The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-13
Copyright by Edwin BaImer~.

"Oh. 1t is not definite yet-not clear!" She felt the bitterness in his tone. They have not any of them been able to make 1t wholly clear to ne. It is like d record that has been blurred. These original names must have Co, a written down by my father many y,ars agO-many, most of those people I think-are dead; some are nearIr forgotten. The only thing that is Ally plain Is that In every case my ingulirs have led me 10 those who have los. one, and sometimes more than uue rr.ative upon the lakes"
 Constance thrilled to vague hor- TOT: lt vus not anything to which she could give definite reason. His tone ouIte as much as what he said was it's cause. His experience plainly had been forcing him to bitterness against his father: and he dld not know with certainty vet that his father was dead.
 "Youu lunch with us, of course she said tO Alan. "and then go back with us to HarbOr Point, It's a days tourney around the two bays; but we've a boat here"
 lie asSeuted, and they went down to the water where the white and brown power yacht, win long, graceful lines lay SOmuoieutly iu the sunlight A lit- lie boat took them out over the shim- merlng smooth surface tu the ship; sweIs from a farawuy lreighier swept under the beautiful, burniSaed craft causing it to roll luzily as they board ed it. A party of nearly d dozen men and girls with an older woman chap eroulug them, louuEed under the shade of an awning over the after deck. They greeted her gUiIy and looked curiously at Alan as she introduced him.
 Have you worked on any of our boatsg" she asked him, alter luncheon had been finished, and the anchor of the ship had been raised.
 A queer expression came upon his face. i've thought it bes, mol tO do that. Miss Snerrtll," he replied
 She did not know why Jhr next mu- menr she should Jlnk ul Henry.
 The yacht was push!ug swiftly smoothly. with hardly a hum from Its motors. north along the shore. He watched mteutly the rolling. wooded hills and the ragged little bays and n- let's Ills work and his iuyest.-atiugs had not brought him 10 the ucIghhor. hood before. but she found that she did not have Co name the places to him: he knew them from the charts.
 Grand Traverse light" he said to her as a white tower showed upon their left. Then. leaving ,he shore. they pushed out across the wide mouth of the larger bay toward Little Tray erse. lie grew more silent as they ap- preached It.
 "It IS up there. isn't It." he asked. pointing. "thut they hear the DrumT
 "Yes; how did you know the place"
 or don't know it exactly; want you Co show me"
 She pointed out to him the copsc, dark, primpyaI. blue in iJs contrast with the lighter green of the trees about 1t and the SIisteuing white Of the shingle and of the more distnnt sand bluffs. He leaned forward. staring at it. until the changed course of the yacht. as It swung about toward the entrance Co the bay. obscrred It.
 Seeing the ships lHde me feel that belonged here oI the lakes. he "e minded her. "l have felt something not recognition exactly. but something that was like the beginning of recUg nIuOn- many times this sGmmer whcJ l saw certain places. ItS like one Ol those dreams, you know, in which you are conscious of hayiug-had the same dream before. l feel that l ought to know this place.
 They landed only a few hundred yards from the cottage. After bid. ding good-by to her friends, they went up to lt together through the trees. There was a small sun room, rather shut on from the rest of the house, lu which she led him. Leaving him there, she ran upstairs to get the things.
 She halted un Instant beside the door. with the box iu her hands, be fore she went back to hIm, thinking how to prepare him against the sig niuCance of these relies of his father She need not prepare him against the mere fact of his fathers death; he had been beginning to believe that d. ready; but these things must have far more meaning for him than merely that. She wen, in and put the box down upon the card table.
 "The muller 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"
 He gazed at her. "I understand" he said after an instant. You mean that they prove his death"
 She asseuted gently, without speak mg. As he approached the box, she drew back from 1t and slipped away