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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-10-22, Page 8nee a 1 1111�IhNMIIIi ![IWIIi1111111W111M II III 1111111111101144 e•insltre eve ything hut. . rninents. They must take their Chances. . ABNER COSENS W. Te BOOTH IfiFipill�&lllt�iiiaAUllelill�f 11L91111�3{li�lli Iltlllitel t 1eailli IN ?Y,ANC71L T ij BUSINESS CARDS WELLINGTON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 1840. 'Head' Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all classes of insur- S,nce"atreasonable rates. NER COSENS. Agent, Winghann. J. W. DODD nice in ChisholmBlock ACCIDENT ARE; 'LIFE. A AND HEALTH -- INSURANCE ---- AND REAL ESTATE P, O. Box 3156. Phone x98. WING>'IAM, - - ONTARIO DUDLEY LES A1tRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought' and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingham R. V NSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. 11. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry.. Office Over H. E. Isard's Store.. W. R. HMBL ffi: B.Sc., M.D.; C.M. Special attention paid todiseases of Women and Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery,. Bact- eriology and Scientific Medicine. 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 tag. Dr. Roble Co Redmond IVi.1�.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lona.) PHYSICIAN ANIS SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART ere Geptirighfdwih$almer, SYNOPSIS CHAPT A,—Wealthy and hiside Vexed in the Chicago business world, eniamin Corvet is something of a re- cause and a mystery to his associates After a stormy interview with his pert- ner, Henry Spearman, Corvet seeks. Con, stance dherrili, daughter of, his ouzel business partner, Lawrence shherriii, and secures from her a promise not to .merry Spearman, He then disappears, Sherrill learns Corvet has ' writteli to a certain ,Alan Coaradd, in .Blue ll.apida, I(.ansas, and exhibited strange agitation' over the "What is 'your name?" .clan gave his name; the man 're- peated it after him, in the meaner of a trained servant, quite" without in- flection. Alan, not familiar with such, tones, waited uncertainly. So far as he could tell, . the name was entireli strange to the servant, awakening neither welcome nor opposition, but 'indifference. The ratan stepped boas but not in such a manner as to Maio Alan 3s on the econtrary. he: 'Milt closed the door as he 5teppe,l l:nck leaving it open only an Web or Iwo; but it was enough so tins Alan i:e.i.rd him say to some one within: "Hie says he's him." "Ask him In 1 will speak to Wm.' It was a girl's voice—this secrnla .me vole se voice .such as Alan nta,'er "hod Memc before. It was lo'" nen testi but q" .t• clear and distinct, with youthf ll. tin pulsive ✓nodulationscud tee ornure, of accent` which Akin .Itnew tined go with the sort of ,people who Iived In houses like those on this street. TIie servant. obeying the voice, re- turned andopened wide the door. "Will you come in, sir?" Alan put down his suitcase on the stone porch; the man matte 130 rnovt• to pick it up and bring it in. Then Alan stepped into the hall face to face with the girl who bad come from the big room on the right. She was quite 'a young girl -not over twenty -ane or twenty-two, Man judged: :dike girls - brought up in wealthy families. she seemed to Alan to have gained• young womanhood In far greater degree in some respects than the girls he knew, while, at the same time, in other ways, she retained more than they some characteristics of a child. Her slender figure had a woman's assurance and grace; her soft brown. hair was dressed like a t ' `'.; ;• LUt,gs4ra'aoas b,1y Ayers -- Graduate of University of,Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians . and Surgeons: Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone ag. ,r ig °. laiiiaret C. CaIder1. General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine ,'trice—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence x5x. F. A. PARKER = t OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Open every day except Monday and Wednesday. afternoons. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 2.72: won ALVIN OX.: CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATH ELECTRO ---THERAPY I1 ours x0-12. 2-s. 7-8. Telephone set ir woman's; her. gray eyes bad the open directness of the girl. Her face— smoothly oval, with straight brows and a skin so delicate that at the temples the veins showed dimly blue was at once womanly and youthful; and, there was something : altogether likable and simple about her, as she studied Man now. She was slightly pale, be noticed, and there were lines. of strain and trouble about- her eyes. "I am Constance Sherrill," she an- nouuced. Her tone implied - quite evi- dently that she expected him to have some knowledge of her, and she seemed surprised to see that her name did not Mean more to Mm. "Mr. Corvet is not here this morn- ing," she said. He hesitated. but persisted: "I was to see him. here today, Miss Sherrill. Be wrote me, and I. telegrapbed him I. would he here to -day ." "I know," she answered. "We had , your telegram. Mr. Corvet • was not here when it came, so : my, father opened it." Her voice broke oddly, and he studied her' in indecision, 'won- dering who that father might .be that opened Mr. Corvet's telegrams. "Mr. Corvet went away very sud- denly," she explained. She seemed,: he thought, to be trying'to make' some- thing plain to: him which.' might be'aa shock to him ; yet herself to be un- certain what the nature of that shock might be. Her look was scrutinizing," questioning, anxious, but not un- friendly, "After he bad written' ,you and something else hada hennaed — 1 think—to alarm my father about him, father came• here' to ,his house to look after him. Ke thought some- thing might have happened to Mr. Corvet here in his house. But Mr, Corvet was not here." "You mean he has—disappeared?" "Yes.; he has disappeared." Man -gazed at her dizzily. Benja' rain 'Corvet-whoever he might be— ,.i dirrrppettred; he had gone, bid t y one else, theta,' know✓ about Man ,'enrad? "nto 0ne has seen Mr. Corvet," she ro10 `wince the day he wrote to von. We. knew that• -that he became et disturbed after doing thateowriting r . e ou--'ti0'.t we tilotlght you must raring with you Information of him." " lnfnt�inatien l"" "So we' have been waiting for you Gime here- and ten' us what you ^rev iibOtYt MW or—of` your eonnec- 'ion with hila" to '10 teaegaiu. ti.is silence and con- , il:lual, he knew, must seem to Oon- snlxIee Sherrill unwiliiuguees to an - seer ilea:; for she did not suspect that Uei•r,,us 'enable to -answer her. ."you would ratlierr explain to father then to me," she decided..:. 'He hesitated, t+Uhat be wanted now tiros time to think;i to learn who she ryas and who her father was, and to ;adjust himself to this strange reversal ethis expectations.: "Yes; I would rather do that," he said, D. . IVieINNES CII,IEOP7tkACTOR MASSEUR , t' Adjustments given for diseases of tilt kindsd specialize in dealing with telnildren, Lady attendant, aright Calls responded to. Office on Scott St,, Wingham, Ont., in the houtae of the late las, Walker., Telephone t5o. 11 She caught up her fur collar and ututt. from' a, chair and, spoke a word to the .sea'yaat. As she went out on to the porch, he followed her and stooped to' pia7l up his, suitcase, "Simmons will bring that," she said, "unless :you'd rather has it with- you. it is only a short walk.", They turned in at the entrance of a hour~ in the middle of the block and went up the low,' wide stone steps; the door opened to them without ring or knock; a servant in the hall within tool; Man's hat and coat, and'he fol- lowed Constance past some' great room upon itis right to a smaller one farther down the hall. 'Till you wait here. please?" she asked. He sat down, and" she, left him; wt?en her footsteps hadudied away, and he could hear no other sounds except the occasional soft tread of some Servant, he twisted himself about in his chair and locked around. Who were these Sheering? Who was Cor - vet and.ti*'hat Was his relation to the Shrrrills? What, beyond all, was their and Corvet' i relation to 'Alan Conrad— •and`eis nusiness partner zip Weil," s explained. e thoughr,i she :was going to tell him sonaething mere about ,.thein ; but she seemed to decide to leave that for her father,: to do. She crossed• to the. big -chair beside the grate and seated herself. ' As she sat looking at .him, hands clasped ,beneath her chin, and her elbows restttig on the arm of the chair, here was epeculntion and in- terest r in her` gaze; but she did not ask hila anything more about himself, She, he saw, was listening, like him- self, for the Sound of Slrerrili'S ar- rival at the' house', and when It came $b recognized it first, rose, and 'ex- cused herself. Re heard. her voice `tet the hall, then her father's deeper voice which answered; and ten minute later, he looked up to see the men -these things had told him most Ile Sherrill standing in the 'door and looi.- ing at him. Alan had arisen at sight of tiro Sherrill, as he came motioned 11::.1 back to his seat; red not sit doral seed tot e mantel ee,.I himself, but crossed h leaned against it. "I are Lawrence Sherrill," he saki. , As the tall, graceful, thoughtful man stood looking down at -him, Alan could tell nothing of the attitude of this friend of ` l3eejanain. Corvet to- ward himself. Elis manner had the same reserve toward Alan, the same questioning consideration of him, that Constance Sherrill had had after Alan had told her about himself. "My daughter' lies repeated to me what you told her,', Mr.' Conrad," Sherrill observeii:. "Is there anythimf you want to add to -me regarding that?" "There's nothing I . can. add," Al.tu it•nswered. "I told her all that 1.know about myself." "And about .Mr. Corvet?" "1 • know nothing at all about M. Corvet." ' "I am going to tell you some things about Mr. Corvet," Sherrill said. ••I cad reason—I do'not want to explain just yet what that reason was—for thinking you could tell' us certain' things about Mr. Corvet, which "would, perhaps, make plainer what has hap- pened to him:- When I tell you about" •him now, it is in the hope that, in - that way, i may awake some forgotten memory of him in you; if not that, you 'may discover some coincidence of :dates or events in •C'rvet's ''life with dates or events in•your own.. Will you` tell me frankly,' ifyou do discover any- thing, like that?" - - "Yes ; certainly." • - For several moments,' Sherrill paced up and down before the,'fire; then he returned to: his place. before the, 'mantel. first met Benjamin Corvet;" he commenced, "nearly thirty years ago. I' had- come West' for the first time the year before; I was about your own` age and, had been'graduated front" college.' only a short time, and a busi- ness opening had"offered( itself here. Times were booming 'on the. Great. Lakes. Chicago, which had. more than recovered from the fire, was doubling its ' population every decade; Cleve-' land, Duluth.' and Milwaukee were leaping up as ports. rifen. were grow- ing millions of'bushels of grain which: they couldn't ship except by lake; hundreds of thousands of tons of ore had to go by water; and there were tens of millions of feet of ''pine • and; hardwood from the Miehigan`•forests. Sailing vessels, it is 'f.'ue, had seen their day. and were disappearing from. the lakes; were being 'sold,' many of them, as the saying is. `to the insur- ance companies' by dt�h-cerate wreek- lu , Steamers were tal;ieg their place. ';'etv`:n, lied come in. i felt,. young mon„ though I ' was. thee this trans: ,,Imrl•ation matter was all One thins. rd 'tha.t in the end thT railroilal::t r"�titlrl nun the ships. I hreee never -nig:teed ver„ actively in the operatlen o;. the ships; my daughter rroUid Iota [lie to be. more active 111 11 •thee' 1 nave been; but ever since, ` 1 nave had: Jrluuey in bike rt.�sele. 1t ;'0111' the year that 1 teestl, brut sort of invest. ,oeu: that.; , ✓1,t mei dorvet." et. Atari iuu1i,.,1 .a. y,ockty. "Mr, Cor:: vet airs—?" he aal.ed. "Curvet cvas—ls a lawman," Slier rill Bald. Alan sal sal euutionless, as, he revel- rected the straege exaltation that tlao. come to him when he saw` the hike; for Ithe first time. Should' he tem Sherrill• of that? lie decided It wtta tun -vague, too Indefinite to be 1000- tioned; no doubt any 'other man used oi1132 to the prairie might have felt tLre Save: , "He was a shipowner, then," lie ;itis d'. i eS be was a shipowner—not, however, en a large scale at that time. Isle had been a master;• sailing ships which belonged to others; then he had sailed: one of his own.sFie was operating then, l believe,- two vessels; but with the boom tidies on the lakes, his interests were beginning to ex - peed. 1 .islet him frequently in the next few years, and we became • close friends." • Sberrill broke oft acid stared an in- stant down at' the rug. Man bent forward; he made no interruption but only watched Sherrill attentively, "Between. 1.$86, When 1 $rttt Met him,; dtiY1 1895, Corvet taid the f'otiiidatiob of peat suecese; his boats seemed lucky, men, tilted 'to Work for hien, .and hrl got'the best skippers and ere#'mss, There , whs a 'saying that in 'otorb'l"'b Coreet ship never asked help; it gave `itt certainly In twenty, years no Cloi''i"et': shin bad st` ffered serho1.s disaster. Corvet Was not yet rich,, ,but utilee aecident or undue coitpetttion hater - "(Med. he was certain to becoina so. nen set ethlnk happened." ^' Sherrill looked away at evident lest''' e � lent to ele�ser 1te "'Ct3 the ships?" Ahin' tiwkett_ Blur. "No; to 1111)1, I�l i''116, for tic aft, parent vetoso I, a great ellttnge carte Over hini." "In 1 5961" That was the 'year." , Alan bent forward, his liver/ throh• bing in lits throat "Teal was also the year when 1 it is hi:mrrht and left with the, \9e'ltons in Kilns:ls."' he saki Sherrill dad not spe.,lc:l`or' a 01)10001. I 'thought," he said tidally, "It ,must have been about. tint time; but yeti did. not tell my daughter the exact date." "What kind .of change dame over bin that year?" Alae asked. Sherrill gazed down at the rug. then at Alan, then past pian. .A change in his wait of 11vin he replied..' "The Corvet line of 'bouts went air ex- paneled; interests were acquired in, other lines; and Corvet and ,'thosd° allied with Mini swiftly grew ricb.a Bul' in all this great development, for which Corvet's genius and ability had laid the, foundation, Corvet himself ceased. to tate active: part. Be took Into partnership, about a year. tater. Henry • Spearman, 11 young mail who had been merely a mate on one of lits ships. This proved,' sute1equently to have been a good business move, for Spearman had, tremendous energy, daring, 'and enterprise; and no doubt Cervet had recognized ,theseequalities in hint before others did.,, Since thee he ,has been ostensibly aid publicly the head of the, concern, hut he has left the management almost entirely tp Spearman, . The personal change to Corvet at that time is. harder for 'nae: to .'describe to you."' • Sherrill halted, his eyes dark with thought, his lips pressed closely to- gether; :Alan waited. • Alan Gazed at Her Dizeity--Benjamin Corvet-- to himself? The shock and confusion. he had felt at the nature of his recep- tion in Corvet's house, and the strange- ness of his transition from his . little Kansas town '`to a place anal people such as this, had prevented him from' inquiring directly from.. Constance Sherrill as to "that; and, on her part,. she had assumed, plainly, that he already knew and need not be told. He straightened and looked about, then got up, as. Constance Sherrill came back into the. room. "Father is not here just now;" she said. "We weren't sure from your telegram exactly at what boirr you would arrive, ' and that was wh'y waited at Mr. Corvet's to be sure we wouldn't miss you. I have telephoned father, and he's coming home at once." She hesitated an instant in the door way, then turned to go out again. "Miss. Sherrill—" be said. , She halted. "Yes." "You told the yon had been waiting, for me to come and explain my con- nection with Mr. Corvet. Well -1 can't d0 that; that Is what I came, here hoping to find out," She came back toward him slowly. "What do you meant?" she asked. He fought down and eontrolled resolutely the excitement in his Voice, as he told her rapidly •the little ho knew about himself, He could not tell definitely how She was affected by what he Said.She noshed elightly, following here first start of Surprise: after he,had <begun to speak; when he held finished, he saw that she was a little pale. "Then 'you don't know anything about Mr, Corvet at all," she said, "No; until I got his letter sending for are here, 1:'d never seen or heard Ids name," She was thoughtful for a nntement, "Thank you 'for telling nue," she said. "P11 tell my father when he Cornea,"' "Four, father Wee?" he ventured, Ste nnderstOod how' that the itaitie Of Sherrill had.; Meant nothing to lrlrtl. a"Pather;is M>GI Cbil'vet's closest friend, 01-1APTBFI- 11I ♦r iiis;puytridia: 04 a Shadow Alan, Wdr he looked eoilfusedli end ;,liu ia,y, it her, made we attempt to ttrstt`er the question she had asked, Thursday, October .t end., 1925 p questime of, th10r tttiderstltl:tdltlii and ttti'eetiofl 1Ip to the very time .ehe's0 strangely left -111th. She died in '1Pr1nce in the sprleg of lOiA. euti .Corset's first Infortmrt1oll of her (lentil 'mime tp... hltn thl'uugh. a -paragraph In a' rt`wspaper." Alan had started; Sherrill Ilnrited,t 'hire •queetionirigly. "The' sprleg of • 1elct ' Alen ex- piained. "was rviien 1 leeched 1 im bleak' draft for tiftt,•'n hnedeed honors." , Sherrill 1100000 ; he X110 tint solo d surprised to la+n1' 11315: stilet' it tris pen red to he runtirniail+11) 01 softie- • o t. .thing in his uwn th u� t ' "Following his wife's moving tttmt" Sherrill ' went on, "Carvin sew vary;' Iittre of anyone. ile spied 311151 taf time In 'his own' hu' ; oocxsinn-. O1y he lunclled at, ids cluby,,at rare Intervals, and eleetee ort etatt'tctify: tie appeared .at his, office. I rc'tttemher' tllat lunimer he was terribly 'dis- turbed because one of hie ships wits teat. The Corvet record was hreeen; a Corvet ship had :'appeared 1(31' ileie: a Corvet :vessel hard net reached. port.- And later in the fall, rvh'en Two deckhands were wasllcrt from another of hisvessels and drowned, he was - again, greatly wrquttht ❑p, though his ships still had a moat foroi'ble record. In -1902 .I_proposed to him that 1 hay full ownership in'ihe vessels 1 tnartly' controlled and ally ahem with those he and Spearman operated. •• Since then, the firm ;name bast been-Corvet, Sherrill; and Spe arnian: "Our friendship had strengthened. and ripened' during' those 4years. The intense activity of .Cornet's, mind, which as .a 'younger manhe. had di- rected virholiy to 'the shipping, was directed, after he had isolated himself in this way, to other 'things. .Be took "When I 'saw Corvet again, in the up almost :feverishly an immense num- summer mer of '96-1 had,been South der . her ; of 'studies -strange studies most `ins the latter. part of, the wtnter••and' of them for a man whose youth had • East through the spring --I was im- been almost violently active ,and who pressed by the vague hut, to me, had once been a lake captain; I can- not tell you' what they all were--- geology° ethnology, nearly a score of subjects;. ,he corresponded with vari- ous scientific : societies; he • has given almost the whole of ' his ,atteution to such things for ahotit twenty- years., But 'he: has .trade ,very few: acquaint- ances cquaintances in that time, and -leas kept almost none ' of hs old fiiiendsh'ips.. He has lived ' alone -in the house om. Astor 'street with '00134 one servhit•--a the -same' one all ,these years. "The only,'honse he has visited with 'any frequency has been mine.- Be has always liked my wife; he had—he has, a great affection for nay daughter, w1 e,, when she'was,a child, ran In and out' of his ,bornee as she pleased.. My daughter believesrnow that his present disappearance—whatever has hap-- pened: to him—is connected in some -- Way with' herself. I do not think, that is so-" Sherrill broke off and .,stood) in) -thought for 'a moment; tie seemed to consider, and to- decide that it was not necessary to say anything more . ' on that.subject. "Is there anything in what I haves told you which makes it possible for you to recollect or to explain?" Alan shook his head, flashed, and - then grew a little pale. What Sherrill-- told hnai had excited tint by the coin- cidences ,tt' Offered, between events in. Benjamin Corvet's life and his own;. it had not made' him "recollect„ - Corvet, but„„it had given dedniteness•: and direction to his speculations; at 'to Corvet's relation to himself, .Sherrill drew one of the large chairs, nearer. to Alan and sat down'facing: him. He felt to an inner ,pocket and: 'brought outran envelope; from the en« That Was 1897.” alarniing Menge in him. I was re- minded. 1 result, of a friend I had had in:roilege -rvho In}d thought he was in perfect teatth and had gone to an exa4 finer for 'Iife,,insuranee and toad been refused, and was trying to deny to 'himself and others that anything could' he the matter. But with Corvet I' knew the trouble wits not physical. The next ;year his wife left, him." "The year•. if—?" Alen asked. velope he took. three pictures. "That r}'as 7,5117:. 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