Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-06-02

for twenty years, had kept trace Of
Alan; but Corvet had kept trace In the
same way and with the same secrecy
Of many other people-of about a
score Of people When Alan thought
Of COrvet, alone In his silent house,
he must think OF him as soIicitous
about these people; as seeking for
their names In the newspapers which
ne took for that purpose, and as re-
eo-ding the changes In their lives The
deaths, the births. the marriages
among these people had been Of the
intensest interest TO Corvet-
II was possible that none Of these
people knew about Corvet; Alan had
not known about him In Kansas, but
had known only that some unknown
person had sent money for his support.
But he appreciated that II did not
matter whether they knew about him
Or not; for al some point common to
all Of them, the lives OF these people
must have touched Corvet's life When
Alan knew what had been that point
| Of contact, he would know about Cor
I vet; he would know about himself
Alan had seen among Corvet's
| books a set Of charts Of the Great
! Lakes. He went and got that now and
an atlas. Opening them upon the ia
! bic, he looked up the addresses given
on Corvet's list. They were most OF
them, he found, towns about the north
ern end Of the lake; very few upon
other lakes-SuperiOr and Huron
but most were upon or very close 10
Lake Michigan. These people lived By
means Of the lake; they got their sus-
tenance from 1t, as CorTet had lived,
and as CorTet had got his wealth Alan
was feeling ike one who, bound. has
been suddenly Embossed From the time
when, coming to see Corvet, he had
found Corvet gone, until now. he had
felt the impossibilIty OF explaining
from anything he knew or seemed like
ly 10 learn the mystery which had sur
rounded himself and which had sur
rounded C0ryet But these names and |
addresses They indeed offered some |
thing 10 go upon. though Luke new !
was forever still, and his pockets had |
told Alan nothing.
He found Emmett county on the map
and put his finger on it Spearman. |
Wassaquam had said, came from |
there. The Land OF the Drum :" he /
said aloud. Deep and sudden feeling /
stirred in him as he traced out this 4
land on the chart-the little towns and
villages. the islands and headlands.
their lights and their uneven shores
A feeling OF home had come 10 hin.
which he had not had on coming 10 Chi
cago. There were Indian names and
French up there about the meetings
OF the great waters. The sense that
he was Of these lakes. that surge Of
feeling which he had felt first in con-
versation with Constance Sheriff. was
strengthened al hundredfold.
He gazed down at the lists Of names
which Benjamin Corvet had kept so
carefully and so secretly; these were
his fathers people. too; these ragged
shores and the islands studding the
channels were the lands where his IA
Their had spent the most active part
OF his life. There. then-these lists
now made il certain-that events had
happened by which that life had been
blighted. North. there by the meeting
Of the waters. was the regicn Of the
wrong which was done
That's where I must go," he said
aloud. That's where I must go.'
Constance Sheriff.. on the following
afternoon. received a telephone call 1
from her father; he was coming home ;
earlier than usual. he said: If she had
planned TO 90 out. would she wait IN I
ii after he got there? TIE afternoons I
nail was upon a stand in the hall She !
urned it over. looking through tin !
Titations social notes. She picked &
rom among them an envelope ad-
dressed 10 herself in a firm. clear J
land. which. unfamiliar 70 her. still 4
Iueeriy startled her. and tore IL open. !
Dear Miss Sheriff." she read q
Il am closing. for the time being. .
he house which. for default OF other :
wnership. I must call mine. The pos Z
Utility that what has occurred here
Fould cause you and your father anxi- 3
q about me IN case I vent away 5
iitbout telling sou y my Intention is .
be reason Tor this note. But if IS not a
be only reason / could not % away q
'irhouf telling you how deeply ! ap- =
reciafe the generosity ani feIIcacy 2 III
"a ana your father have shown ms II
spite - as position here ana ~ the II
ict chat ! had no claim AZ al upon II
iu. : shall uDf forget tlasa efcn