The Ordway new era., 1922-07-28

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had known their names"
In her feeling for him. she hsd laid
her hand upon his arm; now her IN
gers tightened TO sudden tense1ss>
What do you mean.' she asked
~oh. it is not definite yet-noi
clear." She felt the bitterness IN his
tone. They have not any Of them
been able TO make II wholly clear 70
ne. Ii is Ike 8 record that has been
blurred These original names must
have been written down by NY father
many years sEo-nany. most o. those
people. I think-are dead; some s-e
nearly forgotten The only thing thai
is fully plain is that IN ever! case ny
Inquiries have led ne 70 those Nho
have lost one, and sometimes mora
than one relative upOa the lakes
Constance thrilled 70 vague ho--
ror: il was not snything 70 which she
could give definite reason BIS tooe
quite as much IS what he said Vas rs
cause His experience plainly had
been forcing In 70 bitterness against
his fsther: and he id not know with
Certainty YET that his father was dead
You'll lunch with rs, Of course,
she szid 70 Alan. ''and then 90 back
with Is 70 Ezrb0- Point. It's days
I journey g-0un5 The TWO bays buf
we've b1st as-a-
He asseatsd- and they went down 10
the water whe-e The white and brown
power yacht. with long graceful lines
Iay Sounolently IN The sunlight : IL
tie boat took them our over the shin
merins. smooth surface 10 the ship,
swells from g faraway freighter swept
under the beautiful, Furnished craft,
causing il TO roll lazlly as they board
ed IL. A party OF nearly dozen men
and girls with an older woman chap
eruning them, lounged under the shade
Of an awning over the after deck
They greeted her gaily and looked
curiously at Alan as she introduced
him.
"Haye you worked on any of our
boats?' she asked him. after luncheon
had been finished, and the anchor of
the ship had been raised.
A queer expression came upon his
face. I've thought 1t best not to do
that. Miss Sheriff." he replied
She did not know why the next mo-
ment she should think of Henry.
The yacht was pushing swiftly,
smoothly. with hardly hum from its
motors, north along the shore. He
watched intently the rolling, wooded
hills and the ragged little bays and in
lets. His work and his investigatinss
had not brought him to the neighbor-
hood before, but she found that she
did not have to 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 the shore,
they pushed out across the wide mouth
of the larger bay toward Little TRAY
erse. He grew more silent as they ap-
preached it.
1T is up there, isn't It," he asked,
pointing that they hear the Drum?'
Yes; how did you know the placer"
- don't know it exactly; want you
to show me-"
She pointed out TO him the copse.
dark, primeyal, blue in its contrast
with the lighter green of the trees
about it and the giistening white of
the shingIe and of the more distant
sand bluffs. He leaned forward, staring
at it, until the changed course of the
yacht, as it swung about toward the
entrance to the bay, obscured it.
Seeing the ships made me feel that
l belonged here on the lakes" he re-
minded her. Il have felt something
not recognition exactly. but something
that was like the beginning Of recog-
nirion-many times this summer when
l saw certain places. It's like one Of
those dreams, you know, in which you
are conscious of having had the same
dream before. 1 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 it together through the trees.
There was small sun room, rather
shut of from the rest of the house, to
which she led him. Leaving him there,
she ran upstairs to get the things.
She halted an instant beside the
door, with the box in her hands, be-
fore she went back to him, thinking
how to prepare him against the sig
niicance of these relics of his father.
She need not prepare him against the
mere fact of his fathers death; he
had Leen beginning to believe that al
ready; but these things must have far
more meaning for him than merely
that She went In and put the box
down upon the card table
"The muffier In the box was your
fathers" she told him. HE had 1t on
the day he disappeared. The other
things" her voice choked little, "are
the things he must have had In his
pockets. They've been lying In water
and sand"
He gazed at her. II understand"