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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-01-31, Page 7i a -Pot resuIts ky tto °that at e of the s "le a cOUuflUfl1t ntitution hildren. tratinge and wonderful as able of one's self to take e to the circus, or to be t of twenty whole pack- icks—of gum, yet the dole "ade only more plain the rice. The regularity and its arrival as Alan's share e.14 SUM of money which tpa" in the letter, never like the event ordinary or • t to you, Alan?" was nore often asked, as time he only answer Alan could It comes from Chicago?' rk on the envelope Alan always Chicago; that was could find out about his was about ten years old, reason as inexplicable as coming, the letters with .f,'en addresses and the en- er ceased. the loss of the (Mar of every second meth— discussed by all the child - accepted as I emanent till o years had passed—Al- immediate results from n of the letters from Chi - when the first effects ape and Betty felt them quite he. .Papa and mamma felt when the farm had to be Ind the family moved to nd papa went to work in mill beside the river. mamma, atfirstsurprised ed by the stopping of the clung to the hope of the yewritten addressed enve- nig again; but when, after no more money, came, re- daich had been steadily 'ainst the person Who had ney began to turn against his parents' told him all about him. hey had noticed an adver- ir persons to care for a had answered it to the a newspaper which printed tense to their letter a man them and, after seeing p;oing around to see their 1 made arrangements with ce a boy of three, who was dth and came of good peo- 'id in advance board for a greed to send a certain a- ny two months after that a man brought the boy,: Aled Alan Conrad, and left seven years the immey a - L came; new it had ceased lad no way of finding the ame given by him appeared ous, and he bad left no Pt "general delivery, Chi- a knew nothing more than aad advertised in the Chi - '5 after the money had stop - ,and he had communicated one named Conrad in or go, but he had learned no - is, at the age of thirteen, tely knew that what he al- sed—the fact that he -be- ewlaere else than in the lit- ouse—was all that any one i tell him; and the know - persistence to many inter - rungs Where did be be - o was he? Who was the ad brought him there? Had ceased coming because the • • sent it was dead? In :onnection of Alan with the e he belonged was perme- cen. Or would some other tion from that source reach time—if not money, then ,else? Would he be sent day? He did not resent mamma's" new attitude of toward him; instead, lov- oth because he had no one a, he sympathized with it. truggled hard to keep the had ambition for Jim; they Lping and sparing now so ould go to college, and ras given to Alan was tak- om Jim and diminished by nuch his opportunity. a Alan asked papa to get in the woolen min at the of the town where papa rked in some humble and xpacity, the request was re - is, externally at least, AI- ing the little that was it himself made no change of living; he went as did town school, which corn - lunar and high schools tx,f; and, as he grew older, -as Jim also did --in one n stores during vacations evenings; the only differ - his: that Jim'smoney, so his own. but Alan carried is part payment of those ch had mounted up against the letters ceased coming. en, having finished high was clerking officially in ral store, when the next ddressed this time not to o Alan Conrad. He seized eien, and a bank draft for :ired doliars fell out. There er with the enclosure, no amunication; just the draft n- of Alan Conrad. Alan hicago bank by which the been issued; their reply t the draft had been pur- i currency, so there was the identity of the per - n sent it. More than that s due for arrears for the t during which no money even when the total whieh arned was deducted. So 1-,v endorsed the draft over ; and that fell Jim went to et. when Jim discovered only was possible but •lte. university for a boy to e through, Alan went also. inue1 Next Weeek) JANuARY 31, 1919 'HURON EXPOSITOR . FORSTER. Eye, Ear, Nose -and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mei and Aural Institote, Moorefield' Eye and Golden Square Throat Hose pitals, London, Eng. At the Queen's Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month from 11 a.ra. to 8 pan. 88 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.. Phone 267 Stratford. LEGAL. R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and gotary Public, Solicits& for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do- e -union Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. " J. M. BEST. ` • , Barri° ster, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary. Public-. Office upstairs iver Walker's Furniture Store, Main Street, Seaforth. PROUDFOO'r, KI'LLORAN AND COOKE. , Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pube tic, eta Money to lend. In Seaforth on Monday of each week Officein Kidd Bieck W. Proudfoot, K:C., L. Killoran, H. J. D. Cooke. . VETERINARY, F. HARBURN, V .S. Honor gradtea,te of Ontario Veterin- fey College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario veterinary College. Treats diseases of domestic animals by the most mod - we principles. Dentistry and MIlk Fev- er a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All or- ders left at the hotel -will receive' prompt attention. Night calls! rec'eiv- et et the office. • JORN anttvE, v.'s. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterine ery College. Ali diseases el domestic, 'animals treated. Calls' promptly- ate tended to and charges _moderate. Vet. winery Dentistry a specialty. Office end residepce' on Goderich street, one door east -of Dr, Scott's office, Sea - forth. • MEDICAL DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN. Osteophatic Physician of Goderich. -Specialist ,in women's and childreirs diseases, rlaeurnatism, acute, chronic and nervus disorders; eye earl nose Ind throat &imitation free. Office In the Royal Ho+ ‘, SeaforthelTues- ilays and Fridays, .4 atm. till 1 p.m, C J W HAtftN, D 0 . M 425 Ricimiond Street, London, Ont., Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Urin- ary diseases of men and women. DR. ,I. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario;Licentiate of Medical Come - of Canada; Post -Graduate Member et Resident Medical Staff of General 'Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2 -doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, 'Hansa% Ontario. DR. F. 3. BURROWS 'Office and residence, Gorlerich street east of the Methodist church, Seaforth, Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY.' 3. Ge Scott, graduate of Victoria and College of Physicians and Surgeons Ann Arbor, and member of the Colt lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of Ontario. , C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trill. • ity University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS. Gradtutte of University of Toronto Faeulte of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England, University Hospital, London, England. Office—Back of Dominiori Seaforth, Phone No. 5, !slight 'Valls answered from residence, Vlc- toria street, Seaforth B. R. HIGGINS Box 127, Clinton ---i Phone 100 Agent for The Huron and Erie Mortgage Corpor- ation and the Canada Trust Company. Comimssioner IL C. i, Conveyancer, Fire and Tornado Insurance, Notary Public, Government and Muni cleat Bonds bought and sold. Several good farms for sale. Wednesday of each week at 13rucefield. •••••• AMIMMIIMS4.4.4. MIMS A UCTIONEERS. GARFIELD McMICHAEL Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Enron. Sales conducted in. any part of the county. Charges moderate and.eatisfaction guaranteed. Address Seaforth R. R. No, 2, or relate 18 on Seaforth, 2458-11 THOMAS BROWN 1 Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondece arrangerrients for sale dates can be made by calling up Phone 97, Seaforth, or The Expositor Office. Charges mod- erate and satisfaction guaranteed• • a:tteee 'ttte, e•be. feel?) *Ire:It-4 , .t.lti":t iii7,41a4ierm „I, 1 Ifltl;f1• " 470." **Mt 104 Ole" Aelnilinneinisesenir By WILLIAM MacHARG and, . : EDWIN BALMER : --Thomas Allen, Publisher, Toronto CHAPTER IT The Man Whom the Storm Haunted. Near sthe northern end of Lake Michigan, where the bluff -bowed ore - carriers and the big, low-lying wheat - laden steel freighters from Lake Su- perior push out from the Straits of Mankinac and dispute the right of way, in the island divided channel, with the white -and -gold, electric light- ed, wireless equipped passenger steam- ers neeind, for Detroit and Buffalo, I there is a copse of pine and hemlock back from the shingly beach. From this copse --dark blue, primeval, sil- ent at most times as when the Great Manitou ruled his inland waters— there comes at time of storm a sound like the -booming of and old Indian drum.t.---This drum beat, so the tradition says, whenever the lake took a life; and, as a sign perhaps - that it is still the Manitou who. rules the wat- ers in spite of all the commerce' of the cities, the drum still „beats its roll for 'every ship lost on • the -lake, one beat for every life. So—men say — they heard and .counted the beatings of the thrum to thirty-five upon the hour when, as af- terward they learned, the great steel steamer Wenota sank with twenty- four of its crew and eleven passen- gers; so --men say— they. heard the requiem of the fiva who went dovvri with the schooner Grant; and of the seventeen lost with the Susan. Hart; and so of a score of ehips more. Once only it is told, has the drum counted 'ivrong. At the height of the great storm of R. T. LUKER Licensed Auctioneer /or the County . of Huron. Sales attended to in all Parts of the county. Seven years' ex- perience in Manitoba and Saskatche- wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No. 'Urn, Exeter, Centralia P.O.„ R. R. NO. 1,, Orders left at The Huron Ex- Pesitor Office, &afore, promptly st- • a city or of a section of the country in more personal terms than its square mike, its towering buildings, and its censused millions, one must think of' those individuals. 'Almost every great industry owns one and seldom More than one; that often enough is l not, in a money sense the predominant figure of his industry; others of his rivals or even of his partners may be actu- ally more powerful than he; but he is the personality; he represents to the outsiders the romance and mystery of the secrets and early, naked adven- tures of the great achievement. Thus, to think of the great mercantile estab- lishments of State Street is to think ' immediately of one man; another very vivid and picturesque personality stands for the stockyards; another! rises- from the wheatpit; one more t from the banks; one from the steel , works, The . man. who was pacing reetlessly and alone the rooms of the Fort Dearborn Club on this e stormy afternoon was the man who, to most people, bodied forth the life anderly- mg all other commerce thereabouts . but the least known, the life of thek latkes. The lakes, which inarlc uninistake I ably those who get their living- from . , you inhale cold germs, some Of, Which are bound to ledge in the., throat and . breathing passages. You -cannot prevent this. You can, however, prevent their ,de. Velepment whick.sets up loam. ittatioe resultingi,. In Cough, colds', bronchitis, sore throat and laryngitis. • . TO -a -void -these troubles, keep the throat; nasal and breathingt passages bathed-withthe 'nal and germ -destroying *time :that is ecleasiet when Pens are dissolved in the. mouth. This vapor minglesWith the breath 11.knd reaches' theeemoteet parts of 4he throat, breathing passages and 'lungs; destroying all germs and Preventing infection. 'Safeguard yourself by keeping. a supply of reps on hand. bee box. All dealers or reps Co., IToronto. FREIE . TRIAL package will be .senCyou uponreceiii of this adi. vertiseinent and lc. *tamp to cover return postage. Spearman was not the one to accept . Corvet's irritation meekly. For nearly an hour, the quarrel Con- tinued with intermitted truces of 'sil- ence. The Waiter, listening, as wait- ers do, caught at times single sen- tences. 1 'Tim have had that idea for some ! time?" he heard from Corvet. 1 "We have had an understanding for imde than a month," e ., "How definite?" , Spfarman's sinswen was not audible but it more intensely agitated .Cor- , vet; his lips .set; a hand which held' his fotk clasped and .unclasped ,ner- vously; he dropped his fork, and, after ' that, made no pretense of eating, I The waiter, following this, caught I only single words. "Shera"—that, of course, was the other partner. • "Constance" — that was Sheritirs daughter.- The other names he heard were names of ships.. But, as the quar- rel went on, tbe-mamiers of the men changed; Spearman, who at first had been assailed by Corvet, now was assailing him Corvet sat, back in his eeat, while Spearman paid at his tcigar and now. and then took it from his lips and gestured with it between his fingers, as be jerked some ejacu- lation -across the table. Corvet leaned' over to the frosted window, as he had done when alone, and looked att.. Spearman shot a comment which made .Corvet wince and draw back from the window; then Spearman. rose. He delayed, standing to light another igar deliberately and with studied sl wness. Corvet look- ed up at him o ce and asked a ques- tion, to which S earman'rettlied with a snap of the unit mach down oni the table; he urned abruptly and strode from the oom. Corvet sat mo- tionless. The revuision to. self-control some- times even to pology,. which ordin: arily followed rvet's bursts of ir- ritation had not ome to him; his ,agi- tation plainly h increased. He push- ed from. him s uneaten luncheon Though he was slight in frame with a " a half hour earlier to reserve his Usual handed and got up- slo be He went out spareealmost ascetic leanness, he had qable for him in the grill—"the table to the coat room tvhere the attendant him his coat and hat. The the man whose Youth had been passed ' the coat upon his arme Tfhe Corvet inore December, 1895, the drum beat the roll eyes. Unforgettable eyes. they werel.' of the h t i 'the away ateille' "mild window"—had started hung "At leastsir without daring to atilt whether doorman, acqua nted with him or the wiry strength and -endurance ef * the table was to be , set. for one or many years, v was still jet black except for a slash the omission: "For'two,"" he had shot' cab. Corvet, s upon- the water. He was very close to brows were lack above his deep blue 1 footsteps carried him to , the , door shook his head. sixty now, but his thick, straight hair. more. Corvet himself had corrected they gazed at one directely with sur- _I who had started fotward at sight of ° n1 l*e°1lrwinced e9as of mire white above one temple; his after the man.' NOW AS his uneven grill, e wen n;steward, booming, to twenty-four. ' They wait- inent altered t� resentment, one Te-; vounly uncertain, not knowing- whe smarting, i , I, - the blind' of a sinking ship. One, two, three— the hearers counted the drum beats, prisingedisconcertaining intrusion into ',him, suddenly stopped, and then' Wait - One's 'thoughts. then, before amaze- ed ass ned to his table ' stood ner- his *shrinking, w time an again, in 'dr intermi . .came.. The lidtr steel freighter Mi - with twenty-four lives. no such news hi , . s ores were vacant with speculation —a ' strange, . lonely withdrawr into alized that, though he was still geeing h t - • - 31' • ible. ' - oe to efface himself- as much as pass- .... _ _ .. .. - sh 00 mu re wt hae; gbhatrethi ed. therefore; for report of a ship lost t er O giee his custemary greeting himself.. Hie' alcquaintances In ex- The- tables, at ' this 'hour,' Were all dark was. it wit slipping and sl idding up the broad ship stiniggling foirclife in the storm, shoP \ windows wake, ' on her maiden. -trip during the plaining him to strangers, said he had unoecuPied. Corvet crossed to the boulevard, with headlights burning; as though the silo* were a screen storm, with twenty-five—not twenty- four—aboard never made her port; 110 .lived too Much by himself of late;* he one t he had reserved and -sat down. kept their signals clattering constant- which shut them into a distant world. news was ever heard from- her; no he turned immedietely to the window, ' ly to warn other drivers blinded by i To Corvet, a lake man for forty wreckage ever was found. On this and one man. servant shared the great house which had been unchanged—and at hist side and scraped on it a little tne snow. The sleet -swept sidewalks years, there was nothing strange to were ahnoet deserted accountthroughout the families -whose in which- nothing appeared te have -deer opening thiengh which he could ; here or there, this. Twenty miles, from north to fathers, brothers, and ,Sone were the been worn out or have needed replac- see the storm outside. Ten minutes . before a hotel or one of the shops, a south, the,city—itsbusiness blocks, its officers and crew of the Itliwaka, there ing—singe his wife left him, suddenly later he looked un sharpl but did limousine .came to the curb, and the hotels and restaurants, its homes— stirred for a time a desperate belief- and unaccountably, about twenty years a rise, the ' had b passengers dashed swiftly across the faced the water and, except, where that one of the men on the Miwaka n se, eis e map he . been a - before At that time he had looked .1waiting—Spearman, the younger of 1 the piers formed the harbor, all un - was saved; that somewhere, somehow, much the same as now; since then, the hie-partners—came in. Nvalk to shelter. Corvet, still carrying a coat upon his protected water, an open sea where in day of the destruction of the Miwaka t. la. b d rha . his nose had t ' . • ' - d 1 ' th t' h , arm,' turned northwhrd along Michi- times of storm ships sank and ground- henAvenue, facing nate the gale. The ed, men fought for their lives against was alive and might return. The whilslashcupon his temple had grown* s pearman s wor , a e . ro ' firat- ds udibl th them, had put 'their marks 'on him. I SOLD WHERE YOU SEE THIS SIN The Dominion of Canada offers . areSairiOgs5tamp at during this. • each onth • And will redeeM them for $5- each on Jan. lst, 1924 Every dollar will be worth more, W.S.S. can be rlegistered • against loss THRIFT STAMPS 16 -THRIPT STAMPS .25 cents each exchangeable for one W-S.S. odissomm. silver, and steaming little porcelain pots; twenty or thirtY girls and young women were refrdshing themselves, tured suggest a pleasantly, after shopping or fittings *lig strangely at him, or a concert; few young men were the man urged, "put sipping chocolate with them. The blast of the distress signal, the scream of the siren, must have come to them him. when the. door was opened; but, .if e stepped out into the they heard it at all, they gave no at - g swirl of sleet, but tention; the clatter and laughter and s not physical; it was sipping of chocolate and tea was in- onscious reaction to terrupted only by these who reached storm called epi -The qutekly for a shopping list or some four o'clock but so filmy possession threatened by I the the storm that the draft. They were as oblivious to the ere lit; inotorears, lake in front of their windows, to the was fixed as December fifth by the time at which she passed the govern- ment lookout at the Straits;. the heur was fixed as five o'clock in the mote- ing only by the sounding of the drum. g become a trifle aquiline, his chin more. bite to. an appointnient asked by Cor- sleet beat upon his. face and lodged the elements an loot*, drowned • • the folds of his clothing without his- and died; and Corvet was well aware sensitive, hie well formed hands a v t; his askriowledgmeht of this took little more slender. People said he t& torm of apology, but -One which, looked more French -referring. to his ill tone different - from Stiearrean's us - father who..was knoe:en,to have been a pa,12.bitiff la ' itty etiaiiiteie seemed al - The region, filled with Indian legend - sem-hunter north t't "Lake .8n1444.°1-' in' *OA centelliept,ouiete-4‘t seated tete. endeetitirtneitiories• of -wreekseencour- the 50's 'bet who had later inattled* self, his 'big; mitirerfilt iiiikia. clasped ' ages such beliefs as this. To north- English girl at Mackinac and settled' on the table, hie" gay eyes studying ward and to westward a" half . &men down to' bed:me a trader- in the woods Cotvet elosely. - A.s'/Coalet, 'without warning lights,-11e-aux-Ga,ets ("Skil- of the North Peninsular, where Ben- acknriededging the apology, took the jamin Corvet was born. pad and began to Write an order for During his boyhood, men came. to !NO, .$pearniAn interfered; he had al- tne peninsular to cat timber; young ready lunched; he Would take only a • Corvet worked with them and began cigar. The waiter took the order and .ibuilding ships. Thirty-five years ago went awaY.° ligalee" the lake men call it), Waug- aushance, Beaver, and Fox Islands -e gleam spectrally where the bone -white' shingle outcrops above the water, or blur ghost-like in the haze; on the dark knolls topping . the glistening sand bluffs to 'northward,. Chippewas and Ottawas, a century and a half ago quarreled over the prisoners after the massacre at Fort Mackinac; to smith - ward, where other hills frown down upon little Traverse Bay, the black - robed priests in their chappel chant, the sante masses their predecessors chanted to the Indians of that time. 'So, whatever may be the origin of that drum, its meaning is not questioned by:ethe forlorn descendants of those • Indians, who 'now make beadwork and sweet -grass baskets for their summer trade, or by the more credulous of the white fishermen and farmers; men whose word •on any other subject Would receive unquestioning credence will tell you they have heard , the • drum. But at bottom, of tours'e, this is only the absurdest of superstitions, which can affect no way men who to -day ship ore in steel bottoms to the mills of Gary and carry gasoline - engine reaped and threshed wheat to the elevators of Chicago. ett is record- ed, therefore. only as a superstition which for twenty years has been con- nected with the loss of a great ship.. * * * * e .1 had been only one of the hundre s. when he returned, the two men wlth his fortune in tbe fate of a single were, obviously in bitter quarrel. Car - bottom; but today in Cleveland, in vet's tone, low pitched but violent, Duluth, in Chicago, more than a seeXe sounded steadily in the room, though of great steamers under the names of his words were inaudible. The -wait- variens interdependent cotnparnes were ,er, as he set the food upon the table, owned or \controlled by him and his felt relief that Corvet's outburst had two partners, Sherill and young Spear- fallen neon other shoulders than his. 'man. It had fallen, in fact, upon the shoul- , He was a quiet, gentle -mannered ders best to bear it. Spearman—still man. At times, however., hesuffered called, though he was slightly over 40 from fits of intense irritability, and now, "young" Spearman—was the these of late had' increased in fre- power of the great Ship -building com- quency and violence. It had been pany of Corvet, Sherrill, and Spear - noticed that these outbursts occurred' elan. Corvet had withdrawn, during generally at times of storm upon the recent years, almost entirely from ac - lake but the mere threat of financial -.Alec life; some said the sorrow and' loss through the destruction of .one Or .1..portification of his wife's leaving him even more of his ships was not. new had made him ehoose more and more enough to cause them; it was believed the seclusiop. of his library in the big that they were the result of some ol?- e lonely house on the North Shore, and, sctire physicial readier' to the storm, and that this had grown upon him as he grew older. To -day hie irritability was se mark- ed, his uneasiness so much greater than any one had seen it before, that the attendant whom Corvet had sent, Storm—the stinging, frozen sleet - slash of the February norther whist- ling, down the . floe -jammed lehgth of the lake — was assaulting Chicago Over the lake it was a white whirling; maelstrom, obscuring at midafternoon even the lighthouses at the harbor entrance;beyond that, the winter boats trying for the harbor mouth were bellowing blindly at bay before the jammed ice, and foghorns and si- rens echoed loudly in the city in the lulls of the storm. _ Battering against the fronts of the row of clith buildings, fashionable ho- tels, and ' hops which face across the narrow stip of park to the lake front in downtoWfl Chicago, the gale swirled and eddied the sleet till all the wide windows, f warm within, were frosted. So heavy was this frost on the panes ef thet Felt Dearborn Club—one of the staidiest of the downtown clubs for menetthat the great log -fires blaz- ing on the open hearths added ablate- eiable light as well as Warmth to the rooriig, . - - The, fdev Mambas peeeent at this hour of the afternoon showed by their lazy attitudes and the desultoriness of their conversation - the dulling of vi- tality which warmth and shelter brittg on a day of cold and stain. On one, however. the storm had, had trary effect, With swift .uneven steps, he paced now one ram, now another; from time to time he atoppe.d abruptly by a window, scraped from it with finger nail the frost, stared out for an instant through' the little'open- ing he had made, then resumed as a- bruptly his tizervoun pacing with a manner so uneasy and distra-ught, that since his arrival at the club an. hour before, none even among those, who knew him best had ventured to epeak to him. There are, in every great city, a few individuals' who from, their fullnese of experience' in an epoch of the city's. life come to epitomize that epoch in i the general mind; when one thinks of ; 1. had given Spearman the chance to rise;- but those mast intimately ac- quainted with the affairs of the great Ship 'owning dompany maintained that Spearznan's rise had not been granted hiet but had been forced by ,Spearman himself, In any case, heeding it. , Suddenly he aroused. "One -- two 1 —three --four !" he counted the long, booming blasts- of a steam whistle. A eteanaer elite one that.- snoweshrouded, lake was in distress. The sound Ceas- ed, and the gale bore in only tbe' OT- 013ary storm and fog signals. Cote 'vet recognized -the foghorn at the lighthouse at the end of the govern- ment pier; the light, he knew, was turning white, red, white, red,,white behind the curtain of sleet; other steam vessels, not in distress, blew their blasts; the long four of the steamer codling for help cut in again. Corvet stopped, drew up his shoulders and stood staring out toward the lakee as the signal blasts of distress boomed again. Color came now into his pale cheeks for an instant. A siren swelled and shrieked and died away, wailing, shrieked louder and stopped; the four blasts blew again, and the siren wailed in answer. 'A door opened behind Corvet; warm air rushed out, laden with sweetheavy, odors—chocolate and candy; girls laughteit exaggerated exclamations, laughter again came with it; and two girls holding their muffs before their faces passed by.. "See you to -night; dear; • "Yes; I'll be there—if he comes." "Oh, he'll comet" They ran to different limousities, scurried in, and the cars swept off.- Corvet turned about to the tearporn from which- they had come; he could see, as the door opened again, a dozen tables with their white cloths, shining that likely enough none of those in that tearoom or in that whole buildincl knew what four long bleats meant wheo, they were :blown as they were nowee or what the siren meant answered. But now, as he listened to the blasts which seemed to have grOwn more desperate, this profoundly affect- ed Comet. He moved once to stctp one of the couples -coming from. the 'tea- room. They hesitated, as he stared at them: then, when- they had pass- ed him, they glanced back. Corvet shook himself together and went on. He continued to gf:3. north. He had not seemed, in the beginning, to have made conscious choice of this direc- tion; now he was following it pur- posely. Ile stopped once at a shop which gold men's things to make a telephone call. He asked for Miss Sherrill when the number answered; ' but he did not wish to speak to her, he said; he wanted merely to be sure she would be there if he stopped in to see her in half an hour. Then—. north agaia. He crossed the bridge. Now, fifteen minutes later, he came in sight of the lake once more. / Great houses, the Sherrill house a- I mong them, here face the Drive, the bridle path, the strip of park, and the wide stone esplanade which edges the lake. Corvet crossed to this esplan- ade. It was an ice -bank now; hum-. mocks of snow and ice higher than ai man's head shut off view of the Roe I tossing end crashing as far out as the blizzard let one see; but, dislodged an shaken by the buffeting of the foe, -they let the gray water swell up from. underneath and wash around his feet as e went on: He did not stop at the Sherrill house or look towcird it, but trent' on fully a quarter of a mile beyond it; then be tame back, and with an oddly strained and queer ex -- pression and attitude, he stood staring out into the take. He could not hear the distress signals now. Suddenly he turned. Constance • Sherrill, seeing him from a window of her home, had taught a cape about t her and run out to him. • Benny!" she hailed him with theaffectionate -name she had used with 'her father's partner .since she wa baby. 'Uncle BennY,". aren't you coming in?" ,'Yes," he said 'vaguely. "Yes, course," He made no -move but re, mained staring at her. 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