The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-11

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 sg Drew Her to Him Powerfully; She
 Felt Him Warm, Almost Rough With
 Passions.
 Alan Conrad's presence, he hnd grusped and kissed her she had not let hIm "realtze" their engagement, as he had put it
 "Nhy nor?" he turned her face up to his now. Your mothers here your father win follow soon; or, If you will. we'll run uway-ConsJauce. You've kept me of so long, You don't be ueye there's anything against ne, dear? Do you? Du yuu"
 "No: no! Of course not"
 "Then we're going to be married. Right away, we'll have it then; up here; now"
 "No; not uow, Henry. Not up here"
 Not here? Why uut|
 She could give mo answer. He held her and commanded her again; only when hp frightened her he ceased.
 "Why must It be at once, Henry don't understand"
 "Irs not must. dear" he denied "Irs just that I want you so"
 When would it be, he demanded then; before spring, she promised al last. But that was al he could make her say. And sO he let her go.
 The next evening. In the moonlight she drove him to Petoskey. He he'd messages Co send and preferred to trust the telegraph office In the larger town.
 
 Alan was driving northward along the long, sandy peninsula which sep arates the blue waters of Grand Tray erse from Lake Michigan; and, think. lng of Constance. he knew that she was near. He not only had remem- bered that she would be north ut liar. bor Point thls month; he had seen in one of the PetUskey papers that she and her mother were ut the SherrlN summer home. Ills business now was taking him nearer them than he had been at any time before; and If he wished to weaken. he might convince himself that he might learn from her circumstances which would aid hlm ln his task. But he was not going to her for help; that was following In his fa. ther's footsteps. When he knew every thing, then-not tlll then-he could go to her; for then he would know exact. ly what was upon him and what he should do.
 His visits to the people named on those sheets written by his father had been confusing at first; he had had great difficulty in tracing some of them at all; and, afterward, he could uncover no certain connection either between them and Benjamin Coryet ol between themselves. But recently, he had been succeeding better in this lat ter.
 He had sren-he reckoned them over agafn-fnurtren of the twenty-One named originally on Benjamin Cor vets lists; that is, he had seen either the individual originally named, or the surviving relative written in below the name crossed on. He had found that the crossing out of the name meant that the person was dead except in the case of two who had left the ccun- try and whose whereabouts were as unknown to their present relatives aS they had been to Benjamin COrvet and the case of one other, who was in an insane asylum.
 He had found that no one of the persons whom he saw had known Ben Jamin Coryet personuug; many Of them did not know hin at all, the others knew him only as a name But. when Alan proceeded always the.e was one connotation with each of the original names; always one cir constance bound all together. When he had established that circumstance as influencing the fortunes of the first two .gn his lists, he had said ia him