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vet too. 1So fattier would not let him.- for luncheons.' as they reached, ' her
self believe that youlliad-beee attack- home, but she asked it without urging;
' ed to be killed: He had to believe the at his refusal shemoved slimly up
police theory was sufficient" _ the steps; but she halted when she saw
Alan made -no conortent at once. that he did not go on. .
,"WagsaquaM believes lithe Corvet is "Miss Sherrill," he said, looking up
' dead," he said finelly. "He told me at her, "how much money. iii there in
roe- Poet Your father belive that?" your house?" .
,
i "I think he is Beginning to believe She smiled, amused and a little lper-
plexed; then sobered as she saw his
'
They.'
had reached -the little bridge intentness on her answer.
that break the Drive and spans the "What do you. mean?" she asked.
ac
channel through which the motor ' "I mean—how much is ordinarily
• boats re- harbor in the lagoon;' he kept there?"
rested. pisjailtng upon the tail.. of the ."Why, very little in actual cal We
•bridge and. looked down into the than- pay everything by check—inul omen
riel, now frozen. He seemed to her to and servante; and treld if We 'haPPen 1 arms was so dull, so ',inert that, if
Iconsider and to decide upon something• not to have a charge account where violence had been his intention, there
"I've not told any. one," he said, we make a purchase, they know who was nothing to be feared from him
now watching her, "how I happened to we are and are , always willing to now. Alan looked up, therefore,. to
be oat of the house, that, night. 1 eharge it to us," flee if any one had come with huh.
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the lower hallway; the shouts contin-
ued still a moment more. Now that
the noise xif.poinfding did not inter-
fere, Alan could make out what the
man was eaying: "Ben Corvet!"—
tbe name was almost unintelligible—
"Ben -Comet! Ben!" Then the shouts
stoPlied too. ,
Alan -sped to the door and turned
back the latch. The `door bore back
alma him, not from a push, but from*
-weight without which had fallen a-
gainst it A big, heavy man, with a
rough cep and mackinaw coat, would
have fallen alion the floor, if Alan had
not caught liine His weight in Alan's
'Continued from last week._ follemiedn nmn. who can* ;there to,the
, stalks in and out 'among those Still Vasstiquant distenot•lmow- his
. - -
standing, I'd wonderedt-you see,. what named e did not 'know Mr. Cori/et
They- had breagbt him horde, the you tmust liaae -beeu ,uke tom you was gone; for heeeametitere to see mit
dattbefortraiihlt and her Aitcri ja the were a little girl; so, I suppose, when -CtSiet, He was - mat. an
metter-to the house on Astor .Street. ordinary
I was delirious, I saw you the way.' - 'frie f Mr. Corvet's; but he had
Re had-- inaisted returning there, She heti. looked -up at coin thereoften; Wass -aqua* did not
refasing the room. m their house • - Appreheeetvely, afraid that heWS go- know. why. • Wassaquam had -seat the
they had offeredr but the sAcictor
...enjoined outdoors and itiodioite:,....ex. ing to say soniething. more but his man a ey, tied T ran out after him;
leok reassured her. • , but ceuld not find him."
midge forand she had wale
"Then thet,"- she hazarded, "must
Pr°11use to "'me' and walk with -her'' haVe been how the hospi I -People-
11
Ile went to the Sherrill house about learned our `riarnee
ten o'clock, and they walked north- woitdered a- to
out that; they sal& You. were uncon- she
ward toward the Park. ecihas "fitite and then delirious and nisi
It was a mild, sunny morning with e
arisen you spoke yea. said, among other nio•
ui
warm wind from the south, which mines, mine—Connieand tSherrill." was
sucked up the last patches of . snost He /colored. and glanced away. "1 alone i
from the lawns and dried the tiny thought they might have told. you that
triekles Of water across the walks. so I wanted you to know. They reliea
that spring soon would be on the wa
Looking- to the land, one znight sey that in a dream, or in delirium, after "
y; your brain. establishes the first- ab- the
but, looking to thetlake, midetinter surdity—like.yeur playing out awing
held. The counterscrap of , canctete, the sunflowers with me when We were
beyond the. withered sod that - edged Jittle—everthing else is consistent. I
the Drive, nies sheathed in ice; the wouldn't, call a little girl ‘MieseSherill,'
frozen spray-hlmumicks beyond steam- saf eliurse. Ever since I've known you,
ed in the sunr, and ,out as fir at one I couldn't help thinking a great deal
could see, floe floated clase together. About you; you're not like any one
exposing only here and there a bit of else I've ever. known. But,' didn't want
blue. Wind, cold and chilling, wafted 'crou to think I thought Of you—fam-
off this ice field, taking the, warm
"
south breeze upon its flanks. • ,
Glancing up at her conypaniorx from pee sa: of, you always as Alan to
,
father," she said.
time to time, Constance saw the eolor '3-.7' • silent for a moment. "They
corning to his face, and he strode be- lasted hardly for a day—those SIM -
side her quite steadily. 'Whatever
flowers houses, Miss- Sherrill," he said
was his inheritance, his certainly were ,
' "They -withered ehnost as
stamina. and vitality; a less --or 10t1:.son as they were made. Castles in
a 'little dissipation of them—and he Kansa*, one might say! No one could
might not have recoverer at all, much livesin them."
less have lea.ped back to strength as
Aprehensive again, she colored. He
he had done. For since yesterday, had recalled to her, without meaning
the languor -which had held him' was to do so, she thought, that he had
seen her in Spearrnan'a arms; she was
They halted a min• ute pear the eolith quite sure that recollection of this
entrance of the park at the St. was in his milid. But in spite of this
Gaudeir "Lincoln," which he hail net —or rather, exactly because of it---.
seen. The gaunt, sad figure she understood that he hat formed his
of the "rail -splitter" in his ill-fltting own impression of the reisition between
tothes, seemed to. recall -something Henry and herself and that, conse-
to him; for he glanced swiftly at her quently, he was not likely to say any -
as they turned away.
thing more like this, .
"Miss Sherrill." he asked, "have you They had walked east, .across the
ever stayed out in the country?" damp, dead turf to where the Drive
"I* go to northern Michigan, up by leaves the shore arid is built out into
the straits, 'almost every summer for the lake; as, they crossed to it on the
part of the time, at least; and once in smooth ice' of the lagoon between, he
a while we open the house in winter
too- for a week or so. It's quite wild took her arm to steady her.
"There something I have been
--trees and sand and shore and the wanting to eask you," she said.
water. I've had some of my best
'times up there." "That night when dou were hurt—
"You've never been out on the
plains?" it was for robbery, they said. What
"Just - to peas -aver there tin the yam think about it?".... She wateb.ed
train on the way' to the coast-„ him as .he looked at her and then a: -
"That wo-uId be in winter or in way; but his face was completely
spring; I was thinking about the plains expressioraess.
in late summer, when we—aim and "The proceedings were a little too
Betty, the children of the people I rapid for me to judge, Miss Sherrill."
was with in Kansas—" "But there was no demand upon
, you to give over your money before
"I remember them."
you we're attacked:"
"When we used to play at being
"NO." •
pioneers in our sunflower shacks."
"Sunflower shacks?" she questioned. She breathed a little more quickly.
'I was dreaming we were building "It must be a strange sensation," she
them again when I was delirious 'just observed, "to know that some one has
after I was hurt, le seems. - I thought tried to kill you."
"It must, indeed."
that I was back in Kansas and was
"You mean you don't think that. he
little The prairie was all brown
as it ie in the late Summer, brown tried to kill you?"
billows .of dried grass which let. you "The police °captain thinks not; be
see the chips of limestone and flint gays if was the work of a. m,an new
to the blackjack, and he hit harder and
scattered on the ground beneath; and
oftener than he needed.- He says that
in the hollows there were acres and
sort are the dangerous ones—that
acres of sunflowers, three times as tall
as either Jim or I, and with stalks as one's quite safe in the hands of an
experienced slugger, as you would be
thick as a man's wrist, where Jim and
with the akilful man in any line. I,
Betty and I arid you, Miss Sher-
rill, were playing." ; never thought of it that way' before.
alanist made it into an argument
"We cut paths through the sun- for leaving, the trained artists loose
flowers with corn knife," Alan -con- on the streets, for the safety of the
tinued, not looking at her, "and built talk, instead of turning. the business
houses in them by . twining the cut over to boys only half- educated."
"What do you think about the man
yourself," Cqnstance persisted. •;
I "The apprentice Who- •practiced -on ttlict
1 She waited, watching ills eyes. here
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"Thank you. It would he rather un- The ielleY and the street were eleat.
usual then for you—or your neighbors The snow in the areaway showed that,
,--to have currencts at hand exceed- the man had come to the door alone all the money any one wanted; no one thbuse, for, as long as it took to make
ing the hundreds?" ' and with great difficulty- he'had fallen Would have thrown Out Luke them the once Museular, eowerfal figure of
means in- the thousands—or at least Alan dragged Luke slept in the snow, a wet When
'Exceeding the. hundreds? That °ace wee tee want
the man into' the house and went back he arose, the saloon was open again,
one thousand; yes, for us, it would be and cloeed the door. and he got more whiskey, but not
quite unusual." - He returned and looked at him. The enough to get him warm.. He hadn't
She wasted for him to exPld'ti trlitr man was like, v-ery like the one whom been warm since. That was Ben Cor.
he had asked; it was not, she felt sure Alan had followed from the house on vet's fault. Ben Corvet better be a-
* the night *heti he was attacked; eel._ round now; Luke wouldn't stand any
-Willy that this was the .same man more,
came quicklY to him- He seized the Alan felt of the pulse again; he op -
fellow again and dragged him up the ened the coat and under -flannels and
stairs and to the lounge ie the library. felt the heavng Omit. He went to the
The warmth revived him; he sat up, hall and looked in the teleplume di -
and rectory. He remembered the name of
coughing and breathing quieldy
' the druggist on, the corner of Clerk
tvith - a loud, rasping wheeze. The
smell of liquor was strong upon him; Street and he telephoned him, giving
the number on Astor Street.
his clothes reeked with the unclean
smell of barrel houset.
stepped an instant studying her. for any reason .which coult readily
t Nms not the first man who came suggest itself to ter. But he only
e house," he went on quickly, as thanked her again and lifted his hat
was about to speak. "I found a and moved away, Looking after him
in Mr. Corvet's house the. first from the window after she had enter -
•t at I spent there. Wassaquam ed the house. she eaw him turn the
away, you .riniember, and I was corner in tte sion of A stat street.
the house. •
an there in the' house?" she
gone.
ie
hope—at least I don't thinit he
was - I heard him below, after I had As the first of the Month was ap-
te Up-sairs. I came down then proaching, Wassaquam - had brought
and saw him. He was gOing through his houisehold.bills and budget to Alan
Mat go*vet's things—not the silver that morning directly after °breakfast.
and all that, but through his , desks
and ;files and eases. He was looking
foe something—something -which he
se to want very much; when I
interfered, it greatly exeited him."
They had ttneted back from the
gel and were returning along the
that they -had come; but new she
ped and looked up at him.
hit happened when you 'inter -
d'?"
"
steer thing"
44 frightened him."
"Frightened hirn ?" She hgd ap-
m in hit tone more significance
the casual meassing of the words.
e thought I wag a ghost."
hest. Whose ghost?"
e shrugged. "I don't know; some
one whom he seemed to have -known °
pretty well—and whom Mt. Corvet
knew, e thought
"Why didn't you tell us this be-
fore?"
w t least—I am telling you now,
Mis Sherrill. I frighteeed hisn, and
hei, go, 'away. But had seen him
I can describe him....You've
talked with your father of the possi-
bility that something might 'happen'
to me such as, perhaps, happened to
Mr. Corvet. If anything does happen
to me, a description of the man may
—prove useful."
He saw the color leave her face, and
her eyes brighten; be accepted this
for lagreement on her part/ Then
el*Ite and definitely as he could,. he saquitm stated, was in currency and the fev-er.
tritiititattinealwayrehatli "How long have you been. this- way`?"--
aeseribed Speatman to her. She aiirittlYttbY hihr.
had him keep thattilfuch in the house;) Alen demanded. "Where did you come
not recognize the description; he had
known elle would not. Had not Spear_ Wassaquam would not touch that sum i from ?" He put his hand on the wrist
now for. the payment of current ex- it was very hot and dry; the pulse
man been in Duluth? Beyond that,
was not connection of Spearman with Penses-
the prowler in Corvet's house the one
corm cti, n of all most difficult for her
to make? But he saw her fixing and
reco ink the description in her mind.
They were silent as they went on
toward her home. He had said all he,
could, or dared to say; to tell her that
the man lied been Spearman would
not merely have awakened her incred-
ulitystit would have destrc.yed credence
utterly. ' A definite change in their
relatton t, one another hadtakenplace
during their walk. :the fullness, the
frankness, of the sympathy there had
been between them almost from their
first Meeting, had gone. she was quite
aware, he saw, that he !had not frank-
ly answered 11;x. questions; she was 'a-
ware that in some way' he had drawn
back from her and shut her out from
his el oughts about his own position
here But be had known that this
must be so; it had been his first
definiee realization after his return to
cense- Ou ness in the hospital when,
kno pow her relation to Spear-
man, found all questions which
his relations with the people
a mammeasurable more acute
ack upon him. •
d him to tome in and stay
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The accounts which covered expenses
for the month just ending and a small puffed, and his eyes watery and bright;
aanount of dash to be Carried for the his ' brown hair, which was shot all
month beginning, were written upon a through with gray, was dirty and mat -
sheet of foolscap in neat, unshaded ted; he had three or fours days' growth
writing exactly like the models in a of beard, He was clothed as Alan had
copybook—each letterlormed as careaeseen .deck hands on the steamers at -
fully and preeisely as is the work tired; he was not less thand.fifty, Alan
done upon an Indian basket The judged, though his mindition made
statement accounted accurately for a estimate difilcult7'When he sat up and
sum of cash M hand upon the first of looked about, it was plain that whiskey
February, itemized charged expenses, was only one of the forces working
and totaled the bills. For March, upon him, -the other was fever which
Wassaquam evidently proposed a con- burned up and sustained him inter-
tinuance of the establishment upoh. the mittently. ,
present 'lines: To "'provide for that, "Lo!" he greeted Alan. "Where%
and to furnish Alen etith whatever shat detain Injin, hey? I knew Ben
sums he needed, Sherrill bed made a -Corvet was shere—knew he was shere
considerable deposit in Alan s rianb.e in all time. Course he's shere; he got
the bank where he carried his awe ac- . to be Biwa --.That's Aright. You go
count; and Alan had adcompaniei . get 'im!" .
1
Sherrill to the lank to be introduced "Who are your Alen esked. .. -
and had signed the necessary . cards "Say, vilio'r yoa? What t'hells gym
in order to check against the deposit; dein' here'? Never see you before—go
I
but, as iyet, he had drawn nothing. e --go get Ben Corvet. Jus' say Ben
Alan has.1 required barely half of the Corvet; Lu--luke's shore- Ben Core
hundred dollars which Benjamin Coe- vet'll know Lae -Juke 1 all right; al -
vet has sent to Blue Rrapids, for his wavsh, abiraish knows Me.... '
expenses in Chicago; and he had "What's the matter , with you ri
with him from "home a hundred dol- Alan had drawn back but now went
to the man again. The first idea that
lars of his own. He had used that for
his personal expenses since. The a- this might have been merely some old
mount which Wasse.quane now desired i sailor who had served Benjamin Cor -
to Pay the bills was Much m.ore than i vet or, perhaps, had been a comrade in
the earlier days, had been banished
Alan had On hand; but that amount
was also much less than the eleven i by the confident arroganre of the
hirstedareasd docilaashes ownhile3hantah;e servant had i Irian's. tone—an arrogance not to be
was_ ; explained, entirely, by whiskey or by
1 • "I went a doctor right away," he
He was, or had been, a very power- , said. "Any good doctor, the one that
cplickest." The druggist
ful man broad and thick through with i You can get
overdevelope&—ahnost distortin
promesed that a physician would be
muscles in his shoulders; but his body there within a quarter of an hour.
Went hack to Luke, who wag 81 -
lent become fat and soft, his face was Alan
lent now except for the gasp of his
breath; he did not answer when Alan
spoke to him, except to asli-for whis-
key. Alan, gazing down at him, felt
that the man was dying; liquor and
his fever had sustained him only to
bring him to the door; now the collapse
had come; the doctor, even if he arriv-
ed_ very soon, could do no .more than
perhaps delay the end Alms went pp -
stairs and brought down blankets and
ng
GI-IERS! 4 ditio Miss Sher- She as
COUe was h rd n •a con. te
Coughing
Spreads
Disease, I smicE
it870
;
30 DfibRPSTORf COUGHS
HALF THIS MAR CHILDREN
LIFT OFF CORNS!
Apply few drops then lift sore,
touchy corns off with
fingers
i rill, to appreciate anythipg about the
'man:c all. Why do you, ask?"
1 "B. ause—" She hesitated an -in-
i stant, "ifyou were attacked to be
•I killed, 1 it Meant that you must have
: beentattacked as the 'son of—Mr. Cor-
vet.1thhen that ineanta--at lest it
' implied that Mr. Corvet was killed,
at did not go away. You see
that, o course." f ,
e you the only one who.thought
Or did some one speak to you
about, sta?"
' -"ale lone did; I spoke to father. He
thouigh4—"
eyest.
"Well, if Mr. Covet Alfas murdered—
I'm following what father thought,
you understood—it invelved something
a good deal worse perhaps than. any-
thing that could have been involved
if he had only gone aWay. The facts
we had made it certi 1 that—if what
had happened to him was death at
the hands of another he must have
foreseen that death aid, seeking no
pretection for himse ...it implied,
that he . preferred to ie rather than.
to . ask protection—that there was
something whose coecealment lie
thought mattered everi more to him
than life. It—it might have meant
that be donsidered his life was due to
whomever took it." Her voice, which
had become yeti -low, now ceased She
was speaking to Alan of his father—
a father whom he had never known.,
and whona he could not have recog-
. seized. by sight until she showed hini
the picture a few weeks before; but
she was speaking of his father,
, ..
atr‘s
, that?
s
Doesn't hurt a bit! Dropa Isttla "Mr, Sherrill didn't feel that it wag
Freezone on an ailing corn, insly
necessary for him to do anything,
tatit
that corn stops hurting, then you mil even though he thought that?"
it right out. Yee, maid "If Mr. Corvet was dead, we could
A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a do him no good, surely, by telling this
few cents at any drug tore, but is sufd- to the polite; if the police succeeded
clout to remove every hard corn, soft in finding out all the facts, we would
corn, or cone between 'the tees, and the be doing only what Uncle Benny did
calms, without eoeeness or irritation. not vaish—tvhat he preferred death to.
Freezone is the sensational diaeoverY We could not tell the police about it
of a Onetunati genital, A is wonderful. . without telling them all about °area -
This sum of money kept inviolate
troubled Alan. Constance Amerill's
statement that, for her familf at least,.
to keep such a sum would have been:
unusual; increased this trouble; it did
not, however, -preclude the possibility
that others than the Sherrills might
keep such amounts of cash on hand.
On the first of the month, therefore
Alan drew upon his new bank account
to Wassaquarn's order; and in the
early afternoon Wassaquant went to
the bank to cash his iheek—one of the
very few occasions when Alan had
been left in the house alone; Was-
saquam's habit -it appeared, was to go
about on the first ef the month and
pay the tradesmen in person.
Some two hours later, and before
Wassaquam could have been expected
back, Alan in:the room which had be-
come his, was startled. by a sound of
heavy pouplingrwhicla came suddentY
to him froari a floor below. Shouts—
heavy, thiek, and unintelligible—ming-
led with the pounding. He ran swift-
ly down the stairs, then on and dors
the 'service stairs into the basement
The -door to the house from the area-
way was shfaings to irregular, heavy
blows, which stopped as Alan reached
was racing, irregular; at second- it
seemed to stop; for other seconde
was continuous. The fellow coughed
and bent forwarcl. "What is it—pneu-
monia?" Alan tried to str:aighten him
up.
'GI' me drink! .... Go get Ben Cor -
vet, ltdl I you! Get Ben Corvet
qui0k! ' Say--yous shear? You get
nie Ben Corvet; you better get Ben
Corvet; you tell him Lu—uke's here;
won't wait any more; goirr t'have my
money now, . . sright away, your
shear? Kick me out sloon; I guess
not no more. Ben Corvet give me all
money I want or I talk!"
"Talk!"
"Syou knOW it! I ain't goin...."
He choked mi and tottered back; Alan,
supporting larn, laid riam down and
• stayed beside him until his coughing
and choking eeaser, and there was, only
the rattling grasp of his breathing.
WhenAlan spoke toeim again, Luke's
eyes opened, and he narrated recent
experienceir bitterly; all were blamed
to Ben Corvet's absence; Luke, who
had been drinkingheavily a few nights
before, had been thrown out when the i
saloon was closed; that was Ben Cor -
vet's fault; if Ben Corvet had been a- I
round, Luke Would have had money,
put them over Luke; he cut the knot -
feel that without questioe Comet was
ted laces of the soaked shoes and puls
led them off; he also took off the made-werehis fatber, but now sliainet and horror
inaw and the undercoat The fellow, making him feel it: in horror at
be—
appreciating that care was being everts Corvet's act—whatever it might
shame at Corvet's cowardiee
him, relaxed; he slept deeply for short and in .
Cor -
periods, stirred and started up, then Alms wag thinking of Benjansin Cor -
slept again. Alan stood watching, a 'vet as his- father. This shame, this
strange, sinking tremor ebakmg horror, were his inheritance.
This pan had come there to make a Hie left Luke and went to the 'win -
This to see if the doctor was -coming.
He had:called the doctor because ia
his first sight of Luke he had not
recognized that Luke was beyond the
aid of doetors and because to annunon
a doctor under midi circumstancewas
the right thing to do; but he had
thought of the doctor also as a witness
to anything Lk ie might say. BlitTLOW
—aid he want a witness?. He had no
thought of concealing anything for
his own or for his father's; but he
wiaikl, at .least, want the chance to
determine the. eireumstance,s under
'which it wes to be made publia
• (Continued Next Week)
the sailor who threatened to talk into
the swollen, .whiskeyesoaked Milk of
the Mall dying 1139W on the lounge,
For this state that „day, the man
blamed Benjamin Oorvet. Alan, fore -
ung himself to touch the swollen face,
shuddered at thought of the truth
underlying that accusation. Benjowt-
in Corvet's act—whatever it might be
that this, man knew—undoubtedly had
destroyed not only him who paid the
blackmail but him who feeeived it; the
effect of that act WAS Still going on,
destroying, blighting. Its threat , of
simile was not only against Beniam-
ia-Corvet; it threatened also all Who*
mimes must be connected -with Cor -
vet's. Alan had refused to accept
any stigma irt his , relationship with
Corvet; but now he _could not refuse to
accept it This shame threatened Alan
it threatened also the Sherrills's. Was
it not because of this that Benjamin
Corvet had objected to Sheirill's name
appearing with his own in the -title of
the ship -owning firm? And was it
not becautie of this that Corvet's In-
timacy -with Sherrill -and kis zonsteade-
ship with Constance had. been alter-
nated by times in which he bad frank-
ly avoided them both? What Sherrili
had told Alan and even Comet's gifts
to hint had not been able to make Alan
claim—a claim which many times be-
fore, appareutly, Benjamin Corvet had
admitted. Luke came to Ben Corvet
for money which he always got—all
he wanted—the alternative to giving
which was that Luke would "talk!'
Blackmail, that meant, of course, blaek
mail which not only Luke had 'old of
but which Wassaquam too had admit-
ted, as Alan now realized Money for
blacianail—that was .the reason for
that -thousand dollars in cash which
Benjamin Corvet always kept at the
house.
Alan turned, with a midden shiver
of revulsion, toward his father's chair
in place before the hearth; there for
hours each deer his father had sat
with a hook' hi. Marini 'info the -flite,
always with what this man knew hang-
ing over him, always arming against
it with the thousand dollars ready for
this men, whenever he eame. Meet-
ing blackmail, paying blackmail for as
long as Wa.ssaqum had been in the
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can women will leave for England,
France and Italy in April to eonfer
with, women labor leaders a these
countries with a view '-'of• promoting
internationally industrial interests of
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