The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-04

ne lfll n NllalA VI hAn'N l''''f'N ''.'' chagrln. They did not contain any narrative concerning Benjamin Cor vets life; they did not even relate to a single event. They were no narfa- tive at all. They were-In his first examination Of them, he could not tell what they were.
 They consisted in all Of some dozen sheets of irregular size. some of which had been kept much longer than oth- CTS few of which even appeared fresh and new The three pages which Alan thought, from their vel lowed and worn look. must be the old est and which must have hecn kept for many years. contained only list of names and addresses. The remain Ing pages. which he counted as ten In number contained nearly a hun dred brief clippings from newspapers; the clippings had been very carefully cut out. they had been pasted with painful regularity 0n the sheets and parh had been dated across ifs face dates made with mony different pens and with many different inks. hat an in the same irregular handwriting as the letter which Alan had received from Benjamin Corvcr
 Alan. hls fingers numh !" he dlSap rol~twcrt turned and rv0wiuo1 m trcse nngcs: but they ron+ninod nofh inc else He rcad one or rho clippings which vas datod "Fcb. 1o12"
 "Tne pnss'ug owav of one or the oIicst residents of Emwct co0ntv oc- cured at tNc poorfarm on Thursday of lust week. Mir. Fred Wps'Nouse was one 1r four brothers hrorrhr by their parents into Emmet county in 1S4G He established himself here as a farmer and was well known among our people for many years. He was nearly the last of his family which was auItr well or 0t one time Mir. WesthouSc's three brothers and his father having Dcrishcd in various dis asrors upon fine fake. His wife died two vcnrs ago. He Is survived hv daughter Mrs. Arthur Pearl. Of Flint"
 He read another:
 "Hqnfm5-SnenS On Tuesday last Miss Audrey HHlfnr1 daughter of Mir and Mrs. Rcrr HourorG. of thIs nlacc. was united in tre bonds of holy mntrImony to NIr Robert Speus, of Escanaha. All wish the young couple well"
 He read another:
 Born tn Mir and Mrs TTa' French, a daughter Saturday afternoon last. Mss Vera Arnbc0a French. at her ar- rival weighed seven and one-haIr pounds"
 This clipping was dated, In Benja- min Curvet's hand, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Aug. 1914" Alan put 1t aside in bewildermeut and amaze and took up again the sheets he first had looked at The names and addresses on these oldest, yeLOwed pages had been first written, it was plain, all at the same time and with the same pen and ink, and each sheet in the beginning had contained seven or eight names. Some of these original names and even the addresses had been left unchanged, but most Of them had been scratched out and altered many tImes-other and quite different names had been substituted; the pages had become finally almost iUegible, crowded ScrawIs. rewritten again and again in Coryets Cramped hand. Alan strained forward, holding the first sheet to the light.
 Alan seized the clippings he had looked at before and compared them swiftly with the page he had just read; two of the nomes-Westhousc and FrenCh-were the same as those upon this list. Suddenly he graSped the other pages of the list and looked them through for his own name; but 1t was not there. He dropped the sheets upon the table and got mp and began to stride about the room.
 He felt that in this list and in these clippings there must be, somehow, some one general meanlng-they must relate In some way to one thing; they must have deeply, intensely concerned Benjamin Corvets disappearance and his present fate, whatever that might be, and they must concern Alan's fate as we'll But in their dIsconneCtiOn their lncOhcrence, he could discern no common thread. What conceivable bond could there have been uniting Benjamin Corvet al once with an old man dying upon a POOrfarm in Emmet county, wherever that might be, and with a baby girl, now some two years old, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin?
 He called WassaQuam into the H. brnry and brought the lists and clip pings out again.
 "Do you know at all what these are, i he asked.
 "No, Alan. l have seen Ben have them, and take them out and put them | back. That Is all I know"
 DO you know any of these peO- pleT"
 He gave the lists to Wassnquam, | who studied them through attcntIyeIy, | ..1g1f-.-= ..,, e., fI,n Irr-.,.