Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-08-19
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By Louis Joseph Vance
Copyright. 1908. by the Bobbs Merrill Co.
Synopsis Of the Preced-
ing Chapters
By Louis Joseph Vance
Copyright. 1908. by the Bobbs Merrill c.

NiidpteI TN London fhlllp Il lax
wood, young American PAINTER
learns that the San Francisco disaste
has cost him his fortune and decides {,
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 tt
be an adventurer. II.-Before leay
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 a reason that he fears arrest. to
escort his young and beautiful daueh-
ter home kirkwood consents Ill
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 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.
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 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 60 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
man named Mulready, evidently his
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
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. He
enters the house to seek his missing
purse and finds the young man whom
he had knocked down still unconscious
after six hours. kirkwoods ministra-
lions to him are interrupted by the
entrance into the house of 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, S 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.
He decides to defend the girl. Kill
The next morning kirkwood in a
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. XIN-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. NN-In the distance he
sees a 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
kirkwood is nearly drowned when the
catboat sinks and reaches the Aletha
only to be told by Captain Stryker,