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I `r 1.. SY NOP$1S p1 -,r.,
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pieeeed in tthe`L.-Wealthy
Ch cag tlty business world
uenianiin Corvet Is sox -nettling of a re•:
close and a n1'atery to his associates.
.lifter a storzray interviewwith his part.
her, Henry Spearman, Corvet seeks Can
stance Sherrill, daughter of his ether
business partner,, LalPrence Sherrill, anis
secures from hera promise not to marry,
Spearman. He then disappears: Sherrill
learns Corvet has written to a certain
Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Itansas,
and exhibited „strange agitation over the
Matter.
CHAPTER II.-Corvet's letter sumz n, a,a
Cenrad, a youth of unknown parentage.
to Chicago..
CHAPTER III. -From a statement of
Sherrill it seems probable Conrad is Cor-
yet's illegitimate son, Corvet has deeded
his house and its contents to Alan.
CHAPTER. EV.—Alan takes possession
of his new home.
CHAPTER V.—That night Alan discov-
ers a
iscovers;a man ransacking the desks and bu-
reau drawers in Corvet's apa.rtmento the
appearance of Alan tremenda.uslyy a6 tales
the intruder, who appears to think I,;... al
ghost and raves er "the Mi vaka," Ai te,
a struggle the• man. escap.s:
CHAPTE.ki V1. --\ext day Alan "learns
from Sherrill that Corvet has deeded his
entire property to hire, Introduced to
Saearman, Alan Is astounded at the •dis-
found in hisat he is househthe man whom
before. he had
CHART= 'VII.—Alaan tells no one of
his strange, encounter, but in a private
interview taxes Spearman with the ;'act.
Spearman laughs at and defies him.
'Ben put papels in: a11' these draw -
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"you're a Chippewa, Aren't
Judah?" Plan Asked.
ers; rte put them upstairs, too—where
you have seen."
"Nowhere else, Judah?"'
"It • he puts things anywhere else,
Alan, I have net seen. Dinner is
served, Alan."
Alan went to the lavatory on the
last door and washed the' dust from
his hands and face; then he went into
lee dining room. Wassaquam, having
rl ed the dinner, took his place be-
.'nd Alan's chair, ready to pass him
,at he needed; but the Indian's
'nt. watohful presence there behind
,m where he could not see his face,
;shed Alan, and he twisted him-
if- ;.o'lt to look at him.
Weld you" mind, Judah," he in -
quieted. "if I asked you to stand over
there instead of where you are?"
Tb't Indian» without answering,
moved around to the otherside of the
table, where"he stood facing Alan.
"You're a Chippewa, aren't you,
Judah?" Alan asked.
"Yes.".
"Your people live at the other end
off the lake, don't they'?"
"Yes, Alan."
"Have you ever heard of the 'Indian
Drum they talk about up 'there, that
-trey' say squads when a ship gees.
down on the lake?"
The Indian's eyes sparkled excited-
ly.
xcitedly. "Yes." he said.
"Do you believe in it?
"Not jest believe; I know. Every -
hods knows. that it sounds dor those
who die an the lake. I have heard it.
It sounded for my Rather."
"Bow was that?"'
"Like this, Aly father sold some
iaiilloeltsl , to a man on B'ea'ver island.
S7ta" man kept Store on Deaver island,
Aff1n. No 1tlelian' liked hfrn. He would
amt, hand "'ray -thing to an indfan or
weep anything in paper for an Indian.
it was Piker alis: ,lin Indian comes
6&t Ler• they 'rait pork. First the man
roa;cl get the motley. Phen, Alan, he
enkl take'. his hook find pull the, ,pork
rsig eat* r4' the barrel, and throw it on
'te a;?ii y,r f€vsrit° tot the bath to plea
1111. 1fa gold Italians MUM take,:their
serol ctrl f4 tltc titan --Inks d0#ts,
,-1.1y, father had to• take the bullocks
to. the man, ,bad
to Beaver island.'
#, first tile Indians did not know who
he ilaiflOCks Were for, so they helped
Nitta, When they found cut the but-
atac'1 er were' 'fel`' .the man on Beaver
would not h'ei hint
lslatld', the Indiana, p
,zat longer. He • ;tad to take : thein
D. • McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
MASSEUR
Adjustments givens for diseases of
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Phones: Office 106, Resid.
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and
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Moitor Etjalititnettt
3t -/AM, CoNtAlti
You,
:,CVOSS s alone. besides. It was bad
weather, the beginning of a storm.
"He went away, and my mother
•,vent to ;,ick berries -•I was smell then.
Pretty soon 1 saw my mother coiling
hack. She had no beeriest and her
hair \vas hanging down,,' and she wee
+' atiiug. .She took me in her arms and
tend my fatter was dead. Other In-
dians came ground and asked her how
she knew, and shesaid she heard the
Orem. The Indians found my father's
body,"
"Did you ever hear of a ship called'
the Mlwaka, Judah?"
"That was. long ago," the Indian `ani'
swered
"They say, that ;tile Drum" beat
vrong when the Miwaka went down --
that it was one beat Short of the right
dumber."
"That was long ago," Wassaquam
rnerely repeated.
"Did Mr. Corvet ever speak to you
ebout the Miwalia?" •
"No; he asked rue once if I had ever
heard the Drum. I told him."
'Wassaquam removed the dinner;land;
brought: Alan a dessert. ' He,returnedk
to stand in the place across ^ the table
that Alan had • assfgaed to him, and
stood looking down at Alan, steadily
.and thoughtfully. • •
"1)o I look like any yea}; ever saw
before, Judah?" Alan inquired of him.
"Is that what -you are thinking?"
"That is what I teas thiniting • Will
enffee.be served in the lihrory Alan?"
"When Mr. Corvet disappeared, .its•
dah, you went to ltd: for -him up, at
Hanistique,. where he was born -alt
least Mr. Sherrill said that was where
you went. Why did you think you
might find him there?" Alan asked.
"Th the end, I think, a man maybe
'goes back to the place where be be-
gan. That's all, Alan."
"In the end! What do' you mean: by
that? What do you think has become
of Mr. Corvet?"
"I think now Ben's dead."
"What makes youthink that?" 1'
"Nothing makes me think; I think ity
myself."
"I see. You mean you have no rea-
son more than others for-'thinkingit;
but that, is what yon believe."
"Yes." Wassaquam went iideay, and
Alan heard -bin on`the `back stairs, as-
cending to his room:
When Alan went up to his.'own
room, after making the rounds io Nee
that the. hoarse was locked, a droning
chant came to him.from the third floor.
Iie paused in the hall and listened,
then went up to the floor above. A
flickering light came to him through
the half -open door of a room at the
front et the house; be went a little
way toward it and looked in. Two
thick candles were burning before a
crucifix, below which the. Indian knelt,
praydr book in hand and rocking to
and fro as he droned his supplica-
tions:
A word or two came to Alan, but'
'without them• Wassaquam's occupation
was 'plain; he was praying for the re-
pose of, the dead -the Catholic chant
taught to him, as it had been taught
undoubtedly to his' fathers, by the
French Jesuits of the lakes, The in-
toned chant for Corvet's soul, by the
man who had heard the Drum, fol-
lowed and still came to Alan, as he
returned to the second floor.
, He bad not been able to determine,
during the evening, Wassaquam's atti-
tude toward ham, Having no one else
to trust, Alan had been obliged to put
a certain amount of trust in the In-
dian; so as he had explained to Was
saonam that morning that thq desk
and the drawers in the little room Mt
Oorvet's had been forced, and had
warned him to see that do one, who
had not proper business there, entered
the house. .Wassaquam' had appeared
to accept this order; but now Weser" -
quarts had implied that It was not be-
eause of Alan's order that he had re-
ftised reporters admission to ' the
house.
Alan started and went quid;'s: to the
open door of his room, as he heard
voices now , somewhere .within, the
house. One of the voices he recog-
nized as Wassaquam's; the other; in-
distinct, thick, accusing—wase un
known to him; it certainly was not
Spearman's. ' "He descended swiftly to
the first floor, and found Wa'ssaquate
standing in the front hall, alone.
Who was here, Judah?" Alan de-
manded.
"A man,"" the Indian answered stol-
idly. "He was drink l , l put him out."
"What,�,dld he come for?"
"He came to see Ben. I put hi
. out ; he Is gone, Alan,"
Abet flung open the front door and
looked out, but he saw no oar'.
"What did he want of Mr. Corvet
".t do not know..` d told bird Ben wsl
trot here; he was'angry, but he weir
away." •
"Hes . ke:• ever coins here before?"
„ "
wle
*creams t c: ,
YtlSt 4
,
Xb
here twit
m?
,
1#e 'ixtts 'been e
[ole ;bund that;, every year 'lla
c omen twiee Alan» Qnee he came
Otteleer,"
"How long has -be been doing that?'"
"°&dice I- Ceti remember,"
he, a ;gleno of li r, Corvet?"
"NO defend—no
"Bat Mr. Corvet rr<aw hien, who
dlelne here?"
"Anways, Alen."
"And'yota don't know at all what he
Came ebotlt?"
"Blow should I !Know? ,No; I do
' not.„
,Alan .got 1i1s `cont and hat The
sudden disappearance of the: man
Might Mean only that he had hurried
away, but ,it might mean, too, that be
was still lurking near' the house, Alai'
had decided;to make the eirqult of the
house and determine that. But as he
came out on to the .poreb, a figure
More than r a block 'aiway, to the south
strode with -uncertain step out into the
light ,of a street Lamp, halted acid
faced about, and shook his fist back
at,. the house, Alan dragged the dn-
dian•out on to the porch.
"Is that the. man, Judah?" he de -
handed. •
"Yes, Alan." •
Alan ram clown the steps and at full '
i a
speed after the man. But when ,he
reached the corner, he was nowhere in
sight. Alan retracted- his steps 'for',
several blocks, still, looking; then he
gave it up and returned east toward
the Drive.
h
e Staggered, Slipped, Felt ,Suddenly'
Forward 'Upon tis Knees Under a
Stunn'op, Cp.::.1, iiiow Upon His
Head From Bei, •.rf•
Ti
rout.ifs; AO bad j toTiisall ��t@ 4341 110*'
alter *•eaeliinh the il:eepltatl anal ail eoutl
to he had leat'tied the putti0uiatre 4t
Alatt% conditions It was: ridlonieue,;
of eourse, 'to attach any t'L°Hltrailriiliilil:y'
to her fsthet' or hetselt i'or what lead
happened tu'Ali -ii street attack su4:i.&
as. fieight have hoppeueal to aiiy, one
---yet Ole ,telt that they were I�a 'pelrt
responsible; 'They #lad let Win .go to.
live alone In the house ltd helot street,
w1114 n0' better adviser, then Ws:ssie,
(leant, Now, and •perhaps ilecttilee
they had not warned hiin, bodied Met'
eatery and, it Plight be, iraore thou
tuer•e Injury; he !flight be dying.
$ouaethitag al•bicb hard.disttubed end
excited Alan ltutl .t1s.Ippetital to slim 011
the' fleet night he �idal pit~ d In t1tat
'mime; and new, it. airmail•dd PC lead;.
Pdsn prevented from leteeiub a seems,'
night there; Whitt bud pleveLl ed Pian
liad been an a rte^:noted rohbeey upon
the street'. Oer father lead Bald. But
suppose it had been sumething else'
than robbery,
She. could. not; .formulate mare def.
luttely this thought, but it persisted;
she, Could not'deny,it entirely and.
shake it off.
To Alan Colirad,, in. the late after-
ttoon of :that da'1 this sante thought
bias coming far more definitely and tar
inot'e persistently, lie had been awake
and sane since "shortly utter noonday.
The nein' of a• head which ached throb -
dud elf, a body bruised arld sore
was beginning to give place to a"feel-
cIe stoggerea. eater -eel. fell-suddenljy-
for�c�arcl npmi his `knees, under a stun-
ning, crushing blow uponhis head
from behind. Thought, consciousness
almost lost, he struggled.," tiuisting,l?im-,
self about to grasp at his assailant.
He caught the man's cliitli"ing, trying
,ro drag himself up; fighting blindly,
dazedly, unable ,to see or think, he
shouted aloud and then again, aloud.
He seemed in the distance to -bear an-
swering cries;, but the •;weight end
strength of the other was bearing him
down again to his knees; he tried to
slip aside from its to rise. Then an-
other blow, crushing and sickening,
descended on his head; even hearing
lift him ciao, unconscious, he fell for.
ward on to the snow and lay stili.
1 Sherrill house, dray
1a, f
tf �
At
and met father a he came u
m'
was attacked on the street late
let het
Vag
t
fathers ,
range on the p
can,
1i
*ft Must' Be s Se.. nge Sensation"' ,She -
Observed,
he -
Observed, "to Know 'That Someone'
Has Tried to Kill You."
"Mr.-Sberril] i11i',,a't feel that it was.
necessary. for Mal to 00 anything, even,,
though he thought that?"'
fageeinerely of lassi de—a languor
"If Mr. CorveC was dead, we could
which revisited'1ncolleretae0 upon Win
do him no goad. surely,' by telling this;
when he tried to thiol;.` The ;neat who to the police;, If the pollee ancceeded
lard assailed bine had meant to kill; in finding ouin"all the facts, we .would
he had not been any ordinary robber. be doing only what Uncle Bea/1y did
That prerpose, blindly recognized and .not wish—what he preferred dearth to.
fought against by Alan in their struge : "We could not tell the police about it
gle, had .been unmistakable. Only' the without telling them all About Mr. Cor-
chance presence of passersby, .who had vet, too. So father would not let him-'-
lie rd Alan's shciuts and responded td' :self believe that you had been attacked ,
d the execution of to be killed. Ile hada to believe the
tlem, had prevent
' fits purpose, and 1l� d driven the man police theory was sufficient."
to 'swift fight fbr is _own safety. Alan made no comment at, once.
A little 'before six'Constance Sher- "Wassaquam beIievee Mr.'Corvet is.
dead," he said finally. "He told me so.,
rill' and -'Spearman called to Inquire
after him and were admitted for a' few. Does your. father believe that?"
:moments to his ;room. .She canoe to °'I think he .is beginning to believe
him, hent over 'hila, while she spoke it,„ ,
the few'words or' sympathy nape/nurse "I've not told any one," he saki, now-.
allowed to her; she stood back then watching her "how I happened to be
while Spearman spoke to him. In the out- 'of the house that night. Irfollowed,
succeeding tiaiys he saw her nearly a man who came tkiere to the ,house
every oily, accompanied always by her Vt�aseailuam did not know his name.
father or ,Spearman;' it : was the full
He did.not knew i11r. Corvet was one;
two weeks the doctors' had insisted on: for he came there to see -Mr. Cost.
his remaining. In the hospital before he He was .not an ordinary friend of Mr.
saw her alone. Corvet's; but he bad come there often.
They, had brought him home, the .Wassaquam,•did not know why. ,Was
-
day befdre—she and, her father, in the, sa'quam had, sent the Ulan away, and.
"motor—to the house on' Astor street, I ran out after, bin' ; but I could nod
lie had .insisted on returning there,• 'find him''
refusing the rooin'ln their house which Hestopped an instant, studying her,
.they had offered; but the doctor had "That was not the first manhwho came-
enjoined outdoors and moderate exer-: to the 'house,'" he went on 'quickly, as. •.
cise for '•him,-apd she bad made him she wad about .to speak. "I, found a,
promise to core and walk with her. man in Mr. Corvet's house ;'lie- first-
He went to the Sherrill house about night that I spent there. Wassaquan. "
ten o'clock, and 'they walked north- was away, you remember, and I, was-.;
•
ward toward the park. alone in the; Dose." ,
„There .is something
omethin 1 have been ,, „ "
g " Aman there in,the house?" she re-'
wanting to ask you," she said. heated.
. "Yes,"� Fie was going through Mr. Corvet'2i '.
'That night When you were hurt—it things: -not the; silver and all that, but
Wad ter robbery, ;they said.. What do'. through his desks and flies and cases.
you think about it?" She watched He was Iooking,for something—some,
him as he looked at ' her. and then ' thing which he seemed to want' very
away;but his.face was com-,ptetely ex- much; when I interfered, it greatly. ex-
pressionless. . .
"The proceedings were a little"too -
rapid' for me .to judgel, Mies Sherrill,"
"But there was, no •detil'atui,upon yon
to give over your money before you
were attacked?"
CHAPTER iX,
A . Wall( Beside the Lake.
"The naive seems like Sher rill; the
interne .agreed. "1 -le eon' it • before.
when we had hint on the tach"e up-
stairs; and he has said at' now iwtra
distinctly. -Sherrill."
"His name, do you thtn,l.?"
"I shouldn't say so; h"e.et'nic tunas
to speak to settle one. mimed' Sl ie•rt•n,i'.;
There are only foitr Sht•arliis .9 it Ike'
telephone book, two of 1111.10 In t.v,-n.
ton and nue "0itY'opr in .Uhtu„ri,
"'1'I,ey're , t v tE nit ties blocks from.
whore he Wit, 1i11•+ is ti;,; bin they're
on the twit t• ttae 1 n '1•E^tit e Sherrills."
'rhe 101 erne whistled s4,ftl;q and
looked more • interestedly' at hie 'tia-
tienr'a features. "1�e'll be coose em
someLittle during.the day.. there's only
a slight fracture, and—perhaps, you'd
better call the
way. I he's not :known there, no harm
done; and e1 he's one.of their friends'
and he should .
The nti se nodded and moved o
Tlius it was that at a quarter to
five Constance Sherrill Was awakened
by the !;;locking of one of the serv-
ants at her father's door. Her father
went down stairs to the telephone. he
strurnent, where' he •might •.reply' -with-
out disturbing Mrs. Sherrill, Constance;'
itimona. over her: shoulders, stood at'
the top' of- the stab's and waited: It
became plain to. her at. once that what
ever had happened had` been 'to .Alan
Conrad.
"les.. . Yes, . . , Youare
giving him every possible care?
once."
She ran part way down the stat
e her i er ?1P•
He told her of -the situation briefly,
"He re
last illght; he was unconscious" when
hey '.found hitt acid took hint to the
ospita 1, and has 'been unconecione
ever mince. , No one can say w
seriously he is injured."
She waited in the Mall while her
tressed, atter calling the ,ge
hoose tele l hone , for him
motor. 'When he had
and erderingthe
gene, she rdturn,ed an tously to her
•Site lireathed. a little mere quickly.
"It most he a' strnllge se ii'ftiop," she
observed, "to know that-ao re one has
tried to - kill you.
"It Must. incised:',:
"you;: mean you r,ditlu't think that
he tried to kill' you?"
cited him. I frightened him. HO,
thought •I was a ehost.h
"A ghost: 'Whose ghost?" :'
He shi tlgged. "I clout know; somas•
one whom he;,seeined; -to have known
pretty +.well—and • whom Mr. Corvet*
knew, he though~."
"Why didn't you tell us this before?"'
"At least—I am telling you now; ,
•$Miss, Sherrill.,' I frightened him, and
'he got away. But I had seen him,
Mainly. I' can describe him. .
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