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Show Trim WFRKT.Y RPFT.RX. KAYSVIU.E. r out ! - MU- klnsoit ITT AH. rg Mr. Shen .1 (( DRUM . By William MacHarg and Edwin Balmcr t . 1 i Bifcner .ii Inc t been uii. . iicioi,'. ay and highly hy paced tn the Chicago labutmeaa aome-thin- g world, Benjamin Corvet of a refuse and a mystery to hi aaaoclatra After a atormy interview with hi partner, Henry gpearman, Corvet Mtt Constance fcnerrtJt. daughter of hla other buxine partner, Lawrence Slier-rtl- l, and aecurea from her a proro-inot to marry Spearman until he v lr - i Was-snquii- 1 u.-li- m of-M- r. Was-suquu- I Continued. ureu't you. "Yes." Your people live at the other enil of the lake, dont they?" Alan." "Have you ever heard of the Indian Drum they talk about up there, that they say sounds . when a ship goes down ou the lake?" The Indian's eyes sparkled excitedly. "Yes," he said. Ik) you believe in It?" "Not just believe; I know. Every- sounds for thoe I have leard it. It sounded for my father." llow was that?" "Like this. ' My father sold some bullocks to a man on Beaver Island. The man kept store on Beaver Island. Alan. No Indian liked him. lie would oot hand anything to an Indian or wrap anything tn paper for an Indian. Say It was like this: An Ind 'an comes liLto buy salt pork. First the man would get the money. Then, Alan, he would take his hook and pull the pork up out of the barrel and throw It on the dirty floor for the Indian to pick up. Be said Indians roust take their food off of the floor like dogs. "My father had to take the bullocks to the man, across to Beaver island. At first the Indians did not know who the bullocks were for, so they helped him. When they found out the bullocks were for the man on Beaver Island, the Indians would not help him nj longer. He bad to take them across alone. Besides, It was bad weather, the beginning of a storm. "lie went away, and ny mother went to pick berries I was small then. Pretty soon I saw my mother coming hck. She had no berries, and her hair was hanging down, and she was arms and Filing. She took me In , -- br throb-hlngl- y n' J t iN Was-saqua- wld he-we- nt my fafner was dead. Other came around and asked her bow he knew, and she said she heard the Drum. The Indians found my fathers In-La- body." Did you ever hear of a ship called aka, Judah?" Thai was long ago," the Indian anMl w gered. y that the Drum beat rong when the Mlwaka went down It was oce beat short of the right somber " 7 01 as long agov" Wssiaqus repeated. r- - Corvet ever speak Xt'vakoy So m you rink-ham- T wi.-th-. rr.i-'a- well-nig- le ti ij .LTiysVtJstf) is endorsed by r horrnie universally for Distemper, Influenza, Pink Kye, Cough er Cold cnong horses ami mules. Excellent as t preventive. Lqually good for Dog Distemper and Chicken Cholera. fl 'rite for Fret Booklet Sold in two sizes at all drug stores. 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It surely helped Mrs. Hatfield, justasithaa many, many other women. n m Cmppswa, Aren't Judah 7" AUn Asked. ! -- fct Your e 1 : -- a. body knows that it who die on the lake. In-lu- 1 certain Alan Conrad, In Blue ftap-14Kaneaa, and exhibited etrange agiutlon over the matter.a Corvet1of youth letter eummons Conrad, unknown parentage, to Chicago. Alan arrive in Chicago. From a statement of Sherrill It eeema probable Conrad U Corrst1 Illegitimate son. Corvet ha deeded hi house and It content to Alan, who take possession. That night Alan discover a man ransacking the desk in Coi vet' end bureau drawer Th appearance of apartments. Alan trehtendously agitate the Intruder, who appear to think him a ghost and rave of "the Mtwa-ka.- " After a struggle the man escapee. Next day .Alan learns from $herrlll that Corvet has deeded hi entire property to him. Introduced to Spearman, Alan la astonished at the discovery that he is the man whom he had fonght In his house the night before. Alan tells no one of hi strange encounter, but In a taxes Spearman private Interview ' Spearman laughs at, with the and defies him. Spearman poisons Constance's nlnd against Alan. Yes, Sabina. Ohio. 1 1 "You're a Chippewa, Judah?" Alan asked. - i -- I ll - Vegetable Compound Vr-v- r: him-believ- e . 1 returna lie then dlaappeara Biier-riearns Corvet has written to a -7- la Pituble Condition when site Bogin Tiling Lydii L Pinklumi tll vv i m CHAPTER VIII leu , STNOrSJS.-Wealt- SABINA, OHIO r No otic i.ui yet hv.w "No; he asked me .i,v u J ,a.i ,.,,.r udiien disappearance of the man heard the Drum. I told him." injured." night mean nly that be had hurried 'c.iiu-- l in the lull while her .saquam removed the d.i.tuT Him away, but it might mean, too. that he I'lesM-d- . after lall'cg the ga brought Alan a il,ert. He n turned was still lurking near the house. Alan the house telephone for tlm to stand In the place m dks the tabic had doiidcd to make the circuit of the hen tie had that Alan had assigned m him an.! house and determine that. But ns he HUvi oi'li tmg the motor. , to her returned Stood looking down st Ainu, va'lth gone ui.xmusly came out on to thk ponh, figure in tiad to root lor call iitciuis,cd and thoughtft.My. . . 'A1 more thsm, q .block sway to tb-- south .v us aftci muni and the "Ib look Use nnv one vou ever saw hospital i.ohing tiisle with uncertain stop out Into the U he .id learned the put ticul.tr of before. Judah? Alan of him light of a street lamp, halted and Alans "No." ,i. million. It was ridiculous, It faced about, and shook Ills flt back of c, to attmli any responsibility Is tint vvh.it on are thinking?" ,o.i .it the house. Alan dragged the "ihe not told nnv one, lie said, now to f.iiher or In isclf for what had "Thu is ivJmt was ihinMng. Will out on to the pot i h. tier, 'latvv d it a .YJau auclt to ttcct washing attack hupenid to be iurppv Cofee lie erved In the lihrerv. Alunv "Is that the man, Judalt?" lietil of tin house that night. followed us have happened to uny one t Alan i raswi! to the library and seat who eume to there the until houe. In were she felt that they yet part ed hints. If in the chair where his fa "Yes Alan." name. not Ids did know ns him hud let to hie. Yuaqtntiti go They reap' flier had been in eimtoi icd to sit Alan ran down the steps and at full live 'one m the house m .Wor street He did Hi know Mr. Corvet was gone; hroiml t him the single small Hed after the man But when he with no heller adviser tn.u Wassa-qtuuor lie uuie tlteie to sve Mr. Corvet. of lit the ,1, lam;, on coffee, rup ten, bed the coiner, he was nowhere iu lie whs not itn ordinary friend a Use and he, Now, Imps pel the smoking stand and moved that Alan retraced Ids steps for bul be hud eome there" often. sight. orvet'o, they had not win tied him. he hud met When he s, veral Mocks, still over; then he went aw a' looking; tlcoi lie litjuiv and, il iiilgnt he, more than did not know why. Hwitqiiiini had finished his eofTee. Alan went into gave it and returned east toward meie hud sent the man swn.v, ami up he he might dying. injury; the smaller connecting riMm and re- the Drive. ran out after him; but P could not Sou.ialiltig whnh had disturiied and commenced his examination of the The side street lending to the 1'rlvp CXiitiii Alai hud Imppened to hint oil tlml him." , drawers under the bookshelves. At was not well dark entry wuya the lost night lie hud pus-- l He Mopped an Uitan(, studying her. lighted; Unit ten ocha k. Alan stopjmd Ids sinnh and That was not the first man who oume opened on It; but the night house, tt n,l now. It appeared, lie hud and went back to Ihe chair in the li- was alleys Alan could see at the end been pievcnted tmtu passing a second clear. the hoUHo," he went on qulekly, us brary. He dozed; for tie awoke with of the sireet. beyond Ihe yellow glow she wits about to speuk. "I found a laid him hat there. night prevented a and a feeling that some one of the lwuilevard lights, the had t een an at tempted robbery upon man In Mr. Corvets house the first distant had been hen. ling over him, and ga.ed the st.eet, tier lather hud said. But night that I spent (here. WtUsiiquuni up Into Wassaijuam's face. The Insuppose It liud been something else wns avvuy, you remember, und I was dian had been scrutinizing him with alone in tin bouse." than lubbery. intent, nnxlows Inquiry. He moved A man there In the house?" she reNlie defmore could formulate not away, hut Alan called him lank. It peated. hut this thought, initely persisted; "When Mr. Corvet disappeared. Ju"lie wus going through Mr. Corvet's hhe vnuld not deny it entirely und dah, you went to look for him up at - not the silver and all that, but thingso!T. it shake Manlstique, vvherewlie was hum at through Ills desks and tiles mid rases. To Alan tViinad, in the late after least Mr. Si errill said that was where nisiii of that day, this saint thought He wus looking for something someyou' went. Why did you think you wus touting far more definitely und far thing which he seemed to want very might find 1dm there?" Alan asked. tunic peisistcntly. lie had been awuke much; when I Interfered. It greatly ex"In the end, I think; n man maybe I frightened . him. cited him. lie Mint sane since shortly after noonday. goes hack to the pluce where he beI was a ghost. " thought which tubed a The of loud pain gun. Thats nil, Alan." "A ghost.' Whose ghost?" and of a body bruised und sore In the end! What do you mean by He shrugged. "I don't know; sumo wus h ginning to give pline to a feelthat? What do you think has become whom he scented to huve known one u lassitude of lnuguor ing mcicly of Mr. Corvet?" well und whom Mr. Corvet him pretty incoherence which revisited upon "I think now Ben's dead." he knew, thought." when lie tried to think. The man who What makes you think that?" "Why didn't you tell us this before?" hud assailed him had meant to kill; I It ; me think think makes "Nothing At least I urn telling you now, lie had not been any ordinary robber. myself." Miss Sherrill. I frightened him, and That purjtose, blindly recognized und "I see. You mean you have no realie got In uwuy. But I had seen him Alan their strugfought ugainst by son more than others for thinking it; I can describe him. , . . plainly. the unmistakable. had heel) Only gle, but that is what you believe." You've with yo.ir father of the talked chiii.ee presence of passershy, who bud "Yes." Wassaqmtm went away, and that lieu-something might hut-peto possibility and Alan's shouts responded Alan heard him on the back stairs, asme such as, perhaps, hapjiened to of execution hud ttie them, prevented cending to bis room. hi puruose, and hud driven the mun to Mr. Corvet. If anything does hns When Alan went up to Ids own voit to me, a description of the mun to swift lllght for his own safety. rH,m, after making the rounds to see . . . prove useful." may A tittle before six Constance Slirr-- i that the house was hacked, u droning Then clearly and definitely as ha ill and Njiearmau called to Inquire chant came to him from the third floor, he described Sennnnn to her. could, a admitted were for few liter him und lie paused In the hall and listened, .She did not recognize the description ; came to room. She to bis moments then went up to the floor above. A H Staggered, Slipped, Fell Suddenly him, bent over him, while she spoke be iiad known site would not Ilud not flickering light came to him through Forward Upon His Knees Under a ihe few words of sympathy the nurse N pear man been in Duluth? Beyond door of a room at the the half-qeStunning, Crushing Blow Upon His aliowed to her; she stood back then that, wns not connection of Spearmun front of the house; he went a little Head From Behind. while Spearman spoke to him. In Hie with the prowler In Corveta house the In. Two way toward It and looked one connection of ail most dlfllcult for thick candles were burning before a smooth, rldll surface of the lake. A succeeding days he saw her nearly her to muke? her by every day, accompanied always ertiolfl x, below w Idrh the Indian knelt. . w'bPe light rotle ahove U ; rvov ladnw ftrli They ttitw aUont us they went &u to the wnB it p prayer book In bund and rocking to the white light, he saw a red speck her home, He had aald all h ward on and fro as he droned his suppllca-- t the masthead and port lanterns of a two weeks the doctors had or dared to say; to tell her that could, In he before the hn remaining hospital ions. steamer northward hound. Farther saw her alone. man had been Spearman would not the A word or two came to Alan, but out. a second white glow appeared They had brought him home, the merely have awakened her Incredulwithout them Wassuquams occupation from behind the obscuration of the day before she and her father, In the ity; It would hAve destroyed credence was plain ; he was praying for the re- buildings and below It a green speck motor to the house on Astor street, utterly. A definite change In their ropose of the dead the Catholic chaftt a starboard light. Information he had bad insisted on returning there, tation to one another had taken place taught to him. as It had been taught gained enabled him to recognize In lie the room In their house which during their walk. The fullness, the undoubtedly to hla fathers, by the these lights two steamers passing one refusing had Inoffered; but the doctor bad frankness of the sympathy there had they French Jesuits of the lakes. The another at the harbor mouth. enjoined outdoors and moderate exer been between them almost from thelf toned chant for Corvet's soul, by the to Constance else for him, and she had made him first meeting, had gone; she wss turned Ills thoughts man who, had heard the Drum, fol- Sherrill Events since he had talked had not promise to eome and walk with her quite aware, he saw, that he lowed and still came to Alan, as he with her had put them He went to the Sherrill house about frankly answered her questions; she that morning returned to the second floor. far apart once more; but. In another ten o'clock, and they walked north was aware that In some way be had He had not been able to determine, drawn back from her and shot her way, they were being drawn closer to- w ard toward the park. during the evening. Wassaquams atti- gether. For he knew now that she I have been There Is something tude toward him. Having no one else was as well as he In the mesh caught said. she ask to you,"' wanting to had been Alan to trust, obliged put of consequences of sets not their own. Tf." a certain amount of trust In The InHe staggered, slipped, fell suddenly "That night when you were hurt It dian; so as .he had explained to forward upon his knees, under a stun- waa for robbery, they said. What do that morning that the desk ning, crushing blow upon his head ym think about It?" She watched and the drawers In the little room off from behind. Thought, consciousness him as be looked st her and then Corvets' had been forced, and bad almost lost, he struggled, twisting him- away; but his face was completely ex warned him to see that no oiie, who self about to grasp at his assailant pressionless. had not proper business there, entered He the mans clothing, frying caught The proceedings were a little too the house. YVassaquara had appeared to himself up; fighting blindly, rapid for me to Judge, Miss Sherrill. drag Wsssa-quanow but to accept this order; dazedly, unable to see or think, he But there was no demand upon you had Implied that It was not be- shouted aloud and then aloud, to give over your money befor you again, recause of Alans order that he had lie seemed In the distance to bear an- were' attacked?" fused reporters admission to the swering cries; but the weight snd "No." house. the other was bearing him of strength She breathed a little more quickly Alan started and went quickly to the down to his knees; be tried to "It must be a atrange sensation," she again heard he as open door of his room, slip aside from It, to rise. Then anto know that some one has voices now somewhere wlthliy Jhe other blow, crushing and sickening, observed, to tried kill you." house. One of the voices he cog- descended on his bead; even hearing Indeed.1 Tt must, Inothef nized as Wassaquam's; the left him and. unconscious, he fell for - Y'ou mean you didn't think that thick, accusing was un- ward on to the snow and lay still. distinct, he tried to kill you?" known, to him; It certainly was not I was hardly In a condition. Miss to Spearmans. He descended swiftly CHAPTER IX. Sherrill, to appreciate anything about the first floor., and found Wassaquam man at all. Why do you ask?" the standing in the front bail, alone. " She hesitated an In A Walk Btsids th Lake. Because deAlan Who was here. Judah?" st.u.t. the Tf you were attacked to be The name seems like Sherrill," manded. hi 'led. It meant that you must have It before "He said interne stolagreed. A man," the Indian answered when we bad him on the table up- been attacked as the son of Mr. Cor w as drunk ; I put him out." "He idly. stairs; and be has said it now twice vet. Then that meant at least What did he come for?" NherrilL Implied that Mr. Corvet was killed, "He came to see Ben. I put him distinctly be did not go away. You see that do think?" "His name, you out; he Is gone, Alan." "It Must Be a Strange Sensation, She seems "I shouldnt say so; he trying that, of course." Alan flung open the front door and one Were who Observed, "to Know That Someone the some one thought named to Sherrill. only to yor speak looked out. but be saw no one. Hat Tried to Kill You." some one speak to you Or did that? In four Sherrills are tbe only Mr. Corvet. There, What did tie want of about Evansof two themjn telephone book, Judah?" "No one did ; I spoke to father. He out from his thoughts about hla own one way out in Mlnoota." I do not know. I told lilrn Ben was ton and pwltlon here. But he had known that The other?" thought" not here; he wo angry, but this roust ?e so; it had been his firwt Y es. six blocks about from Theyre only definite realization after his returw away." Well. If Mrr Cnrret w a murdered where be was picked up; but theyre Tl a he ever or Kise Uere before ToTofiuctoustness In the hospital when,. on the Drive the Lawrence Sherrills." Tin following what father thought, you -, Yes ; be cornea twice. now her relation to Spearknowing Involved It understand and whistled Interne Tbe something softly He has been here twice?" man, be bed found all questions which looked more interestedly at his pa-, good deal worse perhaps tlam any he year thatevery than More concerned his relations with the peo If features. "liell be coosohms thing that could have been Involved comes twice. Alan. Once be came tients some time during the dy, theres only he had only gone awsy. The facts we pie here made immeasurably mora oftener." by the attack upon him. 7 a flight fracture, and perhaps youd had made It certain that If what bad acute eilow hint has be been doing that She asked him to come in and stay better call tbe Sherrill bouse, any- bapiened to him was death st the for as they resched her "since I can remember." luncheon, n know forenot must no have hands he harm of another If hes there; way. "Is le a friend of Mr. Corvet?" asked it without urgshe but home, n dons; and if hes one of their friends seen that death and, feeklng no "No friend-n- o!" refusal she moved slowly his st ing; It !mi!ied, for himself and he should "But ilr. Corvet sew b'm when he tne up to step. to nodded off. be die moved rather than nurso that snd The preferred came here?" k protection that there was someThus It was thaf at a quarter to A- - an." "Always. was he thought awakened cfsicealment Sherrill whose five Constance thing be what all at "Yew "Aad yoo fon't know Ba yes tbe knocking of one of the aerv mattered even more to him than life. by him Lakt tail rarr.e a!ut?" 4 might-Latdoor.meant emu rlt Her he fat father's ar.u lhat her st NO! Wo "How hould l went down stairs to the telephone In- sidered his life was . . . due to whom- not." ITO ItC CONTIKUJOJ where he might reply wltb-- ever' took It." Her voice, which bad strument The Alas gnf his coat and bat. -- SLUGGED! MRS. HATFIELD I vvhsr-eve- I Copyright Shs very low. nmr rr.-- i t was sjcaking to Al.m of is tuther- - a father whom tie had tevrr known, and whom he could lot have rcogtrired ky sight ?mni she showed b'm the picturo a few week before; hut she wss speak leg tf ids father. "Mr Nheirlil didn't feel that tt wss necessary for him to do anything, even though he thought Hint?" "If Mr. Corvet was dead, we could do him no good, siuely, by telling this to the polue; if the police succeeded in finding oti t all the facts, we would he doing only what I'ncle Benny did n.t wish wh.it he a, ferred death to We voil'ol not the polhe about It it! out telling them ul about Mr. too No father would not bt that Vou had been attfo ked to he killed Hie lb litol to I'dU-vMitti. lcnt ' vvh polo, theory lnuilo tu ii'iiim.'iit at once, imun believes Ml Corvet tl i hi! In' said tinallj. "lie told nje so, oe voiir lather believe that?" think be tv loginning to hellev hnuhlers si the tep rf the si alp, rad "ic'iivL.li r became lam to her at once That had l!pi cued bad been (o Alure Conrad. YX. . . , Yrs, oil are , nr,? . giving him every At omv." She .an part way down tie Muir aind nn t er fuller a lie cme up lie tol.: He lust 1j.! t ; tie whs. uiicoum ioii when they t .ml him umi took him to tl c h, r wver :Y; 6 Bcll-an- s Hot t; JLlExEdV , ZLtj. t. 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