The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-29


other you viii see is entirely unbound !,
ed. You impress that on them. John
SON."
II tell you what 1t is. captain"
sounded the confident voice OF the |
prince. "This vessel is a beauty. You |
have done yourself fine I had 10 !
idea you were such sybarite. Why.
I've been aboard the cars yacht, and !
l tell you it's nothing Great heav-
ems. Katherine." he shouted in a voice
that made the ceiling ring
She was now standing up and adj
yanced 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 two
cheeks and the lips, swaying her back
and forward as If about TO fling her
upstairs.
stop, Stop she cried Aren't you
ashamed of yourself? Before my IA
Their too! You great Russian bearr'
Don't bother about me, Kate" said
her father That's nothing to the
way we acted when / was young.
Come on. boys. to the smoking room,
and I'll mix you something good-real
kentucky. twenty-seven years in bar
Ireland I've got all the other mate
rails for Manhattan"
Jack. l am glad to see you," pant
ed Katherine, oil in disarray, which
she endeavored to set right by an agi-
tated touch here and there. Now.
Jack. I'm going to take YOU to the
smoking room, but you'll have to be-
have yourself as you walk along the
deck. / won't be made spectacle of
before the crew"
Come along. Drummond," said the
captain, land 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, hope?"
"Oh, no." she replied. with very
faint smile, taking his hand.
ut seems incredible that you are
here" he began. What lucky man
/ am. Captain Kempt takes his yacht
to rescue his son-in-law that Is to be
and incidentally rescues me as well,
and then to find you here! l suppose
you came because your friend Miss
Kempt was aboardW
Eyes, we are all but inseparable."
81 wrote you letter, Miss Amhurst,
the last night was in st. Petersburg
in the summer"
Eyes, received it."
"No, not this one. It was the night
was captured, and I never got q
chance to post it. 1t was an impor-
tant letter-for me-"
II thought it important-for me-" re-
piled Dorothy, now smiling quite open
ly. THE nihilists got it. searching
your room after you had been arrest
ed. 1t was sent on to New York and
given to me-"
is that possible? How did they
know it was for your
81 had been making inquiries through
the nihiists"
Il wrote you a proposal of mar
riage, Dorothy"
1T certainly read like 1t; but. Vol
see. it wasn't signed, ana you can't b.
held to it.''
He reached across the table ant
grasped her two hands.
Dorothy. Dorothy" he cried. "dc
you mean you would have cablet
'Yes?"
.sNo."
''You would not?''
"Of course not should hare ca
bled Undecided One gets more Il
ones money in sending a long wore
Then I should have written sh
y paused, and he cried eagerly:
u "What?'
what do you Think she asked.
. 'Well, do you know, Dorothy, 1 a.
beginning to think my incredible luc
y will hold and that you'd have write
: ''Yes'"-
ST don't know about the luck. TIL
would have been the answer"
= = He sprang up, bent over her, ar
- she quite unaffectedly raised her IA,
to his.
ooh, Dorothyw he cried
''Oh, Alan" she replied, with quive
. ing voice, Il never thought to see "
. again! You cannot imagine the lo1
agony of this voyage and not KNOWN
what had happened"
! ''It's q blessing, Dorothy, you b;
% learned nothing about the Trogzmo
u doff."
/ "Ah, but did. That's what frigt
&c ened me. We have q man on boa
/ who was flung for dead from tn
dreadful rock. The Baltic saved hir
l. his mother. he calls it."
. Drummond picked her up in his arr
- and carried her to the luxurious div;
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