Connecticut western news., 1922-09-28

pages, saw that 1t contained two col umns of typewriting carried from page to page after the manner of an ac- count.
 The column to the left was an inven- tory of property and profits and in- come by months and years, and the one to the right was a list of losses and expenditures. Beginning at an in- definite day or month in the year 1895, there was set down in a lump sum what was indicated as the total of Ben Jamin Corvet'S holdings at that time. To this, in sometimes undated items, the increase had been added. In the opposite column, beginning apparently from the same date in 1895, were the missing mans expenditures.
 Alan having ascertained that the pa pers contained only this account, looked up Questioningly to Sherrill; but Sherrill, without speaking, merely handed him the second of the papers. Alan unfolded it and saw that 1t was a letter written in the same hand which had written the summons he had received in Blue Rapids and had made the entries in the little memo randum book of the rernittances that had been sent to John Welton.
 It began simply:
 Lawrence
 "This will come to you in the event that l am not able to carry out the plan upon which am now, at last, de- termined. You will find with this a list of my possessions. Deeds for all real estate executed and complete ex- cept for recording of the transfer at the county office; bonds, certificates, and other documents representing my ownership of properties, together with signed forms for their legal transfer to you, are in this box. These proper ties, in their entirety, give to you in trust to hold for the young man now known as Alan Conrad of Blue Rap ids, Kan, to deliver any part or all over to him or to continue to hold 1t all in trust for him as you shall con- sider to be to his greatest advantage.
 ''This for the reasons which shall have told to you or him-I cannot know which one of you now, nor do I know how I shall tell 1t. But when you learn, Lawrence, think as we'll of me as you can and help him to be charitable to me.
 with the greatest affection,
 BENJAMIN CORVET."
 Alan, as he finished reading, looked up to Sherrill, bewildered and dazed.
 "What does 1t mean, Mir. Sherrill 2- Does 1t mean that he has gone away and left everything he had-everything to meY ky.
 eff MT. Corvet does not return, and I do not receive any other instructions, I shall take over his estate, as he has instructed, for your advantage"
 "And, MT. Sherrill, he didn't tell you why? This Is all you knowT
 "Yes; you have everything now. All we can do, Alan, is to search for him in every way we can. There will be others searching for him too now; for information of his disappearance has got out. There have been reporters at the office this morning making in- quiries, and his disappearance will be in the afternoon papers"
 Sherrill put the papers back in their envelope, and the envelope back into the drawer, which he relocked.
 'T went over all this with MT. Spear man this morning." he said. "He is as much at loss to explain 1t as l am."
 He was silent for few moments.
 fro of Ar critics to me for you" he said sudden ly, includes, as you have seen, Cor vets interest in the firm of 'Corvet, Sherrill & Spearman.' I went very carefully through the deeds and trans fers in the deposit box, and 1t was plain that, while he had taken great care with the forms of transfer for all the properties, he had taken particular pains with whatever related to his holdings in this company and to his shipping interests. If make over the properties to you, Alan, I shall begin with those; for 1t seems to me that your father was particularly anxious that you should take a personal as well as a financial place among the men who control the traffic. of the lakes. have told Spearman that this Is my intention. He has not been able to see it my way as yet; but he may change his views, think, after meet ing you"
 Sherrill got up. Alan arose a little unsteadily. The list of properties he had read and the letter and SherrilPs statement portended so much that it's meaning could not all come to him at once. He followed Sherrill through a short private corridor, f1anked with files lettered "Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman," into the large room he had seen when he came in with Constance. They crossed this, and Sherrill, with out knocking, opened the door of the office marked, "Mr. Spearman." Alan, looking on past Sherrill as the door opened, saw that there were some half fw1 = :. 1