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"I bring news both of failure and of success," he began, "but the failure is of greater moment to us. Your instructions to my Government, that the Boriskoffs, father and daughter, were an embarrassment to you which must be removed, have been faithfully interpreted and acted upon immediately.
Alban honestly believed that he would be helping both Gessner and his old friends, the Boriskoffs, should he discover little Lois' whereabouts and take her back to London. A very natural longing to see her once more added to the excitements of the journey.
The Russian authorities must be perfectly well aware what he has done in London, and are not likely to forget it. Yes, indeed, I am sorry that he has been so foolish." He spoke as one who regretted sincerely the indiscretions of a friend and would have saved him from them. Gessner, upon his side, desired as little talk of the Boriskoffs as might be.
A voice of human suffering never failed to make an instant appeal to him. "As true as God's in heaven, if ever I get rich, I'll come first to Lois with the story," he said and so he bent and kissed her on the lips as gently as though she had been his little sister. Alban's garret lay within a stone's throw of the tenement occupied by the Boriskoffs; but, in truth, it knew very little of him.
Herr Gessner must now deal with these people once and for all generously and finally. I see no other chance for him whatever." Alban agreed to this, although he had some reservations to make. "I know the Boriskoffs very well," he said, "and they are kindly people. We have always considered old Paul a bit of a madman, but a harmless one.
Yes, it had been mentioned in a dossier from the Ministry of Justice. He thought again and recalled other circumstances. The Government had been anxious to do the man a service they had commanded the arrest of the Boriskoffs why, at this very Gessner's bidding!
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