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Show no children." "I thought unei sua u ii au was what you Ameant twinge twisted Alans fare; he tried to control It but for e moment could nob "Do not misapprehend your father," Sherrill said quietly. "1 cannot prevent what other peopls may think when they team this; but I do not share anch thoughts with them. There la much to tbl I cannot understand; but I know that It la not merely the result f what other may think It of a wife In more ports than one. as you will hear the lakemen put U. What Ilea under thla Is some great misadventure which had changed end frustrated alb your father life." . Sherrill crossed the room and rang for a servant I am going to ask 'you to be m.v guest for a short time, Alan he announced. "I have had your bag carried to your room; the man will show you which one It Is." Alan hesitated; he felt that Sherrill had not told Mm all he knew that there were some things Sherrill purposely was withholding from him; but force Sherrill to tell more he could than hewlshed; so after an Instant Irresolution, he accepted the dismissal. Sherrill walked with him to the door, and gave his directions to the servant; he stood watching, as Alan and the man went up the .stalra. Then he went back and seated Mmelf In the chair Alan had occupied, and ant with hands grasplog the arms of the chair while he stared Into the fire. He seemed to be considering and debating something within himself; and presently fce seemed to come to a de- - that - -- hla Intereata were beginning to expand. I met him frequently In the "CORVET SON! next few jeara, and we became done friends. BTROrSia-WesU- lur and hUhly SherriU broke oft and stared an business hi tbs Chk-ifaomala vat Cor down at the rug. Alan bent wwH rsciuas and a niyaiery hut thtag at ; he Made no Interruption forward ta hM associate. After ' Stormy watched Sherrill attentively. only, Interview with hla partner, Henry "Between 1SS0, when I Brat met him, Wtiaanaan. Corset seeks Conalanca BufrUi. daughter of hta other and 180.1, Corvet laid the foundation of baalwaaa partnar, lnwrence Bher-ril- l. great success; Ida hoata seemed lucky, aa4 aaouraa from her a prom-ta- a men liked to work for him, and he lie ta tel marry Spearman, Sherrill learns best aklppera and crew a. There the than dteappaarm. got Carrot haa written to' a centrin' a saying that In storm A Corvet ws Alan Can rad. In Ulus Rapids, Kanship never asked help; It gate It; sas, and axhlhlted atranga sells-Hoaver the matter. Corveta let-tcertainly In twenty year no Corvet nminoM Conrad, a youth of ship had suffered serious disaster, wnkaown parentage, to Chicago. Corvet was not yet rich, but unless Aha arrtvoo In Chicago. accident Y undue competition Intervened, he was certain to become CHAPTER III Continued. something happened. Sherrill looked away at evident lo imw to describe It. Rbe, be mw, wga listening, like hint tExr'lhe ships?" Alan asked him. elf. far the sound of RherrUI'a ar No to him. In 1800, for no aprlral at thehouve; and when It came exat and. It Brat, mat, parent reason, great change came recogulred cused lieraelf. He heard her voice In over him "In IKKir the ball, theo ber father deeper voice which answered; and ten minutes That was the year Alan bent forward, hla heart fhrob-blnInler. he looked up to see the man In hi Ihroat. these thing had told him must he "That waa.aiw Sherrill standing lu the door end lookthe year when I was brought and left with the Wetlona In Kansas," he said ing at him. Alan had nrlMU at night of him; Sherrill did not speak for a moment. SherriU, a he came In, motioned him "1 thought," he said finally, It must hack to hla neat; he did not alt down have been about that time; hut you hlnmetf, hut renewed U the niuntel and did not tell my daughter the exact leaned agnlBHt It. date." I am tawrewe ShejrlU," he anld. "What kind of change came over Ae the tall, graceful, thoughtful Mm that year? Alan asked. wmu stood looking down at him, Alan Sherrill raxed down Jl the rut, then could tell nottdag of the attitude of at Alan, then pust Mm. A 'change this friend of Benjamin Corvet to-- . In Ms way of living," he replied. "The ward himself. HU manner had the Corvet line of boat went on, ex same reserve toward Alan, the same panded; Interests were acquired tn questioning consldecathm of him, that other lines; and Corvet and those Cmudance Sherrill Imd bad after Alau allied with him awlflJy grew rich. But had told her about himself, In' all this great development, for "My da lighter has reiieateri to me which Corvets genius and ability had laid the fonndutlon, Corvet himself what you told her, Mr, Conrail,' Sherrill observed. "Is there anything tensed to take active part. He took you want to add 1o me regarding Into partnership, about a year Inter, thatr Henry Spearman, a young man who "There's nothing I can add," Alan had been merely a mate on one of hla I told her all that 1 know answered. ships. This proved subsequently to : have heen a good business move, for about myself." "And about Mr. Corvet?" Spearman had tremendous energy, ' "I know nothing al all about Mr. daring, and enterprise; and no doubt Corvet had recognised these qualities Corvet." In him before others did. Since then "1 am going to tell you nome thing about Mr. Corvet," SherriU said. "I he has been ostensibly and publicly bad reason I do not wont to explain the head of the concern, hut he ha Just yet what that reason was for left tne management almost entirely thlullng you eoutd tetl us certain to Spearman. The persona? change things about Mr. Corvet. which would, to Corvet at that time la harder for perhaps, make Jlner what has hap- me to describe to you.", ea Sherrill halted, dark with pened to him. When I tell you about him new, It la In Ihe hope that. In thought, hts Ups pressed closely tothat way, I may awake some forgotten gether; Alan waited. "Wien I saw Corvet again, In the memory of Ida) In you; If not that, you way discover some coincidence of summer of DO I had been South durdate er events In Cwveta life with ing the latter part of the winter and dates or events In your own. Will you Kat through the spring I was Imtetl. me frankly, If you do discover any- pressed by the vague but, to me, thing like thatr alarming change In him. 1 was re"Yes; rectatnly minded, I recall, of e friend I had Poe several momenta, Sherrill paced had In college who had thought he waa p and down before the fire; then he In perfect health and had gone to an returned ta hla place before the examiner for life Insurance and had mantel. been refused, and was trying to deny "I Brat wet Benjamin Corvet. he to himself and others that anything commenced, "nearly thirty years ago. could he the matter. But with Corvet I had come West for the Brat time I knew the tronble waa not physical. the year before; I was about your own The next year hla wife left him." "The year of T Alan asked. age and had been graduated from "That wg ISO?. There wee no college only a abort time, and a hual-mopening had offered Itself here. question of thetr understanding and Time were booming on the (treat affection vup to the very time she so Utfi. Chicago, which had more than recovered from the fire, was doubling Its population every decade; Cleveland, Duluth, and Milwaukee wrve 1 leaping op aa porta. Men were grow-tamillions of bushels of grain which they couldnt ship except by lake; hundreds ef thousands of tons of ere had to go by water; and there were tens ef millions of feet of pine and hardwood from the Michigan forests Sailing easel , It la true, had reen their day and were disappearing from the lakes; were being sold, many of them, aa the Mjlng Is, to the Insurance companies by deliberate wrecking. Steamers were taking Ihrlr place. Trvlng had come In. 1 felt, young man though I was, that this transport at loo matter was all one thing, and thAt In the end the railroad would own the ships. I bare never engaged very actively In the operation of the ships; my daughter would like tne to be more active In It than 1 have been; but ever since, I have had money la lake vessel. It Ws the rear that I began that "sort of Investment that I first mef Corvet." Alan looked up quickly. "Mr. Cor wt was T he asked. "Corvet was I a lakemnn, Slier-rilMid. "That Waa 1897." Alan Mt motionless, aa he recollected the strange exaltation that had stra'gely left him. She died In France conic to him wheo he saw the Jake In the spring of 1010, and Corvet's for the first time. Should be tell first Informatlop of her death come Iherrlll f that? He decided It was to him through a paragraph In a o vague, too Indefinite to lie newspaper." no doubt any other man used Alan had started; SherriU looked at anly to fW prairie might have felt the him quest ion tag! y. reroe. "The spring of 1910," Alan exlie was a shipowner, then," h- - plained, was when 1 received the hank 6. aft for fifteen hundred Yes; be was a shipowner not, dollars. howevet on a large scale at that time. Sherrill nodded; he did not seem i had keen a waster, sailing ship surprised to hear this; rather It apwhich belonged to others; then he peared to be conflrxnaflcn of somehad sailed one af Ms own,. lie was thing In his own thought. Follow In.? M wife's leaving him." operating then, I believe, two vessels; Ct Ifh th boons times eo the hikes. Sherrill or:- eu, Corvet saw vary tud to-aia- , n ar l g , Mg-ej- m SKiffli g ; ; 1 . l ! T men-.-'une- I ! i l I I I ! - little of any one. He spent most of hta time In Ms own house; occasion ally he lunched at hla club, at rare Intervals, and always unexpectedly, he appeared at hs office. 1 remember that- summer he was terribly disturbed because one of Ms ships wn lost. The Corvet record waa broken ; a Corret ship had appealed for help; a Corvet vessel had not reached port .And later In the fall, when two deckhands were washed from another of his vessels and drowned, he was again greatly wrought up, though Ms ships atm had a mot favorable record. In 1902 I proposed to him that I buy full ownership In the vessels I partly controlled and ally them with those Since he and Fpcarman operated. then, the firm name hni been Corret, SherriU, and ftearmnn. "Our friendship had strengthened and ripened during those years. The Intense activity of Drveta mind, which a a younger man he had. directed wholly to the shipping, was dlrerled,vafter he had Isolated hlme!f In this way, to other thing. He took up almost feverishly an Immense nuro her of studies strange studies most of them for a man whose youth had been almost violently active and who had once been a lake captain. I cannot tell you what they all were geology, ethnology, nenrly a score of subjects; he corresponded with vart oua scientific societies; he has given almost the whole of his attention to such thing for about twenty years. But he has made very few acquaint-ancIn that time, and has kept almost none of hi old friendship. He has lived alone In the house on Astor street with only one servant the same one all these years. "The only house he has visited with any frequency has been mine. He has always liked my wife; he had he haa a great affection for my daughter, who, when she waa a child, ran in and out of hla home a she pleased. My daughter believes now that hla present disappearance whatever has hap pened to him t connected In some way with herself. I do not think that - nt e Is so" W r Jjgj W! Ms servant has s key to th servants' entrance. I do not know of any other key." Tbe servant Is la charge tfcar now?" Alan asked. Just now there la no oo la the house. The servant, after your father disappeared, thought that. If he had merely gone away, be might have gone back to hla birthplace near UanUtlque, and be went up( there to look for him. I had wire from him today that he had not found Mm and was coming back." Sherrill waited m moment to ae whether there waa anything more Alan wanted to ask ; then be went out . SURE ID HELP SICK WOMEN Hr. Biker, So Hack Benefited by Lyila E.piatiua VejetaLU Cos posni. Anxious to Help Otben 1 waa Lebanon, Indiana. complete fy run down from womens troubles stomach trouble aaj for a loag time waa hardly able to do ay work. 1 had son iq friends who ha taken Lydia E. Pink-ha- Vegetablt CHAPTER IV. "Arrived Safe; Well. the door closed behind Sherrill, Alan went over to the dresser end Compound, and they told me about it. 1 know what it hts done for me and 1 reeommend it to Aa picked up the key which SherriU had left He pot it after a moment on the ring with two or three other key be . had, end dropped them Into his pocket ; then he crossed to e chair end sat down. SherriU had spoken of the possibility that something might have happened" to Corvet ; tut It wea plain he did not believe he had met with actual violence. He had left It to Alan to examine Corveta house; but he bad not urged Alan to examine it at once; he had left the time of the examlnatlou to be determined by Alan. Thla showed dearly that SherriU believed perhaps had sufficient reason for believing that Corvet had limply "gone away." Corvet, Sherrill had said, had married In 1SS9. But SherriU In long knowledge of hla friend, bad shown firm conviction that there had been no mere vulgar liaison In Corveta life. Did this mean that there might have been aome previous marriage of Alans father some marriage which had trangely overlapped and nullified hla public marriage? In that cose, Alan could be, not only In fact but legally, Corvets son; and such things as this, Alidi knew, had sometimes happened, and had happened by a strange combi-natio-n of events, innocently for all ' parties. Corveta public separation from his wife, SherriU bad said, had taken place in 1807, but the actual separation between them might, possibly, have taken place Idng before that. The afternoon had changed swiftly Into night; dusk had been gathering during his last talk with SherriU, so that he hardly had been able to see Sherrills face, and Just after Sherrill had left him, full dark had come. Alan others, as I am aura it will be a great women. It Is a wonder, aU tick to lp ful medicine, and I five you permission to use my testimonial and my Photo, Mr. Emma Bam, 210 8. graph. Last SL, Lebanon, Indiana. 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MOMENTA instantly opens your head and makes breathing easy. Fine for CATARRH COLDS COUGHS at stores er 154 by msIL Addre Mew York Drug Concern. New York 75 4 TREATED ONI did not know how long he had been K FREE sitting in the darkness' thinking out brea thins rs, a s fsw fcosfft these things; but now a little Ylock welling redoes! In s which had been ticking steadily In the th kidneys, stomsch (or hssittregulate the llror, blood jWrsoythsn tbs blackness tinkled six. Atan beard a Mid dy parities satire system. Writ for Fr Triml Tnmtmart. knock at hla door, and when it was retOUBM DIOfST lam? CO. Dept EJL. MUITA. tk peated, he called. Come In." The light which came In from the Ths Eternal Feminine. hall, as the door was opened, showed Roalyn Is only 5. but she has proved a man servant. The man, alter a remore than once that she la a true spectful Inquiry, switched on the light. daughter of Eve, He crossed Into the adjoining room Sunday morning the and daddy a bedroom ; the room where Alan was, were taking their usual stroll along he thought, must be a dressing room, Drexel boulevard when daddy and there was a bath between. Pres became ownreofji peculiar, ently the man reappeared, and moved noise that accompanied hl daughter's softly about the room, unpacking steps. Alans suitcase. He hung Alans other Boslyn," he Inquired, "what Is that suit In the closet on hangers; he put funny clicking noise?" the linen, except for one shirt, tn tha lie looked at her feet and aaw they dresser drawers, and he put Alan's were encased In high arctics, of which d few toilet things with the the two topmost buckles were undone, "111 do them ,up for you," be said. brushes and comb and other articles on the dressing stand. "Why, daddy," she exclaimed, astounded at his Ignorance. "Its my Alan wondered, with a sort f trepidation, whether the man would expect goelashes; they're collegle. Journal. to stay and help him dress; but he only put the button In the dean shirt and reopened the dresser drawers and Stubborn Cases of Stomach laid out a change of things. lYouble Yield "I was to tell you, air, Mr. SherriU le la sorry he cannot be at home to dinner tonight Mrs. Sherrill and M1m Sherrill will be here. Dinner la at seven, air." 25JS&8Ca.BUU SU Alan dressed slowly, after the man had gone; and at one minute before Returned Everything. seven be went downstair, "I an afraid Its all over between There was no one In the lower hall and May Jadk, and, after an Instant of Irresolution "She has returned his photographs." and a glance Into the empty drawing "You dont mean It?" room, he turned Into the small room Also hla letters." at the opposite aide of the halt A Gracious p handsome, stately, rather large wom"And hi ring." an. whom be found there, Introduced "lly I My!" herself to him formally as' Mrs. Sher"But there la still hope. He gave hef rill. Her reserved, yet almost too a kiss as they parted on the lawn." casual acceptance of Alans presence, "And what did she dor toUl. him 'that she knew all the parShe she returned that, to."ticular about himself which Sherrill Pearsons Weekly. had been able to give; and aa Constance came down the stairs and The best advice la not the rt Joined them half a minute later, Alan pleasant but the most useful. waa certain that she also knew. Dinner waa .announced, and they Is Backache CrijpUss YoaT went Into the great dining room, where the table with Its linen, silver, I that dull, nagging beeksetw making it hard for yoo to get round? Are and chlnn gleamed under shaded you lame, sore and tortured with sharp, lights. The oldest and moat dignified rheumatic para! Its tune, then, yo of the three men servants who walled gave some attention to yonr kidn' A persistent backache is often Natsrei upon them lu the dining room Alan first sign of kidney weakness. Yos must be a butler a species of thought may have headaches, d tznnesa ami creature of whojm Alan had heard but noying bladder irregularities, too-- Kidnever had seen; the other servants, at ney troubles, il treated early, are usually easily corrected. Berra now with least, received and handed things Doans Kidney Ftllt, boant have kr.d 1dm, took their orders through thousands and should help you. helped I roiu him. Atk four neighbor! -- Sherrill broke 'Off and stood In thought for a moment; he seemed to ronslder, and to decide that It was not necessary to say anything more on that subject. "Is there anything In what I have 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 him had excited Mm by the coincidence It offered between events In Benjamin Corvet's Ilfs and his own; It had not made him "recollect" Corvet. but It had given definiteness and 'direction to his speculations as to Corvets relation to hlmsetf. Sherrill drew one of the large chairs nearer to Alan and sat down facing him. Ila felt In an Inner pocket and brought out an envelope ; from the envelope he took three pictures, and handed the smallest of them to Alan. As Alan took It, he saw that It was tintype ef himself as a round-faced boy flV MS ttU one, Ilk f seven. "That la you?" 8herrtll asked. "Yea; It was taken by the photographer In Blue Rapids." , "And thlq?" The second picture, Alan aaw, was one that bad been taken In front of the barn at tbe farm. It showed Alan at twelve, tn overalls and barefooted, bolding a stick over hla head at which a shepherd dog was Jumping. "Yea, that Is Shep and I. Mr. Sherrill. It waa taken by a man who topped at the house for dinner one day; be liked Shep and wanted a picture ef him ; so he got me to make Shep Jump, and he took lb" "Doesnt It occur to you that It was your picture he wanted, and that he had heen sent to get It? I wanted your verification that these earlier pictures were of you. but this last one is easily recognisable." Sherrill unfolded the third picture; U was larger than the other and had teen folded across the middle to get It Into the envelope. Alan leaned forward to look at tu "That la the University of Kansas football team," he Mid. I am the second one tn the front row; I played end my Junior year and tackle when I w as a senior. Mr. Corvet y "Yes; Mr. Corvet had those pictures. They came Into my possession d.ty before yesterday, the day after Corvet ills ppcA red; I do not want to tell Just yet how they did that." Alans fare, which had been flushed at first with excitenmnt, had gone quite pale.' ami his hndt, as he clenched and unclenched them were cold, and his Ups were very dry. He sible relationship between ..Benjamin Corvet and htmself. except one, which could account for Cprvets obtaining ar.d keeping these pictures of him through the years. "I think you know who I am," Alan said. You have guessed. !f I am not mistaken, that you are Corvet's son." The color flamed to Alan's face for an Instant, then left It paler than before. I thought It mnst he that way." he answered; but you said he had no child. A ." rerv-ousl- r y, "Fer Almost Twsnty Year," H fiald, "Your Father, as I Hava Told You, Llvod In That Houao Practieally Alone." clslon. He went up the stairs and on the second floor he went to a front room and knocked. Alans voice told him to come In. SherriU went in and, when he had made sure that the servant wasmot with Alan, he closed the door carefully behind him. Then he turned back to Alan, and for an Instant stood Indecisive as though he did not know how to begin what he wanted to any. As he glanced down at a key he took from his pocket, hts Indecision seemed to receive direction and inspiration from It; and he put It down on Alan's dresser. "Ive brought you." he said evenly, the key to your house." Alan gazed at him, bewildered. "Tbe key to my house?" "To tbe house on Aator street," 8herrUl confirmed. "Your father deeded the house and Its furniture and all Its contents to you the day before he disappeared, I have not the deed here; It came Into my hands the day before yesterday at the same time I got possession of the pictures which might or might not, for all 1 knew then be you, I hnve the deed downtown and will give It to you. The bouse Is yours In fee simple, given you by your father, not bequeathed to you by him to become your property after Ms death. He meant by that, I think, even more than the mere acknowledgment that he la your father SherriU walked to the window and atood as though looking out, but his eyes were blank with thought. For almost twenty years, he said, your father, as I have told you, lived In that house practically atone; during all those years n shadow of some sort was over him. I dont know at all, Alan, what that shadow was. Bat It Is certain that whatever It was that had changed him from the man he was when I first knew Mm culminated three days ago when he wrote to you. It may be that the consequences of Ms writing to you were such that, after he had sent the letter, he could not bring himself to face them and so has . gone away. In that merely . case, as we stand here talking, he Is Will alive. On the other hand, hi writing you may have precipitated something that I know nothing of. In either case. If he has left anywhere and oppressed him for all these years, or If there Is any evidence of what ha happened to him now. It will be found lo M house." Sherrill turned back to Alan. It U for you not me. Alan," he sabl simply, to make that search. 1 have thought seriously about It. this last half hour, and have decided that Is a he would want It perhaps as he did want It to be. ITe could have told roe wj.at hi trouble any time In thee twenty If he had been willing T shown! years. know; bet he never did. Your father w-- aud-denl- y Ivory-backe- hi-cago ' . hwitfr . TAN LAC - A Utah Case "Go hack to b H rn rot you t Y oi yoa cast savs tho MiwakaP (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hero-liTouches. Shade are curtain rhortid U chqeen to regulate but not aht u the light and air. Simple, durable sortij hanging materials, sacte white or cream voile, acrim. Swiss or cheesecloth, hemmed er hemstltrneJ. r,;ike good washable curtains, which nay have overcurtains of, colored or figured LiCtcrlak ke Joseph L, Jenaea, Second Nortfi 80. Richfield, Utah, a ye: ,"My kldneV were out ef crrdw and I was mi with a dait steady achs tn tits - email of any hack. It waa ail 1 could do J- to straighten after , i bending. Merains was ao stiff and sots it took m 1 hour to dress. Tbs kidney passed too freely and wera highly coi- and lXn Kidney Fills althourh other remedies had failed ta help me. Doan's cured me " Beans at Any Stas, COc a Baa ,t DOANS V5ZV Jt FOSTER. MILB URN CO. KTFALO. Y. |
