But when the lad reached the outside door and gazed up and down the street there was no sign of Count Blowinski.
“Now I wonder where he could have gone to,” said the lad.
He gazed both ways for several minutes. Then, with a shrug of his shoulders, he turned and re-entered the house.
“He’s gone,” said Jack. “Now I’ll see what I can do for Frank.”
He ascended the stairs.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
COUNT BLOWINSKI IS CAPTURED.
“And so the count has escaped, eh?”
It was Czar Nicholas who spoke as he gazed at Jack and Lord Hastings.
“Yes, your Majesty,” replied the lad, and for a second time, at the Czar’s request, he went over the details of the struggle with the count.
“Well,” said the Czar when the lad had concluded, “there is no telling in what part of the city he may be located now. Still, I would like to catch him. I wonder how he escaped from Siberia? or if he was ever taken?”