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*BY
. WILLIAM MaellARG
and
EDWIN BA.LMER
I'llomas Allen, Panther, TorOnteil
Alan felt himself alternately weak -
and roused to strength as he saw her.
The sled halted and, as she approached
he stepped down. Their eyes encoun-
tered, and hers looked away; a sudde.n
shyness, which sent his heart leaping,
had come over her. He wanted to
speak to her, to make some recogni-
tion to her of what she had done but
he did not dare to trust his-voioe. of action. Stafford was an, able Mall
and she seemed to_ understand t. too, considerably younger than Corvet.
He turned to Sherrill instead. An We, skip owners of the lakes, have not
engine and tender coupled to a single the world to trade in, Father Perron,
car stood at the railway station. . as they have upon the sea; if you
"We're going. te Chicago;" he in- observe our great shipping lines you
(mired of Sherrill. will find that they'have, it -would seem,
"Not yet, AIan,to St. Ignace. Father apportionedamong themselves the
Perron—the priest, you know --went traffic of the lakes; each line has its
to St. Ignace as soon as he recovered own connections and its own. ports •
from his exposure. He sent' wor.d to
me that he wished to 4ee me at my
convenience; I told him -that we would
go. to him as soon as you were able,"
"He sent no other word than that?"
"Only that he had. a. very grave
communication to make to us."
Alan did not ask more; at mention
of Father Perron he had seemed to
feel hirhself once more among the
crashing, charging freight cars on the
ferry and to see Benjaanin Corvet,
pinned amid the wreckage and speak -
Sherrill asked.
"What were the relations between
Benjamin Corvet and Captain Staf-
ford?"
Sherrill thought a moment.
"Corvet," he replied, "was a very -
4able- man; he had insight and mental
'graep—and he ad the fault which
sometimes goes N th those, a heeitnakeY
Butthis did not eorne through agame-
meat, but through conflict; the strong
have survived and made a division of
the traffic; the weak have died. 'Lleventy
years ago, when this conflict of com-
peting interests was at its height,
Corvet was the head of one line, Staf-
ford was head of another, and the
two lines had veey much- the Mine
connections and competed for the
1
same cargoes.' ,
"I begin to see!" Father Perron
exclaimed. "Please go on."
ing into the ear of the priest. "In the early nineties both lines were
Father Perron, walking up and down young; Stafford lad, I believe, two
upon the docks close to the railway ships; Corvet had three."
station at St Ignace, where the tracks "Se few? Yes; it grows plainer!"
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end without bumper or blocking of "In 1894, Staffo Managed a stroke - her hand warm upon his; it rested
whose money you have just told me ' there a moment and moved away.
any kind above the waters of the lake, which, if fate had iot intervened., must
was watching south directly across the have assured the ultimate extinction , had built this and was soon to build "There was a third man in the
other ships. I did not unstsmd before , wheelhouse when those things were
Straits. It was mid-afternoon and of Corvet's line or its absorption into why learning * that affected him Set I spoken," Father Perron said, "the mate
the ice -crusher Ste. Marie, which had Stafford's. Stafford gained as his much. .
- • • ' of the ship which had been. laid up at
been expected at St Ignace about this partner Franklin Ramsdell, a wealthy.
"Stefford. wanted us' (this is what Manistee."
time, was still some four miles outman whom he had ' convinced that the Benjamin Corvet said) 'to towbumIIP "Henry Spearman," Sherrill sup -
During the storm of the week before, lake traffic offered chances or great the lake; I would not dothat, but I plied.
the floes had jaanneed into, that narrow profit; and this connection supplied agree
do
neck between the great lakes of Mich-- him with the capital whose lack had d to tow Irian to Manistique. The • "That is the name. Benjamin Cor -
night was dark; Father --no sow, but era told me of that man that.he was
ighn and Huron imtil, -men sa , the been hamperieg hrre sas it was still eteetete witidt wIlich, had been in_ young" dotelinined; brutal, and set up -
Straits were ice -filled to the bottom; hampering Corvet.I The new firm— d
creaffing until] it now sent the waves on getting position and wealth for kilns
but the Ste. Marie' and the St. Ignace Stafford and Ramsdell—projected the wasliineeelear aCrO.Sa the tug. We had self* any xneanS. Re- watched Cor -
lune
C08t, $4.05
War Settings Stamps
CE, he bought whoa.
ever this sign is
• displayed.
Most of us fritter away at least five per cent.
ofour weekly wages in trifles.
If We stopped to reckon it up, we would find
it hard to remember where the money went.
If we could make that money earn ntore
homey without troubling to think out a
plan or attend tg details, we woldd an:skier
that we had done a good siroke of business.
The Govermnent has made it posiible for us
to do that. Here is the plan:
You say to your employer: "Every week
I want you to hold back five per cent. of my
wages and invest them in War Savings
Stamps. When you have bought a War
Savings Stamp with my money, put it in my
pay envelope. Go on doing that for a year."
You will never miss that five per cent. which
you had previously frittered away. But at
the end of a year you will have a little pack-
age if Stamps which, in 1924, will be worth
$5.00 for every $4.00 odd you pay for them
now. /
The guarantee of safety behinil the War
Savings Stamps is the whole Dominion of
Canada.
Make Your Savings .Serve. You and
Serve Your Country—Invest Them in
War Savings Stamps.
had plied steadily back and forth. construction, with Ramsdell's money, gone nerth an hour when, low upon
Through a stretch where the ice- of a number of great steel freighters.
the water to my right, I saw a light,
crusher now was the flees had changed
position, or new ice was blocking the
channel; for the $te. Marie, having
stepped, -wee bacldng; now her funnels
The first of these—the Miwaka, a test
and' th re came to me the whisthng
ship Whose experience Was to guide of a buey Which told me that we were
them in the construction. of the rest - 'en a5111-0..pearer than I would have wish -
was launched in the fall of 1895, and -
ed even in daytime, to windward of
shot forth fresh smoke, and she charg- was lost on its maiden trip with both Boulder Reef. There are, Father, no
ed ahead. The priest clenched his Stafford and Ramsdell aboard. The people on that reef; its sides of rag -
hands as the steamer met the shock Stafford and Ramsdell interest could ged rock go • straight 'down forty
and her third propeller—the one be- not surVive the death of both owners fathoms into the lake.
and disappeared from the mkes. Is
this wli. t you wanted to know?" looked at the man with me in
The priest nodded. Alan. leaned the wheelhouse—at Stafford—and hat -
tensely forward, watehing; what he ed him! I put my head out at the
recoiled, halted, eharged, climbed up had heardseeined to lave
the ice and broke through again As and deepened the priest's feeling over the lights at the new, great steamer,
she drew nearer now in her approach, what he had to tell and to have aided follow" safe and stearight at the.
the priest walked been _toward the his comprehension of it end of i s :towline. I thought of my,
It was not merely a confessional ,. . cru -shed by clumsingsV111), of hat bee
railway station. . "His -name was Caleb Staffordi" ,
• '---stwistrneeisiipor the' tun -
which Father Perron had taken from
the lips of the dying. man on Ninnber
25. it was an aecushtion of crime a-
gainst another man as well; and the
confession and accusation both had
been made, net only to gam forgive- in those days; but It. could not have
ness from God, but to right tternble nay will of him. With. all the lakes Suppose I had,- not happened across
his ship; would it have gone upon some
wrongs. If the eonfession left some to trade in, he had to pick out for his
things unexplained, kt, did not lack that traffic which I already had. chosen reef like this and been lost? I thought
that if now the hawser should break,
confirmation; the priest had learned for my own. But.I fought him fair,
enough to be certain that it was 110 ' Father—I fought him fair, and 1 wpuld Il would be rid of that ship and per-
haps of the owner who was on board
neath her bew—sucked the water out
from under thefloe andrIeft it without
support; she met the ice barrier, crash-
ed some of it aside; she broke through'
wheelhoese doer and looked back at
Vet and Stafford while they were
speaking, and he toe . listened to the
shoal until Stafford had come back;
then he went aft.
" looked at hirre Taber,' Benjam-
in Corvet said- to rile, 'and I- let him
go—not knowing. He came back and
looked at lam once more, and went a-
gain to the stern; Stafford had been
watching him as wet as I, and he
sprang • away from me now and
scrambled after him. The tug leaped
suddenly; there was no longer any
:tow holding it heels, for the baser
had parted; • and I knew, Father, the
-reason was that Spearman had cut
iit! its
" rang- for the stetWeste to be adOw-.
led, and I left the wheeVand went aft;,
Father perron bega.n. (This what board that ship; and how my own slime ,some struggle wasis- geing on at the
Benjamm Corvet told me, when he was had had a nanie for never losing a :stern of, tlte tug; a flash C Wile from
dying under the wreckage on the man and name would be lost now, there mid the cliaeltieg of a shot Sud-
felry.) 'He was as fair and able a because of the carelessness of Staf- fienly all was Wet al:6a me an aware,
man as.. the lakes ever knew. I had. ford's 'men! And the sound of the of the breaking of th.e haviser and
my will of most men in the lake trade shoal brought the evil thought to me. alarmed by the shot, the searchlight
of the Mievalta turned upoe the tug.
The cut end of the hawser- was still
upon the tug, and Spearman had been
trying to clear this when. Stafford
attacked him; they fought, and Staf-
ford struck Spearman down. He turn-
aS well. We could not pick up the ed and cried out against Tem. -accusing
been charged definitely to repeat what "'1 was at Manistee, Father, in the t w line again so close to that reef. me of having ordered Spearman to
of the liilitegiott. The steamer had -
struck upon the reef; she hung there
for a thne; and Spearman—he had
the wheel and Luke,. at his orders,
Was at the engine—bed the tug off
and we beat otmelY to and fro until
the 'Miwaka slipped Off and sank.
Some had gone down with her, no
doubt; but two boats had got off,
carrying Wits. They saw the thg
approaching and ailed out and stretch-
ed their -hands to us; Spearman stop-
ped the tug. ° They rowed, towards uS
then, but when they got near, Spear-
man ntoyeet the tug away from theta,
and then agitiri stopped. They cried
out again and rowed 'towards us; a-
gain he -moved: the tug away, and then
they understood and stoped rowing
and cried -dunes at us. One boat Soon
drifted far away; we ketetv of its cap.
sizing by ethe eatinguleing of its
Wit. The other capsized ...near to
where we were. Those in it who bad
no lifebelts and couldnot stint, sank
fatt. Some -could swim and, for a
while they fought the waves."
Alan, as he listened, ceased con-
scieuely to separate the priest's voice
from the sensations running through
him. His father was Stafford, dying
at Corvet's feet while Corvet watched
the death of the crew of the Miwaltee
Alan himself, a child, was floating
with a. lifebelt /among those strug-
gling in the water whom''Spearman
and Corvet were watching die. Memory;
was it that which now had come to
him? No; rather it was a realization
of all the truths which the' priest's
words were bringing together and
-arranging rightly for him. •
He, a child,. saved by Corvet from
the water because he could net bear
witness, seemed to be on that tug,
sea -swept and clad in ice, crouching
beside the form of his father while
Corvet stood aghast—Corvet, still
hearing the long blasts of distress
from the steamer which •wae gone,
still hearing the screams of the Men
who were drowned. Then,. when all
were gone who could tell, Spearman
turned the tug to Manitowoc.....Now
again the priest's voice became audible
to Alen.
'hallucination of madness. He k have eontmued to do that to the 'end.
had been told him to the persons he end of the season—December 5th, of
was now going to meet; so he watched 1895. The ice had begun to form very t
expectantly as the Ste. Marie made early -that year and was already bad;
its landing'. A train of freight cars there was cold and a high gale. I
z
e steamer would drift down upon cut the line. He held up the cut end
e rocks--'" toward Ramsdell on the Miwaka and
Father Perron hesitated an instant. cried out to him and showed by point-
• bear - witness," he said solemnly, mg :that it had been cut Blood wae
was upon the ferry, but a single pas- had laid up one of my ships at Man -
Th
"at Benjamin Corvet assured me— running from the hand -with -which he
senger coach was among themand istee, and I was crossing that night
the switching engine brought this -off upon a tug to, Manitowoc, -where an- 14s priestd-that it was only a thought; Pointed, for he had been shot by
the evil act which ‘it suggested was Spearman; and now again and a sec-
firgt. A tall, handsome man whom other was to be laid up. I had still
the dck, S
Father Perron thought must be the a third one lading upon the northern something which he would not do or ond and a third time, from where he
lay upon.
Mr. Sherrill with whom he had com-
municated appeared even the car plat-
form; the. young nian from Number
25 followed him, add the two helped
dawn, a young and Veautifulagirl.
They recognized the priest by his
dress and came toward him .at once.
"Mr. Sherrill?" Father Perron in-
quired.
peninsula at Mamstique for a last t
trip which, if it could be made, would
mean a good profit from a season
which so far, becauee of Stafford's k
competition; had- been only fair. After
leasing Manistee, it grew still more a
cold, and I was afraid the ice would 6
close in on her and keep her where .
she was, so I determined to go north. !
that night and see that she got out.
None knew, Father, except those a-
board the tug, that I had. made that of
change. 4-y
"'At midnight, Father, to westward. -'too close!' He went aft then to "'From the Yfiwalta, Ra-msdell yel-
of the Fbxes, we heard the four blasts 1at he tow line." led curses at me, threatening me for
of a steamer in distress—the four pither Perron's voice ceased; what 1 what he thought that I had done! I
long blasts which have sounded in 11131 he had. ta tell now made his face I looked at Spearman as he got up
soul ever since! We turned toward ; whiten as he arranged it in his mem- from the deck, and I read the thought
where we saw the steamer's lights; ! 0,ey. Alan leaned forward a little and that had been in him; he had believed
we went nearer and, Father it was then, with. an efforte sat straight that he could cut the hawser in the
his ga)mt, new ship—the Miwaka! I Constance turned and gazed at him; dark, none geeing, and that our word
mething of what was in his mind to The second of those shots killed the
Hord, for he said: engineer who had rushed out where
" 'I muat look like a fool to you to i I was on the deck; the third shot
ep on towing your ship!" ft efent through Stafford's head. The
"They stared, he told me, into be Miwaka was drifting down upon the
other's eyes, and Stafford greet un- 1 reef; her whistle wended again and
sy, again the four long blasts. The lire -
"We'd have been all right,' he an- man who had followed the 'engineer
ered. 'until) we had got help, if up from below, fawned on me! I
u'd left us where we were!' He too was safe for ail -of him, he said; •I
tened to the sound of the buoy and could trust Luke—Luke would not
the water daahlg 011 the shoal. Jell! He too thought I had ordered
013 are taking us too -Close he said I the doing of that thing!
Sherrill assented, taking the priest's
hand and introducing his daughter.
"I ani glad to see you safe, Mr.
Stafford.". The priest had turned to
Alan. "We have thanks to offer up
for that, you and -I!"
"I am his son, then! I thought that
must be So."
Alan trembled at the priest's Sign
of &affirmation. There was no shock
of surprise in this; ,he had suspected
ever since August, when Captain Staf-
ford's watch and the wedding ring had
so strangely come to Constanee, that
he might be Stafford's son. His in-
quiries had brought him, at that time,
to St. Ignace, as Father Perron's had
brought him now; but he had not been
able to establish proof of any connec-
tion between himself and the baby son
of Captain. Stafford who had been born
in that town. •
He looked at Constance, as they
followed the priest to the motor which
was waiting to take thern to the house
of old Father Benitot, whose guest
Father Perron was; she was very
quiet. What would that grave state-
ment which Father Perron was eto
make to them mean to him—to Alan?
Would further knowledge about that
father whom he had not known, but
whose bleed was his and whese name
he new must bear, bring pride or
shame to him?
A bell was tolling somewhere, as
they followed the priest into Fattier
Benitot's small, bare room which had
been prepared for their. interview.
Father Perron went to a desk•and took
therefrom some notes which he had
made. He did not seem, as he loc•ked
through these notes, to be refreshing
his Tnemory; rather he seemed to be
seeking something which- the notes
did not supply; for he put them back.
and reclosed, the desk.
What 1 have," he . said, speaking
more p .articelorly to Sherrill, "is the
terrible,- not fully coherent statement
of a dying men,. It .11as even me
names—also it has. Often, me' 1
_
But ieolated. It dose, rtot, give what
came before or wUt came., after;
therefore, it does not make plain. I
hope that, as Benjhmin Corvet's part-
ner, you can furtuakAat
We had heard two ids ye before that
she had paseed. the See; we had not
keid-wei more than that of where she
was. She had broken new shaft,
Father, and was- intact for that,
put helpless in the risiag sea....'"
The priest broke off. 'The Miwaka!
I did not understand all that that had
meant. to him until just now—the new
ship of the rival line,'-wihose building
meent for him failure and defeat!
"There is no higher duty than the
rescue of those in peril at sea. He
—Benjamin Corvet, who told me this
—swore to me that, at the beginning
none upon the tug had any thought
except to give aid. Al small line was
drifted down to the tug and to this a
hawser was attached Which they haul-
ed aboard. There happened then the
first of those events Which led those
upon the tug into don g a great wrong,
He—Benjamin Corvet--had taken
charge of the Wheel a the tug; three
men were handling the hawser in ice
and washing water at the stern. The
-whistle accidentally. blew, which those
.on the Nfiwalta. -understood to mean
that the hawser had brn eecured, so
they drew in the sloe ; the hawser,
tightened' unexpectedly by the pitching
of the sea, caught and crushed the
captain and deckhand ef the tug and
threw them into the se*
"Because they were Short handed
now upon the tug, and also because
consultation was necessary over. -what,
was to be done the young owner off
.the Miwaka, Ghtain Stafford`e came
tdown the laweer. ontothe tag after
the line had been put straight. He
came to p the wheelhouee, where Ben-
jamin Corvet was,. and. they consulted:
Then Benjamin .Corvet learned that
theeother owner was aboard the new
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"What is it you., wantt to 100W?" ship as well—Ramo e man
but he dared not look at her. He felt that it had been broken would
have as much strength as any
aceusation Stafford mould make. He
1 lied known that to Aare a secret such
as that with me would "make" him
on the '- lakes; for -the loss of the
Miwaka would cripple Stafford and
Raniedel and strengthen, me; and could
make me share with him whatever
success I made. But Stafford, had
surprised him at -the hawser and had
seen.
" 'I moved to denounce him, Father,
t as I realized this; I inoved—but stop-
ped. He had made' himself 'safe a-
gainst accusation by me! None—.
/ none ever would, believe that- he had
done this' except by my order, if he
should claim that; 'and -he made plain
that he was going to claim that. He
called me a fool and defied me. Luke'
—even my own man, the, only one left
on the tug with .114H -believed it! And
there was murder in if now, with.
Stafford dying there upon the deck
and with the certainty that all those
on the Miwaka qould not be saved. I
felt the noose as if it had been al-
ready tied about my neck! And I
had done no wrong, Father! I had
only thought wrong!
" 'So long as one lived among those
on the Miwaka 'whet had seen what was
done, I knew I would be hanged; yet
I would have saved them if 1 could.
But, in my comprehension of what this
meant, I only stared at Stafford -where
he lay and then at SPea-rman, and 1 let
hint' get eontrol of the tug. The tug;
'whose wheel I had lashed, heading her
into the waves, had 'sheen moving slow-
ly. Spearman pushed flip aside and
went to the whetlhotse; he sent Luke'
to the engines) and ftcon, that -moment
Luke was ids., He- tamed -the tug
about to where we still saw the lights
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Alan's father died in the.morning.
All day they stayed out in the storm,
avoiding vessels. They dared not
throw Stafford's body overboard or
that of the engineer, because, if found,
the bullet °holes would have aroused
inquiry. When night came again,
they had`taken the two ashore at some
wild s -Pot and buried them; to make
identification harder, they had taken
the things that they had with them
and Weed them somewhere else. The
child—Alan—Corvet had smuggled a-
shore and sent away; he had told Spear-
man later that the child had died.
"Peace --rest!" Father Perron said
hi a deep voice. "Peace to the dead!"
But for the living there had been
no peace. Spearman had forced Cor -
vet to make him his partner; Corvet
had tried to take up his life again, but
had not been able. His wife, aware
that something was wrong with him,
had learned enough so that she had
left him. Luke had come and come
and come again for blackmail, and
Corvet had paid him. Corvett grew
'rich; those connected with hirif pros-
pered; but with Corvet lived -always
the ghosts of those he had watched die
with the Miwaker—of those -who would
have prospered with Stafford except
for *tat had been done, Corvet had
secteny sbughte and- followed the fate
of the kin of those people who had
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