The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-07-22
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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 be meets George Il. Calendar, an
American whom he believes to be an adj
yeuturer. lI-Before leaving his hotel
for the boat train Kirkwood dimes al the
hotei. 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,
ID escort his young and beautiful dangh.
TER home. Kirkwood consents. lIi--
. Kirkwood takes Dorothy Calendar TO
seemingly unoccupied house at No.
Frognaii street, IN a shabby-genteel
quarter OF London, where he leaves the
4 girl al her request. IN--Drawn back TO
lie house BY curiosity, Kirkuood sees
the door Of the daik house ajar. He
throws off a 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
All downstairs. Kirkwood is then re-
ioined by Dorothy. who is very glad TO
see him, but does not explain the mys-
,ery of the gloomy house. Heavy raps
NJ The front door startle the two. W
Dorothy and Kirkwood, the latter ques-
tiouing himself whether or not he has
fallen III love with the girl, flee from the
mysterious house by the rear door. The
giri takes with her a small black glad
stone bag, which, she says. she is to
take 10 her father. Win a cab Kirk
wood escorts her 20 the house Of Mn.
Hallam In fashionable Craven street.
where. she declares. her father is 10 meet
her. Kirkwood leaves her in the cab
aud enters the house TO learn whether
Calendar IS there. He meets Mrs. Hal
lam and recognizes her as the woman
gho warued calendar in the hotel. As
kirkwood talks TO her he hears man
fease the house. Together Mrs. Hallau
and Knkwood 20 10 the door 10 call
Dorothy IN and tind that tie girl and the
cab have vanished. vIf-Caiendar ap.
pears at the Hallam house In seaHeh OF
dorothy. Kirkwood accompanies him
\, his request 10 an unssyory locality on
lie Thames. NIII-Caiendar meets his
laughter in the company OF q man
named Mulready. evidently his compan-
ION in some strange. nefarious enter
rrisc. Mnlready, il seems, has tried 10
kidnap Dorothy IN KiTkwood's cab.
calender and Mulready quarrel. after
which She girl and two min row off 10
hoard vessel referred to as the Aiethea,
e4ving KirkwoOd TO find his way IN a
csb 10 St. Pancras station, where he is
,otakr the midnight rain for his steamer.
lIe Z nov thoroughly IL love with
Dorothy. * aud X-Kirkwod Just
iuisses his train and finds himself almost
feuaiiess. After wandering about for
Ro hours he j. again IN Frognall street.
ne enters the house 10 seek his missing
purse and finds the young man whom he
had knocked down Still unconscious af-
Tor SIX hours. Kirkwood's uiinistrations
g him arc interrupted by the entrance
into the house ~ woman ~ evening
dress. NJ aud NfI-Thc woman j.
Mrs. Hailam, and the injured young
man is her son. She tells Kirkwood
that Dorothy. Calendar :. and Mulread,
1re engaged In a plot 10 steal family
Jewels left u her son By his relative,
colonel Burgoyuc. Calendar. she says,
Is her late husbands cousin. The jewels
arc in the black bag. Mrs iIallam de-
ciares. Kirkwood doubts her story and
suspects that Dorothy is an innocent
parsaket In some mysterious plot lie
decides Is defend the girl. NlfI-The
next morning Kifkwuod IN fowhoat.
with two Matefmcn. SEARCHES the Thames
% vain for the Alcthea. Tie bo1smen
ke him t0 WpolNieh on his way 81
ieeriie5s ID intercept tho Aletlica. NiN
am TIE train u sheefncss kifkWg1d
lcriskMfs. Hn'iam. bent. like himself.
finding Calendar She tries - get his
hut tic rcfn8es. lie cludes her 10
ecfaesa Nv Ia ;iie Hstauco lie secs
4 which 4 selleYt s ttf ieshta.
struggle eoveioas ha nan
stesE hs Ra.a ri eha5a Hfs-
feesks fm overheard tata til
ni seize his athalt i afl ani io
IA %Ns ElihNod Il Nev
sHNN a 0ni al
M Neihea asy ,O e te'd hy
81 ssrjker lIreliuN rahlaf. ilisl
sen cafiila 8o taecufess. XVII
iff iadgcfs and feb. kirkwaol. wnn
trSes thtt Dorothy and 1Alrataf bad
aboard tie Aletiica. lni had lCtt
icf. NNlil 4kifkW00l finds II a faii.
way guide on the Aleihca indications
hat the Calendars aud MIifcaiy. having
sailed for England on = channel steamer.
&c whiting at Antwerp for Stfyker. lIc
nfniiscs from marks in the guide that
they are to so to Amsterdam on the
b.s2 train. Stryker sets him ashore with
only his clothing and three-pence XIX
and KILN Antwerp, al evening. Kirk.
wood secs Mrs. Italian watching 4 cheap
hotel. from which emerge Calendar and
Mulfcady. Unseen by the two men. he
follows them aboard the Alethea and
0verhears them discuss their plots with
captain Stryker. They are planning ,s
smugele diamonds into The United
states. Calendar mentions the fact that
pc and Mulfeady are 10 receive Sl,ooc
ach from Mrs. 1Iallam II Dorothy !,
ept out Of England six weeks. Kirk.
sood determines 20 join the ploitcrs IN
Drdcr 70 help Dorothy. As be walks tc
hs cabin Mulready and Calendar quar-.
Z, and the former tries to shoot his ac
'mplice. but Kirkwood enters and