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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-02-28, Page 7TRT 281 1.#19 1.111111111111111.11.10. . . . rip. What tchute.and '-k; nothing - lent will it ask about ar? Fbod . tnin? vc answer: ak est" ir ray OnVe- t v gathe'reci Ontario with venteeee tele- 4chines. tli lateet news iranerormed i the Previnee eptiek 'erviee [Ale editorial rashion din "rite rir 'low e ratee ay liQ60010aiasaaaaaraajaa***E0110i. FEBRUARY 28, 1919 ,•121,6 ......•••••.•••••••• • • • • • THE,OIDIAN.DRU. By WILLIAM MacErsARG. and : EDWIN BALMER : Thomas Allen, Publisher, Toronto Continued from, last Week.. Alan got -up and went to look at himself in the mirror he had seen in the hall. He was white, now that the flush of the fighting was going; he probably had been pale before with excitement, and over his right eye there was a round black mark Alan looked down at his hands; a ;little skin was off one knuckle, where he had struck the man, and his fingers were smudged with a black and sooty dust He had smudged them on the papers up -stairs or else in feehng his way about the dark house, and at sorne time he had touched his fore- head and left the black mark. That had been the 'bullet hole." The rest that the man had said had been a reference to someeiame; Alan had no trouble to recollect the name and, while he did not understand it at all, it stirred him queerly—"the Miwaka." What was that?. The queer excitement and questioning that the nam brought, when he repeated it to himself, was not recollection, for he could not recall ever having - heard the name before -' but it was not completely strange to him. He could define the excitement it stirred Only in that way He went back to the Morris chair; his socks were nearly dry, and he prat on his shoes. He got up and paced about. Sherrill had believed that here in this house Benjamin Corvet had left—or might have left—a mem- orandum, a record, or an account of some sort which would explain to Alan, his son, the blight which had hung over his life. Sherrill had said that it could have been no mere in- trigue, no vulgar personal. sin; and the events of the night had made that very certain;. for -plainly, what- ever was hidden in that house involved some one else seriously, deiperately. There was no other way to explain. the intrusion of the sort of man whom Alan had 'surprised there an hour a- go. The fact that this other man search- ed also did not prove that Benjamin Corvet had left a record in the house, as Sherrill believed; but it certainly showed that another person believed ,—or feared—it. Whether. or not guilt had sent Benjamin Corvet away four days ago, whether _or not there had been guilt behind the ghost which had "got Ben," -there was guilt in the big -man's sup-eretitioue terror when he ad seen Vete A bold, pawerfule elm like That one, when. his conscience elear, does not see a ghost. And the ghost which he had seen had a bullet Bole above the brows! Alan did not flatter himself that in any physieial"aense he had triumphed over that man; so far as it had gone, his adversary had had rather the tet ter of the battle; he had endeavored to stun 'Alan, or perhaps do worse than stun; but after the first grapple, his purpose had been to get away. But he had not fled from Alan; he had fled from discovery of who he was. Sher.. rill had told Alan of no one whom he could identify with this man; but Alan could describe him to Sherrill. Alan found a lavatory and washed and straightened. his collar and tie and brushed his clothes. There was a bruise on the side of his head; but though it throbbed painfully, it did not leave any visible merle He could return now to. the. Sherrills'. It was not quite midnight but he believed by this time Sherrill was probably home; perhaps already he had gone to bed.. Alan took up his hat and looked a- bout the house; he was going to re- turn and sleep here, of course; he was gioulted4 Tiousatall, 31 31 31 X 31 31 31 31 31 X .*- -31 .a fir 31 -31 -31a 31 31 31 X -31X -31 31 ,X -31-31X X WEBSTEfS NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARIES are in use by busi- ness men, engineers, bankers, judges, architects, physicians, farmers, teachers, librarians, cler- gymen, by succeesful men and women the world over., Are You Equipped to Win? The New International provides the means to success. It is an all- knowing teacher, a universal ques- tion answerer. 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MERRIAM Springfield, Ma88. a-- 31 -31 31 31 31 31 -31 31 31-31 X 0 X X xaxariaxsAuxaxaxaxexuas• AVOID COUGH'S' an COUGKERM Coughing Spresocis Disease If • sows 1870 bTSTOIUUGlif MVP 111I3 TOR CIIILDREN ; not going to leave the house unguard- ed fpr any long time after this; but, after what had just happened, he felt he could leave it safely for half an hour, particularly if .he left a light, burning within. - • He did this and stepped out The wind from the west was blowing hard, and the night had become bittter cold; yet, as Alan reached- the drive, he could see far out. the „kssinglights of a ship and, as he went =toward the Sherrills',he gazedout over the roar- ing water, Often on 'nights lake this, he Item, his father must have been battling such water. The man who answered his ling at the Sherrills' recognized him Ett once and admittted him; in reply to Alan'e question, the servant' said that Mr.' Sherrill had not yet returned. When Alan Went. to . his room, the valet ap- peared and, finding that Alan was packing the man offered his sernice. t Alan let him pack and went down- stairs; a motor bad just driven up to the house, It proved to have -brought Con- stance and her mother; Mrs. Sherrill, after informing Alan thit Mr. Sher- rill might not return until some -Jaime later, went up -stairs and did not ap- pear again Constance followed her mother but, tenminutes later came down -stairs. "You're not staying here to -night?" she asked. "1 wanted to say to your father," Alan explained, "that I believe I had bet er go over to the other house." he carne a little closer to him in her concern. Nothing has happened here?" "Here? You mean in this houie?" Alan smiled. "No; nothing." She seemed relieved. Alan, remem- bering her mother's .manner, thought he understood; she knew that remarks had been made, possibly, which re- peated by a servant might have offend- ed him. "I'm afraid its been a hard *day for you," she said. "It's certainly- been unusual," Alan admitted. It had been a hard day for her, too, he observed; or probably- the recent days, since her father's and her own good friend had gone, had been try- ing. She was tired now and nervously excited; but she was so young that the little signs of strain and worry, in- eteade of making her seem older,. only made her youth more apparent The, curves- of her, neck -and her pretty;. rounded shoulders were as soft es -be- fore; her lustrous, brown hair was more beautiful, and a slight flush col- ored her clear skin. It had seemed to Alan, when Mrs. Sherrill had spoken to him a few min- utes before, that her manner toward him had been more reserved and con- strained -than earlier in the evening; but now he had put that down to the lateness of the hour; but now he re- alized that she probably had been discussing him with Constance, and that it was somewhat in defiance of her mother that Constance had come down to speak with him again. "Are you taking any one over to the other house with you?" she in- quired.. "Any one?" "A servant, I mean," "Then you'll let us lend a man from here." "You're awfully good; but I don't think I'll need any one to -night. Mr. Corvet's—my father's man—is corning back to -morrow, I understand. I'll get along very well until them" She was silent a moment as she looked away. Her shoulders suddenly jerked a little. "I wish you'd take some one with you," she persisted. "I don't like to think of. you alone over there." "My father must have beeu often alone there." "Yes," she said. "Yes." She look- ed at him quickly, then away, check- ing a question. She wanted to ask, he knew, what he had discovered in that lonely house which had so agi- tated him; for of course she had no- ticed agitation in him. eAnd he had intended to ,tell her or, rather, her father. He had been rehearsing to himself the description of the man he had met there in order to ask Sher- rill about him; but now Alan knew that he was not going to refer the matter even to Sherrill just yet. Sherrill had believed that Benjamin Corvet's disappearance was from cir- cumstances too personal and intimate to be made a subject of public inquiry; and what Alan had encountered in Corvet's house had confirmed that be- lief. Sherrill further had said that Benjamin Corvet, if he had wished Sherrill to know those circumstances, would have told them to him; but Corvet had not done that; instead, he had sent for Alan, his son. He had given his son his confidence. Sherrill had admitted that he was with holding from Alan, for the time being, something that he knew about Benjamin Corvet; it was nothing, he had said, which would help Alan to learn about his father, or what had become of him; but perhaps Sherrill, not knowing these other things, could not speak accurately as to that Alan determined to ask Sherrill what he had been withholding before he told him all of what had happened in Car - vet's house. There waS ent 01101:ci cumstance which, Sherrill diad men- tioned but not explained; it occurred to Alan now. "Miss Sherrill -2 he checked him- self.- • "What is it?" "This afternoon your father said that you believed that Mr. Coreefe disappearance was in some way con- nected with you; he seid that he _41 not think that .was so; but do you want to tell me why you thought it?"' DOCTOR URGED AN OPERATION 1- • Instead 1 Wok Lydia E. Pink. ham's:Vegetable Coffman)* and Was Cured. Baltimore, Md. --Nearly four years I suffered front organic troubles, ner- vousness and head- aches and every month would have to stay in bed most of the timo. Treat- ments would relieve me for a time but my- doctorwas /al- ways urging me to ave an operation. My sister asked me totry Lydia N. pink. h a m's Vegetable Compound before consenting to an /operation. I took five bottles of it and it has completely. cured me and my work ie a pleasure. I tell all my friends who'have any trouble of this kind what Lydia E. Pinkharn's 'Vegetable 'Com- pound has done for ,me."--avaiaaa B. 'Barrribrottalt, 609 Calverton Rd., Barn- inorei Md. . • It is 011iy natural for any Woman to dread the thoughtof an operation. So, many women hive been restored to health by this famous remedy, Lydia E. Philiham's Vegetable Compound, after - an operation has been advised that it Will pay any woman who suffers from such ailments to consider trying it be- fore submitting to such a trying ordeal. "Yes; 1 will tell .you." She colored quickly. "One of the last 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 a- gainst one of my friends." - - "Warn you, Miss Sherrill? How? I meant warn you against What?" "Against thinking too much of him." She turned aegey, Alan saw in the rear, kof the hall the man who had been -waiting with the suitcase. It was after midnight now and, for far more than the in- tended half hour, Alan had left his father's house - unwatched, to be en- tered by the front door whenever the mart, who had entered it before, re- turned with his key. "I think I'll come to see your father in the morning," Alan said, when Constance looked back to him. "you won't borrow Simons?" she asked again. "Thank you, no." "But you'll come over here for breakfast in the inorning?" "You want me?" "Certainly." - a "I'd like to: come very much." "Then I'll expect you." She followed him to the- door when he had 'put on his things, and he made no objection when he asked that theman be al- lowed to carry his bag around to the other house. When he glanced back, •afters-i,eaelting:.the- -walk- -he' saw her standing inside the door, watching through the glass after him). When he had dismissed Simons and reentered the house on Astor Street, he found no evidences of any disturb- ance while he had gone. On the se - gond 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 car- ried his suitcase. there and made ready for bed: The sight of Constance Sherill 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 spok- en of the friend against whom. Ben- jamin Corvet had warned her. Who was he? It had been impossible at that moment for Alan to ask her more; besides, if he had asked and she had tad him, he would have learn- ed only a name which he could not 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 himself. Yet Corvet had warned her not to think of him. Alan turned back his bed. It had been for him a tremendous day. Bar- ly twelve hours before he had come to that house, Alan Conrad from Blue Rapids, Kansas; now. ... phrases from what Lawrence Sherrill had told him vimiossassasmassamirommor of his father were running through his niind as he opened' the door of the room to be able' to hear any noise in Benjamin Corvet's house, of which he was sole protector. The emotion rause(' by his first sight of the lake went through him again as he opened theNciwvi,n_bdowe wastoinbed—he the:, e:.he seemed to be standing', a sepeter before a man blasphemmg Benjamin Corvet and the souls of men dead. "And the hole above the eye! . . The bullet got . So it's you that got Ben! ....I'll get youl• ...You caa't save the Miwaka!" The Miwaka! The stir of that name was stronger now even than before; it had been funning through his con- 'sciousness almost constantly since he had heard it Re jumped up and turn- ed on the light and found a pencil, He did not know how to spell the name and it was not necessary to 'write it down; the name had taken on I that definiteness and ineffaceableness of a thing which,:ence heard, can nev- er again be lorgOtteti. But, in panic that he might forget, he wrote it, guessing at the spelling—"Miwaka." It was a name, of course; but the name of what? It repeated and re- peated litselt. to him, after he got back into bed, .until its very iteration made him drowsy. Outside the gale whistled, and shrieked. The wind, passing its last resistance after its 'sweep across the prairies before it leaped upon the lake, battered and clamored in its assault about, the house. But as Alan became sleepier, he heard it no long- er as it rattled the windows, and howl- ed under l the eaves and over the roof, but as out on the lake, above the roar- ing and ice -crunching waves, it whip- ped and circled with its chill the ice - shrouded sides of struggling ships.' So, with he roar of surf and gale in his ears, he went to sleep with the sole conscious connection in his mind between himself. and these people, a- mong whim Benjamin Corvet's sum- mons had brought him, the one name "Miwaka." • CHAPTER -VI Constance. Sherrill •, In the morning- a great change had i come -over the lake. The wind stilt blew freshly, but '-no longer fiercely, from the west; and. now, 'from before the beach beyond the tiriva, and from the piers and breakwaters at the har- bor mouth, anddront all western shore, the ice had departed. Far out, a near- ly indiscernible 'White . line marked the ice -flee where it was traveling eastward I before .the wind.; nearer, . and only` with . a gleaming crystal fringe of frosen snOar clinging to the shore edge, the wa-&r sparkled,' blue and dimpling, under the morning sun; multitudes of gulls, hungryafterthe storm, called to one •anotner aad cir- cled over the breakwaters, the piers, and out over the water as far as the eye could see; and half ( !idle off shore a little work boat -1s. a shallop twenty feet long—was put-put-ing on some errand along a path where twelve hours before no horsepower creatable sbtyearemae. nrcotuld have driven the hugest Consta.nee Sherrill, awakened by the sunlight reflectialfrom the -water upon her ceiling,found nothing : odd or startling in this' change;' , it roused her but did not surprise her. 'Except for the, . short periods of:1•1er visits away fron Chicago, she had lived all her life on the shore of the lake; the water—wonderful, ever altering—was the first sight of each morning. As it I mad ti Wilder, and Mete grim the deso- lation of, a stormy day, so it made brighter and more smiling the splen- dor of the, sunshine and, by that much more, influenced one's feelings. Constance Sherrrill held by prefer- ence to the seagoing traditions of her family. Since she was a child, the lake and \the life of the ships had delighted and fascinated her; very early she had discovered that, upon the lake, she was permitted privileges sternly denied upon land—an arbitrary distinction Which led her to designate water, *hen she was a littlegirl as her „familyi's "respectable element." For while her father's investments were, in part, on the water, her mo- ther's property all was on the land. Her Mother, who was a Seaton, own- ed property somewhere in the city, in common with Constanee's uncles; this property consisted, as Constance suc- ceeded in ascertaining about the time she was nine, of large, wholesale gro- cery buildings. They and the "brand'/ had been in the possession of the ' Seaton fainily for many years; both Constance's uncles worked in the big buildings where the canning was done; and,. when Constance mats taken to visit them, she found the place inqst interesting—the berries and friit corning' up in great steaming caukl- rous; Old machines pushing the cans under the enormous faucets where the preserves ran. out and then sealing the cans and pasting the bright "Sea- ton brand" about them.. The people there were interesting—the girls with flying fingers sorting fruit, and the men pounding the big boxes together; and the great shagy-hoofed horses were MO acinatng. She which pullet i it huge,groaning want- edwag- ons to ride on one of/the wagons; but her request was promptly and com- pletely ;squashed. It was not "done"; nor was any- .,• (Continued mil Page Six) • A Packet ofa— }./ Tea, will go further on infusion and give better satisfaction than any other Tea obtainable. . 84510 Not a shadow of doubtab:ut1bs,11Ei19 To Solve Canada's Employment Problem Ie• • • ' s • • EVERYONE in Canada should understand just what the Government is doing to solve th unemployment problems that may arise through the dem obilization of -our fighting force. (1) Employment Ofiees. So that everyone—male or female, soldier or civilian—can get quickly such jobs as are available the Government is co- operating with the Provinces in establishing a chain of Public Employment Offices. .Employ- ers are being urged to make use of these offices to. secure any help they need. Farmers, for example, Who need hired men sheuld apply to the nearest office. There will be a Public Employment Office in every town of 10,000 people—and wherever the needfor one exists. There will be 60 different offices in all—One-half are-alrea.dy in operation. (R..) Emp lofintent Opportunities. The war held up much work that will now be carried on at once. Public works, shipbuild- ing, roadbitilding, rail w ay work —construction of bridges, im- provement of road -bed, making of new equipment—these will provide new opportunities for employment. In addition, the Gov. ernment has sent a Trade Mission overseas to secure for Canada a share in the business of providing materials and pro- ducts required for reconstruc- tion work in Europe. It has also set aside the large sum of $2500,000 to he -loaned through the Provinces to encourage the building of workmen's houses. This will mean much neW work in the spring. (3) Land and Loans for Soldier To help ioldiers becomia fart. finers the GovernMent has -de- veloped a programme that; includes the providing of land, - the grantiing of loans, and the training and supervision of those inexperienced in farming. At present, the soldier is grant- - ed, free, in addit/ion to his or- dinary homestead 4;4, 011 quarter -section of Dominion lands. He also receives a loan up to the maximum Vf $2;500. These original plans are now . being.boad4ned. If Parliantent - passes the new proposals during this session, the Soldier Settle- xnent Board will be able to buy suitable land and re -sell it . to the soldier at cost. Land up to the value of $5,000 May be bought by this plan—the money to be repaid in 20 years. The low. interest rate of 5 per cent. will be. chimed. These new proposals . will also permit , the Soldier Settlement Board to loan the soldier -farmer up t$2,500 for purchasing equipment, - etc., in ad!clitioxi to $5,000 loan on his farm. 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