The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-20

buttOned about his throat; to make certain his hearing, his ears were un- protected They numbed frequently, and he drew a hand out of the glove
 to rub them. The windows 10 protect the whcelsman had been dropped, as, ] the suo. hud gathered on the glass; and al intervals. as ne glanced back,
 he cua,d see old Burr's face as he switched on a dim light Go look at fhe | compass. The strange plncdity which ! usum.ly characterized the old mans ! furp had u.r returned to 1t since Alan l had spoken with him on the dock; It's | look wuS intent and Queerly drawn. l Was old burr beginning to remember that he was Benjamin Cuyet? Alan did mol believe it could be that; again and again he had spoken COryets name 1 to him without effect Yet there must l have been times when If he was actual ] ly COrvct. he had remembered who he was. He must have remembered thut | when he had written directions to some i one to srud those things Co Constance , SherrilI: or a strange thought had come Co Alan. had he written those in- ] structlons himself: This certainly ! would account for the package having been mailed u MunItowoc and for | Alan's failure to find out by whom it had been mailed. It would account too. for the unknown handwriting upon
 the wrapper. lf some our on the ferry 1 had addressed the package for the old ! man.
 What could have brought hack that moment 0f recollection Co Curvrt, Allan ! wondered: the finding of the things . which he had sent: What might bring another such moment? Would his see- ! ing the SlerrllIs u-atu-ur SUrurmau-
 act Co restore him?
 For half an hour Alan paced steadily
 at the bow. The storm was increasing
 uotlceuhly lu herpeurSs; the wiui-
 driven snowrIakrs had changed to hard i pellets which, like little bullets. rut i and sruug Jnr face; and it was growing l colder. From a cabin window came the l blue flash of the wireless, which had ! been silent after notifying the shore stations of their departure Ir had ! commenced again: this was unusual. ] Sumrthmg srLn more unusual followed at once: the direction of the gale | seemed slowly to shift Uud with tt ! the wash of the wafer; instead oC ihe . wind and the waves coming from dead i ahead now. they moved ro the port 1 beam and Number 95. stIIl pitching ! with the thrust through the seas. also began Jo roll. This meant uf course that the steamer had changed Ks i course and was making almost due north. It seemed Co Alan tu force lis engines faster; the deck yihrared more. ] Alan had uor heard 'he orders fer this ! change and could only speculate as to I what it might mean.
 I His relief came after a few minutes more.
 "Whcre are We heodIng2" Alan | asked
 "Radio." the relief announced. "The II. C. Richardson calling; shes up by the NIuu,tous."
 "Whut sort of trouble"
 Shes not In trouble; it's another ship"
 { "Whut shlp1"
 i "No word as ro that"
 Alan, not delaying to question fur 1 ther. went back tu the cabins. These stretched aft. behind the , bridge. along the upper deck, some 1 score on each eide of the ship; they ! had recommendations for almost hum
 dred passengers; hut on this crossing
 only a few were occupied. Alan had | noticed some halIdnzen men-businrSs men. no doubt. forced to make the 1 crossing. and one of them, Catholic ] priest. returning probably to some mis. i sion in the north: he had seen no wOm- | en among them. A little group of ! passengers were gathered now In the door of or just outside the wireless , cabin. which was one of the TOW on she srarbuard side Stewards stood with them and the cabin maid; within, and I bending over the table with the rndi" instrument, wuS the operator with the second officer beside him. The violet spark was rasping, and the operator, his receivers strapped over his ears, strained Co listen, He got no reply evidently. aud he struck his key again now. us he listened, he wrote slowly on
 a pad.
 "Nhut is it?" Alan asked the officer
 "Tne Richardson heard four blasts of steam whistle about an hour ago
 when she was opposite the ManIuous She answered with the whistle and turned toward the b.aS.s. She couldn't 1 find any ship" The otioar's reply was
 interrupted by some of the others
 Then that was a few minutes ago they heard the four long again. They'd tried to pick mp the other ship with radio before. Yes; we got that here. |
 Tried again and got no answer. | But they heard the blasts for half an hour. They said they seemed
 to be almost beside the ship once
 But they didn't see anything
 Then fhp blasts stopped sud