The Mission of Poubalov — page 152: what you’re looking at

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148 THE KEY TO IVAN’S PRISON. in so doing I shall lay bare to you the secrets of my hea and confess to you the weak, good-for-nothing that I am such as you yourself have found me to be. I hope my at tion of this evening will redeem me somewhat in ye eyes.’”’ Here followed a detailed account of Litizki’s attempte rescue of Strobel, and he mitigated none of the mortifyin occurrences, freely confessing himself a child in the hanc of his adversary. | ‘‘The room where Strobel was confined on that night, ; he continued, ‘‘is the little one adjoining Poubalovy’s mai room. It is directly over the hall as you enter, one f gl up. I doubt very much whether Poubalov has transferre his prisoner to any other part of the house, for that woul have provoked comment and perhaps suspicion among fl lodgers. Your happiness, therefore, is now in your ow hands, and if 7 escape I shall never see you again. I cou almost wish that I would be taken, for the certainty tl i you would come to visit me in my cell; but if is my des to relieve you of everything that might even remind yo of sorrow, and I therefore take leave of you in this lette with the hope that you will act upon it without delay, at that no accident will rob you of the reward which yor loyalty merits.”’ He signed his name without any formal coneludir phrases, and having addressed, stamped and sealed tk envelope, he went out to post it. The dawn was ju breaking, and he could see with sufficient clearness é about the street and the freight yard in the vicinity of tf hotel. No one, apparently, was stirring save himself. lieving that Clara would get the letter sooner if he to it to a post office instead of a street box, he attempted 1 find one. He knew there must be a branch office in Hai Boston somewhere, but he knew not where to look for i He had come to the corner of Maverick Square when ; saw a policeman standing within the shadow ofa build: A violent shudder came over him as he suddenly that he had taken one step toward the officer with a } Eomicbooks.ca