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WZL .INGTON MUTUAL FIRE
INSURA.NCE CO.
Established 184o.
Head Office, Guelph, Ont.
disks taker on all classes •of insur-
�lance at reasonable rates.
IA.BNER COSENS, Agent, Winglram
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Office: in Chisholm Block
WIRE, 'LIFE: ACCIDENT
AND HEALTH
INSURANCE
AND. REAL ESTATE
P. O. Box 366. Phone 198.
'WINGHAM, ONTARIO
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DUDLEY HOLME
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. and
Victory and Other Bonds Bong
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Office—Meyer Block, Wingham
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BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, 'ETC.
Money to Loan at Lowest Rates.
Wingham,' Ontario
Jr A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Wingham, - • Ontario
DR. G. H. ROSS
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surseons
Graduate Universlity of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry.
Office Over:H. E. Isard's. Store.
W. R. UAMBLY
B.Sc., M.D., C.M.
Special attention paid to diseases of
Women and'Children, having t$aa n
postgraduate work in Surgery,
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CHAPTER L—wealthy and high':
laced in the Chicago business worie
eniamin Corvet is some his us f acnes
Cclupe and a mystery
!titer a stormy interview' with his par,
per, Henry Spearman, Corvet seeks Con
stance Sherrill, daughter of his Dila:
business partner, Lawrence Sherrill, anc
secures from her a promise not to marri
learns Corvetehas written disappears
certatc
Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kansas,
and exhibited strange agitation over 01 4.
matter.
ghe ran back to the door of her fa-
ther's house. From there she saw him
reach the corner and turn west to ee
to Astor street. He was walking re e
idly and did not hesitate.
How strangely he bail acted! C. -
stance's uneasiness increased «
the afternoon and evening ens'
without his coming back to see h ~r
he had promised, but she reelected '
had not set any definite time wl
she was to expect him, During tie
night her anxiety grew still gene—
and
•carr'`
and in the morning she called hl
house up on the telephone, but the cal
was unanswered. An hour later; she
called again; still getting no result.
,ulie called her father itt his office. and
told him of her anxiety about Uncle
Denny, but without repeating what
Uncle Benny had said to her or the
promise she had made to bin,, Her f;�
ther made light of her fears; Uneie
Benny, he reminded ber, ole en anti,;
queerly in bad weather. Unly p•
reassured, she called Uncle Benuy's,
house several more times during the
morning,' but still got no reply; end
after luncheon she called her father
again, to tell him that she had re.
solved to get some one to go over to
the house with her.
Her father, to her surprise, forbade
this rather sharply; his voice, she,
realized, was agitated and excited, ate.]
she asked him the reason; but instead
of answering her, be made her repeat
to him her conversation of the after-
noon before with Uncle Benny, and
now he questioned her closely about it.
But when she, in her turn, trued to
question him, he merely put her off
and told her not to worry.
In the late afternoon, as dusk was
drawing into dark, she stood at the
window, with one of those delusive
hopes which come during anxiety that,
because it was the time of day at
which she had seen Uncle Benny waik-
ing by the lake the day before, she
there again, when she
seehim
might ht
b
rapproaching.
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her.
saw
her
fat
It was coming from the north, not
from the south as it would have been
if he was coming from his' office or his
club, and it had turned into the Drive
from the west. She knew, therefore.
that he was coming from Uncle Ben-
ny's house,.and. as the car swerved
and wheeled in, she ran out into the
hall to meet him.
He came in without taking off hat
or coat; she could see that he was
perturbed, greatly agitated. `
"What' Is it, father?" site demanded.
"What has bappetied?"
"I do not know, my dear."
(rawer he took a key. Then, still dis-
regarding her, he' hurried back down-
etairs
As she followed him. she caught up
r� wrap and pulled It around her. He
lead told the chauffeur, she realized'
now, to wait; but as he reached the
loor, he turned and stopped her.
"I would rather you did not come
vith me, little daughter. I do not
finow at all what it is" that has hap-
pened—I will. let you know as soon a!
i find out."
The finality in his tone stopped her
from argument. As the house door and
then the door of the limousine closed
after him, she went back toward the
•vindow, slowly taking off the.wrap.
;'or the moment she found it difficult
-o think. Something had happened to
t'ncle Benny. something. terrible,
dreadful for (hose who loved, him;
that was - plan, though only the fact
mueb MeeusSed by all the chlfilieee
and' not accepted 'as permanent till
More than two Years hied passed' -r -
Alan felt no immediate moults from
the cessation of the letters from
Chicago. Papa and mama felt them
when the•farm had to be elven up, end
the family : moved to tbe town, and
papa went to work' in the woolen mill
beside the river.
Papa and mama, at testSurprised
ofsee
and dismayed by the stopping
letters, still elung to the hope of the
familiar, typeevritereaddressed en-
velope appearing again; but when,
after two.yeers. no more money came,.
resentment which had been steadily
growing against the person • who had
sent the .money began to turn against
Man; and his "parents" told him all
they knew about him.
In 1396 they had noticed an adver-
tisetnent for persons to care for a
child; they had .answered it to the
office of the newspaper which printed
it: In response to the letter a man
called upon them and, after seeing
them and going around to see their
,friends, had matte arrangements with
them to take a boy of three, who was
in good health and came of good
people. He paid In advance board for
a year and agreed to send a certain
amount every two months after that
time. The man brought the boy;
whom he called Alan Conrad, and left
him. For seven years the money
agreed uponcame; now rt had ceased,
and papa had no way of finding the
wan—the alae given bybybite appeared
to be fictitiees, and he bed left no
address except "general delivery, Cht-
sago"—Palin knew nothing more than
that. He had advertised in the Chi-
cago papers after the money stopped
coming, and he bad communicated
with every one named Conrad In or
near Chicago. but he had learned noth-
ing. Thus, at the age of thirteen,
Alan definitely knew .that what he
already had guessed—the fact that he
belonged somewhere else than ` in the
'ittfle brown house—was all that 'any
one there could tell him; and the
knowledge gave persistence to many
internal questionings. Where did he
belong? Who was be? Who was the
man who had brought him there? Had.
the money ceased coming because the
person who sent it was dead? In
that case, connection of Alan with the
place where he belonged, was per-
manently broken. Or would some other '
communication from that source reach
him some time -if not money, then
something else? Would he be sent for
some day?
Externally, Alan's Learning the little
that was known about himself made
no change in his way of living; he
went to the town school, which com-
bined grammar and high schools
under one roof; and, as he grew older,
he clerked in one of the town stores
during vacations and in the evenings.
Alan always carried his money home
es part payment of those arrears which
had mounted up against him since the
letters ceased 'coming. At seventeen,
having finished high school, he was
clerking officially in, Merrill's general
store. when the next letter, came.,
It was addressed this time not te.
papa, but to Alan Conrad. He seized
it, tore it open, and a bank draft for.
fifteen hundred dollars fell out. There.
was no letter with the enclosure, no
•
draft
of communication, just the
to the order of Alan Conrad. Alan
wrote the Chicago bank by which 'the
draft had been issued; their reply
Ishowed that the draft had been pur-
chased with currency, sotthere was no
record theidentity of the person
Office in the Kerr Residence, bet-
ween the; Queen's Hotel and the Bap-
tist Church.
All business given careful attention.
Phone. 54 P. O. Box 1t3.
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Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
DR. R. L. STEWART
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine'.; Licentiate of the
'Ontario; College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office in Chisholm Block
osephine Street. Phone 29.
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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F. A. PARKER s :�
OSTEOPATH
An Diseases Treated
Offtce adjoining residence next to
:Anglican Church oxc etre Street.e
Open everyday
and
Wednesday afternoons. Electricity
Osteopathy
Telephone 272.
Thursday, Osteine t51 r1 %gee
ache eeilied, Mau • g,Glk;v, hoc been
cenane to lata as en nedertoue tor
many minutes; nOW 4t overwlaelMe
swallowed all other sound• It Neale
great, not letiel l allg'spend which Alen
had heard before, except the soughing'
of the wing' over his ,prairies; came
frbp one point;; evert the moestrells
•city murmur was centered in eteneeri
sonwith this. Over the lake, as, over
the land, the soft snowflakes lazily.
floated down, seareely stirred by the -
slightest breeze; that roar was the.
voice. of the water, that awful, power`
its own,
Alan choked and gasped for breath,;
his pulses pounding to his throat; he.
had Snatched off his hat and, leweiug•
out of the window cached the lake air'
in his lungs. There d held been nothing.
,,�t;�
aft to make him expect Ibis overwhelming:
crush of feeling. The lalte-he hadl
thought of it, of copes, as a great-
bodyIbody of water, an tuteresting sight
for a prairie boy to see; that was ail..
No physical experience in all hist-
memory
is=memory had affected him like Mitts e•
and it was without warning; the
strange thing that had stirred wittlti
hint as the car brought him to the
Drive - down -town was strengthened
now a thousand -fold; it amazed, half -
frightened, half dizzied him. Now, as
the motor suddenly swung around a
corner and shut the sight of the lake
from frim, Alan sat back• breathless. 1
The ear swerved to the east curb
about the middle of the, block and
came to a stop. The house before
which it had halted was a large stone
house of quiet, good design; it war'
1 ;;a some generation older, apparently,
than the houses on each side of it,
Took the Letter which were brick and terra cotta of:
On the Tra n He
From His Pocket and for the Doz• recent' fashionable architecture;
enou hAlan � ,.
only glanced at them long g
cath Time Reread lt,
get that Impression before he opened
fifteen hundred dollars? Or was he the cab door and got out; but as thee.
merely a go-between, perhaps a law- cab drove away, he stood beside his
yer? There was no letterhead to give suitcase looking up at the old house
aid in these speculations,The ad which bore the number given in Ben
dress to which Alan was to come was jamin Corvet's letter, then around at
in Astor street. He had never heard the other houses` and back to that
the name of the street before. Was itagain,
elati'orm .of the little tuwt , e 1e
eastbound. train rend) le ail frail r'
dngered'ln his eeeket the letter. tr oe;
fhic'ago,
On the train be tuolt tiie letter ,from
pts pocket: and for the itntent'� t;1�1F
e'ei'ead It. Was Covert a i`elative'Z was
he. the man who had sent the reniit-
tances when Alan was a little boy,
land the one who later lead
sent the
J. ALVIN FOX
HIROPRACTIC `OSTEOPATHY
EI•ECTRO THERAPY.
]Flours 1o42. 2-5. 74
Telephone 597E
D. 0. MeINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
MASSEUR
Adjustments given for diseases of
.11 ,Idtids, speeialixe in dealing with
children. Lady attendant. Night Calls
eeponded to. •
Office on Scott St., Winghatn, Ont,,
a the house' of the. late Jas. Walker.
Telelil?ot►e 150.
"It is something—something that
has happened to Uncle Benny?"
"I am afraid so, dear—yes. But I
do not know what it is that has hap-
pened, or I would tell` yon.
Be put his arm about her and drew
her into a room opening off the hall—
his study. He made her repeat again
to him the conversation she had had
with Uncle Benny and tell him how
ne had acted; but she saw that what
she told him did not help him.
Then he drew her toward him.
"Tell me, little daughter. You
have been a great Ileal with Uncle
Benny and have talked with him; I
want you to thing carefully. Did you
ever hear him speak of any one called
Alan Conrad?"
She thought. "No, father."
"No reference either to any one
living tri Kansas, or a town there
called Blue Rapids?"
"No, father. Who is Man Conrad?"
"I do not know, dear. I never heard
the name until to -day, and harry
Spearman had never heard, it. But it
appears to be intimately i:ennectecl in
some way with what was troubling
rinele 'Benny yesterday. Be wrote a
letter yesterday to Man Conrad In
!eine Elapids and mailed It himself;
.tnd afterward he tried to get it back,
but It already had been taken up and
was on its way. I have not been able
10 learn anything more about the letter
than that. To -day that name. Alan
enured, ertme to me in quite another
ticay, in a way which makes it cert!
in
that it is elbselte connected with :what-
ever
hat-
e �er has uappened to 'Uncle Benny,
Von are quite sere you never heard
Men mention It, dear?"
"quite sure, father."
Tie released her and, stilt ID his hat
iInd cont. went swiftly to the stairs.
11r rite after 'him and found' him
T before a highboy in his di'esS-
trrndrig
nr moat. i• Ie unlocked' a drawer
he highboy,, anti from within the
tRW,N
M•isa j •
She Thought. "No, Father."
and not its nature was known to her
or to her father; and that something
was connected ---intimately connected,
her father had said -with a name
which no one who' knew Uncle Benny
ever heard before, with the name of
Rapids,
Kansas.
• d o
f Blue
Alan Conrad a
Who was this Man Conrad, and 'shat
could his connection be with Uncle
Benny so to precipitate disaster upon
him?
ones: Office io6, Resid. 224-
A� 3. VITALKt R
FURNITURE DEALER
and
UNERAL ',OE.CTOR
Motor Equlipi tent xO
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CHAPTER IL
Who Is Alan Conrad?
The recipient of the letter which
Eenjamin Corvet had written and
tater so excitedly attempted to re•
cover, was' asking himself a question
which- was almost the same as the
question which Constance Sherrill had
asked. Be was,. the second morning
later, waiting for the first of the' two
ed
daily eastbound trains which stopped
at the little Kansas town of Blue
Rapids which'. he called home. As
long as he could look back into his life,
the question, who is this person they
call Alan Conrad. and what am I to
the man who writes from Chicago, hail
been the paramount enigma oft exist-
ence for him. Since he was now
twenty-three, as nearly as he had been
able to approximate it, and, as distinct
recollection of isolated, extraordinary
events went back to the time when he
was five, it was quite eighteen years
since he had first noticed the question
put to the people who had hint in
charge "So this is little Alan Con-
rad. Who is he'?" •
Following the arrival of certain
letters, which were distinguished from
most others arriving at the house by
having no ink writing on the envelope
but Jura a sort of purple or black
printing like newspapers, Man hs -
variably received a. dollar to spend
just as he liked. To be sure, Males!
"papa" took h!im to town, there was
nothing for him to spend it upon; s0.
Likely enough, it went into the square
Iron bank, of which the key was lost:
but quite often he did spend it fie"
cording to'ptans .e agreed upon among
all his friends and, in memory of these
occasions and in anticipation of the
Next, •"Man's dollar" became a coma
munity institution among the children.
"Who gives it to you, Alan?" was
question more often asked, tie t1u.,0
went on.' The only anlwer Alan could
give Was, "It comes from OulcegO M°
The post -mark on the exivelope, Alta
noticed, was . always Chicago; that
was all he ever could slid out arbour
his dollar. He was about ten yearn
old• when, for a reason ,as inexplicabib
as the dollar's corning, tate lettere With
the typewritten addresses and the en;-
elected Looney teased:
E t fortheloss of the dollar at
a business street, Corvet's address in
some great office building, perhaps?
At Chicago Alan, following the
porter with his suitcase from the car,
stepped . down , among the crowds
kurrying to and from the trains. He
was not confused, he was only in
ienseiy excited. Acting in implicit ac-
e.ord with the instructions of the letter,
which he knew by heart, he went to
the uniformed attendant and engaged
a taxicab—Itself no small: experience;
there would be no one at the' station
to meet him, the letter had said. He
gave the Astor street address and got
inter the cab.
It bad begun to snow heavily. For a
few blocks the taxicab drove north
past more or less ordinary build
Inge, then turned east on a broad
bol Levard where tall tile and brick.
and stone structures towered till their
roofs were,hidden in the snowfall. A
strange stir and tingle: quite dii;tinct
from the excitement of the arrival al
the station, pricked in Alan's veins
a„d• hastily he dre',pped the \t inflow to
his right and gazed nee I1c t"' -c'
as he had known sine hie Leoratpla
The , neighborhood obviously pre-
eluded the probability of Corvet's be-
ing merely a Lawyer—a go-between.
He must be some relative; the ques-
tion ever present in.Alan's thought
since the receipt of the letter, but held
in abeyance, as to. the possibility and
nearness of Corvet's relation to• him,
took 'sharper and more exact form
now than be had dared to let it take
before. Was his relationship to,
Corvet, perhaps, the closest of all re-
lationships? Was Corvet his •
father? He checked the question
within himself, for the time had
passed for were speculation upon it
now. Alan was trembling excitedly;
for—whoever Corvet might be—trier
enigma of Alen's existence was going
to be answered when he had entered
that house. He was going to know
who he was. All the possibilities, then
responsibilities, the attachments, the
opportunities, perhaps, of that person
whom he was --but whom, as yet, he
did not know—were before him. Her
went up the steps and, with fingers
excitedly unsteady, he pushed the bell
beside the door.
days, lay to vol r "' The door opened almost instantly—
therefore that void` lake o "i' r h '"r
thepark was the or, at least, the so quickly after the ring, indeed, that
Alan, with leaping throb of his heart,
harbor. A different air seSmed toy knew that some one must have';.been
lit 11 from it; btsounds. . Suddenly awaiting him. But the door opened
It all was shut off; tbe taxicab, only half way, and the man who stood
between
swerving, a. little, was dashing idinwithin, gazing out at Alan question
hit: es Mocks i a row of buildings lapis, was. obviously a servant.
incl risen a;_aiu upon the right; they ,,what is - it?" he asked, as Alan
woke abruptly to thaw 11110 0 wooden stood looking at him and past him tie
',elle(' .chasm in which fiotved the the isarrow section of darkened halt
of en y , i leer fall cif ice with a: tub dropping which wars in sight.
who had sent It. More than that i its smokestack as it cuts eecllo bm d Alan put his "I've
over the eetMr.
the cab
amount was due for arrears for o the
int*sg00 both sides again; Hien, to the in his paket•' I ve come to se _
seven years during which no Y li Corvet," he said
was sent, even when the total whicb right, a roaring, heaving crashing ex- (Continued next week)
Alan had earned was deducted, So parse.
Alan merely endorsed the draft over
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to "father" and that fall Jim. Alan's
foster brother, went to college. But,
when Jim . discovered that it not only
was possible but planned at the uni-
versity for a boy to work his way'.
through, Alan went also.
Four wonderful years followed. In
companionship with educated people:
ideas and manners came to him which
he could not have acquired at home;'
athletics straightened and added bear-
ing to his muscular, well-formed'
bort` ; his pleasant, strong young face
acquired self-reliance and self-control;
Life become filled with possibilities for
himself which it had never held before,
But on his day of graduation he
had put away the enterprises he had
planned and the dreams he dreamed
and, conscious that his debt to father
and mother still remained unpaid, he
had returned to care for them; for
father's health bacl.failed and Jim, who
had opened ' a taw office in ,I{ansas
City, could do nothing. to help.
No more money had followed the
draft from Chicago and there had
been no communication of any kind;
hut the 'receipt of ,so considerable a
sum had revived and intensified all
Alan's speculations, about himself. The
vague, expectation of his childhood
that sometime, in some way, he Would
be "sent for"; had grown during the
last six. years to a definite belief..
And now—on the afternoon before -
h d come
the summons a
This ;time, as he tore open the en-
velope, he saw that beside a Check,.
there was writing withila, -an uneven
xn4 nervous -tootling but plainly legible
eoiutnunication' in longhand. The
letter made no explanation. It told
him, rather than asked him, to coma
t ago, Int* minute instructions
o flliitc
like r the , Journey, and advised. him to
aelegrapli when he started. The
tsbeck was for a hundred dollars to
pity his expenses. Check and letter
Were aigied' by a Baine completely
Strange' to 'him,
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