Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 277, Hammond, Lake County, 11 May 1907 — Page 3

Saturday. May 11, 1907.

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By ROBERT BARR, yjafhor of ihc Triumphs of Eugene Valmont." "Tekla," "In the Midst of Alarm,- "Speculation! of John Steele." "The Victor," Etc

SYNOPSIS. Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst. a beautiful young woman, goes to the ban in Bar Harbor, presents a check, which the cashier pays, and then walks out. leaving the money on the counter, bae is overtaken bv Lieutenant Alan Lrurnmon1 of the British warship ConslF: nation, who hands her the money, explains to Dorothy that he is in rather bad repute with the admiralty because of the fact that some time Before he had. In order to test a new gun, lired at a lonely rock in the i.aitic, which immediately returned tne tire, making an "affaire" with KusMa. Drummond expresses his Intention oi going to Russia personally to explain that the episode was not the result or design. Dorothy attempts to Hsnude him II Dorothy, who is of excellent family, has been reduced in means so that she in obliged to become a sewing woman in the family of Captain Kempt, T. S. N., retired. The family conHibts of Captain and Mrs. Kempt and their daughters, Sabina and Katherine. Katherine is exceedingly kind to Dorothy, while Sabina is just the reverse. It develops that Dorothy has lust inherited a fortune or jib.uuu.uuu. Ill At the reception on board the Consternation Alan Introduces to Dorothy and Katherine his Intimate friend. Prince Ivan Lerrnontoff, who is aboard the vessel as Jack Lamont. The latter asks Katherino for a dance. IV Alan is ordered home by the admiralty. He assumes that it is the aftermath of the "Hock in the Baltic" affair. (Continued from yesterday.) "I shouldn't in the least care for that sort of ovation, Kate, and if every one present were as well pleased with the festivities as I, they must all have enjoyed themselves immensely. I believe my friend Kate did my share of the dancing as well as her own." " 'She danced, and she danced, and she danced them a' din.' I think those are the words of the Scottish song that the prince quoted. He seems up in Scottish poetry and does not even resent being called a Scotchman. Thn energetic person of the song seems to have danced them all to a standstill, ns I understood him, for he Informs me 'a' means 'all and 'din' means 'done, but I told him I'd rather learn Russian than Scotch; it was so mch easier, and his highness was go-,d enough to laugh at that. Didn't the lieutenant ask you to dance at all?" "Oh. yes, he did." "And you refused?" "I refused." "I didn't think he had sense enough to ask n girl to dance." "Von are ungrateful, Katherine. Remember he introduced you to the prince." "Yes, that's so. 1 had forgotten. I shall never say anything against him again." "You like the prince, then?" "Of all the crowned heads, emperors, kings, sultans, monarchs of every description, dukes, counts, earls, marquises, whom I have met and who have postered my life asking me to sharp their royal perquisites I think I may say quite truthfully that I like this Jack Lamont better than any one of them." "Surely Prince Jack has not offered you his principality already?" "No. not yet. but with an eye to the future I have persuaded him to give ! up Tolstoi and read Mark Twain, who U not only equally humorous but much more sensible than the Russian writer. Jack must not be allowed to give nway his estates to the peasants as his silly sister has done. I may need them later on." "Oh, you've got that far, have you?' "I have got that far. He hasn't He doesn't know anything about It, but I'll wake him up when the right time conies. There are many elements of f aulty about him. He told me that he Intended to give up his estates, but In the first place he had betSi too busy and in the second he needed the money. Ills good sense, however, requires refining, so that he may get rid of the dross. I don't blame him; I blame Tolstoi. For Instance, when I asked him If he had patented his liquid city invention he said he did not wish to make a profit from his discovery, but Intended it for the good of humanity at large. Imagine such an idiotic idea as that!" "I think such views are entirely to his credit" affirmed Dorothy. "Oh. of course, but the plan Is not practicable. If he allows such an Invention to slip through his fingers, the Standard Oil people will likely get hold of It form a monopoly, and then where would humanity at large be? I tell him the right way Is to patent It make all the money he can and use the cash for benefiting humanity under the direction of some charitable person like myself." "Did you suggest that to him?" "I did not intimate who the sensible person was. but I elucidated the principle of the thing." "Yes. And what did he say?" "Many things. Dorothy, many things. At one time he became confidential about his possessions in foreign lands. It seems he owns several castles, and when he visits any of them he cannot prevent the moujiks, if that is the proper term for the peasantry over there, from prostrating themselves on the ground as he passes by, beating their foreheads against the earth and chanting in choice Russian the phrase: ; 'Defer, defer. Here comes the lord high executioner,' or words to that effect I told him I didn't see why he j should Interfere with so picturesque a ' custom, and he said if I visited one of j his castles that these estimable people

at a word from him would form a corduroy road in the mud with their bodies, so that I might step dry shod from the carriage to the castle doors, and I stipulated - that he should at least spread a bit of stair carpet over the poor wretches before I made my progress across his front yard." "Well, you did become confidential if you discussed a visit to Russia." "Yes, didn't we? I suppose you don't approve of my forward conduct?" "I am sure you acted, with the utmost prudence, Kate." "I didn't lose any time, though, did I?" "I don't know how much time is required, to attain the point of friendship you reached. I am inexperienced. It is true I have yead of love at first sight, and I am merely waiting to be tola whether or not this is an instance of it" "Oh, you are very diffident, aren't you, sitting there so bashfully!" "I may seem timid or bashful, but it's merely sleepiness." "You're a bit of a humbug, Dorothy." "Why;'" "I dori't know why, but you are. No, It was not a case of love at first sight. It was a case of feminine vengeance. Yes, you may look surprised, but I'm telling the truth. After I walked so proudly off with his high mightiness we had a most agreeable dance together. Then I proposed to return to you, but the young man would not have It so, and for the moment I felt flattered. By and by I became aware, however, that it was not because of my company he avoided your vicinity. but that he was sacrificing himself, ror his friend." "What friend?" "Lieutenant Drummond, of course. "How was he sacrificing himself for Lieutenant Drummond?" "I surmise that the tall lieutenant did not fall a victim to my wiles as I had at first supposed; but, in some unac countable manner, one can never tell how these things happen. lie waa l most anxious to be left alone with the coy Miss Dorothy Amhurst, who doe3 not understand how long a time It takes to fall in love at first sight, although she has read of these things, dear, innocent girl. The first villain of the piece has said to the second villain of the piece: 'There's a superfluous young woman over on our bench; I'll Introduce you to her. You lure her off to the giddy dance and keep her away as long as you can, and I'll do as much for you some day. "Whereupon Jack Lamont probably sworo I understand that profanity Is sometimes distressingly prevalent aboard ship but nevertheless he allowed the lieutenant to lead him like a lamb to the slaughter. Well, not being powerful enough to throw him overboard when I realized the state of the case, I did the next best thing. I became cloyingly sweet to him. I smiled upon him; I listened to his farrago of nonsense about the chemical components of his various notable inventions, as if a girl attends a ball to study chemistry! Before half an hour had passed the Infant had come to the conclusion that here was the first really sensible woman he had ever met He soon got to making love to me, as the horrid phrase goes, as if love were a mixture to be compounded of this ingredient and that, and then shaken before taken. I am delighted to add, as a testimony to my own powers of pleasing, that Jack soon forgot he was a sacrifice, and, really, with a little instruction he would become a most admirable flirt He Is coming to call upon me this afternoon, and then he will get his eyes opened. I shall tread on him as if he were one of his own moujiks." "What a wonderful Imagination you have, Kate. All you have said Is pure fancy. I saw he was taken with you from the very first He never even glanced at me." "Of course not; he wasn't allowed to." "Nonsense. Kate. If I thought for n moment you were really In earnest I should say you underestimate your own attractions." "Oh, that's all very well, Miss Dorothy Dimple. You are trying to draw a red herring across the trail because you know that what I want to hear is why Lieutenant Drummond was bo anxious to cot me somewhere else. What use did he make of the opportunity the good natured prince and my sweet complacency afforded him?" "He said nothing which might not have been overheard by any one." "Come down to particulars. Dorothy, and let me judge. You are so inexperienced, you know, that it is well to take counsel with a more sophisticated friend." "I don't just remember" "No, I thought you wouldn't Did he talk of himself or of you?" "Of himself, of course. He told me why he was going to Russia and spoke of some checks he had met in his profession." "Ah! Did he cash thern?" "Obstacles difficulties that were in his way, which he hoped to overcome." "Oh, I see. And did you extend that sympathy which" There was a knock at the door, and the maid came In, bearing a card. "Good gracious me"' cried Kather-

lne, Jumping to her feet. "The prince has come. What a stupid thing that we fcave no mirror In this room, and It's a sewing and sitting room too. Do I look all right, Dorothy?" "To me you seem perfection." "Ah, well, I can glance at a glass on

the next floor. Won't vou come down and see him trampled on?" "No, thank you. I shall most likely drop off to sleep and enjoy forty winks In thi3 very comfortable chair. Don't be too harsh with the young man, Kate. You are quite wrong in your surmises about him. The lieutenant never made any such arrangement as you suggest, because he talked of nothing but tho most commonplace subjects all the time I was with him, as I was just ibout to tell you, only you seem in juch a hurry to get away." "Oh, that doesn't deceive me in the least. I'll be back shortly, with the young man's scalp dangling at my belt. Now we shan't be long," and with that Katherine went skipping downstairs. Dorothy picked up a magazine that lay on the table and for a few moments turned its leaves from one story to another, trying to interest herself, but failing. Then she lifted the newspaper that lay at her feet, but it also "The prince has come." was soon cast aside, and she leaned back in her chair, with half closed eyes, looking out at the cruiser In the bay. A slight haze arose between her and the ship, thickening and thicken ing until at last it obscured the vessel Dorothy was oppressed by a sense of something forgotten, and she strove in vain to remember what it was. It was of the utmost importance, she was cer tain, and this knowledge made her mental anxiety the greater. At last out of the gloom she saw Sabina approach, clothed in rags, and then a flash of intuition enabled her to grasp the difficulty. Through her remissness the ball dress was unfinished, and the girl, springing to her feet, turned Intuitively to the sewing machine, when the ringing laugh of Katherine dissolved the fog. "Why, you poor girl, what's the matter with you? Are you sitting down to drudgery again? You've forgotten the fortune!" "Are are you back already?" cried Dorothy, somewhat wildly. "Already! WThy, bless me, I've been away an hour and a quarter! You dear girl, you've been asleep and In slavery again!" "I think I was," admitted Dorothy, with a sigh. CHAPTER VI. nREE days later the north Atlantic squadron of the British navy sailed down the coast from Halifax, did not even T pause at Bar Harbor, but sent a wireless telegram to the Consternation, which pulled up anchor and joined the fleet outside, and so the warships departed for another port Katherine stood by the broad window in the sewing room In her favorite attitude, her head sideways against the pane, her eyes languidly gazing upon the bay, fingers drumming this time a very slow march on the window sill. Dorothy sat in a rocking chair reading a letter for the second time. There had been silence in the room for some minutes, accentuated rather than broken by the quiet drumming of the girl's fingers on the window sill. Finally Katherine breathed a deep sigh and murmured to herself: "Far called our navy fades away; On dune and headland sinks the lira. Lo. all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! I wonder if I've got the lines right" she whispered to herself. She had forgotten there was any one else In the room and was quite startled when Dorothy spoke. "Kate, that's a solemn change, from Gilbert to Kipling. I always Judge your mood by your quotations. Has life suddenly become too serious for Tlnafore' or the Mikado?' " "Oh, I don't know," said Katherine, without turning round. "They are humorous all, and so each furnishes something suitable for the saddened mind. Wisdom comes through under standing your alphabet properly. For instance, first there was Gilbert and that gave us G; then came Kipling, and he gave us K; thus we get an algebraic formula, G. K., which are the Initials of Chesterton, a still later arrival, and as the mind Increases in despondency It sinks lower and lower down the alphabet until it comes to S, and thus we have Barn-yard Shaw, an Improvement on the Kail-yard school, who takes the O pshaw view of life. And relaxing hold of him I sink deeper until I come to W-W. W. Jacobs. How I wish he wrote poefry He should be the humorist of all sail- j ors, and perhaps some time he will de- j sert barges for battleships. Then I j shall read him with increased enjoy- i ment" i "I wouldn't give Mark Twain for the lot," commented Dorothy, with de- j clslon. '

"Mark Twain Isn't yours to give, my dear. He belongs to me also. You've forgotten that comparisons are odious. Our metier is not to compare, but to take what pleases us from each. "How doth the little busy l ee Improve each shining hour And gather honey ail the day From every opening lTov.-er.

Watts. You see, I'm still down among j the W's. Oh, Dorothy, how can you j sit there so placidly whe-n the Conster- ! nation has just faded from sight? j Selfish creature! "Oh, give me tears for others' woes And patience for mine ov.n! I don't know who wrote that, but you have no tears for others' woes, merely greeting them with ribald laughter,' for Dorothy, with the well .read letter in her hand, was making the rafters i ring with her merriment, something j that had never before happened dur- j ing her long tenancy of that room. Kate turned her head slowly round. and the expression on her face was half indignant, half humorous, while her eyes were uncertain weather prophets and gave equal indication of sunshine or rain. "Why, Katherine, you look like a tragedy queen, rather than the spirit of comedy! Is it really a case of 'Titwillow, tit-willow, tit-willow?' You see, I'm a-rescuing you from the bottom of the alphabet and bringing you up to the Gilbert plane, where I am more accustomed to you, and understand you better. Is this despondency due to the departure of the Consternation and the fact that she carries away with her Jack Lamont, blacksmith?" The long sigh terminated in a woeful "Yes." "The ship 4hat has gone out with him we call she. If he had eloped with a real she, then wearing the willow or singing it, however futile, might be understandable. As it is I see nothing In the situation to call for a sigh." "That is because you are a hardened sinner, Dorothy, You have no heart, or at least if you have it is untouched and therefore you cannot understand. If that note in your hand were a love missive Instead of a letter from your lawyers, you would be more human, Dorothy." The hand which held the paper crumpled it up slightly as Katherine spoke. "Business letters are quite necessary and belong to the world we live in," said Dorothy, a glow of brighter color suffusing her cheeks. "Surely your acquaintance with Mr. Lamont is of the shortest." "He has called upon me every day since the night of the ball," maintained Katherine stoutly. "Well, that's only three times." "Only three! How you talk! One would think you had never been schooled in mathematics. Why, three is a magic figure. You can do plenty of amazing things with it. Don't you know that three is a numeral of love?' "I thought two was the number," chimed Dorothy, with heartless mirth. "Three," said Katherine taking one last look at the empty horizon, then seating herself in front of her friend "three is a recurring decimal. It goes on and on and on forever, and if you write it for a thousand years you are still as far from the end as when you began. It will carry you round the world and back again and never diminish. It Is the mathematical emblem of the nature of true love." "Is it so serious as all that, Kat, or are you just fooling again?" asked Dorothy, more soberly than heretofore. "Has he spoken to you?" "Spoken? He has done nothing but speak, and I have listened oh, so Intently and with such deep understanding. He has never before met such a woman as I and has frankly told me so." "I am very glad he appreciates you, dear." "Yes, you see, Dorothy, I am really much deeper than the ordinary woman. Who, for instance, could find such a beautiful love simile from a book of arithmetic costing 25 cents as I have unearthed from decimal fractions? With that example in mind, how can you doubt that other volumes of college learning reveal to me their Inner meaning? John presented to me as he said goodby a beautifully bound copy of that celebrated text book, 'Saunders Analytical Chemistry.' with particularly tender passages marked in pencil by his own dear hand." Rather bewildered, for Kate's expression was one of pathos, unrelieved by any gleam of humor, Dorothy nevertheless laughed, although the laugh brought no echo from Katherine. "And did you give him a volume of Browning In return?" "No, I didn't How can you be so unsympathetic? Is it impossible for you to comprehend the unseen link that binds John and me? I rummaged the book store until I found a charming little edition of 'Marshall's Geologist's Pocket Companion covered with beautiful brown limp Russia leather I thought the Russia binding was so inspirationalwith a sweet little clasp that keeps it closed typical of our hands at parting. On the flyleaf I wrote, To J. L., In remembrance of many interesting conversations with his friend, K. K.' It only needed another K to be emblematic and political, a reminiscence of the olden times, when you people of the south. Dorothy, were making it hot for us deserving ! folks in the north. I hadn't time to go j through the book very thoroughly, but I found many references to limestone, j which I marked, and one particularly j choice bit of English relating to the dissolution and reconsolidation of vari j ous mjnerals I drew a parallelogram around m red ink. A mend of mine in a motor launch was goad enough to take the little parcel direct to the Consternation, and I have no doubt that at this moment Jack is perusing it and perhaps thinking of the giver. I hope it's up to date and that be had not previously bought a copy.

"You don't mean to say, Kate, that your conversation was entirely about geology?" "Certainly not How could you have become imbued with an idea so absurd? We had many delightful dalliances down the romantic groves of chemistry, heart to heart talks on metallurgy, and once ah. shall I ever forget it? while the dusk gently Infolded us and I gazed Into thse bright, speaking, intelligent eyes of his as he bent nearer and nearer, while his low. sonorous voice in well chosen words pictured to me the promise which fortified cement holds out to the world that is, ignorant person, portland ce-

j meut strengthened by ribs of steel i and I sat listening breathless as his I glowing phrases prophesied the future tf this combination." Katherine closed her eyes, rocked gently back and forth and crooned, almost inaudii'ly: "When you gang awa, Jimmle, Faur across the sea. laddie. When ye gang to Russian lands. What will ye send to me. laddie? I know what I shall get. It will probably be a newly discovered recipe for the compounding of cement which will do away with the necessity of steel strengthening." "Kate, dear, you are overdoing it. It Is quite right that woman should be a mystery to man, but she should not aspire to become a mystery to her sister woman. Are you just making fun or is there something in all this more serious than your words imply?" "Like the steel strengthening in the cement. It may be there, but you can't see It, and you can't touch It, but it makes oh, such a difference to the slab! Ileigho. Dorothy, let us forsake these hard headed subjects and turn to something human! What have your lawyers been bothering you about? No trouble over the money, Is there?" Dorothy shook her head. "No. Of course there are various matters they have to consult me about and get my consent to this project or the other." "Read the letter. Perhaps my mathematical mind caa be of assistance to you." Dorothy had concealed the letter and did not now produce it. "It Is with reference to your assistance, and your continued assistance, that I wish to speak to you. Let us follow the example of the cement and the steel and form a compact In one respect I am going to Imitate the Consternation. I leave Bar Harbor next week." Katherine sat up in her chair, and her eyes opened wide. "What's the matter with Bar Harbor?" she asked. "l'ou can answer that question better than I, KT.te. The Kempt family are not visitors, but live here all the year round. What do you think Is the matter with Bar Harbor?" "I confess it's a little dull In the winter time, and In all seasons It is situated a considerable distance from New York. Where do you intend to go, Dorothy?" "That will depend largely on where my friend Kate advises me to go, because I shall take her with me if she will come." "Companion, lady's maid, parlor maid, maid of all work, cook, governess, typewriter girl which have I to be? Shall I get one afternoon a week orr, ana may my young man come and see me, If I happen to secure one, ana, extremely important, what are the wages?" "lou shall fix your own salary, Kate, and my lawyer men will ar range that the chosen sum is settled upon you so that if we fall out we can quarrel on equal terms." "Oh. I see. it's an adopted daughter I am to be, then." "An adopted sister rather." "Do you think I am going to take advantage of my friendship with an heiress and so pension myself off?" "It is I who am taking the advan tage, sam uorotny, "and l beg you to take compassion rather than advantage upon a lone creature who has no kith or kin in the world." "Do you really mean it, Dot?" "Of course I do. Should I propose it If I didn't?" "Well, this Is the first proposal I've ever had, and I believe it is custom ary to say on those occasions that It is so sudden or so unexpected, and time is required for consideration." "How soon can you make up your mind, Kate?" "Oh, my mind's already made up I'm going to jump at your offer, but I think it more ladylike to pretend a mild reluctance. What are you going to do. Dorothy?" "I don t know. I've settled on only one thing I intend to build a little stone and tile church, very quaint and old fashioned, If I get the right kind of architect to draw a plan for it and this church Is to be situated in Haverstock." "Where's naverstock?" "It Is a village near the Hudson river, on the plain that stretches toward the Catskills." "It was there you lived with your father, was it not?" "Yes, and my church is to be called the Dr. Amhurst Memorial church." "And do vou propose to hv? at uaverstock?" "I was thinking of that." "Wouldn't it be just a little dull? "Y'es, I suppose It would, but it seems to me a suitable place where two young women may meditate on what they are going to do with their lives." "Y'es. that's an Important question for the two. I say. Dorothy, let's take the other side of the river and enter Vassar college. Then we should at least have some fun. and there would be some reasonably well educated people to speak to." To Be Continued.) IF there Is a vacant bona, apart ment or room la Hammond, you can locate tbromcn. the Lalie Co tint r Time.

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