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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-6-19, Page 7THE ORUSSELS P031' Cream Grading ETTER CREAM Means ETTER I3UTTER ETTER PRICES We are now prepared to Grade your Crean) honesr"ly, gather it twine a week and deliver at our Creamery each clay we 111't it, We 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 No. 1 grade, and 3 cents per lb, but. ter -fat for No 1 grade over that of No. Z grade. The basic principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario butter is the elimination of second and off grads cream. This may be accomplished by paying the producer of good (roam a better price per pound of butter -fat tarn is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market, •r,;rr ee•We will loan you a can. See our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussel;(. The Seaforth Creamery "what are yeu'(00lting ter, 41001' the Indian asked, Alan reflected 14 moment. "Dir, Stier till thought that Mr. Corvet 11 1111 have left u record of some Sort here for me, 311d0. .I.hp you know of any- thing inything like that?" • "No: ('hal is what you are looking. for?" • 'Yes, lie you 1)1(011 of any place where M1'. Curvet would llav> been likely t4 ligt away anything 111)1) that?" . "Iien put palters In all tllrsc. draw - The ,Indian Drum 'By William MacHarg - and Edwin Balmer I(f.uvot*.ns by IRWIN MYERS ConrrizstbYL'JWin 0.t,,r ror my o1111 sante 1,111 111,'1t 4r the tun- en:s, whose Interests were at stake, Your father gaunt to see that 111114 I was doing MIS for the 0utnlluuy's gond and has learned to trust me, lint you --you couldn't see that 41)11110 s0 direct- ly, of course, and yen thought 1 d'dn't —like Ben, and there was 40111e bait 1n me which made me fail to tif,,,'elate hint" "No; not that," Constance deuced quickly. "Not that, 1l0111'y, "Nkat was it (hen, ('1(1111187 You thought ale nlgr1te(u1 t(1 11110? .1 realize that I owed al 'treat deo( to him; but the only way 1 could pay that debt was to do exactly what 1 did— oppose hint end seem le push into his place and be ml ingrate; for, because I dill that, Ben's been a respected and honored man in this town all these last years, whidl he couldn't have re- mained if Td let him have his way, or If 1 told others why 'i had to do what I did. I didn't bare what others thought about me; but I did care what you thought; yet tf you couldn't see. what I was up agutnst •because of your affection for him, why—that was all right too." "No, It wasn't all right," she denied almost fiercely, the flush flooding her cheeks; a throbbing was in her throat which, for an Instant, stopped her. "You should have told me, Henry; or —1 should have been able to see." "I couldn't tell you—dear," he said the last word very distinctly; but so low that she could scarcely hear, "I couldn't tell you now—If .Ben hadn't gene away its he has and this other fellow come. I couldn't tell you when you wanted to keep caring so much for your Uncle Benny, and he was try- ing rying to hurt me with von." She bent tweed him, her tips part- ed arted ; but now she (1111 not speak, She never had really known henry until this moment, she felt; she had thought of him always as strong, almost mu- te!, lighting down fiercely, mercilessly, his opponents and welcoming contest for lite Joy of overwhelming others by • ills own derisive strength anti power i. And she hull (leen nithost ready to marry that mite for 11)s strength and dominance from those qualities; and tl " now she knew that he Was merciful too—Indeed, more than merciful, In the very contest where she had thought of hlin as most selfish and re- gardless of another, she had most completely misapprehended, "I ought to have seen t" she rebuked herself to him, "Surely, 1 should have seen that woe art" Letterheads Envelopes Billheads .And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will do a job that, will do credit to your business. Look over your etoock off dfiice Stationery an requires replenishing call Ile by telephone 81. The Past Publishing House "Row could int see?" he .defended her, Ile never showed to you the side be showed to me and—in these last .years, anyway—never to me the side he showed to you. But after what has happened this week, can you under- stand •now; and you can 'see why I have to distrust the young fellow who's come to claim igen Covert's place." ' Claim 1" Constance repeated. "Why, fleury, I did not know he clalmed.nny- tiling; he didn't even know when he 1'a111e here—" ' "Ile seems, like lien Carver" henry said slowly', "to have the characteris- tic of showing one sl.de to you, another to me, Connie, With you, of course, Ile claimed nothing; but at the %alien -- Your father showed hen this uunvhl1 the IOSIetlulellis of transfer that Ren 5.5011 to have left conveying 111 1ti1,1 all 11011 hull --Itis other p,"pteelea c•:,: his interest • 141 Clryrt, Sherrill sial Spearman. 1 very uuttu'ully ohjl tr,: TO tin" executi(111 01 111(101' 11'1111SisVrti, wlUluut considerable examination, in view of Corvet's taunt 111 ,'OuJul,n find of the feet 1111111 they pin the cotur- ling stack of Curvet., Sherrill 1111'1 Spearman In the honk of a youth tr oneever haul heard (1f --aids one woo, OS 1115 (1013 story, 1108-e- (111,1 Seel) a 51111) until yesterday. And when 1 didn't dismiss my business with 0 d,...en 1111,1 (ld,s morning to take Ittia hall the Collpnny, he I l uta;d utuIS„c,, to see we alone to threaten Ise.” "Threaten you, 1-lenry: Uuw•? With 11111117" "I couldn't quite make out myself, but that was his tune; he detuu,ded un 'explanation,' of exactly what, he didn't make clear, 11e has been given by Ben,- apparently, (Ile t,chnlcal con- trol of Curvet, S110111ll and Spearman, His Idea, if 1 oppose hint, evidently 18 to turn me Out and take the manage- ment himself." Constance leaned back, confused. "Ile—Alan Conrad?" she questioned, "He can't have done that, Henry: Oh, he Can't have meant that I" • "Maybe he didn't; 1 said I couldn't make out what Ile did mean," Spear- man said. "Things have come upon him with rather a rush, of course; sola you couldn't expect a country boy to get so many things straight. He's sat- ing, 1 suppose, only In the way one might expect a boy to act who had been brought up in poverty on a Kan- sas prairie and was suddenly handed the possible possession of a good ninny nt1111ons of dollars, it's better to be- lieve that he's only lost his head. 1 haven't had oppertunity to tell your father these thiegs yet; but 1 wanted you to untlerstund why Conrad will hardly consider me a friend," • "I'll understand you now, Henry," she promised.• CHAPTER Vlil. Violence, At half-ptlst three, Alan left the of - lice. Sherrill had told hien an hour earlier that Spearman hall telephoned be world not be able to get back for t • a conference that al'tFlnnun • and Aloe was certain nolo that in Shearuan's absence Sherrill would do nothing further with respect to his affairs, 'Was there no one whom Alan could tell of ills vitt-minter with Spearman In Corvet's theism, with probability 111 ret -Plying -belief? Alan had not hetet thinking directly of Constance Sher. x111, as he ws11e11 swiftly north to the Drive; but she 14)55, In a way', present In all his thoughts. As be apprnllr'hed the Sherrill house. he saw standing at the (melt en open ranllstcr with n lay (wird t'hluaffeiur; he lad seen that lard - el et, lie revoguizcd with a litt•le Witte. In front of •the o91re building Chet meriting -w'IlPf Cnnsiuu'1' had 1;1'. '. Not dmvnt1w'0. Ile turned inn 1! r walk and rang the hell, The servnet who epenc111 the )1),,)t* !thew Ilan and seemed to tleePhl b'•' ('11411t of •011try' to the hon5P, fill' lie Ilrew' hal'!: for Alan In 8n10l t('" went Into IIP hall and w•nlied for t1 - servant to fellow', "Is \lays Sherrill Ili?" 110 asked. "I'11 see, sir" 'roe mint dl -no. Peered, Alen, Welling, did not 1•rn. I til slrnce's voice In reply to the au,• noun"Pment of the servinti., but teeet i - man's vlt'rols canes. The servant _t'e turned, "hiss Sherrill w'11l see you h n 11)111(1te. sive 9'h rough the wide dn0rwlty to the Ira wine room, Alan ennld gee tar smeller, portlerell entfallre., to ltd room heyeed--Sherrill's sturdy. Th; MAY REPRESENT CANADA Hon, Dr. Justice Lyman P, Duff, of the Supreme Court of Canada, who may be chief representative • for Canada on the international arbitration board In the "I'm Alone" case curtains porter', non t'OI1Srutlt'r arm Spearman carne into this Inner door- way; they stood an instant there in talk. As Constance started away. Spearman suddenly drew her haelt to him and kissed her. Alan's shoulders spontaneously jerked back and his )lands clenched; he did not look away and, as she approached, . she became aware that he had seen. She came to him, very qulet and very flushed ; then she was quite dale IIS .she asked 'him, You wanted- ale?" Fle was white as she, and could not speak at once. "You told rue last night, Miss Sherrill," he said, "that the last thing that Mfr. Corvet did—the last that.you know of—was to warn pea against one of your friends. W'ho WWI that?" She flushed tmeltslly. "You mustn't attach any importance to that; I didn't mean you to. There wits no reason for what 11r. Corvet said, except In \Ir, I oivet'1 own lainll, Ile had a quite unreasonable animosity—" "Against :lir, Spearman, you mean." Sac did not ansly"r. "Ws animosity was against Mr, Spearman Miss Sherrill, wasn't it? That is the only animosity of Mr. Cor - vet's that anyone has told me about," "Yes." "it was against JIr. Spearman that he warned you, then?" "Yes." 'Thank you." He turned and, not waltiug for the mon, let himself out. He should have known it wh00 he had seen. that Spearman; after announcing himself us unable to get back to the office, was with Coustunee. He went swiftly uround the block to his own !levee and let himself le at the trent door with his key. The house was warm; a shaded lamp on the table in the larger library was lighted. a lire Wes burning 111 the open grate. and the rooms had been swept and dusted. Tho Indian came into Use ball to take his )'Oat and hat. "Ithin01' is at Seven," \Vassatluatn announced. "You want sung change about that?" "No; seven is all right." Alan went upstairs to the room next t0 Corset's which Ile had appropriated for his own use the night before, load found it now prepared for his oecu• matey. When lie tame down again to 'he tlrst flash, Wasserman] WON no. where about but he heard sounds In the service rooms on the basement fluor, Be went part way down the service stairs and saw the Indian 10 'he kitchen, preparing dbtner. Wassa- quam had not heard his approach. and Alan stood an Instant watching the Indian's 11111, thin figure and the quick movements of his dt4prnportlonntely sinal!, well -shaped hands, almost lice a woman's; then he scared his foot upon the stair, anti Wassequam turned et -fitly about. "Anybody been here today, Judah?" Alan asked. "No, Alan. I railed tradesmen : they 'alae. 'there were young men from the lewspai)ers." "What did you tell them?" "Nothing," "Why not?" "Henry telephoned I was to tell hem nothing." "You mean 115ury Spearman?" 'Tee "Do you tante orders frnnl kin, 311• '1111?" "I took that order, Alan." Alan hesitated, "You've been here n the house all day?" "Ties. Alan." Mau went back to the first floor and oto the smaller library, The room rQs dark with the early winter dusk, ud he switched, on the light; Phan he .ilelt and pulled out one of the draw- rs he had seen Spearman searching In'ongh the night before, and carefully xanlfned the papers to it one by one, tit found them only ordinary papers. le pulled the drawer completely out ad sounded the wall behind It and the editions on both sides but they ell- eatred solid, He put the drawer back i end went 04) to examine the nest ne, anti, after that, the others. The locks in the house had been wound, or presently the clock in the library truck six, and another in the hell hinted' slowly, •1n hour later, w'h0n he clocks chinned again, Alan looked p and saw Wassuquan's small black yes, deep set in their large eye seek- (', fixed on (11)0 intently through the lour, I'Invv long the Incline had been here, Man could not guess; he haat lot heard his step, PW"N "Vou're a Chippewa, Aren't You, Judah?" Alan Asked. ers; be put them upstairs, too—where you have seen," "Nowhere else, Judah?" "1f he put things anywhere else, Alan, I have not seen. Dinner Is served, Alan." Alan went to the lavatory on the first floor and washed the dust from his hands load face; then he event into the dining room. Wassaquam, having served the dimer, took his place be- hind Alan's chair, ready to pass hits what he needed; inti the IndIaul's silent, watchful presence there behind him where he could not see his fare, disturbed Alan, and he twisted 11!m - self about to look at kin. "Would you mind, Judah," he in- quired, "If I asked you to stand over there instead of where yon are?" The Indian, without answering, moved around to the other side of the table, where he stood facing Alan. "You're a Chippewa, aren't you. Judah?" Man asked. "Yes:' "Yuur people live at the other end of the take, don't they?" "Yes, Man," "Tlave you ever heard of the Indian Drum they talk about up there, that they. say sounds when a ship goes down on the lake?" The Indian's eyes sparkled excited- ly. "Yes," he said. "Do you believe to It?" "Not just believe; I know. Every- body knows that It sounds for those who die on the lake, 1 have heard It. It sounder) for my father." "Bow was that?" "Like this, My father sold some bullocks to a man on Beaver island. The man kept store on Beaver Island, Man. No Indian liked him, He would not hand anything to an lndinn or wrap anything in paper for an Indian. Say it was like this: An Indian collies In to buy salt pork. First the Ulan would get the money. Then, Alan, he would take his hook and pull the pork up out of the barrel and throw it on the dirty floor for the Indian to pick up. Be. said Indians must take their food oft of the floor—like dogs. "Day father had to take the bullocks to the man, acrbss to Beaver Island. At first the Indians did not know who the buttocks were for, so they helped him. When they found out the bul- -' locks were for tate non on Beaver island, the Indians would not help him any longer. He had to tante them ncrms5 alone. Besides, it was bad weather, the beginning of a storm, "Ile went away, and my mother went to pick herrles-1 was matt then. Pretty soon 1 sale my mother conning berries, and her no be s back. She 1In d Lade was hangh1g down, mrd she was walling. She tools rue In her arms and said my father was dear). Other In- dians came urvtrnd and asked her 1104v she knew, rind she saki she heard the Drum. The Indlans found my father's body."" "Dirt you ever hear of a ship called the 1lhvnlc11, Judah?" "Thar was long ((go," the Indlmt an- swered, "They sly that the Drum beat wring when the Mlw'aka went rlown— that tt was one beat short of the right number," "That was long ago," \\rassaquaan merely repented. "Did Mr. Corvet ever speak to you about the Mlwaka7" "No; he asked me once if I had ever heard the Drum. I told iltnl." \\'assaglalm removed the dinner and brought Man a dessert. He returned to stand In the place across the table that Alan had asaigned to Mtn, and stood looking down at Alan, steadily and thoughtfully. "Do I look like any one you ever saw before, Judah?" Alan inquired of him. "No." "is that what you ere thinking?" "That is what I was thinking. \V111 coffee he served In the library, Alan?" Alen crossed to the ilbl'ary and seat- ed hhn501f In the chair where his fa- ther had been acenstnmed to sit. Was' saqualn Drought 1(10) the Slagle small clip of entree lit the spirit lamp on the smoking stand .and moved that noel thin he went away. When. he hail finished his coffer Man went Int° the Smaller connecting room and re' enn'meneed ids esamillatlen of the .dt•t(WEr$ under the bookshelves. At ten o'clock. Man stopped his' search and went bade to the ehalr In the Ii. bray, Ile dozed; for he awoke with .1 . start and a feeling that some one hall been betiding over hhn. and g11zed up hon Wassagnarn'a face. l'ho In. dean hod been serutinlzing him with intent anslhus inquiry. Ise moved away, but Alan carted him back, "When DIr, Covet disappeared, Ju. dab, you went to took for him up at lfanlstque, where 1(0 lens ban'tt--at least Mr. Sherrill said that was where • you went. Wily did you think you might find him there?" Alan asked. "In the cud, I think, a luau maybe goes back to the place where be be- gan. That's all, Alan." "In the end! What do you mean by that? What do you think 11118 become of Mr. Corvet?" "I think now—Ben's dead." "What makes you think that?" "Nothing makes me think; I think It myself." "I see. You mean you have no rea- son more than others for thinking it; but that Is what you believe." "Yes," Wasserman went away, and Man heard him on the back stairs, as- cending to his room. When Alan went up to his own room, after making the rounds to see that the house was locked. a droning chant came to him from the third floor. He paused In the hall and listened, then went up to the floor above. A flickering light came to him through the half -open door of a room at the front of the house; lie went a little way toward it and looked in. Two thick candles were burning before a csuciflx, below which the Indian knelt, prayer book in hand and rocking to and fro as he droned his supplica- tions. A word or two came to Man, but without them Wass"quam's occupation was plain; he Was praying for the re- pose of the dead—the Catholic chant taught to him. as It had been taught Undoubtedly tu his fathers, by the Trench Jesuits of the lakes. The In- toned chant for Carver's soul, by the man who had heard the Drum, fol- lowed and still came to Alan, as he returned to the second floor. He had not been aIle to determine, during the evening, Wnssaquam's atti- tude toward him. 'laving no one else to trust, Man had been obliged to put e certain amount of trust in the In- dian; so as he had explalner3 to was. suquam that morning that the desk and the drawers in the little room off Corvet's had been forced, and had warned him to see that no one. who had not proper business there, entered the house. Wassaquam had appeared to accept this order; but now \Vassa- quem had implied that it was not be- cause of Alan's order that be had re- fused reporters admission to the house. Alan started and went quickly to the open door of his room, as he heard voices now somewhere within the house. One of the voices he recog- nized as Wassaquam's; the other in- distinct, thick, accusing—was un- known to him; It certainly was not Spearman's. He descended swiftly to the first floor, and found Wassaquam standing in the front hall, alone. "Who was here, Judah?" Alan de- manded. "A man," the Indian answered stol- idly, "Be was drunk; I put him out." "What did he come for?" "Ise came to see. Ben. 1 put him out; he Is gone, Alan." Alan flung open the front door and looked out, but he saw 110 one. "What did he wont of Mr. Corvet, Judah?" "I do not know. I told him Ben was not here; tie was angry, but he went nvruy," "lies he ever come here before?" "Yes; he comes twice." "Ile has been here twice?" "Mere than that; every year be epee's twice, Alan. Once be came oftener." "limy long has to been doing that?" "Since I can remember." "'s he a friend of Dtr. Corvet?" "No friend—no!" when he "Rat Mr, Corvet saw 1,11111 \ vh casae here?" "Always, Man." "And you don't know at all what he came about?" "How should I know? No; I do not." I Alan got his cont and bat, The sudden disappearance of the man might mean only that he had hurried away, but It might menu, too, that he was still lurking near the crouse. Alan had decided to matte the circuit of the house and determine that. But as hp came out on to the porch, a tigure more than a block away to the south strode with uncertain step out into the liglltti of a street lamp, halted and faced about, and shook his list back et the house. Alan dragged the In- dian out on to the porch. "Is that the Dan, Judah?" he de - handed. "Yes, Alan." Alan ran down the steps and at full speed after the roan. Bet when he reached the corner, he was nowhere in sight. Man retraced tits steps for several blocks, still looking; then he gave it up and returned east toward the Drive. The side street leading to the Drive was not well lighted; dark entry ways and alleys opened on it; but the night was clear. Adan could see at the end of the street, beyond the yellow glow of the distant boulevard lights, the smooth, chill surface of (he lake, A WILL TEST PA IA Premier Gardiner, ;of Saskatehe- wan, who has decided Ito stay in power until voted out in Parliament. waive Itglit role (1(3(14)5 1t; now', ne1(W the white tight, he saw a red avocet— the uausthead all port lanterns of a steamer northward bound. Farther tint, a Second Willie glow appeared from bebind the obsouratinn of the buildings and below it a green speek— a starboard light. Infornmtion he 1tad gained miehle1 him to reruouize in these lights two steamers passing one another at the burlier mouth. Ills (1400 •Its turned to Constance Sherrill. Events since he had bilked with her that morning hail put them far apert once more; hut, in another it He Staggered, Slipped, Fell Suddenly Forward Upon His Knees Under a Stunning, Crushing Blow Upon His Head From Behind. way, they were being drawn closer to- gether. For he knew now that she was caught as well as he In the mesh of ronsegnences of "ers not their own. Ile staggered, slipped. fell suddenly forward upon his knees, under a stun. ning, crushing blow upon his bend from behind. Thought„ r,nsri,nsness almost lost, he struggled, twisting 111111. golf about to grasp at his assailant. tie caught the man's clothing, trying to drag himself up: rightful.: blindly, dazedly, unable to see 0r think, he shinned aloud 11nd then Heath. aloud, He seemed in the dIst"'e to hear an- swering cries; hut the weight end strength of the other (vas h011rhlg him dow'n'ugain to his knees; be Well to slip aside from It. to rise. Then :m- other blow, crushing and slekening. descended on Ills head; even hearing left him and. nnrnnsclnus, he fell for- ward on to the snow and lay still. t. (Continued Next Week) t THAT'S IT! The most diseomfo'ting thing (- bout dodging an automobile is the dirty look the driver gives you for escaping. 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