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Show WEEKLY HEFLEX KAYSVIMLE. UTA1T. TTTE "What Is It, INDIAN DRUM By William MacHarg and Edwin Balmcr Copyright by f dwin Gitncr AHir ked. You ? What ts It about th Miwaka? said youd found some reference to it in Uncle Bennys house. What was It? What did you find there?" "The man" Alan swallowed and the steadied himself and repeated man I met in the house that night mentioned It. He seemed to think 1 was a ghost that had haunted Mr. Curvet the ghost from the Miwaka; at least he shouted out to me that I couldnt save the Miwaka!" Save the Miwaka! What do you , Alan? The Miwaka was lost with all her people officers and crew no one knows how- or where I All except the one for whom the Prom didn't beat!" Wbat's that?" Blood pricked In her. What do you mean, "Alan?" cheeks. "I dont know yet; but 1 thik Ill soon find ouL" "No; you can tell 'me more now, Alan. Surely you can. I must know. I have the right to know. Yesterday, even before you found out about thi you .knew things you werent telling me things about the people youd bmi 'setThgl Theyd aU iosl people on the lakes, you said; but you found out more than that" ."Theyd all lost people on the MAll who could tell iwaka!" he aald. me where their people were lost; a rra-an- -- - CHAPTER XIII. 11 The Owner of the Watch. ConSo they got word to you! -- stance exclaimed; the seemed mill confused. Oli, no of course they couldnt have done that ! Theyve hadly got my letter yet." Your letter?" Alan asked. I wrote to Blue Rapid," she "Some things camethey were sent to me. Some things of falch-- M p for you Instead of me." iCLe-iltedny'a-n 111 in e at mean You r youve not that. "What things. Ml Sherrill?" "A watch of tils and some coin and She did 'not explain the a ring algiilflmnee of those things, and he could 'not lell frojn her mere enumeration of them and without seeing them that they furnished proof that hla father wys dead. She could not Inform him of that, ahe felt, Jut here and now. I ll tell you about that laler. You you were coming to Harbor Iolnt to see us? He colored, Im afraid not. I got as near ns (Ms to you leeaiie there I have to see." fa a ton n an Indian An Indian I What Is his name? You see. 1 know quite, n'lot f I hem." No -- s " 1a;o." She elnKiU her head. No; 1 dont know him." Kite found a spot where the moss vn eoercd with dry pine needles and cut down upon the ground. "Sit down," she Invited ; "I want you to tell me whnl you lime been doing He "Ive been on the boats." dropped down upon the moss beside her. "Cnl II yesterday I was a not very highly honored member of the crew of lie package freighter Oscoda; I left her at Frankfort and came up here." "I Wassaqunm with you?" "He wasnt oil the Oscoda; but he tvitS with me at tlrst. Now,' I "believe, I has gone hack to hla own people o Middle Village." "You mean youve been looking for Mr. Oorvet In that way?" Not exactly that. He hesitated; toil he could see no reason for not telling what he bad been doing. He had sod ho much hidden from her and her lut her what he had found In Benjamin (,'nnet'n house ; rather, lie had t Hlned from mentioning It In hla notes to them when lie left Chicago because t !e that the lists wouh lead to an Immediate explanation; they bad not led to that, but only to a suggestion, Indefinite yet. lie hni! known that. If hla search- finally nothing more than It had, ho must ut Amt consult Sherrill and get re-f- li.-K-l - Nheuiir aid. , founj some Writing, Miss Sher-Vlie Raid, ,1n the house on Astor .ireet Ihnl night after Luke came." IVkat writing? die took the lists from hla pocket . and showed them to her. She aepa rated and looked through the sheets nod rend the name written in the same hand that had written the dlrec lions uon the slip of paper that came to her four day before, with the i longs from Unde liennya pockets. 'My father had kept these very he explained, "lie had them hidden. Wassaquam knew where they were, and that night after Luke was dead and you had gone home, he gave l, v -- item to vnf." "Afi-e- r rf 1 had gone' home? "Nothing definite at alt. None of them knew my father; they were only amazed to find that anyone In Chicago had known their names." In her feeling for him, she had laid her hand upon his arm; now her fingers tightened to sudden enyenesa. What do you mean?" she skeL Oh, It Is not definite yet not lour! She felt-thbitterness In his tone. They have not any of them been able to muke It wholly clear to is like a mord.ibaLbas been blurred. These original names must have been written down by my father many years ago many, moat of those people, 1 think are deed; some are nearly forgotten. The only thing that Is fully plala Is that In erery case my Inquiries have led me to those who have lost one, and sometime more than one relative upon the lakes." Constance .thrilled to a vague horror; It was not anything to which she could give definite reason. Ills tone quite as much as what he said was Its cause. Ills experience plainly had tieen forcing him to bitterness against his' father; und he did not know with father was dead, certainty yet that-hiYoull lumh with us, of course," she said to Alan, "and then go Ivck with us to Harbor loint. Its u 'Says Journey around the two bays; hut we've a boat here. He assented, nd Ibey went down to the water where the white and brown power yacht, with long, graceful lines, lay somnolently In the sunlight. A little punt, took the, in out over the shimmering,' smooth surface to the ship; swells from a faraway freighter swept under the beautiful, burnished craft, ''aiming It to roll lazily as they boarded It. A purty of nearly a dozen men am) girls with an older woman chaperoning them, lounged under the shade of an awning over the after deck. They greeted her gaily and looked curiously at Alan as she introduced Henry hark to see you that night; he I w&itnlM him. "Hava you worked on any of our boats?" she asked him, after luncheon had been finished, and the anchor of tlio ship had been raised. A queer expression came upon his face, "ive thought It best not to do that, Miss Sherrill," he replied. She did not know why the next moment she should think of Henry. The yacht was pushing swiftly, smoothly, with hardly a hum from Its motors, north along the shore. He watched Intently the rolllng, wooded hills and the ragged little bays and In- had not brought him to the neighborhood before, but she found that she did not have to name the places tf him; he knew them from the chart "Grand Traverse light," he said to her as a white tower showed upon their left. Then, leaving the shore, they pushed out across the wide mouth of the larger bay toward Little Traverse. He grew more silent at they ap , proached It "It la up there. Isn't it." he asked, pointing, "that they hear the Drum?' Yes; how did you know the place?" "I dont know It exactly; I want you to show me." She pointed out to him the copse, dark, primeval, blue In Ita contrast with tha lighter green of the trees about It and the glistening white of the shingle and of the more distant sand bluffs. He leaned forward, staring at It. until the changed course of the yjcht, as U swung about toward the entrance to the bay, obscured It "Seeing the ships made me feel that I belonged here ou.the lakes," he reminded her. "1 ha vetelt something not recognition exactly, but something that was like the beginning of recognition many times this summer when 1 saw certain Its like one of place those dreams, you know, in which you are conscious of having had the same dream before. I feel that I ought to know this place." They landed only a few hundred yards from the cottsge. After bidto her triends, they went ding good-bup to It together through the tree There wa a small suu room, rather shut off from the rest of the house, to which she led him. Leaving him there, she ran uiodalre to get the things. She hatted an Inn a nr beside the door, with the box in her hands, before she went bark to him. thinking how to prepare him against the significance of these relics of his fall er. She need not prepare hiru against the mere fJci of his fathers death; he had been beginning to belie' e that already; but these things must have far more meaning for bun Ilian merely that. She went In and pdt the box down upon the card table. "The muffler in the box was jour father'" ahe told him. "He had it on the day he disappeared. The other a choked voice her little, "are thing" the things be must have'had lu his pockets. They've been Ijlng Im nster and sand He gazed at her. "1 understand." he said after an instant. "You mean tliat they prove his death. She absented gently, without speaking. As he approached the box, she drew back from It and slipjied away Into the next room. She walked up and down there, pressing her hands together. He must be looking at the tliiogj row. unrolling the muffler. 'A hat would L be feeling as . y -- "Nath.ng Definite At Alt "None of Them Knew My Father." s.,i. tip was going back, and after-avri- i nsked him. and he told me he had wen you again. lid you show vim lUese? Mb on- them yes." IL- - was there when Wsssaquam jiurnH jmcj where tiny were?" 4mC - Ye. line .deepened lot ween her s wrd she snt thoughtful. .ii have been going about she said. "What , ... otnd out T' ':111c ,. i i he saw them? Would he be glad, with that ume gladness which had mtngled with her own sorrow over Uttcie Benny, that his father was gone gone front his guilt and his fear and bis Or would-bresent that disgrace? death which thus left everything unexplained to him? He would le looking at the ring. That, at least, must bring more Joy than grief to him. He would recognize that It must be Ids mothers w eddlng ring; If It told him tha tbla mol her m nst .be dead. U would tell him that she had been married, or bad believed that she was married! Suddenly she heard him calling her. Miss Sherrill ! hla voice had a sharp thrill of excitement. She hurried toward the auu room. She. could see him through the door-wubending over the card table with (he thtnga spread out upon Its top In front of him. "Yes." "He straightened; he was very pale. Would coins that my father had in his pocket ail have been more thau twenty years old?" She "Tan and bent beside him oTer the coin Twenty years!" she repeated She was making out the dates of the coins now herself; the markings were eroded, nearly gone in some Instances, but- In every raie enough ret mained to make rlatn the 1SSH she lSiiD," made them out. Her voice hushed Wliat dims It mean?" she queerly. whispered. the lie, turned over and articles with hands suddenly steadyThere are two sets of things ing. The muffler here," he concluded. and paper of directions they belonged to my father. The other things it Isnt six months or less than six months that theyve lain In sand and water to become worn .Hke this; Its twenty year My father cant have had these things; they were or some, one else had them. He wrote his directions to that person after June twelfth, he said, so It was before June twelfth he wrote It; but we cant tell how long before. It might have been In February, when he disappeared; It might have been any time after that. But tf the directions were written so long ago, why werent the things sent to you before this? Didnt the person have the things then? Did we hare to wait to get them? Or was It the Instructions to send them that he didn't have?Or,!r he had the Instructions, was he receive word when they were to be sent? You thought these things proved my father was dead. I think they prove he Is alive! Oh, we must thluk this out r lie paced up and down the room ; she sank Into a chair, watching him. The first thing that we must do," he said suddenly, "Is to find out about the watch. What Is the phone number of the telegraph fflee?" She told him, and he went out to the telephone; she sprang up to follow him, but checked herself and merely waited until he came hack. Ive wired to Buffalo," he an nounced. "The Merchants exchange, If It ts still In existence, must have a record of the presentation of the watch." "Then youll stay here with us until an answer comes?" If we get a reply by tomorrow morn lng; Ill wait till then. If not. 111 ask you to forward It to roe. I must see about tha trains and get back to Frank fort. 1 can cross by boat from there to Manitowoc that will be Quickest We must begin there, by trying to find out who sent the package." She helped him put the muffler and Ihetither article Into the box ; she that the wedding ring was no longer with them, lie had taken that, then; It had meant to him all that she had known It must mean. . . . In the morning she was up very early; but Alan, the servants tobi her, had risen before she had and hall gone out. The morning, after the cool northern night, was chill. She slipped a sweater on and went out on the veranda, looking about for Vim.. An hides cent haze shrouded the hills and the bey pin It she heard a ships bell strike twice; then another struck twice then another and another and another. The hare thinned as the sun grew w armor, showing the placid water of tlie boy on which the ships stood dou ble. She saw Alan returning, and knowing from the direction from Mui he came that he inu-- t have been to the telegraph office, le ran to meet him. Waa there, an answer?" she inquired eagerly. lie took a jellow telegraph sheet from Ids pocket and held it for her t read. "Watch presented Gap tain Caleb Stafford, master of propeller freighter Marvin Hatch for rescue of crew and passengers of sinking steamer Winnebago off I eng point. Lake Brie." She was breathing quickly In her ex she citement. "Caleb Stafford Why, that was Captain Stafford of Stafford and Ranis-hll- l They owned the Miwaka!" Yes Alan said. A great change had come over him since last night: he was under emotion so strong that he seemed scarcely to dare spewk lest It master him a leaping. exultant lui pulse It was, which he fought to keep e y, & t ir; M date.-Ligh- y lit.. 4 mmi MVli..-a'- u i cm Vmi m. some-whereels- e, no-tire- -- 1 a. Recalling how her Wood had rtf when Alan bad told her that, Ilenryl whiteness and the following suffusion of hla face did not surprise her. Ask Your Local Dealpr I told that fellow long ago not to start stirring these mutters up about Write Now Ben Corvet, and particularly 1 told for 32 - Page-- j of it to not him that he was bring any to you. Ita not a thing that a man Illustrated like Ben covered up for twenty year till It drove him crazy Is sure not to be a thing for a girl to know. Let It alone, I tell you. Khe stood flushed and perplexed, gazing at hint. She never had seen him under stronger emotion. "You misunderstood me once. Con Tha Lkrvd Manufacturing Cokcmt Youll understand nle! he appealed. CO.) (Hy OtyC R me nowP KoiduiQ She bad been thinking about that (It In her him done had Injustice she thought about his chivalry to hla partner nd former benefactor, when Uncle Benny was still keeping hla They Cost Leas fceMM Huy girt bager ttmet place among men. Waa Henry now moved, in a way which she could uot Evsrjr patrol Understand." Ey some olher obligation jlu-flo- p to the man who tong ago had aided 7ir him? Had Henry hazarded more than A he had told her of the nature of the thing hidden which, tf she could guess KHMUM It, would Justify what he aald? bUSPENDERSj b rmtmwd fnr fan She had made Alan promise to writ nor'a nv. Mm Itka her. If he waa not to return, regarding UMtraacy aerate) aad oMfvW. Al V c ,!,. Uh, wbat he learned; and a letter came to oo't PI ra, m tOsoRr' r her on. the fourth day from him tn Manttawoc. The post office employe had no recollection, he said, of the person who had malted the package; It simply had been dropped by some Cutting Off tha Last Word. have recently bee one into the receptacle for mailing Archeologist packages of that sort, Alan, however, puzzled over the finding of Hie wns continuing his Inquiries. body of an Egyptian princess la tomb. It seems that the ancient In In to him She wrote lack in reply; of anj'thtng more Important to tell question as to how the lady lust h him, she related some of her activities head Is Important In archeology and Inquired about his. After she had circles. In certain Oriental countries it fc written him thus twice, he replied, decustomary for the head of the hoase, scribing his life on the boats pleasantly and humorously; then, though she In the event of a domestic argument, Immediately replied, she did not hear to behead the lady, thus cutting the r ' from him again. tady us wett ns the argument short A new Idea had seized Constance. Doubtless, the last words that issuel the lips of the headless princess from was Wafford Caleb named Captain Where have you been? among the lost, of course; with him were: had perished his son, a boy of three. Tudge. That was all that was said, and all One way to ovoid even tlie appeathat was to be learned of him, th rance of evil is to daub the cat's lacs boy. Alan had been three then. This was with Jam. wild, crazy speculation. The ship was lost with all hands; only the Drum, Being diplomatic mrfy seem expebelieved In by the superstitious and nsive at the time, but In the lung run the most Ignorant, denied that. Tlie tt pay Drum said that one" soul had been saved. How could a child of three have been saved when strong men, to the last one, had perished? And, If he had been saved, he was Stafford's son. Why should Uncle Benny have sent By Laurence E. Cash. him away and cared for him and then O MAN, my Lord and Master, hear sent for him and, himself disappeariThou my prayer: leave all he had to Staffords ng, Water me, feed me, keep me eletn son? and work me in reason. O L rl, when Or was he Staffords son? ner my day's work be done give me shethought went back to the things which lter from rain, wind and cold and i had been sent the things from a clean, dry bed In a stall wide enough mans pockets with a wadding ring for me to lie down In comfort. De among them. . She had believed that not tie my head In an unnatural pothe ring cleared the mother' name; sition or cut off my tall, which Is Do not, Involve my only defence against flies. might It In reality hill down O me drive Man, rapidly It? Why had It come back like this to considebe do and merciful 0 Lord, man the by. whom, perhap It had been rate of me In hot weather, and do not given? Henrys words came again and kick, strike or otherwise abuse ms again to Constance: Ite a queer conwhen I do not understand your decern youve got for Ben. Leave It sires. Prod me not with merciless alone, 1 tell you!" He knew then spur Teach Thou me to understand something about Uncle Benny which Thy desires. Speak gently unto me,. O Lord, Thy voice means more te might have brought on aome terribl me I have a than whip' and rein whlcn did not know but thing Henry might guess? Constance went weak sense of humor. Play with me, and within. Uncle Bennys wife had left pet me, 0 Man, and I will gladly lend him, she remembered. Wa It better, nj'selfto Thee In willing service. Have mercy on me, O Blaster, vrhea after all, to "leave !t alone? ( have colic, and do give me one spoonA telegraph envelope addressed to ful of It will relieve me her father was on the table In the halL Quickly. When I have scours dreoca A servant told her the message had me with Q. And, O Master, come an hour before, and that he had when I be galled, have tores o telephoned to Mr. Sherrills office, hul Shoulders or back, wire cut scratches, Mr. Sherrill was not In. There was no uange or swellings, apply Thou to mine "affected parts and I reason for her thinking that the meswill praise Thee for relief from mins sage might be from Alan except his affliction will enable me te In her presence thought but she went do with Thy bidding delight at once to the telephone and called O Man, ts Just as good for her father. He was tn now, and he llmilar human III directed her to open the message and Is made Remember, O Lord, read It to him. 3 ' In mercy by New York Drug Concert, "Have some one," ahe read aloud; 401 Lafayette Street, New York City. she choked tn her excitement at what Praise Thou this firm for their aflevb came next Have some one who stlon of beastly 111 v 0 Master, when I fall to eat exas knew Mr. Corvet well enough to recogIne my mouth for the cause. Do not nize him, even if greatly changed, me when I can not eat. Be merwork meet Carferry Number 23 Manitowoc ciful unto me, O Man. and I will serve Wednesday this week. Alan Conrad." Thee and Thy family many ye1 Her heart was heating Tast.. Are with a glad heart. she there?" you said the phone. Finally, O Lord, when my youthful -Ye beauty and strength be gone, and ttj Whom shall you send?" days of service ended, neither tart There was an Instants sllerc "I toe out to starve and freeze, nor me to some cruel man to be torture shall go myself." her father said. hung up the receiver. Had .Man 0 Man, If Thou be financially unable found Uncle Iienny? He had found, to care for .me In my old day t Thou my life In the kindest way. apparently, some one whose near nd answer my prayer, O nff to the picture she had showed aiffi YOUP Ood will reward 7oa Lord, him was marked enough to make him both here and In the hereafter. MIeve that person might be Benjamin With all reverence I so pray ante Corvet; or be bad heard ef some one T?ee In the name of nim. who who. from the account be had receive!, born In a manger AMEN. he though might be. She read again the words of the telegram.. . . "even tf greatly changed and she felt tenifjlng warning In that WO-fa- kf ill li- - try It,1 oees si andld for Sw mend J friend us b 713 A' Ag ExcellO other' hima i You ' strong are su Loess bis Co irbati : Ums now. head-'es- s - walt-tngt- o "What?" -- , pen-ninet- found out they were same or peopta tfco Miwaka I" who had relative What "Save the .Miwaka! Mean, Alan? Do You few were like Jo Tapo we saw yesterday, who Jtnew only the year his father was lost; but the time always was the time that the Miwaka disappeared!. Disappeared!" she repeated. Her veins were pricking cold. IVliat did he know, what could any one know of the Miwaka, the ship of which nothing ever was heard except the beating of the Indian Drum? She tried to make him say more ; but he looked awajrnow down to the lake. 'The Chippewa must have come In Shes early this morning," he aald. lying In the harbor; I saw her on my way to the telegraph office. If Mr. Spearman has come back with her, tell him Im sorry I cant wait to see him." When are you going?" "Now." She offered to. drive him to 1etos-key- , but be already had arranged for a mna to take him to the train. She went to her room after he was gone and spread out again on her bed the watch now the watch of Captain Stafford of . the Miwaka with the knife and coins of more than twenty jears ago which came with IL The meaning of them now was all changed ; she felt that; but what the new meaning might be could not yet come to hew. Something of It had come to Alan ; that, undoubtedly, was what had so greatly stirred him; but she could not Yet a few yet reassemble her idea facts had become plain. A maid came to say that Mr. Spear-ma- n bad come up from his boat for breakfast with her and was downShe went dwu to find Henry stair lounging in one of the great wicker chairs tn the living room, lie arose and came toward her quickly; but she halted before he could seize her. Whats wrong, dearT" Alan Conrad has been here, Henry. "lie has? How waa that?" She told him while he watched her lie wired to Buffalo about Intently, the watch. He got a reply which he brought to me half an hour ag& "Yes?" The watch belonged fr Captain Stafford who was lost with the Miwaka. Henry." He made no reply; but waited. You may not have .kiton that li was his; I mean, jou may no; have known that It was he who rescued the people of tlie Winnebago, but you must have known that Uncle Benny didnt." "Yes; I krpw that. Connie," he ' an-swe- ecnlr. why did yon let me think the watch was his and that he. must be dead?" Thats alls the matter? You bad thought he w:i dead. I believed It was better for jou iieve that." She drew a little away from l.tu. with hands clasped behind her back, There was gating Intenllj at him. some writing found in Curie Benny's house tn Astor stivt a list of names of relatives of people who bad lost the take. Wassaqnam their lives knew where those things were. Alan says they were given to him In your presence. Why didn't jou tell tin about that?" He straightened as If with anger. Why should I? Because he thought that I should? What did he tel! you about those lists?" Nothing except that his father had kept theta vary secret ly; but Wi . n u'n THE PRAYER OF A HORSE only-mo- I pi -- old I re Pi-C- "0 thlD Had; -- n. Havl by i tulle ind he&l furrv With II -- ol I! me!; ! you, Q Y ru Q te 10 resero--blanc- e phrae. , star-tiing'a- TO BE CONTINUED - Oldest United States Post Office. Erected the post office building at St. Augustine. U believed to le the oldest structure of the kind tn the coantry. According to fflcla! records In the "Archives of the Indies." at Seville. Spain, the building wes purchased or the king tf Spain In lOVl from Gonzuio. Mende former governor of Florida, who erected It rite idaceVas purchased from Mendez for SIO.OOO as a residence for Gov Ietlro de Yderra and his successor. 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