The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-17

would nave Deen returned. Later dumb
fear took possession Of her, and she
grew silent, plunged with renewed en-
ergy into her books, Joined a technical
school, took lessons and grew paler
and paler until her teachers warned
her she was OVERRIDING it.
Inwardly she resented the serene i'm
passiveness of her friend, who consult
ed calmly with the architect upon oc-
casion about the decoration OF the
church, when mems liberty was gone
and perhaps their lives. She built up
within her mind a romance of devo-
ton, by which her lover warning in
vain the stolid Englishman, had at last
been involved in the ruin that Drum
mond's stubbornness had brought upon
them both and unjustly implicated the
quiet woman by her side in the re-
sponsibility of this sacrifice. once or
twice she spoke with angry impatience
of Drummond and his stupidity but
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 1t came on the day that the
first furry of snow fell through the
still air, capering In large fakes past
the windows of the fiat down to the
muddy street far below. Katherine
was standing by the window, with her
forehead leaning against the plate
glass, In exactly the attitude that had
been her habit in the sewing room at
Bar Harbor, but now the staccato Of
her fingers on the sill seemed to drum
dead march of despair. The falling
snow had darkened the room, and one
electric light was aglow over the dain-
ty Chippendale desk at which Dorothy
sat writing letter The smooth, regu-
lar flow of the pen over the paper
reused Katherine to a frenzy of exas-
peratlon. Suddenly she brought her
clinched fist down on the sill where
her fingers had been drumming.
MY Godw she cried. How can you
sit there like an automaton with the
snow fallingT
Dorothy put down her pen.
1.-THE snow falling?" she echoed. ''I
don't understand"
"Of course you don't. You don't
think of the drifts In Siberia and the
two men you have known, whose hands
you have clasped, manacled, driven
! through it with the lash OF a Cossack's
whip"
Dorothy rose quietly and put her
hands on the shoulders Of the girl, feel
ing her frame tremble underneath her
| touch.
katherine" she said quietly, but
Katherine, with a nervous twitch Of
her shoulders, flung of the friendly
grasp.
Don't touch mew she cried. go
| back to your letter writing. You and
the Englishman are exactly alike-un-
feeling, heartless. He with his selfish
stubbornness has involved an innocent
man in the calamity his own stupidity
has brought about"
katherine, sit down. want to
talk calmly with you.'
Calmly! Calmly! Yes, that is the
word. 1t is easy for you to be calm
when you don't care. But care, and
1 cannot be calm"
what do you wish to do, Rather
| ine?"
What can I do? I am q pauper
and a dependent, but one thing 1 am
determined to do, and that is to go
and live in my fathers house"
IF you were in my place. what
would you do, Katherine?"
''I would go to Russia"
What would you do when you ar
rived there7'
IF / had wealth I would use II Ill
such a campaign of bribery and cor
ruption In that country of tyrants that
I should release two innocent men. I'd
first find where they were; then I'd
use all the influence possessed with
the American ambassador to get them
set free"
1.-THE American ambassador, Kate,
cannot move to release either an Eng
lishman or q Russian"
I'D do it somehow. 1 wouldn't sit
here like Il stick or a stone, writing
letters to my architect"
would you go to Russia alone"
"No; should take my father with
me-"
THAT is an excellent idea, Kate.
advise you to go north by tonights
train, If you like and see or telegraph
to 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.
viii you come with me IL 60
north?" asked Kate in a milder tone
than she had hitherto used.
L cannot I am making an appoint
ment with man In this room tomor-
| row"
1.-THE architect I suppose" cried
Kate, with scorn.
NO. with a man who may or may
not give me information of Lamont or
Drummond"