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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAH. 55 i n-- ml ah n PL c birum By yiIHarri MacHarg and Edwin Balmer by tdwi She ran to the huddled figure of the man In mackinaw and cap; Ms face waa M l len partly by the in which he lay and jmrtl.v byplt.ln the drifting smw; hut, before he aw opt the snow away and turned him to her, she knew that he was Alan. She cried to hltu aud. when he did Hot answer, slie shook him to get him could pot Muse txl in. awake; but to herself, Iraju.g la wild she pem d Ids Jacket aud felt within h!s chu !,e ; he was warm at least he was not frozen vvittdu! No; ami there seein.-miiiic stir of Hs heart 1 She ft Ini, to curry him; thci to nm But she could not; lie felt r arms Into the snow again. sat down, pviSltng him upon her tup ami riusptng him to her. She must have aid, slw must got him to son o house, she must take him out of tin- - tetrlhle cold; hut dared she leave him? Might llenry return, If she int away? She arose and hoked about. Bur up the shore she saw hts figure rising and falling with Ida flight over the rough Ice. A sound cam to her, too, the low, deep reverberation of the Drum heating once more along the shore and In the woods and out upon the take; and it seemed to her that Henrys figure, In the stumbling steps of his flight, was keeping time to the wild rhythm of that Bound. And she stooped to Alan and covered him with her Kiat, before leaving him; for she feared no longer Henrys return. - s: eiln4. uti 5! -- ' tJifJw Jr ' iw - , r c"n" B fit Car-vet?- gj I tii -- f. Litef-rei- e, -- 1 n; . ' j 1 ra ' . the Drum sounding now?" ked the woman. I "N0" ' I the counting worthing that he heard, or thought he he was recounting and revlew-withi- n ; himself something that he before some Irregular I Tythn which had become so much a f him that It stranded now con-- ) ntfiy within his own brain; so that, JatlBlvely, he moved In cadence to IpPPed forward again now, turned toward1 the bouse. breaU caught as she spoke to h oni8n"Mr. Spearman Is coming . .ud beard .! - inowl" i!rv ,mpu,se vras to remain where ,esf he should think she was , 5,ta ,nt realization came to 'hen,f there might be advantage In ore he knew that she ere f Mie reclosed the door and back Into the cabin. 1 CHAPTER XIX The Bounding of the Drum. f the w,nd aml the roaring Guilt Was in His Thought Now Racklae ma,, Inaudible any sound f ing, Tearing at Him. 'Proach to the cabin; she breath and waited ' snowshoes, however, scrape Constance caught , beat ; the time of the In'0 8, fter taking them off, for the next h measures of the bes!de the door. He terval between the !tWa. Uiem still only the and i . .. drtor open then and came rhythm passed,wind and the undertone !j.t whistle of the uv trhA,i ton,,t see her at first and. as of water sounded. The Drum bad force the dooj shut beaten Its roil and, for the moment. quietly1 tU&, wio? she watcbed was done. had been her count as Twenty-twher now D1 started count at ail ; the could she nearly as wttn what the r0r 'ornan D,I then reckoning agreed kck t r Two had died, heard. yvnstanee before he seemed woman had last had beat Drum the fher. then, since Two more was twenty. eilor be said roll its Ilel- - wtien tentatively. were left . five meant than before; that woolen ! Constance caught up her Henry Her oa. It and put re! You ars!" ne stood hood from the tablecaU him- fraTn. to Henry action seemed to ! aw! ,w,y1n little as he 4W.1 f vras wWiky cpop his bfth are yon going to dor be de"What In evident the ' ktat manded. whisky could ''nQt for Tw r.lrf oak this i condition she wit a and the door. wsl , He moved betwaea her VjB. jrjther could It con ' 1 1 i f o ln-lin- n ir-- . i -- & e ,1 ' htWJSrro5 5 lurched toward her with hands outstretched to seize her; he followed her,tand she avoided him again; If his guilt and terror had given her ineutat ascendency over hint, his physical strength could still force her to his will and. realizing the of evading him or overcoming him, she stopped. Not fliat she cried. "Dont touch Impo-udhlllt- ! me Come with me, then I" he command- ed; and he went to the door and laid bis snow shoes on the snow and stepped into them, stooping and tightening the straps; be stood by while she put on hers, lie did not attempt again to put hands upon her as they moved away from the little cabin toward the vvood-- back of the clearing; but went ahead, hr. iking the trail for , 1th ids her He moved forward slowly; be could travel, if he had wished, three feet to every two that she could cover, hut lie seemed not wishing for speed but rather for delay. A deep, dull' resonance was booming above the wood ; it Itoomed again and ran Into a rhythm. No longer was It ubove; Ht least It was not , only above; it was all about there, to right and to left, before, behind the booming of the Drum, Doom was the substance of that sound of the Drum heating the roll of the dead. Henry bad stopped In front of her, half turned her w ay ; his body awnyevf and lent to tbe booming of fixe Drum, as ids swollen lips counted its soundings. $he could see him plainly in the moonlight, yet she drew nenrer to him as she followed Ids count. Twenty-one- , ! The Twenty-twhe counted Twenty-fou- r drum was still going on. r Would twenty-fivtwenty-sihe count another? lie did not; and her pulses, which had halted, leaped with rAllef. He moved on again, descending the steep side of a little ravine, and she followed. One of his snowshoes caught sla, a. protruding root and, Instead of slowing to free it with care, he pulled it violently out, and she heard the dry, seasoned wood crack. lie looked down, awdre; saw that the wood was not broken through and went on; hut ns he reached the bottom of the slope, she leaped downward from a little height behind him and crashed down uion his trailing snowshoe Just behind the heel. The rending snap of the wood came bettcath her feet Ilvd she broken through his shoe or snapped her own? She sprang back, as he cried out and swung In an attempt to grasp her ; he lunged to follow her, and she ran a few steps away and stopped. At his next step bis foot entangled in the mesh of the broken snowshoe, and he stooped, cursing, to strip It off and hurl It from him ; then he tore off the one from the other foot, and threw It away, and lurched after her again ; but now he sank above his knees and floun dered la the snow. She stood for half moment while the drunken figure struggled toward her she along the side of the ravine; then ran o where the tree trunks hid her frpm him. ne gained, the top of the she slope and turned In the direction apparently, then, assured had gone; that she bad flown In fear of him, he started back more swiftly toward the beach. She followed, keeping out of his sight among the trees. he had counted to To twenty-six- , I That told that , time each twenty-sixhe knew one was living sroong those who had been upon the ferry I What one? It could only be one of two to dismay him so; there had been only two on the ferry whose rescue he had feared; only two who, living, he would have let He upon this beach which he bad chosen and set aside for his paI trol, while he waited for him to die She forced herself on, unsparingly, as she saw Henry gain the shore and hurried as, believing himself alone, he northward. She could not rest; she could not let herself be exhausted. Merciless minute after minute she raced him thus A dark shape a fig- I ure lay stretched upon the Ice ahead someBeyond and still farther out. of thing which seemed tbe fragments where down and tossed up a lifeboat at the waxes thundered and gleamed the edge of the floe. Henry's pace quickened ; hers quickened desperately, too. She left the shelter of the trees sod scrambled down the fteep pitch ef the bluff, turned shouting, crying aloud. Henry she and halted, about and saw her; he beand rush got a with passed him ice, tween him and the form upon tbe before she turned and faced him. Defeat defeat of whatever purpose Ms now that she was be bad what.be might do; and there to witness he hurst out of that, realisation In his He advanced; In oaths agate!? he- rhe swayed she stood, confronting and past walk awucg in tls slightly went past those be away; and her oa sioag and things oa the Leachtoward kept north. the hummocks the he s smv.v-lioes- them-here- o e half-ma- " Constance gazed again at the man sn4 found his motion quite unmistak-le- ; be was If not counting Ni't atone, boavy joure not;'1 'obt had a deep tone of menace In It; lie seemed to consider aud decide something about her. Theres a farmhouse about a mile back ; Im going to take you over there and leave you with those jieople." 1 will not go there !" lie swore. Ill carry you, then!" She shrank back front him as he vv -- fcad-w- as the tee as they the occupants of the . I xecog-nlze- d sh-d- Alan fdt himself alterimteiy weak and roused to atrength ai ha aw tier. Their eyea encountered, and hers looked away; a sudden shjnosK, which sent his leaping, lutd come over her. He wanted to speak to her, te make s.ie recognition to her of what she hud done, hut he did not dare te and she acemed to ute trut his derstiuul that. He turned to Sherrill Instead. An eng!nc,nnd tender coupled 10 a single ear tooJ at the railway station. Were going to Odragu? he Inquired of Sherrill. "Not vet. Alan to St. lgnace. Father Leiron the priest, jolt know cut to St. lgnace as soon us lie roeov-refrom his exposure, lie sent word to me that he wished to see me at my incidence; I told him that we would go to him as soon ns jou were able." "lie sent no other word than that?" "Only that he hnd a very grave to make to us. Alan dlj not ask more; at mention of Father Perron he had seemed to feel himself once more among the crashing, charging freight ears on the ferry and to see Benjamin Corvet. pinned amid the wreckage ami iqenklng Into the ear of the priest. lu-ar- whl.-t-o- rs Bafar ceal that condition; sohh turmoil and strain within him made him immune to Its effects. little. terr ! then She had realized on her way up here face of an Indian aJ vaguely, that struin within him l " crack. ndThe what, must be. Guilt guilt of some nful Evidently had expected-f0tDaa was teas-- sort connected him, and had connected Jai Uncle Benny, with the Mlwaka the Eiti- lost bent and ship for which the Drum had door wider open, eaten the roll of the dead. Guilt was Constances snow in his thought now racking, tearing d" . at him. But there was something the door. more than that; what she hud seen in NSA i him When hb first' caught sight f her arm. womans caught the A was fear fear of her, of Constance -- ey sent him to the beach. Sherrill. 0unk You came up here about Ben " Ton here? near there houses he challenged. once, at them of one -run to Yes no!" or if you whoever you can get; "Which do you mean?" to go. where JJJ do that, tell me -No." her at stolidly stared-i I know, then. For him, then eh None near.- - she sway. For him?" "Besides, you could not get For Alan Conrad? Yes," she said. come." will some one mtody before I knew It I" he repeated, "lies been Is that?" I Wl the trouble between you and me all f Henry Spear-lii- a the He U oil the beach time!" hlm-gwarm fie comes here to She made no denial of that ; she had comes be time It Is nearly, begun to know during the last two iain." woman daya that it wa9 so. Constance gazed at her; the So you came to find him? Henry Her went on. u plainly glad of her coming. from that fear she had lef "Hell be found I" she defied him. the door eon feeling when she opened "Be found?" was rery evident It was Henry, "Some are dead, she admitted, hut Who had frightened her. not all. Twenty are dead; but seven I The Indian woman set a chair for Are not!" ler beside the stove, and put water in "Seven?" he echoed. You say J paa to beat; she shook tea leaves seven are not! How do you know? a The Drum has been bentlng for 00 a box into a bowl and brought ' rip. twenty, but pot for more I" Constance many on that ship?" said. The Drum you've been listenthere were .thirty-i'n- ing to all day upon the beach the InAltogether Constanoe replied. dian Drum that sounded for the dead then." of the Mlwaka ; sounded, one by one. I "Seven are living I Seven? What have you heard? for all who died t But It didnt sound Vhat mates you think bo?" fpr him! Its been sounding) again, you That is what the Drum says." again, it doesn't sound for know;jut, f The Drum! There was ft Drum him, Henry, not for him!" ll.eal At least there was some sound 'The Mlwaka What do you mean v hkt people heard and which they by that? Whats that got to do with klled the Drum. For the woman had this?" Ills swollen face was thrust I card It forward at her; there was threut Constance grew suddenly cold. For against her In his tense muscles and twenty lives, the woman said, the his bloodshot eyes. Ivnm had beat; that meant to her, She did not shrink back from him, i.nd to Constance too now, that seven or move; and now he was not waiting ere left. Indefinite, desperate denial for her answer. Something a sound hat all from the ferry must be dead bad caught him about. Once it I hat denial which had been strengtheechoed, low In Its reverberation but ned by the news that at least one penetrating and quite distinct. It lost bad boon adrift near Beaver came, so far as direction could be asItered in Constance to conviction of signed to it, from the trees toward the a boat with seven men from the ferry. shore ; but It was like no forest sound. Wen dying, perhaps, but no yet Distinct, too, was It from any noise of rad. Seven out of twenty-sevethe lake. It was like a Drum! Yet, The score were gone ; the Drum had when the echo had" gone, it was a senlot for them In little groups as they sation easy to deny a hallucination, T.el When the Drum beat again, that wSs all. But now, low and distinct would it bent beyond the score? It came agnin; and, as before, Constance saw It catch Henry and hold Ilavlng finished the tea, Constance .turned to the door and reopened It ; him. II la lips moved, but he did not he sounds outside were the same. Two," she A speak; he was counting. saw his lips form. Witary figure appeared moving along .he edge of the ice the figure of a The sound of the Drum was continupll man, walking on snowshoes; ing, the beats a few seconds apart .moonlight distorted the figure, and It Twelve," Constance counted to herwaa muffled, too. In a self.The beats had seemed to be great coat which made it unrecognizable. He halted quite measured and regular at first; md stood looking out at the lake and but now Constance knew that this was hln, with a sudden movement, strode only roughly true ; they beat rather In cot be halted again, and now Con- -' rhythm than at regular Intervals. twenty-two!- " got the knowledge that he was Twenty twenty-on- e 1 looking ; ha was listening as she XVHI CHAPTER they came out on WHS ft DlVH WOMAN t Then ! BeganTaking Lydia E. Pinkhams Medicines ' oh-e- ; 1 l d It was not merely a confessional which Father Perron hnd taken from the lips of the dying limn on Number it was an accusation of crime CHAPTER XX gainst another mun as vvetl; and the onfcsslon and accusation both hnd Ths Fata of tha .Mlwaka. been made, not only to gain fotgive-nes- s "So this Isnt from God, hut to right tcYrlble jyur house, Judah?" No, Alan; thlts an Indians house, wrongs. If the confession left gome hut It Is not mine. It is Adam Kims things unexplained, It did not lack conhouse He and his wife went some- firmation; the priest had learned where eNe when you needed thla." enough to be certain that It woa no Ho helped to bring m here, then?" hallucination of madness. Jle had been "No, Alan. They were alone, here barged definitely to rieat what had she and Adams wife. When she found been told him to the persons he was you, they brought you here more thun now going to meet; so he watched exa mile along the beach. Two women! pectantly upon the railway atutiou Alan linked ns he put down the little porcupine quill box which had staged lids line of Inquiry. Whatever questions he hud asked Judah or Sherrill these last few day had brought him very quickly hack to her. Moved by some Intuitive certainty regarding Spearman, she had come north; she had) not thought of peril to herself; she (had struggled alone across dangerous he in storm a giri brought up 9 he had been! She had found hint Alan -- wifli life almost extinct upon the beach; site aud the Imllnn xvomnn, said had hud Just WassiHjuum brought him along the shore. How hnd they managed that, he wondered. Ills throat closed up, nml his eyes filled ns he thought of thla. In ttie week during which he hnd been cared for here, Alan hnd not seen Constance; but there had been a peculiar and exciting alteration in Slier Ills manner toward him, he had felt; f v 7 V : it was something more Hum merely likhim had Sherrill that for showed, ing and Sherrill had spoken of her to him ns Constance, not, as he had colled her always Iwfore, "Miss Sherrill," or "my daughter." Alan had hnd dreams which had seemed Impossible of fulfillment, of dedicating Ids life and nil Fathar Perron Want to a Dtsk and that ha couhj make of it to her; now Took Therefrom Soma Notot Which Sherrill's manner hnd brought to him Ho Had Mado. something like awe, as of something quite incredible. platform at St. lgnace. A tall, handsome man whom Father Perron He turned to the Indian, "Has anything more been heard of thought uniat he the Air. Sherrill with whom he had communicated appeared Siiearmnn, Judah? man "Only this, Alan; he crossed the upon the car platform; the young straits the next day upon the ferry from Number 23 followed him, and the there. In Mackinaw City he bought two helped down a young ahd beautiliquor at a bar and took It with him ; ful girl. They recognized the priest by hte he asked there about trains iDto the and came toward him at once. dress northwest. II has gone, leaving all Mr. Sherrill?" Father Perron inhe had. What else could he do?" and quired. Alan crossed the little cabin Sherrill assented, taking the priest's looked out the window over the snow covered slope, where the bright sun hand and Introducing his daughter. "I am gtad to aeo you safe, Mr. Stafwas shining. Snow had covered any tracks that there had been upon the ford. The prieet had turned to Alao. We have thanks to offer up for that, beach where those who had been In found been the host with him had you and IT I am his son, then I I thought that dead. He had known that thla must be; he had believed them beyond aid must be so." Alan trembled at the prleata sign of when he had tried for the shore to summon help for them and for him- confirmation. There was no shock of self. The other boat, which had car- snrprUe In this ; he had suspected ever ried survivors of the wreck, blown slace August, when Captain Staffords farther to tbe south, bad been able to watch arid the wedding ring had se gain the shore of North Fox Island; strangely come to Constance, that he and as these men bad Bot been so long might be Stafford's son. ne looked st exposed before they were brought to Constance, as they followed tbe print shelter, four men lived. Sherrill had to the motor which was" waiting to told him their names; they were the take them to the bouse of old Father mate, tbe assistant engineer, s deck Benltot, whose guest Father Perron hand and Father Perron, the priest waa ; she waa very quiet What would who had been a passenger hut who hat that grave statement which Father stayed with the crew till the last. Ben- Perron waa to cinka to them mean to jamin Corvet had perished In the him to Alan? Would further knowb edge about that father whom he had wreckage of the cars. Dot known, but whose blood was bis the to his As Alan went back chair, Indian watched him and seemed not and whose name be now must bear, Vrtng pride or shame to him? displeased. A bell waa tolling somewhere, as Wassa-quaYou feel good, now, Alan?" followed the priest into Fathet they asked. Bcnltota small, bare room which bad "Almost like myself, Judah." That Is right, then. It was thought been prepared for their Interview. Fayou would he like that today. A sled ther Perron went to a desk and took therefrom some notes which he had Is coming Boon, now," Were going to leave here, Judah V made. What I have," be said, speaking "Yes, Alan." Was he going to see her, then? Ex more particularly to Sherrill, la tha cltement stirred him, and he turned to terrible, not fully coherent statement Wassaquam to ask that; but suddenly of a dying man. It haa given me names also It has given me facts. But la. be hesitated and did not Inquire. ' olated. It does Dot give what cam themackinsw Wassaquam brought or what came after; therefore, Num-bebefore r on and cap which Alan had worn 2A ; he took from tbe bed the new It does not make plain. I hope that, aa blankets which had been furnished by Benjamin Corv e t spur In er, yog ca a Sherrill. They waited until a farmer furnish what I Tack." (TO SB CONTINUED.) appeared driving a teem hitched to Bled. The India i low, Tobacco Legend. settled Alan on the sled, and they drtrre off. 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