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
ai<air
gta- *4 In lbs Chicago suatneas world.
Boajauun Ovvst is aumsthlng ot a rs-
Aass sad a myslvry to hl* assssiais*
A/ter a stormr Intarvlaw with nl* f*rt-
IB-
paar man, Corvel soaks
Ul. daughter •
lUr. I.a«>r<>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<j find out about the waka!” he said. "All who could tell
watch. What Is the 'phone number me where their people were lost; a
of the telegraph office ?"
few were like Jo I'apo we saw yester
She told him. and he went out to the day, who knew only the year his father
telephone: she sprang up to follow was lost; but the time always was the
him. but checked herself and merely time that the Mlwaka disappeared!”
waited until he came back.
"Disappeared!” she repeated. Her
“I’ve wired to Buffalo," he an veins were pricking cold. What did he
nounced. "The Merchant*’ exchange. know, what could any one know of the
If It Is still In existence, must have a Mlwaka. the ship of which nothing
record of the presentation of the ever was heard except the beating of
watch."
the Indian Drum? She tried to make
“Then you'll stay here with us until
an answer comes?”
“If we get a reply by tomorrow morn
ing: I’ll wait till then. If not. I'll ask
you tp forward It to me. I must see
about the trains nnd get back to Frank
fort. I can cross by boat from there
to Manitowoc—that will be quickest.
We must begin there, by trying to And
out who sent the package.”
She helped blip put the muffler and
the other articles Into the box ; she no
ticed that the wedding ring was no
longer with them. He had token that,
then ; It had meant to hint all that she
had known It must mean. . . .
In the morning she was up very
Rentals, Trades
early; but Alan, the servants told het
had risen Itefore she hnd and had gon*
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out. The morning, after the cool north
ern night, was chill. Rhe slipped «
«wester on and went out on the venta
—i——I'— i
Boost for yoar own community
merchant and newspaper.
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him *ay more; but he looked away now
down to the lake.
"The Chippewa must have come In
early this morning.” he said. "Rhe's
lying In the harbor; I saw bar on my
way to the telegraph office. If Mr.
Hpearmaii has corns back with her, tell
him I'm sorry I can’t wait to see him."
"When are yon going?”
"Now."
She offered to drive him to Petos
key, but he already had arranged for
a man to take him to tbe train.
She went to her room after he was
gone and spread out again on her bed
the watch—now tbe watch of Captain
Stafford of the Mlwaka—with tbe
knife and coins of more than twenty
years ago which came with it. The
meaning of them now was all changed;
she felt that; but what the new mean
Ing might be could not yet come to
her. Something of it had come to Alan;
that, undoubtedly, was what had ao
greatly stirred him; but she could not
yet reassemble her Ideas. Yet a few
facta had become plain.
A maid came to say that Mr. Spear
man had come up from his boat for
breakfast with her and was down
stairs. She went down to find Henry
lounging In one of the great wicker
chairs io the living room. He arose
and came toward her quickly; but she
halted before he could *rtze her.
“What’s wrong, dear?"
"Alan Conrad has been here, Henry."
“He has? How was that?"
She told him while be watched her
Intently. "He wired to Buffalo shoot
the watch. He got a reply which he
brought to me half an hour ago."
“Y«r
Recalling how her Mood had run
when Alan had told her that. Henry's
whiteness and the following suffusion
of his face did not surpriae her.
"I told that fallow long ago not to
start stirring thews matters up about
Bon Corvet, and particularly 1 told
him that he was not to bring any of it
to you. It's not—a thing that a man
llks Ben covered up for twenty years
till It drove him crazy Is sure not to
be a thing for a girl to know. Let It
alone, I tell you."
Rhe »food flushed and perplexed,
gazing at him. Rhe never had seen him
under stronger emotion.
"You misunderstood me once, Con
nie!" he appealed. "You'll understand
me now!"
Rhe had been thinking about that
Injustice »he had done him In her
thought—about his chivalry to bls
partner and farmer benefactor, when
Unde Benny was still keeping his*
place among men. Waa Henry now
moved. In a way which she could not
understand, by some other obligation
to the man who long ago bad aided
him? Had Henry hazarded more than
he had told her of the nature of the
thing bidden which. If she could guess
It, would justify what he said?
Rh* bad made Alan promise to write
her. If be was not to return, regarding
«bat he learned; and a letter came to
her on the fourth day from him tn
Manitowoc. The post office employees
had no recollection, he said, of the
person wbo hsd mailed the package;
It simply had been dropped by some
one into the receptacle for mailing
packages of that sort. Alaa, however,
waa continuing his Inquiries.
She wrote to him tn reply; In lack
of anything more Important Jo tell
him, she related some of her activities
and Inquired about hla. After she bad
written him thus twice, be replied, de
scribing his lite on the boats pleasant
ly and humorously; then, though she
Immediately replied, she did not hear
from him agala.
A new Idea had seized Constance.
Captain Caleb Stafford was named
among the lost, "of course; with him
had perished his son, a boy of three.
That was all that was said, aad all
that was to be learned of him, the
boy.
"The watch belonged to Captain
Stafford who was lost with the Ml
waka, Henry."
He made no reply; but waited.
"You may not have known that it
was his; 1 mean, you may not have
known that It was he wbo rescued the
people of the Winnebago, but you must
have known that Uncle Benny didn't."
"Yes; I knew that, Counle,” he an-
swerd evenly.
•Then why did jon let me think the
watch «as his and that be must be—
deadr
"That's ail's tbe matter? You had
thought he was dead. I believed It was
better for you—for every one—to be
lieve that."
She drew a little away from him,
with hands clasped behind her back,
gazing Intently at him. “There was
some writing found in Uncle Benny’s
house In Astor street—a list of names
of relatives of people who had lost
their Ilves upon the lake. Wassaquant
knew where those things were. Alan
says they were given to him in your
presence. Why didn't you tell me
about that?"
He straightened as If with anger.
"Why should I? Because he thought .
that I should? What did be tell you
about those lists?”
“Nothing—except that his father
had kept them very secretly; but he's
found out they were names of peopls
who had relatives on the Miwakal”
“WhatF
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Fait Term Opens September 18.
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The Registrar, Oregon
Corvallis,
Agricultural College,
Oregon
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—yet he had to be led into our
Optical department because his
vision had failed. A pair of
glasses properly fitted 20 years
ago would have saved this man's
eyesight
CEMENT
BANK
GRAVEL
LIMB
—Are you doing all you should
for your eyes?
PLASTER
—Have your eyes examined to
day.
266 MORRISON STREET, BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH
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It offers training also in: The School of Music, Physical
Education, Industrial Journalism.
He Was a Man Less than Sixty
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