The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-05-04
CHAPTER tx.
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Continued from last weekly
4. Walk Beside tho Lake


THE name see.as like Sheriff." the
interne agreed. HE said 1t before
when we had hm on the table up-
stairs; and he has said 1t now twice
distinctly-Sherrill."
His name, do you think?'
Il shouldn't say so; he seems trying
TO speak to some one named Sheriff..
Ihere are only four Sherrills In the
telephone book, two of them In Evans
ton and one way out in Minoota."
"The other?"
They're only about six blocks from
where he was picked up; but they're
on the Drtve-the Lawrence Sherrills." )"
The inferno whistled softly and
looked more interestedly at his pa
tients features. Hell be conscious
some time during the day. there's only
slight fracture, and-perhaps you'd
better call the Sheriff. house, any
way. If he's not known there, no harm
done; and If he's one Of their friends
and he should :"
The nurse nodded and moved off.
Thus 1t was that at quarter to
hve Constance Sheriff. was awakened
Dy the knocking of one Of the serv-
ants at her fathers door. Her father
went down stairs to the telephone in
strument where he might reply with
out disturbing Mrs. Sheriff. Constance,
kimona over her shoulders, stood at
the top Of the stairs and waited. 1t
became plain to her at once that what
ever had happened had been to Alan
Conrad.
"Yes Yes. Youore
giving him every possible care? g.
At once"
She ran part way down the stairs
and met her father as he came up
lie told her Of the situation briefly.
He was attacked on the street late
last night; he was unconscious when
they found him and took him to the
hospital, and has been unconscious
ever since. No one can say yet how
seriously he is injured"
She waited in the hall while her
rather dressed, after calling the ga
rage on the house telephone for him
and ordering the motor When he had
gone, she returned anxiOusly to her
Rooms: he had promised TO call her
after reaching the hospital and as soon
as he Had learned the particulars of
Alan's condition. Ii was ridiculous,
or course, 10 attn. any responsibility
to her father or herself for what had
happened to AIan--a street attack such
as might have happened to any one
yet she felt that they were i'm part
responsible. They had let him go to
live olnna In rho hnncn In Aetnr ,,.on.
with no better adviser than Wassa-
guam. Now, and perhaps because
they had not warned him, he had met
injury and, Il might be. more than
mere injury; he might be dying.
Something which had disturbed and
excited Alan had happened to him on
the first night he had passed In that
house; and now, 1t appeared, he had
been prevented from passing a second
night there. What had prevented him
had been an attempted robbery upon
the street, her father had said. But
suppose 1t had been something else
than robbery.
She could not formulate more def
initely this thought, but 1t persisted; !;
she could not deny it entirely and
shake 1t Off.
To Alan Conrad. in the late after
noon Of that day. this same thought
was coming far more definitely and far
more persistently. He had been awake
and sane since shortly after MONDAY
The pain Of head which ached thrOb-
bingly and Of body bruised and sore
was beginning to give place to a feel
In NP lo
which revisited incoherence upon him
when he tried to think. The man who
had assailed him had Heant to kill !;
he had not been any ordinary robber
That purpose, blindly recognized and
fought against by Alan I'm their strug-
gle, had been upmistakable. Only the
chance presence Of passersby, who had
heard Alan's shouts and responded TO
them. had prevented the execution Of
his purpose, and had driven the man
to swift flight for his own safety
A little before six Constance Sher-
rill and Spearman called to inquire
after him and were admitted for a few
moments to his room She came to
him, bent over him. while she spoke
the few words Of sympathy the nurse
allowed to her; she stood back then
while Spearman spoke to him. In the
succeeding days he saw her nearly
every day, accompanied always by her
father or Spearman; IL was the full
two weeks the doctors had insisted on
his remaining In the hospital before he
saw her alone.
They had brought him home, the
day before-she and her father In the
motor-to the house on Astor street
He had insisted on returning there
refusing the room In their house which
they had offered; but the doctor had
enjoined outdoors and moderate exer.
else for him, and she had made him
promise to come and walk with her.
He went to the Sheriff. house about
ten o'clock, and they walked north
ward toward the park
"There is something / have been
wanting to ask you," she said.