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The Wingham Times, 1913-11-27, Page 7A Rock In the Baltic By ROBERT BARR, -/7gtho� qp "The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont," "Tekip," "In the Midst of Alarms," "Speculations of John Steele." "The Victors," Eta. Copv1)bt, Mee, by Robert Barr.' By Arrangement with The Authors and Newspapers Association of New York. 'What Russian business?" asked 'Kattherine. "I don't remember your speaking of it." Dorothy went white, edged a little way from her friend, while her widen- ing eyes flashed n warning at the Lieu- tenant, who, too late, remembered that this conversation on Russia had taken place during the walk from the bank. The young man coughed slightly be- hind his open hand, reddened and stammered: "Oh, I thought I had told you. Didn't I mention the prince to you as we were •coming here?" "Not that I recollect," said Katlier- ine. -Is he a real, genuine prince—a • right down regular, regular, regular, u•oyal prince?" "I don't know about the royalty, but Ire's a prince In good standing in his own land, and he Is also an excellent blacksmith." The lieutenant chuckled ,a little. "He and bis sister have both been touched n good deal by Tolstolen doctrine. Jack is the most wonderful inventor, I think, that Is at present on lithe earth, Edison notwithstanding, Why, he is just now engaged on a 'scheme by which he can float houses from the mountains here down to New York. Float them—pipe line them 'would perhaps be a better term. You know they have pipe lines to carry petroleum. Very well. Jack has a ,solution that dissolves stone as white -sugar dissolves in ten, and he believes Ibe can run the fluid from the quarries 'to where building is going on. It .seems that he then puts this liquid into molds, and there you have the ,tone again. I don't understand the ;process myself, but Jack tells me it's marvelously cheap and marvelously ef- fective. He picked up the idea from elat>se one time when he and I wet* on our vacation at Detroit" ; "Detroit, Mich.?" "The Detroit river." "Well, that runs between Michigan and Canada." "No, no; this is to France. I be- lieve the real name of the river Is the Tarn. There's a gorge called Detroit -the strait, you know. Wonderful place—tremendous chasm. You go down in a boat, and all tbe tributary Fivers pour into the main stream like jets from the nozzle of a hose. They ,tell me this Is caused by the rain per ,colating through the dead leaves on the surface of the ground far above, ',Ltd thus the water becomes saturated -with carbonic acid gas and so dissolves -Abe limestone until the granite is „reached. and the granite forms the bed .,of these underground rivers. It all seemed to me very wonderful, but It .struck Jack on his scientific stde, and he has been experimenting ever since. He says he'll be able to build a city •.with a hose next ye:tr," "Where does he liver "On •the cruiser just at present. I was instrumental In getting him signed ..on as John Lamont, and he passed wtttrout question. No wonder, for he has scientific degrees from all sorts of German universities, from Oxford and .one or two institutions in the_ States. When at home be lives in St Peters- , burg" "Has be a palace there?" Drummond laughed. "He's got a blacksmith shop, with /two rooms above, and I'm going to ..stop with him for a few months as soon as I get my leave. When the .,cruiser reaches England we pay off, and 1 expect to have nothing to do for six mouths, so Jack and I will mn'.re for St. Petersburg." "Why do you call him Lamont? Is it taken from his real name of what- . d'ye-call !1 -off?" "Lerinontof'? les. The Czar De- tnett•I'.rs seine time about the beginning .,of the seventeenth century establish• ed a Scottish ertiard, just as Louis XI. ,did in France 200 years before. and there same over from Scotland La- ments. Canal.•:naeis, Bnchnnans and ,..others, on wh,,:n were bestowed titles land estates. i'riuce Ivan Lermontoff • Is n descendant or the original Lamont, Who was an officer in the Scottish gensd of I' ',';_' — . Was Badly Run Down. Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills Built tier Ups Mrs. crank Blough, Sarnia, Ont., ierites:—"I embrace the opportunity to .write you saying that I have used 'Mil- burn's Mil- 1,urn s Heart and lvcrvcPt'1 ls and found cm veryhelpful he pful to ane. I was very badly rust down, and was taking doctor's •thdicine. My son, out West, wrote Inc saying, ' Mother! you use the Mil - burn's Heart and Nerve Pills, they will We better for yott thsit doctor's medicine,' This I did with goo(! results. I often tecommend thein to other people. My elector did not know I was using them, Fisc used to say 'Why! I never saw trey One's heart gain up like yours has. You do not need any more medicine.'" Milburn's Ileart utul. Nerve • PillS ore f,Oc. per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T, Milburn Co., laimited, Toronto, Ont. "What Russian business?" asked ICath- _.. .. _ ._. erine,�. ";lie is rcTully a Scotehman?" "That's what I tell hila when he an- noys me, as i am by way of being a Scotchman myself. Al, the waltz is ended. Will you excuse me a moment while I fetch his highness?" Dorothy inclined her head, and Kath- erine fairly beamed permission. "Oh, Dorothy," the exclaimed when the lieutenant was out of hearing, "think of It—a real prince, and my ambition has never risen higher than a paltry count or some 01e:eaten of that sort. He's mine, Dorothy; I found him first." "1 thought you bad appropriated the lieutenant?" "What are lieutenants to me? The proud daughter of a captain, retired, cannot stoop to a mere lieutenant." "You wouldn't have to stoop far, Kate, with so tall a man as Mr. Drum- mond." "You are beginning to take notice, aren't you, Dot? But I bestow the lieutenant freely upon you, because I'm going to dance with the prince, even if I have to ask him myself. "She'll toddle away, as all aver, With the lord high executioner. Ah, here they come! Isn't he perfect- ly splendid? Leek at his beard! Just "A h, here they oo>t►t 1" the color of a brand new twenty dol- lar gold piece. See that broad ribbon diagonally across him. I wonder what it means? And gaze at those scintillating orders on his breast Good gracious me, isn't he splendid?" "Yes, for a blacksmith. I wonder if he beat, those stars out on his smell. Ile isn't nearly so tall as Ltenten{uot Drummond." "Dorothy, I'll not allow you to dis- parage my: prince. Hew can you be so disagreeable? I thought from the very first that Lieutenant Drummond was too tali, If the prince expects me„to call him 'your highness,' he'll be dis- appointed.” "You are quite right, Kate. The term would suit the lieutenant better." "Dorothy, I believe yon're jealous." "Oh, not 1'!n ;set!" said Dorothy, shaking her head and laughing, end then, "flush!' she Added as Katherine was about to speak agein. The next moment the young men Stood before thern, and, introductions befog soberly performed, tete rebate lost no time in begging Katherine to favor hint with n dance, to which re- quest the young woman Was graeione- ly pleased to accede without, however, exhibiting too much haste about her acceptat,ce, and so they walked off to- gether. CHLAPTER IV. " OM14 one has taken the catnip stool" , said Lieutenant Drgtn- mond "May I alt here?' And the young woman was good enoegh to give the desired per- mission. When be bad seated himself he glanced ti t'ottrel, then imprtl.lrely held out his hands - "Hiss a'atd:"M Aaibaarst," be said, "how are yaw?" "'{teiy'' wetl, thank Jou," replied the girl with ut.sfrt1e, and atter. halt a pea meot's beit(tedhol ' Itae placed her head 11 his. "Of mom yea dant*, 14ffee Ass - THE WINGl1AM19 T)lllh , N(\ Em 1), 27, 1913 "Yes, but not tonight. I am here merely as n looker on to Vienna. You must not allow politeness to keep you away from the floor, or perhaps I should say deck. I don't mind being alone In the least" "Now, Miss Amhurst, that Is not a hint, is it? Tell me that I have not already tired you of my company," "Oh, no, but 1 do not wish yon to feel that simply because we met casu- ally the other day you are compelled to waste your evening sitting out." "Indeed, 111I9s Arnhurst, although I should very notch like to have the pleasure of dancing with you, there is no one else here that 1 should care to ask. I bnve quailed ander the eagle eye of my captain once or twice this evening, and I have been rather en- deavoring to ! ep out of his sight. I fear he has found something new about me of which to disapprove, so I have quite determined not to dance, unless you would consent to dance with me, in which case I am quite ready to brave his reproachful glances." "IIave you done anything wrong lately?" "Heaven only ]knows! I try not to be purposely wicked and, indeed, have put forth extra efforts to be extra good, but it seems all of no avail. I endeavor to go about the ship with a subdued, humble, unobtrusive air, but this is rather difficult for a person of my size. I don't think a man can droop successfully unless he's under six feet in height." Dorothy laughed with quiet content. She was surprised to find herself so much at her ease with him and so mildly happy. They shared a secret together, and that of itself was an in- tangible bond linking him with her, who had no ties with any one else. She liked him, had liked him from the first, and his unconcealed delight In her company was gratifying to a girl who heretofore had found none to offer her the gentle courtesies of life. "Is It the Russian business again: You do not look very much troubled about ft." "Ah, that is—that is," he stammered In apparent confusion, then blurted out, "because you—because I am sit- ting here. Although I have met you but once before, it seems somehow as if I had known you always, and my slight anxiety. that I told you of fades away in your presence. I hope you don't think I aT forward in saying this, but really tonight when I saw you at the head of the gangway I could scarcely refrain from going di- rectly to you and greeting you. I am afraid I made rather a hash of it with Captain Kempt. He is too much of a gentleman to have shown any surprise at my somewhat boisterous accosting of him, and you know I didn't remem- ber him at all, but I saw that you were under his care and chanced it. Luck- ily it seems to have been Captain Kernpt after all, but I fear I surprised him, taking him by storm, as it were." "I thought you did it very nicely," said Dorothy, "and, indeed, until this moment I hadn't the least suspicion that you didn't recognize him.. He is a dear old gentleman, and I'm very fond of him." ".1 say," said the lieutenant, lowering his voice, "I nearly came a cropper when I spoke of that Russian affair before your friend. I was thinking of —of—well, I wasn't thinking of Miss Kempt"— "Oh, she never noticed anything," said Dorothy hurriedly. "You got out of that, too, very well. I thought of telling her I had met you before while she and I were in New York together, but the opportunity never seerned— well, I eouldn't quite explain and, in- deed, didn't wish to explain my own inexplicable conduct at the bank and so trusted to chance. If you had greeted me first tonight, I suppose"— she smiled and looked up at hila—"I suppose I should have brazened it out somehow." "Have you been in New York?" "Yes; we were there nearly a week." "Ah, that accounts far it!" "Accounts for what?" "I have walked up and down every street, lane and alley in Bar Harbor, hoping to catch a glimpse of you. I Piave haunted the town, and all The rime you were away." "No wonder the captain frowns at you. Have you been neglecting your duty?" "Well, I have been stretching my shore leave jest a little bit. I wanted to apologize for talking so much about myself as we walked from the bank." "It was very interesting, and, it you remember, we walked farther than I had intended." "Were your tritnds waiting for you or had they gone?" "They were waiting for me." "I hope they Weren't erose." "Oh, no! I told them I had been de- tained. It happened not to be ageea- sary to enter Into details, so f was saved the task of explanation, end, be- sides, ,we had other interesting things to diatc:'nss. This function on the ciTtls- er has loomed so large as a topic of roat,ersatibn that there has been little need of hey other subject to talk about tor several days past" "I suppose yon must have attended many grander occasions then :hie. Al- though we brae endeavored to make a display and although we possess a reasonably efficient band, still a cruiser Is not exactly designed ned for the use to which i i beim Put tonight. We t g t: p C t, Neve many disadvantages to overcome widish are not met with In the enmptu- ons dwellings of New Yerk and Dar Harbor." The girl's eyes Were On the deck for spine morpents before she redylied, then sine looked across at the dancers end finally said: "I think the bail on the ts'onatersa- don quite egnale aiaything I have ever attended." "It is nfee 61! yeti to tat that IP.ri1ll to trrfn--I won't name Sir Hubert titan - ley, blit tether $.Adii' Hubert lltasley— is eraIl.e itadwe . ,apd sem Yha ga TAKE YOUR CHOICE By HOLLAND. MANJJFACTURERS are of two kinds—the honest and dishonest The one makes the best goods, the other makes the worst. Each has his own particular scheme of life. The honest manufacturer aims to make the best goods he can and to advertise them so that all the world will know of their merits. He courts investigation. He wants customers to hold him to a rigid accountability. The dishonest manufactur- er hopes to profit by decep- tion. He produces an article that will be offered as "just as good" though be knows it is inferior. He seeks to make a larger profit than the hon- est manufacturer, and this larger profit is necessary be- cause he has to find new cus- tomers day after day. MANUFACTURERS WHO ADVERTISE ARE THE HONEST ONES. Itnrsi. sI : „te.sc.l nay fr•uit- les. \v:w.. •t:.b liar harbor, may 1 118t e. • '1„ 1,•easure of eaiiing Mean you tomercow or next day?" Iles• eyes were illvandly watching the dancers. "I suppose," she said slowly, with We flicker of a smile curving those en- ticing lips, "that since you were so very friendly with Captain Kempt to- night he may expect you to smoke a cigar with him. and it will possibly happen that Katherine and 1, %vho are very fend of the captain, may chance to conte in while you are there." "Katherine? Ah. hathcrine is the name of the young lady who was with you here—Miss Nena;.t?" "Yes." "Yon are stopping with the Kempts, then? "Yes." "1 wonder if they'd think I was tak- ing a liberty if I brought Jack Lamont with me?" "The prince?" laughed Dorothy. "Is he a real prince?" "Oh, yes, there's no doubt about that. i shouldn't have taken the liberty of Introducing him to you as Prince Ler- montoff if he were not, as we say in Scotland, a real Mackay—the genuine article. Well, then, the prince and 1 will pay our respects to Captain Kempt tomorrow afternoon." "Did you say the prince is gales with you to Russia?" "Oh, yes. As I told you, 1 intend to live very quietly in St. Petersburg. and the prince has his slop and a pair of rooms above it in a working quarter of the city. I shall occupy one of the rooms and be the other. The prince' is an excellent cook, so we shan't starve, even If we engage no servant" "Has the prince given his estates away Also?" "He hasn't given them away exactly, but he is a very indulgent landlord, and he spends so much money on his experiments and travel that. although C ied Almost All Night With That Dry Tick- ling Sensation in the Throat. 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It is put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark, and is manufactured Only by The T. Milbutn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. !he has a 'formidable •t.;"etne, he 1s veil frequently quite abort of e''noney, DI( You like him?" "Yes. Of course I saw him for f moment only. I wonder why the3 haven't returned. There's been see ural dances since they left" "Perhaps," said the lieutenant, will a slight return of his stammering "sour friend may be as fond of dant Ing as ,Jack is," "You are still determined to go t. Russia?" "Quite. There is absolutely no date get, I may not accomplish nnything but I'll have a try at it. Tile prince has a good deal of influence in St. I'e tersburg, which he will use quietly os my behalf, so that I may see the 1m• portant people. 1 shall be glad when the captain ceases frowning" -- Drummond was interrupted by a fellow officer, who raised his cap and begged a word with him. "I think, Drummond, the captain wanted to see you." "Oh, did he say that?" "No, but I know he has left a note for you in your cabin. Shall I go and fetch it?" "I wish you would, Chesham, 1f yon don't mind and it isn't too much trou- ble." "No trouble at all. Delighted, I'm :ure," said Chesham, again raising his 'atp and going off. "Now, 1 wonder what I have forgot - en to do" Drummond heaved a sigh proportion- ate to himself. "Under the present condition of icings a bit of neglect that would go :nnoticed with another man is a sign f unrepentant villainy in me. Any alter i eutenant may steal a horse, vhile I may not look over a hedge. 'on see how necessary it Is for me to to to Russia and get this thing smooth - .d over." "I think perhaps you are too sensi- ive and notice slights where nothing .1' the kind is meant," said the girl. Chesham returned and handed Drum- nond a letter. "Will you excuse me a moment?" he said, and as she looked at him he flat- tered himself that he noticed a trace of nnxiety in her eyes. He tore open the missive. "By Jove!" he cried. "What is it?" she could not prevent herself from saying, leaning forward. "1 nm ordered home. The admiralty commands me to tike the Hest steamer for England." "Ts tont serious?" Ile laughed with well feigned hilar- ity. "Ole no, not serious; lt's Just their way of doing things, They might eas- "1 am ordered hone." ily have allowed me to come borne iu my own ship. My only fear is I shall have to take the train for New York early tomorrow morning. But." he said. holding out his hnuds, "it is not serious if you allow me to write to you and if you will permit me to hope that I may reaelve an answer." She placed her hand fu his, this time without hesitation. "You may write," she said, "and I will reply. I trust it is not serious." CHAPTER V. N midafternoou of the day fol- lowing the entertainment on board the Consternation our two girls were seated opposite one another under the rafters of the sewing room in tbe listless, desultory manner ,of those who have not gone home till morning, till daylight did appear. The dominant note of a sum- mer cottage is the rocking chair, and there were two in the sewing room, where Katherine and Dorothy swayed gently back and forth as they talked. They sat close to the low, broad win- dow which presented so beautiful a picture of the bine hay and the white shipping. The hnge Consternation lay moored with her brnulside toward the town, ail sign of festivity already re- moved from hull and rigging, and to the scarcely sfitnher satisfied eyes of the g5ris something of the sadness of departure seemed to hang as a haze nroun i the great Rhip. The girls were not discussing the past, but rather an- ticipa'!ng the future, forecasting It, with long, silent ;muses intervening.. 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This energetic person of the song seems to have danced them all to a standstill, as I understood him, for he informs me 'u' means 'all' and 'din' means 'done.' but 1 told him 1'd rather 'cern Russian than Scotch; it was so much easier, and his highness was good enough to laugh at that. Didn't the lieutenant ask you to dance at all?" "Oh, yes, he did." "And you refused?" "I refused." "I didn't think he had sense enough to ask a girl to dance." "You are ungrateful, Katherine. Re- member he introduced you to the prince." "Yes, that's so. 1 had forgotten. 7, shall never say anything against him agaiu." "You like the prinee, then?" "Of all the crowned heads, emperors, kings, sultans, monarchs of every de- scription, dukes, counts, earls, mar- quises, whom I have met and who have pestered my life asking me to share their royal perquisites I think T may say quite truthfully that I like this Tack Lamont better than any one of them." "Surely Prince Jack has not offered you his principality already?" "No, not yet, but with an eye to the future I have persuaded him to give up Tolstoi and read Mark Twain, who is not only equally humorous but much more sensible thou the Russian writer. :leek most not be allowed to give away les estates to the peasants as his silly sister has done. I may need them inter on." "Oh, you've got that far, have your' "I have got tbat far. Ile hasn't. IIe doesn't know anything. about it, but I'II wake him up when the right tirno comes. There are many elements of sanity about him. Ile told me that he intended to give up his estates, but in the first place he hail been too busy and in the second he needed the mon- ey. Ills good sense, however, requires refining, so that he mny get rid of the dross. I don't blame him; I blame Tol- stoi. For instance. when I asked him it he had patented his liquid city in- vention tie saki he d'el not wish to make n profit from his, discovery, but Intended it for the geed of humanity at large. 1.oagine such nn idiotic idea as that!" "I think such views are entirely to his credit," affirmed Dorothy. "Oh, of course, but the plan is riot practicable. If he allows steel an in- ventlon to slip through hro his Qb`e t n h fingees, the 'StandardO it people will likely get hold of it, form a monopoly, and then where world humanity at large be? I I him the right way is to patent it, make all the money he can and use the each for benefiting humanity under the directloe of some charitable person like myself." "Did you suggest that to him?" "I did not intimate who the eeasibie peraoa wax, but I elucidated the prin tlpie of the thing." "Yes. And what did be ssyl" "lastly *Aiwa Dorothy, many things. At one time he because coofdentdat abeett !is ens tin fet, allard It sc„il:s 1.. o. us several castles, and when he visits any of thew he cannot prevent the moujiks, if that is the proper term for the peasantry over these, from prostrating themselves on the ground as he passes by, beating their foreheads against the earth and chanting in choice ItussIan the phrase: 'Defer, defer. IIere comes the lord high executioner,' or words to that effect. I told him I didn't see why he should interfere with so picturesque a cust,rn, and he said if I visited one or his castles that the:•° estimable people at a word from hem would form a cor- duroy roe in the mud with their bod- ies, so that I miglrt step dry shod from the carriage to the castle doors, and I stipulated that he should at least spread a bit of stair carpet over the poo: wretches before I made my prog- ress ropress across his front yard." "Well, you did become confidential if you discussed a visit to Russia." "Yes, didn't we? I suppose you don't approve of my forward conduct?" "I am sure you acted with the ut- most prudence, Kate," "I didn't lose any time, though, did I?' "I don't know how much time Is re- quired to attain the point of friendship you reached. I am inexperienced, It Is true I have read of love at first sight, and I am merely waiting to be told whether or not this is an instance of It" "Oh, you are very diffident, aren't you, sitting there so bashfully!" "I may seem timid or bashful, but It's merely sleepiness." "You're a bit of a humbug, Dorothy.» "Why?" "I don't know wily, but you are. Nc, it was not a case of love at first sight. it was a case of feminine vengeance Yes, yon may look surprised, but Pio telling the truth. Atter I walked so proudly off with his high mightiness we had a most agreeable danco to- gether. Then I proposed to return to you, hut the young man would not have it so, and for the moment I felt flattered. By and by I became aware, however, that it was not because of say company he avoided your sle ty,' but that he was sacrificing blmself for his friend." "What friend?" "Lieutenant Drummond, of course." "How was he sacrificing himself for Lieutenant Drummond?" "I surmise that the tall lieutenant did not fall a victim to my wiles as 1 bad at first supposed; but, in some unac- countable manner, one can never tell how these things happen. Ho was most anxious to be Left alone with the coy Miss Dorothy Amhurst, who does not understand how long a tlme it take. to tall in love at first sight, al- though she has read of the'e Ihings, dear, innocent girl. The first s illnin of the piece ham said to the second vil- lain of the piece: 'Therers a supertluons young woman ever on our bench; III introduce you to her. You lure her off to the giddy dance and keep her away as long as you can, and I'll do n9 much for you some day.' "Whereupon Jack Lamont probably swore --I understand that profanity is sometimes distressin'*ty preealeut aboard ship—but nevertht•le"e lie al- lowed the lieutenant to teat himlike 1 ten !em toeWell, b the slaughter. er \ , K 1 t el net be- Ing powerful enough to throw hint overboard when I realized the state Of the case, I did the neat beet thing, I became cloyingly sweet to him. 1 smiled upon him; I listened to his far- rago of nonsense about the chemical components et his various notnbte in- ventions, as It it girl attends a ball t6 study Chemistry! Before half an hour had passed the infant had come to the eoncinston that here was the first really sensible soman be had ever met. Ile soon got to making love to me, as the horrid phrase goes, as if [To be Continued.]