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"When
iaar
^\then 1 sate t'nrvet 4(!_4(111. m the
summer of 'fil3-1 lard been South dur-
ing the latter part of the winter and
East tl'1uugh the spring -1 was Im-
pressed by the vague lent, to me,
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es
e
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"That Was 1897."
and ripened during those years. The
Intense activity of Corvet's mind,
which as a younger man tie had di-
rected wholly to the shipping, WEIS
directed, after he had isolated ttimselt
In this way, to other things. Ile took
up almost feverishly trn immense num-
ber of studies—strange studies most
of than for a tn1411 wlmse youth had
been almost violently active and who
had once peen a lake captain. I can-
not tell you what they all were—
geology, ethnology, nearly a score of
subjects; he corresponded with vari-
ous scientific societies; he has given
1114mnst the whole of bis attention to
such things for about twenty years.
But he has made very few acgnaint-
ances In that time, and has kept
almost none of his old friendships.
Ile has lived alone in the house on
Astor street with only one %meant --
the same one all these years.
1 "The only honer he has visited with
any frequency hue 11041 mine. Ile has
always liked my wife; he hud—he has
Il great 111100 knl for my daughter. who,
when she wits a child, ran in and out
i of his home ns site pleased. IIy
thulghter believes now tont his pra'efit
oienppelmmnee—whatever lies hap-
, pelted to him—is r10ttterted In some
way with herself. I da not think that
ilsso—"
4 Was a senior. ittr, Verv:err'e'r
n s
h uo,
t se tet r
Mr. C
eruct had 4
"Yes; P
They,eamo tete my p088088iell (lay bet
foree yeeterciate the day
offer • COMM
disappeared; 1 (10 not want to tell boat
yet how they did that,"
Man's race, winch had been flusherl
nt nest with excitement, hail gone
as he
ale alai 1ib bends,
t
quite p
clenched and. aneletatht.d Cham eery.
oualy, were cold, 11ur1 bis lips Were
very dry, tie could think of no pee,
811,le relationship between 1lenjanlln
Curvet and himself, except one. which
n
satin
or al's obtaining
o r! account for C r g
Mad
and keeping these pleteres of 11)10
through the years.
"I think you know w119 1 am," Man
said,
"You have guessed, IR i am not rale -
taken, that you are Corvet's son,"
The color flamed to .Man's face for
an Instant, then left It paler than be-
fore. el thought It trust be that way,"
he answered; "but you said he bad no
children,"
Benjamin Corvet and his wife had
no children,"
"I thoueht that wan vhor oral
metet.• A twinge twisted Alan's
fate; he tried to control it but for a
moment could not,
"Do not misapprehend your father,"
Sherrill said quietly, "I cannot pre.
vent what other people may think
when they learn this; but I do not
share such thoughts with them. There
is much in this I cannot understand;
but I know that it is not merely the
result of what others may think it—
of :a wife In more ports than one,'
as you will hear the lakemen put It.
What Iles uuder this 1s some great
misadventure which had changed and
frustrated all your father's ilte."
Sherrill crossed the room and rang
for a servant.
"I am going to ask you to be my
guest for a short time, Alam" he an-
nounced. "I have had your bag
carried to your room; the man will
show you which one It Is."
Alan hesitated; he felt that Sherrill
had not told him all he knew—that
there were some things Sherrill pur-
posely was withholding Prom him; but
he could not force Sherrill to tell more
than he wished; so after an instant's
h'resolUtioe, he accepted the dismissal.
Sherrill wutked with him to the
door, and gave his directions to the
servant; he stood wateblag, as Man
and the man went up the stairs, Then
he went back and seated himself in
the chair Man had occupied, and sat
with hands grasping the arms of the
chair while he stared into the fire.
He seemed to be considering and de-
bating something within himself; and
presently be seemed to come to a de-
cision. ele went up the stairs and on
the second floor he went to a front
room and knocked. Man's voice told
hint to come In. Sherrill went In and,
when he had Made sure that the serv-
ant was not with Alen, he closed the
door carefully behind 111m.
Then be turned back to Mao, find
for an instant stood Indectslve as
though he did not know how to begin .
what he wanted to say. As 11e glanced
down at a key he took from h13 pocket,
his indecision seemed to receive di-
rection and inspiration from it; and
he put 12 down on Alan's dresser.
"I've brought you," he said evenly,
"the key to your house."
Man gazed at him, bewildered. "The
key to my house?"
"To the house on Astor street,"
Sherrill confirmed. "Your father deed-
ed the house and its furniture and all
Its contents .to you the day before he
disappeared. I have not the 'deed
here; it came Into my hands the day
before yesterday at the same time 1
got possession of the pictures which
might --or might not, for all I knew
then—be you. I have the deed down-
town and will give it to you, The
house is yours In fee simple, given
you by your father, not bequeathed to
you by him to become your property
after h•Is death. Ile natant by that, I
think, even more than the mere ac-
knowledgment that lie Is your father."
Sherrill walked to the window and
stood as though looking out, but his
eyes were blank with thought
I;,herrlll I11•011e off unit stool in'
Ithought for a moment; ne setluulil to
enmddtr, rind to deride that it
was
' not necessary to soy anything more
•
on than other( t.
"ls there anything in what 1 have
told you e•bteh muses It possibly for
to recollect or to 3x1111110''"
1 4041 Alan shook his head. flushed, and
then grew a little pale. What Sherrill
told 11110 had excited him by the coin-.
celerities it offered between events in
Benjamin Carvel•s life and his 114.1);
It had not trade 1,1414 "reroli4'er"
Curvet, but It iced elven definiteness
and dlrettlon ul itis speculattnus (43
to Corvet's needier to himself.
Sherrill drew/lne of the large chairs
nearer to Mau and sat down fattens
him. He felt 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 was
a tintype of himself as a round-faced
boy of seven.
"That is you?" Sherrill asked.
"Yes; It was taken by the photog-
rapher In Blue Rapids."
"And this?"
The second picture, Man saw, was
one that had been taken In front of
arming change in him. I was to the barn at the farm. It allowed Alan
(tided, I recall, of a friend I had
at twelve, in overalls and barefooted,
had in college who had thought he was holding a in
over his head at which
In perfect health and had gone to an a shepherd dog was jumping.
examiner for life Insurance end had "Yes, that 15 Shep and I, Mr. Sher -
been refused, and was trying to deny rill. It was. taken by a man who
to himself and others that anything stopped at the house for dinner one
could be the matter. But with Corvethe liked ons and dinner
e
him' so he got me to wake
The next year his wife left him."
i 1
I knew the trouble was not physical, picture of k
Shep jump, and he t0nh It."
"The year of—?" Altus asked. _ I "Doesil��jt 11 occur to you that It was
"Vint was their
'There was v d your plcfere he w•antecl, and that he
question 11 their un34034 time
sg and had been sent to get It? 1 wanted
affection left t11 Ole very thin she ce Your veril'eution that these earner
strangely hon. She died In 1'wvet'S pictures were of you, hut this last one
1a the whir: of 1910. and CnrvefS i Is easily recognizable"
first Informnthnl of her death come
She0011) unfolded the third pl%lure;
to bite through a purugrayh In a It was larger than the others and had
rewritten/fie." been folded across the middle to get
Alan had started; Sherrill looped at • It Into the envelope. Man leaned tor -
him questioningly. , , ward to look at it.
:'The spring of 11110," Aha es- i `",hat is the University of Kansas
Walnut]. "was when 1 rerefved the r football team," he said. "I am the
I second one In the front row; 1 played
baulk draft for fifteen hundred
' end my junior year and tackle when
(.1011111S" j
Sherrill nuddetl ; he tett not seem
•
surprised to ht'er [hie; rather It 11 134
peered to be rugllrtutltlun of some-
thing In his own thought,
"Following 1,is wife's leaving lime"
Sherrill went en, "Curvet sere 1'e1'3'
little of nue nee, tie spent Inns; of 'r
Ills tittle 111 he nn 11 11011St'; .1,11,1,11.
ally
1 11,1,n -
ally he lumped at his club, le Niro
lltlervltis, nod always uuexllcrledly. . his
tempert',i el his (Mire. I rentetul,er
that summer lie was u'rrlldy des
I us •It'p, ,;,.,
lost. The ('o('\144 rernrd was ln•n'.en:
d Cnrvei (1331;' b'td upts'n 1,01 ter, beth:
a Corvet. rt''' 01 i ud not reo,.beti peri
And InterIn the his. ween re,.
deckhtt1ls cert• (44t.be,t from al (•I'4(.
of his It =•r'• pori ihnitt r,l, h" it°
gn1n glt'utiy wtonahl uP th4,':eh :•.
4)1(1(134 etlli laid n nin•a far t ,hy, rr. nrd.
in 11102 1 erep•,.ed to 11101 hull 1 'n4'
full o•» ersllil, 1' 314' ve. e'I oar*,
cnllttrolied nli,l ally thein , 'th 4''"-
he 'and Spe w1 nt epeett,•.1. " ,
then, the firm „- r'.34 1444s 44(.441 4•( 1't'
Short•IIJ. 111111 u;nvugntn.
"Our frlend..hlt1 feet sl 4•eeethenee
one eaaneed Antl been the - mate ns•
nn td
1 r 1z 14(4
vhf. u
knew 1J
s k14
AMP 1
ern • 1 \via n
ata
three days ago viten he wrote to you.
hie
is
the eons n%llte
1 Go
that%tl
It nn
y
'
• after
wz•Ithlg to you were sue!) 1t khat.
he had sent the letter, he eou)31 not
bring himself to face thele one e'0 has
merely , , , gone aunty- In that
cabe as we sand Pere 1
1' e t
nhklli', le
is
`
s
still ellve, On the oiler Mand, els
Wrlttllg your may have preclpltated
something dull 1 know n011114ng of. In
either case,. if 11e has left anywhere
ally evidence of what it 1. Ilea %hinged.
and aPl1t • him fur yen
re,
all these ye's,
oppressed
or 1f there is any evidence of what
11418 happened to him now, it will be
found In his house."
Sherrill turned back to Alan, "It Is
'for you --nut 1410, Alan," hesaidsimply,
I"to melte title. search. 1 trove thought
4e44('1ou5134 about 1t, this Inst hale hoar,
',toil have (Melded that 1s as he wo3ld
•;nut It—perhaps as he dirt want It -
1o he, Ile could have told pie what his
rouble leas any time In these twenty
• ears, If he hurl heels willing I should
know; but he never did. Your father.
,f course, bed a key to the front door
Illte t111s one, ars servant has a key
to the servants' entrance, I do not
know of any other keys,"
"The servant is in charge there
now?" Alan asked.
"Just now there Is 4(o one in the
house. The servant, alter your father
disappeared, thought that,, If he had
merely gone away, tm might have gone
hack t0 his birthplace near Mauistlque,
sad he [vent up there to look for him.
1 had a wire from him today that lm
had not found him and was coming
back."
Sherrill waited a moment to see
whether there was anything more
Alun wanted to ask; then 4(e went oae
turbo) berme,• one of
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"Wort aleast twenty years," he said,
"your father, as 1 have told you, lived
In that house practically alone; dur-
leg alt those years a shadow of some
sort was over him. I don't know at
ell, Alan, what that shadow was. But
CHAPTER IV.
warier was ailtioten%14. anti 400,y
went 1 tttile greet dining
1031,
where tile t Gle with Itb Wren, t, ahtet
.
and %110 t
glenoted ander Winded
li
alt
• 8. The oldest and Most dignified
tibllt b
of the 1)31(1' Hien servants who walled
upon them In the 111111ng room Alan
thought must be a bullol""11 *Mos 01
led hturd but
'e u' wllunl Man !
tt. lot1
t u
ltti t
• 1 � User st t 4(I u
never loll seen; tilt, 0
least, received nod banded !hinge
111010gh him, and tun), their ut'ders
from 134tH,
IVIlot .Slter'rlli 1441(1 told Alan of his
Tether had been Derriere; itself again
fatttt td 1, (.
u again 111 an'e thou ghts now he
n f Al b
u b
recalled that Sherrill had sued 111al his
daughter believed that ('oI'vet's zils-
appearance had hurl emeethtug to do
with 11e4', Alau hod w0Udered at the
moment how that could be; and as be
watched her across the table and non'
and then exchanged a comment with
her, It puzzled him still more. Ile
hud opportunity to ask her when she
walled with him ht the iliwer34, after
dinner was fihisbed and her mutter
had gone upstairs; but he did not see
then how to go about It.
"I'm sorry," site said to him. "that
we can't be home tonight ; bat perhaps
you would rather be alone?"
Ele did not answer that.
"Rave you a pletnt0 here, Miss Sher -
:ill, of—my father?" he asked.
"Uncle 13eney had had very few pic-
tures taken; but there is one here,"
She went Into the study and came
Duck with a book open at a balf-tone
picture of Benjamin Corvet, Man took
it from her and carried It quickly
Moser to the light. The face that
looked up to him from the heavily
glazed page was regular of feature,
handsome in a way, and forcefuL
There were Imagination and vigor of
thought In the broad, smooth fore-
aead; the eyes were strangely moody
sod brooding; the mouth was gentle,
rather •kindly; it was a queorly tm-
pelting, haunting face( This a -as his
father! But, as Alan held the picture,
gazing down upon tt, the only emotion
Mitch (erne to him was realization that
be reit none. 'Ile had no emotion of
any sort; he could not attach to this
man, because he bore the name which
soave one had told hon was Gds fa-
ther's. the pussp'n" %Oriel). when
dreaming of his father, be bud felt.
Alan stood still a moment longer,
then, remembering the book which he
held, he drew a chair 111 to the light,
and read the short, dry biography of
hls father printed on the page oppo-
site the portrait. It summarized to
a few hundred words his father's life.
Man shut the book and sat thought-
ful. The tall clock in the ball struck
nine. He got up and went out into
the hall and asked for his hat and
coat. When they Siad been brought
him, he put them on and went out.
He went down the steps and to the
currier and turned west to Astor street
When he reached the house of his fa-
ther he stopped under a street lump,
looking up at the l4ig, stern old man-
sion questioningly.
He could not call up any sense that
the house was GIs, any more than he
had been able to when Sherrill had
told him of it. He own a house on
that street! Yet was that in Itself
any more remarkable than that he
should he the guest, the friend of such,
people as the Sherrills? leo one as
"Arrived Safe; Well."
As the dour closed behind Sherrill,
Alan went over to the dresser au.d
Nicked up the key Which Sherrill had
left. He put it, after a moment, on
the ring with two or three other keys
he had, and dropped them into his
pocket; then he crossed to a chair and
sat (1,1'0.•11.
Sherrill had spoken Of We pussible
ity that something might have "hap-
pened" to Curvet; but it was plain 11e
did nee believe he had met with actual
violence. Ile had left It to Alan to ex-
amine Corvet's house; but lie had not
urged Alun to examine It et thee; he
haft lett the time 0)' the exltnlhlatton
to be dee:reared lry Alun. This
showed clearly 111111 Sherrill believed
—perhaps had sufficient reason for be-
Ileving—tlat Curvet had simply "gone
away." Corvet, Sherrill had said, had
married In 1880. But Sherrill In long
knowledge of his friend, had shown
Wm conviction that there had been
no mere vulgar liaison lu Corvet's life•
DM this mean that there might have
been some previous marriage of Man's
father—some marriage which had
strangely overlapped and nullified his
public marriage? In that case. Man
could be, not only In fact but legally,
Curvet's son; and such thtrees as this,
Alan knew, had sumetlmes happened,
and had happened by a strange combI-
Imt1011 of events, innocently for all
parties. Corvet's public separatluu
from his wife, Sherrill had said, had
taken place W 1807, but the actual
separation between them might, pos-
sibly, have taken place king before
that.
The afternoon had changed swiftly
Into night; dusk had been gathering
during his teat talk with Sherrill, so
that he hardly had been able to see
Sherrill's facer and just after Sherrill
had left him, full dark had conte. Alan
slid not know how long he had been
sitting in the darkness thinking out
these things; but now a little clock
which had been ticking steadily In the
blackness tinkled six. Alan beard a
knock at his door, anti when it I205 re-
peated, he called, "Cole in,"
The light which chine In from the
hall, as the door was (pelted, showed
a man servant. The Loan, after a re-
spectful Inquiry, switched on the light,
He crossed Into the adjoining room—
a bedroom; the roots where Alan was,
he thought, must be a dressing room,
4tnd thm'e was a With between. Pres-
ently the auto reappeared, and moved
softly about the room, unpacking
Alan's suitcase. Ile hang Alan's other
suit In the closet on hangers; he put
the linen, except for one shirt, In the
dresser drawers, and he Tutt Man's
few toilet things with the Ivory -
backed brushes and comb anti other
artistes on the dressing stand,
Alan wondered, with 0 sort of trepi-
dation, whether the man would expect
to stay and help hitt dress; but he
only put the btittmms 10 the clean shirt
and reopened the dresser drawers and
iald out a change or things.
"1 With to tell you, she 11r. Sherrill
Is sw•ry be caunut be at bottle to ate-
lier tonight Sirs, Sherrill tine Miss
Sherrill 1111 be here. dinner is at
seven, sir."
AI" dressed slowly, after the man
11at1 gone; 11111 at um' minute betore
seen be went downstairs.
There was nu out In the lower hall
and, after an instant ul irresolution
and it glance 1ht0 the empty drawing
room, he turned into the small room
at the opposite side of the hull. A
hantlSOlfle, stately, rather lal'ge Ofl-
an, whom he fuut1(1 there, intrutlucedW
herself to him formally as Mts. Sher.
rill. Her reserved, yet Wiriest too
ensue] aeceptaucc of Alan's presence,
told him that etre knew all the ptu'-
tieulars about 111tusulf which Sherrill
lutd been able to give; and us Con -
statue came down tine stairs and
joined them half a minute later, Alan
was certain that she also knew,
"For Almost Twenty Years," He said,
"Your, Father, as I Have Told You,
Lived In That House Practically
Alone.>'
It is certain that whatever it tuns that
Imo op, tatting We at'!• (runt ms 410(14(0[, 0+,04,4,41,4".44+4,"+4,444,4,44,0
he Ball up the steps and unlocked the fi
outer boor, Holding tits door open
i
to get the light from the street lamp,
he fitted the key into the Muer door;
e door, toot' ful•
thou he (1108041 the outer
ly n minute, with 1'318t•beating hail
and a sense 0f expe1U11l011 of he kA.ew
tint what, he kept hls hand upon the v
key before e
It
r+. h turned
It; then he do
, ,
the stepped Into i
deo mid
opened the r t
(lurk 41130 silent house.
pHAPTER V
An Encounter.
1darknessof
t gin the
Alan, stunlin;,
the ball, kelt 10 his pocket for his
mntclie8 and struck nue on the hex,
The light showed the hail in front of
flim, reaching hack into some vague,
distant darkness, and great rooms with
wide portiered doorways gaping on
hoth sides, He turned Into the room
upon his right, glanced to see that the
shades were drawn on the windows
toward the street, then found the
switch and turned on the electric light,
Alan had the feeling which so often
comes to one In an unfamiliar and
vacant house that there was some one
In the house tette him. He listened
and seemed to hear another sound in
the upper hall, a footstep. He went
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out quickly to the foot of the stairs
and looked up them,
"15 any one here?" he called. "Is
any one here?'
His voice brought no response. He
went half way up the curve of the wide
stairway and called again, and lis-
tened; then he fought down the feeling
he had bad; Sherrill had said there
would be no one in the house, and
Alan was certain there was no one.
So be went back to the room where
he had left the light.
The center of this room, like the
room next to it, was occupied by a
library table -desk. He pulled open
some drawers 10 1t; one or 2w0 had
blueprints and technical drawings in
them; the others had only the miscel-
lany which accumulates in a room
much used. There were drawers also
under the bookcases ell around the
room; they appeared, when Allan
eeeeed some of them, to contain pam-
phlets of various societies, and the
scientific correspondence of 1.1111'!
Sherrill had 'laid him. Alan flat that
seeing these ihings was bringing his
father closer to him; they gave 111111 a
little of the feeling he had been unable
to get when be looked at his f:,tler'"
Menne. 11e entthl realize bettor now
the lonely, restless nam. ptlrsned by
sante ghost he rimed not kill. thither
up far tlistrnt'tion ane sot Jt rt of str,'p
after unntller. exhnust!1111 e1,,4t in turn
011111 he could nn longer melte it en-
gross htru, and then nh,,n:'hing self in the next,
014 the rap of n cl•est of high ()row-
ers in a earner nem' the tlres81111
tulle were some papers. :Llan went
aver 20 1001i nt them: they were Inch
lotions, notfee5 01 enneortx and 1431
plays twenty ,rears (1111211241 mall,
probably. of the morning . hen t 1,r• ,rs
wife had 'gone away, left (-here her
amici n1' she herself h:.,l to 1 tl:e
and only putted nit and pet hetet there
at the tulles store when the room was
dusted. As Alan nuclei them. he
saw that his lingers left marks in the
dust 00 the smooth top of the sheet:
he noticed that some one else hill
toothed the things and made narks
of the mune sort as he Itnl made. The
freshness of these other manila ,t4(
tled him; thee had been made within.
rt ,lay or 10, Thry ('44)1)0 not ha 0e
herr: made by She:frill. for Alan hail
1)otieed that Si','• rill's h(ml5 3)""'
slender and deilentely frirmed; f'or-
vet, too, tens no, 11 large man: .\gongs
own h11nd ions n0 214,4,13 sire and en,
erful, but when he amt tee I'n'ters over
the lunrks the 01h of 'ion Mot 11(1(110. he
fnnad that the "t!,•'• 11 nd 010•3 11,0,
hem: larger Mill cyan+ nnwerful Ilrut
his awn, 11'd It b' on Co'vet' s .011,
11111? it 1111:•1'' h:".c hre't. shoo.•li •i:.'
111a 14:0 scented too fr'•°t for 'ice' : see
the servant, Merril tee' •.•4.1 11^,1 lett
the 11114' c`m•vet's t11.41,,, 31111 :' teas
,118,0%. red
(Continued Next Week)
He Could Not Cali Up Any Sense That
the House Was His.
yet, since Sherrill had told him he was
Corvet's son, had called hila by name;
when they slid, what would they esti
him? Alan Conrad still? Or Alan
Corvet?
He noticed, up a street to the west,
the lighted 81)111 or a drug store and
turned up that way; he had promised,
lie had recollected t1ow, to write to
those in Kansas --114 cutlet not
call them "father" and "mother" any
more ---and tell then what he bad dis-
covered as soul as he arrived. Ile
could not tell them that, but he 111011,1
write them at least that he Mot a^-
rlted safely and was well. He bought
a postcard In the drug store, and w1.010
jest, "Arrived safely; am well" to
John Welton to Kansas. There, w11s
a little vending machine upon the cnnn-
ter, and he dropped in a penny and got
a box of matches and put them in his
pocket.
Ile mailed the card andturned hack
to Astor street; and he walked mere
swiftly now, having come to his deci-
sion, and only slot one quick loop ul,
at the house its he approached it, With
what had his father shut 11111130.11 up
Within that house for twenty years?
And wins It there still? And wits It
from that that Beujatntn Curvet had
fled? He saw no one in the street,
and was certain no one was observing
_
W.D. S. JAMIESON.
MD; CM; LM.GC;
Physician and Surgeon
Office McKelvey Block, Bruaeei.
Successor to Dr, White
Phone 45.
T. T. M'RAE
M. B., M. C, P., d1 M. O.
M. 0, H„ Vifinge of Brussels
Physielan, Surgeon, A000uohenr
(Moe at realdenoe, opposite Melville Muter
William street.
DR, WARDLAW
EoAor graduate of the Ontario Valeria
College. Dap and night mils, Othoe oppo
Flour Mill, Wee,
. 4 t14r•rFnape
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