Williams news., 1922-08-11
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become very low, now ceased. She was speaking to Alan of his father-a father whom he had never known, and whom he could not have recognized by sight until she showed him the picture few weeks before; but she was speaking of his father.
 'Mr. Sherrin didn't feel that 1t was necessary for him to do anything, even though he thought that?"
 eff MT. Corvet was dead, we could do him no good, surely, by telling this to the police; If the police succeeded in finding out all the facts, we would not wish-what he preferred death to. We could not tell the police about it without telling them all about Mr. Cor vet, too. So father would not let him. self believe that you had been attacked to be killed. He had to believe the police theory was sufficient
 Alan made no comment at once. "WasSaquam believes MT. Corvet is dead," he said finally. ''He told me SO. Does your father believe thatP'
 "1 think he is beginning to believe it"
 i've not told any one," he said, now watching her, "how happened to be out of the house that night. I followed
 
 Wassaquam did not know his name. He did not know MT. Corvet was gone; for he came there to see MT. Corvet. He was not an ordinary friend of MT. Corvet's; but he had come there often. WasSaquam did not know why. Was saquam had sent the man away, and I ran out after him; but could not find him.
 He stopped an instant, studying her. "That was not the first man who came to the house," he went on quickly, as she was about to speak. "I found man in MT. Corvet's house the first night that I spent there. Wassaquam was away, you remember, and I was alone in the house."
 "A man there in the house?'' she re- peated.
 "He was going through MT. Corvet's the silver and all that, but his desks and files and cases. He was looking for something thing which he seemed to want very much when I interfered, it greatly ex- cited him. I frightened him. He thought I was a ghost.'
 "A ghost. Whose ghost?"
 He shrugged. "I don't know some one whom he scented to have known pretty well-and whom Mr. Corvet knew, he thought
 ''Why didn't you tell us this before?"
 "At IeastI am telling you now, Miss Sherrill. I frightened him, and he got away. But I had seen him plainly. can describe him. .. You've talked with your father of the possibility that something might hap pen to me such as, perhaps, happened to MT. Corvet. If anything does hap pen to me, a description of the man may prove useful"
 Then clearly and definitely as he could, he described Spearman to her. She did not recognize the description; {; | le had known she would not. Had not | Spearman been in Duluth? Beyond | hat, was not connection of Spearman with the prowler in Corvet's house the ,ne connection of all most difficult for Ter to make?
 They were silent as they went on to- yard her home. He had said all he | .ould, or dared to say; to tell her that he man had been Spearman would not merely have awakened her increduli- y; it would have destroyed credence Itterly. A definite change in their re- ation to one another had taken place turing their walk. The fu1lness, the rankness of the sympathy there had cen between them almost from their rst meeting, had gone; she was ufte aware, he saw, that he had not rankly answered her questions; she Vas aware that in some way he had rawn back from her and shut her bg~SsAA+ SA+ IbI, Eb,laIl ESssSslEaNI IaElA GstQAs#f%7 f%7Hz8sS@ NzI/IJHAW