Williams news., 1922-08-18

"ta1K" Into the swollen wntsky-soaked | hulk Of the man dying now on the | lounge.
 For his state that day the man blamed Benjamin Corvet. Alan, fore ing himself to touch the swollen face, shuddered at thought of the truth un- deriving that accusation. Benjamin Corvet's act-whatever it might be
 that this man knew-undoubtedl had
 destroyed not only him who paid the
 bIackmail but him who received 1t {;
 the effect of that act was still going
 on, destroying, blighting. Its threat of
 shame was not only against Benjamin
 Corvet; it threatened also all whose
 names must be connected with Cor
 vets. This shame threatened Alan;
 it threatened also the Sherrills. What
 Sherrill had told Alan and even Cor
 vets gifts to him had not been able
 to make Alan feel that without ques-
 ton Corvet was his father, but now
 shame and horror were making him
 feel 1t; in horror at Corvet'S act
 whatever 1t might be-and in shame
 at Covert's cowardice, Alan was think
 ing of Benjamin Corvet as his father
 This shame, this horror were his in-
 heritance.
 He left Luke and went to the win dow to see If the doctor was coming He had called the doctor because in his first sight of Luke he had not recog- nized that Luke was beyond the aid of doctors and because to summon a doctor under such circumstances was the right thing to do; but he had thought of the doctor also as a wit ness to anything Luke might say. But now-dfd he want a witness? He had no thought of concealing anything for his own sake or for his fathers; but he would, at least, want the chance to determine the circumstances under which it was to be made public.
 He hurried back to Luke. What l is 1t, LuISe?'' he cried to him. "What | can you tell? Lfstenl Luke-Luke, is 1t about the Miwaka-the Miwaka? | Luke!'
 Luke had sunk into a stupor; Alan | shook him and shouted in his ear | without awakening response. As Alan | and stood hopelessly look ing down at him, the telephone bell | rang sharply. Constance Sherrfll's voice came to him; her first words made 1t clear that she was at home and had just come in.
 ''The servants tell me some one was making a disturbance beside your house a while ago. she said, "and shouting something about MT. Corvet. Is there something wrong there? Have you discovered something?"
 He shook excitedly while, holding | lis hand over the transmitter lest Luke should break out again and she should hear 1t, he wondered what he hould say to her.
 'Please don't ask me just now, Miss Sherrill." he managed. "Tu tell you what can-later.'
 His reply, he recognized, only made Ter more certain that there was some hing the matter, but he could not add to it. He found Luke, when e went back to him, still in coma ; he bloodshot veins stood out against | he ghastly grayness of his face, and is stertorous breathing sounded { through the rooms. l
 Constance Sherrill had come in a , ew moments before from an after oon reception; the servants told her t once that something was happening l t MT. Corvet's. They had heard l houts and had seen a man pounding pon the door there, but they had not { aken 1t upon themselves to go over here. She had told the chauffeur to 1 yait with the motor and had run at nee to the telephone and called Alan; I Is attempt to put her off made her c ertain that what had happened was k ot finished but was still going on.