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did not tell my daughter the exact date"
 "What kind of change came over him that yearp' Alan asked.
 Sherrill gazed down at the rug, then at Alan, then past him. "A change in his way of living" he replied. ''The Corvet line of boats went on, ex- banded; interests were acquired in other lines; and COrvet and those allied with him swiftly grew rich. But in all this great development, for which Corvet's genius and ability had laid the foundation, COrvet himself ceased to take active part. He took into partnership, about a year later, Henry Spearman, a young man who had been merely mate on one of his ships. This proved subsequently to have been a good business move, for Spearman had tremendous energy, daring, and enterprise; and no doubt Corvet had recognized these qualities in him before others did. Since then he has been Ostensibly and publicly the head of the concern, but he has left the management almost entirely to Spearman. The personal change to Corvet at that time is harder for me to describe to you"
 Sherrill halted, his eyes dark with thought, his lips pressed closely to- gether; Alan waited
 "When I saw Corvet again, in the summer of '96-I had been South dur ing the latter part of the winter and East through the spring-I was i'm pressed by the vague but, to me,
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alarming change in him. I was re- minded, I recall, of a friend I had had in college who had thought he was in perfect health and had gone to an examiner for life insurance and had been refused, and was trying to deny to himself and others that anything could be the matter But with Corvet knew the trouble was not physical. The next year his wife left him."
 "The year Of-w Alan asked.
 ''That was 1897. There was mo question of their understanding and affection up to the very time she so strangely left him. She died in France in the spring of 1910, and Corvets first information of her death come to him through a paragraph in a newspaper"
 Alan had started; Sherrlll looked at him questioningly.
 'The spring of 191O," Alan ez- plained, twas when I received the bank draft for fifteen hundred dollars"
 Sherriii nodded; he did not seem surprised to hear this; rather 1t ap- peared to be confirmation of some thing in his own thought.
 'Following his wife's leaving him." Sherrill went on, "Corvet saw very little of any one. He spent most of his time in his own house; occasion ally he lunched at his club, at rare intervals, and always unexpectedly, he appeared at his office. I remember that summer he was terribly dis turbed because one of his ships was lost. The Corvet record was broken; COrvet ship had appealed for help; a COrvet vessel had not reached port. And later in the fall, when two deckhands were washed from another of his vessels and drowned, he was again greatly wrought up, though his ships still had a most favorable record. In 1902 proposed to him that buy full ownership in the vessels partly controlled and ally them with those he and Spearman operated. Since then, the firm name has been Corvet, Sherrip, and Spearman.
 "Our friendship had strengthened and r1pened during those years. The intense activity of Corvet's mind, which as a younger man he had di- rected wholly to the shipping, was directed, after he had isolated himself In this way, to other things. He took up almost feverishly an immense num- Der of studies-strange studies most of them for a man whose youth had been almost violently active and who had once been a lake captain. can not tell you what they all were geology, ethnology, nearly a score of subjects; he corresponded with vari- ous scientific societies; he has given almost the whole of his attention to such things for about twenty years. But he has made very few acquaint- ances in that time, and has kept almost none of his old friendships. ! He has lived alone in the house on | Astor street with only one servant l the same one all these years.
 "The only house he has visited with any frequency has been mine. He has always liked my wife; he 'had--he has : a great affection for my daughter, who, when she was child, ran in and out
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Of his home as she pleased.

Of his home as she pleased. Ny daughter believes now that his present disappearance-what has hap pened to minis connected in some way with herself. do not think that is so-"
 Sherrill broke off and stood in thought for a moment; ne seemed to consider, and to decide that 1t was not necessary to say anything more on that subject.
 'Is there anything in what I have told you which makes 1t possible for you to recollect or to explainT
 Alan shook his head, flushed, and then grew little pale. What Sherrill told him had excited him by the coin cfdences 1t offered between events in Benjamin Corvet's life and his own {; 1t had not made him "recollect" Corvet, but it had given definiteness and direction to his speculations as to Corvet's relation to himself.
 Sherrill drew one of the large chairs nearer to Alan and sat down facing him. He felt in an inner pocket and brought out an envelope; from the en- velope he took three pictures, and handed the smallest of them to Alan AS Alan took 1t, he saw that 1t was a tintype of himself as a round-faced boy of seven.
 'That is your" Sherrill asked.
 Yes; it was taken by the photog- rapher in Blue Rapids"
 And this7"
 The second picture, Alan saw, was one that had been taken in front of the barn at the farm. It showed Alan at twelve, In overalls and barefooted, holding a stick over his head at which a shepherd dog was jumping.
 "Yes, that Is Shep and I, MT. Sher- Till. It was taken by a man who stopped at the house for dinner one day; he liked Shep and wanted picture of him; so he got me to make Shep jump, and he took It."
 Doesn't it occur to you that 1t was your picture he wanted, and that he had been sent to get it7 I wanted your veri1cation that these earlier pictures were of you, but this last one is easily recognizable"
 Sherrill unfolded the third picture i; 1t was larger than the others and had been folded across the middle to get 1t into the envelope. Alan leaned for ward to look at 1t.
 'That Is the University of Kansas football team" he said. "T am the second one in the front row; played end my junior year and tackle when was a senior. Mir. Corvet-T
 "Yes; MT. Corvet had these pictures. They came into my possession day be- fore yesterday, the day after Corvet disappeared; do not want to tell just yet how they did that"
 Alan's face, which had been flushed at first with excitement, had gone quite pale, and his hands, as he clenched and unclenched them nerv- ously, were cold, and his lips were very dry. He could think of no pos sible relationship between Benjamin Oorvet and himself, except one, which could account for Corvet's obtaining and keeping these pictures of him through the years.
 "T think you know who am," Alan said.
 "You have guessed, if am not mis- taken, that you are Corvet's son."
 The color famed to Alan's face for an instant, then left it paler than be- fore q thought 1t must be that way" he answered; "but you said he had no children"
 Benjamin Corvet and his wife had no children"
 I thought that was what you
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meant" A twinge twisted Alan's face; he tried to control it but for a moment could not.
 Do not misapprehend your father" Sherrill said quietly. "1 cannot pre- vent what other people may think when they learn this; but I do not share such thoughts with them. There is much in this cannot understand; but know that it is not merely the result of what others may think it. of a wife in more ports than one,' as you will hear the lakemen put 1t. What lies under this is some great .misadventure which had changed and frustrated all your fathers life"
 Sherrill crossed the room and rang for a servant.
 q am going to ask you to be my guest for a short time, Alan" he un- nounced. "I have had your bag carried to your room; the man will show you which one 1t is."
 Alan hesitated he felt that Sherrill had not told him all he knew-that there were some things Sherril pur- posely was withholding from him; but he could not force Sherrill to tell more than he wished; so after an instant's irresolution. he accepted the dismissal.
 Sherrin walked with him to the door, and gave his directions to the servant; he stood watching, as Alan and the man went up the stairs. Then he went back and seated himself in the chair Alan had occupied, and sat with hands grasping the arms of the chair while he stared into the fire.
 He seemed to be considering and de- batting something within himself; and presently he seemed to come to de- cision. He went up the stairs and on the second floor he went to front room and knocked. Alan's voice told him to come in. SherriI went in and, when he had made sure that the serv- ant was not with Alan, he closed the door carefully behind him.
 Then he turned back to Alan, and for an instant stood indecisive as though he did not know how to begin what he wanted to say. AS he glanced downs at key he took from his pocket, his indecision seemed to receive di- rection and inspiration from 1t; and he put 1t down on Alan's dresser.
 "Tve brought you" he said evenly, "the key to your house."
 Alan gazed at him, bewildered. "The key to my houser'
 "To the house on Astor street." Sherrill confirmed. Your father deed ed the house and its furniture and all its contents to you the day before he disappeared. have not the deed here; it came into my hands the day before yesterday at the same time got possession of the pictures which might-or might not, for all knew then-bs you. I have the deed down town and will give 1t to ycu. The house is yours in fee simple, given you by your father, not beQueathed to you by him to become your property after his death. He meant by that, think, even more than the mere ac- knowlsdgment that he is your father"
 Sherrin walked to the window and stood as though looking out, but his eyes were blank with thought.
 For almost twenty years" he said, ''your father, as have told you, lived in that house practically alone; dur ing all those years a shadow of some sort was over him. I don't know at all, Alan, what that shadow was. But 1t is certain that whatever 1t was that had changed him from the man he was when I first knew him eliminated three days ago when he wrote to you
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placed in the ssnE chicseo busineas ma ehd Moerid
 Benjamin Corvet Is something of re- cluse and . mystery to his associates. After a stormy interview with his part stance Sherr1ll. daughter of his other business partner, Lawrence Sherrill, and secures from her promise not to marry Spearman. He then disappears. Sherrill learns Corvet has written to a certain Alan Conrad, In Blue Rapids, Kansas, and exhibited strange agitation over the matter. ....---.-..
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to the servants entrance. I do not know of any other keys"
 "The servf mt Is in charge there now2" Alan asked
 "Just now there is no one in the house. The servant, after your father disappeared, thought that if he had merely gone away, he might have gohe back to his birthplace pear Manistique, and be went up thera to look for hin. I had a wire from him today that he had not found him and was coming back"
 Sherrill waited a moment to see whether there was anything more Alan wanted to ask then he went out.
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(Continued Next Week.
Oriental CynlcIsrn.

Music" says the Times of India,. els now declared to have great cura- tive values Yet many attribute much of their pain and anguish to Mendels- sohn's Wedding March, '"-Boston Transcript. e
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SYNOPSIS

Copyri0h$ by Edwin Banner
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
8 CANDIDATES
At WOODBRIDGE
SaIter, Neuberg and Verstaag
to Rune. O. P. Holds
Busy Meeting

WOODBRIDGE. Aug. 26:-An-
nouncement of candidates. by three
township officials was made last
night and petitions placed in circu-
lation at q meeting of Woodbridge
township Republican men and
women workers held in Masonic
Hall. J.. H. Thayer Martin presided
ever the meeting and b. l.. McNulty
was temporary chairman.
DR.. J.. p. Salter announced his
candidacy for reelection in the first
ward: Louis Neuberg, of Sewaren.
circulated petitions for committee
man-at-large, the.position he now
holds filing the unexpired term of
former Chairman Christie, resigned;
r. A. Versteeg, of Avenel, recently
appointed to fill the unexpired term
of Committeeman Gardner. resign
ed, will also run for reelection, his
petitions now being in circulation.
Chairman Martin gave an inter-
esting talk on the changes which
have been made in the election law
and how these will affect this years
election. Petitions for county and
township offices must be in five days
earlier this year than last, he said,
September l being the last day on
which these petitions can be filed.
No campaign managers are needed
by candidates for township offices
this year, an allowance of ter cents
per constituent being allowed.
Freeholders Clarence NJ. Haight
and DIR. Louis j. Belloff, candidates
for reelection, were present and
spoke, as did Charles Forman, of
New Brunswick, candidate for sur
rogate, and Harold Hoffman,, of
South Amboy, candidate for the as
Sembly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
Monday at the Ditmas

Rush Hughes. nineteen-year-old
son of Rupert Hughes, plays a part
in 1.-THE Wall Flower" his fathers
latest Goldwyn picture, which will
be seen at the Ditmas theatre for
three days, beginning Monday. The
leading roles are played by Colleen
Moore and Richard Dix.
Young Hughes is than six
feet tall and is a fine athlete. He
has been attending Mercersburg
Academy and expects soon to enter
Princeton. Appropriately enough,
he plays the part of a young college
student in the picture. Rush was
spending his school vacation in Los
Angeles with his parents when the
photoplay went into production. He
asked for a part, but it was not
given to him until he had gone be-
fore the camera in a screen test and
demonstrated his ability to act. The
boy is said to have unusual possibili-
ties as a comedian.
The whole Hughes family is tall
ented and industrious. Mrs. Hughes
is the author of a recent book of
poems, published under the name of
Adelaide Manola Hughes. A daugh-
ter, Avis. is studying at a dramatic
school. Rupert Hughes not only
writes novels, short stories and pho
toplays, but is also an accomplished
composer and musician, and occa-
~SionallY models.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
INTENSE INTEREST IN
CAMPAIGN IN MICHIGAN

LANSING, Mich, Aug. 26 (By
The Associated Press):-Michigan
voters will go to the polls Septem-
Der ~ to name party nominees for
United States senator, governor.
lieutenant governor. members Of
congress, state legislators and local
officers. Overshadowing all other
contests in point of statewide inter-
est is that for the Republican nomi-
nation for United States senator.
There are four candidates in the
field-Senator Charles e. Townsend,
State Senator Herbert F. Baker,
Congressman Patrick Fl. Kelley and
John e.. Emery, formerly national
commander of the American Le-
gion. The paramount. issue in the
vigorous campaign they are con-
Quoting is excessive campaign ex-
penditures. With Michigan the
home state of Senator Truman H..
Newberry, "Newberryism" has come
to be the slogan of the campaign
and all other issues have compare
lively been lost sight of.
Baker, Kelley and Emery are
basing their campaigns upon a de-
nunciation of "Newberryism." Sena-
tor Townsend, in reply, has held
s~teadfastly to the position that his
ACTIONS III lHe SENATE CALL lor ITO
apology. He has declared that he
sis as much against excessive ex-
penditures rs anyone" In the New
berry case he admits thai "too much
money was spent but not that any
money was illegally spent"
Former Governor Woodbridge N.
Ferris is unopposed for the Demo-
cratic senatorial nomination..
Governor Alex j.. Groesbeck is
opposed for Republican renomina-
ton by former State Labor Commits
sioner Richard II. Fletcher and
Theodore n. Joslin of Adrian. Both
Joslin and Fletcher are asking for
votes as a protest against alleged
excessive expenditures in the con-
duct of the states business. They
also assert that Governor Groesbeck
has created an autocracy of which
he is the head. The governor will
go before the voters on his record.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
WIRE NEWS

COLUMBUS, Aug. 26.-Peaches
and apples for which consumers in
New York paid $3.50 to SO a BASKET
a few days age have brought Bur-
ling county farmers who grew them
a net return from tho commission
men of as little as ! cen. 4 bask 1t.
Discouragement is sweeping the
fruit district as scant checks from
wholesalers reach producers.
The commission men claim the
markets are glutted. Farmers assert
that if any glut exists, ii Is because
city dealers failed to reduce prices
to the consumers. with n result
that there was not a sufficient de-
mand for products az the heiShth
Of the season. -oo
One grower recently shipped 2,TOo
baskets of summer peaches OF a va
rAety that usually bring high prices
IN net return was 3 cents a basket
a Mount Holly orchardist netteo
sal Afrom a total shipment OF 2ou
baskets of early peaches, n a near
by 1krmer got $40 for 300 basket
OF beaches.
Potatoes have been selling IN the
Treat potato belt at as low as 81 a
barrel.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
THEATRES
Child Thou Gavest Me"

Little Richard Headrick, known to
theatre patrons all over the country
through his wonderful performance
in 1.-The Woman in His House." can
again be seen in 1.-THE Child Thou
Gavest Me-" which is now being
shown at the Strand theatre, where
it will continue until tonight.
THE Child Thou Gavest Me" was
produced by John NJ, Stahl for AS
ISOLATED First National Pictures,
Inc.
'Itchie," as the boy calls himself.
is only three and a half years old.
but he reaches the height of histri-
onic art on the screen by being
thoroughly natural. His childish
escapades furnish much of the hu-
NOR of the picture, and in his dra-
matte scenes his whole-hearted sim
cerity and trusting innocence are
enough to touch the most hardened
or blase.
In the script "Itchie's" mere
presence was sufficient as far as the
plot was concerned. But, having
directed the boy in THE Woman in
His House, also a First National
attraction, Mr.. Stahl knew what ex--
ceptional talent the little fellow had,
and decided to capitalize on it in
his scenes. AS a result, the boy is
the individual star of the play.
Women who have e e 1.-THE Child
Thou Gavest Me" have centered
their attention upon the activities of
Master Headriek in spite of the fact
that among his associates in the cast
are such players OF note as Lewis
Stone, Barbara C~astleton, William
Adele Harrington and
Winter Hall. The appealing figure
made by the boy, untouched in his
little world by the swirl Of CONNER
cial activity and domestic grief h a
surround him, seems to take imme-
diately with the feminine mind.
This John M. Stahl production
it's characters and situations
a background SO perfect that it
more than justified it's cost by the
advantageous setting it gives the
background of the play. 1t is easily
that no expense was spared
in the effort to perfect even the
smallest detail.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
INSTRUCTIONS IN USE
OF DETOUR At METUCHEN

METUCHEN. Aug. 26.-Motorists
who ordinarily use the Lincoln
Highway for weekend trips are ad-
vised to avoid that strip of road
for this week at least. The con
tractors are busily engaged in build
ing the new highway and while the
road is open for travel from High
land Park to Metuchen, traffic bound
in the other direction is detoured
through Germantown and Piscata-
way. The detour is a gravel road,
in poor condition, and motorists are
advised to seek other routes
The one-way road from Highland
Park to Metuchen, while open, is
blocked in places by huge heaps Of
dirt at points where drainage sys-
TENS are being installed. From the
Stelton road toward Metuchen for
a distance of a mile the warrenite
surface has been entirely removed
from the south side ana travel on
the northern edge leaves much to
be desired.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
EXTENSIVE SOCIAL
PLANS MADE HERE

Although this is the G-n season
for social activities, there are u ny
events to look forward TO. Many
of the clubs in the city are peslh-
ming to make extensive plans ior the
coming season.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the ftari-
tan Yacht Club will resume tneil
weekly card parties held every fAir
day in September. The roceeu -
these parties go toward paying the
heavy expenses of the cup. mus
day, August 81, marks the OPEN lS
of the Knights of Columbus carl
val. on the grounds adjoining the-r
hone in High street which VIII COIL
tinue until after Labor day. Danclhs
will be one of the features OF the
affair. Fred O'Brien's orchestra mas
arranged an excellent musical pro
grom for each evening. The popu
lar bankers will be much in
Mt the different pop" booths. IN
connection with the carni al there
will be a baby parade on MONDAY,
September 4. Many Jeautltul pri|e'
will be awarded.
Thursday, August 81, the pray
grounds of this city will snow SOM
of the great work done py IT'LL
during the summer months, Wheh
they present their pageant entitled
'Girlhood' in the high school III
torium. &c hundred children nave
been rehearsing for this AFFAIR .ol
some time, under the able dlrection
of Miss Stella Andrews, assisted ny
Misses Lillian Bjork, and Anna f1or-
oschak. The woodland scenery was
secured through The courtesy y
William j. Counihan, while the CPS
tunes were the gins
is the first affair of its kind ever az
tempted by the Fairgrounds n inns
city. The public is invited TO atten1'
The popular luncheons at n l.
NJ. c. A. will be served each Weu-
nesday, beginning the first OF &c
tober. Much interest was shown III
the Y. w. C. A. cafeteria last year,
the proceeds being turned over TO
the Y. w. C. A. fund. The Glrls
Club will usher in a busy season;
with the presentation of the annual
NAV. The first event to be discussed.
The chairman of the program com
mittee has secured a number Oh IN
teresting speakers for the year.
Many fall weddings of great IN
terest are scheduled to take place.
the latter part of September n the
first of October,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-26
JOHN A. STEWART, 100 YEARS
old, IS STILL ACTIVE

MORRISTOWN, Aug. 26.-Join-
ing the ranks of the country's cen
tennarians but not yet ready to be
included in the list of retired,
John Altman Stewart, chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the United
States Trust Company of New York
and Americas Oldest banker, today
celebrated the Tooth anniversary OF
his birth at his home here. His
physical condition is regarded as
perfect or at least rs nearly so as
could be expected of one at his age.
1t was less than a year ago and
consequently after he had passed
his Goth year that Mr.. Stewart stop
ped making trips to his office at 40
Wall street to attend to his duties
as chairman of the board of the
trust company.
He had gone there three times a
week by automobile, but the fact
was not generally known until John
d. Rockefeller on his own birthday
last year remarked that he had a
friend ninety-seven years old who
living in Morristown went to his
bank three times a week. II then
was discovered that Mr.. Rockefeller
was in error by two years regarding
his friends age.