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88 STRANGE EXIT OF POUBALOYPD. home. If you only knew that Mr. Strobel was sick in | hospital, now, it would be better, wouldn’t it?”’ ‘‘Nothing is so dreadful as uncertainty,’’ replied ‘‘~ou’ll be very careful what you write then?” ‘‘As for that, Miss Hilman, I don’t see that I need write at all-to-day. It’s only a day more, and if you say i won’t make any difference to you what I say to-morrow I’ll put it off till then if you like.’’ ‘‘T should be so much obliged! Have you seen Mr. Li- tizki to-day?’’ ‘‘No, nor the dark gentleman, either. Mr. Litizki’s sho} is not far from here, if you’d like to see him,’’ Clara inquired the way, and soon after the young ladie set out for the little tailor’s place of business. Litizki was his own master in business, and he em ployed two or more fellow-countrymen as assistants, th number varying with the demands of his enterprise. Or this day there were several men in theshop, but they were not there as workmen. Mostof them had come to talk with Litizki about the Strobel case. He was not very com municative, but that was his way. Nevertheless he had some things to say, and for this reason his acquaintances found that he talked much more freely than usual. ‘‘T tell you,’’ he insisted, his dull eyes glowing with hate, ‘‘Alexander Poubalov is in Boston. I am not one be mistaken in that man, and ae pre here means trouble for any, perhaps ail of us.’ ‘‘What could he wish to do against poor Russians, Nieh- olas Litizki, who have no intention of revisiting their na- tive country?’’ asked one of the group. : ‘‘Better ask what has he done?’’ retorted the tailo . ‘“‘Here is Ivan Strobel, more prosperous than we, with more powerful friends, and what has Poubalov done to him? Would that I knew!’’ ‘‘As soon as Poubalov appears,’? remarked smathanel ‘“‘Litizki will lay the very next crime that occurs to his hands.’’ ‘‘Where Poubalov goes,’’ said fe icomicbooks.com