The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-03-10


to Alan now.
s""Miss Sheriff." he checked him
self.
"What is it?"
"This afternoon your father said
that you believed that Mr.. Corvet's
disappearance w;,s in some way con-
nected with you; he said that he did
not think that was so; but do you
want to tell me why you thought it?'
Yes; 1 will tell you" She colored
quickly. zone of the last things Mr..
Corvet did-in fact, the last thing we
know of his doing before he sent for
you-was to come to me and warn me
against one of my friends"
"Warn you, Miss Sheriff.? How? I
mean, warn you against what?'
Against thinking too much of him.,
She turned away. "
II think I'll come to see your father
in the morning." Alan said, wEen Con-
stance looked back to him. *, |
But you'll come over here for
breakfast in the morning?"
"You want me?"
Certainly"
I'D like to come very much"
F.. "Then I'll expect you" She followed
him to the door, when he had put on
his things, and he made no objection
when she asked that the man be al
lowed to carry his bag around to the
other house.
. When he had dismissed Simons and
re.entered the house on AstOr street,
he found no evidences of any disturb
ance while he had been gone. On the
second floor, to the east Of the room
which had been his fathers, was a
bedroom which evidently had been
kept as guest chamber; Alan carried
his suitcase there and made ready for
bed. ~: .'.~' ,..<';-@-@. - ~,r- .
y. The sight. Of Constance Sheriff.
standing and watching after him in
concern as he started back to this
house, came to him again and again
and, also, her flush when she had
spoken Of Ethe friend against whom
BENJAMIN Corvet had warned her.
Who was he? 1t had been impossible
at, that moment for Alan to ask her
more: besides, If he had asked and she
had told him, he would have learned
only name which he could lfot place
vet in any connection with her or with
BENJAMIN Corvet. Whoever he was, 1t
was plain that Constance Sheriff.
Thought Of him;;" lucky man, Alan
said to himself. Yet Corvet had
&> ~
Alan turned back his bed. 1t had
been for him q tremendous day. Bare
ly twelve hours before he had come to
that house, Alan Conrad from Blue
Rapids, Kan, now 49,. phrases
from what Lawrence Sheriff. had told
him of his father were running
through his mind as he opened the
door of the room to be able to hear
any noise in Benjamin Corvet's house.
Of which he was sole protector. The
emotion reused by his first sight OF the
lake went through him again as he
cpened the window to the east. - ri
Now--lie was in bed-he seemed TO
be standing, specter before man
blasphenlillg Benjamin Corvet anu the
souls of,smcn dead. Sand the hole
above the eye! .gse. The builet got
vou!.. SO it's you that got Ben
-. Ill get you! You can't
save the Miwaka!"
The A1iwaka /, The, stir Of that name
was stronger now even than before; 1t
had been running through his con-
seriousness almost constantly since he
had heard it. He jumped up and
turned on the light and found pencil.
: He did not know how to spell the
name and it was not necessary to
write It down; the name had taken on
that deflniteness and ineffaceableness
Of a thing which, once heard. can
never again he forgotten. But, In
panic that he might forget, he wrote
It. guessing at the spelling-"Miwaka." !"
1t was a name, of course; but the
name of what? It repeated and re-
peated itself to him, after he got back
into bed, until It's very iteration made
him drowsy. a., .
1 Outside the gale whistled and
sshrielSed.s The wind, passing Its last
I resistance after its sweep across the
it -leaped. upon.the lake,
/ ssi,attereh and clambsed in it's assault
about the house. Bpt as Alan became
Esleepief. he heard 1t no longer as it
:rrsattied the windows and hOw1ed nnder
! the caves and over the roof. bptas out
+ on the lake, above the roaring and Ice
/ crunching waves. 1t whipped and cir
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: sides Of struggling ships. SO, with the
roar of surf and gale in his ears. he
went to sleep with the sole conscious
connection In his mind between him.
self ana these people, among whom
BENJAMIN a Corvet's summons had
brought him, the one name "Nfiwaka." :"
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