The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-22

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 Alan was at the bow again on look out duty usdered to listen and to look for the lltue boats. He gave to that duty all his conscious attention; but through hls thought, whether he willed 1t or not. ran a riOtOuS eXutatiOn. AS he paced from side to side and hailed and answered halls from the bridge, and while he strained for sight and hearing through the gule-Bwept snow, the leaping pulse within repeated, 'T've found hIml I've found him" Alan held no longer possibility of doubt of old Burr'B identity with Ben Iumln Coryet. since the old man had made plain to him that he was haunt ed by fhe Miwaka. Since that night m the house on Astor street, when Speurmuu shouted to Alan thnt name, everything having 10 do with the se- crel of BenjumIn COryet's life had led, so far as Alan could follow 1t, to the Miwaka; all the change, which Sher- rlIl described but could not account for, Alan had laid to that. Corvet only could have been so haunted by that ghOSuy ship, and there had been guilt Of some awful sort in the old mans cry. Alan had found the man who hud sent him away to Kansas when he was a child, who had support ed him there and then. at last, sent for him; who had disappeared at his coming and left him all his posses sions and his heritage of disgrace, who had paid hluckmall to Luke, and who had sent, last Captain Staifords watch and the ring which came with 1.-the wedding ring.
 Alun pulled his hand from his glove and felt In hIs pocket for the little band of gold What would that mean to him now; what of that was he to learn? And, as he thought of that, Constance Sherrlll came more insist. ently before him. What was he to learn for her, for his friend and Ben JumIn Corvet's friend, whom he Uncle Benny. had warned not 10 care for Henry Spearmnn, and then had gone away to leave her 10 marry him; For she was to marry him, Alan had read.
 More serious damage than first re- ported The pumps certainly must be losing their fight with the water in the port compartment aft; for the bow steadily was lifting. the stern sinking. The sJurbOard raIl too was raised, and the list had become so sharp that WA ter washed the deck abuft the fore castle 10 port. And the ferry was pointed straight into the gale now; long ago she had ceased Co circle and steam slowly In search for boats; she struggled with all her power against the wind and the seas desperate in- sisJence throbhlng In the thruSts of the engines; for Number 25 was flee iug-tleeing for the western shore She dared not turn to the nearer eastern shore to expose that shattered stern to the seas.
 Four bells beat behind Alan; It was two o'clock. Relief should have come long before; but no one came. He was numbed now; ice from the spray craCkIed upon hIs clothing when he moved, and 1t fell In flakes upon the deck. The stark figure on the bridge was that Of the second officer; so the thing which was happening below the thing which was sending strange. violent, wanton tremors through the shlp-was serious enough to call the skipper below, to make him abandon the bridge at this timel The tremOrs, quite distinct from the steady tremble of the engines and the thudding of the pumps, came again. Alan, feeling them, ierked up and stamped and beat hls arms to regain sensation. Some one stumbled toward him from the cabins now, a short figure in a great coat It was a woman, he saw as she hailed h!m-thp cabin maid.
 "Tm taking your place !" she shouted to Alan. You're wanted-every ones wanted on the car deck The cars-' The gale and her fright stopped her voice as she struggled for speech. "The cars-the cars are loose"