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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-6-12, Page 7THE $RU$sEL5 POST WEDNESDAY', JUNE 12th, 11329 Cream Grading Means BETTERCREAM ETTER BUTTER ETTER PRICES We are now prepared to Grade your Cream .honestly, gathee it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each clay we lift it, -Wo gather with covered truck to keep sun off it, We pay a premium of 1 cent per lb, butter fat for Specials over that of 'NQ, 1 grade, and 3 cents per lb. but- ter -fat for No 1 grade over that of No. 2 grade. The basic principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario butter is the elimination of second and off grada cream. This may be accomplished by paying the producer of good cream a better price per pound of butter -fat Llan is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market, tralereWe will loan you a can. See our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. The Seaforth Creamery The Indian Drum 'By William MacHarg - and Edwin Balmer IC.•st•=t1."s by IRWIN MYERS Cvnrright br il.v:w L'Wnxv Observing the tuivertier buildings to bis rigid, he was able u• identify some of the more premiuent structures, fa- miliar from photographs. of The Cmtsttmee drove swiftly a few blocks down this bunlevitrtl; then, with a sudden. "port.' we are:" she shot the ' cur t, 11.0 '11th anti etopuetl. She led Alan Into rata ut lin! 1111 anal locking buil hugs. on several ul the doers npt•0111g ops: the wide marble bill wlwr„ The eleva- tor left thou. Alan saw the names, "Curvet, Sh'-1'1.11 au..1 apcit.moul." Consta tree ler: the way on 1 ail 10 11 dour farther de en the corridor, w bice Imre merely the melte. "Iat,e r"n. e Sherrill"; ewltb•ntly y:r,'rrih, who Mid Interests aside :rem the shipping bust- ness, had ("Glees eeuntrt•d with hut not actually rt int"t of. the Maces of Curvet, :Merrill end Speurnun". A girl ott guard at the dour. suyieg that lir. SlterrIlI Mel been awaiting lir. Con. rad, opened an inner dour and lett Alun itttu a large, many-wtcdowed room, where Sherrill was sitting alone before u table -desk. rte palled the "visitor's chair" 'Miler close to Iris desk and to his ew'n big leather chair before asking Alms to seat himself. "Yl,l wonted rn tell Inc, or ask me. something lust night. my daughter Ras told me," Sherrill said cordially. "I'tn. sorry I wasn't home when you came buck." "I wanted to ask you, Mr. Sherrill," Alan said, "about those facts in re- gard to lir. Corvet which you men- tioned to ate yesterday but dld not ex- plain. You said it would not aid Inc to know them; but I found certain things in lir. Corvet's ]tense lust night which made ins want to knee., if I could, everything you could tell ate." Sherrill opened s drawer and took out 0 large, plain envelope, ' "On the day after your talker disap- pearech" he said, "hut before I knew he was gone—or before any one except my daughter felt any alarm about him Sherrill Opened a Drawer and Took Out a Large, Plain Envelope, —I received a short note from him, The note Was Agitated, almost timelier - . Ont. It told me he had sent for you— Alan Conrad, of Blue Rapids, Icansas -but spoke of you as though you were eutne one 1 ougnt to nave anown event, and commended you to my care. The remainder of it was Merely an agitat- ed, almost indecipherable farewell to ate. When I opened the envelope, a key had fallen out. The note made no reference to the key,- but, compar- ing it with one I had in my pocket, I saw that It appeared to be a key to 'a safety deposit box in the vaults of a company where we both had boxes. "The note, taken' in connection with my daughter's alum about him,imade It so plain that something serious hall happened to Corvet, that my first thought was merely for him, Carvel was not a man with whom one could readily (femme the thought of sulc•ide; hut, Alan, that was the Iden 1 had. 1 Mulled at nice to his loose, but t1:.1 hell ems not 11IIRwet'ed, and 1 voted not get In, ills servant, \Vit naqunim. hat very few' friends, and the few tinges tic Inas been away from home of rerun: years have been when he visited at. acquaintance of his—tile head porter In 0 South Side hotel. 1 went err. tb0' telephone in the house next door and culled the hotel 0011 found \Vnssanuatl tln'e. l sold lihu over the ltltp'it'n' only Untt something was wrung. all, hurried to my own home to get the key, which 1 haul, to the. Curvet house; but :when 1'catne ba"k and let myself Intl the house, 1 found It oml':y nm c: i11 nu sign of anything -having hap- "The next morning, Alan, t went to the safe deposit vaults us soon as they were olten. 1 presented the nunibered key and was tote that 1t belonged to it box rented by Corvet, and that Cbrwet had arranged about three days before fee me to have access to the box If 1 eesc'ntell the key. i had only to sign my name: in their lltwk and open the etx. In it, Alan, I found the pictures •f you which i showed you yesterday and the very strange communications tnaat I am going to show you now." Sherrill opened the long envelope, from which several thin, folded papers fell. He picked up the largest of these, which consisted of several sheets fastened together with a clip, end handed It to Alen without comment. Alen, as he looked at 1t and turned the pages, saw that it contained two col- umns of typewriting carried tram page to page after the manner of au ae. count. The column to the left was an Inven- tory of property and profits and in- come by months and years, and the one to the right was s list of losses and expenditures. Beginning at an in- definite day or month In the year 1595, there w0s Set down in a lump sum wheat was indicated as the total of Ben- jamin Corvet's .holdings at that time, To this, In sometimes undated items, the increase had been added. In the opposite column, beginning apparently from the stone date In 1801, were the missing man's expenditures. Alae hawing aseertdued that the ptt- tlel'a contained only this sccouut, looked up questioningly to Sherrill; but Sherrill, without speaking, merely ' handed him the second of the papers. i Alan unfolded it and saw that It was ' in letter written in the same hand which had written the summons he i hail received to Blue Rapids anti had i Horde the entries in the little metno- rtindem book of the remittances that I had been sent to ,Toth Welton. t It began simply; "Lawrence— 'Mils will come to you In the event that I nm not able to carry out the pleb upon which I am now, at hast, de- 1'rutlned. You will find with Ulla a List of uty possessions. Deeds for all relit estate executed and complete ex- cept for recording of the transfer et the county ottiee; bounds, certificates, and other doeumenIS representing my ownership of properties, together with Signed Corms for their legal transfer to you, ewe In this Ilex, 'these proper- ties, In their entirety, l give to yen in trust (0 ttnld for the t'nun;; man Claw known as Alan Conrad of Blue Itap• Ids, lion„ to deliver tiny part or all over teethe or to continue to bold it all In trust for 111111 as you eltttl1 con- sider to he to ills greatest advantage, "Tuts for the reusmts which i shall have told ,•fo you or him --'-i cannot know which one of you now, nor do 1 know how i shall tell it. But when you learn, Lawrence, think as well of me ns you can end help hire to be eMfl'itnbtc to mc, "With the greatest tiff:notion, "BEM AMY N CO1tVhell Alan, as ho d.nisbed reading, looked' up to Sherrill, bewildered and dazed, "What does it mean, Afl', Sherrill?— Does It mean that be has gotte aw'tty and left everything he lied—everything to me?" "If Mr, Corvet does not return, and I do not receive any other instructions, I shell take over his estate, as he has bietructed, for your edvuntilge." "And, Mr, Sherrill, be didn't tell you why? Title is 1111 you know'?" "Yes; you have everything now. All we eau d0, Alan, Is to search for him In every way we can. There will be others searching fur him t00'now; for luformatlonof his disappearance Inas gut out. 'there have been reporters at the office this morning making in. gulrles, and his disappearance will be to the afternoon papers." Sherrill put the papers back In their envelppe, and the envelope back into the drawer, which he relocked. "1' went over all this with Mr, Spear- man this morning," he said. "He is tie much ,et a loss to explain It as I am." He was silent for a few moments. "The transfer of Mr. Corvet's prop- erties to me for you," be said sudden- ly, "Included, as you have seen, Cor - vet's Interest in the firm of 'Corvet, Sherrill & Spearman.' I went very carefully through the deeds and trans- fers in the deposit box, and it was plain that, while he had taken great care with the forms of transfer for all the properties, he had taken particular pains with whatever related to his holdings In thls company and to his shipplug interests. If I make over the properties to you, Alan, I shall begin with those; for it seems to me that your father was particularly anxious that you, should take a personal 'as well as a financial place among the men who control the traffic of the lakes. I have told Spearman that this is my intention. He has not been able to see it my way as yet; but he may change his views, I think, after meet- There was no, recognition of any - Ing you," Sherrill got up. Alun arose a little unsteadily. The list of properties he had read and the letter and Sherrill's statement portended so much that its HONORED BY KING General Bramwell Booth; former bead of the Salvation Army, who has been honored by His Majesty King George with the order of Companion of Honor in appreciae tion of his splendid work in the cause of humanity. tone was hearty; In It Man could rec- ognize only so much of reserve as might be expected . from Slterrill's partner who had taken an attitude 01 opposition, TIte shipmasters, looking on, could see;'no doubt, not even that; except for the excitement which Alan himself cold not conceal, it must ap- pear to them only an ordinary intro- duction. Alan fought sharply down the swift rush of his blood and the tightening of his muscles, "1 can say' truly that I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Spearman," he man- aged. thing beyond the mere surface mean, ing, of the words in Sliearman's slow smile of acknowledgment, as he turned from Alan to Sherrill, ".I'm afraid you've taken rather a meaning could not all come to him at bad time, Lawrence. Can't we get to - ..ace. the followed Sherrill through a gether later—this afterneon't You'll short private corridor, flanked with be about here this au'teruoun'r" flies lettered "Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman," into the large room he had seen when he came in with Constance. They crossed this, and Sherrill, with- out knocking, opened the door of the office marked, "air. Spearman." Alan, looking on past Sherrill as the door opened, saw that Were were some half dozen men in the room, smoking and talking, HIs gaze went swiftly on past these men to.the one who, hall seated on the top of the flat desk, had been talking to them; and his pulse closed upon Ills heart with a shock; he start- ed, choked with astonishment, then swiftly forced himself under control. For this was the man whom he had met and whom he had fought in Ben- jamin Corvet's house the night before —the big man surprised in his blas- phemy of Corvet and of souls "in h—l" who, at sight of an apparition with a bullet hole above its eye, had cried out In his fright, "You got Ben 1 But you wont get me—d—n you! i1—n your' Alan's shoulders drew up slightly, And the mnseles of his hands tight- ened, as Sherrill led him to this man. Sherrill put his hand '01 the man's shoulder; his other hand was still on Alan's arm. "Henry," he said to the man, "this Is Alan Conrad. Alan, I want you to know my partner, Mr. Spearman," Spearman nodded an acknowledg- ment. but dld not put out his hand; his eyes—steady, bold, watchful eyes —seemed measuring Alan attentively; and In return Alan, with his gaze, was measuring hien. CHAPTER VII. Mr. Corvet's Partner. The instant of meeting, when Man recognized in Sherrill's partner, the man with whom Inc had fought to Cor - vet's house, wits one of swift readjust- ment of all his thought—adjustment to a situation of which he could not even have dreamed, and which left him breathless. But far Spenrmnn, obviously, it was not that. Following his noncommittal nod of acltnowltsi - ment of Sherrill's ]ntroductirnt and his first steady scrutiny of Alan, the big, handsome man swung himself off from Steady, Bold, Watchful Eyes Seemed Measuring Alan Attentively. the desk on which he sat and leaned against lt, feeing them more directly. "Oh, vas—Cnto'ad," be said. idle "I think I can be here tills after- noon," Alan salt. "Let's say two -thirty, then," Spear- man turned and noted the hour almost' solicitously among the scrawled ap- pointments on his desk pad; strnilght- 1 ening, after this act of dismissal, he walked with them to the door, his hand on Sherrill's shoulder. • "Circumstances have put us—Mr. Sherrill and myself—in a very ditll- • cult position, Conrad;" he remarked, "We want much to be fair to all con - .I cerned—'e He did not finish the sentence, but • halted at the door. Sherrill went out, ' and Alan followed him; exasperation —half outrage yet half admiration—at Spearman's bearing, held Alan speech- less. 1f every movement of Spear - man's great, handsome body had not recalled to him their struggle of the night before—if,-as Spearman's hand rested cordially on Sherrill's shoulder, Alan had not seemed to feel again that big pend at his throat—he would al- most have been ready to believe that this was not the man whom he had fought. But he could not doubt that; he had recognized Spearman beyond question. And Spearman lied retog. nized him—be was sure of that; he could not for an instant doubt It; Spearman had known it was Alan whom he had fought In Curvet's house even before Sherrill had brought thetas i together. Was there not further grout of that In Spearman's subsequent man- ner toward him? For what was all this cordiality except detinnee? Power and possession—both far ex- ceeding Alan's must extravagant 1 dream—were promised him by those Papers which Sherrill hnd shown hint. When Inc had read down the list of those properties, he had had no more feeling that such things could he his than he had had at first that Corvet's house could be his—until he had heard the iptruder moving in that house. And now It was the sense that another was going to make him fight fur those properties that was bringing to him the realization of his new power. Ile "hr d" something on that man—on Spearman. He did not ltrk,ty what that thing was; no stretch of his thought, nothing that he knew about himself or others, could tell him; but. at sight Of httn, In the Clark of Corvet's house, Spearman had cried out in Mirror, be had screatned at Irtm the name of a sunken slip, and in terror had hurled his electric torch. It was true, Spear - man's terror had out been at Alan Con• rad; It had been because Spearman had mistaken him ter some 000 else— for a ghost, But, after learning that o em'laaus at- titude was not a gto st, hp t- titude had not very greatly changed; he had fought, he had limn willing to kill rather ilian to be caught there. I Alan thought an instaott; he would make sure he still "head" that some- thing on Spearman nod would tear% how fm' It wend He look up the re- ceiver and asked for Spearman. i A voice answered—"Yes." t Alan sold, evenly: "I think you and 1 had better love a talk before we eteet with Mr. Sherrill this afternoon. I am here in Mr. Corvet's office now and will be here for half an hour. then I'm going out,' Spearman made no reply, bet hung up the receiver. Alan eat whiting, his i swatch tipon the desk before iia— tense, expectant, with dnalies of hot and cold passing over him. Ten min- ' Iltea passed; then twenty. The tele- phone under Corvet's desk buzzed. "Mr. Spearman says lie will give you flue minutes now," the switchboard alit boon Alan breathed deep with relief; tpeet'bin Midwauted''to refuse to see lithe—but he had not refused; be lied wit for him withiil the time Alan had appointed and after waiting until just; leforo it expired. Alan put his watch beep Into hla ,Oeket.end, crossing to the other (Alice, bund Spearmint ulone. Tbt're was nit iletense of courtesy now 111 Spear - '1811 s wanner; he sat motionless at Ms desk, his bold eyes fixed as Alan np'ui'ly. Alert closed the duet behind 'dun and advanced tntvau'd tilt disk. "1 thought we'd better Iatye some 'splaaation," he said, "about our meting fast night." Our meeting?" Spearman repeated; pis eyes hail narrowed watchfully. "You told :lir. Shet't'lll that you wore u Duluth ant) that you arrived home a Chicago only this morning: Of 'nurse you don't mean to stick to that ;tot'y with me?" what are you talking about?" 4peuranan demanded. "Of course, I know exactly where ,'ou were a part of last evening; and you know that I know. I only want to know what explanation you have to offer," Spearman leaned forward, "Talk sense fwd talk It quick, If you have anything to say to mei" "I haven't told stir, Sherrill that I found you at Corvet's house last night; but I don't want you to doubt for a minute that 1 know you—and about your d—g' of Benjamin Corvet and your cry about saving the Sllwaka 1" A flash of blood eame to Spearman's face; Alan, in his excitement, was sure or it; but there was just that flash, no tnofe. He turned, while Spearman set chewing ills cigar and staring at him, and went out and partly closed the door. Then, suddenly, he reopened it, looked in, reclosed It sharply, and went on his way, shaking a little. For, as he looked back this second time at the dominant, determined, able man seated at his desk, what he had seen in Spearman's face was fear; fear of himself, of Alan Conrad of Blne Rap- ids—yet It was not fear of that sort which weakens or dismays; it was of that sort which, merely warning of tlanger'close at hand, determines one to use every means wltian his power tit save himself. Alan, still trembling excitedly, crossed to Corvet's office to await Sherrill. It was not, he felt sure now, Alan Conrad that Spearman was op- posing; it was not even the apparent successor to the controlling stuck of Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman. That Alan resembled some ane—some one whose ghost had seemed to come to Spearman and might, perhaps, have come to Corvet—was only, incidental to what was going on now; for in Alan's presence Spearman found a threat—an active, present threat against himself. Alan could not im- agine what the'nature of that threat could be. Was it because there was something still concealed in Co'vet's house which Spearman feared Alan would find? Or was it connected only with that some one whom Alan resem- bled? s 5 • • • • Constance Sherrill's most active thought that day was about Henry Spearman, for she had a luucheou en- gagement wick him at one o'clock. The tea room of a department store utters to young people opportunities for dining together without furnishing reason fur even Innocently connecting their names too intimately, it a girl Is not seen there with the sante than too often. There Is something essentially casual and unpremeditated about le— as though the man and the girl, both shopping and both hungry, had just happened to meet and go to lunch to- gether. As Constance recently had drawn closer to Henry Spearman to her thought, and particularly since she had been seriously considering marrying him, site had clung deliber- ately to this unplanned appearance about their meetings. She glanced across at him, when she had settled herself, and the first little trivialities of their being together were over. "I tools a visitor down to your office this morning," she said. "Yee," he answered. Coustattee was aware that it was only formally that she had taken Alan Conrad down to confer with her fa- ther; since Henry was there, she knew Iter father would not act without ills agreement, and that whatever dispost- tlon had been made regarding Alan had been made by him. * • ♦ ! • "Did you like him, Henry? I hoped you would." He did not answer at once. The waitress brought their order, and he served her; thein, as the waitress moved away, he looked across at Con- xtamve with a long scrutiny, , ' n good teal hlw Itutesec it 1 of yesterday and today, your father tells lite be observed. "Yes." "It's plain enough you 111te him," he remarked. She reflected serluusly. "Yes, I do; though I hadn't thought of 1t just that way, because I was thinking most about the position he was In and about --itir. Corvet. But I do like idm,' "So do I," Spearman said with a seeming heartiness that plenast'd her. "At least I should 11110. lilm, Connie, 1f I had the sort of privilege you have to think whether I Irked or disliked trim, I've had to consider him from another Point of view—whether I could trust him Or trust distrust hien." "Distrust?" Constance beet toward hhn impulsively in her surprise. "Distrnet him? In relation to what? WIt "Iuy0 relation to Corvet, Sherrill and spearman, Connie—the company that Involves your Interests and your fa. $I.ATIP FOR SENATE 04,40444414.4.044+4.44+044+0+44 d• 1: • Highest m'rrll;et 'price yt ' paid f't r your Hens t 'b WANTED SM i d' 1 M. Yrflick p.+r.'i,et*t•Rr•6"Wi+A�2.Mti®•Mytt }p.f.�,l'�r. The water of an "overland" flood along the lower Mississippi travela about one-third as fast as the _river proper. 1 Debts Collected ' We Collect Accounts, Notes and Judgments anywhere and every- where. No collection, no charge. Write us today for particulars, Canadian Creditors' Ass'n Hon. Robert Forks, minister of Im- Post Piece Box 2151, Owen Sound migration and Colonization, is slated W. D. S. J A M I E S O N, for the Senate, to fill the seat of the MD; CM; L111-CC;late Hon, Robert Watson, i Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussel* Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. Mt JL-. <'yri/ 6 "You've Seen a Good Deal of Him, Yesterday and Today, Your Father Tells Me," He Observed. tie-r's and IIIIr1P turd the interests of many other people- -small etnel:lielders who have no itttlaehre in ire 1111 ttnge- mcnt, and whose interests I :have to look after for them," don't understand, Henry." "I've had to think of c'ourad this morning in the sumo way as I've buil to think of Ben Curvet of repent years —as u threat against the Interests of these people." Her color rose, and her pulse gnirk- ened. Henry never had talked to her, except In the merest eontrnonpluccs, about his relations with Uncle Benny; it was a matter in which, she had rec- ognized, they had been apposed; and since the quarrels between the old. friend whom site had loved from child- hood and he, who wished to hecnme now more than a mere friend to her, hind grown more violent. she had pur- posely avoided mentioning Miele Ben- ny to Henry, 0101 be, quite as con- sciously, had avoided mentioning .lir, Corvet to her, "I've known for a good many years," Spearman went on, reluctantly, "that Ben Corvet's brain was seriously af- fected. 130 recognized than himself even earlier, and admitted It to him- self when he took tale off my ship to tante charge of the company. I might have gone with other people then. or It wouldn't have been very lung bei'ere I could have started tn as a ship own- er myself ; but. In view of his eoud;- Hon, Ben made me promises that nf• fered are most. Afterward his malady progressed s" that be eolldn't know himself to he untrustworthy; Ills,luutr. went was Impaired, and he phmaed and would have hied to "101') out many things runt would have been disastrous for the eminently. i had to tight bin—'for the comgruuy's sake and T. T. M' RAE M. e., M. 0. P„ d S. 0, U. O.. 11., Village of Banseel:, Pbyalotan, Surgeon, Aesoeehoar Cfaoa at residence, opposite Melt file Church Williams street. DR, WARDLAP, Boaor graduate of the Ontario Vecerla Collega, Dal and night calls. Osco oppo Plow Mill, Ethel, Sigruzaze BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. CONVEYANCER, NOTARY PUBLIC LECKE. BLOCK B..USSELS AUCTIONEERS JAMES TAYLOR Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to in all" parts of the county. Satisfaction Guaranteed, or no par. Orders led at The Post promptly attended be Belgrave Post Office. PHONES: Brussels, 15-13. North Huron, 15-628 D. M. 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