The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-06
CHAPTER XII
The Things From Coryet's Pockets. Miss Constance Sherriu.

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 Hurbor Springs, Mirhigau.'
 The address. lu large scruwliug let ters, was written across the brown paper of the package which had been brought from the past office tb the lit- tie resort village only d few moments before The paper covered a shoe box, crushed and old, bearing the name of "S. Klug, Dealer in Fine Shoes. Muni- tuwoc, Wisconsin," The boS like the outside wrapping was carefully tied with a string.
 Constance knowing no one in Mani- towOc and surprised ut the nature of the package, glanced at tbn puSImark on the brown paper which shr had re- moved; it too was stamped MuniiO- woe. She cut the strings about the box and took or the cover. A black and brown dotted silk cloth filled lhe box; and, seeing lJ Constance caught her breath. IL wus-ut least it was very llkp-the mun.Ier which Uncle Benny used Uo wear m winter.
 She started with trembling fingers to tukc It from the box; then. rraliz- ing from the weight of the package that the cloth was only wrapping or at least. that other things were in inc box, she picked up box and wrapping and ran up tO her room. She locked the door and put the box upon the bed: now she lifted out the cloth. It was a wrapping, for lhr heavier things came with lt; and HOW, also, it re- veuled itself plainly as the Scarf-Jn- clr Bruny's Srarf. A paper ilutiered out as she began to uu-ulI it-u little cruss-I.ned lruG evidently torn from pocket memorandum book. IL had been folded and rolled up. She spread 1t out; writing was upon it, the small irregular letters of Uncle Benny's hand.
 "Seud to Alan Conrad" she read; there followed Chicago uddress-the number Of Uncle Beuuys house on AstOr street Below this was another line:
 Better care of Constance Shcrrill (NIIsS)." There followed the yher- rllIs address upon the Drive. And to thlS was another correction:
 Not ufter June F; then to Harbor Springs, Mich. Ask some one of that; be sure the date: after June 12."
 Constance, trembling, unroIIed the scarf; now coins showed from fold, next a pocketknlfe, ruined and rusty, next a watch-a mans large gold watch with the case queerly pitted and worn completely through in places, and Inst a plain little band of gold of the size for a woman's flnger-a we'd ding ring. Constance, gaspIng and with fingers shaking so from excite meut that she could scarcely hold these objects. picked them up and eI- umlned them-the ring first.
 It very evidently was, as she had immediately thought, a wedding ring once fitted for a finger only a trifie less slender thnn her own. One side of the gold band was very much worn, not with the sort of wear which a ring gets on a hand, but by some dtf- ferpnt sort of abrasion. The other side of the band was roughened and pltted but not so much worn; the ln- side stlu bore the traces of &n in- scriptlon. As long as we ho all alive" Constance could read, and the date, June 2, 1891"
 It was In January, 1896, Constance remembered. that Alan Conrad had been brought to the people in Kansas; he then was about three years old 1T this wedding ring was his mothers, the date would be about right; 1t was a date probably something more than a year before Alan was born. Con stance put down the ring and picked up the watch. It wns like Uncle Ben ny's watCh--Or like one of hIs watches. He had several, she knew, presented to him at various times-watches al- most always were the testimonials given to seamen for acts of sacrifice and bravery. The spring which op- erated the cover would not work but Constance forced the cover open.
 There, inside the cover az she had thought 1t would be, was engraved writing. Sand had seeped Into the case; the inscription was oblirerated ID part.
 For his courage and skill fin seam master of which he brought to the rescue of the passen- 1 gers and crew of the steamer WInne- bago rounderlng Point Lake Erie. Nov. 26, lS00, this watch Ia donated by the Buffalo Merchants EE.