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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-02-14, Page 7tY 14, 1919 results fusion, ;sessed her teas. sow 11111111111111111111411111MMINIMINIMIlli ts to New miles to ±rs went he sigm- !ws elds and r}ds in ise two flf the news- ftespon- t )I,ma- Nper r three 'we fol.. FEBRUARY 14, 1919 • -.- Cry • ' THE HURON EXPOSITOR THE INDIAN DRUM , By WILLIAM MacHARG , and •, ' EDWIN BALM -ER. Thomas Alien, Publisher, Toronto (Continued from Last Week.) "It was railroading which had brought me West; but I had brought with me the Alabama money to put into ships. I have called it sentiment, but it was not merely that; I felt, young man ...though I was, that this thing and that in this transportation matter was all one thing and that in the end the railroads would own the ships. I have never engaged very actively in the operation of the ships; my daughter would like me to be more active in it than I have been; but ever since, I have had money in lake vessels. It was the year that I began that sort of investment that I first met ecaaret," Alan looked up quickly.. "Mracov- rt was—?" he asked "Corvet was—is a lakeman," Sher- Sherrill did not speak for a moment. tives". Before Ilitd used. half a boar toms -somehow alwayli eeriehed =port; there was a saying that it rito:rm a Corvet ship never asked he4; it gave it;certainly in twenty Years no Corvet shtp had !suffered- serious disaster. Curvet was lid yet rich, but unless ice sident or undue competitor interiened he was certain to become so. Then soinethinf hatred." 'how to describe it • ' "To the althea?"' Alan asked him. I ILILIT°* 1' Lorne, Ont. "No; to htm. In 1896; for no ap- -"For over time,- years,. I ,,,vas parent reason, a great change came confined to bed with Rheamahsm. ever thil."*. Daring that th:ne I had treatment "That' was the year." .‘ - "In' 18961" from **number of s doctors, and tried Alan bent forward, his heart throb. nearly everything I sawadvertised to bing in his throat. "That was alifo cure Rlieurnatism, without receiving the year when I was brought and left any benefit. Sherri) looke away at evident lois-1 CRIPPLE f011 IRE YEAR Helpless In Bed With Itheummisin Until He Took "FRLI1T-AsTIVES". MIL aUtaaliDan MUNRO net give any actual reason fin' it ex -. opt Comet's manner and look, that the disturbance which had oppreesed lam for twenty years was culminating in some way. That culmination seems to have been reached, three days ago when he tailed you here. Henry Spear - Man, whom I asked about you when I a learned you were. Sowing, had never ' heard of you; 'Mt Gorvet's servant ' bad never heard- of you. "Is there anAbing in what I have Old you which makes it possible for you to recollect or to explain?" Alan shook his head, flushed, and athen.-grew a. little pale. What Sherrill told him had excited him by the -coin- cidences it offered •between events in Benjamin Gorvet!slife and his own; it had not made him "moiled" Corvet, :but it had given- defmiteness and di- rection to his speculations as to Corvet's relation to hiniself. Sherrill drew one of the large chairs nearer to Alan and sat down facing him. He felt in an inner pocket and brought out .an envelopea fun,' the envelope he took three pictures, and handed the stag/est of them to Alan. As Alan took it, he say that it was a tintype of himself as a round. -faced faced boyof sevens, i — • "That s you?" Sherrill asked. _ ,• "Yes; it was taken by the photo- apher in Blue Rapids, We all had our pictures taken on that day—Jim, IBetty, and L ' Mr. Welton —for the first. time Alan conscioasly avoided giving the title "rather" to the man . in Kansas—"sent one or me to the -general delivery address of the person in. Chicago". - "And this ?" with the Weitons * Kansas," he -said, The second- picture, Alan saw, was . Finally, I decided. to' try irruit-a- one that had- been taken in front of the barn at the firm. It showed Alan at twelve; in overalls and bare- footed, holding a stick over his head at which a shepherd dog was jumping. "Yes; that is Shep and 1—Jim's and Mit' 40g,. Mr. Sherrill. It was taken rill said. "1 thought," ' -he said` finally, "it must Alan sat motionless, as he recollected have been about that time; but you no oe an ; the strange exaltation that had come did not tell .my daughter the 'exaet was not so severe, and the swelling to him when he saw the lake for the date!, started tO go dovvn. • first time. Should he tell Sherrill of "What kind of change came over cohlinu,d taking 'this frail me- Wicine, improving all the time, and. too indefinite to be mentioned; no Sherrill gazed down at the rug, then that? Heleeided it was too vague, him that'year?" Alan asked, - s doubt any other man used only to the prairie might have felt the eame. : "He was a ship owner, then," he said. , "Yes; he was a shipowner—not, however, on a large scale at that time. He had been a master, sailing ships which belonged to others; then he had sailed ofie of his own. He was operat- ing then, I believe, two vessels; but with the boom thrit's on the laes, his interests 4were beginning to expa-nd. , I met him frequently in the next few years, and we became close friends." Shemin broke off and stared an in- stant down at the rag. Alan bent for- ward; he made no interruption but only watched Sherrill attentively. "It was one of the great advantages of the West, I think—and particularly of Chicago at that time—that it gave opportunity for friendships of that sort," Sherrill said. ‘,`Corvet was. e man of a sort I would have been far less likely ever to have known in- timately in the East. He was both what the lakes had made him and what to 4rour room; the man will show you he had made of himself; -a great reader beginning of Corvet's withdrawal from . of studies—strange s u ies m Alan's face, which had been flushed which one i s. —Wholly self-educated; be bad, I think active management.' Since' then he them for a man whose youth had been ' first with exciteraenti had gone Alan hesitated; he felt that Sherill o 't i " many of the attributes of a great inan has been ostensibly and publicly the almost violently active and who had ab quite pale, and his hands, as he clew. had not told 'him all he knew—that —at least, they were those of a man head of the concern, but he has left once. been a lake captain. I cannot ; ched and unclenched them nervously, there were some things S.herrill pure who should have become great;, he the management almost entirely to tell you what they all were—geology, cold, and hislips were very dry, posely was withholding from him; but had imaginatithi and vision. Hifi Spearman. The personal change in ethnology, nearly a score of subjects; ' were *miens ',Ile could think of no possible relation- he could not fo Sherrill to tell whole thought and effort, at that time Corvet-at that time is harder for me to he corresponded with various given tamest ' ship between Benjamin Corvet• and • more than he wished; so after an in - were absorbed in furthering and de- describe to you." ' i tific societies: he has to such himself, except One, which could ac- irresolution, he accepted _ the Sherrill halted, his eyes dark with a wholes of . h" attention count for Gornto 4bbtamin and keep- ist:ant's thought, his lips pressed' closely to- things for about twenty years. Since . - - • dismissal. z him t uglr the gether. Alan waited. I.have known him he has transformed lag these Panne' . • "WI:1•- c • • • - -the' - ' * '' • ' ' en saw orvet again,- m the himself from rather rough, eine years. As Sherrillfait the pictures Sherrill walked with him to the door, on some business. He had Just summer of 96-1 had been South min — h a When 1 first haeli into etaeir eiree ape and the en- and ave his directions.to the servant; ' b th vague but to me ------------ made very few acquaint- . t f 1 relationshi that Sherrill ' hanindseslfat ill,witilthe now that it.had nptebeen proof of the wehealtr balucttlen aonedeuspeatieft4d at Alan, then past. him. "A change now 1. ciin wAitLikzaxbAouNDt twEito jnicilttNRes mod . in his way of living,"she replied. "The do light chores about the Place". Gorvet line of boats went on, expand- ed; interests were acquired in other "hnes, and Corvet and those allied with ' 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. him swiftly grew rich.- But in all this -At all dealers or sent postpaid on by a .man who stopped at the house for dinner one day; he liked Shep and wanted a picture of him; so he got me . e NAPPY, brown cookies, coffee cake with fruit and spices put in with a generous hand, pumpkin pie with the genuine old-time flavor, and many more. All these good things Grand- mother made with brown sugar. Her granddaughters can make them just as successfully to -clay if they use Pure brown sugar gives to ba.king and desserts the tharacteristic molasses taste which is a great improvement to many dishes. Brown sugar, as well as white, should be kept in the pantry of every hotisehokl which apiredates old-time *oodles. Brown sugar is economical. It costs a little less per For fear Grandmother's recipes might be forgotten, pound than other pure sugars and it flavors as well vfel2ay. rei".4Pied a rMmher the best C`f. them - the booklet iliustratea at the tope We will send it as sweetens. Grocers sell as much as you wish. to you upon receipt of 2c. stamp. ATLANTIC SUGAR REFINERIES LIMITED MONTREAL to make shep jump, and he took it." fingers,.t1;at- Alan's heart-thAbbed to - "You don't remember anything 'a-- it; for the first time some one had touched him ln full, unchecked feeling "Only that e had a camera and bout the man ir great development, for which- Corvet's receipt of price by Fruit-a-I:Ives wanted a picture. of Shep." genius sand ability had laid the found- Limited, Ottawa. your picture he -.wanted, and that he "Doesn't it °Wit to you that it was a, „ ation, Curvet himself ceased to take - • e had been • sent -ityget, it? I wanted active part. I do not ra,ean that he your verification'lhat these earlier formally retired; he retained his con- . ictures were of You, but this last one trol of the business, but he -very sel- his concern oti. a most generouabasis,- is easily recognizable." dem went th the office and, except but that the name of the company re - Sherrill unfolded- the third picture; for occasional violent, almost pettish Main as it was, merely Corvet and . interference in the affairs of the com- Snearman. Spearman's influence and it was larger thantheothers and had. been folded actbss „the middle to get pany, he left it in the hands of others. mine prevailed upon him to allow my it into an enarelope. Alan learned He took into partnership, about a name appear; singe 1, then, the firro forward tillook at it year later, Henry Spearman, a young name has been Corvet, Sherrill, and "That is the sliadversity of Kansas man who had been merely a mate on , Spearman. - one of his ships. This proved sib- i "Our friendship had strengthened • . .., football team," Itte said. "I am the The ; second one in theatre, nt row; I played sequently to have been a good business ' and ripened during thd'se years. end my junior Stallete. and tackle when move, for Spearman has, tremendous- intense activity of Corvet's mind, I was a senior 7,aiir.. Corvet.--4" energy, daring, and . enterprise; and which as a young man he had directed '‘Yes; Mr.- Cerv-Ohad these pictures. no doubt Corvet had recognized these wholly to the shipping, was directed, , They came into Anf possession day be - qualities in him before others did. after he had isolated himself in this way, to other things. He took up *is! fore yesterday, 111‘ day after Corvet I do not want to tell you But at the time it excited considerable comment. It marked, cerlainly„ the most, feverishly an immense number , disaPrieare-dj- . - I just "yet; how they did that." for him; for the filit time, the un- known about him had failed to be a barrier and, instead.. had drawn an- other to him. "Do not misapprehend your father," 'Sherrill said quietly. "I_ cannot pre- vent what' -other people may think when they learn this; but I do not share such thoughts with them There is much in this I cannot unierstand; but I know that it is not merely the' result of what others may think it— of a 'wife in more ports than one,' as you hear the lake men put it. What lies under this is some great misad- venture which had changed and frill; strated all your father's life." 7 Sherrill crossed the room and rang for a servant I• am *going to ask you to be my guest for •a short time, Alan," he an- nounced. "I have had your bag carried veloping the traffic on the lakes, and not at all from mere desire for per- sonal success. I met him for the first, time one day evhen I went to his office opened up an office at that during the latter part of the winter., met hini.-irtto- are educated rtleriutu -v1*.?Peritkitk into his pocket, and te ing, as Alan' and the time in one of the old ram- and. East through the spring—I was whom anybody would be gla to linoW; watehea film,. Alan felt nearly certain man went the :stairs. -Then ,he shackle rows along the river front; there was nothing at all pretentious about it—the contrary, in fact; but as I went in and waited with the others whe were there to see him, I had the" sense of being in the ante -room of a great lean. I do not mean there was any idiotic pomp or lackyism or red tape about it; I mean that the others who were waiting to see him, and who knew him, were keyed up by the an- ticipation and keyed me up, "I saw as much as could of him after that, and our friendship became very close. "In 1892, when I married and took my residence here on the lake shore— the house stood where this' one stands° now—Gorvet bought the house on As- tor Street. His only reason far doing it was, I believe. his desire to be near me. The neighborhood was what they call fashionable; neither Corvet nor Mrs. Corvet—he had married in 1889— had social ambitions of that sort. Mrs. Corvet came from Detreat., she was years, and her leavmg good family there—a stram of French affected Corvet. He had been very irritabilty had very greatly meraased; blood in the family; she was a school- Ifond of her and proud of her. had 2, had quarreled frequently and bitter: ly with Spearman over business Oa teacher when he married lie; and she seen him sometimes watching her while she talked; be would gaze at her fairs. He had seemed more than us: aly eager at times to see me or to see mem. y alarming change in him. I was re- 3 arices in that time, and has kept al - friendships. He hair been tt7ing to get from him, but Miteled. I recall. of a friend I had in most none of his old hands grasping- the. arms of the, chair ea Aster onlY-coiroboration -of some'knoikledge, while he stared into the fire. college who hid thought 'he was in has lived alone in the house or partial knowledge, which had come Fifteen minuteS later, he heard his perfect health and had gone to an ex- same one all these years. to Sherrill in some other way. The daughter's footsteps and looked up. a min.er for life insurance and had been , "The only house he has, visited with , existence of this knowledge was nit- Constance halted he the door to assure refused, and was trying to deny to : any frequeacy has been mine. He. plied_by Sherrill's withholding of the herself that he was now alone; then himself and others that anything has always liked my wife; he hade- he had come Ant°, possession, of I she came to him and, seating herself could be the matter. But with Corvet he has a great, affection for my. way the .pictures, and his manner showed on the arm of the ,chair, she put her I knew the trouble was not, physical. ' daughter, who, when she was li child; now that he had received from Alan hand on his thin hair and smoothed, it The next year his wife left him. ' I ran in and out of his hopse as she the confirmation for which he had . softly; he felt for her other hand with been seeking .= . . "The yeareof--?" Alan asked. I pleased. He would take long . walks his and found it, seed held it clasped "That'veas 1891a. We did. not know with her; he'd come here sometimes at first of course, that the separation in the afternoon to have tea with her "I think you know who I am," between his pain's. . was permanent. It proved so, how- on stormy' days; he liked to have her Alan said. Sherrill had risen and stood looking ever; and. Corvet, I know now, had play and sing to him. My dasighter down at him, und.erstood it to be that way from the beli------othat his present disap- . . first Mrs. Corvet went to France— pearance--whatever has happened eto "You have guessed, if I am not Ines - the French blood in her, I suppose; him—is connected in some way with taken, that you are Porvet's son." made her select that country; she herself. I do not think that is so—" The color flamed. to Alan's face for had for a number of years a cottage Sherrill broke off and stood in an instant, then left it paler than be - near Trouville, in_ NormandY, and was thought for a moment; he seemed to fore. "I., thought it must be that active in church work, I know there Consider, and to decide that it was not way," he answered; "but you said he was almost no communication between necessary to say anything more on had no children& herself and her husband during those that subject. "Benjamin Corvet and his wife had. ' ' f k dl "Recently Corvet's moroseness and no children." , "I thought that was what you meant." A twinge twisted Alan's face; he tried to control it but for a moment could not. Sherrill suddenly- put his hand on Alan's shoulder; there was something so - friendly, so affectionate, in the quick, irntilusive grasp of Sherill's had made a wondeeful e 01 a good woman, a woman of very high ideals; it was great grief to both of them that they had no children. "Between 1886, when I first met him, and 1895, Corvet laid the found- ation of great success; his boats seem- ed lucky, men, liked to. work for him, and he got the best skippers and erews. 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MERRIAM Springfieltil Mass. ;.; ea— ltosno-'....00..,•••••••••• ' steadily and then look about other women in the roam and back to my daughter and other times seems to her, and his head would nod percep- avoid us and keep away % I have bad the feeling of late, though I could 4-1.1'u with satisfaction; and she would see it- sometimes and smile. There , was no question of their understanding and affection up to the very time she so suddenly and so strangely left him. She died in Trouville in the spring of 1910, and Corvet's first information of her death come to him through a paragraph in a newspaper. Al had started; Shereill looked an at him questioningly. "The spring -of 1910," Alan explain- , ed, "was when 1 received the bank ' draft for fifteen hundred dollarsi". Sherrill nodded; he did not seem surprised to hear this; rather it ap- peared to be confirmation of something in his own thought. , "Following his wife's leaving him," Sherrill went on, "Corvet saw very little of any one.- He spent most of his time in his own house; occasionally he lunched at his . club; at rare inter- vals, awl/always unexpectedly, he ap- peared at his offiee. T remember that 1 summer he was terribly disturbed be: ! cause one of his s ips was lost. It : was not a bad disaste , for everyone on the ship was saved, nd hull and cargo : were fully covered by insurance'but 1 the Corvet record was looken;a-Corvet ' - ship had appealed for help; a Corvet ' vessel bad not reached part....And latex in the fall, when two deckhands • were washed from another of his -ves- sels and drowned, he was again_great- ly wrought up, though his ships stilt had a most favorable iecord. In 1902 II proposed to him that I buy full ownership in the vessels I partly con- trolled and ally them with those he I and Spearman operated. It as a ' time of combination—the railroads and the steel interests weie acquiring - the lake vessels; and though I believed , in this, I was not willing to enter any 1 combination which would take the name of Sherrill off the list of Ameri- can shipowners I did not give Corvet this as my reasonland he made me at that time a very strange counter -pro- position --which- I have never been able to understand, and which entailed the very obliteration of my nanie which I -was trying to avoid. He pro- posed that I accept, a partnership in on the second floor he went to a front room and blocked. Alan's- voice told him to come in. Sherrill went in and, when he had made sure that the ser- vant was not with Alan, he closed the the door carefully behind him. Then he turned back to Alan, and for an instant stood indecisive as though he did not know how to begm what he wanted to say. As he glanced naiad Tongue Bea Taste, elatigee„ downata key he took from his Pock, tem, sallow Bab; and Ildieerable Headasa - et, .his decision seerned to receive dir- aches come from a -torpid, liver ection and inspiration from it; and he atom - put it down orrAlan's dresser. "I've brought you," he said evenly, "the key to your house" • Alan gazed at him, bewildered. "The key,,Teto tmhey house -on en Astor Street," Sherrill confirmed. "Your father ,deeded the house and its funiture and "CASOARZTS/* %YORK • :prima YOU SLEEP Per Sick Headache, Soar Stomach, - Sluggish Liver -and -Bowels— . Take Casearets tonight clogged bow ach • to _food., w eats like' gar- bage .in a Thistle the first step to ry--indiostion; foul Is, why* cause 7 e (4 sfillwi softiand1 "11 bar Id gams, had eath, yellow skin, mental fears, everything that is horrible aad nauseating. A • Oasearet to -night v411 all its contents sto you the daY before give your constipated bowels a there he disappeared. I have not the deed' cleansing and straighten you .014 here; it eame into.smy hands the day morning. They work while youaleep— before Yesterday at the same -thrie ][ 4 10 -cent box from your &nab t wlU got possessien of the pictures Which keep yo a feellnag good: for monthe. might—or might not, for all I knew aasasa.... then—be you. I .have the deed down- town and -will give it to you. The house is yours in fee simple, given you by your father, not bequeathed to you - by him to become your property after his death. He meant by that, I think, even more than the mere s.clinowledg- ment that he is your father." Sherrill walked to the window and stood' is though' looking out, but bis eyes werejgatili- *Of ,thOght. "For almost twe' years," he said, "your father, as I have told you, lived in that house practically alone; during all those years a shadow of some sort was. over him. -I don't know at all, Alan, what that shadow was. But it is certain that whatever it was that had changed him from the man he was when I first knew him culminated three days ago when he wrote to you. It may be that the consequences of his writing to you were such that, after he had sent the letter, he could not bring himself to face them and so has 'merely gone away. 'In that case, "You've found out who he isJ as we stand here talking, he is still father?" she asked. - alive. On the other hand, his writing "The facts have left me no doubt .you may have precipitated something at all as to that, little daughtea" that I know nothing of. In either "No doubt that he is—who?" case, if he has left anywhere any ev- ' Sherrill wassilentfor a moment— I idence of what it is that changed and not from uncertainty, but because of oppressed him for all these years, or the effect which what he must say, if there is any evidence of what has would have upon her; then he told I happened to him now, it Will be fond her in almost the same words he had j hrOlisahouse." used to Alan.' Constance started, flushed, and her hand stiffened con- vulsively between her father's. They said-. nothing more to one an- other; Sherrill seemed considering and and debating something within him- self, e and presently he seemed to come to a decision. He got up, stooped and touched his daughters§ hand, and left the room. He went up the stairs and errill turned back to Alan. "It is or you—not me, Alan," he said simply, "to make that search." 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