Petersburg."
"Dorothy, why did you not let me know?"
"I was anxious to get some good news to give you, but it has not come
yet."
"Oh, Dorothy," moaned Katherine, struggling to keep back the tears
that would flow in spite of her. Dorothy patted her on the shoulder.
"You have been a little unjust," she said, "and I am going to prove
that to you, so that in trying to make amends you may perhaps stop
brooding over this crisis that faces two poor lone women. You wrong
the Englishman, as you call him. Jack was arrested at least two days
before he was. Nihilist spies say that both of them were arrested, the
Prince first, and the Englishman several days later. I had a letter
from Mr. Drummond a short time after you received yours from Mr.
Lamont. I never showed it to you, but now things are so bad that they
cannot be worse, and you are at liberty to read the letter if you wish
to do so. It tells of Jack's disappearance, and of Drummond's agony of
mind and helplessness in St. Petersburg. Since he has never written
again, I am sure he was arrested later. I don't know which of the two
was most at fault for what you call stubbornness, but I believe the
explosion had more to do with the arrests than any action of theirs."
"And I was the cause of that," wailed Katherine.
"No, no, my dear girl. No one is to blame but the tyrant of Russia.
Now the Nihilists insist that neither of these men has been sent to
Siberia.
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