The daily Alaskan., 1922-06-27
CHAPTER TX.
A Walk Beside the Lake.

stOfS, anu llt NdS SbLu u uON N"'SS | Istmctly-Sherrill."
 His name do you thlnk?"
 "I shouldn't say so; he seems trying 10 speak to some one named Sherrill. There are only four Sherrllls 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 Drlve-the Lawrence Sherrills."
 The interne whIStled softly and looked more intereStedly al his pn- tient'S features. Hell be conscious some time during the day. there's only a slight fracture, and-perhaPs you'd better call the Sherrill house. any way. If he's not known there, no harm done; and 1T he's one of their friends and he should Q"
 The nurse nodded and moved on. Thus lt was that al d quarter to five Constance SherriIl was awakened by the knocking of one of the serv. ants at her fathers door. Her father went down stairs tC the telephone in- strllment where he might reply with out disturbing Mrs. Sherrill Constance, kImuua over her shoulders stood at the top of the stairs and waited. it 1 became plain tO her at once that what ever had happened had been to Alan Conrad.
 "Yes. Yes. You are giving him every possible care? .. Al once"
 She ran part way down the stairs and met her father as he came up, He 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 tU the hospital and has been unconscious ever since. No one can say yet how seriously he Is injured"
 She waited u tAe hall while her father dressed, after calling the ga. rage on the house telephone for him and ordering the motor. When he had gone. she returned unNiUusly 10 her rUuuS; he had promised to call her after reaching the hospital and uS soon as he had learned the particulars Ur Alun's condition II was ridiculous, of course. IU attach any responsibility tu her father or herself for what had happened tU AIuu-a street attack such as might have happened tu any oue yet Suc felt that they were ln part respuusib,e They had let him go to
 live alone in the house in ASIUr street with uU better adviser than WuSSa- quum. Now, and perhaps because they had uUl warned hiIu. he had met injury and, Il might Ue, more than mere injury; he might Oe dying.
 Something which mad disturbed and excited Alan had happened IU hin on the nrSl night he Auu pusSed m that house: and HOW, il appeared, he had been prevented from passing q second night there. What mad prevented him had been an attempted robbery upon the street, her father had said. But suppose IL had been something else than robbery.
 She could not formulate more def initcly this thought, but 1t persisted; she could not deny it entirely and shake il of.
 To Alan Conrad, In the late after noon or that day, this same thought was coming far more definitely and fur more persistentIy. He had been awake and sane since shortly after monday. The pain of a head which ached throb- bingly and of d body bruised and sore was beginning to give place to feel ing merely of laSsitude-a languOr which revisited incOherence upon him when he tried to think. The man who had aSsailed hlm had meant to kill; he had not been any ordinary rObber. That purpose, bliudly recognized and fought against by Alan in their strug- gle, had been unmiStakable. Only the chance presence of passersby, who had heard Alun's shouts and responded tu them, hud prevented the execution Of his purpuse, and had driven the man to swift flight for his own safety.
 A little before six Constance Sher- Till and Spearman called to inquire after him and were admitted for few moments to his room She came to him. bent over him, while she spoke the few words of sympathy the nurse allowed tu her; she stood back then while SpeurInan spoke to him. In the succeeding days he saw her nearly every day. accompanied always by her father or Spearman; 1t 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 enioined outdoors and moderate eNer else for him, and she had made him promise to come and walk with her. He went to the Sherrill house about ten o'clock. and they walked north