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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1925-12-31, Page 8.44.4 NMUrrWL suPA.Pas co. Establie•bed egeo, d Odiee, Gael"sbs taken Orat, on all elaeSes of jester- reereeleable rate% COSENS. Agent, Winghani .0 .,wfr poop In Chisholm Block "MIF E, LE. ACCIDENT AND I -MALI% INSURANCE AND VEAL ESTATE V. O. 'Box 360. Phone 240 DINGHAM, - ONTARIO U LEY IIOLNIES ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. eteiry and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Offiee—lifeyer Block, Wingleam R. VANSTONE ISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. to Loarhat Lowest Rates Vainghaen, - Ontario J. A. .0 'TON BARRISTER, ETC. "%Ingham, - Ontario R. G. ff. OSS aduate Royal College ef Dental Surgeons - Graduate "University a Toronto Faculty of Dentistry ,Office Over H. E. Isarcl's Store. . 11 NI Lie * Special attention paid to diseases of °Men and Children, having taken postgraduate Work in Surgery, Bact- riology and Scientific 'Medicine. ffice in the Kerr Residence, be- ek the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- 'st Phone, 54. P. O. Box lee M. . 13.S., D., C.M. Copyrielt by Edwin Balmer The mimes certainly must be meefirtheir eght with the Wfl,ter in the port COlnpartment aft; for the bow steadily was lifting, the stern sinking. The starboard rail too was raised, and the list had become so sharp that wa- ter washed the deck abaft the fore- castle to port. And the ferry was pointed straight into the gate aow ; long ago she had ceased to circle and steam slowly in search for boats; she struggled with all her power against the wind and the seas, a desperate in Sistence throbbing in the thrusts of the gngines ; for Number 25 was flee- ing--fieeing for the western shore. She dared not turn to the nearer eastern ehere to expoSe that shattered stern to the 411-g. , Four bells beat behind Alan; it was two o'clock. Relief shoold have come 'long before; but no one came. He -veas numbed now; Ice front the spray creckled upon his elothin,g, when be moved, and th it teu in flakes upon e deck. The stara figure' oh the bridge was that of the second °facer; so -the thing whicb was happening below— the thing which was sending strange, violent, wanton tremors througa the ship—was serious enough to call the skipper below, to make bim abandon the bridge at this thee! The tremors. quite distinct frOill the steady tremble of tbe engines and the thed4ing of the pumps, came again. Alan, feeling them, jerked up and stamped and beat bis arms to regain sensation. Some one stumbled towaed him front the cabins now, a short fiteure In a great coat It nets a woman, he saw as she hailed him --the ca.bixt maid, "I'm taking your place!" sbe shouted to Alan. "You're wanted—every one'S wanted on the car deck The cars --"e1 The gale and her fright stopped her° noice as she struggled for speech, 14°.The cars --the cars are loose!" ee' All business given careful attention. DIN Robt. C. Redmond PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Illte Chishobaies old stand.. ah,. L. STEW T SI, 4es eorvot Already Was Bace,Among the Oars Again, Shouting 'Cordere. neeivel farther, turned over, ottierS bal- eneeel beck; R was upon their. wheels Illdillelseesemeteme * re es w foipati .4,041,Setip- catening tem gulieely real melee.; at tugged him a little fernier on, Alan, looklog up. sow Corvet beside bine; Corvet, unable • to move him fatther, was creuching dOws• there with bine Alan.yelled to tihn O leale to twist aside an get out of the wee; but Corvet only crouched closer and es over Alma o then the Pat his ari . wreckage came upon them, driving them apart. As tbe movement stopped, Alan still could see Corvet dimly ley the glow of the incandescent lamps overhead; the truce separated them. It bore down upon Alam, holding 111111 tiaotionless and, on the other side, it. crushed upon Co'vet's legs. (teat of 'University of TOronto, eilty of edicine; Licenfeee a the Ontierio College of Physe, s and Surgeons. °face in *Chishohn sephine Street• r. arg r C. uTse. lock ,e 29. ery 1:111 they charged forward, a e :oe :mother, crashing and demolishing, =tent; and now he di t i he ferry pitched; it was upon their or seem even to he aware of him. truces tbat they tottered and battered Dear lith ee Connie!" he said aloud , nen side to side as t e deck ::ow the tern again descended; a line ar ,f es swept for the fantail. C,orvet's get came be Alan through the scream- INZ of steel and the clangor of destruc- non. Corvet's cry sent men with bars eeside the cars as the fantatl dipped 'into the water; Corvetaa.gain leading J.° crew, cleared the leader of those eharging ca.rs and ran it over etern. Tlie fore trucks fell and, before the rear trucks reached the edge, the stern lifted and caught the car in the middle; it balanced, half over the wa- ter half over the deck. Oorvet , He turned aver, as far as he could, and spcike to Alan. "'You have been saving me, so now I tried to save he said simply. "What reason did you have for dering that? Why bave you been keeping by me?" "I'm Alan Calved of Blue Rapids. 'Causes," Alan cried to bim -Aud you'reBeteltunin Corvet! You know me; you pent for me!. Why did yoe do that?" Corvet made no reply to this. Alan, • peeriug at him underneath the truck, ' could see that his hands were pressed against his face mid that his, boileo shook. Whether this was froni some new physical pain front tile movement' of the streckage, Alan did net !mow till he lowered his bands. atter 5 mo• 414 Cozwet, of Ae'bleago, Maxine' " "You've received nothing later than this?" she asked, . "Nothieg regarding Mr. neorvet, Mise Sherrill," the clerk replied.. "The crew?" 'es; we Wive jest. got the names of he creel."' Ile toolc another cophal Sheet from among the pages and band., ed it to her, aria she looked ewiftly doevu the list of names until she tound that of Alan Coared. Her eaes fined, blinding her, as she put the paper dewn, and began to tate off. her things. She bad been clinging determinedly in her thogght to the belief that. Alan might.not have been aboard the ferry. Alan's message, svhich had sent her fflther north to meet the ehip, had 'Minted. plainie that some one whom Alan. believed might be Uncle Benny was on Number 25; she had been fighting, these last few hours, against conviction that I therefove Alan must be on the ferry, I etleil swayed "Dear little Connie 1 She mustn't maid' beat—not hun ! Tha seen en. What shall I do, wbal shalt General. Practition Ca duate University of, A., two d o-ve th ced good bakerniiieliA•oet p''s ,fur coat in gbod 13‘-6-6 1"." 51. 4 Thompson & are, eAlleeBR LOPA.TH etegaculy„ol. Medici crouched under the car with a 'crow- bar; Alan and two others went with Min; they worked the car on until the weight of the' end over the water tipped it down; the balance broke, and the car tumbled and dived. Corvet, kitty - Mg cleared another hundred tbns, -Scarf put theaees Treated Pinder reeeing residence next to ca by eereeleot on Centre Street, nays hi,- 'appointment. s --e a. 111. atVY ...Telephone 272. E-0 tage, r, 'e 8 p. lectricity 41F. E. DUVAL Tie SPECIAlpsTs leathers C. A. O. tes of Ce,nadian C iroprac- Oct "eete, ge, Toronto. Office n Craw- ord Bleck( four doors earth of Post oars 42 to 5; 7 to 8.30 p. nd by fice. appointments. Special appoint ents. adc for those coming any dis pee. Out of toivn and night calls sponded to.. Phonest—Officc, 300, Residence 13 on 6ot. CHAPTER XVI "He Killed, your Father." Alan ran aft along the starboard side, catching at the rail as the deck tilted; the sounds within the hull and the tremors following each sound came to him more distinctly as he ad- eanced. Taking the shortest way 'to the car deck, he turned into the cabins to reach the passengers' companion- way. The noises from the car deck, no longer melffled by the cabins, clanged and resounded in terrible. tumult; with the clang a•nd rumble of metal rose Shouts and roars of men. To liberate and throw overboard heavily loaded, cars front an endan- gered ship was so desperate an under- taking and so certain to cost life that men attempted R only in final extremi- ties, when the ship In 11St be lightened at ally cost. Alan had never seen the effect of such an attempt, but 115'had beard of it as tbe feat wbich sat al - %gees on the hearts of the time wbo navigate the ferries—the cars loose on rolling, lurching ship He was going to that now. The car deck was a pitcb- ing, swaying slope; the cars nearest him were still upon their tracks, but they tilted and swayed -uglily from side to side; the jaces Were gone from un- der them; the next cars already were hurled from the railse their wheels screaming on the steel deck, clanging and thudding together M their leaped back, calling tr., the crew. They followed him again, unques- tioning, obedient, Alan followed close to him. It was not pity Whitt stirred him now for BenjamM Corvet; nor was It bitterness; but it certainly was not contempt Of allthe ways in which he bad fancied finding Benjamin Corvet, he had never thought of seeing him iike this 1 It was, probably, only for a flash; but the great quality of leadership whieh he had once possessed, whicb Sherrill had described to Alan and which had been destroyed by the threat -over him, had returned to lam in this desperate enaergency which he had cre- ated. HOW much, or boa little of his Own condition Corvet understood, Alan could not tell; it was plain only that he comprehended that he had been the eause of the catastrophe, and M his, liens will to repair it he not only dis- regarded all risk to 'himself ; he also libel summoned up from within him iind Wes spending the last strength of his epirit. But he was spending it itt a toeing fight , Ile got off two more cars; yet the eece only dipped lower, and water washed farther and farther up overl ale fantail, Men, leaping from before+ the eintrging cars, got caught in the innteleroustonelee of iron and steel •end wheelse men's shrill cries cane iinihl the scream of metal. Alan, tug- ging cvt a crate winiet bad struck down a man, felt aid besele him and, turn- ing, he saw the priest whom he bad parsed on the stairs. The priest was brufsed and bloody; this was not his lirst effort to aid. Together they liftee an end ot the, crate; they bent—Alan stepped. back, and the priest knelt elone, his lips repeating the prayer for absollition. Screams of men came from behhei and the priest rose and turned. lie saw men caught between two wrecks of cars crushing together; there was no moment to reach them; he std and raised his arms to them, his heed thrown back, his voite cilnmg to them, they died, the Words of absolution. Three more eters at the cost of two livee tbe crew cleared, while the sheathing of ice spread over the Steel inboard, and •disSoitition of all the cargo becaxne complete. Cut stone and Motor parts, •chasses anti taetings, fur- nitere and beams, swept back and forth, while the ears, bunt and Splin- tered, became monstrotie missiles hurt- ling forward, sidewise, aelatit, recoil- ing. Yet men, though scattered &eagle, tried to stay them .by ropes end ehains while the water washed higher and higher. leintly, far &wee, deafened mit be' the clangor, the. steam whistle of Number 25 eves blowing the tour long blasts of distrese; Alan beard the sound now and then with indifferent wonder. All destrection had come for Mtn to be contained within thie citt deck; here the ship lOosed on itself all eleMeote staitilation; who could ale *t from vithontel Alen caught the end of a elealat which Corvet flung him and, though he knew it *astiS useless, earried it across from one Statehion to the nat. Something, eweeping I do?". Alan worked nearer him. "'neer mustn't she marry • him?" he cried to Corvet, "Why? Ben Cory et, . tell me Tell me why!" ' "Who are ytm?" Corvet seemed onle with an effort to•become eonscipitsne Alan's presence.. • "I'm Alan Conrad, whom yoe usee to take°.care of. I'm from Blue Rap- ids. Yon knovv about me; are you le, father, Ben Corvet? Are youney fS ther or what--wbat are you to me?" . "Your tether?" Coryet repented, "Did he tell you that? He killed yew. father." "Shied hina? Killed bins, how?" "Of course. Be killed But your father--lie.shot, hint; be shot him through the head!" Alan twinged. Eight of Speartnue came before him as he had first seen , Spearman, , cowering in Corvet's 11. brary in terror at an apparition. "And the bullet hole above the eye!" Sa that was the hole made by the shoe Spearman fired vvhicla bad killed fathere-whicleshet him through .the head! Alan peered at Cervet and called. to him. "Father 'Benitot!" Corvet ,called- in response, ,not directly in replY to Alan's question, 'rather in response to what those questions stirred. "leather Benitot I" Some one, drawn by the cry, WaS moving Wreckage near them. A. bane and arm with a :torn sleeve sbinved; Alan cola not see the rest of the fig- ure, but by tee sleeve he recognized that it was the math. "Who's caught here?" he called down. - "Benjamin Corvet of Corvet, Shen TM and Spearman, ship owners of Chi- cago," COTVeYS Voice replied deeply fully; there. was :authority in it and wonder too—the wader of a man find- ing himself in a . situation which his recollection cannot explain. ' "Ecu Carvet!" the mate shouted in surprise; he cried it to the others. those who had followed Corvet and obeyed hip durIng• the hour before vine lied not known why. Tile mate tried to pull the wrecleage aside and make his. way to Corvet ; but the old mall stepped bite. "The priest, Fa.ther Bennet! Send bim me. I shall never leave here; eend Father Benitot!" .The r ord was 'passed without tbe mate mbving away, The mate, after '13Theedie$, Je llarY 140e 1926 Censtanee thrilled as • she heard: something wume seieeo aud !mid him in suspease, dreed—ia dread; there was no otlier wee to define her impression to berself. When eee bad opened the door and come in, he' line3 looked up in (head, as though proper - log himself tor whatever she might announce. Now that the • door shut them in alone, he approached her, with arms offered. She stepped back, in- stinctively avoiding- his embrace; and • be -stopped at once, but he had come quite close to her now. ' • As site stared at birn, the clere's voice came to her suddenly over the partition which separated the office from the larger room evhere the clerk was receiving sonae message over the telephone. Henry straiglitened, lis- tened; as the voice stopped, his great, anely-sheped head sank between hie ehoulclers; be fumbled in his pocket for a cigar,, and his big hands ellooe tie lie lighted it, without word of et- cuse to her. A strange feeling came to her that he felt what he dreaded ap- • oroaching and was no longer conscious of her presence. • She heard footsteps fri largee room eoming %toward the • office dome Henry was In suspense. A rap came at the door. ele whitenedfand wet Ins lipe. • 4 • "Cone hi," he summoned, One of the office girls entered, bring- lae,- a white page of paper with three or four lines of purple typeweiting Up- on it which Constance recognized must • ae trauscript of a rnessa.ge just re- ceived. She started forward at sight •of it, forgetting everything else; but he tool; the paper as, though he did not know she was there. He merely held it un- til the girl had gone out; even then he stood folding and unfolding it, and his eYes did not drop to the sbeet. The girl had said nothing at all but, having seen hee, Constance was athrill; the. girl had not been a bearer of bad news, pat was sure; she brought sonae sort Of good news! Con- stance, certain of it, moved nearer to Henry to read waat he held. He looleed down and read. "What is it, Henry?" . Ilts muscular reactiena, as he read,) She stood be the desk, as the clerk. went out, looking through the papers which ne had left with her. What she ewes reading waos the carbon of the eeport prepared that morning and sent, at his rooms, to Henry, who was not yet down. * The last message rettd: "6:40, Pe- toskey is calluig Manitowoc, !Sietnala from Number 25,, after becoming in- distinct, failed entirely ibout 5:45, probably by l'ailure of ship's power to supply current, Operator appeare to have remiined at key. From 5:25 .hti 5 ;45 we- received disconnected mes- sages, as follows: 'Have cleaeed an- other car . . . they are sticking -to It down tbere . . engine -room crew is also sticking . . . hell an car deek . . .• everything smashed . . . the,v evetet, give up . • • sinking enow . . . we're going . . good -by . . . stuck to end . . all tbey could . . . know dint . . . hand it to them . • • have cleared another car • . . . sink . , . S. 0., . . Signals then en- tirely ceased," • Constance had not"realized, until the reports of the wireless Messagee told her that he was gone, what compan- , ionship with Alan had come to mean to her. She had accepted it as al- ways to be existent, sotriehow—a com- panionship which might be Interrupted often but always' to be formed again. It amazed her to find how firm a plata he had found in her world of those close to her with whom she must al - Ways be intimately tonCerned. The telephone SWitelTheard beside Constance suddenly buzzed, and the operator, plugging in a connection, said: "Yes, sir; at once," and through the partitions of the private office on the other side, a man's heavy tones came to Constance. That was Henry's ofliee, and in timbre, the voice was his but it WAS SO Strange in othe C•Mhaeacl- teristics of expression that she waited au instant before saying to the clerk, "i -Ir. Spearrnam has come in?" Tbe clerk hesitated, but the con- tinuance of the tone _from the other side of the partition made reply sue perfinous. "Yes, Miss Sherrill." Constance went to 'Henry's door and rapped. He made no-eesever and no move to open the door; so, after wait- ing a moment, she turned the knob and went in. Henry was seated'at his desk. facing her, his big hands before him; one of them held the telephone receiver. He lifted it slowly and put it upon the 'hook beside the transmitter as he Watched her with steady, silent, ag- gressive serutiny. Re (ltd not rise; 'only after a moment he recollected that be had not dooe so and-catne to his feet. "Good morning, Connie," be said. "Come In. What's the news?" The impulse wbicb had brought.her Into his,effice went from her. She had not seen nor beard front Henry direct- ly since before Alan's telegram bad 'Rena- eve - c J. ALVIN FOX •IROPRACTIC OSTZOPATIFir ULUCTRO.--THERAPY flours zle4s. Telephone to 1:..*IL.ILI*Ina**LtL4 D. 11. MeINNES IIII4OPRACTOR IVIASSSUR liAllitistments given or diseases of lands, epecielize in dealing with Haven. Lady attendant, Nig'ht Calls POnded to, Ofifice on Scutt St, Whagbuon4 Oren Teti the hOtiSe al the late jas. Walker: Telephone • that She did aot believe in the Dram; at• least She had uever • thought st.e- uad really believed in it; she had Oaler Stirred to the idea et its being trae. But if the Drum was beatiog, she was glad it was beating sbort. waa• eerving, at least, to keep the lake men. more alert. little later, as Constance stood at the window, gazing out at the Sao* upon the lake, she drew back suddenly - Out of sight from the streOn as she saw Henry's roadster appear oat of" the storm and stop before the house. Site waited In the roorn wherfr She was, The strain he was under had not lessened, could see; or rather, - if she could trust her feeling at sight of him, it had lessened only slightly, ,.and at the same time his power to • resist it had been lessening too. , "I thought you'd want to know, Cote.. nie," he said, ``se I Came straiglit out. The Richardson's picked up one of the boats of the fete'yee • "Uncle Bony and Alan, Conrad were not in it," she returned; the eri- umph sbe had seen in him •iad told her that "No; it was the first boat put off by the ferry, with the passengers and Alan ran aft between. thetn. • .6.11 the erew who could be called from Clete; and engine room and firehold were strug- gling at the fantail, under the direction of the eaptain. to throw off the cars. The mate was svorking as one of the mere and with him was Benjamin Cor - vet. The crew already must have too* ened and thrown over the stern three caXS from ehe tWo tracks on the port side.; tor there was a spare vacant; and ae a car charged Into that space arid the Men threw tberneelves upon it, Alan leaped witia them. , It was a fiat 'ear laden. with steel beems. At Corvers command, the crew ranged thernselvell beside It with burs. Tile bow of the ferry roee to some great wave and, with a cry to the men. Cereal pulled the pin, The ethers thrust veldt, their bare, teal the ene down the eloping trance; and Corvet (taught by some Melting of the beams, came With it. Alan leaped apex.; Izatend: eamhing Corvet, freed JAM end geng bint down to the (leek. end dropped with hime A ghee rose .a.e elle cot cleared the fantail, dove and , peered. , 7A eel& 324. had drawn the sheet away from her he recovered himself almost instantle arid gave the paper to her. • "8:35 it. re., Manitowoc, Wie.'," she read. "Tbe, schooner Anna Solwerk lis,s been sigbeed making for this port. She is not close enough for commena cation, but two lifeboats, additional to her own, can be plainly made out. It - Is believed that sire must have picked up survivors of No. 2e. She carries no wireless, so is unable to report. Tugs are going to her." "Two lifebeats 1" Constance cried. "That could mean tbat •they all are saved or nearly ell; doesn't it, Hen- ry; doesn't it?" in it, she thought, or, from bis greater minute. made no further attempt to free Cotve.t ; that. indeed was tele, 1111(1 Corvet dexnanded his right of .sac - cement frotn the priest who came and crouched under the weeckage ,beside earn. "laatber Benitot.1" "I am not leather Benitot atn lea- ther Perron of L'Anse," * "R was to Father Beintot of St Ig, nave I should have gone-, -Father! , The priest got it little closer as Cor vet spoke, end Alan beard -only volcee now anti 'then throe -It the t.loeuds of elenging metal and the (tun) of ice against the Mill. The mate and his helpers were Working to .get him free They had abandoned all effort to save the ship e It was eettliuge And Wite the .settling, the movement of the, weed:age Imprisoning. Alan , was in- creasing, This movement made -useless the efforts ,of the mate; it would free • Alan of itself in a moment, if it did not kill hire; it would Tree or finish Corvet toe. Bet he, saW him, was wholly oblivious of that now. His lips moved, quietly, firmly ; and his eyes Were fixed steadily on the eyes of the evieet. Alan 4:leathered to hie feet. Coreet Already wits back tutong tbe care agalee shoeting orders; tile inii,te and 1114. vaers who had folloi,ved him before leaped nt, his yells. Corvet called te them to throw ropes and chains, to bind' Ilia loads tvlileh Were letting go; the heavier leode-,-eteel :beeline 'ease- inge, inachitiery-,-4nupped their .las tag.k, tipped frOM Oat titre 11 thttatitted ,detent the , He had read some otbee significance, understanding of conditions in etbe storm, he had been able to hold eio hope f.rom What he'd been reported. That was the otely way she tould et - plain to herself as he repited to, her; that the word meant to htm that men :veep saved and that therefore it was etlismaying to him, could not come to her at ouce. When it came 110W, it went over .her first only in the of incredulous question. The telephoqe buzzer under his dese Bounded; she drew close as he took up his receiver. "Ilanitoseoc?" he said. "I want to know what you've heard from the Sol- werk. • . . .lecra hear me? . The men the Solwerk picked up. •You have the names yet?" . e . . . • "The Bent. on ?" eettee- ',Were They--Aliver Her ',Hushed Tensely. cabin maid and some injured men' of the crevr." "Were they. _alive?" her voice hushed tensely. "Yes; that is, they were able to re- vive them all; but it didn't seem pos- sible to the Richardeon's officers that anyone • could be revived who had been exposed much longer that that; so the Richardson's given up the seaxch, and some of the othee.thine\e that were searching havrifien up too, and gone on th.eir course. ' "I see; how litany etere in the boat?" "Twelve, Comte." "Then all the vessels up there won't give up yet!" "Why not?" "I was jest talking with the office, Hemet; they've beard again from the other end of the lake. The people up there say the Drum is beating, but it's beating short still!" "Short!" She saw Henvy stiffen. "Yes," she said swiftly, "They say the Drum be- gan sounding last night, and that at first it souucled for only two lives; IPS kept on beeting, hut still is beating only for four. There were thirty-niae on the ferry—seven passengeys cee thirty -tato crew. Twelve have 'be saved now; so until the Drum rais: the beats to fwenty-seven there is sti a chance that Someone will be saved. Constance watched him with woude at the effect of what site had tole. The news of the Drum had shaken him irom his triumph over Alaa tad raele Benny end over bee •It bad shaken him so that, though be re- mained with her seine minutes more, he seemed td have forgotten the pure "Oh, I undastandt All from the Benton. I seel . . No; eever mind their names. How about Number 251 Nothing more heardefrom.themr Constance had caligin IA shoulder while he was speaking and now elem.; to it. Releese—release ef strain wae .going through-himh sh5. could feel it, and she heard it in his tortes and saw it in his eyes. . "The steamer Number 25 rammed proved to have been the Benton," he told ber. "The men are all from ber. They had abandoned her in the small boats, alai the Soleverlt picked them. up .before the Terry found her." / He was not asking her to congratia late upon the relief he 'felt; he had not so , far forgotten himself as that. But it ,n;as plain -to her that he was congratueating himself ; it had iteeta fear that he was feeling before— fear, she was beginning to understand, that those on the ferry had been saved, netoile the deck, caught him and car* vied him with it; it brought him be- fore the coupled line f trucka Which hurtled back and forth *where the voila f track three hz4 boo. Ile was tied before them and roiled over; g eolil unit heavy' Pinned bit the ear trileke 111, sontetbiag Wattle eat and bafear .CHAPIER XVII Per. Secarman Clove North. -tele ities-ei I n intrred lettering and eelt the elinsy tiasah p01101, of a ear - 4.0t.*' 1'1:at .inessage which had it 011;61111 tO the ollie0S of Cor' aZ1,1 Spenrinlil erta, had • 4,41 Chnetenee aberrill 'arid bey die -Tee -ten weere fuCebee Infer- MatIon could' be more ,onickly ob. tainecl--was handed to Constance by a clerk :as Soon as she entered her fa. Leer's office. She reread it; it already had been. reeeittecl to her, over the tele., eleinee e4 On 11 111. 'Fraxikeert Wireleee Atte* tient has received following ineeeage from Numbe ,25 We nave Renearela She Made No Reply but renews at Hine etudyingHIm Cottle late yesterday afternoon; She bad heard from her lathe only that be had Informed Ilelarv; that was all. • "I've no news, Ilenry," she said, "liteve you?" She closed the door be - lend her, moving closer to hina elelow did you liappen to be here, Ctennie?" he asked. ECorror and amazement liowed in tp- on her with her realization of this in the man she had promised to marry. Fax an instant she stared at him, all her body tense; then, as she turned and Wept out, he followed her, calling her name. But, seeing the seamen 111 the larger office, he stopped, and she understood he was not willing to urge himself epon her in their presence. "I'm willing to go home now, mother, if you wish," she said steadily. 'When they hed gone down. to the .street and were in the car, Constattee leaned back, closing her eyes; she feared her mothe might wish to talk with her. Toward three o'clock, the office tailed her, but only to report that they lied heard front lit. Sherrill. He had wired that he was going on from Atm - league and would cross the straits from st, ignace; messages from him were to be addressed to PetoSkey, There was no other report except that veseels were still continuing the search fax survives, because the 'Indian m, hydf had 1Aeri beatin etenzing th b.. certain that, 'We front blinub t eurvived She Made nO reply 11t1JOEzed et hit, Stedyinghlin. The agit tion whleh he was 'toying to conceal as not entirely coneequent to her 4011 it had been ruling hi tuiderlain the lotuir lais woeds Titat vastorlt ng be npon him;. 'before. It had s. and abuse of e had overheard, attburst of ec.! pose of reconciliation with her which had brought him to the house. ;- She dined, or made pretence of din- ing, with her mollier at seven. leer mother's voice went on and on ebe trifles, and Constance did not tre to pay attention. Her thought was fol- lowing Henry with ever -sharpening op- prehensien. Sbe celled the office in mid -evening; it would be open, she knew, for messages regarding 'Uncle Benny and Alan would be expeeted there, A. clerk 1111SWereal no other news had been reeeived; she then, asked Henry's asebereabouts. "Alr, Spearman event north late tine afternoop Miss Sherrilee the clerk informed her, s "North! Where?" ,"We are to conitimineate with him 'this evening to Grand Rapids; after that, to Petoslree." Conetance could hear her own heart beat. Why had Henry gone, she won- dered; tot, eertainly, aid the search. He had gone toe -hinder it? CHAPTER XVIII. The Watch Upon the eeetele Constanee was throbbing with deter initiation mad action, es she fotind h ptirse tine counted the TriOnOT 111 She never, in her Iife had gone upon art extended leurne ,,Ateich been alone Upon a tral she spOke of such Weald be prevente eveteld t 0 reeogre lei go,