The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
Thursday, May "a, 1906.
9, tore out the fyleaf and presented

note, tore out the fyleaf and presented
it to Katherine, who read:
Alan Drummond, -Blnewater club,
Pail Mall, London. Tell Lamont that
his letter to Captain Kempt was de-
layed, and did not reach the captain
! until today. Captain Kempt's, reply
club. Arrange for forwarding if you
leave England. g.:
S24 dorothy Amhurst."
!. When Katherine finished reading she
looked up at her friend, and exclaimed:
- Well!' giving that one word mean
ing deep as the clear pool on whose bor-
derS she stood. .--..
Dorothy's face Redeemed as if the
anan 4 western sun was shining full
+: ::.You write to one another, then9"
"And is it a case Of" ~---
"No; friendship - =
Sure it is nothing more than that's"
Dorothy shook her head.
dorothy, you are a brick; that s
what you are. You will do anything to
help friend in trouble''
Dorothy smiled. -
~ have so few friends that what
ever | can do for them will not greatly
tax any capabilities 1 may possess.'
Nevertheless, Dorothy, thoroly ap-
~preclate what you have done. You did
not wish anyone to know you were cor
responding with him, and yet you never
hesltated moment when you saw was
anxious.N
tIndeed, Kate, there was nothing to
conceal. Ours is a very ordinary ex-
change Of letters. I have only had two;
one at Bar Harbor few days after he
left, and another longer one since we
came to the hotel, written from Eng
land.'
"Did the last one go to Bar Harbor,
too! How came you to receive it when
we did not get ours?'
lit did not go to Bar Harbor. I
gave him the address of my lawyers
in New York, and they forwarded it
to me here. Lieutenant Drummond was
ordered home by someone who had au-
thorlty to do so, and received the mes
sage while he was sitting with me on
the night of the ball. He had got into
trouble with Russia. There had been
an investigation, and he was acquitted.
lHsaw that he was rather worried over
: the order home and I expressed nv
sympathy as well as I could. hoping
everything would turn out for the best.
tie asked IT he might write and let
me know the outcome, and, being inter-
ested, L quite willingly gave him per-
mission, and my address. The letter
L received was all about a committee
meeting at the admiralty in which he
took part. He wrote to, me from the
club IN Fan Mall to which have ad-
dressed this cablegram.''. : = .
There was a sly dimple in RATHER
Inc s cheeks as she listened to this
straightforward explanation, and tho
dalntest possible suspicion of a smile
fiickered at the corner Of her mouth.
She murmured, rather than sanp:
"A pair of lovesick maidens we."'
'One. if you please" interrupted
"Lovesick all against our will"
"Only one''
Twenty years hence we shan't be
A pair of lovesick maidens STILL"
81 am pleased to note,'' said Dor
1thy demure!y, "that the letter written
by the prince to your father has
brought you back. to the Gilbert and
Sullivan plane again, altho in this fairy
glen You should quote from Iolanthe
rather than from Patience.''
YES Dot, this spot might do for
cove in the Pirates Of Penzance,'
only we're too far from the sea. But,
to return to the matter in hand, I don It
think there will be any need to send
that cablegram. don't like the idea
OF a cablegran, anyhow. I will return
to the hotel and dictate to my frivo-
lous Iatner SERIOUS composition quite
as stately and formal as that received
from the prince. He will address it and
seal it, and then if you are kind enough
to enclose it in the next letter you send
to lieutenant Drummond, it will be
sure to reach Jack Lamont ultimately. -
Dorothy sprang from the hammock
CON-. she cried eagerly, sIn 90
into the hotel with you and write my
letter at once. a. 3z,~ =. > !. =
Katherine smiled, took her by the
"You re a dear girl, Dorothy. TN
thru this thieket.''
r. =.