The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-03-24

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she said to Alan, land then 50 back
with us to Harbor Point. It's a days
journey around the two bays; but
We've "a boat here" sf
He assented. and they went down to
! the water where the white and brown
I power yacht, with long. graceful lines.
{ lay somnolently in the sunlight. A lit
|, tie boat took them out over the SHIN
mering, smooth surface to the ship;
swells from a PARKWAY freighter swept
under the beautiful, FURNISHED craft,
causing it to roll lazily as they board
ed it. A party of nearly a dozen men
and girls with an older woman chap
eroning them, lounged under the shade
of an awning over the after deck.
They greeted her gaily and looked
curiously at Alan as she introduced
him. .5 s.. ya 81. ..3. S5 I,
Have you worked on any Of our
boats?' she asked him, after luncheon
had been finished, and the anchor Of
| the ship had been raised #
A queer expression came upon his
face. 1--WE thought it best not to do
that, Miss Sheriff." he replied. 81
She did not know why the next mo-
ment she should think of Henry. g,S
The yacht was pushing swiftly,
smoothly, with hardly hum from its
motors, north along the shore. He
watched intently the rolling, wooded
hills and the ragged little bays and in
lets, His work and his inyestigatings
| had not brought him to the neighbor-
hood before, but she found that she
! did not have to name the places to
him; he knew them from the charts.
Grand Traverse Light he said to
her as white, tower showed upon
their left. Then, leaving the shore,
they pushed out across the wide mouth
OF the larger bay toward Little Tray-
erse. He grew more silent as they ap-.
preached it. .ssls. ~ ~
ut is up there, isn't it, he asked,
| pointing. "that they hear the Drum?"
Eyes; how did you know the placer"
II don't know it exactly; want you
to show me-" at e - .5E z
y She pointed out to him the copse,
dark, primeval, blue in its contrast,
with the lighter green Of the trees
about it and the glistening white of
| the single and Of the more distant
sand bluffs. He leaned forward, staring
at it, until the changed course Of the
yacht, as it swung about toward the
entrance to the bay, obscnred it. :. !
| Seeing the ships made me feel that
I belonged here on the lakes" he re-
minded her. II have felt something
not recognition exactly, but something
that was like the beginning Of recog.
nition-many times this summer when
i saw certain places. It's like. one Of
those dreams. you know, in which you
are conscious of having had the same
dream before. feel that ought to
know. this place" = ",& ILL., j ="
They landed only 4 few hundred
yards from the cottage. After bid
ding good-by to her friends, they went
up to 1T together through the trees.
J There was small sun room, rather
shut of from the rest of the house, to
which she led him. Leaving him there,
she ran upstairs to get the things.
She halted an instant beside. the
door, with the box in her hands, be-
fore she went back to him, thinking
how to prepare him against the sig
nificance OF these relics Of his father.
She need not prepare him against the
mere fact Of his fathers death !; he
had been beginning to believe tina: al
ready; but these things must have far
more meaning for him than merely
that. She went in and put the box
down upon the card table. -.a:, !.
"The muffler in the box was your
fathers" she told him. HE had it on
the day he disappeared: The other
things,' her voice choked a little, ''are
the things he must have had in his
pockets. They've been lying in water
and sand" d. IL :, '}i..5 =. < -.-.ssl -:
He gazed at her. II understand"
he said after an instant. "You mean
that they prove his DEATH" >, r.. 4
|. She assented gently, without speak
! ing. As he approached the box, she
drew back from 1t and slipped away
into the next room. She walked up
and down there, pressing her hands
together. He must be looking at the
things now, unrolling the muffler
.,,.sss. What would he be feeling as
he saw them? Would he be glad, with
that same gladness which had luingled
with her own sorrow ovSr Uncle
Benny, that his father was gone-gone
from his guilt and his fear and his
disgrace?t Or would he resent that
death which thus left everything un-
explained to him? He would be look
ling at the ring. That, at least, must
bring more Joy than grief to him. He
would recognize that it must be his
mothers wedding ring; II it told him
that his mother must be dead, it would
! tell him that she had been married, or
had believed that she was married!
Suddenly she heard him calling her.
Miss Sherrillv' his voice had a sharp
thrill Of excitement. ,;.s' ~, -
| She hurried toward the sun room.
She. could see him through the door
way, bending over the card table with
the things spread cut upon it's top in
front of him. @ .$$
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