The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-23
SYNOPSIS.

Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst, a peaLi
ttful young woman, goes TO the pt a11th
in Bar Harbor, presents cheek, l,It
the cashier pays and then W aths Ghe
leaving tho money on the counter. oI1o
IS overtaken by Lieutenant Alan ~ ~
mond OF the British warshlp IN o He
explains to Dorothy that he - ~
rather bad repute with the aq Qd..na he
because Of the fact that some eii.i new
fore he had, in order 70 tsSe t3ai
gun, fired at a lonely rock IN lns +ha
tic. which Immediately. retu tL fei,se eia0
fire, making an aHalTe Wtantion Of
going to Russia personally to eAPl@aH9
that the episode was not the isSI.i'a a a
design Dorothy attempts 20 dlsS utde
him II-Dorothy, who IS OF eAcelAeIie
family, has been reduced IN means 50
that she is obliged to become sew
ing woman In the family 81 OF Ca sipliiIl
consists Of Captain and Mrs. kempt
and their daughters, Sabina and kath,
to Dorothy while Sabina is Just the
reverse. 1t develops that Dorothy has
just inherited a fortune of SO ,0OO,O0o.
1II-At the reception on board t4 ne
Dorothy and Katherine his intimate
friend, Prince Ivan Lermonton, VINO Is
aboard the vessel as Jack Lamont. Inc
latter asks Katherine for dance, ~
Alan is ordered home by the admir-
atty; He assumes that It Is the AFTER
math OF the Rock in the Baltic al
fair. V-Jack Lamont. the PRINCE
visits Katherine at her home VI
Dorothy invites Katherine to live with
City and meanwhile asks the entlre
Ke.npt family TO become her guests
at q Catskill 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 or note.
One of mis- processes contemplateS the
dissolving Of solid stone by means OF
certain chemicals. VII-Dorothy re-
ceives a letter from Allan Drummond
Informing her that he had been called
home merely for the purpose OF giving
some facts about new gun. He also
tolls her that Jack Lamont is about
panyNng him 70 Russia VIII Captain
Kempt receives from Jack Lamont
letter requesting that he be permitted
to pay his addresses to Katherine
Dorothy incloses the favorable reply In
O letter which she writes to Alan
Drummond. lX-Alan writes that he
and Jack are living over blacksmith
shop in st. Petersburg, where Jack Is
conducting certain experiments. There
Is an explosion, and Alan fears that
the police are not satisfied with Jack 5
explanation X-Alan writes to Dor
othy that Jack Lamont has been spir-
tied away In the night from his expert
and Dorothy learns from a Nihilistic
society In New York that Alan has also
disappeared and is believed to be In
the prison OF st. Peter and st. Paul
with Jack Lamont. XII-Through a
Nihilist, 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 Baltic,
where 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 a yacht, which, after be
ing armed, she will send in search OF
the Rock in the Baltic. XIII and XIV
How LermCnton was captured and
conveyed to Trogzmondof, the Rock
in the Baltic XV-Captain Kempt
agrees to take charge of the yacht
which Dorothy wishes to fit out for
the purpose of rescuing Lermontofi
(LamonD and Alan Drummond. both
OF whom she believes are on the Rock
in the Baltic.