Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-22
Synopsis OF the Preced-
ing Chapters


wood, young American painter,
learns that the San Francisco disaster
has cost him his fortune aud 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. 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
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 shabby-genteel
quarter of London, where he leaves
the girl at her request. N-Drawn
back to the honse by curiosity, Kirk
wood sees the door of the dark house
ajar He throws off 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 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 rear door. The
girl takes with her small black
gladstone bag which, she says, she is
to take to her father. Win a 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 man leave the
house. Together Mrs. Hallam and
kirkwood go to the door to call Dor
othy in and find that the girl and cab
have vanished. VII-Calendar APP
pears at the Hallam house in search OF
Dorothy. kirkwood accompanies him,
at his request to an unsavory locality
on the Thames. NIII-Calendal
meets his daughter in the company Of
man named Mulready, evidently his
companion in some strange, nefarious
enterprise Mulready, it seems, has
tried to kidnap Dorothy in kirkwood' :.
cab. Calendar and Mulready quarrel
after which the girl and the two mel
row off to board vessel referred t,
as the Aletha, leaving kirkwood t,
find his way in cap to st. Pancra
station, where he is to take the mid
night train for his steamer. He is nov
thoroughly in love with Dorothy. IN
and X-kirkwood Just misses his trail
aod finds himself almost pennies
After wandering about for two hour
he is again in Frognall street. II
enters the house to seek his missin
purse and finds the young man whom
he had knocked down still unconsciou
after six hours. kirkwood's ministra
tions to him are interrupted by tn
entrance into the house of woman i
evening dress. NJ and XII-Th
woman is Mrs. Hallam and the il
jured young man is her son. Sh
tells Kirkwood that Dorothy, Caller
dar and Mulready are engaged in
plot to steal family Jewels left to he
son by his relative, Colonel Burgoyn,
Calendar, she declares, is her late hui
husbands cousin. The Jewels are i
the black bag, Mrs. Hallam declare
kirkwood doubts her story and SUI
poets that Dorothy is the innocer
partaker in some mysterious plo
He decides to defend the girl. MIL
The next morning kirkwood in
rowboat, with two watermen, search,
the Thames in vain for the Alethe;
The boatmen take him to Woolwitc
on his way to Sheerness to intercel
the Aletha. XIV-On the train
Sheerness kirkwood meets Mr.
Hallam, bent, like himself, on findin
Calendar. She tries to get his ali
but he refuses