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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSMLLE. UTAH. Henry feared? A1n hd dewcrlhen the mao to her; that description hat not had meaning for her lefore; hut now remembering that deacVtplnn he could think of Henry as the only tva who could have been la that house! Henry had fought with Alan therel Afterwards, when Alan had been at tacked upon the utreet, had Henry any tl lug to do with that? Henry had lied o her about he'ng Du'.uth the night he had fought In had not told her th with Mini nue imise of his qu.iTieis with Unci Bennv , he had wished her to bcltev note B tiny was dead when tha tlmt vvidd ng t.ng aid wiitih came to her lit!, lie ln- -t mht, unit tlmt at, "The wnuh hi. I, hnd he (Hjitaln 'Ct.iicd fur i l tue live- - tt'a uTotils ot the MiwaVa' Henry had ' it HR hut Kf.il In ., .1M111: Jy IHBI AN BRUM By William MacHarg and Calmer Edtoin Cof,rrIh b r Edwin B.lm.r BOVVRON SOUGHT RELIEF 40 YEARS Tanlac Rssterst Lot Angelas Man ta Splendid Health After Everything Else Had Failed. "Tanlac ha done me more good than all other medicine and treat- v ments combined, and that' saying a I was n sufferer from grout deal, Indigestion forty years and have tried every kind of inedUtne that came my way," said It. II. Bowron, 1 055 W. 17th St Ias Angeles, Cal. could liardl.v stand the had spell I freqmntly hud with my atonmeh. I g .1 het to marry hlmvA once. Was that hciuuso le wished t lie turitf was wealt'und nervous, had no appetl at tier father and tite, and I flt miserable generally gt' Nothing I took gave tn more than her bust. and wh, p they learned th relief and I gradually Ben r Uncle revelation vvhuli temporary worse grew ny might bring About two years ago Tanlac put M IVtvskev si,,, went dvtu the tuen If nie In splendid condition and It has dlreitly to the telegraph office r Henry was la Hetoskey, hev vvtwtl.l I oon my standby ever since. I get to feeling a little off, a know at that oftUe where he could he found, he would he keep'ng In toinh bottle or two puts me In fine shape. ' ' 1 cat heartily now, sleep fine, hava vvlth them. Mr Spearman, the ojierntor said, had no dMreis after meals, and. In fact, been at the office early In the day; am cnjojtng splendid health. Tanlac there had been no moaauge for him; Is Just the thing for those who suffer he hud left Instructions that any as I did." I'll lilac Is sold hy all good druggists. which came were to he forwarded 0 him through the nit'll who, under Ida Mosquito's Strong Wing Muscles. dlre.tlon, were patrolling the shot In Trav-erstiK to size, a mosquitos miles of Little for twenty north Ion are equal In strength to must wn.g for boats watching can fly NO miles Constance crossed the frozen edges en ngles A mosquito without a halt, ' mid with a helping of the hay hy aledge to Harbor w'ml three times that distance. Point. Her distrust rtow had deepened to terrible dread. She had not 0 tl lu. k Mltks to some men like a been nhle before this to form any definite idea of how Henry cmild threat- - grease spot on u pair of new trousers. , f-- r 1 hen she had Impression to herself. chapter opened the door and come Uh he had 14 looked up In dread, ns th.uili piepar spearman Coea North. and ing himself for whatever she mlghr blurred lettering In announce. Now that the door shut tJTftlrosy tissue paper of a car-w- " In he approsuhed her with them had which alone, toessifte arms offered. She stejijH-- hack, incttfcfS ofCor the M,hfwln avoiding his embrace; and JjnU and Spearman and bad stinctively he at ouce- - but he had her and stopped Constance Sherrill calclose to her now . lnfor- further where utber downtown As she stared at him, the clerks be more quickly obfOUJU a voice raise to her suddenly over the tended to Constance by partition which separated the office as she entered her UR, larger room whore the clerk She reread It; It already from-thover the tele- - was receiving some message over the to her repeated Srea XVII e,m.-qult- e - fa-'- e Wireless sta- message. Benjamin tO Number 25: We ha aboard. furvet. f Chicago, t nothing later than received Tm-jviwoe m. Frankfort jb'a,a. received following asked. tilr ah regarding Mr. Corvet, MUs the clerk replied. Nothing SherriH," -The erewT w have Te Just got the names of took another copied lie f hand-I- t from among the pages and looked she swiftly and to her, the list of names until she found Conrad. filled, blinding her, as she Her eyes and began to take down, the paper put had been clinging She her things. that of Alan In her thought to the tue. She stood by the desk, as the clerk went out, looking through, the papers What she was the carbon of the She Made No Reply but Gazed at Him, Studying Him. rvjRirt prepared that morning and sent, at bis rooms, to Henry, who was not telephone. Henry straightened, lis, yet down. tened ; as the voice stopped, his grem, The last message read: G:40, head sank between his Is calling Manitowoc, Signals he fumbled In his pocket shoulders; from Number 25, after becoming for a cigar, and his big hands shook failed entirely about 5:45, as he lighted It, without word of exprohahly by failure of ships power to her. A strange feeling came to cuse i ripply current. Operator appears her that he felt what he dreaded apto hire remained at key. From 5:25 proaching and was no longer conscious to 5:43 we received disconnected of her presence. as follows: Have cleared She heard footsteps In the larger caf , . . they are sticking to room coming toward the office door. It dowa there . . . engine-roowas In suspense. A rap came Henry Is mw also sticking . . . hell on door. lie whitened, and wet his the at r deck . . . everything smashed lips. . . . they wont give up . . . Come In," he summoned. , now . . . were going taking One of the office girls entered, bring. . . good-b, , . stuck to end a white page of paper with three . . all they could . ' . . know ing or lines of purple typewriting upfour 1st , . , band it to them hire cleared another car . . . sink on It which Constance recognized must be a transcript of a message Just re. S. 0. . . . Signals then en ceived.. had left with her. ss rending Fe-tiwh- finely-shnpe- d roes-stgr- an-th- er y ceased. 1 She started forward at sight of It, everything else ; but he took forgetting told Che her that he was paper as though he did not know gone, what compan-kiiihlwas there. He merelfield It unshe with Alan had come to mean til the girl had gone out; even then to her. She had accepted It as s stood he folding and unfolding It. and to be existent, somehow a com did not drop to the sheet his eyes Patoosh!p which might be interrupted had said nothing at all but, The hea but girl always to be formed again. maed her to find how firm a place having seen her, Constance was 4 found In her world of those athrlll ; the girl had not been a bearer do of bad news, that was sure; she her with whom she must al-be Intimately concerned. brought some sort of good news ! Con The telephone switchboard beside stance, certain of It, moved nearer to to read what he held. He looked Constance suddenly buzzed, and the Henry Pcrator, plugging in a connection, down and read. ' "What la It, Henryr id: "Tea air; at once," and through as he read, muscular His reaction, partitions of the private office on 0,ber aide, a mans heavy tones had drawn the sheet away from her; himself almost instantly to Constance. That was Henry's he recovered the and gave paper to her. and In timbre, the voice was his. bat It waa so m a. 8:35 Manitowoc, Wls," she strange In other charac- ktote of expression that she waited read. The schooner Anna S. Solwerk for this port, Instant before Baying to the clerk, has been sighted making for communinot Is dose She enough Spearman has come In 7" jrTbe clerk hesitated, but the con- - cation, but two llfeboata, additional to nuanr of the tone from the other her own, can be plainly made out. It f the partition made la believed that she must have picked reply au- -Krfluoos. up survivors of No. 25. She carries Ye,, MU, Sherrill. so Is unable to report. Convtance went to Henrya door and no wireless, Constance had not realized, until trport of the wireless messages the p al-y- yi PPed. He made no answer and no to open the so. after wait- s moment, she door; turned the knob and T t In. L-r- T eted hI desk. facing big hands before him; one Is tbe telephone receiver, no. 11,Pdslowly and put it upon the v . the transmitter as he ttcheq 1,0, with steady, silent, ag- mmy. He did not rise; J after a recollected that d"nefw and came to his f morning, Connie," he said, H T1 ' y' in. Whats the newsr which had brought her his true went from her. She had eard fron Henry dirert- bTtfT wfre Alans telegram had f.R rd Josterday afternoon; she h, i. . , fr,,ra her father only that fruiH IJennr; that was ell. Tve news. Henry." she said. "Hat. jon - She dosed the door be- h a her, sneving closer to him. ,0 happen to be here. Coar.ir-he asked. j, -- 7- 1 t him. hTr g to The agitation which be !rnn trsoeal was not entirely to doming la upon hlnf; k hii im before, It had loudness and abuse of bis Llch he had overheard. 00 capricious outburst of fwr o Irritation; It had come from tfinwa -- hich had seized and held b in dread In dread; ro ther to define her 't . ,vI-fne- , ; bp and the Sohviik pnkid them htfore the ferry found her." He v a not iikin; ter to ronratu, lute him upon the tvivf he felt; he hud not h, tar Begotten llni'elf us that. But It wu pl;tm to her tlmt lie whs i otigt ululating himself; It had leeu fear that lie was feeling beforo fear, sdie was beginning to understand, that those ihi the fei r had been saved. Horror agd amazement flowed in upon tier with tier rt allrat nm of this lu (tie man she had promised to marry. For an Instant she stared at him, all her body tense, then, as .she turned uiul went out, he followed her, calling tier name. But, seeing the seamen In the larger nttiee, he stopped, and she understood he was not willing to urge himself upon her In their presence Tui willing to go home now, mother, if you wish," she said steadily When they had gone down to the street and were in the cur, Constance leuned back, closing tier eves; she fiured her mother might wish to talk with her. Towurd ttiree o lot k, the office railed her. hut only to repot t tlmt they lmd heard from Mi. Slim 111. lie had e wired that he wan going on from and would cross the straits from St. Ignaie ; messages from him were to be address, J to letoskey. There was no oilier report except that vessels were still (oTntnfuirg The seufftf foT tas -- ttrM P ' v . y I kept r Thi re weic 'tony nine only f " on 1! lerrv Novell p:iNNilf;,-- s met tlilr v wo titvv Twelve li.ive so 10 til tie Ilium thIn.-savi ,iv . t ' to t w I I tv N, eti there In still ct mi, that Nouuv.ne will he anved t'o N'l'oe ua'itieil him with wonder at ' 'e t T of wtiat the hud told iv n ef iti The Irum had Nhaken him tits tilump'i oyer Man and Cm le Beiuiv and over her It had hah. him no that, though he 'i' with tier some minute more, lie n, ,ned to have forgotten the purpose of re. onciliatlon with her whleh had t rough him to the house She dined,, or made pretence of din Her Ing vvlth her mother at seven mother's voice went on and on about trifli'N and Constance did not try to pay ii'ti ntlou. Her thought was fol! 1 Tugs sre going to her." Two lifeboats!" Constance cried. "That could mean that they all are saved or nearly all; doesnt It, Hen- ry; doesnt ItF He had read some other significance or, from his greater conditions In the of understanding storm, he had. been able to hold n hope from what had been rejHrted. That was the only way she could explain to herself as he replied ta'her; that the word meant to him that men were saved and that therefore It was dismaying to him. could not come to her at once. When It came now. It went over her first only In the flash of Incredulous question. The telephone buzzer under his desk sounded; she drew close as he took up his receiver. 1 nt to "Manitowoc 7 h MidSolthe from heard what know you're meJ . ' werk. . . - Too Tfie men the Solwerk picked tip. Toll have the names yetr . In It, she thought, - er The Benton T "Oh. I understand I All from the I see! . - - Ne; never Benton. nrtnd thetr name. How about N umber 7 257 Nothing more beard from them shoulder hla Constance had caught while be was speaking and now clung was to It. Release release of strata feel It, could she going through him! saw and tones Us It la heard and she it in bia eyva hen-eve- ro-11- Henry with ever sharpening She caul'll the office In mhl evening; It would he open, she knew for message regarding Uncle Benny and Alan would he expected a clerk answered; no other! there news hud been received; ahe then naked llcnrya whereabouts. Mr Spearman went north lute (Ida afternoon, Mls Sherrill," the ilerk e, g lllfii Hied 1 she-mu- st lu-C- lows 11 111 t 1 j 1 WOMAN GOULD 'tier Where?" "Noith "We are to communicate with him this evening to Crnml Rapids; after that, to Petoskey." Cc n stance' could hear Tier inv n heart survivors, because the Indian Irum, heat Why had Henry gone, she which had heptt heating, was beuttng to ild the not, certainly, short, Vcaustng the superstitious to search lie had gone to hinder It? he certain that, though some of the nu-from Number 2o were lost, some CHAPTER XVIII. jet survived. C'onstnnce thrilled as she heard The Watch Upon tha Baach. that. She did not believe in the lrum ; Constance wits throbbing with deterat least stie had never thought she mination and action, as she found her had really believed In It; she hud only purse and counted the money In It. stirred to the Idea of Its being true She never In her JIfe had gone alone But If the Drum was beating, she was upon nn extended Journey, much less It was been alone upon a train overnight. If glud It was beating short. men she sjKke of such a thing now, she at to lake the least, serving, keep more alert. would be prevented; no occasion for A little later, ns Constance stood at It would he recognized; She would not the window, gnzlng out at the snow be allowed to go, even If "properly acShe could not, 'therefupon the lake, she drew back suddenly companied." out of sight from the street, as she ore. risk taking a handbag from the saw Henry's roadster appear out of house; so she thrust nightdress and the storm and stop before the house. toilet articles Into her muff and the of her fur coat. She deShe waited In the room where she roomy had to under the scended was. The strain he was side door of the house, not lessened, she could see ; or rather, gained the street and turned westIf she could xust her feeling at sight ward at the first corner to a street of him, It had lessened only slightly, car which would take her to the railand at the same time his power to way station. The manner of buying s railway resist It hod been lessening too. I thought youd want to know. Con ticket and of engaging s berth were servnle," he said, "so I came straight out. unknown to her there had been but to these do of ants one things always Richardson The picked up he watched others and did s they the boats of the ferry." "Uncle Benny and Alan Conrad did. She procured s telegraph blank were no. In It," she returned; the trl nod wrote a message to her mother, her that she had gone north to umph she had seen In 1dm had told telling her father. When the train had Join her that. she gave the message to the started, No; It was the first boat put off by him to send It from directing porter, and with the passengers the ferry, at which they town first large cabin maid and some Injured men of the stopped. the crew." Constance could not, as yet, place silver her voice "Were they Henry's pprt In the strange circumhushed tensely. which stances had begun to reveal -to reTe; that Is, they were able themselves with Alans coming to Chivive them all ; bu. It didnt seem poscago; but Henry's hope that Uncle sible to the Richardson's officers that Benny and Alan were dead was beginning to make that clearer. She lay without voluntary movement In her berth, but lier bosom wa shaking with the thoughts which came to her. Twenty year before, some dreadful event had'altered Uncle Benny's life; hla wife had known or had learned-eno- ugh of that event so that she had left him. It had seemed to Constance and her father, therefore, that It must have been some Intimate and private event. Uncle Benny had withdrawn himself from men; he had ceased to be active In his business and delegated It o others. This change had been to Henry. advantageous strangely Henry had been hardly more than a common seaman then. lie had been a mate the mate on one of Uncle Benny's ships. Quite suddenly he had become Uncle Bennys partner, Henry had explained this to her hy saying that Uncle Benny had not trusted vicious of Henry; he had been him; he had quarreled with him. How s'range, then, that Uncle Benny should have advanced and given way to a man whom he could not trust I Uncle Inny had come to her and warned her not to marry Henry: then had Ieen Alan. Tln-rHer Voles he had sent for "Were They Alive?" la thee acta of 'Uncle Ben purpose Hushed Tensely. nys; had they meant that Uncle Ben had who revived ny had been on the verge of making be anyone could that explanation which than b explanation tnu that; longer been exposed and that he had been feared given op the Henry so the Richardson father had thought Her the other prevented? some of ship search, and had thought that he at too, least, this; have np given were searching tht Uncle Benny must have left some ex and gone on their coarse." "I see ; how many were ,tn the planatlon In Lis house. He had told Alan Jiat, and- bad given Alan the boa?" -key to the house so that he could Twelve, Connie." -find It. Alan had gone to the house won't vewwls there up Then all the In the house Alan had found somegive np yet! who had mistaken him for one "Why ootr a man who had cried out at office, the ghost, "I wa Just tslkfng Oth of the Us, something about snip sight from heard again Henry ; they've whose other end of the lake. The people up a lion t the Mlwaka. the ship of ex no one had known I loss It's but anything beating, there say the Drum of the I ru m. th I" sounding eept by still short beating What had the man been doing In th Short I" house? Had he too been looking for he Tea." ffea. She saw Henry tgl th tha eig? nation that be Drum the explication said wifily. They tay vvon-dcie- tht tirely h-- boat- - Mnn-istlqu- Hief that Alan might not have been Alans message, iboard the ferry. Mcb had sent her father north- to aert the ship, had implied plainly tbit some one whom Alan believed as on Number Plight be Cncle Benny these last been had she fighting, 2; few hours, against couvlcUon therefore Alan must be on the fprry. whkh he he te!uner Numtier "J.i rammed proved to have been the Benton, he told In r The men are all ftum her. r 1'hi.v hud abandoned m the small I tya-ke- NOT WORK M&de Strong and Well by Lydia E. Finkham! Veg- - d etable Compound Ft. Taul, Minn. e , - took Lydia El feeltired, worn-ou- t ing and painful period. 1 used to get up with a pain m my head and pain in my lowerpart and back. Often 1 waa not abl to do my work. I read in your Httla book about Lydia E. Finkham a vegetable Compound and 1 have taken it I feel ao well and strong and can do every bit of my work and not a pain in my back now. 1 recommend your medicine and you can use this letter a a testimonial. M Mrs. I'hiu Maser, 801 Winslow 8t, St Paul, t 11 'I rinkham'a Vegetable Compound for a Her?" Who fth Hrr Cried. Who'a en Alan and Uncle Benny; the had Imagined only vague Interference and obstruction of the aearch for thernt she hod not foreseen that he could 0 readily assume charge of the search and direct, or misdirect, I. At the Point she discharged th aledge and went on foot to the housf ot the caretaker who had charge oi the Sherrill cottage during the winter, Cettlngthe keys from him,' she let herself Into the house. Going to hei room, she unpacked a heavy sweater and woolen cap and short far coat-wi- nter things which were left there against use when they opened the house sometime out of season and put them on. Then ahe went doW'n and found her anowshoea. Stopping at the telephone, ahe called long distance and asked them to locate Mr. Sherrill, If posalble, and Instruct him to move south along the shore with whomever he bad with him. She went out then, and fattened on her snow-shoe- s. Constance hurried westward and then north, following the bend of the shore. The figure of e man one ot the shore patrola pacing the Ice hummocks of the beach and staring out upon the lake, appeared, vaguely la the dusk when ahe had gone about two miles. She came, ttiree quartert of a tulle farther on, to a second man; about an equal distance beyond ahe found a third, bpt passed him and went on. Her legs ached Bow with the unaccustomed travel upon snowaboea; the cold, which had been only-piercing chill at (first, waa stopping feeling, almost stopping thought She wa horrified to find that she wa growing wealr and that her aensea were becoming confused. She had come, In all, perhaps eight miles; and ahe wa "plajtng out" She descended to the beach again and wrnt on; her gaze continued to search the lake, but now, wherever there was a break 'In the bluffs, she looked toward the shore as veil. 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