Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 282, Hammond, Lake County, 17 May 1907 — Page 3

Friday, May 17, 1907.

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By ROBERT, BARR, l other of The Triumpks of Eugene VaJraonU" Tekl." "In the Midst of Alarm Spectxltiions of John Stele." "The Victors." Etc

By Arrangement with The Authors nd boss SYNOPSIS. Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst, a beautiful young woman, goes to the banlc la Bar Harbor, preaenta a check, which th cashier pays, and then walks out, leaving the rjaoney on the counter, one la overtaken by Lieutenant Alan Druinmond of the British warship Consternation, who hands her the money. explains to Dorothy that he rather bad repute with the admiralty because of the fact that some time oefnr. h K n .4 i A tn f PRt a neW run. flred at a lonely rock In the ai-f tic, which Immediately reiurneu i fire, making an "affaire" with Russia. Drummond expresses his intention 01 going to Russia personally to explain that the episode was not the result or design. Dorothy attempts to dissuade him. II Dorothy, who is of excellent family, has been reduced In means so that she Is obliged to become a sewing woman in the family of Captain Kempt, U. S. N., retired. The family consists of Captain and Mrs. Kempt nrt their daughters. Sablna and Katherlne. Katherine is exceedingly kind; to Dorothy, while Sablna is Just the j reverse. It develops that Dorothy nas Just inherited a fortune of 115.000,000.; Ill At the reception on board me Consternation Alan introduces to Dorothy and Katherine his Intimate friend. Prince Ivan Lermontoff, who is aboard the vessel as Jack Lamont. The latter asks Katherine for a dance. IV Alan is ordered home by the admiralty. He assumes that It Is the aftermath of the "Rock in the Baltic" affair. V Jack Lamont, the prince, visits Katherine at her home. VI Dorothy Invites Katherine to live with her in a fine apartment in New York City and meanwhile asks the entire Kempt family to become her guests at a Catakill mountain fashionable resort. Katherine is persistently studying scientific works In order to please Jack Lamont, the prince, who Is a great scientist and an inventor of note. One of his processes contemplates the dissolving of solid. stone by means of certain chemicals. VII Dorothy receives a letter from Allan Drummond informing her that he had been called home merely for the purpose of giving some facts about a new gun. He also tells her that Jack Lamont Is about to Join him for the purpose of accompanying him to Russia. VIII Captain Kempt receives from Jack Lamont a letter requesting that he be permitted to pay his addresses to ICatherlne. Dorothy Incloses the favorable reply In a letter which she writes to Alan Drummond. Drummond- IX Alan writes that he and Jack are living over a blacksmith shop in St. Petersburg, where Jack Is conducting certain experiments. There is an explosion, and Alan fears that the police are not satisfied with Jack's explanation. (Continued from yesterday.) Dear Mlas Amhurst I write you In great trouble of mind, not trusting this letter to the Russian postoRice, but sending it by an English captain to be posted in London. Two days ago Jack Lamont disappeared, a disappearance as complete as if he had never existed. The night before last, about 10 o"clock, I thought I heard him coma into hi3 shop below my room. Sometimes ha works there till daylight, and, as when absorbed In his experiments he does not relish interruptions, even from me, I go on with my reading until he comes upstairs. Toward 11 o'clock I thought I heard slight soundB of a scuffle and a smotherod cry. I called out to him, but received no answer. Taking a candle, I went downstairs, but everything was exactly as usual, tho doors locked and not even a bench overturned. I called aloud, but only the echo of this born of a room replied. I lit the gas and made a more Intelligent search, but with no result. I unlocked the door and stood out in tho street, which was quite silent and deserted. I began to doubt that I had heard anything at all, for, as I have told you. my nerves lately have been rather prone to tho Jumps. I sat up all night waiting for him. but he did not come. Next day I went, as had been previously arranged, to tho foreign office, but was kept waiting In an anteroom for two hours and then told that the minister could not aoo me. I met a similar repulse at the admiralty. I dined alona at the restaurant Jack and I frequent, but saw nothing of him. This morning he has not returned, and I am at my Wits' end, not in the least knowing what to do. It Is useless for me to appeal to the emlwssy of my country, for, Jack being a Russian, It has no jurisdiction. The last letter I received from you as tampered, with. The newspaper extract you spoko of was not there, and one of the sheets of tha letter was missing, liming business, I call it, this interfering with private correspondence. , Such was the last letter that Alan Drummond was ever to send to Dorothy Amhuret CHAPTER XI. UMMEU waned. The evenings became chill, although the sun pretended at noon that its power was undiminished. Back to town from mountain and seashore filtered the warm weather Idlers, but no more letters cavae from St. Petersburg to the hill by the Hudson. So far as our girls were concerned, a curtain of silence had fallen between Europe and America. The flat was now furnished, and the beginning of autumn saw it occupied by the two friends. Realisation in this instance lacked the delight of anticipation. At last Katherine was the bachelor girl she had longed to be, but the pleasures of freedom were as Dead sea fruit to the lips. At last Dorothy was effectually cut off from all thoughts of slavery, with unlimited money to do what she pleased with, yet. after all, of what advantage was it in solving the problem that haunted her by day and filled her dreams by night? She faced the world with seeming unconcern, for she had not the right to mourn even if she knew be were dead. He had made no claim, had asked for no affection, had written no word to her but what all the world might read. Once a week she made a little journey up the Hudson to see how her church was coming on, and at first Katherine accompanied her, but now she went alone. Katherluo was too honest a girl to pretend an interest where she felt ncne. She could not talk of architecture when she was thinking of a man and his fate. At first she had been querulously Impatient when no second communication came. Her own letters, she said.

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Newspapers Association of New York. must hare reached him; otherwise they would have been returned. Later dumb fear took possession of her, and she grew silent, plunged with renewed energy into her books, joined a technical school, took lessons and grew paler and paler until her teachers warned her she was overdoing it. Inwardly she resented the serene impassiveness of her friend, who consulted calmly with the architect upon occasion about the decoration of the church, when men's liberty wa3 gone and perhaps their lives. She built up within her mind a romance of devotion, by which her lover, warning in vain the stolid Englishman, had at last been Involved in the ruin that Drummond's stubbornness had brought upon them both and unjustly Implicated the auiet woman by her side In the responsibility of this sacrifice. Once or .twice she spoke with angry Impatience of Drummond and hig stupidity, but Dorothy neither defended nor excused, and so no open rupture occurred between the two friends, for a quarrel cannot be one sided. But with a woman of Katherine's temperament the final outburst had to come, and it came on the day that the first flurry of snpw fell through the still air, capering in large flakes past the windows of the flat down to the muddy street far below. Katherine was standing by the window, with her forehead leaning against the plate glass, in exactly the attitude that had been her habit in the sewing room at Bar Harbor, but now the staccato of her fingers on the sill seemed to drum a dead march of despair. The falling snow had darkened the room, and one electric light was aglow over the dainty Chippendale desk at which Dorothy sat writing a letter. The smooth, regular flow of the pen over the paper roused Katherine to a frenzy of exasperation. Suddenly she brought her clinched fist down on the sill where her fingers had been drumming. "My God!" she cried. "How can you sit there like an automaton with the snow falling?" Dorothy put down her pen. "The snow falling?" she echoed. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't You don't think of tbe drifts In Siberia and the two men you have known, whose hands you have clasped, manacled, driven through it with the lash of a Cossack's whip." Dorothy rose quietly and put her hands on the shoulders of the girl, feel ing her frame tremble underneath her touch. "Katherine," ' she said quietly, but Katherine, with a nervous twitch of her shoulders, flung off the friendly grasp. "Don't touch me!" she cried. "Go back to your letter writing. Ton and the Englishman are exactly alike un feeling, heartless, ne with his selfish stubbornness has Involved an innocent man in the calamity his own stupidity has brought about." "Katherine, sit down. I want to talk calmly with you." "Calmly! Carinly! Yes, that is the word. It Is easy for you to be calm when you don't care. But I care, and I cannot be calm." "What do you wish to do, Kather ine?" "What can I do? I am a pauper and a dependent, but one thing I am determined to do, and that is to go and live in my father's house." "If you were in my place, what would you do, Katherine?" "I would go to Russia." "What wculd you do when you ar rived there?" "If I had wealth I would use it in such a campaign of bribery and corruption in that country of tyrants that I should release two innocent men. I'd first find where they were; then I'd use all the influence I possessed with the American ambassador to get them set free. "The American ambassador, Kate, cannot move to release either an "Engllshman or a Russian." "I'd do it somehow. I wouldn't sit here like a stick or a stone, writing letters to my architect" "Would you go to Russia alone?" "Xo; I should take my father with me." "That is an excellent idea, Kate. I advise you to go north by tonight's train, if you like, and see or telegraph to him to come and see us." Kate sat down, and Dorothy drew the curtains across the window pane and snapped on the central cluster of electric lamps. "Will you come with me if I go north?" asked Kate in a milder tone than she had hitherto used. "I cannot. I am making an appointment with a man in this room tomorrow." "The architect I suppose," cried Kate, with scorn. "Xo, with a man who may or may not give me information of Lamont or Drummond." Katherine stared at her open eyed, "Then you have been doing something?" "I have been trying, but it Is difficult to know what to do. I have received information that the house in wmcu Mr. Lamont and Mr. Drummond lived Is now deserted and no one knows anything of its former, occjmants. Tfcat

Information comes to me semiofficially, but it does not lead far. I have started

inquiry through more questionable channels. In other words. I have in voked the aid of a nihilist society and, although I am quite determined to go to Russia with you, do not be surprised if I am arrested the moment I set foot in St. Petersburg." "Dorothy, why did you not let me know?" "Katherine," she said quietly. "I was anxious to get somo good news to give you, but it bas not come yet" "Oh, Dorothy," moaned Katherine, struggling to keep back the tears that would flow In spite of her. Dorothy patted her on the shoulder. iou have been a little unjust," she said, "and I am going to prove that to you, so that in trying to make amends you may perhaps stop brooding over this crisis tbat faces two poor lone women. You wrong the Englishman, as you call him. Jack was arrested at least two days before he was. Nihilist spies say that both of them were arrested, the prince first, and the Englishman several days later. I had a letter from Mr. Drummond a short time after you received yours from Mr. Lamont I never showed it to you, but now things are so bad that they cannot be worse and you are at liberty to read the letter If you wish to do so. It tella of Jack's disappearance and of Drummond's agony of mind and helplessness in St. Petersburg. Since he has never written again, I am sure he was arrested later. I don't know which of the two was most at fault for what yoc call stubbornness, but I believe the explosion had more to do with tho ar rests than any action of theirs." "And I was the cause of that" wailed Katherine. "Xo, no, my dear girl. Xo one is tc blame but the tyrant of Russia. Now the nihilists Insist that neither of these men has been sent to Siberia. They think they are in the prison of St Peter and St. Paul. That Information came to me today In the letter I was Just now answering. So, Katherine, I think you have been unjust to the Englishman. If he had been arrested first there might be some grounds for what you charge, but they evidently gave him a chance to escape. He had his warning in the disappearance of his friend, and he had several days in which to get out of St Petersburg, but he stood his ground." "I'm sorry, Dorothy. I'm a silly fool, and today when I saw the snowwell, I got all wrought up." "I think neither of the men is in the snow. And now I am going to say something else and then never speak of the subject again. You say I didn't care, and of course you are quite right for I confessed to you that I didn't But just imagine Imagine that I cared. The Russian government can let the prince go at any moment and there's nothing more to be said. He has no redress and must take the consequences of his nationality. But if the Russian government have arrested the Englishman, if they have put him in the prison of St. Peter and St. Paul, they dare not release him unless they are willing to face war. The Russian government can do nothing in his case but deny, demand proof and obliterate all chance of the truth ever being known. Alan Drummond is doomed. They dare not release him. Now, think for a moment how much worse my case would be than yours if if her voice quivered and broke for the moment; then, with tightly clinched fists, she recovered control of herself and finished "if I cared." "Oh, Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy!" gasped Katherine, springing to her feet "No, no, don't Jump at any false conclusion. We are both nervous wrecks this afternoon. Don't misunderstand me. I don't care I don't care, except that I hate tyranny and am sorry for the victims of it." "Dorothy, Dorothy !" "We need a sane man in the house, Kate. Telegraph for your father to come down and talk to us both. I must finish my letter to the nihilist." "Dorothy!" said Katherine, kissing her. CHAPTER XII. jFTn nihilist was shown into the I dainty drawing roots of the I flat and found Dorothy AmJ hurst alone, as he had stipulat ed, waiting for him. He was dressed in a sort of naval uniform and held a peaked cap in his hand, standing awkwardly there as one unused to luxurious surroundings. His face was bronzed with exposure to sun and storm, and, although he appeared to be little more than thirty years of age, bis closely cropped hair was white. His eyes were light blue, and If ever the expression of a man's countenance betokened stalwart honesty it was the face of this sailor. He was not In the least Dorothy's idea of a dangerous Dlotteo

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"Sit down," she said, and he did so like a man ill at ease. "I suppose Johnson is not your real name," she began. "It Is the name I bear in America, madam." "Do you mind my asking you some questions?" "Xo, madam, but if you ask me any thing I am not allowed to answer I shall not reply." "now long have you been in tho United States?" "Only a few months, madam." "How come you to speak English so welir "In my young days I shipped aboard a bark plying between Helsingfors and Xew York." "You are a Russian?" "I am a Finlander, madam." "Have you been a sailor all vour lifer "Yes, madam. For a time I was an unimportant officer on board a battleship in the Russian navy until I was discovered to be a nihilist, when I was cast into prison. I escaped last May and came to New York." "What have you been doing since you arrived here?" "I was so fortunate as to become mate on the turbine yacht the Walrus, owned by Mr. Stockwell." "Oh, that's the multimillionaire whose bank failed a month ago." "Yes, madam." "But does he still keep a yachtr' "Xo, madam. I think he has never been aboard this one, although it is probably the most expensive boat in these waters. I am told it cost anywhere from half a million to a million. She was built by Thornycroft like a cruiser, with Parson's turbine engine in her. After the failure captain and crew were discharged, and I am on board as a sort of watchman until she is sold, but there is not a large market for a boat like the Walrus, and I am told they will take the fittings out of her and sell her as a cruiser to one of the South American republics." "Well, Mr. Johnson, you ought to be a reliable man if the court has put you in charge of so valuable a property." "I believe I am considered honest madam." "Then why do you come to me asking $10,000 for a letter which you say was written to me and which naturally belongs to me?" The man's face deepened into a mahogany brown, and he shifted his cap uneasily in his hands. "Madam, I am not acting for myself. I am secretary of the Russian Liberation society. They, through their branch at St. Petersburg, have conducted some investigations on your behalf." "Yes, for which. I paid them very well." Johnson bowed. "Our object, madam, is the repression of tyranny. For that we are .in continual need of . money. It i3 the poor and not the millionaires who sub scribe to our fund. It has been discovered that you are a rich woman, who will never miss the money asked. and so the demand was made. Believe me, madam, I am acting by the command of my comrades. I tried to persuade them to leave compensation to your own generosity, but they refused. If you consider their demand unreasonable, you have but to say so, and I will return and tell them your decision." "Have you brought the letter with you?" "Yes, madam." "Have you read it?" "Yes, madam." "Do you think it worth $10,000?" The sailor looked up at the decorated celling for several moments before he replied. "That is a question I cannot answer," he said at last "It all depends on what you think of the writer." "Answer one more question. By whom is the letter signed?" "There is no signature, madam. It was found In the house where the two young men lived. Our people searched the house from top to bottom surreptitiously, and they think the writer was arrested before he had finished the letter. There is no address and nothing to show for whom it is Intended except the phrase beginning 'My dearest Dorothy. " The girl leaned back in her chair and drew a long breath. "It is not for me," she said hastily. Then, bending forward, she cried suddenly: "I agree to your terms. Give it to me." The man hesitated, fumbling in his inside pocket "I was to get your promise in writing." he demurred. "Give it to me, give it to me," she demanded. "I do not break my word." He handed her the letter. "My dearest Dorothy," she read In writing well known to her, "you may Judge my exalted state of mind when you see that I dare venture on such a beginning. I have been worrying myself and other people all to no purpose. I have reeived a letter from Jack this morning, and so suspicious had I grown that for a few moments I suspected the writing was but an Imitation of his. He is a very impulsive fellow and can think of only one thing at a time, which accounts for kis success in the line of invention. He was telegraphed to that his sister was ill and left at once to see her. I had allowed my mind to become so twisted by my fears for his safety that as I tell you, I suspected the letter to be counterfeit at first (To Ba Continued.) New Name for Indian Babies. A kindergarten teacher explained to little Dorothy that an Indian woman was called a squaw, and asked her what the Indian baby was called. The reply came promptly: "A squawker."

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Evansviile, Ind., May 17. The employes of the street railway company which operates in this city recently organized. The invariable result developed when a demand for higher wages was made, and upon the company daclintng to concede the raise a strike was inaugurated. 120 men qutting work, and as is also inevitable, proceeding to demonstrate that no one else could do the work except at risk of life or limb. The company gat some non-union men and ran part of the cars. The first assault was made by several motormen on a so-called spotter, and he was severely beaten before he was rescued, while another thing that always happens his assailant got away. Mob Assails Two Men. A large crowd gathered on Main and Second streets before noon and hooted and yelled at the non-union men. Chief of Detectives Brennecke sent a large force of officers to the scene. Later a non-union conductor was dragged out of a street car on Main street by a mob and severely beaten. Police officers rushed to the scene and saved him from further injury. The mob dlspersed, and no arrests were made. Conductor Knocked Down and Kicked The officials of the street car company abandoned all efforts at operation of its lines at G p. m. and no attempt will be made to reinstate service beforesome time today. The Washington avenue and Walnut street line was put out of operation shortly after dinner, after a mob had boarded a car at Eighth and Main streets and dragged off the conductor, who was knocked down, kicked and ehasedidown the street with the howling mob at his heels. The man was finally rescued by the police. Iiabor Parade Becomes a Mob. A big labor parade was the feature of the afternoon. At Second and Division streets the parade encountered two In-bound cars, and before the police could reach the spot the car tracks were blocked by the moi. The conductors and motormen of both cars Jumped off and fled. The cars were taken back to the barns under police escort. Mayor Boehne has addressed letters to Manager Smith, of the street car company, and President Lee Jaskson. of the Central Labor union, call ing for arbitration and the speedy restoration of traffic. MUSKIIATS ARE LUXURIOUS Ihey Steal Flowers from a Cemetery In Order to Decorate Their Homes. Elwood, Ind., May 17. The officials of the Elwood Cemetery association have received a score of complaints that cut flowers placed recently on graves had been stolen. The thief, or thieves, seemed to have a liking for carnations. A watch was set, but the flowers were taken with the usual reg Clarity. Finally Sexton Morgan took a position behind a large tombstone. Just before 10 p. m. he heard a noise in the direction of a newly-made grave on which had been placed a bunch of freshly cut carnations. Something darted between the sex ton's legs and started toward the creek, which runs nearby. It was pursued by the sexton, who saw as it crossed a roadway In the glare of an electric light, that It had a flower in Its mouth. An investigation developed that muskrats have a home in the mouth, of a small sewer pipe on the bank of the creek. In the home were several dollars' worth of destroyed car nations, which the muskrats bad used In making a cozy nest. "Rain Didn't Touch the Horse." Bloomington, Ind., May 17. A liveryman tells a good Joke on tyo "co-eds" of the university. Thev hired a buggy at the stable and were told by the liveryman "not to let the rein strike the horse, as it was a little nervous." The girls returned in about an hour, soaking wet from a shower that had come up during their drive. "The rain didn't touch the horse, for we held cur umbrellas over him until we drove into a farmer's barn." Circns Seats Collapse. Clay City, Ind., May 17. During a circus performance here a section of seats, the supports of which had sunk into the soft earth, gave way, precipi tating 250 persons to the ground. About twenty were injured, five serl ously. For a time the audience, which was a large one, was on the verge of a panic. Measles Epidemic Is Serious. Muncie, Ind.. May 17. The measles epidemic in Muncie and Delaware county continues unabated. Physicians who Were in the habit of treatine i lightly when started are now alarmed because of a number of fatalities and the fact that many patients are in serious condition. Made Blind by a Cancer. Columbus, Ind., May 17. 'Squln George W. Bloom, of Hope, as the re sult of cancer on the back of his neck, has become totally blind.

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