Library of the World's Best Mystery And Detective Stories
Library of the World's Best Mystery And Detective Stories
Hawthorne Julian
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" It is clever — ^that is the best praise I could receive from you. Let us drink to the success of my scheme!" XV THE FISH BITES Three days after this conversation the younger prince Shadursky dined with Sergei Antonovitch KovrofF, That morning he received a note from KovrofF, in which the worthy Sergei complained of ill health and begged the prince to come and dine with him and cheer him up. The prince complied with his request, and appearing at the appointed time found Count Kallash alone wit...h his host. Among other gossip, the prince announced that he ex- pected shortly to go to Switzerland, as he had bad reports of the health of his mother, who was in Geneva. At this news Kallash glanced significantly toward Kov- rofF. Passing from topic to topic, the conversation finally turned to the financial position of Russia. Sergei Antono- vitch, according to his expression, " went to the root of the matter," and indicated the " source of the evil," very frankly attacking the policy of the government, which did everything to discourage gold mining, hedging round this most important industry with all kinds of difficulties, and practically prohibiting the free production of the precious metals by laying on it a dead weight of costly formalities, 228 Vsevolod Vladimiravitch Krestovski " I have facts ready to hand," he went on, summing up his argument.
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