The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-07-13
CHAPTER Xxx
The Fate Of the MIwaka.
Continued from last weekly

SO this Isn't your house, Judahf"
NO, Alan 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, then?"
mo, Alan. They were alone, here
she and Adams wife. When she found
you, they brought you here-more than
q mile along the beach. Two women :"
Alan choked as he put down the lit
tie porcupine quill box which had
started this line of inquiry. Whatever
questions he had asked Judah or Sher-
rill 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 storm-a girl brought up as
she had been! She had found him
Alan-with life almost extipct-upon
the beach; she and the Indian woman
Wassaquam had just said-had
brought him along the shore. How
had they managed that, he wondered
His throat closed up, and his eyes
hlled 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 pc
culiar and exciting alteration in Sher-
rtlrs manner toward him, he had felt !;
1T was something more than merely lik-
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
fllmant, of dedicatlng his life and all
that he could make OF it to her; now
Sherrill's manner had brought to him
something like 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
there. In Mackinaw City he bougt :
liquor at bar and took 4. with him
he asked there .abo'n tr,l:.:; into the
northwest. He has soLa Ewing all
he had. What else could "a doY"
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 rim had been found
dead. He had known that this must
be; he had believed them beyond aid
when he had tried for the .hore to
summon help for rem and for him
self. The other b.a,, 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 80 long
exposed before they were brought to
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 passenger but who had
stayed with the crew till the last. Ben
5amin Corvet had perished in the
wreckagI Of the cars.
AS Alan went back to his chair, the
Indian watched him and seemed not
displeased.
"You feel good, now. AlanT Wassa-
guam asked.
almost like myself, Judah"
'That Is right, then. 1t was thought
you would be like that today. A sled
Is coming soon, now"
"We're going to leave here, Judah?"
ayes, Alan"
Was he going to see her, then? Ex-
element stirred him. and he turned to
WassaQuam to ask that; but suddenly
he hesitated and did not inquire.
Wassaquam brought the mackinaw
and cap which Alan had worn on Mum.
Der 25; he took from the bed the new
blankets which had been furnished by
Sheriff.. They waited until farmer
appeared driving q team hitched to
low, wide-runnered sled. The Indian
settled Alan on the sled, and they
drove off.
They Travelled south along the shore,
rounded into Little Traverse bay, and
the houses Of Harbor Point appeared
among their pines. The sled proceed
ed across the edge Of the bay to the
little city; even before leaving the bay
Ice, Alan saw Constance and her IA
ther; they were walking at the water
front near the railway station, and
they came out on the ice as they recog-
nized the occupants Of the sled.
Alan felt himself alternately weak
and reused to strength as he saw her
Their eyes encountered, and hers
looked away; a sudden shyness, which
sent his heart leaping, had come over
her. He wanted to speak to her, to
make some recognition to her of what
she had done, but he did not dare to
trust his voice and she seemed to un-
derstand that. He turned to Sheriff.
instead. An engine and tender coupled
to a single car stood at the railway
station.
Were going to Chicago7" he in
quired Of Sheriff..
mot vet Alan-fO ct Ipnace Fa-