Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-30

make the best bargain you can for me.
A man is so much better at this kind
of negotiation than woman"
"But surely. my dear Dorothy, you
won't persist in buying this yacht2y
IFS her own money, father put in
Katherine.
keep quiet said the captain. ris-
ing, for the first time speaking with
real severity. whereupon Katherine, in
spite Of the fact that she was older
than twenty-one, was wise enough to
obey.
eyes, l am quite determined. cap
tain,1 said Dorothy sweetly.
"But, my dear woman, don't you see
how you've been hoodwinked by this
man johnson? He is shy of job. He
has already swindled you out of $780,
000."
mo; he asked for $4,000 only, Cap
tain Kenpt, and voluntarily doubled
the amount
Nevertheless he has worked you up
to believe that these young men are in
that rock. He has done this for a very
crafty purpose, and his purpose seems
likely to succeed He knows he will
be well paid, and you have promised
him bonus besides. IF he. with his
Captain Kidd crew, gets you on that
yacht, you viii only step ashore by
giving him every penny you possess.
That's his object He knows you are
starting out to commit crime that's
the word, Dorothy; there's no use in
our mincing matters-you will be per-
fectly helpless in his hands. OF course
I could not allow my daughter Kate to
go on such an expedition"
81 am over twenty-one years old"
cried Kate, the light of rebellion in her
eyes.
ST do not intend that either of you
shall go, Katherine"
Dorothy, I'll not submit to that,
| cried Katherine, with rising tremor
of anger in her voice. IT shall not be
set aside like child. Who has more
at stake than +? And as for capturing
! the rock, I'll dynamite 1t myself and
bring home as large specimen Of it
as the yacht will carry and set it up
on Bedloe's island beside the goddess
and say, There's your statue of Lib
erty, and there's your statue of Tyr
annyr"
| katherine" ehided her father, II
never before believed that child of
mine could talk such driveling nom
sense
ssPaternal heredity, father" retorted
Kate
'Your presidential plan, Captain
Kempt," interposed Dorothy. sis ex-
| cellent so far as Prince Lermontom is
| concerned. but it cannot rescue Lieu
tenant Drummond Now. there are
two things you can do for me that will
make me always your debtor, as, in
deed, am already, and the first is to
purchase for me the yacht The sec
ond is to form your own judgment of
the man johnson and if you distrust
| him then engage for me one-half the
crew and see that they are picked
| Americans"
First sane idea have heard since
| / came into this fat" growled the cap
tain
%The Americans won't let the Fin
lander bold me for ransom, you may
depend upon that"
1t was woebegone look the gallant
captain cast on the demure and deter
mined maiden; then, feeling his daugh-
ters eye upon him, be turned toward
her
/ I'm going. father" she said, with a
frmness quite equal to his own, and
he, on his part, recognized when his
daughter had toed the danger line. He
INDUCED in laugh that had little of
mirth in it.
"All can say is that am thankful
you haven't made up your minds to
kidnap the czar. OF course you are
going, Kate. So am ]"
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