The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-21

Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst, beau
tttul young woman, goes TO the Danh
IN Bar Harbor, presents check; Wnl ,,t
the cashier pays, and then walks S Sha
leaving the money on the counter ono
Is overtaken by Lieutenant Alan Drum
mond OF the British warship cons I4a
nation, who hands her the money. re
explains to Dorothy that ne u 80
rather bad repute with the adhlll a. ~ -
Sccau use Of the tact tnat sol tes4 a new
Tore ne had, in order TO test 81
gun, fired at a lonely rock IN ths -
tic, which Immediately returheeu .io
fire, making an "anatre with AsuSS'eI q
Drummond expresses his intention OF
going to Russia personally 70 eA ~ ~
that the episode was not the FesuIt ~
him. II-Dorothy. VINO Is OF eAos ties az
family has been reduced in means SO
that she is obliged to become a sew
ing woman in the family OF captain
Kempt, u. S. N, retired. The family
consists OF Captain and Mrs. Kempt
and their daughters, Sabina and Kath-
crime Katherine is exceedingly kind
to Dorothy, while Sabina is just the
reverse It develops that Dorothy has
Just inherited a fortune or Slo.Ooo'oVo.
lII-At the reception on board the
CONSERVATION Alan introduces to
Dorothy and Katherine his intimate
friend, Prince Ivan Lermonton, who IS
aboard the vessel as Jack Lamont The
latter asks Katherine for a dance ~
Alan is ordered home by the admir-
atty: He assumes that it is the after
math OF the Rock in the Baltic az
fair. V-Jack Lamont, the prince
visits Katherine at her home. VI
Dorothy invites Katherine to live with
her in a fine apartment in New YORK
city and meanwhile asks the entire
Kempt family to become her guests
at a CatskilI mountain fashionable re-
sort Katherine is persistently study
ing scientific works in order to please
Jack Lamont, the prince, who IS
great scientist and an inventor of note
One of his processes contemplates the
dissolving OF solid stone by means OF
certain chemicals. VII-Dorothy re,
informing her that he had been called
home merely for the purpose of giving
some facts about a new gun. He also
tells her that Jack Lamont is about
to join him for the purpose of accom-
panying him to Russia. VIII Captain
Kempt receives from Jack Lamont a
letter requesting that he be permitted
TO pay hts 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 blacksmith
shop In st. Petersburg. where Jack Is
conducting certain experiments. There
the police are not satisfied with Jack s
explanation X-Alan writes to Dor
othy that Jack Lamont has been spir-
tied away in the night from his expert
mental shop. XI-Alan's letters cease,
and Dorothy learns from a Nihilistic
society in New York that Alan has also
the prison of st. Peter and st. Paul
with Jack Lamont. XlI-Through a
Nihflist, Johnson, Dorothy receives an
unfinished letter to her, upon which
Alan was evidently at work at the time
of his arrest. This Nihilist tells her
he believes that Jack and Alan are
prisoners on the Rock in the l5altic,
whore 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 per-
mitted go leave alive. Dorothy takes
Steps to buy n yacht, which, after be
inB armed she viii send In search OF
the Rock in the Baltic. NH and XIV
How Lermonton was captured and
conveyed to Trogzmondoff. the Rock
in the Baltic.