The Mission of Poubalov — page 88: what you’re looking at

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S4 COLRROBORATIVE DETAIL, self, 708 know, that he would talk with you this eyen- ing.’ | ‘‘T hope I shall have something definite to tell him then,’’ said Clara. ‘‘Will you go downtown with me again this afternoon?’’ Of course she would, and in due time, therefore, the young ladies were again at police headquarters. Detective Bowker was evidently highly pleased with himself, al- though he manfully tried tosuppress any signs of triumph. ‘‘T called at your house this forenoon, Miss Hilman,”’ he said, ‘‘to inform you that the driver of the closed car- riage has been found.’’ E ‘*What does he say?’’ asked Clara eagerly. ‘‘He corroborates what I told you yesterday.’ ‘‘Does he say that he drove Mr. Strobel to the Park Square Station?’’ ) ‘*VYes, just as I told you.”’ ‘Can I see him?”’ “I have no doubt you will be able to doso. He is not here now. He has gone about his work, but I can have him here at any time, or he will call on you. He suggested that himself when I told him that you would be pretty likely to doubt his story.”’ ‘‘T should like to see him,’’ said Clara, her voice faint and tremulous in spite of herself. ‘“‘When did you find him, Mr. Bowker?” ‘‘Well, as to that,’’ replied the detective, reluctantly, ‘Billings came in here early this morning. You know I said that might happen.’”’ ‘‘Yes, What stable does he drive for?’’ ‘‘What stable?’’ echoed Bowker with his stare of sur- prise; ‘‘why should you ask that, Miss Hilman?”’ ‘‘Because I have visited every stable in Boston to find whether any employee could have been driving a closed carriage along Park Street at the hour when the wheel o | Mr. Strobel’s coupé came off.’’ ) ‘Whew! you did mean business, didn’t you?” ex claimed Bowker with evident admiration,. ‘‘Tf’s.a, ity. ¥!