The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-05-17

pearanee.
You are TOO sensible q girl 60 place
any credit IN what he said surely =
! ala believe him nevertheI less ? re-
piled Dorothy.
Why's look you here. False 10 one
thing, false IN al, IN 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 a spring exists. ii
comes from a source higher than IT.
SELF
There are lots Of springs mp IN the
mountains Interrupted Katherine. II
know one on Mount Washington that
Is ten times as high as the Rock IN the
Baltic.
Quite 80 katherine, quite 50, but
nevertheless there Is lake, snbfer-
Taneous 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 hytlrometeoroiogy as wen as
chemistry. Here is rock jutlng up
In miloceang
''Its in the Baltic, n4.i the Russian
coast, snapped Kate, and rye no
doubt there are mountains IN Finland
that contain the lake which feeds the
spring
How far is that rock from the Fin
nish coast, thengr
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 tine coast amended Dorothy.
I'm never believe the thing exists
at ALL
Why, yes 1t does. father. How can
sou speak like that? Don't you know
Lieutenant Drummond fired at itg'
Glow do you know it was the same
rocky'
Because the rock fred back at. him.
There can't be two like that IN the
Baltic"
mo, nor one ether said the cap-
tain, nearing the end OF his patience.
Captain Kempt" said Dorothy very
soothingly, as IL she desired TO queii
the rising storm, you take the allega-
ton about the spring Of water to prove
that johnson was telling untruths. I
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 50 sure that he is tell
ing the truth is the fact that he men
toned the foreign vessel firing at this
rock, which knew to be true, and
which he 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, he
thought to strengthen his story by
katherine Interrupted with great
scorn.
by adding verisimilitude to an 9th.
erwlse bald aud unconvincing nara.
tive
"Quite so. Kate. Exactly what l was
going to say myself. But, to come back
to the project itself, granting the ex.
istence Of the rock, granting the truth
of Iohnson'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 frail pleasure
yacht
Its built like a cruiser" said Kath.
crime.
Even II IT were built like battle.
ship we would have no chance what.
ever. Why, that rock might defy
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,
johnson said he could take 1t with
half dozen men"
no, Kate" corrected Dorothy; The
said the very reverse; that two or
three determined men on the rock with
repeating rifles could defeat host. It
was who suggested that We should
throw a shell and then rush the en-
trance in the confusion"
Captain Kempt threw up his hands
in gesture of despair.
Great heavens, Dorothy Amhurst,
whom have always regarded as the
mlldest, 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 perfectly unauthorized inva-
sion! Throw a shell, say you, as II
you were talking of tossing a copper
to beggar! oh, Lord, I'm growing
old! What win become Of this young
er generation? Well, / give It up.
Dorothy, my dear, whatever will hap
pen to those unfortunate Russians
shall never recover from the shock Of
your shell. The thing is absolutely Inn
possible. Can't You see that the mo-
ment you get down to detailsi How
are you going to procure your shells or
your shell firing gun? They are not to