I'd first find out where they were, then I'd use all the
influence I possessed with the American Ambassador to get them set
free."
"The American Ambassador, Kate, cannot move to release either an
Englishman or a Russian."
"I'd do it somehow. I wouldn't sit here like a stick or a stone,
writing letters to my architect."
"Would you go to Russia alone?"
"No, I should take my father with me."
"That is an excellent idea, Kate. I advise you to go north by
to-night's train, if you like, and see him, or telegraph to him to
come and see us."
Kate sat down, and Dorothy drew the curtains across the window pane
and snapped on the central cluster of electric lamps.
"Will you come with me if I go north?" asked Kate, in a milder tone
than she had hitherto used.
"I cannot. I am making an appointment with a man in this room
to-morrow."
"The architect, I suppose," cried Kate with scorn.
"No, with a man who may or may not give me information of Lamont or
Drummond."
Katherine stared at her open-eyed.
"Then you have been doing something?"
"I have been trying, but it is difficult to know what to do. I have
received information that the house in which Mr. Lamont and Mr.
Drummond lived is now deserted, and no one knows anything of its
former occupants. That information comes to me semi-officially, but it
does not lead far. I have started inquiry through more questionable
channels; in other words, I have invoked the aid of a Nihilist
society, and although I am quite determined to go to Russia with you,
do not be surprised if I am arrested the moment I set foot in St.
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