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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-11-12, Page 61 T! de senTereereoree li8l811108.1NNlj0 01N iiIIWl111t11i11001180II11Nl1 ns eas 'See One • M ADVAWCRT i.;. • nsl:t"e everything but 1 alken'O, They must: 'a. their Chances. ABNIat COSENS IIIIIISSIIISSIIII*1111111111111(110111111111111 111E11111We SINESS CARDS 4I9d'>`` L: ,INGTON, IVIUTIITAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 1540. Head Office,; Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on ell classes of insure ;nee at reasonable rates. t FINER COSENS, Agent, Winghain J W. DDID 9 ee in Chisholm Block .DENT VIRE, LIFE. ACCT AND HEALTH INSURANCE -- AND 'DEAL ESTATE O. Box 360. Phone 240 INGI•HAM,• s ONTARIO DUDLEY Hi LIVES ir OLICI'•CO^R, ETC. �,RI$IS�'ER, S 'Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. , Office—Meyer Block, Wingbam R. STONE ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. : Wiegham,r, - Ontario J.' A. MORTON ees mow„ let tames k' • BARRISTER, ETC. Wingharn, - Ontario Re G ROSS Graduate Royal: College of Dental Surgeonr Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over H. E. Isard's".Store. Wr R. Hili.dAM'�K;L E •� •,+g B.Sc., PII.Y9y ecial attention paid to diseases of '"omen and Children, having taken 'adnate work in Surgery, Bact- eriology ;and. Scientific Medicine., Of&e'e`''n the Kerr Residence, bet - I. ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church. Alt business given iven careful attention. Phone. 54 P. O. Box 113. Dr. Ro R.edniOnd 1VF.R.0.S. (Eng.)(L.R.C.P. (Lond,) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ' Dr. Chisholna's old stand. 741, eepterighf by Edwin, diinerr-. SYNOPSIS ti UlttsfirasUiots by see' ,leepier, he heard .it no longer as it attled the windows and bowled under ptrlaced in the Ch . g 5den7amin Cornet is something of a re 1' d' tiro na rerereitee tO 'the lees', but, compa r- ing• it with one I hed in arty 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 poxes. "elite note, taker; in connection with my .daughter's baiarno about him, made it eo plain that something serious hall happened; to Corvet; that xny that thought''�wee merely for itini, Corvet was not a man, with whore one could 'readily connectthethought of suicide; :but, Alan, that was the idea I had/ I hurried'' at once to his hoarse; but the bell was not ahswered, and I could 'not get in., "His servant, Wassaquam, has very few' friends, and the`few times he has been away Erom home .of recent years have been when he visited. an acquaintance of his—the head porter in South Side hotel, I went' to the telephone• in the house next door and: callwedthe hotel and foVnd.Wassaqu{Len there. I told:birn over the telephone: only that something: Was) wrong, and es,Bet, I.-- ealthy and highl> the eetes and ,over the roof', but as .out hurried to my own hoarse to get 'the, G11 A 1.n -wealthy o business tvorlc on the lake, above tha roalina and ice- kev ' which I had,, to the Corvet house; crunching waves, it whipped and vled with its chill 'tli`e' ice-sbrouded sides of struggling ships. So, Villa. the roar of surf and gale in his ears; 'lie went to sleep with the sole conscious connection in: his mind between, him- self and these people, among :wham Benjamin Corvet's, summons• had brought liim, the one narde "Miwaka." CHAPTER Vi. The Deed In, r: if Alan<could call it that, Memory, bad given him a feeling for ships and `or the lake. But these recollections ''ere only what those of a three -years' rhild might have been.' Not only did hey refuse to connect themselves with ,inthing else, 'but by'tie veryfinality:. of Their isolation, they ;d'arned hint: I hat ` they—and perhaps a few nforia,; `vague memories of :similar sort were all that recollection'. ever would give him. Be caught himself together and, turned his'thoughts to the approach- xing visit,to ;Sherrill—and, his father's offices. He had accepted ` Constance,, Sherrill a invitation to • drive hims. downtown to his destination. Observing the towering buildings -to his• right. be was able to, identify some of the' more prominent: structures, fa-' iniliar from photto graphs of 'the • city. Constance drove s*iftlyda'few : blocks down' this boulevard-; then, with- a; sudden, "Here we are!" she shpt the car to the 'curb and; stopped. ; • film led Man into one.of the :tallest and best - looking buildings. 'n On several "of the doors opening -;upon the -wide marble hall where .the,eleva for left them Alan saw the "Inames, "Corvet, Sherrill and •Spearman." Constance led the` way on past4o•,a; door farther down the 'corridor, which' bore merely; the name, "Lawrenco. Sherrill"; evidently. Sherrill, ' who shad' interests aside from the shipping buss-; aess; had 'offices connected ,with but not -actually ;a part `oe the offices, of Corvet; Sherrill and Spearman. A girl on' guard at: the dodr, saying that Mr. Sherrill had been awaiting< Mr.' Con - tad, opened an inner. door and led Alan • into a large, many -windowed room, where Sherrill was sitting„alone before a table -desk; Se gulled: the "visitor's chair"rather close to his 'desk and to' bis' own big leather chair before asking Alan to seat 'himself. "You wanted to steR me or `ask' me;' something last night, my daughter has told me,'' Sherrill 'said cordially. "I'm sorry I wasn't home when you came back." "I wanted to ask you, Mr. Sherrill;" Alan said, ""about those facts it re- gard',to Mr. Corvet which' you men-, tioned to me yesterday but did not ex- plain. Ybu said.it would not aid me, to know them; but d found certain things ineMr, Corvet's:house last night which Made, me want to know, if' I `could,;, -everything you could tell me." •+ • Sherrill opened a draatver-acid ,tool out a large, plain envelope. '- •'""On the,dny eater .yo'urfather•disaP'• peered, he :said, "but before I knew he was gone—or before any one except • niy daughter felt, any ;alarm about him altise • and a mystery to his 'associates., After a stormy interview with .his part her, Henry Spearman, Corvet seeks Con•. stance Sherrill, daughter of his other business partner, Lawrence. Sherrill, ant. secures from her a, promise not to marrj Spearman. 1 e then disappears. Sheri'ti learns Corvet has written to a •eertah` annxobiein ttoersu and 'exhibited strange ,agitation matter, • CHAPTER 'XS,-Corvet's letter sumnu,. Conrad, a youth of unknown parentav, to Chicago. CHAPTER TI7—Ecom •a statement i Sherrill it seems ,probable Conrad;, is Cor' vet's u1egitiinate son. Corvet has deeds, his house and its contents te' Alan, • C PPL ,e1V.-Alan Mites possession of his new home, • • CHAPTER V. -That night Alan discov orsa man ransacking the desks and b . rears drawers in Corvet's apartments. i•., . appearance of Alan tremendously agita •' the intruder; who appears to think hi.., ghost and Laves of the lIiwaka."' Mt' stri ggie the man escapes. • This . afternoon your father Said that you believed that Mr. Corvet's disappearance was in some way con nested with you;, he said that he did not think that was so; but do you want to tell me why you thought it?" "Yes:;.1 will tell you.". She colored quickly, "One of the .lest things Mr. Corvet did—in fact, the last thing we know of his doing before he sent.for you --was to come to me and -warn me against one of my friends$' "Warn you, Miss Sherrill? How? mean, warn you against what?" "Against thinking too much of him:'+ She turned away. "I think I'll come to see your father. inthemorning," Man said, when. a , Con- stance looked back to him. "But ;you'll ' come over. here '•for breakfast in the morning?" "Yoh want me?" "Certainly." 'Td like .to come very mach" •"'Then I'll expect iyou." She followed him- to the door -when be had.. put on his things, and he made no, objection when she asked that the . man be' al- lowed to carry, his bag around to 'the other house. • When he had dismissed Simons and re-entered the house on Astor street, he found no evidences' of any disturb- ance,while he had been gone. On the second floor,' to.'the east of the, room which had been his father's, was a bedroom which evidently had been kept as a guest chamber; Alan carried his suitcase there and made ready for hed. The sight of Constance Sherrill standing and watching after him in. concern as he started back to this. house, 'came .to him again and again and, also, her flush when she had spoken of the friend, against whoa: , Benjamin .Corvet had warned her. Who was he? ;It had been impossible at tbat moment for Alan to ask her more; besides, if lie had asked and she had told him, he would (have learned only a name which he could riot place yet in any connection -with her or with, Benjamin Corvet. Whoever he was, it was plain that *Constance Sherrill.: "thought of"him ;'!• lucky' man, Alan said . to hiinset'f.' Yet • Corvet had 'yarned her nit to think of him. . Alan turned back his bed.' It had -leen for him a tremendous day. Bare- ly twelve boars bbfore he had come to, that house, Alan Conrad from' Blue Rapids, Kan., now . . •"a phrases' .'rom what Lawrence Sherrill had told nim' of his father; 'were running through his mind as be opened the door of the room . to be able to hear any noise be Benjamin Corvet's house, of which he was ,sale protector. The emotion roused by his first sight of the lake went through him again as he, rpened the "window to the east. Now --he was in bet(—ne seemed to ' .e standing, a specter before' a man i,laspheming Benjamin Corvet and the ,mils of risen dead. "And the lisle, above the eye i : , The bullet got you!. . . So it's yo'n that got Ben! . I'll getyou 1 . . You can't aye the Miwaka !" . Che Miwaka I The stir of that name ,vas stronger now even than before; it clad been running/ .tlxroagla his eon-' eciousness annoet ,Constantly since he 'lad heard it. Ile •jumped up ' and .urned on the light and found a pencil, Ile did not knowhon" to spell the ,mere and It *as not necessary to --rite it down; the nernp hstfi,taken on ':rat definiteness and ,tneffaceablenesa of a thing, which, once beaad, cern .never again be forgotten. But, , IYt ;nu'il.c that he nitghtfor get; be wrote it, guessing at the spe11ing-"Miwalta." It well a Mime, of conrse:; but the _ante of what? It repeated and re: , , after he of back catc.d itself to hint, g nfo bed, until its very iterationsmade itrtr drowsy: • Outside, the gale whistled and hrieked. "Che wind,: passi.ng,lts last resistance after its sweep act ass tits ,larirles before It letiped upon the lake, littered and Mannered le its toseult (about the hoose. Bat se Alan beciatue DR. R. ta., STEWART Graduate of :University of Toronto,. Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the (Ontario, College of Physicians and Surgeons: Office'. in Chisholm Block .Toseplirn eStreet. Phone 29. r. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner • Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; south Office -Josephine St., *two doors of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence 151. 1 ,A.7 PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated 1, Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. ()pen every day except Monday and Wednesday afternoons. OsteopathyElectricity (' Telephone .272. J. ALVIN FOX CIiiRO'RACTIC OSTEOPATHY ELECTRO---THERAP,ii Monts xo-xee '2'-5. 7-8. Telephone igt • 6° eINNES CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for disease kinds, spec'taiixe in dealing eti, Lady attendant, light :ailed to, ' Office qtr Scott Sty '�1Vitr'gham, souse Of the late las, 'lira "I'eiephone 1.50. Adi s of ttl ki w.ith .hildr Calls reslao Ont., eta the iker. r., Ptlones: Office w6, Resicl. 22d, A. J.AL EER I?$iftl2 1C�1'GIt t` nIC,AI,,EIa rd it ECTOR ltl ltheft , o ftAttIi Motor • 'but when I came pack and let myself into the house, I. found it empty and with no -sign of an thing having hep eiied.,' aThe next morning, Alan, I• went to the safe deposit vaults as soon as they were open. X presented the numbered key and/was told that it belonged to. a box' rented by. Corvet; and that Oorvet had' arranged'about three days before for me to have access to the box if I, presented the key.: I had only to sign my name- in their/ book and open, the box.. In it,- Maue I found 'the pictfires of you which I showed •you yesterday and the very 'strange communications that I ani going to show you now,." Sherrill, opened the langr,en'v..elope, , 'teem :which 'several thin, folded'papers' fell.., He.pleice,d up the largest cif then@, which consisted of several sheets fastened together ' with a clip, 'ar:d handed it toy Alam without, comment. dtzin.; as l e;looked at It'snd tui ned t:ie pages, saw t!ity,it' contained two cul- ulna's.' of•typewriting carried froin page to page after the manner' of an ap- eount. The column to the left was an inven- tory of property'and profits and; come by months and ,years, and the one t'o the right was. a list of, ,2ospes and expenditures. Beginning; at ,an in- n definite day or Month ' in the year 1595; there was %set down in Se lump Sum what.waseindicated as the total, of Ben- - jamin Corvet's` holdings of that time.. To this, in sometimes undated Aeries, the increase had beep added. In the opposite column, beginning apparently from the same date in 1895, 'were the missing man's expenditures. • Alan havin ascertained:it g' that the pa- pers' , contained only- this • account, looked 'tip questioningly to •Sherrill; • but Sherrill, without. speaking, merely handed him 'the second of the papers.. Alan 'unfolded it' and saw"that'It was a letter ` written , in the same Band which had written. the suni"mons he had received in Blue' Rapids and 'had made the entries in the, little memo- randum book •of the remittances '(,hat had been,,sent to John Welton. It began simply: "Lawrence— • ""This will come to you in the, event that, I .. not ,able to carry out' the 'plan which I am now, at last, de- iermined. Yon will find tivith this a list of. my possessions. Deeds 'for. all real estate executed and complete ex- cept for recording of the transfer at the county office; bonds, certificates. and, other documents representing my ownership of properties, together with signed termer: for their legal transfer to You, are in ,this box. , These proper- ties, in their entirety, I give to you in trust to hold for the young man now known aseAlan :Conrad of. Bine. Rap - , Ilan.,, to deliver any •part or ell ;:over to him or to continue to hold it all in trust for bier' ne you shall con-. -,icier to bete hi5f greatest' advantage - "This for'the reasons which I shall have told 'to you dr- him -1. caimeti,' !limy,- which one of you nowt'itor do I know how' I shall .tpll it. .: But, when --on -learn. Larvr'ence, think 'es well' of me as you `fan and help -bins to be charitable to me.: "With then greatest affettion,V us ire 111115003(1 reading, iaolted ftp to SirerrCil, bee -littered And dazed, " 1s' h.lttdues it moue, lir.: Sherrill? 1?oes it weep that he lids gone away • and lei'f everytliing he had -everything •to:int°?" "if 14ir. Corvet does notereturn, I do not receive any other instructions. I shall takeover liis estate, as he'has ; instructed, for your advantage." "And,',Mr. Sherrill, he ,didn't tell you why? This is a11'you know?" , ""Yes; you haveeverything,now. AU we . can do, Alan, is to search for him in every way we can. There will be others searching Or him ton now ; for information of his disappearance has 'got out. There have been at, tete office this morning ]Waking• in. guiiies, and his "disappearance will be in the afternoon papers;'. Sherrill put the papers back in'thelr• 'envelope,, and the envelope'baok into. the drawer, which he relocked. "X went over all this with Mr. Spear- man this morning," he said. "Be is as' much at a loss to explain it as I 'shit i!. Ue was silent 'for a few :moments, "The transfer of Mr. Corvet's peop- ert es to tate for yea," he Said sadden-;• ly, "`includes, all you have; seete Cor--: vest's interest in the Grin . of 'Corvet,; hoYri'Spearman.' 1n. I went vel calci lily through the deeds and trans- Pers in the deleesit box, and it was plain that; while he had . taken great care witihthe forOte of transfer for all the properties, he 'bad taken particular ?rains with whatever related to hie' holdings• itt this company and to his shipping interests', If •I Make over^ tilt„' Pro lertlea to you. Alan', I shall bean. with those; for it' Sk."!,'...te ltr +,A,4; yaur father 'wan pan"tieularly„ tuialr,te, that yap ihould take a personal ah well As a financial place among the Men • who eontrol -'tlae traffic cal' the lakes, ` I have told Spearman that tide Is My intention, 1 e",has not` beer, tthlii ' to see it My way tis yet ; but he may change his views, I tlainit, after meet, tug you," Sherrill got up, Alan arose a tittle unsteadily, 'rite list of reperties he had read.and the letter, anal bherrill'.1 statement portended so inrush that its, ' r meaning could. not all urine to flim at 'once, He followed'Slicri•ill through 'ti Short, private? corriuor, flanked with files 'lettered' "Corvet, Sherrill, and .Spearman," into the large room he 1ti}d seen when he caine in with coaastlince. They crossed this, and' Sherrill, lyiith out knock ing, opened' the ewer of •the: ofiiee marked,"Mr.'Six ieulan." Alan; lookiti„ uu, pest Sherrill as the deer dopened, saw•. that there were. some half doreu mei • in the room smoking and talking. ills gaze went swiftly an -past, these men to the one who, half seated; on the top of the flat desl�, had been; talking to them ; and'his pulse closed upon his heart with a shock; •he .start- ed, choked with astonisfiiuent, '-then swiftly forced himself under ' control, For' this was the titan Whom he •hacl met and whom he had fouh. in"Ben' Jamin Corvet's house the nigrt. bcfort —the big 'man surprised hn his Mao pheiny of,Corvet ;arid of !mils ""in'h-1'' .who, at sight of an'.apparition 'with a bullet hole above its eye, had cried out in his fright, "You: got Ben! But;you woii't. .get' me-i1—n you 1:1 D—n you I" Man's shoulders drew.up 'slightly. end the inx.scles,,of his hands tigi$t- ened, as; Sherrill: led 'him to this man. Sherrill put his:. hand. on the man's houlder;1• his other hand was;:stin 013.,a.fair a al' con, • s , . „ , we want much to be' t l Alan's arm. cerned-" "Henry,'' ; he said to tile man, .: `".this • He did not finish the sentence; 'but. 'is'A.len Conrad. Alan,, I' want you . to a at the door: Sherrill; went out,_ netted know my partner, Mr. Spearman." ' and Man followed him;:exasperation•,: Spearman,, tiodded an acknowledge. -half outrage yet half, admiration=at:' tient, but did •not put, out his hand: • outrage Speaa.�aan's bearing, held Alan speech-, nis eyes -steady, bold. watehi'ul eyes .less. ' If every movement of Spear-• -seemed measuring Alan attentively •and in return Alan, with his gaze, was measuring bimi Sherrill Opened a brewer and Tdok Otit «n Large, Plain Envelope. —I received a shalt note from him. Thenote was tSitnto t, aim sst bac/slier- eat. It told Me he had tent for yot F -- Man ()Oared, of Bite Rapid&, Kansas. -'-but spoke of you, as though y'au were Some one 1 ought to 'Nave known tibont,, and commended you to my care. • The remainder of it was merely. an ttgitat- ed, almost indecipherable -farewell 10 rise, When. I opened the envelope,: a key had 'fallen out. ''1!h6 note ''rrta,de Steady, Bold, Watchful Eyes Seemed” Measuring Alan Attentively.' gether rater—this afternoon? You'll, be' about here this aftereopn 2 "1 thittlk I 'can . be here this after - aeon." ter -aeon." Alan said. "Let's say two -thirty, then."• Spear- man turned and noted the hour almost. solicitously among: the scrawled apt, pointments on his,fiesk pad; straight -- ening, utter this act of dismissal, he, walked, . with t them to the door, ,hist hand on Sherrill's shoulder. 'Circumstances have put. us—Mr: Sherrill and myself -in a very diff- 'cult position, Conrad," he remarked.. CHAPTER VI1. • ,Mr. Corvet's Partner. The instant 'of meeting, when Man recognized in' Sherrill's partner, the .Mian with whom lie had fought in Cor - vet's house,' was one of ;swift readjust- anent of. all his -thought---adjustment '10 a situation of which he could -not even 'Have dreamed, and which :left him breathless. -'But, for Spearman, obviously, it was not that.- Z0 -flowing his npncpmmittal nod of, acknowle;:g lnent .of-Sberrill'S introduction and his first steadii'scrrutiny of Alan,'. the big, handsome man swung himself off from the desk on which he sat and leaned against it, facing therh more directly. • "Oki." yes—Conra,d," he said. ,His tone was hearty ; : in it Alan -could rec- ognize, only so much of reserve es papers. which Sherrill' had shown him.. might :be expected from. Sherrill's; When he .had read • down the list of aken.an`attitude .of those properties, lee..hed• had no more partner who had t , oppositidn: The shipmasters; looking feeling that such things'could be his; on, . could' see, no -doubt, . not even tha ; than he. had had at first that,Corvet'ss except, for the excitement Which Alan hoose could be his—...until he had heardi himself . could not cohceiri, :it must an- I • the intruder' moving in that 'house . , pearc to them only an ordinary intro- And now it was the sense that another duction, A ' Alan fought sharply down the swift rush of his blood and th•e tightening of his muscles. - "I can, say truly that' Inn glad to meet you,' Mr.. Spearman," he Man- aged. ,•- There was no recognition of, anS= thing beyond the mere surface mean-, ing of the word's in Spearman's slow• simile of acknowledgment, as he turned',: i'rom Alan to Sherrill. "I'm afraid ;i'ou've taken rather a• bad time, La- rence. Can't we get to man's great, handsonee body had not.. recalled to him their struggle . of the• night before—if, as Spearman's halide rested cordially on Sherrill's shoulder,.: Alan had not seemed to feel againthatt big hand at his throat -he would, •al- imoat have been ready to believe that; this ;was not the man whom h'e bad, fought. , But he could not doubt that;; , he had .recognized .Speannian beyond; question: And Spearman had recog- nized' hint—her was • sure of that; he: could not for an• instant doubt , it e Spearmanhad known it was Men whom he had fraught in Corvet's, house even' before Sherrill had brought them " together. Was there not further proof • of that in Spearman's subsequent man - nee toward him? 'tor what was alt this cordiality except., defiance?, Power and possession=• -both; far ex- ceeding Alan's most extravagant, dream—were promised him by those••: • was going tc make. him fight for those properties that was bringing to bins '. the realization'of his new power. Ho `!had." something on that man ---on Spearman, He did not know what that thing wast, no stretch of his thought, nothing that he knew: about: himself or others, could tell him ; but, at sight of • him,' in the dark Of Cdrvet's house, Spearman had cried Out in horror, he had screamed at him the name of a _ , 'sunken - shill, and in terror had hurled, his electric torch. ` (Continued next week) t •FA� i b1 • re ea. Advertising, conducts a public school. , Its pu- pils are all the readers of the hone paper—in short, the whole buying corriro alas'. . ADVERTIthNGn'teaches ;that loyalty to the home merchant brings real returns in better service ,and ,r better values. 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