had said he was going bark, anti after­ ward 1 asked him, and hh told mo be had soon you again. Did you show, him these?” “Ha aaw them—yea." "Ila was there when Wasaaquam Showed you where they were?" "tag." A little line deepened between her brows. and she aat thoughtful. "Ro you have been going about see­ ing these peopls." she said. "What have you found out?" "Nothing definlts at all. None of them knew my father; they were only gYNOwaie a«*rTrK v-wMiu>r ana air<>n.o n»r a umlss Ho then 4 leap pears «ha Corvel Sas written to a os > I ala Conrad, la Bius IU0U Ranas*, ahiutad owenss agHalloa over Ua* ___ and raves ot strwgglo th* mas Wl —Meal day Alaa learns . that Carvol has -i»»-1ed his property la him Introduced U> an Alan la astounded al the d'e CMAFltH VtL Alaa tone no one e< Ms strange eaoouatar. but In a prtvala sane iTtv.'mn- with Ihe tael lauans el aad de«oe Mas. errors Indian eerv Alan ho boliovss Ko also lolls him I Drum, which a*- Jon peals once tor □real lgkso Twen- re before, 'ho groat frelgl.lsr Ml- had gone lost with twenly nye on but the Drum had *oun.i»4 for twenty four, leaving Ihe Inference that one person had boon aavod alios It was general belief that the drum never erred Pursuing a stranger who had rda a diatuttiance al hie house. Alaa slugged and rendered unconwloua CHAITSm IX-CWarad recovers, *s affair remains a mystery aad CHAITKM X—Alaa learn, rrnm Was- r—a—— that II was Corvel's halm to hsea th* sum ot ll.au In the house, appor. ontly tu meet the demands ot a certain who Ot'peared periodically tn U m aboor.ee al Waseaquam. "Luke" comes |a UM I mium demanding to see Curvet. Ke la evldenlly In a dying eondluen. due to aleobol and oipoeure Conrad tries without avail la get him to .«plain hla Maaaetlon with Carvol. The man dies Waasaquam give* Conrad a paper on whisk la a Hat ot ntunao. CHAITICK XI -ftom Ihe document Al­ aa thinks he mar have a clue to the mystery surrounding Cnrvet'e lite and rai-i-earan-r II. |e.,vre i !>!. <«» t • Ue- lako Mi llican porta In sear h ot the persona who*, names were on the list. CHAPTER XHl—Inqutrioe show that the eal.h In the pn Kegs had twen the properly of a Captain yt afford, com mandor of Ihe M'aaka. who had gone down with hie ship (Continued from last week.) He had seen—he teckonrd them over •gain—fourteen of the twenty-one Mmi-'l originally on Benjamin Cor- vet’s Hats; thnt la. he hail evn either the Individual originally named, or Hie surviving relative written In-helow the name crossed off. lie had found thnt the crossing out of the name meant that the person was dead, except In the case of two who had left the coun­ try and whose whereabout« were as •akn. iwn to their present relatives ns they had been to Benjamin Corvel, and the cane of one other, who was tn an Insane asylum. Be hsd found that no one of the persons whom he saw had known Ben­ jamin Corvet personally; many of them did not know him at all. the others knew him only as a name. But. when Alan proceeded, always there was one connotation with each of the original names; always one cir­ cumstance bound all together. When he had cstifbllshed thnt circumstance as Influencing the fortunes of the flret two on hla lists, he had said to him­ self, an the blood pricked queerly un­ der the skin, thnt the fact might be a mere coincidence. When he estab­ lished It also as affecting the fate of the third and of the fourth and of the flfth, such explanation no longer sufficed; and he found It In common to all fourteen, sometimes as the de­ ciding factor of their fate, sometimes as only slightly affecting them, but always II wan there. In how many different ways. In what Strange, diverse manifestations that single circumstance had spread to these people whom Alan had Inter­ viewed I No two of them had been affected alike, he reckoned, as he went over bls notes of them. Now he wns going to trace those consequences to another. To what sort of place would It bring him today and what would he find there? He knew only that It would l»e quite distinct from the rest. The driver turned aside from the road across a cleared field where ruts Showed the passing of many previous vehicles; crossing thia, they entered the woods, bittie Arcs for cooking burned all about them, and nearer were parked an Immense number of farm wagons and buggies, with horses unharnessed and munching grain. Al­ an’s guide found a place among these for hla automobile, and they got out and went forward on foot. All about them, seated upon the moss or walk- Indians, family groups among which children played. Alan saw among these looking on. the bright dresses and sport coats of summer visitors who had come to watch. The figure of a girl among these caught his attention, and he started; then swiftly he told himself that It was only his thinking of Con­ stance Nherrill that made him believe this was she. Hut now she had seen him; she paled, theo ns quickly flushed, end leaving the group she had been with, came toward him. He had no choice now whether he would avoid Iter or not; and his hap­ piness at seeing her held him stupid, watching her. HeF eyes were very bright and with something more than friendly greeting; there was happl nees In them too.'' Ills throat shut together as he recognized this, and hla hand closed warmly over the small, trembling hand Which she put out to him. All his conscious thought wss lost for the moment In the mere realisation of her presence; he stood, holding her hand, oblivious that there were people looking; she too seemed carries» of that. The« she whitened again and withdrew her hand; she seemed slightly confused. He was con­ fused as well; It was not like this thut he had mennt to greet her; he caught himself together. Cap In hand, he stood beside her. trying to look and to feel as any or­ dinary acquaintance of here would have looked. "Nothing Definite At All. None of Them Knew My Father." a ma ted to And that anyone In Chicago had known their names." In her feeling for Mm. she had laid her hand upon bls arm; now her An­ gers tightened to sudden tenseness “What do you mean?” she naked. “Oh, It la not deAnlte yet—not clear 1" Rhe felt the bitterness In hla tone. “They have not any of them been able to make It wholly clear to me. It Is like a record that has been —Nurred. These original names must have been written down by my father many years ago—many, most of those people, I think—are dead; some are ' nearly forgotten. The only thing that CHAPTER XIÌI. | la fully plain Is that In every case my Inquiries have led me to those who The Owner of the Watch. "So they got word to you I" Con­ have lost one, and sometimes more stance exclaimed; she seemed stili than one relative upon the lakes." Constance thrilled to a vague hor­ confused “Oh, no—of course they They’ve ror; It was not anything to which she eouldnt have done that! could give definite reason. HI* Jone hardly got my letter yet." quite as much as what he said was Its “Your letter?" Alan asked. “I wrote to Blue Haplda." she ex­ cause. HI* experience plainly had plained. "Some things came—they been forcing him to bitterness against were sent to me. Some things of his father; and he did not know with Vncle Benny’s which were meant for certainty yet that hla father was dead. “You'll lunch with us. of course.” you Instead of me." “You mean you’ve heard from she said to Alan, “and then go back with us to Harbor Point. It's a day’s Mm?” Journey around the two bays; but “No—not thnt." we've a boat here." “What things. Mis* SherrUI?" He assented, and they went down to “A watch of hla and some coins and —a ring." Rhe did not explain the the water where the white and brown slgnlfli-ance of those things, and he power yacht, with long, graceful lines, could not tell from tier mere enumera­ lay somnolently In the sunlight. A Mt tion of them and without seeing them tie boat took them out over the shim­ thnt they furnished proof tlmt hie mering. smooth surface to the ship; swells from a faraway freighter swept father «as dead. Rhe could not In form him of that, she felt. Just here under the beautiful, burnished craft, causing It to roll lazily as they board­ and now “I’ll tell you about that later. You— ed It. A party ot nearly a dozen men and girl* with an older woman chap­ you were coming to Harbor Point to eroning them, lounged under the shade see us?" He colored. "I’m afraid not. I got of an awning over the after deck. as near ns thia to you because there They greeted her gaily and looked curiously at Alan as-she introduced In a man—an Indian—I have to see " "An Indian I What Is hla name? him. “Have you worked on any of our You see. I know quite a lot of them." boats?” she asked hliu, after luncheon "Jo Papo." had been finished, and the anchor of Rhe shook her bend. “No; I don’t the ship hntl been raised. know him." A queer expression came upon his Rhe found a spot where the moss was covered with dry pine needles nnd face. “I've thought It best not to do that. Mis* Sherrill," he replied. »nt down upon the ground. She dit! not know why the next mo­ "Rlt down," »he Invited; "I want yon to tell me what you have been do­ ment she should think of Henry. The yacht was pushing swiftly, ing.” "I’ve been on the boats." He smoothly, with hardly a hum from Its dropped down upon the moss beside motors, north along the shore. He watched Intently the rolling, wooded her. "I’ntll yesterday 1 wns a not very highly honored member of the hills and the ragged little bay* nnd In-, crew of the package freighter Oscoda; lets. Hla work nnd his Investigating* 1 left her at Frankfort and came up had not brought him to the neighbor hood before, but she found that she here." did not have to name the places to "Is Waasnquam with yon?" “He wasn’t on the Oscoda; hnt he him; he knew them from the charts. “Grund Traverse light," he said to was with me nt Brat. Now, I believe, her as a white tower showed upon he has gone bnck to hla own people— their left. Then, leaving the shore, to Middle Village." they pushed out across the wide mouth "You mean you’ve been looking for of the larger bay toward Little Trav­ Mr. Corvet In that way?” erse. He grew more silent ng,they ap­ "Not exactly that." He hesitated; hut he could see no reason for not tell­ proached It. "it Is np there. Isn’t It." he asked ing what he had been doing. He had pointing, “that they hear the Drum?" not so much hidden from her and her "Yes; how did you know the place?" father what, he had found In Benja­ "I don't know It exactly; 1 want you min Corvet'« house: rather, he had re- trained from mentioning It in his notes to show me." She pointed out to him the copse, to them when he left Chicago because dark, primeval, blue In Its contrast he had thought thnt the lists would with the lighter green of the trees lead to an Immediate explanation; they bad not led to that, but only to about It and the glistening white of the shingle nnd of the more distant a suggestion. Indeflnlte yet. lie had known that. If his search flnnlly de­ sand bluffs. He leaned forward, staring at It, until the changed course of the veloped nothing more thnn It had. he yacht, as It swung about toward the must nt Inst consult Sherrill nnd get entrance to the bay. obscured It Sherrill's nld. “We found some writing Mlns Sher­ "Seeing the ships made me feel thai I belonged here on the lakes,” he re rill." he said, "in the house on Astor minded her. "1 have felt something— street thnt night after Luke came.” not recognition exactly, hut something "What writing?" that was Uke the beginning of recog Ho took the lists from his pocket nltlon—many times this summer when and showed them to her. Rhe sepa 1 saw certain places. It's like one ot rated nnd looked through the sheets nnd rend the names written In the those dreams, you know. In whloh you same hand that had written the direc­ are conscious of having bad the saint dream before. I feel that I dught t< tions upon the slip of paper thnt came know this place." to her four days before, with the They landed only a few hundred things from Uncle Benny's pockets. "My father haff kept these very se­ yards from the cottage. After bld cretly," he explained. “He had them ding good by to her friends, they went hidden. Wnssaquam knew where they up to It together through the trees. were, nnd thnt night after Luke was There was a small sun room, rather dead and you had gone home, he gave shut off from the rest of the house, to which she ted him. Leaving him there, them to me.” “After’ I had gone home? Henry she ran upstairs to get the things. She halted ati Instant beside ths went back to see you that night; he door, with the box In her hands, be­ da. looking about for him. An Irides fore she went back to hliu, thinking cent haze shrouded the hill* and the bow to prepare hl«> against the sig­ hay; tn It she heard a ship's bell strike nificance of lite*« relics of hla father. twice; then another struck twice—then Mhe need not prepare him against the another- and another—-and another. mere fact of Ids father's death ; he Tbe haze thinned as tbe sun grew had been beginning to believe that al­ warmer. showing the placid water of ready ; but these things must have far the bay on which the ship« stood dou­ more meaning for him than merely ble. Rhe saw Alan returning, and that Rhe went In and put the box knowing from the direction from which down upon the card table. he came that he must have been to the “The muffier In the box was your telegraph office, she ran to meet him. father's," she told him. “He had It on “Was there an answerF she Inquired the day he disappeared. The other eagerly. things,” her voice choked a little, “are He took a yellow telegraph sheet the things he must have bad in bls from hl* pocket and held It for her to pockets. They’ve been lying in water read. and «and—” “Watch presented Captain Caleb He gazed at ber. "I understand," Btafford. master of propeller freighter he said after an Instant. “You mean Marvin Hatch for rescue of crew Mid that they prove his death." passenger* of sinking atesmer Winne­ Rhe assented gently, without speak­ bago off Ixmg point Lake Erie." Rhe was breathing quickly In her ex­ ing. As be approached the box, site drew back from It and slipped away citement. “Caleb Stafford!" she ex­ Into the next room. Rbe walked up claimed. “Why. that was Captain Staf­ and down there, pressing her bands ford of Htafford and Ilamsdell I They together. He must be looking at tbe owned the Mlwaka!" things now, unrolling tbe muffier. "Yes." Alan said. A great change had come over him , . , What would he be feeling as be saw them? Would tie be glad, with since last night; he was under emotion that seme gladness which bad mingled so strong that he seemed scarcely to with her own sorrow over Uncle dare speak lest It master him—a leap­ Benny, that bls father was gous—gone ing. exultant Impulse It was, which from his guilt and bls fear and bls he fought to keep down. disgrace? Ur would be resent that "What is It, Alan?" she asked. death which thus left everything un­ "What is It about tbe Mlwaka? You explained to him? He would be look­ said you'd found some reference to It ing at the ring. That, at least, must in Uncle Benny's house. What was it? bring more Joy than grief to him. He What did you And there?” would recognize that It must be hla “The man—" Alan swallowed and mother’s wedding ring; if II told him steadied himself and repeated—“the that bls mother must Itwdead, it would man I met in the house that night tell biro that she had been married, or mentioned it. He seemed to think I bad believed that ei>e was married I was a ghost that had haunted Mr. (Str­ Kuddeuly site beard him calling ber. . eet—the ghost from the Mlwaka; at “Miss Sherrill !” his voice had a sharp least be shouted oat to me that I thrill of excitement couldn't rave the Mlwaka!” She hurried toward the sun room. I "Rave the Mlwaka! What do you Rhe could see him through the door­ mean, Alan? The Mlwaka was lost with way. bending over the card table with the thing* spread out upou Its top in front of him. "Yea." He straightened ; he was very pale. “Would coins that my father had In hie pocket all have been more that» twenty year* old?" She ran and bent beside him over the coIna “Twenty years!" she re­ peated. She was making out the dates of the coins now herself ; tbe markings were eroded, nearly gone tn some In- stances, but In every case enough re­ mained to make plain the date. "Eikbteen-nlnety — 1MH — 1889.“ she made them out. Her voice hushed queerly. "What does it mean?" she whispered. He turned over and re-examined the articles with bands suddenly steady­ ing. "There are two sets of things here," he concluded. "The muffier and paper of direction*—they be­ longed to my father. The other things —It Isn't six months or less than six months that they've lain In sand and water to become worn like this; It's twenty years. My father can’t have had these things; they were some­ where else, or someyone else had them. He wrote hl* directions to that per­ son—after June twelfth, he said, so it "Save the Mlwaka! What Do You was before June twelfth he wrote it; Mean, Alan?" but we can't tell how long before. It might have been In February, when he all her people—officers nnd crew—no disappeared; it might have been any one know * how or where I” “All except the one for whom the I time after that. But If the directions I were written so long ago, why weren’t Drum didn’t beat!" •hvhnt’s that?” Blood pricked in her the things sent to you before this? Didn’t the person nave the things cheeks. "What do you mean, Alan?” "I don't know yet; but I think I'll then? Did we have to wait to get — them? Or—wns It the Instructions to soon find out.” "No; you can teM me more now, send them that he didn't have? Or, If he had the I instructions, was he wait­ Alan. Surely you can. I must know. ing to receive word when they were 1 have the right to know. Yesterday, to be sent? You thought these things even before you found out about this, proved my father was dead. I think you knew things you weren't tellinu they prove he I* alive! Oh, we must me—things .about the people you'd been seeing. They’d all lost people on think this out !" He paced up and down the room ; she the lakes, you said; but you found out sank into a chair, watching hhn. “The more than that.” first thing that we must do." he said “They'd all lost people on the Ml­ suddenly, “Is t