Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-09-02
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By Louis Joseph Vance
Synopsis Of the Preced-
ing Chapters
By Louis Joseph Vance


has cost him his fortune and decides to
return home to the strickc 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 a
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. III
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 of 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 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 small black
gladstone bag which, she says, she is
to take to her father. Win cab
Kirkwood 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
tdlhs W uCI ut HehIs HILL ltdNe Tie
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 ap-
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
a man named Mulready, evidently his
companion in some strange, nefarious
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
find his way in 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 X-kirkwood just misses his train
aod finds himself almost penniless
After wandering about for two hours
he is again in Frognall street. Ht
enters the house to seek his missing
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 til,
entrance into the house of woman il
evening dress. NJ and XII-Th,
woman is Mrs. Hallam and the in
jured young man is her son. Sh,
tells Kirkwood that Dorothy, Calen
dar and Mulready are engaged in /
plot to steal family jewels left to hel
son by his relative, Colonel Burgoyne
Calendar, she declares, S her late hus
husbands cousin. The Jewels are il
the black bag, Mrs. Hallam declares
kirkwood doubts her story and sus
poets that Dorothy is the innocent
partaker in some mysterious plot
He decides to defend the girl. Kill
The next morning Kirkwood in q
rowboat, with two watermen, searche.
the Thames in vain for the Alethea
The boatmen take him to Woolwitcl
WI iiis way " DHSSlltsS W
the Aletha. XIN-On the train t.
Sheerness Kirkwood meets Mrs
Hallam, bent, like himself, on finding
Calendar. She tries to get his aid
but he refuses. He eludes her al
Sheerness. XV-In the distance he
sees vessel which he believes is the
Aletha. After a struggle with GOV
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
kirkwood is nearly drowned when the
catboat sinks and reaches the Aletha
only to be told by Captain Stryker, a
facetious ruffian, that the vessel carries
no passengers. XVII-Stryker bad
gers and robs Kirkwood, who believes