The Mission of Poubalov — page 154: what you’re looking at

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150 THE KEY TO IVAN’S PRISON. of men and women who gradually gathered at the trance to the dock, waiting to go on board the Ce or to bid good-by to friends and relatives. Before very long he heard the strident voice of a boy calling his morning wares. He listened for a qt tion of startling headlines, expecting that the murder ¢ passenger in a drawing-room car would be the great neé feature of the day. Perhaps this boy had not read | papers carefully. At all events, he shouted nothing wh ever concerning the event that had crowned Litizki’s | and made him a hero and a coward at once. i After some hesitation the tailor bought a paper, | ran his eyes over the captions of the leading articles. — found no reference to his deed there. He examined 1 paper, column by column, from first page to last, and 1 one line set forth so much asa hint of Poubalov’s tra end. , _ Eomicbooks.cc