OUT OF RUSSIA _By CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT_ THE ISLE OF DEAD SHIPS _THE FASCINATING SARGASSO SEA NOVEL_ “Chapter after chapter unfolds new and startling adventures.” --_Philadelphia Press._ “A thriller from start to finish. The book will certainly prove a delight to the lovers of romance and adventure.” --_San Francisco Bulletin._ _FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR AND THREE ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE_ _12mo._ _Cloth, $1.00 net._ J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO. PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA [Illustration: THE DIVER COMMANDED HER TO REPORT AT ONCE TO THE INNER CIRCLE OF THE BROTHERHOOD _Page 165_] OUT OF RUSSIA BY CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT AUTHOR OF “THE ISLE OF DEAD SHIPS,” “UNCLE SAM’S BUSINESS,” “HOW AMERICANS ARE GOVERNED,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK McKERNAN [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Published February, 1911 _Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company_ _The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._ ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE DIVER COMMANDED HER TO REPORT AT ONCE TO THE INNER CIRCLE OF THE BROTHERHOOD. _Frontispiece._ LIKE A CAT, THE WOMAN SPRANG FORWARD AND CAUGHT HIS ARM. 32 “PARDON, MADEMOISELLE! I MUST SPEAK TO YOU SECRETLY.” 139 “YOU!” SHE MUTTERED, “YOU HERE!” 198 OUT OF RUSSIA CHAPTER ONE The professor was pottering about his laboratory. He called it a laboratory, this work-room down in New Jersey, where he was peacefully ending his days, but it was not such in the ordinary acceptation of the term. The brightly burning lights shone on no apparatus for distilling evil-smelling gases, no glass retorts, no long lines of bottles. What instruments it disclosed were of a kind more likely to appeal to a sailor than to a chemist, though many of them would probably have seemed odd to both. A lead-line with “marks” and “deeps,” various scoop nets, a long sectional aquarium in which various sea creatures moved, barometers, anemometers, and other “meters” for measuring winds and waters, a great globe, and piles of charts, were some of the articles the room contained, for this was the workshop of Professor Shishkin, the great Russian physicist, member of scores of learned societies, and the ultimate authority on the waves, winds, currents, flora, and fauna of the ocean.