Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-07-14
CHAPTER Xxx
The Fate Of the .Miwaka.

$50 this isn't your house. Judah?7
NO. Alar; this. is an Indians house.
but 1t IS not mine. 1t IS Adam Enos'
house. He and his wife went some
where else when you needed this
He helped TO bring me here, thenT
mo. Alan They were alone, here
she and Adams wife. When she found
you, they brought you here-more than
a mile along the beach. Two women"
Alan choked as he put down the lit
tie porcupine quill box which had
staHed this line Of inquiry Whatever
questions he had asked Judah or Sher-
riI these last few days had brought
him very quickly back TO her Moved
by some intuitive certainty regarding
Spearman, she had come north; she
had not thought Of peril to herself;
she had struggled alone across danger
Gus Ice in stormEa girl brought up as
she had been, She had found him
Alan-with life almost e1tinct-upon
the beach; she and the Indian woman
Wassaquam had inst said-had
brought him along the shore How
had they managed that, he wondered
His throat closed up. and his eyes
filed as he thought Of this
In the week during which he had
been cared for here, Alan had not seen
Constance: but there had been q Pc
culiar and exciting alteration IN Sher-
rilrs manner toward him. he had felt I;
il was something more than merely Tx
ing for him that Sheriff. had showed,
and Sheriff. had spoken Of her TO him
as Constance, not. as he had called
her always before. Miss Sheriff." or
my daughter Alan had had dreams
which had seemed impossible OF full
filiment. Of dedicatiug his life and all
that he could make OF II 70 her; now
Sherrilrs manner had brought to him
something Ike awe, as Of something
quite incredible.
He turned to the Indian.
Has anything more been heard Of
Spearman. JUDAH"
only this, Alan: he crossed the
straits the next day upon the ferry
there. In Mackinaw City he bought
liquor ar g bar and took il with him;
he asked there about trains into the
northwest He has gone, leaving all
he had. What else could he do;'
Alan crossed the little cabin and
looked out the window over the snow
covered slope, where the bright sun
was shining Snow had covered any
tracks that there had been upon the
beach where those who had been in
the boat with him had been found
dead. He had known that this must
be: he had believed them beyond aid
when be had tried for the shore TO
summon help for them and for him
self. The other boat. which had car
ried survivors OF the wreck. blown
farther to the south, had been able TO
gain the shore OF North Fox island;
and as these men had not been so long
exposed before they were brought 10
shelter. four men lived. Sheriff. had
told him their names; they were the
mate. the assistant engineer. a deck
hand and Father Perron. the priest
who had been Il passenger but VINO had
stayed with the crew till the last Ben
jamin Corvet had persisted in the
wreckage Of the cars.
AS Alan went back 10 his chair. the
Indian watched him AMI seemed not
displsased.
you feel good. now. Aians- Wassa-
qram asked.
Almost like myself. judah"
THAT Is right. then. Il ~as thought
you would be Ike that today. A sled
IL coming soon. now"
Were going 70 leave here. JudahT
"fes, Alan
Was he going % see her, them IA
element stirred him. and he turned 90
Wassaquam 60 ask that bur suddenly
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