The Mission of Poubalov — page 191: what you’re looking at

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ie lin 7 AT ONE O'CLOCK A. M. 187 Roxbury, and had come a long way from Dover, when he turns down a side street, an’ then another, an’ I kep’ along for [ hadn't anything better tou do. He’d been silent for a while, an’ suddenly he stops an’ says, tryin’ hard to brace up. ‘You mustn’tcoms3any further,’ sayshe. ‘Why not?’ says I, half minded to give him another lickin’, only he was too full. ‘ Cause me bosssays he will ’ but - never mind what he said his boss would do. Isaid I didn’t care, an’ turned back. He went on, an’ then I was minded to see where he went. Of course it was dark, an’ I couldn’t be certain, but I think I could go straight to that build- ing.’’ ‘*Will you take me there?’’ asked Clara. ““Now, miss?’’ Clara reflected. Other objections aside, it might be the worst possible policy to move prematurely in the matter. It might be a false clew, she knew nothing about the building, and meantime Paul was following Poubalov. Much as she longed for immediate action, it seemed wiser to postpone it until an investigation could be made. _**Would your employer spare you to help me to-morrow forenoon?’’ she asked. **[ think he would, miss. He told me to do what you said, says he——”’ ‘Tell him, please, that I would like to have you go with me to-morrow as soon after nine o’clock as you can get here. I shall want you to show me the building, and iden- tify the man Patterson.”’ ‘*That I will, miss, if he’s served you any trick.”’ Poubalov walked very rapidly after he left Mr. Pem- broke’s. He could have saved himself many steps by taking a street-car, but he evidently preferred energetic action. Paul, following, took note, as Litizki had done on a similar occasion, of the streets through which he passed, and at last he saw him pause and stand for several min- utes at the curb, looking across the road at what seemed to be an old-fashioned hotel. After a time 26 Waredd