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the table.
i', v'..d{' Mfg �,b'•�, e'`i (:Ql'Vet leaned Over t() the fronted_
window, as he had done when ulnae,
and looked out, Spearman shot a cons
molt which made Corvet wtnee ,and
are* heels from the window then
Spearman rose. Curvet looked up ai.t
r ;n5 tt riff him once tend asked a question, ktto
1; ��;,��i,;^^N ;� ,7�, - �'=^;y4�s � which Spearman replied with a nit
of the 'learnt mateli down on the table;
he turned abruptly and strode from
the .room. Cowen sat motionless.
The r( elsiva to elf -control, some-
al/30$ 4r1 (^t1 to apoloe'y, which ordin[p .
ally followed ('b let 1, 'burets of irritae
than had tee come to:him ; his mgita
tion plainly 11a1,'1 iarrrenrte(l. He pushed.
from bile his uneaten Itunclieon art(!
got up. sloivl.t+, 13 aann out to thil
coat.routn, whore the attendant betide
(:d him his (.frit and hat.
Ile winced as he stepped out into
the smarting, blinding swirl i,f sleet:
but his shrinking was. not physical it
was- mental, the nn(`nt15(iOU. reaet1On
to some thought the storm called '.up.
The hour was barely four o'clock. but
So dark was it with the stolen that
the shop wiedews were lit motorcars,
slipping and 14tki(lcling tip the broad
score boulevard, with headlights burning,.
uth, in Chictigo, more than a ot: kept their signals etatterin; e'en.
rf great steamers under the namesstonily to warn other drivers blinded
by rhe snow. The ste('t-swept side
folks were almost 'deserted here er
there. before a • hotel or one of the
elutes, a limtiusinf' came to the curb,
and the passengers dashed swiftly
across the' we ll, to shelter.
Corvet turned northward 'along
111chlgain avenue, facing into the gale
The sleet beat"upon his face ana
lodged in the folds of his elothin
without his heeding it.
He continued to go north, He he 1
not seemed, in the beginning, to 'hal
made conscious choice , of this dire ,-
tion ; but now he was following it ipur-
posely. He stopped once at a shop
vdfch sold men's things to make a tel-
ephone call. He asked for Miss Sher-
rill when the number answered ; but
he did not wish to speak to her, he
said; he wanted merely to be sure she
would be there if be stopped in to
see her in half an hour. Then—north
again. He _crossed the bridge. Now,
fifteen minutes 'Pater. he came in sight
of the lake once more.
Great houses,' the Sherrill house
among them, here face the. Drive,'; the
bridle path, the strip of park, and the
Wide stone esplanade which edges the
lake. Covert crossed to this espla-
nade. He did not stop at the Sherrill
house or look toward it, but went on
fully a quarter. of -a mile Beyond it; ..
then he came back, and with an oddly
strained and. queer expression and at-
titude, he stood staring out, into the
lake.
Suddenly he turned. Constance
Sherrill, • seeing him from a window of
her home, had caught a cape about her
and run out to him.
"Uncle Benny 1" she hailed him with
the ;affeetionate name she had used
with her father's. partner sines she
was a baby. "Uncle Benny, •aren't
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Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry.
Office Over H. E. Isard's Store.
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B.Sc., M.D., C.M.
Special attention paid to diseases of
Women and Children, having taken
postgraduate work in Surgery,
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Coptjrighi by Edwin ialtr, 1 .
The .Man Whom the :term Haunt
Near the 110rthern 0111) of Lein
Michigan,
where the h1a•. , bot:c•(1 et
-
carriers and the 11' , l le.tyi0:;. v.11 -to
laden steel 'frei,,a11e rs 111011` 1.ake tit:
perlor, push 001 frons- the strait:: 0
Mackinac and deeete I" le -thy •
way, in the ishuettl.v.dtel c•li:iil.,,
with the white -and -gold.
ed. avis >loss-eg0llfpc'd p.te-tet,401 •°:tt„`
ers bound for etre!! •1
there is a copse of pine tied
back from the ahlneiy h .e
this copse•—dark, blue. fari. e, el. sit,-
at most times as when the Groat tt Mo:
too ruled his inlauii;
comes at time of stoma a sound Ii''
the booming of an old Wallin tire
This drum beat, so the trodition say`
whenever the lake took a (11''; 51
as a sign perhaps that it is still 11
Manitou who rules the «ate.., in 0:.1
of all the commerce of the eitihs, 11
drum still beats its roll for every chit
lost on the lake, one beat for ever.
life.
So—men say—they heard nu'i eleint
ed the beatings of the drum to 414 ty
five upon the hour when. as eftrt +ar
they learned, the great steel stet:i:et
Wenota sank with twenty-four of its
crew and eleven passengers: so--ntte
say -they heard the requiem of .the
five who went down with the schooner
Grant; and of the seventeen - l ost with
the Susan Hart; and so of a score of
ships more. Once only, it is told, has
the drum counted wrong.
At the height of the great storm of
Deeember, 1895, the drum beat the
roll of a sinking ; ship. One, two.
three—the hearers counted the drum
beats, time and, again, in their Inter-
mittent booming, to twenty-four. They
waited, therefore, for report of a ship
lost with twenty-four lives; no such
news came. The new steel freighter
Miwaka, on her maiden trip during
the storm with twenty-Sve=not twen-
ty -four --aboard never made her port;
no news was ever heard from her; no
wreckage ever was found. On this ac-
count, throughout the families whose
fathers, brothers and sons were the
officers and crew of the Miwaka, there
stirred for .a time :a desperate belief'
that . one of the men on the Miwaka
was saved; that somewhere, somehow.
he was alive and might return. The
day of the destruction of the Miwaka
was fixed as December 5 by the time
at which she passed the government
lookout at the straits; the hour was
fixed as five o'clock' in the morning
only by the sounding of the drum.
. 5 5 * A:. ..
Storm—the stinging, frozen sleet
slash of the February norther whis-
tling down the floe -jammed length' of
the Take --was assaulting Chicago. So
heavy res this frost on the panes of,
the Fest Dearborn elub—one of the
staidest of the down -town clubs for
:teen—that the great log fires blazing
o:; the open hearths aadcled appreciable
trlit as well as warmth to the rooms.
The few members present at this
Mair of theafternoon showed by their
+•1sy attitudes and the desultoriness
of their conversation the dulling of
vitality which warmth and shelter
bring' on a day of cola! and storm. ” On
ene, however, the storm had had a con-
trary effect. With swift, uneven steps
he paced now, one room, now another;
from time to time he stopped ab-
ruptly by a window, scraped from b
with finger nail the frost. stared out
for an instant through the little open-
ing he had made, then resumed'as ab-
ruptly lits nervous' pacing' with a man -
per so uneasy and distronght . that,
etnc'e his arrival at the ,club an hour
before, none even among those who
knew him best had ventured to speak
to him.
The mite . who was peeling restlessly
end alone the rooms of the Fort Dear-
born rhih on !his stormy afternoon.
was the men who, to most people, bod-
iedforth the life undet'lying all other
'-momerce thereabouts• but the least
• iia1ORu, the life of the lakes.
The lakes, which merit unmistak-
ably those who get their living from
:bent. bad pert t'helr marks on, hits.
Though he was slight in frame with a
,part', almost asc'eli(• leanness. he had
the wiry strength and endurance of
:h' man whose youth had been passed
!noon the water.. He was very close
Po sixty now. hut his thick, straight
tiatr was still jet black. eiteept for a
latch of ,pure whits Above ole' temple;
hIs brows were hlack above his deep
',105.eyes. Itis acquaintances, in ex=
.flaming him to stranger's, said he had
ivCd too murk by himself of late; he
tri one Irian servant shared the great.
,,,1)55 which had been unchanged --and
evhieh; nettling appeared to have
cried reptadt1 sitle'e his wife left
rrt, t;uridenly and unaccountably,
',rot twenty years before. i'eeple
.,lrl he looked meet Feenelr, referring
'r lit. father wlto was known to have
11
eer' .a skin -hunter mirth of Lake Stt.t
eerier t>a the 'Suit hue who later War -
Phone. 54. P. O. Box us.
Dr. . ROM. C. Redmond
M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lord.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
"~d a Dr. Chisholm'sr old
�stand.
DR• R• Si.
L. EAt®1ARYr�
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
Ontario College of . Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office in Chisholm Block
Josephine Street. Phone .a9.
Dr. Margaret C. Calder
General. Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine
Office—Josephine St., two doors south
of Brunswick Hotel.
Telephones: Office 281; Residence 151.
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Telephone 27z.
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'id an 1.11 1ish'girl IluttkInac and
e' (tied 410vrei l,u iteetene as trader in the
-clods of the .North Penitnsulta, where
' 6l;iatnin Corvet was born.
During !.i ng his boyhood utericattie to the
eaiu-uta to cut timber; young Curvet
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