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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSV1TJ.E. irrH. a&ram MUUtM r- THE INDIAN DRUM cBy Copyright W EJwtn i 8TN0PSIS- - Wealthy and highly placed In the Chicago labusUiese someworld. Benjamin Corvet thing of a recluse and a mystery t0 hi associates. After a stormy interview with his partner. Henry Spearman, Corwet seeks Constance hherrUU daughter of his other business partner, Lawrence Bher-ril- l, and secures from her a promHe ise not to marry Spearman. then disappears. Sherrill learns Corvet has written to s certain Alan Conrad. In Blue Hspide. Kansas. and si hi hi ted strange agitalet-ttion over the matter. Covet s summons Coo red. a youth of unknown parentage, to Chicago. From s Aiae arrives la Chicago. statement of Sherrill It oeema probable Conribd Is Corvet' illegitimate son. Corvet has deeded his house and Its contents to Alan, who takes That night Alan dispossession. covers s man ransacking the desks and bureau drawers In Corvet's The appearance of apartments. Alan tremendously agitates th Intruder, who appears to think him " a ghost and raves of the Mlwa-ka.eser After a struggle the man capes. V, Continued. hat and looked was he the about going to rehouse; turn and sleep here, of course ; he was not going to leave the house unguarded for any long time after this, but, after what had Just happened, he felt he could leave It safely for half an hour,. particularly If be left a light burning wltMn. lie did this and stepped over to the Sherrills'. The man who answered his ring recognized him at once and admitted him; In reply to Alan's question, the servant said that Mr. Sherrill had not yet returned. When Alan went to his room, the valet appeared and, finding that Alan was packing, the man offered his service. Alan let him pack and went downstairs; a motor had Just driven up to the house. It proved" to have brought Constance and her mother; Mrs. Sherrill, after Informing Alan that Mr. Sherrill might not return until some time later, went upstairs and did not appear again. Constance followed her mother but, ten minutes later, came downstairs. Youre not staying here tonight? she asked. "I w anted to say to your father," Alan explained, that I believe I had better go over to the other house. Are you taking any one with you?" she Inquired. Any one? A servant, I .mean Alan took up his No. Then you'll let ua lend you a man from here. Youre awfully good; but 1 dont think I'll seed anyone tonight. Mr. Corvet'e my fathers man Is coming back tomorrow, I understand. Ill get along very well until then." She waa allent a moment as she looked away. Her shoulders suddenly Jerked a little. I wish you'd take some one with you, she persisted, dont like te think of you alone ever there." "My father must have been often I alone there." Yet, she amid. "Yea." She looked at him quickly, then away, checking a question. She wanted to ask. be knew, what he had discovered In that lonely house which had so agitated him; for j0M" 1 Cor-vet- ... "You're Not Staying Here Tonight?" She Asked. f course she had noticed agitation la him. And be had Intended to tell her, r, rather, her father. He had been rehearsing to himself the description f the man he had met there In order to ask Sherrill about Mm; but now Alan knew that he was not going to refer the matter even to SberTlU Just Yt. Sherrill ham believed thstltenjamln Corvet's disappearance waa'troa too personal and Intimate be matte a subject of public Inquiry what Alan bad encountered ha imoss had confind that be-- to bleep with tbe sole conscious connection In his mind between himself and these people, among whom summons had Corvet's Benja ui'ii brought him, the one natus Mlwaka." CHAPTER VI. Th Deed In Trust. Memory, tf Alan could call It that, liad given him a feeling for ships and for the lake. But these recollections were only what those. of a three-year-s ehlld might have been Not only did they refuse to connett themselves with any thing else, but by the very finality of their Isolation, they warned him that they and perhaps a few more vague memories of similar sort were all that recollection ever would give him. lie caught himself together and turned Ills thoughts to the approaching visit to Sherrill and his fathers otllces. He had accepted Constance Nherrllla Invitation ( drive him downtown to his destination. Observing the towering buildings to his right, he was able to Identify some of the more prominent structures, familiar from photographs of the city. Constance drove swiftly a few blocks very it w friends, anti the few nines he hss been away from home of recent jenr have leen when he visited an aetju.Mi! tanee of his the head porter 1 lu a South Side hotel went to the te!ej n e In the house n, it door ami called t tie hotel and found Vna.iquaui then I told him over the telephone only '! it something wit wrong and .turn, to my own home to get the key. whit fi i fiad ft the X'orvet house; hut when I came 1h L ami let myself into the house, I found it empty ami witti mi sign of anything having hap-iH'lie- d Suspect-I- t Applicant! (or Insurance Often - Rejected. "minmrmiwii liet. Sherrill timber bad ouui that Benjamin Corvet. If he bad wished Sherrill to know Ukum circumstance would have told them to hliu, but Corvet had not done that; laaiead, be ad sent for Alan, his son. He bad giveu his son his confidence. Sherrill had admitted tl hi fie was withholding frem aIuo, for the time being, .something that he knew about Benjamin Corvet; it was nothing, he had said, which would help Alan to learn about his father, or what had become of him ; but ierbaps Sherrill, not knowing these other things, could not speak accumtel.v a to that Alan determined to uk Sherrill what he had been withholding, before he told him ult of what had liapiened in s house. There was one other circumstance which Sherrill had mentioned but not explained ; it occurred to Alia now. Miss Sherrill " he checked him self. What Is It?" This afternoon your father said that jou believed that Mr, Corvets disappearance was In some way connected with you; he said that lie did not think that was so; but do ou want to tell me why you thought It? She colored Yes; I will tell you. One of the last things Mr. quickly. Corvet did In fact, the last thing we know of his doing before he sent for you was to come to me and warn me against one of my friends." Warn you. Miss Sherrill? How? 1 mean, warn you against what? "Against thinking too much of him. Sjio turned away. I think Ill come to see your father in the morning, Alan said, when Constance looked back to him. But youll come over here for breakfast In the morning?" You want me?" Certainly. "Id like to come very much." "Then Ill expect you." She followed him to the door when he had put on his things, and he made no objection when she asked that the man be allowed to carry bis bag around to the other house. When he had dismissed Simons and the house on Astor street, he found no evidences of any disturbance while he had been gone. On the second floor, to the east of the room which had been his fathers, was a bedroom which evidently had been kept as a guest chamber; Alan carried his suitcase there and made ready for bed. . The sight of Constance Sherrill standing and watching after him In concern as he started back to this house, came to him again and again and, also, her flush when she had spoken of the friend against whom Benjamin Corvet had warned her. Who was he? It had been Impossible at that moment for Alan to ask her more; besides, If he had asked and she had told him, he would have learned only a name which he could tfot place yet In any connection with her or with Benjamin Corvet. Whoever he was. It was plain that Constance Sherrill thought of him;" lucky man, Alan said to himself. Yet Corvet had warned her not to think of him. Alan turned back his bed. It bad been for him a tremendous day. Barely twelve hours before he had come to that house, Alan Conrad from Bine Rapids, Kan, now . . . phrases from what Lawrence Sherrill bad told him of hia father were running through , his mind as be opened the door of the room te be able to hear any noise In Benjamin Corvets house, of which be was sole protector. The emotion roused by his first sight of the lake went through him again aa be opened the window to the east. Now he was In bed he seemed to be standing, a specter before a man blaspheming Benjamin Corvet and the souls of men dead. "And the tiwle The bullet got above the eye ! . ! you 1 . . . So Its you that got Ben You . cant . 111 . . . . get you! save the Mlwaka I" The Mlwaka I The stir of that name was stronger now even than before; It had been rtmn'ng through his consciousness almost constantly since he had heard It. lie Jumped up and turned on the light and found a pencil. He did not kow how to spell the name and It was not necessary to write It down; the name had taken on that definiteness and InefTaceahleness of thing which, once beard, can never again be forgotten. But, In wrote pahle that he might forget he " "Mlwaka the at spelling It guessing the hut It was a name, of course; name of what? It repeated and rehe got ba-- k posted Itself to him, after made Iteration Into bed. nntll Its very him drowsy. Outside, the gale whistled and shrieked. The wind, passing lta last resistance after Its sweep across the the lake, prairies before It leaped upon assault battered and clamored In Us about the house. But as Alan became as It sieeple" be heard It no longer howled under and windows tne rattled the eaves and over the root but as out on the lake, above tbe roaring and waves. It whipped and circled with Its chill the sides of struggling ships. So, with the rmt of surf end gal to bis ear. U Thousand! Have Kidney Trouble and Never ' BImer HENRY SPEARMAN nt j i JVilliam UMacHarg and Sdmn diahncr hLuaiilimiiulilillliilaLiilliULiwiu;;, CHAPTER - latlivr was purtk ularl.v anxious fiat you bfinuld take a as Mill a a financial pliue among the non who control the trafiu of lbs I a a os huve told Spearuiau that this ' He has not booa able my intent ion to Me it uiv way us yet, but tie may Image tits views, 1 think, aftot niovt-nyou." MteirUI got up Ainu hi use a IBUo unsteadily . The list of propci tie he had road and the letter and Sherrill's tHt niont portended so much that tts inoiumig could not all come to him at once. He followed Sfitrrlll through a short private corridor, flanked with I g from druggist Judging from report who ei roontajvtly in direct tout fi with the public, there t on preparation that fix ! a very tuociul in uvruoiinng the condition. I he mill and louling influence of Dr. Kilmer's heatup .toot is roon r rallied It Und the highest for its remarkable record of tu.Hea. An examining tdiirian for one of tha prominent Life In.urano Compao'e, 10 an interview on the futject, made the statement that one r eaten why vo many applicants fur insurance are rejected 11 kidney tumble ts 0 common to the American p pie, and th Ixrge majority of those wh. w applications are declined do not evtui suspect that they have the disease lr. Kilmers Swamp Root vs on sale at all drug store in Imt'lee of two sizes, aud large. However, if vou wish hr't to test this great preparation send C'o , Bingham. ten cents to Dr. Kilmer Vhr ton. N. Y., for a sample Kittle writing he sure and mention this paper. be-au- The next morning Alan. went to the snfe de;osit vault as aa they tiles lettered "Corvet, Sherrtll, and were open I presented the numbered Spearman. Into the large room he had Advcitlbcmout key ami was told that It belonged to a seen when he came In wlrti Constance sinlh-mi't coin off are ant that b nnted by Com l. and thut Corvet They crossed this, and Sherrtll, with- to t'ocoinc monotonous. had arranged about three days before out knocking, opened the door of the for me to have access to tbe box If I office marked, Mr. Spearman." Alan, Important t Mothers prev-ntethe key. I hud only to sign looking on past Sherrill as the door Examine carefully every bottle of piy nums lu their book and ohmi the opened, saw that there were some half CASrolilA, that famous old remedy box In If, Alan. I found the picture dozen men In the room, smoking and for Infants and children, and see (hat It of vou which 1 allowed you yesterday talking. Ills gaze weut swiftly on past Hears the and the very strange cotuinunluitloua these men to the one who, half seated Signature of on the top of the flat desk, had been that I am going to show you now. In t'se for Over lh emw. Sherrill opened file long envolojie, talking to them; and hl pulse closed Children Cry for Fletchers IVtoria from which several thin, folded paers upon his heart with a shock ; he startfell He picked up the largest of these, ed, choked with astonishment, then To keep a secret forget It. which consisted of several sheets swiftly forced hltnself under control fastened together with a clip, and For this was the man whom he had handed It to Alan without comment. met and whom he had fought In BenAlan as he looked lit It and turned the jamin Corvets house the night before the big man surprised In his blaspages, saw that It contained two col unuis of typewriting carried from page phemy of Corvet and of souls In A to page after tbe manner of an ac- who, at sight of an apparition with a bullet hide above lta eye, bad cried out count. '1 lie column to the left was an Inven- In Ids fright, You got Beni But you Mrs. Mertz Tells How I.ydia D n you 1" tory of property and profits aud In- w out get me d o you E. Pinkh&ms Vegetable come by months and years, aod the Alan's shoulders drew up slightly, one to the right was a list op losses uul the muscles of bis bauds tightCompound Helped jHlcr and expenditures. Beginning at su in ened, os Kherrlll led him to this man Kutztown, Pa. "1 wish every woman definite day or month In the year 1805, Sherrill put his hand on the man's who wants children would try Lydia E. there was set down In a lump aunt shoulder; his other hand was still on rinkhanvi Vegeta- wlmt was Indicated as the total of Ben- Alan's arm. table Compound. It has done so much for jamin Corvet's holdings at that time. Henry," he said to th man, "this me. My baby is alTo this. In sometimes undated Items, Is Alan Conrad. Alan, 1 want you to most a year old now the Increase had been added. In the know my partner, Mr. Spearman." and is the picture of opposite column, beginning apparently Spearman nodded an acknowledghealth. She walked fiotn the same date In 1805, were the ment. but did not put out his hand; ateleven months and y, is trying to use her bis missing mans expenditures. bold, watchful eyes little tongue. She Alan having ascertained that the paseemed measuring Alan attentively; can say some words pers con tain ml only this account, and In return Alan, with his gaze, was real nice. 1 am sendlooked op questionlngly to Sherrill; measuring him. ing you her picture. hut Sherrill, without speaking, merely I shall be thankful handed hint the accood of the papery. 1 CHAPTER Vll. as long as I live that I found such a wonlu Mrs. unfolded It and saw that it was derful medicine for my troubles. a letter written In tbe same hand Mr. Corvets Partner. Charles A. Mertz. Kutatown, Fa. which had written the summons he, Many cases of childlessness are cure-abl-e, The Instant of meeting, when Alan Perhaps yours may be. Why be had received In Blue Rapids aud had recognized In Sherrills partner, th discouraged until you have given Lydia made the entries in the little memo- man with whom he had fought In CorE. Iinkhams Vegetable Compound a randum book of tlie remittances thut vet's house, was one of swift readjustfaithful trial T had been sent to John Wei ton. ment of all hts thought adjustment Spoken and written recommendations It began simply: to a situation of which he eouid not from thousand of women who have Lawrence even have dreamed, and which left found health and happiness from Its us to ua. We only tell you what This will come to you In the event him breathless. But for Spearman, have comeand what they believe. say they that 1 am not able to carry out tho obviously, It was not that. Bellowing Wo believe that Lydia EL Pinkham plan upon which I am now, at last, de- his noncommittal nod of acknowledgVegetable Compound is so well adapted termined. You will find with this a ment of Sherrill's Introduction and his to the conditions which might cause list of my possessions. Deeds for all first steady scrutiny of Alan, tbs big, your trouble that good will come to you real estate executed and complete ex- handsome man swung himself off from by its use. Merit is the foundation of Xydfa EL cept for recording of the transfer at the desk on which he set and leaned Pinkham'aVegetable Compound. It has the county office; bonds, certificates, against It, facing them mere directly, behind it a record of nearly fifty years. Oh, ye Conrad," he ssld. His and other documents representing my recIn was contd tone Alan ; it hearty ownership of properties, together with signed forms for their legal transfer ognize only so much ef reserve as to you, are In this box. These proper- might he expected from Sherrills ties, to tbelr entirety, I give to you In partner who lied taken an attitude of trust to hold for the young man now opposition Tbe shipmasters, looking known as Alan Conrad of Blue Rapid, Kao., to deliver any part or alt over ts him or to continue to hold It Aches, pains, nervousness, difB all la trust for him as you shall conculty in urinating often mean sider to be te his greatest advantage. serious disorders. The worlds This for the reasons which I shall standard remedy for kidney, liver, have told t you or him I cannot bladder and uric add troubles know which one of you now, nor do I know bow I shall tel! it. But when you learn, Lawrence, think as well of me as you can and help him to be charitable to me. With the greatest affection, BENJAMIN CORVET." bring quick rUf and often ward off as he finished reading, looked Alan, deadly dlaaaaaa. Known a th nfional up to Sherrill, bewildered and dazed. remedy of Holland for more than 200 What does It mean, Mr. Sherrill? years. Ail druggists, in three rims. Does it mean that he has gone sway Look hr tha aema Grid Modal aa every baa aad aaat tmtatiaa and left everything he had every thing to me?" If Mr. Corvet does not return, and I do not receive any other Instructions, I shall take over his estate, as he has instructed, for your advantage." fAnd, Mr. Sherrill, be didnt tell you why? This is all you snow? is lndlspeoaibla la all react Yes; you have everything now. All et Coot, Cold, lad sense, we can do, Alan, is to search for him Flak Dltttmper, Heave a amoag boreea and and Worn in every way we can. There will he mulaa. Give aa occasional doaa aa a others Searching for him too now; for preventive. Excellent for Dog We temper information of his disappearance has IVrfa for Free Booklet Steady, Bold, Watchful Eyes Seemed Sold la tvra elM at all druf nor a. got out. There have been reporters at Alan Measuring Attsntivsly. tbe office this morning making In7f X 4 quiries, and his disappearance will be on, xould see, ne doubt, not even that; In tbe afternoon papers." except for the excitement which Alan Uses Sherrill put the pa;ars back In their htraself could not conceal. It mutt apIF YOUR Scrume end V ecrlnre fie a deans ha best to conserve yoof envelope, and the envelope back Into pear to them only an ordinary introiouttau. l!yeu tbe drawer, which he relocked. duction, ooocemmioa p VETERINARIAN one fine oouOituC 1 went over all this with Mr. Alan fought sharply down the awlft Spearman this morning," he said, lie Is as rush of bis blood and the tightening ef The Cutter Laboratory nucb at a bias to explain ft a I am." his muscles. HU f ilirWMita Imm Sh." California can say truly that Im glad t (U.l. He was stlent for a few moments. Berkelry "The transfer of Mr, Corvets prop- meet you, Mr. Spearman." he manerties to me for you." he said sudden- aged. There was no recognition of any ly, Includes, as you have seen. Corvet's Interest In the firm of Corvet. tnlng beyond tbe mere surface meaninstantly opens your head and I went very ing of the words In Spearman's slow Sherrill A Spearmen.' makes breathing easy. Fine for carefully through the deeds and trans- smile of acknowledgment, as he turned CATARRH DOLUS COUOIIS fers In the deposit box, and It was from Alan to Sherrill. S5d by mail. Address stores or st plain that, while he had taken great Concern. New York York Drug care with tbe forms of transfer for all "Yob can aa why 1 hare It the properties, Le had taken particular TREATED ONI distrust tha yoaag fallow whos FREE WEEK polna with whatever related t his some t claim Ban Cervefa reShort breeihl holding! In this company and to his lieved is a tew bouret p!ca." over th make shipping interests. If I ewefitee redored la a few dare; rexTte iS Bvee, Oaloey. Mitawifc properties 76 you, AliaTf Aha Tl begin od he.ru partTo th fekKMtewonjphene HW with (hose; for it seems to me that (TO US CQNTXKi;fc.D.j Writ fmr Free Jnal iJtm ntue ss, fcst cuts ci5m 1 sn s THANKFUL FOR hI" LITTLE CHILD I eyes-stead- A Sherrill Opened a Drawer and Took Out a Large, Plain Envelope. down this boulevard; then, with a sudden, Here we are!" she shot the car to the curb and stopped. She led Alan Into one of the tallest and best looking buildings. On several of the doors opening upon the wide marble Jiall where the eleva tor left them, Alan saw the names, Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman." Constance led the way on past to a door farther down the corridor, which Lawrence bore merely the name, Sherrill"; evidently Sherrill, who had luterests aside from the shipping bust ness, bad offices connected wt& Nit not actually a part of the offices of Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman. A girt on guard at the door, saying that Mr. , Sherrill had teen awaiting Mr. led an Inner door and 'opened Alas Into a large, room, where Sherrill was sitting alone He pulled the before a table-des"visitor's chair" rather .done to his desk and to bis own btg leather chair before asking Alan te seat himself. "You wanted to tell me, f ask me something last night, my daughter has I'm told me," Sherrill said cordially. sorry I wasnt home whes you came back." "I wanted to ask you, Mr. Sherrill,' Alan said, about those facts in regard to Mr. Corvet which you menme yesterday but did not ex tioned plain. You said It would not aid me to know them ; but 1 found certain things in Mr. Corvet's house last night which made me want to know, if I could, everything you could tell me," Sherrill opened a drawer and took out a large, plain envelope. On the day after your father disappeared, he said, "but before I knew he was gone or before any one except my daughter felt any alarm about film I received a short note from him. The note was agitated, almost incoher ent. It told me he had sent for you Alan Conrad, of Blue Rapids, Kansas but spoke of you as though you were some one I ought to have known about, and commended you to ray care. The remainder" of it was merely an agltat ed, almost Indecipherable farewell to tae. When I opened the envelope, key had fallen out The note made no reference to the key, but. comparing it with one f had io my pocket, I saw that it appeared to be a key to a safety deposit box in the vaults of a. company where we both had boxes, "Tbe note, taken in connection with about him. made my daughter's-alarIt so plain that something serious had happened to Corvet. that my first thought was merely for him, Corvet was not a man with whom one could readily connect tbe thought of suicide but. Alap, that was the idea I bad. hurried at once to bis bouse, but the tell was col answered, and I could not get is. llis servant. Wassaquam, has Coo-rad- many-window- k. 11 SLOW DEATH GCLDIIEZAL Iji. mm 7 Cutter's" MOMENTA ,'tv DROPSY oar it, nuri a |