The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-22


Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst. beau
tiful young woman. goes to the panh
IN Bar t1arbor, presents cheek, WLtGb
the cashier pays and then waIKs Sbe
leaving the money on the counter. o lI0
Is overtaken by Lieutenant Alan Drum
mond Of the British warship Const9ITTo
nation, who hands her the money. i Jn
explains to Dorothy that ne 10
rather bad repute with the aa oi.d be,
because Of the fact that some tiIle o5,,
fore he had, in order 70 test . Pef.
gun, fired at a lonely rock IN ths D ~
tic, which Immediately returned tte
fire, making an "affaire win nu u % %
Drummond expresses his intentlon, %
going TO Russia personally 10 eAptAli ~
that the episode was not the result OF
design. Dorothy attempts TO dlssluaoe
him. II-Dorothy who Is OF eAcstie so
that she is obliged TO become a sew
ing woman ia 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
reverse. 1t develops that Dorothy has
just inherited a fortune of 81 5,00O,OOO
1II-At the reception on board the
CONSERVATION Alan introduces to
Dorothy and Katherine his intimate
friend, Prince Ivan Lermontoff, who Is
aboard the vessel as Jack Lamont. The
latter asks Katherine for a dance. ~
atty: He assumes that It is the after
math of the Rock in the Baltic az
fair: V-Jack Lamont, the prince
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 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 of note.
One of his processes contemplates the
dissolving of solid stone by means or
ceives letter from Allan Drummond
Informing her that he had been called
home merely for the purpose or giving
some facts about a new gun. He also
tells her that Jack Lamont is about
to Join him for the purpose of accom-
panyNnG him to Russia. VIII Captain
letter requesting that he be permitted
to pay his 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 a 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 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-Alans letters cease,
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
mitted co leave alive. Dorothy takes
steps to buy yacht, which. after be-
ing armed, she Will send in search of
the Rock in the Baltic. XIII and XIV
How Lermontoff was captured and
conveyed TO Trogzmondoff, the Rock
in the Baltic.