The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-07-15

Synopsis Of Proceeding Chapter
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 B. Calendar, an
American whom he believes to be an adj
venturer. II-Before leaving his hotel
for the boat train Kirkwood dimes at the
hotel. In the dining room he sees Calen-
dar receive note of warning from a
fashiopably dressed woman. He is then
asked by the American, who admits with
out 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. 9
Frognall street, in shabby-genteel
quarter Of London. where he leaves the
girl at her request Iv--Drawn back to
the house by curiosity, Kirkwood sees
the door Of the daik house ajar. He
throws off eockney 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 re-
Joined by Dorothy. who is very glad to
see him. but docs not explain the mys-
terry OF the gloomy house. Heavy raps
at the front door startle the two. W
Dorothy and Kirkwood, the latter ques-
tioning himself whether or not be has
fallen in love with the girl, flee from the
mysterious house by the rear door. The
girl takes with her small black glad
stone bag, which, she says, she is TO
take to her father. Win 4 cab Kirk
wood escorts her TO the house OF Mrs.
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 No. Hal
lam aud recognizes her as the woman
who warned Calendar 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
Dorothy in and find that the girl and the
cab have vanished. vII-Calcndsr APP
pears at the Haiian house In search oi
Dorothy. Kirkwood accompanies him
al his request to an unsavory locality on
the Thames. vIII-Calendar meets his
daughter in the company OF a man
named Muiready, evidently bis compan-
ION In some strange. nefarious enter
prise. Mulready, IL seems, has tried TO
kidnau Dorothy in Kirkwood's cab.
Calender and Mulready quarrel, after
which the girl aud two MN row off TO
board q vessel referred 20 as the Alethea,
leaving Kirkwood to find his way in a
cab TO st. Pancras station, where he is
totake the midnight rain for his steamer
lie is now thoroughly in love with
Dorothy. TX and x-kirkwod Just
misses his train and finds himself almost
penniless. After wandering about for
two hours he is again in Frognali street.
lie enters the house TO seek his missing
purse and finds the young man whom be
bad knocked down still unconscious af-
,s six hours. Kirkwood's ministrstions
% him arc interrupted by the entrance
into the house OF d woman in evening
dress. XI aud xfI-Thc woman il
Mrs. Hallam. and the injured young
man IL her son. She tells Kirkwood
that Dorothy. Calendar and Mulread,
are engaged in a plot 10 steal family
Jewels left 20 her son by his relative,
Colonel Burgoyne. Calendar, she says,
il her late husbands cousin. The jewels
are in the black bag. Mrs. iiailam de-
clares. Kirkwood doubts her story and
suspects that Dorothy Is an innocen,
partaker in some mysterious plot. He
decides 10 defend the girl. XfII-The
next morning Kirkwood in "a rowboat,
with two watermen, searches the Thames
In vain for the Alethea- The boatmen
take him to wooiwich on his way 20
Sheerncss 10 intercept the Alethea. XIV
-on the train TO Sheerness Kirkwood
meets Mrs. Hallam, bent, like himself,
ON finding Calendar. She tries 10 get bis
aid, but he refuses. He eludes her al
Sheerness. XV--In the distance he sees
a vessel which he believes II the Alethea.
After a struggle with covctous boatman
who steals his watch and chain, Kirk
wood knocks him overheard into his
dory and seizcs his catboat 10 sail out TO
the Alethea. xvf-Kirkwood Is nearly
drowned when the catboat sinks and
reaches the Alethca only 10 be told by
3AptHlu tttftttac thtfttbf tttst
the vessel carries no passengers. XVII
Strykcr badgers and robs Kirkwood, who
believes that Dorothy and Calendar bad
been aboard the Alethea, but hal left
her. xvITf-Kirkwood finds Ia rail-
way guide on the Alethea indications
thai the Calendars and Mulrcady, having
sailed for England on channel steamer.
arr waiting at Antwerp for Stryker. lie
sufinises from marks In the guide that
they are to 70 TO Amsterdam on the
6:s2 train. Stryker sets him ashore with
only his clothing and thee-pence. XIX
aud KILN Antwerp, at evening. Kirk
wood s~es Mrs. Hailam watching cheap
hotel, from which emerge Calendar and
Mulready. Unseen by the two men, he
follows them abosrd the Alethea and
overhesrs them discuss their plots with
Captain Strykcr. They are planning to
smuggie diamonds into the United
States. Calendar mentions the fact that
he and Mulfcsdy are TO receive 81 .ooe
each from Mrs. Hallam n Dorothy is
kept out Of England six weeks. Kirk
wood determines TO join the plotters In
order 10 help Dorothy. Az he walks 10
the cabin Mulready and Calendar quar-.
rel. and the former tries 20 shoot his &C
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