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week arter MS u1sappearauce, anu noun
er fretted and wept.
Great heavens! To set all this right
and see dear mother happy once more
should spy with the best and meanest.
One evening Borofsky returned home
I, in the best of spirits
'sWhat is it, Borofsky7' inquired
for / saw that he was longing to be
asked.
tive had a good haul today he
said, rubbing his hands "Our friend s
busy over some deviltry, I'd stake my
existence on it. He has been present at
a secret committee meeting this after,
noon, and know where they met and
how many Were present. .
''And what they plotted. . asked,
land who they were?'
'sYou are going too fast, my dear
sirl' said Borofsky. "How could pos
sibly know all that? ] was not in the
room and all these people l have seen
today for the first time .
'sBut how did you get to see them at
all2" asked. Didn't you run great
risk e
'.Some risk. no doubt, but | wasn't
Borofsky. mind you-I was disguised.
went to my lodgings early in the aft
ernoon and put on a beggar's dress that
have in stock-a perfect disguise In
this | returned here. standing outside
this very door till our friend came out.
| did the same yesterday, but he kept
me waiting several hours and never
came at all Well. this afternoon had
hardly been here quarter of an hour
when out comes my man. jumps into a
drosky and drives away
Luckily l. too, had drosky wait
| ing round the corner and into this l
jumped. throwing the cloak over me
that was already prepared for my use
in case of need and lay folded ready on
the cushion
II followed his drosky right across
! to the island side, down the first line,
over the Tuchkof bridge and into the
Peterburgskaya. He turned into small
I street that led out of the prospekt, and
stopped in the main thoroughfare a
few yards farther on. threw the cloak
to my driver and hurried back to the
corner of the small street
His drosky was returning empty,
and he had disappeared, and I thought
had lost my man; but almost imme-
dlately another trap drove up. turned
into the street and stopped at little
wooden house half way down it. So
limped toward the gate Of that house
a beggar again. now-and took nv
stand near by
No less than seven other individuals
drove or walked to that gate, sir, and
entered the little wooden house, though
] was not exactly on the spot when all
arrived, for the first that came gave me
grievnik 90 kopecks) and babe me go
farther, very much farther; but we
need not specify the destination he had
fixed upon me. The next was no more
polite, and rather than cause anger or
rouse suspicion moved few doors
away. When all had arrived-nine or
ten there must have been in ALL
waited a few minutes and then depart-
ed
| swell done, Borofsky, said 1. .sYou
have certainly advanced matters today.
1t was undoubtedly a meeting of sorts.
Our friend is up to no good, I'll be
sworn! Well, now we know one Of his
haunts, anyway Well catch him out
yet and then We'll name our terms for
saving his head from the only place it's
! tit to fill, and that's the moose. !"
''What manner Of men were these
friends of his?'' asked Percy; s.the
other members of this charming COM
mittee? A set Of desperate looking
cutthroats, Ill bet =
'"They were very mixed, said Be-
rofsky. ''There We're some who looked
quite respectable officers; two fellows
in civilian uniform; one or two awful
looking specimens and couple of stu