Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 284, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1907 — Page 3
Monday, May 20, 1907.
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES.
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By ROBERT BARR, tuthor of The TriumoHs of Eutfene Valmonl." Tekla," -In the Midst of
AUrms." -Speculation of John Steele," "The Victors."
Etc
Cnnvritfht. 1906. by Robert Err.
By Arrantfement with The Authors and Newspapers Association of New York.
SYXOI'SIS. Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst, a beautiful young woman, goes to the banK In Bar Harbor, presents a check, which the cashier pays, and then walks out, leaving the money on the counter, bhe is overtaken by Lieutenant Alan Drummond of the British warship Consternation, 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 Run, fired at a lonely rock In the uaitic, which immediately returned ine fire, making an "affaire" with Kussia Drummond expresses his intention 01 Koing to Kussia personally to explain that the episode was not the result 01 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 tempt, U. S. N.. retired. The family consists of Captain and Mrs. Kempt and their daughters, Sabina and Katnerlne. Katherine is exceedingly kind to Dorothy, while Sabina is just the reverse. It develops that Dorothy has
lust inherited a fortune of ii.uuu,uuv.
311 At the reception on board
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 13 ordered home by the admiralty. He assumes that it is the aftermath of the "Hock in the Baltic" affair. V Jack Lamont. the prince,
visits Katherine at her home. VI tlfirnthv 1nvitf.u Iiatharlnn tn live With
her in a fine apartment In JSew lorKj noubui
"Bring him with you, bring him with you," said the professor, "but in any ca?e be sure you come yourself. I shall bo expecting you. Make your
excuses to your friend if he does not wish to endure what he might think dry discussion, because we shall talk nothing but chemistry and politics." The prince promised to be there whether his friend came or no. The chemist here Interrupted them and told the professor he might expect his materials within two hours. "And your package," he said to the prince, "I shall send about the same time. I have been very busy and can trust no one to unpack this box but myself." "You need not trouble to send it, and in any case I don't wish to run the risk of having it delivered at a wrong address by your messenger. I
l!e i cannot afford to wait so long as would
be necessary to duplicate the order. I nm dining with the professor tonight, so will drive this way and take the parcel myself." "Perhaps," said the chemist, "it would te more convenient if I sent your parcel to Trofessor Totkln'3
City and meanwhile asks the entire'
Kempt family to become her guests at a Catskill mountain fashionable report. Katherine ts persistently study-1 Ing scientific works in order to please j Jack Lamont, the prince, who is aj 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 pome facts about a new gun. He also tells her that Jack Lamont is about to join him for the purpose of accompanying him to Kussia. VIII Captain Kempt receives from Jack Lamont a letter requesting that he be permitted to pay his addresses to Katherine. Dorothy incloses the favorable reply in a letter which she writes to Alan 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. X Alan writes to Dorothy th.'it Jack Lamont lias been spirited away in the night from his experimental shop. XI Alan's letters cease, and Dorothy learns from a Nihilistic (society in New York that Alan has also disappeared and is believed to be in the prison of St. Peter and St. Paul with Jack Lamont. XII Through a Nihilist, Johnson, Dorothy receives an unfinished letter to her, upon which Alan was vldentlyiat work at the time Of ills arrest. This Nihilist tells her he believes that Jack and Alan are prisoners on the KooK m the iialtic, where he himself had once been con fined and from which he had escaped. He says that no man who is taken there, even the officials, is ever permitted eo leave alive. Dorothy takes steps to buy a yacht, which, after being armed, .she will send in search of the Kock in the Baltic.
(Continued from ymterda j'.) CHAPTER XIII. '
RIXCE IVAN LERMONTOFF came to consider the explosion one of the luckiest things that had ever occurred in his work
shop. Its happening so soon after he reached St Petersburg he looked upon as particularly fortunate, because this gave him time to follow the new trend of thought along which his mind had 'been detlected by such knowledge as the unexpected outcome of his experiment had disclosed to him. The material he had used as a catalytic agent was a new substance which he had read of In a scientific rriew and he had purchased a small quantity of It in London. If such a minute portion nrndneeil results so tremendous, he began to see that a mau with an apparently lunocent material in his waistcoat pocket might probably be able to destroy a naval harbor, so long as water and stone were in conjunction. There was also apossibility that a small quantity of ozak, as the stuff was called, mixed with pure water, would form a reducing agent for limestone and perhaps for other minerals, which would work much quicker thau If the liquid was merely impregnated with carbonic acid gus. He endeavored to purchase some ozak. from Mr. Km per, the chemist on the English quay, but that good man had never
Lea ill of it, and a day's search persuaded him that it could not be got in St Petersburg, so the prince induced Kruger to order half a pound of it from London or Paris, in which latter city it had been discovered. Fr the arrival of this order the prince waited with such patience as he could call to bis command and visited poor Mr. Kruer every day in the hope of receiving It One afternoon he was delighted to
Lear that the box had come, although it had not yet been unpacked. "I will send it to your house this evening," said the chemist. "There are a number of drugs iu the box for your old friend Professor Potkin of the university, and he Is even more impatient for his consignment than you are for yours. Ah. here he is," and ns he spoke the venerable Potkin himself entered the shop. He shook hands warmly with Lernioutoff, who had always been a favorite pupil of his, and learned with Interest that he had lately been to England and America. "Cannot you dine with me this evening at half past C?" asked the old man. "There are three or four friends coming to whom I shall be glad to introduce you." "Truth to tell, professor," demurred the prince, "I have a friend staying with me, and I don't just like to leave him alone."
"No," said the prince decisively, "I
6hall call for it about 5 o'clock." The professor laughed. "We experimenters," he said, "never trust each other," so they shook hands and parted. On returning to his workshop, Lermontoff bounded up the stairs and hailed his friend the lieutenant. "I say, Drummond, I'm going to dine tonight with Professor Totkin of the university, my old teacher la chemistry. His hour is half past 5, and I've got on invitation for you. There will be several scientists present and no women. "Will you come?" "I'd a good deal rather not," said the Englishman. "I'm wiring Into these books and studying strategy. Making plans for an attack upon Kronstadt." "Well, you take my advice, Alan, and don't leave any of those plans around where the St. Petersburg police will And them. Such a line of study is carried on much safer in London than here. You'd be very welcome, Drummond, and the old boy would be glad
to see you. You don't need to bother
about evening togs plain living and high thinking, you know. I'm merely
going to put on a clean collar and a
new tie as sufficient for the occasion."
"I'd rather not go. Jack, if you don't mind. If I'm there you'll all be trying to talk English or French, and so I'd feel myself rather a damper on the company. Besides, I don't know anything atiout science, and I'm trying to learn something about strategy. What time do you expect to be back?" "Rather early. Ten or half past." "Good. I'll wait up for you." At 5 o'clock Jack was at the chemist's and received his package. On
opening it he found the ozak in two four-ounce glass stoppered bottles, and these he put in his pocket "Will you give me three spray syringes, as large a size as you have, rubber, glass and metal? I'm not sure but this stuff will attack one or other of them, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life running down to your shop." Getting the syringes, he jumped into his cab and was driven to the professor's. "You may call for me at 10," he said to the cabman. There were thre others besides the professor and himself, and they were all interested in learning the latest scientific news from New York and London. 1 It was a quarter past 10 when the company separated. Lermontoff stepped into his cab, and the driver went rattling up the street. In all the talk the prince had said nothing of his own discovery, and now when he found himself alone his mind reverted to the
material in his pocket, and he was aa the cabman was galloping Lla horse that he might be the sooner in his workshop. Suddenly he noticed that they were dashing down a street which ended at the river. "1 say," he cried to the driver, "you've taken the wrong turning. This is a blind street. There's neither quay nor bridge down here. Turn back." "I see that now," said the driver over his shoulder. "I'll turn round at
the end where it is wider." He did turn, but Instead of coming up the street again dashed through an open archway which led into the courtyard of a large building fronting the Neva. The moment the carriage was inside the gates clanged shut "Now, what in the name of St. Peter do you mean by this?" demanded the prince angrily. The cabman made no reply, but from a door to the right stepped a tall uniformed officer, who said: "Orders, your highness, orders. The
lsvoshtchik is not to blame. May I beg of your highness to accompany me inside?" "Who the devil are you?" demanded the annoyed nobleman. "I am one who is called upon to perform a disagreeable duty, which your highness will make much easier by
paying attention ta my requests." "Am I under arrest?" JXvejaotgajJ 60 Prince Ivanl-
"TLen I demand that the gates be opened that I may return home, where more Important business awaits me than talking to a stranger who refuses to reveal his identity." "I hope you will pardon me, Trince Lermontoff. I act, as the lsvoshtchik has acted, under compulsion. My identity is not in question. I ask you for the second time to accompany me." "Then for the second time I inquire, am I under arrest? If so, show me
your warrant ?nd then I will go with you, merely protestinjj that whoever issued such a warrant has exceeded his authority." "I have seen nothing of a warrant, your highness, and I think you are confusing your rights with those pertaining to individuals residing in certain countries you have recently visited." "You have no warrant, then?" "I have none. I act on my superior's
word and do not presume to question
it May I hope that you will follow me without a further parley, which is
embarrassing to me and quite unhelp
ful to yourself? I have been instructed to treat you with every courter, but nevertheless force has been placed at my disposal. I am even to take your word of honor that you are unarmed, and your highness is well aware that such leniency is seldom shown in St Petersburg." "Well, sir, even if my word of honor faile" to disarm me your politeness would. I carry a revolver. Do you wish it?" "If your highness will condescend to give it to me." The prince held the weapon, butt forward, to the officer, who received it with a gracious salutation. "You know nothing of the reason for this action?" "Nothing whatever, your highness." "Where are you going to take me?" "A walk of less than three minutes will acquaint your highness with the spot." The prince laughed. "Oh, very well," he said. "May I write a note to a friend who is waiting up for me?" "I regret, your highness, that no com
munication whatever can be allowed." The prince stepped down from the vehicle, walked diagonally across a very dimly lighted courtyard with his
guide, entered that section of the rec
tangular building which faced the Neva, passed along a hall with one gas jet burning, then outside again and
Immediately over a gangplank that brought him aboard a steamer. On
the lower deck a passage ran down
the center of the ship, and along this
the conductor guided his prisoner,
opened the door of a stateroom in which candles were burning and a
comfortable bed turned down for occu
pancy.
"I think your highness will find ev
erything here that you need. If any
thing further is required, the electric
bell will summon an attendant, who
will get it for you."
"Am I not to be confronted with whoever is responsible for my arrest?"
"I know nothing of that, your high
ness. My duty ends by escorting you here. I must ask if you have any
other weapons upon you." "No, I have not."
"Will you give me your parole that
you will not attempt to escape?" "I shall escape if I can, of course
"Thank you, excellency," replied the officer as suavely as if Lermontoff had given his parole. Out of the darkness
he called a tall, rough looking soldier
who carried a musket with a bayonet
at the end of it. The soldier took his
stand beside the door of the cabin. "Anything else?" asked the prince.
"Nothing else, your highness, except
good night."
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to pay my cabman. Of course it isn't his fault
that he brought me here."
"I shall have pleasure in sending him
to you, and again good night."
"Good night," said the prince. He closed the door of his cabin, pulled out his notebook and rapidly wrote two letters, one of which he addressed to Drummond and the other to the czar. When the cabman came, he took him within the cabin and closed the door. "Here," he said in a loud voice that the sentry could overhear if he liked, "how much do I owe you?" The driver told him.
"That's too much, you scoundrel!" he cried aloud, but as he did so he placed three gold pieces in the palm of the driver's hand, together with the two letters, and whispered: "Get these delivered safely, and I'll give you ten times this money if you call on Prince Lermontoff at the address on that note."
The man saluted, thanked him and retired. A moment later he heard the jingle of a bell and then the steady throb of an engine. There was no window to the stateroom, and he could not tell whether the steamer was going up or down the river up. he surmised,
and he suspected his destination was Schlusselburg, the fortress prison on an island at the source of the Neva. He determined to go on deck and solve the question of direction, but the soldier at the door brought down, his gun and barred the passage. "I am surely allowed to go on deck?" "You cannot pass without an order from the captain." "Well, send the captain ts me, then." "I dare not leave the door," said the soldier. Lermontoff pressed the button, and presently an attendant came to learn what was wanted. "Will you ask the captain to come here?" The steward departed and shortly after returned with a big, bronzed, bearded man, whose bulk made the stateroom seem smalt "You sent for the captain, and I am here. ' "So am I," said the prince jauntily. "My name is Lermontoff. Perhaps you have beard of me?"
The captain shook his shac-gy head. "I am a prince of Russia and by some mistake find myself your passenger instead of spending the night in my own house. Where are you taking me, captain?" "It is forbidden tlftk I should answer questions." "Is it also forbidden that I should go on deck?" "The general tail you were not to
be allowed to leave this stateroom, as
you did not give your parole."
"How can I escape from a steamer in
motion, captain i
"It is easy to jump into the river
and erhaps swim ashore."
"So he is a general, is he? Well,
captain, I'll give you my parole that I shall not attempt to swim the Neva on so cold a night as this."
"I cannot allow you on deck now,"
said the captain, "but when we are in the gulf of Finland you may walk the
deck with the sentry beside you."
"The gulf of Finland T' cried Lermon
toff. "Then you are going down the river?"
The big captain looked at him with
deep displeasure clouding his brow, feeling that he had been led to give away Information which he should have kept to himself.
'You are not going up to Schlussel
burg, then?"
4I told your highness that I am not
allowed to answer questions. The gen-
Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana.
"I'ou sent for the captain, and I am
here." eral, however, has given me a letter for you, and perhaps it may contain all you may want to know." "The general has given you a letter, eh? Then why don't you let me have
it?" "He told me not to disturb you tonight, but place it before you at breakfast tomorrow." "Oh, we're going to travel all night, are we?" "Yes, excellency.' "Did the general say you should not allow me to see the letter tonight?" "No, your excellency; he just said, 'Do not trouble his highness tonight, but give him this in the morning.' " "In that case let me have it now." The captain pulled a letter from his pocket and presented it to the prince. It contained merely the two notes which Lermontoff had written to Drummond and to the czar. (To Be Continued.) NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE
Evansville, Ind., May 20. More than a score of persons, mostly nonunion car men. were hurt some seriously, in an attempt made by the street car company to resume traffic on its lines. Violence did not take on the aspect of rioting, but attacks on cars
were more scattering and general over all parts of the city than at any previous time during the strike. Strikers utilized the day as an occasion to bombard the car men with missiles of every shape and sort. Bricks, scrap Iron, pieces of timber, coal and stones greeted cars on all lines in volleys. Almost in every instance by the time the police arrived the guilty parties had
secreted themselves in the crowds, leaving the injured mot'ormen and con- j ductors to be taken care of by the offioers. City Ofllcials Itemain Sanguine. Mayor Itoehne and President Bosse, of the board of safety, are still sau- j guine they will be able to handle the j situation better. The board of safety j
will swear in a large number of extra police. A statement has been issued to the public by President Bosse, of the safety board, declaring for law enforcement, in order to avert an expected call for state troops in case of further violence.
Attempt to Wreck a Car.
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Ilerr Dernburg, who "was director of the German colonial office, has been appointed secretary of state for the is reported that the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies are going to "work together." Mrs. Howard Gould has begun suit for divorce from her husband. It will be a fight for alimony principally. Thomas J. O'Brien, of Michigan, United States minister to Copenhagen, will become ambassador to Japan in September. The petrified boy of George Greggner was exhumed at Askaloosa, la. He weighed 10O pounds in life. His body weighs 1,000 pounds. President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Archie worshipped yesterday in Christ
Episcopal church, less than a mile from Pine Knot, Va.
Mrs. Mary Davi?, aged 22, promi
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David W. Ross, general purchasing
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concern at Chicago.
The drought which has prevailed
throughout Cuba almost without break
for the past seven months has been
broken.
It is reported that President Castro, of " enezuela, has chosen Thursdav as
the day on which to retire from office,
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The biennial convention of tho
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State Tax Hoard liaises the Appraise
ments of the Hail way Property $12,000,000.
Indianapolis, May 20. Notwith
standing the pressure brought to bear
uion the state board of tax commissioners by business men, who believe the state has gone too far In its cam
paign against the corporations, espe
cially against railroads, that body ha3 increased the appraisements on corporate property in the state from $224,-
377,44f. to $236,790,704, or practically
$12,000,000.
The greater part of the increase is
against the steam railroads, although electric lines, telegraph and telephone
companies, express, sleeping car, and
other transportation companies are in
cluded. The increase in railroad appraisements Is $8,000,000, or from
$103,070,053 one year ago to $191,337,-
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Indianapolis, May 20. Judge A.
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issued an order appointing Sanruel T. Murdock, of Lafayette, receiver and In absolute control of tb" Ohio and Indiana Gas company and the Ohio and Indiana Consumers' Natural and Illuminating Gas company, of Leba
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Mystery in a Double Tragedy.
Indianapolis, May 20. In an up
stairs room of a resort on West Mary
land street Charles Lewis, a compara
tive stranger in this city, shot and killed Anna Eaton, an Inmate; then
turning the revolver on himself he fired a bullet into his right temple and Is expected to die. No one witnessed the tragedy, and there is considerable mystery as to the cause.
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