The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-07-08

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I LIEF. Sheriff. further had said that
benjamin Corvet. II he Ind wished
Sheriff. to know those circumstances
would have told them to him; but Cor.
vet Ind not done that: instead. he had
sent for Alan. his son. He had given
his son his confidence.
Sheriff. had admitted that he was
Withholding from Alan. for the time
being. something that he knew about
Benjamin COrvet; 1t was nothing. he
hud said. which would help Alan to
iearn about his father. or what had
become OF him; but perhaps Sheriff.,
not knowing these other things. could
not speak accurately as to that. Alan
determined to ask Sheriff. what he
I had been Withholding. before he told
him all Of what had happened In Cor
vets house. There was one other cir
cumstnnoe which Sheriff. had men,
toned but not explained: 1t occurred
to Alan now.
"Ailss Sheriff." he checked him
self.
what Is it1'
This afternoon your father said
that you believed that Mr.. COrvet's
disappearance was In some way con-
nected with you: he said that he did
not think that was so: but do you
want to tell me why you thought III"
Yes; will tell you" She colored
quickly. Zone Of the last things Mr..
Corvst. dld-in fact. the last thing we
know of his doing before he sent for
you-was to come to me and warn me
against one Of my friends"
warn you, MISC Sheriff. Howl
mean. warn you against what?"
Against thinking too much OF him"
She turned away.
II think I'll come to see your father
In the morning." Alan snid. when Con-
stance looked back to him.
"But you'll come over here for
breakfast In the morning7"
You want mer'
Certainly"
''rd like to come very much"
''Then ri expect you" She followed
him to the door when he had put on
his things, and he made no objection
when she asked that the man be al
lowed to carry his bag around to the
other house.
When he had dismissed Simons and
re-entered the house on Aston street,
he found no evidences OF any disturb
ance while he had been gone. On the
tn hn NJ ha
which had been his fathers. was a
bedroom which evidently had been
kept us II guest chamber: Alan carried
his suitcase there and made ready for
bed.
The sight Of Constance Sherrin
standing and watching after him In
concern as he started back to this
house. came to him again and again
and, also, her flush when she had
spoken Of the friend against whom
Benjamin Corvet had warned her.
Who was he? 1t hud been impossible
at that moment for Alan to ask her
more; besides II he had asked and she
had told him he would have learned
only a mana which he could tot place
yet In any Connection with her or with
Benjamin Corvet. Whoever he was. 1t
was plain that Constance Sheriff.
Thought Of him." lucky man. Alan
said to himself. Yet Corvet had
warned her not to think Of him. +.
Alan turned bnck his bed. 1t had
been for him u tremendous day. Bure-
ly twelve hours before he had come to
that house. Alan Conrad from Blue
Rapids, Ran, now phruses
from what Lawrence Sheriff. had told
him of his father were running
through his mind as he opened the
any noise In Benjamin Corvet's house,
Of which he was sole protector. The
emotion reused by his first sight OF the
lake went through him again us he
opened the window to the east.
Now-he was in bed-he seemed to
be standing, specter before man
disappearing Benjamin Corvet and the
souls of men dead. "And the lnle
above the eye! The bullet got
you'll So it's you that got Ben
:, I'll get you You can't
save the Mlwaka!"
The Miwaka! The stir of that name
was stronger now even than before: II
had been running through his con.
seriousness almost constantly since he
had heard 1t. He jumped up and
turned on the light end found pencil
He did not know how to spell the
name and 1t was not necessary tC
write 1t down; the name had taken on
that detinIteness and lnefraccableness
OF thing which. once heard, can
never again be forgotten. But. in
panic that he might forget. he wrote
1t, guessing at the spelling-"MIwaka.
1t was a name. Of course; but the
name Of what? It repeated md re-
peated itself to him. after he got back
into bed, until Its very Iteration made
him drowsy. .
Outside the cele whfstled and