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and exhibited strange agitation over the
matter.
CHAPTER II.-Corvet's letter summons
Conrad, youth OF unknown parentage'
to Chicago.
CHAPTER III.-From o statement OF
Sheriff. II seems probable Conrad is Cor.
vets illegitimate son. Corvet has deeued
his house and its Contents to Alan.
CHAPTER Tv.-Aan takes possession
Of his new home
CHAPTER What night Alan discov-
ers q man ransacking the desks ana bu-
reau drawers In C6rvet's apartments. The
appearance OF Alan Tremendously agltates
the INTRUDER auS %s0 spPfSsrsM e
a struggle the man escapes.
CHAPTER vI.-Next day Alan learns
from Sheriff. that Corvet has decided MS
Spearman, Alan is astounded at the dis:
covery that he 10 the map whom ne hao
found In his house the night before.
CHAPTER vII.-Alan tells no one Of
his strange encounter. but In a. private
interview taxes Spearman with the fact
SpearBlan laughs at and defes him.
CHAPTER vIII.-Corvet's Indian .serv-
ant. Wassaquam, tells Alan he, believes
his employer is dead, He also tells him
the legend Of the Indian Drum, which &C.
cording TO old superstition beats once Tor
every life lost on the Great Lake. Twen-
waka had gone down with twenty-five on
board. but the Drum had sounded for
only twenty-four, leaving the inference
that one person had been saved. nnce II
erred. Pursuing a stranger who had
made a disturbance at his house. Alan
Is slugged and rendered unconscious.
CHAPTER Ix.-conrad RECEIVERS. and
the AFFAIR remains a mystery.
CHAPTER x.-Alan learns from Was
saquam that 1t was Corvets habit 70
keep the sum Of 1900 In me hsuse' appar,
the absence Of Wassaauam. Luke" comes
to the house demanding TO see Corvet.
He Is evidently ip dying condition. Que
without avail to get him 70 explain his
connection with coryet The man dies.
Wassaquam gives Conrad paper on
which IL q list OF names.
CHAPTER xI.-From the document Al
an thinks he may haye a clue 70 the
mystery surrounding Corvets life and
disappearance. Ne leaves Chicago to vis-
II Lake Michigan ports In search OF tne
CHAPTER XIL-Constance receives q
package wrapped In O muffler which she
recognizes Corvet was wearing on tne
coIns, watch, and woman's wedding
ring. She believes them to have been the
property OF Cor. et, and accepts them az
a proof OF his death. spearman urges
but refuses his demand for an immedi-
ate ceremony.
CHAPTER KIIL-Inquiries show that
The watch In the ps;SxSse haS orS Seen come sne
mafder OF the Mwaka. who had gone
lown with his ship.
CHAPTER xIv.-working on q lake
freighter, Alan becomes acquainted with
an elderly man known as Jim Burr.
| who seems TO be possessed OF informa-
tion which Alan believes would only be
known TO Corvet
CHAPTER xv.-Alan secures q position
| on the freighter Of which Burr" Is
wheelsman. He is satisfied he has found
the man he believes TO be his father.
Burr" at the wheel OF the freighter.
apparently In dementia, refuses TO obey
orders to change the vessels course,
and the ship collldes with a derelict.
In almost sinking condition they attempt
to reach port. The loaded freight. cars
| WHleh AhN NNeo~A - S'fb -NN-~'
CHAPTER XvI.-corvet RECEIVERS his
| reason and leads In the work OF throw
ing the cars overheard. He ana Alan
are pinned under the debris. Alan dis
closes his identity. Corvet tells him
Spearman had killed his father. Alan ID
rescued, but II is impossible TO save
Corvet priest, passenger on the boat,
conversation.
They followed him again, unques.
tlonlng, obedlent. Alan followed close
to him. 1t was not pity which stirred
him now for Benjamin Corvet; nor was
II bitterness; but 1t certainly was not
contempt. OF all the ways In which he
had fancled finding Benjamin Corvet,
he had never thought Of seeing him
like this
II was, probably, only for a fash
but the great quality Of leadership
which he had once possessed, which
Sheriff. had described to Alan and
which had been destroyed by the threat
over him, had returned to him In thi,
desperate emergency which he had ere
ated. How much or how little Of hi
own condition Corvet understood, Alar
could not tell; II was plain only tha
he comprehended that he had been tn,
{ cause OF the catastrophe, and In hi
fierce will to repair II he not only dis
regarded all risk to himself; he als'
had summoned up from within him an,
was spending the last strength Of hi
spirit. But he was spending II In
losing fight
I He got of two more cars; yet tn
deck only dipped lower, and waite
washed farther and farther up owe
the fantail. Men, leaping from befor
the charging cars, got caught In tn
murderous melee Of iron and stec
and wheels; mems shrlll cries cam
3 amid the scream Of metal. Alan, tug
G glng at crate which had struck dow
man. felt aid beside him and, turn
Ing, he saw the priest whom he ha
/ passed on the stairs. The priest wa
@ bruised and bloody; this was not hi
= first effort to aid. Together they llfte
u an end Of the crate; they bent-Ala
stepped back, and the priest kne
alone his lips repeating the prayer fC
absolntlon. Screams of men came frol
behind; and the priest rose and turne,
lie saw men caught between tw
wrecks of cars crushing together
/. there was no moment to reuch then
It he stood und raised his arms to ther
n his head thrown back, his voice cnlllr
Y to them, MS they died, the words
II nbsolutlon.
II Three more cars nt the cost OF Nv
lives the crew cleared, while Il
: sheatnlng Of Ice spread over the ste
mhnnrd nnI dissolution of ull n