The daily Alaskan., 1922-08-10

sCiOusly to separate the priests voice from the sensations running through him. Ills father was Stafford, dying at CorveTs feet while COrvet watched the death of the crew of the Mlwaka; Alan himself, a child, was floating with iifebelt among those struggling in the water whom Spearman and Corvet were watching die Memory; was it that which now had come to him? No; rather 1t was a realization of all the truths which the priests words were bringing together and arranging right, ly for him.
 Alan's father died in the moCning All day they stayed out In the storm, avoiding vessels. They dared not throw StafTords body overheard or that of the engineer, because, if found the bullet holes would have aroused Inquiry. When night came again they had taken the two ashore at some wild spat and buried them; to make identl- fcatlon harder they had taken the things that they had with them and buried them somewhere else, The chlld-Alun-Coryet hud smuggInd ashore and sent away; he had told Spearmau- later that the child had died
 "Peace-restm Father Pcrron said In a deep voice Peace to the dcad'
 But for the living there had been no pence. Spearmun had forced Cor vet to make him his partner; Corvet had tried Co take up his life ugnin, but had not been able His wife. aware that something was wrong with him. had learned enough SD that she had left him. Luke had come and come and come again for hIavkmail. and Coryet had paid him. C0vet grew rich; those connected with him pros pered: but with CUryet lived always the ghosts of those he had watched die with the Miwaka-of those who would have pruSpered with Stafford eS- cept for what had been done. Cor vet had secretly sought and followed the flute of the kin Of those people who had been murdered Co benefit him; he found some of their families destroyed; he found almost an poor and struggling. And though Coryet paid Luke to keep the crime from dis closure, yet COryet Swore t0 himself Co confess it all and make such resti- tuition as he could. But each time that the day he had appointed with him self arrived. he put it or and Ofr and paid Luke again and again. Spear man knew of his intention and sume- times kept him from it. But Covet had made one close friend; and when that friends daughter. for whom Cor vet cared now most of all inthe world, had been about to marry Sppurman, COryet defed the cost Co himself and he gained strength to oppose Spear man. Su he had written to Statrnrd's son to come; he had prepared for con- feSsIuu and restitution; but after he had done this and while he waited something had seemed to break in his brain; too long preyed upon by terrible memories. and the ghosts of those who had gone, and by the echo of their voices crying to him from the water. Corveu had wandered away; he had come back. under the name of one of those whom he had wr0nged, to the lake life from which he had sprung. Only now and then, for a few hours, he had intervals when he remembered all; in one of these he had dug up the watch and the ring and other things which he had taken from Captain Sta0ord's pockets and written to himself directions of what to do with them, when his mind again failed
 And for Spearman, strong against all that assalled Corvet, there had been always the terror or the Indian Drum the Drum. which had beat short for the Miwaka, the Drum which had known that one was saved. That story came from some hint which Luke had spread, Corvet thought; but Spear man. born near by the Drum, believed that the Drum had known and that the Drum had tried to tell; all through the years Spearman had dreaded the Drum which had tried to betruy him.
 So 1t was by the Drum that, in the end, Spearman was broken.
 The priests voice had stopped, as Alan slowly realized; he heard Shef- rll's voice speaking to him.
 Tt was a trust that he left you, Alan; l thought 1t must be that a trust for those who suffered by the loss of your fathers ship. I don't know yet how it car be fulfilled; and we must think of that
 That's how I understand It." Alan said.
 Through the tumult In his soul he became aware of physical feelings again, and of Sherrilrs hand put upon his shoulder in a cordial, friendly grasp. Then another hand, small and firm, touched his, and he felt it's warm tightening grasp upon his fingers; he looked up. and his eyes filled and hers, he saw, were brimming too.
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