The Mission of Poubalov — page 115: what you’re looking at

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A NEW DEPARTURE. 111 CHAPTER XIV. A NEW DEPARTURE. - nal — "a. Sl — **What a hard and disagreeable experience,’’ exclaimed ‘Ciara, ‘“‘and so strange too! You have no occasion to re- oso yourself, Mr. Litizki, with any neglect. You did all that any man could do, I am sure, and it may not prove to be unfortunate that Poubalov saw that you “were watching him.” ' “Y wish I could think so,’ responded the tailor, “and it is wonderfully kind of you to be so patient with my failure. Isn’t there something that I can do now? Ican do no work until this matter is settled, and it is torture to remain idle,’”’ _ “I know how true that is,’’ sighed Clara; ‘‘yes, there is Beccthing I think you can do. If Poubalov had not called last evening, and so changed all our plans, I should have asked you to follow Billings when he leff the house. I “haye little faith in him, Mr. Litizki, and it seems to me that on leaving here last night he must have gone directly ‘to report to his accomplice, or employer. Are you sure that Poubalov spoke to nobody?” _ “Tf he did, it was no more than a passing word. He seemed to know no one.”’ - Clara had to stop and think, for Litizki’s story tended to upset her theories concerning Poubalov’s exit and his : ‘elations with Billings. Could it be possible, after all, that Billings had not been employed by the spy, and that the 1 tter, therefore, had had nothing to do with Ivan’s disarp- : pearance? Perhaps Poubalov worked through still an- other accomplice, and, suspecting possible treachery, had been at the pains of secretly following Billings, to learn whether he and the unknown other were faithful. GOmMmichbooks (E(0)