Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1922-06-16

hau known their names
In her feeling for him. she had laid
her hand upon his arm; now her fin
gers frightened to sudden tenseness.
"What do you mean p she asked.
ooh, II is not definite yet--not
clear T. She felt the bitterness In his
tone. "They have not any Of them
been able to make Il wholly clear to
me. II IL like record that has been
blurred. These original names must
have been written down by my fnther
many years ago-many. most of those
people, thlnk--are dead; some are
nearly forgotten. The only thing that
IL fully plain is that In every case my
inquiries have led me to those who
have lost one, and sometimes more
than one relative upon the lakes"
Constance thrilled to vague hor-
ror; II was not anything to which she
could give definite reason. His tone
quite as much as what he said was its
cause. His experience plainly had
been forcing him to bitterness against
his father; and lie did not know with
certainty yet that his father was dead.
you'll lunch with us, of course"
she said to Alan, ''and then 20 hack
with US to Harhor Poim. It's days
journey around the two bays; but
we've boat here"
He assented. and they went down to
the water where the white and brown
power yacht, with long, graceful lines,
la a. lv I'm N
tie boat took them out over the SHIN
merlng. smooth surface to the ship;
sweils from faraway freighter swept
under the beautiful, FURNISHED craft,
causing II to roll lazily as they board
ed II. A party of nearly n dozen men
and girls with an Older woman chap
eronIng them, lounged upder the shade
of an awning over the after deck.
They greeted her gally and looked
curiously at Alan as she introduced
him.
Have you worked on any Of our
boats?" she asked him, after luncheon
had been finished, and the anchor of
the ship had been raised.
A queer expression came upon his
face. "I've thought 1t best not to do
that. Miss Sheriff." he replied.
She did not know. why the next mo-
ment she should think of Henry.
The yacht was pushing swiftly,
smoothly, with hardly hum from Its
motors. north along the shore. lie
watched lntently the rolling, wooded
hills and the ragged little bays and In
let's. His work and his investlgatings
had not brought him TO the neighbour
hood before, but she found that she
did not have to name the places to
him; he knew them from the charts.
Grand Traverse light" he said 10
her as white tower showed upon
their left. Then, leaving the shore,
they pushed out across the wide mouth
OF the larger bay toward Little Trav-
erse. He grew more silent as they APP
preached II.
'lt Is up there. Isn't IT," he asked.
pointing, shat they hear the Drum"
Eyes; how did you know the placer
II don't know II exactly; want you
to show me-"
She pointed out to him the copse.
dark, primeval, blue In its contrast
with the lighter green of the trees
about IL and the glistening white OF
the shIngle and of the more distant
sand bluffs, He leaned forward, staring
Mt II. until the changed course Of the
yacht. as It swung about toward the
entrance to the bay, obscnred 1t.
Seeing the ships made me feel that
belonged here on the lakes" he re-
minded her. III have felt something
not recognition exactly, but something
that was like the beginning of recog-
nition-many times this summer when
saw certain places. It's like one of
those dreams, you know, In which you
are conscious of having had the same
dream before. feel that | ought to
know this place."
They landed only few hundred
yards from the cottage. After bid.
ding gOod-by TO her friends, they went
up 20 II together through the trees.
There was "A small sun room. rather
shut of from the rest OF the house, TO
NhlNAA SAiN iNh iiiti. hstNNAbE tliSlNt
she ran upstairs to get the things.
She halted an Instant beside the
door, with the box In her hands, be-
fore she went back Ia him, thinking
how to prepare him against the sig
nlticance of these relics of his father
she need not prepare him against the
mere fact OF his fathers death; he
had been beginning to believe that al
ready; but these things must have far
more meaning Tor him than merely
that. She went In ana put the box
down upon the card table.
"1he muller In the box was your
fathers" she told him. "lle had 1t on
the day he disappeared The other
things" her voice choked little, ARE
the things he must have had In his
pockets. They've been lying In water
and sand"
He gazed at her. IL understand"
he said after an instant. You mean
that they prove his DEATH"
She assented gently, without speak
ing. AS he approached the box. she
drew back from II and slipped away
into the next room. She walked up