The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-31
Dorothy neither. defended nor excused,
and so no open rupture occurred be.
tween 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 furry of snow fell thru the
still air, 4capering in large fakes past
muddy street far below. Katherine was
Forehead leaning against the '1 plate
glass, in exactly the attitude that had
been her habit in the sewing room at
Bar Harbor, but now the staccato of
a Dead March of despair. The fall
ing 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 reused katherine to frenzy
of evaporation. Suddenly she brought
her clenched fist down on the sill where
her fingers had been drumming. = =.
q. ."My God ,,,sshe cried, Chow can you
sit therez1llSe an automaton with the
snow fallings.'Ea y
Dorothy put down her pen:
HThe snow fallings' she echoed. 81
don't UNDERESTIMATE
"Of course you don It. You don't
think of the drifts in Siberia, and the
two men you have known, whose hands
you have clasped, nanacled. driven
thru it with the lash of; a Cossack's
Dorothy rose quietly, and put her
e. ing her frame tremble underneath her
touch.
"Katherine,' she said quietly, but
Katherine, with a nervous witch of
her shoulders flung off the friendly
"Don't touch me,'' she cried. eco
back to your letter writing. You and
the Englishman are exactly alike; I'M
feeling, heartless He with his selfish
stubbornness has involved an innocent
man in the calamity his own stupidity
has brought about
IN, mK satlnir sit down, I want to
"Calmly! CALMLY! Yes, that is the
word. It is easy for you to be calm
when you don It care. But I care, and
I cannot be ca1m.'' &c.,.
"What do you wish to do, Kathe-
ria aswhat can T dos an = manner
and dependant, but one thing I am
determined to do, and that is to go
and live in my fathers house,
,"lf you We're in my place, what
would you do, Katherineq,'
<ssI would 60 to Russia. n
"What would you do when you ar
rived there?'' H." T.
. e. IL L uau wealth. l. WOulu use III III
such a campaign of bribery and cor
ruption in that country Of tyrants that
. should release two innocent men. I'd
first find out where they WERE, then I ID
use all the influence I possessed with
the American ambassador to get them
set free.'
S,'fThe American ambassador. Kate,
lishman or a Russian.'' .~'-7
"I'd do it somehow. I wouldn It
sit here like stick or a stone, writing
letters to my architect.'
"Would you go to Russia alone9''
emo should take my father with
"That is an excellent idea, Kate.
I advise you to go. north, by. tonight IS
train, if you like, and see him, or tele-
graphite him to come and see u.s.
Kate sat down. and Dorothy drew
the curtains across the window pane
and snapped on the central cluster, Of
electric lamps. ss:s::;ttssff7zsze5 IT +
1Win you. tonles With me- il 7 go
north? - asked Kate, :iin.Sa milder tone
than she had hitherto used. -
ct cannot: II am making an APP
pointmtent with a man in this room to-
~. The architect, + suppose, ], cried
: Kate with scorn. > u F. s,5
"No, with a. man who may OF may
not give me- Information Of. Lamont or
Drummond. -, 5:ssse.s7zsGs II 80.
Katherine stared at her open-eyed.S
HThen you have been doing some
thing9' +ss. 20
= * Il1ave beer tfv ID ID I5sat
cult To know what to DO I have re-
ceived information shat the house in
which Mr.. Eamont*and Mr.. Drummond
lived is now, deserted, and no one
knows anything Of, its former occu,
pants. That, information comes to ME
semi ofhfiiciaI1y.xbut it does mot lead far.
I have started inquiry thru more aues-
tionable channels; in other words,
have invoked the aid Of a NihiHst So
Getty and altho I am quite determined
surprised if II am arresteds.the moment
I set&foot i'm St Petersburg- -
Dorothy, why did YOU not let me
knowa" ~ .Tsz y. =.
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