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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-05-02, Page 7It and other Tea est kis. TRY ITS ID - . liERM s Itr coven, - LT Tll iii Mtn ocIngs. Thing. But n't hard on ings. es to ensure traini g 171; ekngs p'Iey re suite for d they rete ZVI has 25 Re- per - hard cuts bar l a MAY 2, 1919 Al I. D it..m 441. The Indian Drum (Ccintinu,ed front last week.) "I want to see Dim, that's all." Alan turned to the tan. "You're Jo Pape, - aren't you?" The Indian assented by an almost 1 ii iperceptible nod. „:"You used to live near Escanaba, 'didn't you?" ' Jo Papo considered: before replying; either his scrutiny of Alan reassured him, or he recalled nothing having to do with his residence near Escanaba which disturbed him. "Yes; once," he said. "Your father was Azen Papo?" "He's dead," the Indian replied. "Not my father, anyway. Grand- father. What about him?" "That's what I want to ask you," Alan said. - "When did he die ' and how?" Jo Papo got up and stood leaning his back against a tree. So far from being one who was merely curious a- bout Indians, this stranger perhaps was corning about an Indian claim— to give money maybe for injustices done in the past. "My grandfather die fifteen years a=go," he informed them. "From cough I think." "Where was that ?" Alan. asked. "Escanaba—near there." "What did he tie?" "Take people to shoot deer-fish— a. guide. I think he plant a little too." "He didn't work on the boats ?" "No; 'my father, he work on the boats." "What was his name?" "Like me; Jo Papo too. He's dead." "What is your Indian /Lame?" .`Flying Eagle,." "What boats did your father woriz on?' "Many boats." - "What did he do?" "Deck hand." "What boat did he work on last?" "Last? How do I know. He went away one year and didn't come -back? I suppose he was drowned from a boat." "What year was that?" "I was little then; I do not know." "How old were you?" "Maybe eight years; maybe nine or ten." "How old are you now ?" "Thirty, maybe." "Did you ever hear of Benjamin Corvet ?" - "Whe?e, • • "Benjamin Corvet," - Alan turned to Constance; she had been listening intently, but shemade no comment. - "That is all, then," he said to Papo; "if ' 1 findout anything to your advantage, I'll. let you know." He had aroused he understood, ex- pectations of benefit in these. poor In- dians. Something rose in Alan's throat and choked. him. Those of whom !Benjamin Corvet had so labori- ously kept Mace were, very many of them, of the sorb of these Indians; that they had never _)!heard cif Benja min. Corvet was net ->tnor& significant than that they were __people of whose existence Benjamin Corvet could not have teen expepted.to be aware. What conceivable bond could there have beer✓ • between. Alan's father and such poor people as 'these? Had his father wronged these people? Had - he owed{ them something ? This thought which had been growing stronger with each succeeding step of ,,/Alan's • investiga tions chilled and horrified him now, i Revolt against his father more active than ever before seized him, revolt stirring stronger with each recollec- tion of his interview with the people upon his list. As they walked away, Constance appreciated that 'he was feeling something deeply; she too was stirred. "They a, 1. -all I have talked to are like that," he said to her. "They. all have last some one upon the lakes." In' her feeling for him, she had. laid her 'band upon. his arm; now her fingers tightened to sudden tenseness.' "What do you mean?" she asked. "Oh, it is not definite yet—not-e clear!" She felt the bitterness in his : tone. "They have not 'any of them been able to make it wholly clear to me. It is like a record that has been —blurred. These! original names must have been •ciaitten do vn by my father many years ago—many, most of those people, I think—are dead; some, are, nearly forgotten. The only'``thing that is fully plain is that in every case my inquiries have led, me to those who have lost one, ani] some- times mere than -one relative upon the Constance thrilled to a vague horror i :. act anything to which she could give definite reason. His tone quite as much as tisdiat he seid was its cause. His experience plainly had been forcing him to bitterness against his father; and he did not know with certainty yet that his father was dead. She had not found it possible to HE O$ tell him that yet; now. consciously - she deferred telling hang until she. could 'take ham to her hone and show him what had come. The shrill whistling of the power yacht in which she and her party had come recalled to her that all were to return to the yacht for luncheon, and that they must be waiting for her: "You'll lunch with us, of- course," she' said to- Alan, "arid then go back With ue to Harbor Point. It's a day's journey around the twobays; but we've a boat here," - f He assented, and they went to the water where the white and 1 Town power yacht, with long, graceful lines, lay- somnolently in the sunlight. A little :boat took them out over the shim- =merix'ig., smooth surface to the ship; f swells from a far away • freighter swept under the beautiful, burnished , craft, -causing it to ,roll lazily as they boarrded it. A party of nearly a dozen men and girls, with an older woman chaperoning them, lounged under the shade of 'an awning over the after deck. They greeted her gaily and looked curiously at Alan as she intro- duced him. As he returned their rather formal acknowledgments •and afterward fell.. into general conversation with them, she became for the first time fully' aware of how greatly he had changed from what hehad been when he had been when he had come to them six; months before in Chicago. These gay wealthy loungers would. have dismayed him then, and he would have been equally dismayed by the luxury of the carefully appointed yacht; now he was. not thinking at all about what these people might think of him. • In re-- turn, e- turn, they I granted him consideration. It was not, she saw that they accept - .ed him ass,, one of their own sort, or as some ordifiar,,y acquaintance of hers; if they ,accounted for him to thent- <selves at all, they mit believe hien to be some officer employed upon herr father's ships. He looked like that -- with his face darkened and reddened by the summer sun and in his cloth-' Mg like that of a ship's officer ashore. He had not weakened under the dis- grace which Benjamin Corvet had left to '.him, whatever that might be; he, had grown stronger facing. it. A lump arost in her throat as she realized that the lakes had• been setting their seal upon him, as ' upon the man whose strength and resource -fulness she lova, ed. "Have you worked on any of our boats ?" she asked him, after Puncheon had been finished, and the anchor of the ship had been raised. A queer expression came upon his face: "I've thought it best not -to de that, Miss Sherrill," he replied. She did not know why the next moment she should think of Henry. "Henry was going to bring us over in , his yacht --the Chippewa," she said. "But he was called away sud- denly yesterday on business to St. feriae and used his boat to go over there." "He',s at Harbor Point, then " "He got there a couple of nights a- go and will be back again to -night or to -Morrow morning.," The yacht was pushing swiftly; smoothly, with hardly a hum from its motors, north .along the shore.. He watched intently - the rolling, wooded hills end the ragged little bays and inlets. His work and his investigat- ' WO had not brought him into . the neighborhood' before, but she found' that she did not . have to name the places to him; he knew them from the charts. "Gr d Traverse Light," he said to her a\white tower showed upon -their lefta Then, leaving the shore, then gush d out across the wide mouth - af , . ager bay toward Little Tra- vearls . rew more silent as they appy ached t. t is up here, isn't it," he asked, poindng, "th ,- t they hear the Drum ?" s; how id you know the place ?" "I don't Iow it exactly; I want - you, to show me." She pointed out to him the copse, dark, primeval, blue in its contrast with the lighter green of the trees a- bout it and the glistening white of - the shingle and of the more distant sand bluffs. He leaned forward, star- ing at it, until the changed course of the ,yacht, as it swung, about toward the entrance to the bay, obscured it. They were meeting other power boats nowl of their yacht's own size and many smaller; they passed white- sailed sloops and cat -boats, almost 1 ecalmed, with girls and boys diving treat their sides and stiviinming a- bout. As they neared the Point, . a panorama of play such as, she knew, he searcely could have seen before, was spread in front of'. therm The sun gleamed back from the white sides and garnished decks and shining brass work of a score or more of cruising yach s and many smaller vessels ly- i.ng i i the anchorage. e.4nnourtcement ectric Starting and Lighting —Consisting of Generator, Starting Motor and Storage Battery. —An electric system rrladefor Ford cars by the Ford Motor Company of - Canada in their own factory; built into the Ford motor which has been re -designed for the purpose. —Controlled from a complete instru- ment board on the cowl. Standard Equipment on Sedans and s Coupes All dosed models now have electric starting and lighting sy stems as Stand and Equipment. Ford Sedan $1,175 Ford Coupe $975 (Including_Ford Starter and Lighting System) Prices are f.o.b. Ford, Ont., and are subject to War Tax. 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The beans have been carefully hand picked and perfectly cooked with a ten- der piece of choice pork to give added flavor. If you prefer them plain we have them. If you like tomato sauce, you may have Davies Pork and Beans with tomato sauce. ' Try Davies Pork and eans, for lunch tomorrow. Co re them with any other bran you have ever bought. See if ey are not as delicious as we cl Keep a supply always on and ---not just one can—get sev rat. Always appetising, always el - come, always handy. Order from your dealer The William Davies Con AnY, Limit Torontoand= Montreal Canada Food Board Packers' License Nos. 13.50 and 13-54 d POS HOR C4! ►�Y "The. Chicago:- to Mackinac yacht andthe cruiser ce thisweek, ra starts fleet is working north. to be in at the finish," she offered] Then she saw he was not looleing at these things; he -vas studying with • a strange expression the dark, uneven hills which shut in the two towns and the bay. "Yo i remember how the ship rhymes you told nie and that about Michabou and seeing the ships made me feel that I belonged, here on the lakes," he re - Minded her. "I have felt something —not recognition exactly, but some thing that was like the beginning of recognition=m.any times this summer when j I saw certain places. It's like one of those dreams, you know, in which you are .conscious of having had the same , dream before. I feel that ought to lm.ow . this place." They landed only a few hundred yards from the cottage: After bid- ding good-bye to her friends, ! they went up to it together through the trees. There w ras a small sun -room, rather' shut off front the rest of the• house, to which she led him. Leav- ing him there, she ran upstairs to get the thin„ s. She halted an instant beside the door, -with the box in her hands, be- fore she went. back to him, thinking how to prepare ' him against the sig- nificance of these relics of his -father. She need not prepare him against the mere factof his father's death; he diad been beginning to believe that al- ready; but these things must ' have far more meaning for him than mere- ly that. They must frustrate one course of inquiry for him at the same time they opened (another; they would close for hien forever the possibility of ever learning anything about him- self from his father; they would introduce into his problem some new some unknown. person—the sender of fork For Help the" Y" Construct the Manhood that will Re-constr4ct Canada LL the world now knows that the Red Triangle of the Y.M.C.A. was the " Sign of Friendship " to thousands of your brothers, sons, nephews, cousins and neighbours' boys in the last four and a half, years. Wherever the Can- adian Soldiers went, the " Good old 'Y'" went too. And. now it is corning back home with them! - For the support which has made possible the' war work of the Y.M.C.A. we thank you. Your money has been well expended. 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Campaign D4tctcrr: CW. Bisnor, Toronto 1 these things. - , - She went in and put the box upon the card table. "The muffler in the box was. your father's," she told hint.. "He had it on the day he disappeared. The other other things," her voice choked a Tittle, "are the things he must, have had in. his pockets. They've', been lying in water -and sand—" He gazed at her. "I understand," he said after an instant. "You mean that they prove his death." She assented gently, without:: Speak- ing. As he approachedthe box, she drew back from it and slipped away. into the next roam. She walked up and- -down there, pressing her hands together. He must be looking at the things now, unrolling the muffler.... What would he be feeling as he saw them? Would lie be glad, with that same -gladness which had mingled with her own sorrow aver Uncle %Benny, that his father was. gone --gone. from his ' guilt and his fear and his dis- grace ? - Or would he resent that death which thus left everything un- explained to hien.. He would be look- ing at the ring. That, at least, must bring more joy than grief to him. He would recognize that it musty be his mother's wedding ring; if it told him that his mother must be dead,. it would tell hiin- that she had been mar- ried; or had b`el'ieved that She was married! ' Suddenly she heard him calling her. "Miss Sherrill°!" His voice had a. sharp thrill of - excitement. She hurried 'toward the sun room. She could see him through the .door- Iway, bending over the card table with the things spread out upon its top in front of him. "Miss Sherrill!" he called again. "Yes." He straightened; he was very pale. "Would coins that my father had in his pocket all have *en more than twenty years old ?" • She ran and bent beside him over the coins. "Twenty years!" she re- peated.Shewas makingoutthe • he dates of the coins now herself; the markings were eroded, nearly gone in some instances, but in every case enough remained to make plain the date. "Eighteen -ninety -1893-2-1889,' 1893=•1889,' she made them out. Her voice hush- ed queerly. "What does it mean?" she whispered. He turned over and re-examined the articles with hands steadying. "There are two sets of things here," he con- cluded. "The _muffler and paper of directions—they belonged to my father The other things—it isn't six months or less than six months that they've lain in sand and water to become worn like that; it's twenty years. My father can't have had these things; they were somewhere else, or some one else had them. He wrote his di- rections to that person—after June 12th, he said, so it was before June 1,2th he wrote it; but we can't tell how long before. It might have been in February, when he disappeared; it might Have been after that. But if the directions were written so long a- go, why weren't the things sent to you before this? Didn't the person have the things then? Did we have to wait to get them ? Or—was it the instructions to send them that he didn't have. Or if he had the instructions 'was he waiting to receive word when they were to be sent?" - "To receive word ?" she echoed. "Word ' from my father! You thought these things proved my father was dead. I think they ptove he is alive! Oh, we must think this out!" He paced up and down the room; she sank into a cha=ir, watching him. ✓`Tile first thing that we must do," he said suddenly, "is to find out about the watch. What is the 'phone number of . the telegraph office?" . She told him, and he went out to the telephone; she sprang up to fol- low loris, but checked herself and merely waited until he came back. "I've wired to Buffalo," he announc- ed. "The Merchants' Exchange, if it is still in existence, must have a re- cord of the presentation of the watch. At any rate, the wreck of the Winnebago and the name of the skipper of the boat must be in the files of the newspaper of that time," "Then you'll stay here with us until an answer comes." "If we get a reply by to -morrow morning; I11 wait till then: If not, I'll task you to forward it to me. I must see about the trains and get back to Frankfort. I can cross by boat from there to Manitowoc --that will be uickest. We must begin there, by trying to find out who sent the package. "Henry Spearman's already sent to have that investigated." - Alan made no reply; but she saw his lips draw tighter quickly. "I must go myself as soon as I can," he said, after a moment. She helped him put the muffler and the other articles back into the box; . she noticed that the wedding ring was no longer with them. He had taken ,that, then; it had meant to him all that she had known it must mean... In the morning she was up very early; but Alan:, the servants told her, had risen before she had and had gone out. The morning, after the cool northern night, was chill. She slipped a sweater on and went out on the •veranda, looking about for ,hirci, An iridescent hazes ouded the hills and the bay; in it sh heard a ship's bell strike twice; then another struck twice --then another—and' another— and notherand another. The liaze thinned as the sun grew warmer, ehowing the placid, water of the bay cin which the ships stood double' -a red -ship and a mir- rored one. She saw `Alan returning, and knowing from the direction from which he came thatl he must have been to the telegraph 'office, she ;' ran to meet h xn. +' "Was there an. answer?" she in- quired eagerly. - He took a yellow telegraph sheet from his pocket and held' it for her to read. , "Watch presented to Captain Caleb. Stafford, master of propeller freight- er Marvin Halch for ' rescue of crew' and passengers of sinking steamer Winnebago off Long Point, Labe Erie." She was breathing quickly in her excitement. "Caleb Stafford!" she exclaimed. "Why, that was Captain Stafford of Stafford and Ramsdell; They owned the l Iiwaka!" y "Yes," Alan s id. "You asked Ine about ; that-Ship— the Miwaka—that first morning at breakfast!" - "Yes." A great change had come over him since last night-,! he was under eino- tion so strong that he seemed scarcely to dare to speak lest it master him a leaping, exultant impulse it was which he fought to keep, down.. ."What is i1, Alan?" she a.sked. "What is it about tbe Miw:aka.? You said you'd found some reference to it in Uncle Bean- 's house, What was it? What did 'oil d it there?a" "The man—" and steadied himself and d "the man T met ' in the house night mentioned it" "The man who thou t I e a (continued un PUP x)