Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-08-26
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By Louis Joseph Vance
Copyright. 1905. by the Bobbs- Merrill Co.
Synopsis OF the Preced-
ing Chapters
Copyright. 1908. by the Bobbs-Merrill Co.

Chapter I'm London Philip Kial-
wood, young American PAINTER,
learns that the San Francisco disaster
has cost him his fortune AVID decides to
return home to the stricken city. His
elderly English friend, Brentwick, Wis
its him, and he meets Geo. b. Callen-
dar, an American whom he believes to
be an adventurer. U.-Before leav-
ing his hotel for the boat train Kirk
wood dimes at the hotel In the din
ing room he sees Calendar receive
note of warning from fashionably
dressed woman. He is then asked by
the American, who admits without
giving reason that he fears arrest, to
escort his young and beautiful daugh-
ter home. Kirkwood consents. Ill
Kirkwood takes Dorothy Calendar to
a seemingly unoccupied house at No. 8
Frognall street, in a shabby-genteel
quarter of London, where he leaves
the girl at her request. IV-Drawn
back to the honse by curiosity, Kirk
wood sees the door of the dark house
ajar. He throws off a cockney who
tries to detain him, enters the house
and bolts the door, On the staircase
he has a tussle with slender man in
evening dress. The latter is knocked
unconscious by a fall downstairs
Kirkwood is then rejoined by Dorothy,
who is very glad to see him, but does
not explain the mystery of the gloomy
house. Heavy raps at the front door
startle the two. V-Dorothy and
Kirkwood, the latter questioning him
self whether or not he has fallen in
love with the girl, flee from the mys-
terious house by a rear door. The
girl takes with her a small black
gladstone bag which, she says, she is
to take to her father. Win cab
Kirkwood escorts her to the house of
a Mrs. Hallam in fashionable Craven
street, where, she declares, her father
is to meet her. Kirkwood leaves her
in the cab and enters the house to
learn whether Calendar is there.
He meets Mrs. Hallam and recognizes
her as the woman who warned Cal.
endar in the hotel. As Kirkwood
talks to her he hears a man leave the
house. Together Mrs. Hallam and
kirkwood 60 to the door to call Dor
othy in and find that the girl and cal
have vanished. VII-Calendar APP
pears at the Hallam house in search o
Dorothy. Kirkwood accompanies him
at his request to an unsavory localit,
on the Thames. VIII-Calenda
meets his daughter in the company O
man named Mulready, evidently hi
companion in some strange, nefariou
enterprise. Mulready, it seems, ha
tried to kidnap Dorothy in Kirkwood
cab. Calendar and Mulready quarre
after which the girl and the two me
row off to board vessel referred t
as the Aletha, leaving Kirkwood I
find his way in cap to st. Pancrs
station, where he is to take the mi.
night train for his steamer. He is no
thoroughly in love with Dorothy. l.
and X-kirkwood Just misses his trai
aod finds himself almost pennies
After wandering about for two hou
he is again in Frognall street. II
enters the house to seek his missir
purse and finds the young man who
he had knocked down still unconscio,
after six hours. Kirkwood's ministr
tons to him are interrupted by Il
entrance into the house Of woman
evening dress. XI and XII-Tl
woman is Mrs. Hallam and the i
jured young man is her son. 81
tells Kirkwood that Dorothy, Gale
dar and Mulready are engaged in
plot to steal family Jewels left to h
son by his relative, Colonel Burgoyr
Calendar, she declares, i $ her late h,
husbands cousin. The Jewels are
the black bag, Mrs. Hallam declar,
Kirkwood doubts her story and S,
poets that Dorothy is the innoce
partaker in some mysterious pl,
He decides to defend the girl. XIII
The next morning kirkwood in
rowboat, with two watermen, search
the Thames in vain for the Aleths
The boatmen take him to Woolwit
on his way to Sheerness to interce
the Aletha. XIV-On the train
Sheerness Kirkwood meets NJ
Hallam, bent, like himself, on fndi
Calendar. She tries to get his a
but he refuses. He eludes her
Sheerness. XV-In the distance
sees a vessel which he believes is t
Aletha. After struggle with &C
etous boatman, who steals his wat
and chain, Kirkwood knocks him ov
board into his dory and seizes his c.
boat to sail out to the Aletha. Nv
Kirkwood is nearly drowned when
catboat sinks and reaches the Alet
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