The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-01-29

able members of his family, but Il
what ill do you know Of me? am an
innocent lamb, incapable of hurt or
harm. am telling You picturesque
story of the adventures of this near rel
ative of your own. What have to do
with it? | am narrator only
Stop. said. what has all this
to do with my fathera You are not to
suppose. that shall submit to be. put
off with your conceitedly told yarns
about others unless they carry substan-
tial information as to my father and his
whereabouts. The check can be stopped
and you arrestedl'
.'And you-can do just what the blood
hound aforesaid did" my companion
laughed. Nand that is, lie down in some
dark porch or gateway, with big hole
in you, and take your last look up at
the stars while your blood runs over
the pavement. But. surely we need not
quarrel over grievance which does not
exist. am coming to your precious
father in a minute or two''
&c on, then, (" said l was begin
ming to loathe the sight of this little
toad of man.
"Well, the bloodhound died, as /
say. but another was put upon the
scent, and, when he died, third, and
still they would not let Andre alone,
though they could not catch him.
''Then, at last, one of us-I mean,
one of the body of men and patriots
who were privileged to call themselves
the friends of Andre-hatched very
brilliant plot for the relief, of Andre
and for the getting Of him safely over
the frontier. which--ardently as our
friend desired to go abroad for the good
of his health and for the advantage of
certain projects in which he was inter
ested-had been hitherto quite impossi-
bic, owing to the care with which the
authorities had laid their plans to pre-
vent it,
''The railway stations bristied with
gendarmes and ununiformed police
SPIES in fact-and the frontier was
guarded as though it were a powder
magazine and some one had threatened
to put match to it.
CHOW, this was the plan. and you
must listen very carefully to it. for |
am pledged to interest you. and the
5000 rubles in my pocket have been
paid me for what am going to tell you
next.
"But as this part of the tale is SO
very Interesting we will drink glass
of wine to steady our NERVES.
"Drink the whole bottle and be
hanged, only go onl'' i raved
"Good wines should never be taken
too fast. said the little rascal. DELHI
erately slipping from his glass. And
this is good vine laret. do you cali
it, or burgundy7 l don t often have the
opportunity of sampling these expen-
siye vintages. and therefore ! do not
claim to be much of a judge Take
glass. You won't? Well. L see you are
excited to hear what have to tell you,
SO here goss
Zone of us-one of them, i should
say conceived this idea Andre. he
knew, they all knew. was we'll connect
ed. He owned to brother who ranked
as patrician among the patricians
MoreoveI Andre made it boast that
he bore more than strong family like
ness to his brother, the great Count
Landrinof
'.This ingenious person. the hatcher
of the plot. took the trouble to visi'
Count Landrincf at this very aristo-
cratic and palatial esta blishment in
which / am at this moment an honored
guest. He came ostensibly to ask for
contribution for some benevolent enter
prise which he mentally evolved for the
occasion, but in reality to judge whether
the brothers were really soNmuch alike
that there was reasonable expectation
that they might be mistaken one for
the other.
"Well he met with extraordinary
success; double-nay, treble success.
Your father, he found, was generous
man, and, pardon me, more than lit.
tie foolish. He subscribed rubles to-
ward Ivanof's fund 1--WE will call him
Ivanof for convenience, which 5 rr-
bles Ivanof found very useful.
Secondly, Ivanof saw at glance
that Andre and his brother were quite
exceptionally and marvelously alike
and might easily be mistaken the one
for the other. That this is SO none knows
better than yourself, for to this fact
you are indebted for the pleasure of
Andres presence under your roof.
$50 onp' said. Even now could
not for the life of me foresee what was
coming.
Thirdly, Iyanof, while waiting in
the great hall down stairs-a splendid
hall, by the way; but is it not cold in
winterf A space of that size would,
should say
go on!" cried, stamping my foot
could have twisted the little rascal S
head off but for the frenzied desire |
now felt to hear the end of his tale.
"Well, thirdly. then, Ivanof had the
pleasure of seeing another gentleman
besides the count, an Englishman named
Herbert, or Hubert, and of hearing the
end of your fathers conversation with
him, which fell in marvelously well
with Ivanof's plans. The two gentle
men were, in fact arranging for a
shooting party at place called Erinof
ka, and fixed upon the days and hours