The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-01-15

S.ufse, ,lJr, ;tnough. Il! seetheas Inaeea TO
establish hei factS that he had Sseen my
dear father himself, yet it did little to-
9 ward elueiaaA nfu1 l5ny stery
of his disappearance or the still more
painful and bewildering ystery OF, his
asssajifence. q Hs ssssa ~ 7l
z Here s#as dathN obEiously$'a free
agent ana atie hf hshhosh to write home
With eSElanatiio IN sHsbf his absence, yet
he preferred to live secret and semi,
hidden4a lifeSfin a slumny. or at least
third rate, quarter of Lon dom He was
free and living alone. Those rascals
who had carried him off From sErinofka
ma conveyed him over the frontier and
away We're no longer with him. He was
out Of their power. Buff out of their
power, why did he not return orawriteis
Had they some mysterious hold upon
aim, forbidding him under pain of
sudden death IA death snch as had be-
fallen the unfortunate little tale earer
ut Erinofka-to communicate in any
way< whatever with those who were
familiar with him at home
No" said ] heartily. when this
theory was put forward by Percy, s'cer>
,itainly not. Father would never tamely
submit to such a thing. Once out Of
their hands and free to do as he liked,
father would soon find means TO turn
the tables on the rascals, blackmailers
or whatever they may be, and it is
quite possible, if they exist at.sal1 in
connection with this affair. that they
are blackmailers.
what would they blackmail your
father for 2 asked Percy quite indig-
Snantl e is not at al1.the mani to have
IaHHkeletonssaain The cupboard that he is
afraid to show to all the world .ss so
.,.s.: quite truess. I said.aas but there's
that prssiipus brother stthaf mother told
us# Of IfIa nihiiist Johnny, who mnr-
dered elpedksto murder some one
aIhesel chaps, I'LL they Exist, may have
found out all about 1T and are threaten
ing father with heaven knows what if
he'doess not pay up some. fhugefssunil Of
money. But even this doesn 'tiRxplain
his; silencesor his mysterious journey to
London, either, unless lie hasiFgone to
raise funds ~ But II he would 81 have let
mothsr know ais aoohissas ffffee=pI
am cocksure Of it. = d
-----.. Unless they -havesdrivens him out Of
his senses for the time being 4 mother
sighed. iT i lfS fdt}f
I z:stNo, motheH,'FI saidJ ssI'll tell you
what / think. I've come to- the conclu-
sion that those Erinofka a.rascals1 have
nothing whatever to do with it or with
:us. Their affair was merely a coinci
dence as regards father and his. disap,.
pearance They were there, granted, and
they were up. toisome game which need.
ed, secrecy and even tmurd ered a man
who divulged their secret, ybut,t the drug.
ged man N conclude he was drugged)
or the sick man was not father. We
!; Thought we had struck ATRIAL, gbutait
was q false scent. :. ID
ass.'God grant ;iit,p deaf Boris * said
mother for II cannot sibear to think Of
your father. having fallen into into such
hands Bu t. WY iiays eo ne to this
%For two 10, reasons s,a,e, o ,,,e i that if
these fellows had any good reason for
/ bagging father and carrying him away
they would not haveslet him lgo;freefas
they have done and ] Shes6ther Is that,
aaSI have said, now father is free and
we know thai he p, is. If his silence and
;disapp earance5and 81, bad ybbeeap brought
about by these people be;would cer-
-ttaii1a14y eemmHaieate--wiitt There
mist be {anotHsf reason Lfof bill gfight.il
do with it. 80 80 -. -4st
K {, YETI neither. nor mother nor Percy,
could pntoforttr any good theory I'd re;
place thee old ones and THE situation re-
solved. We a m1nst Az await further dev9ei=a
opmeAts from the other side Of the Was'
ter. and trust to Borofsky's talent and
exertions to bring light into DUR dark
places, and this he could Only do BY re-,
storing poor father u 'hifss tight mind
and persuading him to return 10 us. a..
/ think should have set out myself,
presently, in order: tosee father and find
out, in person, what allied him and
whether an appeal from me, and in
mothers name, would restore him to-
reason, but fewsdays later we had al
second and a very exciting letter from,
Borofsky g Il 7ios
II have met with astonishing success
since my lastletter5' he wrote, though
not without much patience and some
personal risk. y <. -
Personal riskl'' echoed mother, in
terrupting me as read aloud! ,tls ~
4."Then those rascals are still hanging
abont. Nav God nrotecf dear Vladimir
and also this poor Borofsky
I, too, had been surprised to see the
expression fused risk. I
continued to read the letter aloud: tlf
t!ttH"The count, at our last interview,
had suddenly closed the conversation;
angrily giving me to- understand that
he considered my lasteremark a liberty
he rose from the table, bowed and left
the restaurant. ! following minute
later. The count returned home saw
him to his lodgings and re-entered my
/ own, which We're nearly opposite. and
u L. ] .ssg i.