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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-03-28, Page 7KJG -14 ock riPtY [t Cantle sugar keep on io>ss colas- kny sweets. containing of the best of lei's Rec et." f a 2c. stamp. ramie of Conti quantity. IITED go ronffest eanser kn�wrs MARCH° 2g, 1919 HE INDI. By WILLIAM MacRARG and ' ED WIN BA IA Thomas Alien, Publisher, Toronto Continued from .last week. "My father had to take. the bul- locks to the man across"tte:]leaver Is- land. He had a.MaGlcinaw boat, very little, with- a, sail fmade brown by holing in with bark, so that it would not wear out. At#irst the Ins dians did not know Who'the bullocks were for; so they helped him. He tied the lege of the bullocks, the front legs and the back legs, then all four legs together, and the Indians helped him put them in the boat. When they found out the bplloeks were for the reran on Beaver Island; the Indians would not help him any longer. - He We. Are As Full of Deadly Poison s . As . A Gem:.. Y •bomtp'• AUTO -INTOXICATION OR :$ELF -P�ISONING 1 . ""° • coffee be served in the library, Alan?" l Alan crossed to the library and seated ;hinsif in the chair where his father had been accustomed to sit. Wassaquam 'brought him 'the single cup of coffee, dit the spiritlanip on' the smoking stand, and moved that over; then he wept away. When lie had finished his coffee, Alan; went in- to the sinaller connecting room d recommenced his' examination of the drawers..under the bookshelves. He could hear.the Indian moving about his tasks, and twice Waseaquam came to the' door of the room arid looked m ons hirc; but he did not offer `to say . thing, .and Alan did not speak to had to take them aerosa alone. Be- : him. At ten o'clock Alan ` std d sides, it was bad weather, the begin.- his search thews and went back to ews ing of a storm." in the hbrarey. He dozed; for he a- woke with a start and a feeling that some one had .been bending over him, and gazed up into Wassaquarn's face. The Indian had been scrutinizing him with intent, anxious inquiry. He mov- ed away, but. Alan called him back. "When Mr. Corvet disappeared, Ju- dah, you went to look for him. .up at Manistique, where he was born --at least Mr. Sherrill said that was where "He went away, and my mother went to pick berries.=I ` was sniall then. Pretty soon I- saw my mother coming back. She had no berries, and her hair was hanging down, and she was wailing. She took me in her arms and said my father was dead. Other Indians came around• and asked her how she knew, and she said she had. heard the Drum. The Indians went out to listen." you went, Why dict you think you "Did you go?" might find him there?" Alan asked, "Yes; I went." "In the end, I think, a man ;ma be "How old were you, Judah?" goes back to thelace where he be - "Five years." gan. That's all, Alan." "That was the time you heard it?" "In the end! What do you mean "Yes; it woultf beat once, then there- by that? -What do you think has be - would be silence; then it would beat comepf Mr. Corvet?" _ again, It frightened us to hear it.. "I think now Ben's dead," "What makes you think that?" "Nothing makes me think; I think it myself" "I see. You mean you have no reason, more than others for thinking - it; but that is what you believe." "Yes." Wassaquam went away, and Alan heard him on the back._stairs ascending. to his room, ; When Alan went up ;,to his own room, after making the rounds to see that the house was locked,`..: droning chant came to him from the third Tibor. He paused .in the hall arid list- ened, then went on up to the floor. above. A Bickering light came_through the half -open door of a room at the front of the house; he went a little way toward it and looked in. Two thick candles were . burning before ,a crucifix, below which the Indian knelt, prayer book in hand and rocking to and fro as he droned his supplications. 'Amd Lir 'two ' 6.rrie to :Alan: but. The Indians would scream and beat their bodies with their hands when the sound came. We listened until night; there was a.storm all the time growing greater in the dark, but no rain. The Drum would beat once; then nothing; then it would. beat a- gin once --never Leto or more times. So we knew it was for my father. It is supposed the feet of the bullocks carne untieds and the bullocks tipped the hat over. They found near the island the body of ohe of the bullocks floating in the water, and its feet were tmtied. My father's body wag on the beach near there." "Did you ever hear of a ship called the MMMiwaka, Judah?" "That was long ago," the Indian answered. "They say that the Drum beat wrong when the Miwaka went down -that it was one beat short of the right number." "That was long ago," Wassaquam without then/ Wassaquam's •occupa- merely repeated. "Did Mr. Corvet ever speak to you about the Miwaka ?" "No; he asked me once if I had ever heard the Dram. I told him:." Wassaquam removed the dinner and brought Alan a dessert. He returned to stand in the place across the table that Alan had assigned to him, and stood looking down at Alan, steadily and thoughtfully. "Do I look like any one you ever saw before, Judah?" Alan inquired of hien. "Is that "That is what you were thinking ? " what I was thinking. Will CORNS OR CALLUSES OFF Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn or callus off with fingers • Donn suffer! A tiny bottle - of Treezone costs but a few cents at any crag store. Apply a few drops on the r•ora5, calluses and "hard skin" on bot- -tom of feet, then lift them off. When Freezone removes corns from the -toes or calluses from the bottom of feet, lice skin beneath is left pink and healthy aisl never sore, tender or irritated. tion was plain; he was praying for the repose of the dead—the Catholic chant taught to him, as it had been taught undoubtedly to his fathers, by' the French Jesuits of the lakes. The -intoned chant, for Cornet's soul, by the man who had heard the Drum, followed and. still came to Alan, as he returned to the second floor. He had not been able to determine, during the evening,;•Wassaquam's at- tittide toward him. Having_ no one else to trust. Alan '.ad been obliged to put a eoriain. amount of trust in the Indian; so as he had exoleained to Wasserman -1 that morning that the desk and the r<lraWers in the little room off Cotvet's had 'been forced, and had warned hire to see that no one, who had not proper business there, enter- ed the house. Wassaquam had ape neared to accept this order; but now Wussaquani had implied that it was - not because of Alan's order that he had refue..i reporters admission to the house. The developments of the day had tremendously altered things in one respect; for Alan, the night before, had not thought of the intrud- 'er into the house as one who could claim an ordinary right of entrance. there; bat now he knew. him to be the one -who—except for Sherrill— reightir ort naturally come to the house; one, too, for whom Wassaquam appeared lo grant a certain right of direction of affairs there. So, at this thought, Alan moved rangrily; the house was hip. --Alan's. He had noted particularly, when Sherrill had showed him the list, of properties whose trans- fer to him Corvet had left at Sher - rill's discretion, that the house was not ening them; and he had under- stood 'that this was because Corvet had left Sherr ill no discretign as to .the house. Gorvet's direct, uncondi- tional gift of the house by deed to Alan had been one of Sherrill's reas- ons for believing that if .Corvet had left anything which could explain his disappearance, it would be found 'in the house. Unless Speai:lnan had visited the house daring the day and had obtain- ed what he had been searching for the night before—and Alan believed he had not done, that—it was still in the house. Alen's hands clenched; he would not give Spearman such a chance as that again; and he .hinnself would continue his search of the house —exhaustively, room by room, art- icle of furniture by article of furni- ture. Alan started and went quickly to the open door of his room, as he heard voices now somewhere within the house. One of the voices he recog- nized as Wassaquam's; the other in- distinct, thick, accusing—Was unknown to him; it certainly was not Spear - man's. He had not heard Wassaquam go down -stairs, and he had not heard the doorbell, so he ran first - to the third floor; but the room where he had seen Wassaquam was empty. He descended again swiftly to the first floor, and found Wassaquam stand- ing in, the front hall, alone. Ears, everything that ig rri a and was here, Judah?" Alan de - nauseating. A Cascara to -night will manded. give your constipated bowels a thorough j "A man " the Indian answered *teaming and straighten you out by i stolidly. "He was drunk; 1 put him morning, They work while you sleeper 1 out." a 10•eent box from your druggisb wall "What slid he come for?" • 1 Spe keep, feeling good for nient "He came to see Bens I put him `he, "`CASCARETS" WORK WHIZ, YOU SLEEP roc Sick Headache, Stomach, Sluggish Liver and Bowels— Take Cascar�ets tonight. 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GOe. a box, 6"for $2.50, trial size 25c; • At all dealers or sent on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Lim ite d,Ottawa. out; he is gone, Alan." Alan dung open the front door and looked one, but he saw no one. "What •did he want of Mr. Corvet, Judah?" u toldBen wasf know. I ihm I danot not here; he was angry, but he, went away." . "Has he ever comehere before?" "Yes; he comes twice," "He has been, here twice?" "More than that; every year he comes twice; Alan, bnce he came oftener. . "How long has he been doing that?" "Since I can remember." _ "Is he a friend. of Mr. Corvet ? "_ "No friend—no!" • "But Mr. Corvet saw him when he came here?". "Always., Alan." "And you don't know at all what he came about?" • "How should I know? No; I do not." , Alan got his coat and hu: : The`sud-- den disappearance of the man -might mean only that he had hurried, away, but it might mean too that he was still -lurking near the house. Alan had decided to snake the circuit' of the house and determine that. But as he came out on to the porch, a figure more than a block away .to the south strode with uncertain step out into the light of a street lamp, halted and faced about, and shook his fist back at the, house. • Alan. dragged the In- dian out on to the porch. "Is that the man, Judah?" he de- manded. "Yes, Alan." Alan ran down thesis' s and at full speed after the man. The other had turned west at the corner where Alan had seen him; but even though Alan slipped as he tried to run upon the. snowy walks, he must be gaining fast upon him. He saw him again, when he had reached the corner where the man had turned, traveling westward with that quick uncertain step toward Clark 'Stret; at that corner the man turned south. But when Alan reach ed the corner, he was nowhere in sight. . To the south., Clark Street reached away, garish with electric signs and with half dozen saloons • to every block. That the man was drunk made it probable he had turned into one of these places. Alan went into every one of them for fully a half mile and looked about, but he found no one even resembling the man he had been following. He ret -aced his steps for several blocks, still looking; then he gave it up and returned east- ward toward the Drive. The side street leadin'd to the Drive was less well lighted; dark entry ways and alleys opened on it; but the night was clear. The stars, with the shin- ing sword of Orion almost overhead, gleamed with midwinter brightness, and to the west the crescent of the moon was hanging and throwing faint shadows over the snow. Alan could see at the end of the street, beyond the yellow glow of the distant boule- vard lights; the smooth, chill surface of the lake. A white light rode a- bove it; now, below the white light, he saw a red speck—the inasterhead and port lanterns of a steamer northward bound. Farther out a second white glow appeared from behind the ob- scuration of the buildings and below it a green speck a starboard light. The information he had gained that -day enabled him to recognize, in these lights two steamers passing one an- other at the harbor mouth, "Red to red," Alan 'murmured to himself, "Green to ,green -Red tto red, perfect safety, go ahead!" he re- peated. It brought him, with marvelous vi- vidness, back to Constance Sherrill. Events sinre he had talked with .her - that morning had put them far apart once more; but, in' another way, they were being drawn closer together. For he knew now that ' .she ealag`bt AS' well as he in the esh of consequences of acts not their own, Benjamin Ger- vet, in the anguish of the last hours before fear of these consequences had driven hints away, had given her a warning against Spearman so wild that it defeat itself; for Alan merely to reps t tat warning, with no more• than h yet knew, woeld be equally futile, But intothe contest between it and hin self= :that contest, as begannin% fell, which must, threaten destrisetion 'either to Spear- man pearman or to his ---she had entered. Her happiness, her furs'_ were at stake; her fate,, dhe was certain :now, depend- ed upon discovery'` of those events tied tight in the -Mystery of Alan's own identity which; Speakman' knew, andthe threat' of which' at moments appalled hinm., Alan winced as there came before' him in the darkness of of the . street the vision of Con- stance in Spearman's arms and of the kiss that he had seen: that afternoon. He staggered, slipped, fell suddenly forward upon hill Itnees under a stimn- ing, crushing blw upon his head from behind. Thought:, conseiousnese • al- most lost, he s 4led, twisting him- self about' to grasp at, his assailant: He caught the " maids clothing; trying to drag himself` up; fighting blindly, meemmewinowoompommownmeommour dazedly, - unable tc see or think, Ise shouted aloud and then again, aloud. He seemed in the distance to hear answering cries; but the weight and strength of the other was bearing him downagain to his knees; he tried slip aside from it, to rise. Then another blow, crushing and sickening, ' descended on his head; even hearing left him end, unconscious, befell for- ward onto the snow and lay still. CHA>EfTER X A Walk Beside the Lake. i �� The name seems like S;herrall, the interne agreed, "He said . it before when we had him „on ,the table up- stairs; and he has said it new twice distinctly -Sherrill." "His name, do you thi k?" • "I shouldn't say ;no he seeing try ing to speak to some one named Shdr The " nurse waited a "few minutes. "Yes; that's how it seems to met sir. Ile said something that sounded like `d onnie' a while ago, and once he said `Jim.' There are only four Sherrills in the telephone book, two of thein in Evanston and one way out in Minoota. "The -other?" "They're only about six blocks from where he wars picked up; but they're on the Drive—the Lawrenceherrills:" The interne whistled softly and looked. more interestedly at his pa- tient's features. He glanced at his watch, which showed the hour ' of the morning to be half- half -past four. "You'd better make a note of it," he said. "He's not a Chicagoan; his clothes fi were .rade somewhere in Kansas. He'll be conscious. some time dut ng the _day; there's only a slight fracture, ander--perhaps you'd- better eels. the Sherrill house., anyway, if he's not known there, no harm done; and if he's one of their friends and he shouid The nurse nodded and moved off. Thus it was that at a quarter to fide Constance Sherrill was awakened by the knocking ,of one of the ser- vants`at her father's door. Her father , went down -stairs to the telephone in- strument where he might reply with- out dl8ttirb1i1 g Mrs. Sherrill. Con- stance, khnona over her shoulders, stood at the top of the stairs and waited. It became plain to her at once that whatever bad happened had (Continued on ]age Six) a s x• —w THE FIRST was a ditty, uncouth peas- ant, but he played a Boding part in the disruption of a nation. 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