Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
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BLACK
BAG
By Louis Joseph Vance
Synopsis Of the Preced-
ing Chapters

WOOD, young American painter
learns that the San Francisco disaste
has cost him his fortune and decides t,
return home to the stricken city. Hi
elderly English friend, Brentwick, Wis
its him, and he meets Geo. b. Callen
dar, an American whom he believes t.
be an adventurer. II.-Before leav
ing his hotel for the boat train Kirk
wood dimes at the hotel. In the din
ing room he sees Calendar receive 6
note of warning from a Fashionable,
dressed woman. He is then asked b,
the American, who admits withou,
giving a reason that he fears arrest. tt
escort his young and beautiful daugh
ter home. kirkwood consents. Ill
kirkwood takes Dorothy Calendar to
seemingly unoccupied house at No.
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
alar. He throws off a cockney who
tries to detain him, enters the house
and bolts the door. On the staircase
he has tussle with slender man in
evening dress. The latter is knocked
unconscious by fall downstairs
klrkwood 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 small black
gladstone bag which, she says, she is
to take to her father. Win cab
klrkwood 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 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
klrkwood go to the door to call Dor
othy IN and find that the girl and cab
have vanished. VII-Calendar an
pears at the Hallam house in search of
Dorothy. kirkwood accompanies him,
at his request to an unsavory locality
on the Thames. VIII-Calendar
meets his daughter in the company of
man named Mulready, evidently his
companion in some strange, nefario.s
enterprise. Mulready, it seems, has
tried to kidnap Dorothy in Kirkwood's
cab. Calendar and Mulready quarrel,
after which the girl and the two men
row off to board vessel referred to
as the Aletha, leaving Kirkwood to
Ind his way in a cap to St. Pancras
station, where he is to take the mid
night train for his steamer. He is now
thoroughly in love with Dorothy. TX
and A-kirkwood Just misses his train
aod finds himself almost penniless.
After wandering about for two hours
he is again in Frognall street. He
enters the house to seek his missing
purse and finds the young man whom
he had knocked down still unconscious
after six hours. kirkwood's ministra-
lions to him are interrupted by the
entrance into the house of a woman in
evening dress. NJ and XII-The
woman is Mrs. Hallam and the in
Jured young man is her son. She
tells kirkwood that Dorothy, Calen-
dar and Mulready are engaged in a
plot to steal family Jewels left to her
son by his relative, Colonel Burgoyne.
Calendar, she declares, is her late hus-
husbands cousin. The Jewels are in
the black bag, Mrs. Hallam declares.
kirkwood doubts her story and sus-
poets that Dorothy is the innocent
partaker in some mysterious plot.
lie decides to defend the girl. Kill
The next morning Kirkwood in
rowboat, with two watermen, searches
the Thames in vain for the Alethea.
The boatmen take him to Woolwitch
on his way to Sheerness to intercept
the Aletha. XIV-On the train to
sheerness kirkwood meets Mrs.
Hallam, bent, like himself, on finding
Calendar. She tries to get his aid,
but he refuses. He eludes her at !
Sheerness. XV-In the distance he
sees vessel which he believes is the ]
Aletha. After struggle with COW
etous boatman, who steals his watch
and chain, Kirkwood knocks him over
board into his dory and seizes his cat :
boat to sail out to the Aletha. XVI
hirkwood is nearly drowned when the a
catboat sinks but he reaches the a
Aletha. 8