The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-06

person lUQ Stul ulNAeA LbL Li9 9"tE"AN' N' But he appreciated that 1t dId not matter whether they knew about him or not; Tor at some point common to all uf fnem, the lives of these people must Lave touched Corvets life. When Alan knew what had been thut point uf contact, he would know about Cor vet: he would know about himself.
 Alan had seen among Corvets books a srI of charts of the Great Lakes. He went and got that now and an atlas. Opening them upon the tn- ble. he looked up the addresses given on Coryets list. They were most of them, he found, towns about the north ern end of the lake; very few upon other lakrs-Supcrior aud Huron but most were upon or very close to Lake Michigan. These people lived by means of the lake; they got their suS tenance from It. as CorveI had lived, and as Curvet had got his wealth. Alan was feeling like one who, bound, has been suddenly uuloused From the time when. coming to see COret. he had found COrvet gone, until now. he had felt the lmpussibiity of explaining from anything he knew or seemed like ly Co learn the mystery which had sur rounded himself and which had sur rounded COrvet. But these names and addresses! ]! They indeed offered some thing to go upon, though Luke HOW was forever still, and his pockets had told Alan nothing.
 He found Emmet county on the map and put hls finger ou it. Spcarmau, WassaQuum had suid, came from there. "The LurI of the Drum" he said aloud. Deep and sudden feeling stirred in him us he traced out this land on the chart-the little towns and villages. the Islands and headIundS, their lights and their uneven snorrS. A feeling of home" had come tu him, which he had not had ou coming to Chi- cago. There were Indian names and French up there about the meetings of the great waters The sense thut he was of these lakes. that surge of feeling which he had felt first in con versutlon with Constance Sherrtl. was strengthened am huudredfuld.
 He guzed down at the lists of names which Benjamin Corvet had kept so carefully and SD secretly; these were hIs fathers people, too; these ragged shores and the Islands studdng the channels were the lands where his fU- ther had spent the most active part of his life. There. theu-ti.'se lists now made it certatn-that events had happened by which that life had been blIghted. North, there by the meeting of the waters. was the region of the wrong which was done.
 That's where l must go" he said aloud. That's where l must go" Constance Shcrrtu, on the following afternoon, received telephone call from her father; he was coming home earlier chan usual, he said; If she had planned to go out, would she walt un- tI after he got there? The afternoons mall was upon a stand In the hall She turned 1t over looking through lt-in- viratlons. social notes. She picked from among them an envelope ad- dressed to herself In a firm, clear hand. which. unfamiliar to her, stili queerly startled her, and tore It open. Dear Mss Sherrln," she read,
 "I am closing, for the time being, the house which, for default of other ownership. I must cull mine. The pos slblIlty that what has occurred here would cause you and your father anXI- ety about me in case I went away without telling you of my Intention is the reason for this note But 1t Is not the only reason. COuId not go away without telling you how deeply l up- preclute the generosity and delicacy you and your father have shown me In spite of my position here and of the fact that l had no claim at all upon you. shall not forget those, even though what happened here last night makes It impossible for me tO try 10 see you again Ur even 10 write to you
 ALAN CONRAD"
 She heard her fathers motor enter the drive and ran to him with the let ter In her hand.
 Hes written to you, then?" he said. at sight of 1t.
 Yes
 'I had a note from hl:n this after noon at the office, asking me to hold in ubpyauce for the time being the trust that Ben had left me and return Ing the key of the house to me for safekeeping"
 Has he already gone?"
 CT suppose so; don't knO,.."
 "We must find out" She caught up her wraps and began to put them on Sherriu hesitated, then aSSeuted; and they went round the block together to the Corvet house. Sherrill. after a few inStants' hesitation, took the key from his pocket and unlocked the door and ent In. The rooms, they SAW, were all in perfect order; summer covers had been put upon the furniture; pro +,.+F,,.- .,l...Hz I.F InDr evr.a., .rv-nr