Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 292, Hammond, Lake County, 29 May 1907 — Page 3

"Wednesday, 3fay. 29, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES.

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(Continued trtnn ycntcrday.) "She's Leading for us," eaid Jack, "and apparently she knows which side the cannop is on. If she's Russian, they've taken it for granted we've

captured the whole place and are in command of the guns. There, she's turning." "Jove, I wish I'd a pair of good glasses," eaid Drummond. "They're lowering a boat." Jack showed more highland excitement than Russian stolidity as he watched the oncoming of a small boat, beautifully riding the waves and masterfully rowed by sailors who understood the art. Drummond stood Imperturbable as a statue. "The sweep of those oars Is English, Jack, my boy." As the boat came nearer and nearer Jack became more and more agitated.

"I say, Alan, focus your eyes on that

But the governor had stepped between him and the boat. "I I am an old man," he said, speaking with manifest embarrassment. "I was sent to take charge of this prison as punishment for refusing to join a Jew massacre plot. Governorship here means no more or less than a life Imprisonment My wife and children are on a little estate of mine In Sweden. It Is twelve years since I have seen them. I" "If this story Is a ruse to detain us" "No! No!" protested the governor, and there was no mistaking his pathetic, eager sincerity. "But but I shall be shot or locked in one of the cells and the water turned on for letting you

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man at the rudder. I think my sight's failing me. Look closely. Did you ever see him before?" "I think I have, but am not quite sure." "Why, he looks to me like my jovial and venerable father-in-law, Captain Kempt, of Bar Harbor. Perfectly absurd, of course. It can't be." "He does resemble the captain, but I only saw him once or twice." "Hooray, Captain Kempt! How are rou?" shouted Jack across the waters.

The captain raised his right hand and waved it, but made no attempt to cover the distance with his voice. Jack ran pellmell down the steps, and Drummond followed in more "leisurely fashIon. The boat swung around to the landing, and Captain Kempt cried cortftally: "Hello, prince! How are you? And that's Lieutenant Drummond," isn't It? Last time I had the pleasure of seeing you, Drummond, was that night of the ball." "Yes," said Drummond. "I was very glad to see you then, but a hundred times happier to see you today." "I was just cruising around these waters in my yacht, and I thought I'd take a look at this rock you tried to obliterate. I don't see any perceptible damage done, but what can you expect from British marksmanship?" "I struck the rock on the other side, captain. I think your remark Is un

kind, especially as I've just been praising the watermanship of your men." "Now, are you boys tired of this summer resort?" asked Captain Kempt. "Is your baggage checked, and are you ready to go? Most seaside places are deserted this time of year." "We'll be ready in a moment, captain," cried his future son-in-law. "I

must run up and get the governor.

We've put a number of men in prison here, and they'll starve if not released. The governor's a good old chap, though he played it low down on me a few days ago," and with that Jack disappeared up the stairway once more. "Had a jail delivery here?" asked the captain. "Well, something by way of that The prince drilled a hole in the rock, and we got out. We've put the garrison In pawn, so to speak, but I've been mighty anxious these last few days because the sailboat they had here and two of the garrison escaped to the mainland with the news. We were anxiously watching your yacht, fearing it was Russian. Jack thought it was the czar's yacht. How came you by such a craft, captain? Splendid looking boat that" "Oh, yes, I bought her a few days before I left New York. One likes to travel comfortably, you know. Very well fitted up she is." Jack shouted from the doorway:

"Drummond, come up here and fling overboard these loaded rifles. We

can't take any more chances. I'm going to lock up the ammunition room and take the key with me as a sou

venir." "Excuse me, captain," said Drummond, who followed his friend, and presently bundles of ritles came clattering down the side of the precipice, plunging into the sea. The two then descended the steps. Jack in front.

urummona following, witn tne governor between them. "Now, governor," said Jack, "for the second time I am to bid you farewell. Here are the keys. If you accept them, you must give me your word of honor

that the boat will not be fired upon. If you do not promise that, I'll drop the bunch into the sea, and on your gfay head be the consequences." "I give you my word of honor that you shall not be fired upon." "Very well, governor. Here are the keys, and goodby." In the flurry of excitement over the yacht's appearance both Jack and Drummond had temporarily forgotten the existence of the tramp steamer the former had seen beating toward the rock. Now Lamont suddenly recalled it "By the way, governor," he said, "the relief boat you so thoughtfully sent for is on her way here. She should reach the rock at almost any minute now. In fact, I fancy we've little time to waste if we want to avoid a brush. It would be a pity to be nabbed now at the eleven tli hour. Goodby once more."

"Jump in!" ordered Jack, coming to a sudden resolution. "Heaven. knows

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"IFon't you take mc icith you?" I would not condemn my worst enemy to a perpetual life on this rock. And you've been pretty decent to us, according to your lights. Jump aboard, we've no time to waste." Nor did the governor waste time In obeying. The others followed and the boat shoved 'off. But scarcely had the oars caught the water when around the promontory came a large man-o-wars launch, a rapid fire gun mounted on "her bows. She was manned by about twenty men In Russian police uniform. "From the 'tramp,'" commented Alan excitedly. "And her gun Is trained on us."

"Get down to work!" shouted Jack

to the straining oarsmen.

"No use!" groaned Kempt. "She'll cross within a hundred yards of us.

'mere s no missing at sucn close rango

and on such a quiet sea. What a fool

I was to"

The launch was indeed bearing down

on them despite the rowers best ef

forts and must unquestionably cut them off before they could reach th

yacht.

The launch was now within hailing distance, and every man aboard her was glaring at the helpless little yacht

"Wait!" It was the governor who spoke.

Rising from his seat in the stern, ho hailed the officer who was sighting tho

rapid fire gun. "Lieutenant Tscbersky!" he called.

At sight of the old man's lean, uniformed figure rising from among the rest there was visible excitement and

surprise aboard the launch. The offl

cer saluted and ordered the engine stopped that he might hear more plain

ly.

"Lieutenant," repeated the governor. "I am summoned aboard his highness the Grand Duke Vladimir's yacht. You

will proceed to the harbor and await

my return to the rock. There has been

a mutiny among the garrison, but I

have quelled it."

The officer saluted again, gave an order, and the launch's nose pointed

for the rock.

"Governor," observed Lamont as the

old man sank again Into his seat,

"you've earned your passage to Stock

holm. You need not work for It"

other you will see Is entirely unfounded. You Impress that on them, Johnson.

I tell you what It Is. captain,

sounded the confident voice of the

prince. "This vessel Is a beauty. You

have done yourself fine. I Lad no

Idea you were such a sybarite. Why,

I've been aboard the czar's yacht, and I tell you It's nothing Great heav

ens. Katherine!" he shouted in a voice that made the celling ring.

She was now standing up and ad

vanced toward him with both hands

held out a welcoming smile on her

pretty lips, but he swooped down on her, flung his arms round her like a

cabman beating warmth Into his

hands, kissed her on the brow, the twe cheeks and the lips, swaying her back and forward as if about to fling her upstairs. "Stop, stop!" 6he cried. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Before my father too! You great Russian bear!" "Don't bother about me, Kate," said her father. "That's nothing to the way we acted when I was young. Come on. boys, to the smoking room, and I'll mix you something good real Kentucky, twenty-seven years in barreland I've got all the other materials for a Manhattan." "Jack. I am glad to see you." panted Katherine, all in disarray, which she endeavored to set right by an agitated touch here and there. "Now, Jack. I'm going to take yoy to the smoking room, but you'll have to behave yourself as you walk along the deck. I won't be made a spectacle of before the crew." "Come along, Drummond," said the captain, "and bring Miss Dorothy with you." But Drummond stood in front of Dorothy Amhurst and held out his hand.

"You haven't forgotten me, Miss Am

hurst I hope?" "Oh, no," she replied, with a very faint smile, taking his hand.

"It seems incredible that you are

here," he began. "What a lucky man

I am. Captain Kempt takes his yacht to rescue his son-in-law that is to bo

and incidentally rescues me as well,

and then to hnd you nerel 1 suppose you came because your friend Miss

Kempt was aboard?"

"Yes, we are all but inseparable."

"I wrote you a letter. Miss Amhurst

the last night I was In St. Petersburg

in the summer."

"Yes, I received it."

"No, not tiiis one. It was the night

I was captured, and I never got a

chance to post it. It was an Impor tant letter for me."

I thought it important for me," re

plied Dorothy, now smiling quite open

ly. "The nihilists got it. searching

your room after you had been arrest

ed. It was sent on to New York and

given to me."

Is that possible? How did they

know it was for you?"

I had been making Inquiries tlirough

the nihilists."

"I wrote yx)U a proposal of mar

riage, Dorothy."

"It certainly read like it; but you

see. it wasn't signed, and you can't be held to it."

He reached across the table and

grasped her two hands.

"Dorothy, Dorothy," he cried, "do

you mean you would have cabled

Yes?"

"No." "You would not?" "Of course not. I should hare ca

bled 'Undecided. One gets more for

one's money in sending a long word.

Then I should have written" the

paused, and he cried eagerly: "What?" "What do you think?" she asked.

ell, uo you know, Dorothy, I am

beginning to think my incredible luck

will hold and that you'd have written

Yes."'-'

"I don't know about the luck. That

would have been the answer."

He sprang up, bent over her, and

she quite unaffectedly raised her face

to his. "Oh, Dorothy!" he cried. "Oh, Alan," she replied, with quiver

Ing voice, "I never thought to 6ee you

again! You cannot imagine the long agony of this voyage and not knowing what had happened." "It's a blessing, Dorothy, you had learned nothing about the Trogzmondoff." "Ah, but I did. That's what frightened me. We have a man on board who was flung for dead from thai dreadful rock. The Baltic saved him; his mother, he calls it." Drummond picked her up In his arm and carried her to the luxurious divan

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CHAPTER XXI.

HE girls on the yacht had no ex

pectation that Captain Kempt would come back with the two

Toungr men, but when through

their powerful binoculars the girls be

came aware that Drnmmond and the prince were In the small boat they both fled to the chief saloon and sat there holding: one another's bands. Even the exuberant Kate for once had nothing to say. She heard the voice of her father on deck, giving command to the mate. "Make for Stockholm, Johnson. Take my men-o'-war's men see that no one else touches the ammunition and fling the shells overboard. Heave the gun after them and then clear out the rifles and ammunition the same way. When we reach Stockholm tomorrow morning there must not be a gun on board this ship, and the ridiculous rumor that got abroad among your men that

y wa were going to attack something or

"Do you mean you tcould have cabled

which ran along the side of the large room. There they sat down together,

out of sight of the stairway. "Did you get all of my letters T "1 think bo." Tou knoTr I am a poor man?" "I know you said so." 'To be Concluded Friday.)

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