Oh, indeed You seem TO know
great deal Of this Andrel" said our
guest. with tipsy dignity and scorn.
"Would You be surprised to learn that
he Is not such COMPOUNDED fool as You
suppose, and, at the present moment, 10
thousands of miles from Siberia
and has no intention Of re--rsturDing
theref'
"Kornilof, that Isl" suggested Bo-
rofsky.
eyes, Kornilof, or Andre-sarne
thiua-aama man Gihariu II for fools.