The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-20
SYNOPSIS.

Chapter l. Dorothy Amhurst beau
tfful young woman, goes to the pam
in Bar HarbOr, presents cheek, WhlCH
the cashier pays, and then walks e Sh
leaving the money on the counter oiS
Is overtaken by Lieutenant Alan Dr4dn
mOnd OF the British WaTship CohSt
nation, who hands her the money. ile
explains TO Dorothy that ne - 49,
rather bad repute with the ad dI.d ta ~,
because OF the fact that solhe new
fore he had. in order to test Poi
gun, fired at d lonely rock IN tie o. 81
tic, which Immediately retuFhSg9u s So
IRE, making an "aHalre itnnfion Of
Drummond expresses his lntehtlon, a - ~
going to Russia personally 70 81 -
that the episode was not the I 49, a A. .
design. Dorothy attempts 70 ass uaae
him. II-DOrothy, who IS OF eAcellS ~
family, has been reduced IN means 30
that she is Obliged to become a sew
ing woman in the family OF captain
Kemnt H. s. N, retired. The family
consists of Captain and Mrs. Kempt
and their daughters, Sabina and hath5
TO Dorothy, while Sabina is Just the
reverse It develops that Dorothy has
just inherited a fortune of $4,000 900.
1II-At the reception on board the
Dorothy and Katherine his intimate
friend, Prince Ivan Lermonton, who IS
latter asks Katherine for dance. ~
Allan is ordered home by the admir-
atty. He assumes that it is the after
math of the Rock in the Baltic" af-
fair. V-Jack Lamont, the prince,
visits Katherine at her home. VI
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 a Catskill mountain fashionable re-
sort Katherine is persistently study
Ing scientific works in order to please
Jack Lamont, the prince, who is a
great scientist and an inventor of note.
One Of his processes contempt tes 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. lie also
tells her that Jack Lamont is about
TO join him for the purpose of accom-
panying him to Russia. VIII Captain
kempt receives from Jack Lamont a
letter requesting that he be permitted
TO pay his addresses to Katherine
Dorothy incloses the favorable reply in
letter which she writes to Alan
Drummond IX-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 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-Alan'S 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. Pau
with Jack Lamont X1l-Through g
Nihilist johnson, Dorothy receives ar
unfinished letter to her. upon which
Alan was evidentlysat work at the time
of his arrest. This Nihilist tells heI
be 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
United 60 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.