The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-08-03
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= The Fate Of the Miwaka.

$50 this isn't your house, JudahG' :
ma, Altar; this is an Indians house,
but 1t is not mine. 1t is Adam Enos'
house, He and his wife went some
where else when yon needed this"
|. "He helped to bring me here, then2'
"No, Alan. They were clone, 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
startedNt this line of inquiry. Whatever
questions he had asked Judah or Sher-
rili 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 e. She had found him
.Alan-with life almost extinct-upon
the beach; she and the Indian woman,
sWSssaquam , had just said-had
drought him along the shore. How
had they managed that, he wondered.
His: throat closed ap, 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 a Pc
GUITAR and exciting alteration IN Sher-
<rilfs name toward him, he had felt I;
1t was something more than merely lik-
Ing for him that TSherrill 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 If full
fillment, of defeating his life and all
that he could make Of ii to her; now
Sherrill's manner had brought to him
something like awe, as of something
quite Incredible So
He turned to the indian.
Has anything lsUe been heard Of
S%pearman, JudahT
only this, Alan; he crossed the
straits the e day upon the ferry
there. In Mackinaw City he bought
liquor at a bar and took Il. with him
he asked there about trains into the
northwest. He has gone, leaving all
he lad. What else could he dor
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
fro Gle thnt fharn hn1 hnnn tIfNnn tho
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 he 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 to
shelter, four men lived Sheriff. had
told him their names; they were the
mate, tire assistant engineer, a deck
hand and Father Perron, the priest
who had been a passenger but who had
stayed with the crew till the last. Ben
jamin Coryet had persisted In the
wreckage of the cars.
: AS Alan went back to his chair, the
Indian watched him and seemed not
d~ispleased.
you feel good, now, AlanT' Wassa-
guam asked.
sGAIpanQf 1ikQ erycaIf Indahv
THAT Is right, then. IL was thought
you would be like that today. A sled
is coming soon, now.
"We're going to leave here, Judah?'
+, ."Yes, Alan"
Was he going to. see her, then? Elk
element stirred him. and he turned to
Wassaquam to ask that but suddenly
he hesltaied and did not inquire.
Wassaquam brought the mackinaw
and cap which Alan had worn on Num-
Der IS he took from the bed the new
biaahets WHICH had been furnished by
Gherrili&i They waited until a farmer
appeared drying q team hitched to a
bw, wlde-rrhfseFsd sled. The India-r
settled Alan on the sled. and they
drove, of.
143ey Travelled south along the shore.
rouigsbed Into Little Traverse bay. and
lighthouses 4 Hdybor Point appeared
anIShg their pines Tfie sled ptoceed-
cd dfcross the edge of the bay - the
little city v e before leaving sne bay
zee. Alan saw Constance and her IA
Their; they were walking al the wafer
front rear the railway station, und