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

Il believe every Syllable ne uttered.
The mans face showed that he was
speaking the truth
"But, my dear Kate, You didn't see
| him at all, as | understand the yarn.
He was here alone with you, was he
not, Dorothy?v
| Dorothy smiled sadly.
! II told Kate all about it and gave
my own impression of the mans APP
pearance."
"You are too sensible girl to place
any credit in what he said surely"
II did believe him nevertheless" re-
| piled Dorothy.
why, look You here. False In one
thing. false in all. I'll just take sim
gle point. He speaks of spring send
| ing water through the cells up there
/ in the rock. Now, that is an impossi-
bility. Wherever spring exists, it
comes from a source higher than it.
SELF
"There are lots of springs up in the
mountains" interrupted Katherine. Il
know one on Mount Washington that
is ten times as high as the Rock in the
| Baltic
Quite so, Katherine, quite SO, but
nevertheless there is lake, subter-
raneous or above ground, which feeds
your White Mountain spring, and such
lake must be situated higher than
the spring is. Why, girl, you ought to
study hydrometeorology as well as
chemistry. Here is rock jutting up
/ in midocean"-
ssIt's in the Baltic, near the Russian
coast" snapped Kate, "and I've no
doubt there are mountains in Finland
| that contain the lake which feeds tho
spring
How far is that rock from the Fin
nish coast, them"
1.-TWO miles and a half" said Kate
quick as an arrow speeding from a
bow
/ captain, we don't know how far it
| is from the coast" amended Dorothy.
'I'll never believe the thing exists
at ALL
'sWhy, yes it does, father. How can
| you speak like that? Don't you know
Lieutenant Drummond fred at it?'
How do you know it was the same
rock?"
Because the rock fred back at him.
There can't be two like that in the
Baltic"
mo, nor one either.'' said the cap
tain, nearing the end of his patience.
captain Kempt,'' said Dorothy very
soothingly, as if she desired to queli
the rising storm, "you take the allega-
ton about the spring of water to prove
that Johnson was telling untruths.
expect him here within an hour, and
will arrange that you have an oppor-
tunity, privately, of cross examining
him. | think when you see the man
and listen to him you will believe.
What makes me so sure that he is tell
ing the truth is the fact that he mem
toned the foreign vessel firing at this
rock, which / knew to be true. and
which be could not possibly have learn
ed anything about"
"He might very well have learned all
particulars from the papers, Dorothy.
They were full enough of the subject
at the time, and, remembering this, be
thought to strengthen his story BY
Katherine interrupted with great
scorn.
sBy adding verisimilitude to an 9th
erwise bald and unconvincing nara
| tive"
! "Quite so, Kate Exactly what was
going to say myself. But, to come back
to the project itself, granting the ex-
istence of the rock, granting the truth
Of Johnson's story, granting every
thing, granting even that the young
men are imprisoned there. of which
we have not the slightest proof, we
could no more succeed in capturing
that place from a frail pleasure
Yacht
TITS built like cruiser" said Kath
crime.
Even If It were built like battle
ship we would have no chance what
ever. Why, that rock might defy 6
regular feet. Our venture would sim
ply be marine Jameson raid which
would set the whole world laughing
when people came to hear Of it."
4 johnson said he could take it with
half dozen men,"
mo, Kate" corrected Dorothy; che
said the very reverse: that two OF
three determined men on the rock witt
repeating rifles could defeat host Il
was who suggested that we should
throw a shell and then rush the en-
trance in the confusion"
| Captain Kempt threw up bis hands
in a gesture of despair.
"Great heavens, Dorothy Amhurst
whom have always regarded as the
n1ildest, sweetest and most charming
| Of girls, to hear you calmly propose to
throw a shell among lot of innocent
men defending their own territory
| against a perfectly unauthorized inva
sion! Throw shell, say you, as II
you were talking Of tossing q copper
to beggar! Oh, Lord, Pm growing
old! What will become Of this young
err generation? Well, give it up,
q Ioy