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He knew nothing, of course, of the part this crafty Pole had played or what his own change of circumstance owed to him. To Alban, Paul Boriskoff was just the same mad revolutionary as before at once fanatic and dreamer and, before then, the father of Lois who had loved him.
"I am leaving England to-day," the note went on, "and may be many months abroad. The unhappy death of Paul Boriskoff in the Schlusselburg will be already known to you, and will relieve you of any further anxiety upon his daughter's account. I have the assurance of the Minister of St. Petersburg that she will be released immediately and sent to "Five Gables" as I have wished.
"Did Paul Boriskoff tell you that I was about to marry his daughter, Mr. Gessner?" "My dear lad, what Paul Boriskoff said or did can be of little interest to you or me to-night. He is no longer in England, let me tell you. He left for Poland three days ago." "Then you saw him or heard from him before he left?" "Not at all. The less one sees or hears from that kind of person the better.
Naturally, you think it a strange thing to be brought to a great city like this and there asked to identify a face. Let me say that I don't think it will be a difficult matter. The Chief of the Police will call upon me in the morning and he will be able to tell us in how many houses it would be possible for the girl Lois Boriskoff to hide.
He had expected something of the kind, but the seeming truth dismayed him. In a second interview with Boriskoff he used all his best powers of argument and entreaty to effect a compromise. He would send the lad to the University, have him educated abroad, establish him in chambers do anything, in fact, but that which the inexorable Pole demanded of him.
Old Boriskoff used to boast that he knew of things which had happened in Warsaw before the Russian Government. They seem to have spies in every street and every house. If Lois' presence is not a coincidence " "My dear fellow, are you also a believer in coincidence the idle excuse of men who will not reason. Forgive me, but I think very little of coincidence.
"In a week," he was saying to himself, "Lois Boriskoff shall be flogged in the Schusselburg." In truth, the whip was the weapon he liked best when women were to be schooled. Alban had never been abroad, and it would have been difficult for him to give any good account of his journey to Warsaw.
The parson, however, believed that his charge was already wearied; and he said eagerly: "It is just over there between the trees, my lad. We shall be with our good friend in five minutes now. Perhaps you know that you are on Hampstead Heath?" "I came here once with little Lois Boriskoff on a Bank Holiday. It was not like this then. If Mr.
"Old Boriskoff knew I was going to get the sack and little Lois has been chattering," he argued nor did this line of reasoning at all console him. Sidney Geary, meanwhile, felt as though some one had suddenly applied a slab of melting ice to those grammatical nerves which Cambridge had tended so carefully. "My dear Mr. Kennedy not 'slap-up, I beg of you.
And what an inspiration was that what an instantaneous revelation of possibilities. Let this lad go to Warsaw and he would discover Lois Boriskoff quickly enough. The girl had been in love with him and would hold her tongue at his bidding. As in a flash, he perceived this spar which should save him, and clutched at it. Let the lad go to Warsaw let him be the agent.
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