The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-06-24
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CHAPTER lin London Philip Kirk
wood, young American painter, learns
that the San Francisco disaster has cost
him his fortune and decides to return
home to the stricken city. His elderly
English friend, Brentwick, visits him.
and he meets George b. Calendar, an
American whom he believes to be an ad-
yenturer. II-Before leaving his hotel
for the boat train Kirkwood dimes at the
hotel. In the dining room he sees Calen-
dar receive a note of warning from
fashionably dressed woman. He is then
asked by the American, who admits with
out giving a reason that he fears arrest,
10 escort his young and beautiful daugh.
ter home. Kirkwood consents. H.
Kirkwood takes Dorothy Calendar to
seemingly unoccupied house at No. g
Frognall street, in shabby-gcnteel
quarter OF London, where he leaves the
rirl al her request. IV--Drawn back to
the house by curiosity. Kirkvood sees
the door Of the daik house ajar. He
throws off cockney who tries to detain
him, enters the house and bolts the
door. On the staircase he has tussle
with a slender man in evening dress.
The latter is knocked unconscious by a
fall downstairs. Kirkwood Is then re-
ioined by Dorothy, who is very glad to
see him, but docs not explain the mys-
tery OF the gloomy house. Heavy raps
AZ the front door staItle the two. W
Dorothy and Kirkwood, the latter ques-
tiouing himself whether or not he has
fallen III love with the girl. fec from the
mysterious house by the rear door. The
Girl takes with her a small black glad
stone bag, which. she says. she is to
take TO her father. Win a cab Kirk
wood escorts her to the house OF Mrs.
Hallam in fashionable Craven street.
where, she declares. her father is TO meet
her. Kirkwood leaves her in the cab
aud enters the house to learn whether
Calendar is there. He meets Ms. Hal
lam and recognizes her as the woman
Who warned Calendar in the hotel. As
KirkNood talks TO her he hears man
leave the house. Together Mrs. Hallam
and Kiikwood 20 TO the door TO call
Dorothy u and find that the girl and the
cab have vanished. yII--Caiendar APP
pears at the Hailam house In search of
Dorothy. Kirkwood accompanies him
al his request 10 an unsayory locality on
the Thames. VfIT-calendar meets his
daughter IN the company OF man
named Mniresdy. evidently his conpan-
ion in some strange. nefarious enter
prise. Mulready, il seers, has tried 70
kidnap Dorothy in Kirkwood's cab.
Calender and Mulready quarrel, after
which the girl and two mIn row off 10
board vesselrefefred 20 as the Alethca.
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cab TO 81. pancras station. where he Is
ioiake the midnight rain for his steamer.
lIe Is now thoroughly IN love with
Dorothy. TX and x--Kirkwod Just
misses his train and finds himself alnios;
pcnniiess. After wandering about fof
two hours he Is again in Frognall stacet.
lie enters the house 10 seek his missing
purse and finds the young man whom be
bad knocked down still unconscious nj.
Ter six hours. iKirkwood's ministraiions
70 him are interrupted BY the entrance
into the house Of a woman in evening
dress. N and Xli-Ihe woman Is
Mfs. Hallam. and the injured young
man is her son. She tells Kirkwood
thar Dorothy, Calendar and Mnlread,
ire engaged in plot 10 steal family
Jewels lett - her son by his relative,
colonel Burgoync. Calendar. she says,
is her late husbands cousin. The jewels
arc in the black bag. Mrs. Hallam de.
clarcS. Kirkwood doubts her story and
suspects that Dorothy is an innocen,
partakcr in some mysterious plot. lie
decides 10 defend the girl. XIii-Thc
next morning Kirkwood in rowboat.
with two watcrmcn, searches the Thamcs
IN vain for the Alether. The boatmen
take him 10 Woolwich on his way 70
Sheerncss TO intercept the Alethea. XIV
On the train 60 Shecfness kirkwood
meets Mrs. Hailam, bent. like himself,
On finding Calendar. She tries 20 get his
aid, but he refuses. lie cludcs her d,
Shccrncss NN--in the distance lie secs
vessel which he believes Is the Alcihea.
After a struggle with covetous boatnan
who steals his watch aud chain. Kirk.
wood knocks him overheard into his
Tory anil seikes his catboat 10 sail out 10
the Alethea.