The Mission of Poubalov — page 201: what you’re looking at

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THE NEW CLEW. 137 control over the situation. The worst of it was, the spy was probably entirely in the right so far as law was con- | cerned. ; As well arrest himself, Palovna, as this foreigner who had shown his interest in the Strobel case in eccentric ways, perhaps, but who could not be charged with crimi- nality, unless possibly by Litizki, and the tailor had him- self made it impossble that he should be of any further service. There seemed to be no course open to him but to re- spect Clara’s wishes, and, accordingly, out to Roxbury he went. : He arrived at Mr. Pembroke’s house just before nine o'clock, and found Clara waiting for him, dressed to go out. _ They exchanged information while waiting for Mike to come, Clara telling about the discovery of Patterson, and Paul giving a guarded account of Poubalov’s contem- Plated suicide. He tried to spare Clara the horrors of the scene, but he felt that she ought to know how deeply in earnest Poubaloy was, that she might the more correctly judge him and estimate the value of his threats. ‘*Tt must have been a dreadful moment,’’ she said when he had finished, ‘‘and I am glad that another tragedy has been averted. It is hard to believe that he will go to ex- treme measures—but what am I saying? What has henot - done that is cruel, barbarous and wicked? How can I ex- pect anything but unmixed evil from such a man? I be- lieve it is well that for a time we can appear to withdraw our observations of him.’’ | Mike was late, but when he did come he came with a coupé. ‘*Me boss said, miss,’’ he explained, ‘‘that if there was to be any travelin,’ you was to ride as far an’ as long as you liked, with his compliments. ”’ ‘*Your employer is very kind,’’ said Clara. ‘‘*This gen. (C@) _tleman, Mr. Palovna, will go with me, and if he es¥s.yen.