The Mission of Poubalov — page 216: what you’re looking at

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212 HIDE AND SEEK. ‘*Yes, it’s an abandoned tavern—that is, it was forn run as a hotel, but the enterprise was a failure, and it now closed. I learned that much from a man who w; passing while I stood under the balcony, waiting for son body to answer my ring. He remarked that he didz believe I’d find anybody at home, as the house had practically deserted for some time.”’ “a ‘But we saw Poubalov come out of there this morning, urged Clara. % ‘*I said as much to my informant, but he answered fi it was probably somebody who had been looking it oy with a view to purchase. Of course we know better, but goes to show that neither Patterson nor anybody else liv there.’ a ‘*Except Ivan, if he still lives,’’ said Clara gravely. - ‘Don’t think I forgot that possibility,’’ returned Pat earnesly. ‘‘I quietly tried the door after my inform had passed on; he didn’t know the name of the owner, 1 the way. Of course the door was locked. I went aroui to the side and back, for there is a driveway there le to stables that are apparently as little used as the t itself. Every door and every window was closed. knocked and shouted, and then neighbors put their hea out of windows and advised me that I was making a noi: to no purpose. If it had been night I would have bur ‘open a door or window, and have gone through the h ) from roof to cellar, but that plan is rather imp by daylight.’’ if ‘*T wonder,”’’ said Clara, ‘‘if the law would allow a seal of that building. I mean something to be done officia I’ve heard of search-warrants.”’ ‘‘It’s barely possible, and you might try it; but 1 idea, such as it is, would be to go there quietly tc ourselves, and force an entrance.’’ ‘‘And in either case Poubaloy might return du day, and effect a change in the situation that would x the search useless.”’ > ‘‘Yes,’’ said Paul, gloomily, ‘‘l1 had thegglis wd. s.com