INDIAN DRUM i..|WilliatTi AKacHiirq nnd hdwin Buhner The second picture. Atan mw , waa ■ either ease, If he has left anywhere to stay and help him areM; oui ne Office Phone «15-10 Res. •!»-13 one that had t>e«n taken In front of any evidence of what It la that changed •Bly put tbe buttons in the clean shirt the barn at the farm. It showed Alan and opprvaaed him for all these years, and reopened the dreaaer drawers and DR. at twelve. In overalls and barefooted, or If there Is any evidence of what laid oot a change of things. holding a stick over hla head at which has happened to him now. It wilt be "I waa to tell you, sir, Mr. Rherrlll EXOIM1NT1A found In hla house.” a shepherd dog waa Jumping. is sorry he cannot be at liome to din Cor. 92d and Fcs.er Road LFJNTS Rherrlll turned beck to Alan. “It la her tonight Mrs. Rherrlll and MI m “Yea. that la Nhep and I, Mr. Hher rill. It was taken by a man who for you—not tue. Alan.” be Mid simply, Rherrlll will bo here. Dinner 1s at stopped at the bouse for dinner one “to make that search. 1 have thought ' seven, air." MOUNT SCOTT day; he I Iked Hhep and wanted a seriously about it. this last half hour, Alan dressed slowly, after the man picture of him; ao he got me to make and have decided that 1a a« he would had you«; and at one minute before Camp No. llflbO, Modern Woodmen tthep Jump, and he took It." want It—perhaps as be did want It— Mvvn be went downstairs. : of America, meets every second and “Doesn't It occur to you that It was to be. ID- could have told me what hla Tlier« was no one In Hie lower ball fourth Wednesday of each month at your picture he wanted, and that ta- trouble was any time In theae twenty aud. after an Instant of Irresolution I Woodmere Hall, 7«3O 80th Ave. 8. K. had been eent to get it? 1 wanletl I years. If he had t>een willing I should and a glance Into the empty drawing F. B. VOLTS, Clerk. your verification that these earlier know; but he sever did. Your father, room, be turned Into tbe ema!! 'oom picture« were of you. hut this last one of course, bad a key to the front door at the opposite side of tbe halL A IXiAMg 1« easily recognlMble." like this one, rile servant has a key bandsoiM. stately, rather large wom KXNTAt.a Rherrlll unfolded the third picture; an, whom he found there, introduced It was larger than the other« and had herself to him formally aa Mrs. «her- been folded acroM the middle to get rill. Her reserved, yet almost too RA-AL hJHTATK It Into the envelope. Alan leaned for casual aeceptauce of Alan’s presence, CITY PfiOPRhTY sag FAKM8 ward to look at II. told him that she knew all the par Phone «38-83 “That Is the University of Karims ticulars about hlmaelf which Rherrlll sets nad gtrost FIBLAND 8TATION foothall team,“ he Mid. “I am the had been able to give; and as Con «ecnrid one In the front row; I played stance came down the stairs and end my Junior year and tackle when Joined them half a minute tatar, Alan I waa a aenlor. Mr. Corvet—F was certain that she also knew. "Yas; Mr. Corvet had theae picturea Dinner was announced, and they . They rame Into my poeaesslnn day be went into tbe great dining room. I fore yesterday, the day after Corvet where tbe table with Its linen, silver, dlMppesred; I do not want to tell Just and china gleamed under shaded H* Could Net Call Up Any fienao That yel how they did that." lights. Tbe oldest and most dignified the House Waa Hla. Alan'« face, which had been Hushed of the three men servants who waited «mte them at least that he "halj st at first with excitement, had gone upon them In tha dining room Alan rived Mfely and was well. He bought quite pale, and hla bunds, aa he , thought must he a butler—a specie« of a postcard ta tbe drug store, and wrote clenched and unclenched them nerv i creature of whom Alan bad beard but the ou Mt that Just, "Arrived Mfely; am well” to ously. were cold, and hla lipa were ' never bad seen; tbe other servants, at very dry. He could think of no po“ least, received and handed things John Welton 1a Kairnaa. There was wouldn 't stay autay our alble relationship between Benjamin through him, and took their orders a little vending machine upon tbe coun customers keep coming ter, and he dropped in a penny and got Corvet and hlmaelf except one. which 1 from blm. back for more prmttng. a box of matches and put them In bis could account for Corvet'a obtaining What Rherrlll bad told Alan of bis pocket. and keeping th«M picturea of him We satisfy - That ’s the ■ father had been Iterating Itself again He malii-d tbe card and turned back through the yeara. i end again ta Alan's thoughts; now he secret. to A»tor street; and lie walked more "I think you know who I am." Alan ' recalled that Sherrill had Mid that his Mid daughter believed that Corvet's dis ewiftly now. In ring come to bls deci Cbt ColuahM sion. and only shot one quick look up “You have guessed. If I am not mis appearance had had something to do IKCORPfMtanU* at the bouse as he approached It. With taken. that you are Corvet'a son." with ber. Alan had wondered at tbe what had his father ahut himself up The color flamed to Alan'a face for moment how that could be; and as he wttbln that house for twenty years? an Inatant. then left It paler than he “For Almost Twenty Years,” He Said, watched ber sctom the table and now And was It there still? And was It fore “I thought It must be that way." and then exchanged a comment with “Your Father, as I Have Teld You, from that that Benjamin Corvet had he answered; “but you Mid be had no Lived In That H sum Practically her, it puzzled him still more. He fled? He mw no one ta the street, children " had opportunity to ask ber when she and was certain no one was observing "Benjamin Corvet and hla wife had waited witn him ta the library, after him as, taking the key from hla pocket, to the rervauls eutranc«. I do not dinner was finished and her mother ne children." be ran up tbe steps and unlocked tbe "I thought that waa what you know of any other key a." had gone upstairs; hut he did not see outer door. Holding thia door open “The serv: nt Is In charge there then bow to go about It. meant." A twinge twisted Alan's to get tbe light from the afreet lamp, nowF Alan asked. . "Tm sorry,” ahe Mid to him. “that fate; he tried to control It but for a “dust non there la no one In the we can't be home tonight; but perhaps - he fitted the key Into the Inner door; moment could not. then he closed the outer door. For ful bouse. Tbe servant, after your fa I her you would rather be aloneF "Do not mlMpprehend your father." ly a minute, with fast-beating heart disappeared, thought that. If be had He did not answer thaL Rherrlll Mid quietly. "I cannot pre and a sense of expectation of he knew “ Have you a picture here. Miss Sher- - merely gone away, be might have g<me vent what other people may think not what, be kept bls hand upon tbe bock to bls birthplace near Manistique, rill, of—my fatherF be asked. when they learn thia; but I do not key before be turned It; then be “Uncle Benny bad had very few pic ahare such thoughta with them. There aud be went up there to look for him. opened tbe door and stepped Into the 1 had a wire from him today that he tures taken; but there la one here.” la much In this 1 cannot understand; dark and ailent bouse. Rhe went Into the study and <ume but I know that It Is not merely the had not found him and was coming (Continued Next Week.) back with a book open at a half-tone back." result of what others may think It— Rherrlll waited a moment to see picture of Benjamin Corvet. Alan took of 'a wife In more ports than one.' whether there was anything more It from her and carried it quickly as-^ou will hear the lakemen put It. Patronise our advertisers. Alan wanted to ask; then be went out. closer to the light. The face that | What Iles under thia la some great looked up to him from the heavily mlMdventure which hud changed and glazed page was regular of feature, , CHAPTER IV. frustrated all your father's life." handsome in a way. and forceful. Rherrlll crossed lhe room and rang There were Imagination and vigor of “Arrived Rafa; Well.” for a servant. As the door closed behind Sherrill, thought In the broad, smooth fore "1 am going to a«k you to be my 9015 Foster Road guest for a short time. Alan." he un Alan went over to the dresser and head ; tbe eyes were strangely moody noun red "I have had your bag picked up the key wbicb Sherrill had and brooding; the mouth was gentle, MACHINE SHOP It’s all Right or Your Money Back carried u> your room; the man will left. He put IL after a moment, ou rather kindly; It was a queerly Im lhe ring with two or three other keys pelling, haunting fac^ This was his show you which one It Is.” be bad, and dropped them Into his father! But, as Alan held the picture, Repairs to any machinery. Alan hesitated; he felt that Sherrill pocket; then he crossed to a chair and gazing down upon ft, tbe only emotion had not told him all he knew—that which came to him was realization that there were some things Rherrlll pur Mt down. he felt none. He had no emotion of Sherrill bad spoken of the poMibll posely waa withholding from him; but MONTH OF GRADUATES any sort; he could not attaeh to this lty that something might have "bap he could not for.-e Rherrlll to tell more UllC: stop the man, because he bore tbe name which pened" to Corvet; but It waa plain be than he wished; ao after an Instant's some one had told him was his fa did not believe he had met with actual Irresolution, he accepted the dlstnlsMl ther*s, the passions which, when Wedding violence. He had left It to Alan to ex Sherrill walked with him to the dreaming of his father, be nad felt. door, and gave hla directions to the amine Corvet'a house; but he had not Alan stood still a moment longer, The Community urged Alan to examine It at once; be then, remembering the book which be servant; he stood watching, as Alan had left tbe time of the examination held, he drew a chair up to the light, and the man went up the stairs. Theo to be determined by Alan. Thia and read the short, dry biography of he went hack and seated hlmaelf In aliow-ed clearly that Sherrill believed his father printed on tbe page oppo the chair Alan had occupied, and Mt with hands grasping the arms of the —perhaps had sufficient reason for be site the portrait. It summarized ta lieving—that C-orvet bad simply "gone a few hundred words his father's life. chair while he stared Into the fire. away." Corvet, Sherrill had Mid. had Alan shut the book and Mt thought He seemed to be considering and de OPTOMETRISTS—OPTICIANS bating something within hlmaelf; and married In IbW But Sherrill In long ful. The tall clock ta the ball struck knowledge of bla friend, had shown 266 Morrison Street, Portland, Or. nine. He got up and went out Into presently he seemed to come.to a de Ann conviction that there had been tbe hall and asked for his hat and cision. He went up the stairs and on the second floor he went to a front no mere vulgar liaison ta Oorvet's life. coat. When they bad been brought room and knocked. Alan's voice told Did thia mean that there might have him, he put them on and went out. QOME batteries will last longer than others been some previous marriage of Alan's He went down the step« and to the him to come In. Rlierrill went In and. even when everything is equal, and upon father — some marriage which bad oorner and turned west to Astor street when he had made sure that the serv that fact the Willard has won for itself the strangely overlapped and nullified bls When he reached the house of his fa ant waa not with Alan, he closed the distinction of being first with most motor public marriagef In that case, Alan ther he stopped under a street lamp, door carefully behind him. ists—that’« the reason we sell ’em. could be, not ouly In fact but legallf- looking up at the big, stern old Man Then be turned back to Alan, and Oorvet's son; and such things as thia, sion questlonlngly. for an Instant stood Indecisive as Willard Service Alan knew, had sometimes happened, He could not calf up any sense that though he did not know bow te begin what he wanted to My. As he glanced and had happened by a strange combi tbe house was hla. any more than he too, is unexcelled for any make of battery. nation of events Innocently for all had been able to when Rherrlll bad down at a key he took from his pocket, Stop regularly at our shqjj foi service, no hla Indeclklon seemed to receive di parties. Oorvet's public separation told him of It. He own a house on matter what make you have, and you’ll get all the life out of you» from his wife. Sherrill had Mid. had that street! Yet was that ta Itself rection and Inspiration from It; and battery that the manufacturer put into it. taken place In 1MTT, but the actual any more remarkable than that be he put It down ou Alan'a dreaaer. separation between them might, poe- should be the guest, the friend of such “I've brought you,” he Mid evenly, sibly, have taken place king before neonle as the Sherrills? No one as “the key to your house.” that 91st and Foster Road Phone: Auto. 624-34 Alan gased at him. bewildered. "The The afternoon had changed swiftly yet, since Sherrill had told him he was key to my house F Corvet'a son. had called him by name; into night; dusk had been gathering “To the houae on Astor street,” during hla last talk with Rherrlll, so when they did. what would they call Sherrill confirmed. “Your father deed that be hardly had been able to see him? Alan Conrad still? Or Atan ed lhe house and Its furniture and all Sherrill's face, and Just after Sherrtli Corvet? Its contents to you the day before he had left him, full dark bad come. Alan He noticed, up a street to the west, dlMppeared. I have not the deed did not know how long he had been tbe lighted sign of a drug store and here; it came into my handa the day sitting In the darkness thinking out turned up that way; be had promised, before yesterday at the Mme time I these things; but now a little clock he had recollected now, to Write to A savings account in our bank will give the graduate a practical got poaseMlon of the pictures which which had been ticking steadily in tbe . . . those ta Kama*—he could not start in life—the only gift you can make that will increase in value. might—or might not. for an I knew blackneM tinkled six. Alan heard a call them “father" and “mother” any TTie June bride will appreciate, more than any other gift, a pas« then—bo you. I have the deed down knock at hla door, and when It was re more—and tell them what be bad dis book in her own name, for a saving account. Upon it she can build covered as «ooo as be arrived. He town and will give It te you. The peated, he called. “Come in." a neat sum for her personal use. C0Ul<1 not tell them that, bn» he con'd house te yours in fee sfmple, given The light which came In from the Our service to our depositors makes an account doably 'alaable. you by your father, not bequeathed to hall, aa the door was opened, showed you by him to become your property a man servant The man, after a re 4% on Savings after hla death. Ho meant by that, I spectful Inquiry, switched ou th« light. think, even more than the mere ac Ho crossed Into the adjoining room— knowledgment that ho la your father." a bedroom; the room where Alan waa, Lent's Ststion, Portland. Oregon Sherrill walked to the window and he thought, must be a dressing room, stood ao though looking out, but hla and there was a bath between. Pres eyes were blank with thought. ently th« man reappeared, and moved “For almost twenty year«," he Mid. softly about the room, unpacking “your father, aa I have told you, lived Alan's suitcase. He hung Alan's other tn that houae practically alone; dur suit In the closet on hangers; he put ing all theae years a shadow of some the linen, except for one shirt, ta the sort waa over him. I don't know at dresser drawees, and ho put Alan's all. Alan, what that shadow waa. But few toilet things with the Ivory- It Is certain that whatever It was that backed brushes and comb and other Street GRAVEL had changed him from the man he articles on lhe dressing stand. Alan wondered, with a sort of trepi waa when I first knew him culminated A. C. Prop. LIME three days ago when he wrote <o you. dation. whether the man would expect PLASTER It may be that the consequence« of hla my prices writing to you were such that, after you let job. Transfer he had sent the letter, he could not Auto «48-21 bring hlmaelf to face them and so has Rea. 4822 90th St. Re«. Phone 640-05 merely . . . gone away. In that I. 8. Miller, Prep. 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I m «rance •iierrill. lad aaeuiM from her a promlao not to marry Koarman Ila than ¿laappaara •hirrill Ma~n »'orvit haa written to a certain A nm Conrad. in Nlui Itaplda Kansas, aad a>hlMlad airana« agitation over th« ■alter CHAITKR 11 -Corvet a lattar summons acarad a youth al unknown patentado, in Ch Ka «o (Continued from laat week.) Alan looked up quickly. “Mr. Cor vel wee— F It« aaked. “Corvel wan—la a lakeman.“ Slier- fUI Mid. Alsu Ml motlunleM, aa be recei- tacted the at range aialtatloti that bad aeuia Io him wbau be mw Ibe lake tor Ibe Oral time. should he l»H Sherrill of IhatT He derided It was ton vague, too Indefinite to bo men Uoned. bo doubt any other man used ooly to the prairie might have felt the Bo mo “He waa a shipowner, then." be •Bid. “Yea; bo waa a ahlpowner -not. however, on a large acale al that time, ■a had been a master. calling ships which belonged to others; then he bad «ailed one of hla owo. He waa operating then, I believe, two veieels; bet with the boom time« on the lakes, hla Interesls were beginning to ex- pand I met him frequently In the Beit few years. and we became cloae friends." . BherrlU broke off and «fared an In eta nt down at the rug Alan bent j forward; he made no Interruption but aa>l> watched Sherrill attentively. “Between IHMt. when I fir«t met him. and IM*.\ Corvel laid the foundation of great aucceaa; hla boat« aeetnrd lucky, men liked to work for blm. and ha got lhe brat skippers and crews. There waa a laying that In storm a Corvel ship never asked help; It gave It; certainly In twenty year« no Corvel! •hip had Buffered serious dlaaater. Corvet waa not yet rich, but unleea •ccldvut or undue competition Inter vened, he waa certain to become so. Then something happened.'' Rherrlll looked away at evident loci bow to describe II. “To the shlpeF Alan aaked him. “No; to him. In IHM1 for no ap parent reason, a great change came ever him." “In lffiffi!” “That waa the year." Alan bent forward, hl« heart throb blng In hla throat. “That waa aJ«c ttie year when I waa brought and left with the Welton« In Kansas," he mid. Rherrlll did oot «peak for a moment “J tbougbf,” he Mid finally. “it must have been about that time; but you did not tell my daughter the exact date.” “What kind of change came evei him that yearF Alan aaked. Rherrlll faced down al the rug. tbeo •t Alan, then paat him. “A change in hla way of living," he replied. "Th* Corvet line of boata went on. ex pandetl; interests were acquired In other lines; and Corvet and tboa* allied with him swiftly grew rich. But In all thia great development, fbt which Corvet'a genlua and ability had laid the foundation. Corvet hlmaell eeaaed to take active part He took Into partnerahlp. ahont a year later Henry Spearman, a young man whe bad been merely a mate on one of hl* ah I pa. Thia proved «ubvequentjy ta have been a good hu«lne«« move, fot SpeHrntan had tremendoua energy daring, and enterprise; and no doubt Corvet had recog nixed theae qualltlev In him before othera did. Mincy then he baa been oatanalbly and publicly the head of the concern, but he haa left ttie management almoat entirely to Spearman The personal changv to Corvet at that time la harder foi mo to deacrlbe to you." Rherrlll halted, hla eyes dark with thought, hla lipa pre«»ed closely to gather; Alan waited. “When I mw Corvet again. In th* manor of TMY-I had been South dur Ing the latter part of the winter and Beat through the aprtng—I waa Im pressed by the vague but, to ma alarming change In him I waa re minded, I recall, of a friend 1 had bad In college who had thonght ba waa In perfect health and had gone to an examiner for life Inanrance and had been refuaed. and waa trying to deny to hlmaelf and othera that anything could be the matter. But with Corvet I knew the trouble waa not physical. The next year hla wife left him.” "The year of—F Alan aaked. "That wee 18»?. There waa *i< question of their understanding and affection up to the very lime she ■<> strangely left him. Rhe died In France In the spring -f 1910, and Corvet'a first Information of her death come te him through a paragraph In a newspaper.” Alan had atarted; Sherrill looked at him queotloningly. "The aprlng ef 11110," Alan ex plained. "waa when 1 received the bank draft for fifteen hundred dollar«.“ Sherrill nodded; be did not aeem aurprlaed to hear thia; rather I’ "P peared to be confirmation of eome- tblng la hie own thought. “Following hla wlfe'a leaving him." Nherrill went on, “Corvet mw very little of any one. He aper.t umat of hla time In hla own houae; occasion ally ha lunched at hia club, at rare Intervals, and always unexpectedly, he appeared at hla office. I retnemlter that aummer he waa terribly die turbed becauae "tie of hla «hip« waa loot. The Corvet record waa broken; a Corvet «hip had appealed for help; a Corvet vessel had not reached port. . . , And later In the fall, when two deckhanda were waahed from another of hla veaaela and drowned, he waa again greatly wrought up. though bl* ■hip« «till had a moat favorable record. In 1902 I proponed to him that 1 buy full ownerahlc In the veaaala I turtle 1 zrr t Press, Auto. 622-28 For Good HorA Leave Your Films at A. WINKLER CURREY'S PHARMACY GRAYS CROSSING TTT1UFV J “That Waa 1S»7 " controlled and ally them with those he and Spearman operated. Slnco then, the firm name baa been Corvet, Sherrltl, and Spearman. "Our friendship had atrengthened and ripened during thoae yeara. The Intrnae activity of Corvet'a mind, which a« a younger man he had <11- rected wholly to Ibe ahlpplng. waa directed, after he had laolated hlmaelf In thia way, to other thing«. He took up almost feverishly an Immense num ber of atudlee- strange studies moat of them for a man whoee youth had been alinoat violently active and who had once been a lake captain. I can not tell you what they all ware geology. ethnology, nearly a score of subjects; he corresponded with vari ous scientific eoetetlaa; he haa given almoat the whole of bla attention to such things for about twenty years. But he has made very few acquaint ances tn that time, and has kept almost none of bls old friendships. He has lived alone In the house on Astor street with only one servant— the Mme one all theae years. “The only houae he has visited with any frequency haa been mine. He has always liked my wife; he had--he baa a great affection for my daughter, who, when she was a child, ran In and out of hla home as she pleased. My daughter believe« now that Ills present dlMppea ranee—whatever haa hap pened to him -is connected In some way with herself I do not think that Is so--" Rherrlll broke off and stood In thought for a moment; be seemed to consider, and to decide that It waa net necessary to My anything more on that subject. “la there anything tn what I have told you which make« It possible for you to recollect or to explain F Alan ehook hla head, fluahed. and then grew a little pale. What Rherrlll told him had excited him by the coin cidence« It offered between eventa In Benjamin Corvet'a life and hla own; It had not made him “recollect" Corvet, but It had given definiteness and direction to hla speculatlona aa to Corvet’a relation to hlmaelf. Rherrlll draw one of the large chairs nearer to Alan and Mt down facing him. He Mt In an Inner pocket and brought out an envelope; from the en velope he took three pictures, and handed the smallest of them to Alan. As Alan took It, he saw that It waa a tintype of hlmaelf as a round-faced boy of seven. "That la yotiF Rherrlll asked. “Yes; It was taken by the photog rapher In Blue Haplda." -«nd thlsF BRIDES AND Here for WEDDING BING The Silver Gift STAPLES The Jeweler Willard MT. SCOTT BATTERY CO. THE REAL GIFT For Graduation or the Wedding Tremont Plumbing Shop Multnomah State Bank 5127 72nd NUTTER, before Get ML Scott Co. the JAMES A.C.TA IT&CO