The daily Alaskan., 1922-06-06

"PEere's nothing I can add" Alan answered. q told her all that know about myself"
 And about Mir COrvet7" Ii
 q know nothing at allSabout' Mir. Corvet"
 q am going to tell you some things about Mir. COrvet," SherrIll said. "I lad reusOn-I do not want to explain just yet what that reason was-for thinking you could tell us certain things about Mir. COrvet, which would perhaps, make plainer what has hap pened to him. When tell you about him now, It Is In the hope that in that way, I may awake some forgotten memory of him In you; if not that, you may discover some coincidence of da'es or events in Cervet's life with dates or events in your own. VIII you tell me frankly, if you do discover any thing like that2"
 "Yes; certainly"
 For several moments, Sherrill paced up and down before the fire; then he returned to his place before the mnntel.
 "I first met Benjamin COrvet," he commenced, nearly thirty years ago. I had come West for the first time the year before; l WAS about your own age and had been graduated from college only a short time, and busi- ness opening had offered itself here. Times were booming on the Great Lakes. Chicago, which had more than recovered from the fire, was doubling It's population every decade; Cleve- land. Duluth. and Milwaukee were IrapIng up aS ports. Men were grow ing millions Of bushels of grain which 5hey couldn't ship except by lake hundreds of thousands of tons of ore mad Uo go by water: and there were tens of millions of feet of pine and hardwood from the Michigan forests. Sailing vessels It is true. had seen their day and were disappearing from the lakes; were being sold, many of them. as the saying Is. to the insur- ance companies by deliberate wreck ing. Steamers were taking their place. Towing had come fin felt, young man though l was. that this trans portatfOm matter was all one thing, and that In the end the railroads would own the ships. l have never engaged very actively in the oDerGtlun yf lne ships; my daughter would Ike ne to be more active in it than have been; but ever since, have had money in lake vessels. IL was the year that began that sort of invest ment that l tirSI met COryet."
 Alan looked up quickly. MT. Cor vet wus-T" he Hshed.
 "CUryet was--iS lakemun, Sher- Till suid.
 Alan sut motionleSs, as he rec0l- lected the strange exaltatiOn that had come to him when he saw the lake for the first time. Should he tell Sherrill of that? He decided IL was too vague, too indefinite to be men toned; no doubt any other man used only to the prairie might have felt the same.
 He was a shipowner, then," he said.
 "Yes; he was shipowner-not' however, on large scale al that time. He had been master, sailing ships which belonged 10 others; then he had sailed one of his own. He was operating then, l believe, two vessels; but with the boom times on the lakes, his interests were beginning to ex- pand. 1 met him frequently In the next few years, and we became close friends"
 Sherriu broke off and stared an in- stant down at the rug. Alan bent forward; he made no Interruption but only watched Sherrill attentively.
 "Between 1886, when first met him, and 1895, Curyet laid the foundation Of great success; his boats seemed lucky, men liked to work for him, and he got the best shippers and crews. There was u saying that in storm Corfet ship never asked help; It gave It; certainly in twenty years no COrvet ship had suffered serious disaster. Corvet was not yet rich, but unless accident or undue competition Inter- vrned, he- was certain to become so. Then something happened"
 (COntinued on ThurSday)