The daily Alaskan., 1922-06-03

Papa and mama, at first surprised
 and dlsmayed by the stepping of the
 letters. stlll clung to the hope of the
 familiar, typewriter addressed en-
 yelope appearing again; but when,
 after two yeurs, no more money came,
 resentment which had been steadily
 growing against the person who had
 sent the money began to turn against
 Alan; and his parents" told him all
 they knew about him.
 In 1896 they had noticed an adyer-
 tlsement for persons to care for
 child; they had answered IL to the
 office of the newspaper which printed
 1t. In response to the letter a man called upon them and, after seeing them and going around 10 see their
 friends, had made arrancements with
 them 10 take a boy of three, who was
 in good health and came of good
 people. He paid In advance board for
 a year and agreed to send a certain amount every two months after that time. The man brought the boy whom he called Alan Conrad and left
 him. For seven years the none, agreed upon came; now It had ceased. and papa had no way of finding the mun-the name given by hlm appeared
 to h.. fictitious. and he had left no ndd"ess except general delivery. Chi.
 Cagu". Papa knew nothing more than | In Fha
 cugn papers after the money stopped coming, and he had communicated with every one named Conrad in or
 near Chicago. but he had learned noth- iny Thus. at the age of thirteen, Alan definitely knew that what he already had gueSSed--the farj that he
 belonged somewhere else than in the
 little brown hOu>e-waS all that any one there could tell him; and the knowledge gave persistence 10 many internal qurStIunings. Where did he belong? Whu was he: Who was the man who hud brought him there? Had The money ceased coming because the person who sent it was dead? In thnt ease. runucctiun of Alan with the ulure where he belonged was ner- manputly broken Or would some other communication from that source reach him some time-If moi money, then something else? Would he be sent for some day?
 Externally, Alau'S learning ihe littfp
 thaI was kuu.n about himself made
 uu change in his way of living; he
 went tu the town school which com blued grammar and high schools nader one roof and. uS he grew older he clcrkpd in one of the town stores during vacations and in the evenings Alan always curuird his money home as part payment of those urrrurS which had mounted up against him since the letters ceased coming Al seventeen having finished high school. he was clprkiug officially in MerrilrS general store. when he next letter came. Tt was addressed this time not to papa. but to Alan Conrad He seized , 1t, tore it Opeu. and 6 bank draft Tor : fifteen hundred dollars fell out. There wss no letter with the enclosure. no word of communication just the draft to the order of Alan Conrad. Alan wrote the Chicago bank by which the , draft had been issued; their reply showed that the draft had been pur- chased with currency. so there was no record of the identity of the person who had sent It. More than that , amount was due for arrears for the
 seven years during which no money
 was sent. even when the total which Alan had earned was deducted. So , Alan merely endorsed the draft over to father; and that fall Jim, Alans foster brother went 10 college But, when Jim discovered that 1t not only
 was possible but planned at the uni- yerslty for a boy to work his way through, Alan went also.
 Four wonderful years followed. In companiOnship with educated people; Ideas and manHr.S came tO him wh'ch
 he could not have acquired at home; athletics straightenrd and added bear Ing to his muscular, well-formed body: his pleasant, strong young face acquired Self-relIanCe and selt-control. Life became filled with possibilities for himself which it had never held before But on his day of graduation he
 had put away the enterprises he had planned and the dreams he dreamed and. conscious that his debt to father and mother still remained unpaid, he had returned to care for them: for fathers health had failed and Jim, who
 had opened law office in Kansas City. could do nothing to help.
 No more money had followed the draft from Chicago and there had
 been no communication of any kind;
 but the receipt of so considerable sun had revived and intensified all Alan's specuiatlOns about himself. The
 vague expectation of his childhood that sometime. In some way, he would | be "sent for" had grown during the last six years to a definite belief.
 And now-On the afternoon before the summons had come.