THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922
BLACKWELL. OKLAHOMA
THE TIMES-ttOORD,
VAGETWO
written •• yea. lbe«F tee
who
dt»ml*e*-d
LESSON FOR MAY 21
HILKIAH 8 GREAT DISCOVERY
had
th*
not
CHAPTER XII
inn and led him into Um* smaller U
Benny was
The paper «a< written in p*n-
fingera
CHAPTER XI
a little
•'What must I
'< 'an
They
fludr yel
was due !<>
of an
ill-
bore the
become
read, and
I "Do
pie?'
attentively,
of any uf
Thev
know
had
tlona.
I NT
and
Man
Into
t lie
it was
Unde
the >
ding
with
not
had
king they
: after the
said.
eame
I
But it is not
not go away
deeply I ap-
aud delicacy
Alan ‘trained
I ‘heel to the
That
Mill
grasped
hi* face
another:
Mr and Mrs Hal French
concern Alan's fate
their disconnection,
tie could dl*cen' no
What conceivable
have lieen uniting
H coninln any
Ben hi mln Cor
not know,"
always «aw
I do not
Mir-
-nr-
*Tteat's ad you
JudabF
“lie was the man,
here twice a year, at
depths
Lord
All hu-
eem very far awny ;
E'en through
finger
had
Land
Deep
•Dent bouse,
at solicitous
The la" |freparee for th**
<mr schoolmaster
Is all 1 know
know hiiv <•
breathing deeply the warm
of life and with the scent
evergreen trees about the
< 'onstance
Conrad had
Hnidah, the
(I) t'onfii ma-
ted in nil of sonic dozen
nil* of which
kept much longer than oth-
w of which even appeared
I .ail wf (torn. -lt»e*e l~e-.es. I **e i.u
• nd afterward I bo o-d the pepe
1 be would aot let me or.ly throw tf.
know about
A
in-
beetl kept
only a list
•s The remain
counted
nurnlier. contained nearly
thought it woiUd be
w riting.
You Know At All What These Are, |
Judah?" He Asked.
with all his
all that
took
. of all the
faintest cry, “Ixvrd save me. I per-
ihoiight. from
time*—other J
had been
the page* had becotoe
almost Illegible. crowded
Indian
Half
and. since her
to her a region
him and to the
had told her about
definite memories
companionship came to her.
tie hay, which had
the most part only
n«*glecf the
to put It
not oher
intei e«te 1
aid; If she had
o out. would she wait mi
■re? The afternoon's
tand in the hall. She
tai-
She picked
envelope ad-
it had
Siie spread
all the
<**ut> tries
33). \l
depm led
Lord.
with hardwood on “the
e were the great fine sum
<>f the wealthier “re-
•?'T      ■.
' ■ ■. ' ? ’
. ..
county on the map
mi it. Sp-iirman,
said, came from
of the Drum!” he
and sudden feeling
he traced out this
the little towns and
the islands and headlands,
and their uneven shores
He Wdi Save You.
When you feel ns if things
dragging you down into the
will you remember that the
Jesus t’lirisl is at your side?
man help may
but He is not fur away,
the noise of the storm Hr can bear
the
tsh” and He will save you to the ut-
termost.
Uncle Benny's country.
Imo years agw n* »» rotvwfl hy a
daughter. Mrs Arthur Peart af Hint.”
He read another
“Hallford S(*n« Of Tuesday laat
M'M Audrey Hallford, daughter of
Mr and Mr. Bert Hallford. of th!*
united io the bond* of holy
to Mr. Robert Spens. of
Al! with the young < ouple
Destruction
over Jerusalem and it
to aiert it. It was not
repent to obtain mercy
but the outward con-
for acts of saeriti e
op
hut
Alan
i- now w hy he
only a wrapping or.
• thing, were in the
> box aud wrapping
• room. She locked
the box upon the .
out the cloth, it |
the heavier things
now, also, it re-
us the scarf—L u- '
A paper fluttered
unroll It
ers at der the bookshelves the drawer.
Alan recalled, which ter teiin**lf had
be* n eiatnluing wteeo tee had found
Wa«*aqu>ui wat-hisg Idm He drew
uut the drawer and dumped It* < on- I
tent* out u|M*n the li<-<«r; lie turned
Ibr drawer about then and pulled the
bottom out of It Beneath Ihe Itottom
which be had removed appeared now
another bottom and a few ‘I eet* of
paper .crawled In an mo-ven hand and
with different colored ink*
At aight of thrui. Spearman, who
bad followed them into lh»- room, ut-
tered «i> oath and •prang forward. The
.ruiian's small dark hand
Bpearmantt wrist, and
twitched itself into a fierce griu
Which showed bow little elvIHutloO
had modified in him the aboriginal
passions. But Spearinan did not try
to force Ids way; Instead. tea drew
Imi< k suddenly.
Alan stooped and picked up the pa-
pers and put them in his |m* k*i If
the Indian had not been there. It
Would not have' been •<■ easy for him
to do that, he thought.
dead.
p«l>er bad not been in water or In
sand.
« ll; it had not even been moistened nr
It would have hJurn d. There was
long ago
had been
June 12.
III. The Law Obeyed (vv :iT)
1. The King Read the Law (vv.
SO). He gathered together the
habitants of Jerusalem, itc Imling ihn
priests. Levites ami elders, and read
unto them the law.
2. The King Made a Covenant Be-
fore the Lord to Keep His Comman<l-
menu and Testimonies (vv. 31, 32).
This was done sincerely
heart and Soul. He caused
wore present to stand to it.
3. The king took away
abominations <mt
that pertained to Israel (v
the days of I lie
not from follewin
there must be somehow.
It. Dis-
of that
This lit-
now for
aimmer play-
ground for such as (the, had been once
a place where he and other men had
struggled to grow rich swiftly: he
had outlined for her the ruined lumber
docks and pointed out to her the loca-
tions of the dismantled sawmills It
was hr who bad told her the name*
<>f the freighters passing far out. and
the names of the lighthouses, and
something about each He had told
her. too. about the Indians She re-
membered one starry night when he
had pointed nut to her In the sky the
Irdian "Way of Ghost*" the Milky
way. along which, by ancient Indian
belief, the souls of Indian* traveled
up to heaven; and how. later, lying
on the recessed seat hesidf the firr
place where ‘he <-ould touch the dogs
upon the hearth, he had pointed out
ta her
through the window the Indian
of Dogs" among the constella-
tes- which the dogs too conld
that Journey It wa« he who
had told her about Mlehabou and the
ardmalf and he had been the first
The "cottage" of some twenty rooms
stood among the pines and hemlocks
Interspersed
Point." " ’
nter home*
sorters."
This was
Herr twenty-five years before, he had
first met Henry, whose birthplace—a
farm, deserted now wit* only a few
miles hack among the hills. Here,
before that. I'mie Benny had been a
toung man, active, vigorous, ambitious.
He had loved this country for Itself
and for its traditions, its
legend* and fantastic
her own love for it
chil<lboo<1
of delight
things he
tlnct mid
About a hundred year* *i»pwd be
tween the reformation under Hezekia*
an<1 that of Joeiab. Some lime during
this time the book of God* la" bao
been lost Two wicked king- had
reigned in th * interva I he Lor i
had given Hezekiah much wealth. Hi*
son Matia“eh, coming into possession
of his father ‘ property, and being un
godly, would naturally
Bible, if not purposely tty
from sight. Those who du
the law of God. are usually
in pulling it out of slgl t.
I. The Book of the Law Fcend (rv.
14-17).
1. The Occasion (v. 14). it «»•
while repairing the temple during
Joalah'a reformation that the law was
di«covered.
2. The Book Delivered to the King
(vv. 15-17). I'pon making ;• report to
the king of work done, the king was
told of the finding «f the book of th*
law by Hilkiah, and the book delivered
to hltn.
II. The Effect of the Reading of th«
Law (vv. 18-28).
Shaphan the Scribe read the law
before the king.
1. The King Rent His ('lothen (v. 19).
As the law was read before him he
was led io realize more seriously th*
awful extent of the nation's departure
from God. He knew that sin merite I
punishment. The function of the lae
Is to reveal sin. The man wh<i will
honestly hear the demand* of God «
law will fall upon his knees before
God and cry for mercy. The rending
of the royal robes indicated that th*
king was penitently sorrowful.
2. The Ring Sent a'Deputation t»
Make Inquiry of tlte Lord (vv. 30. 21).
The king included bimseif in the gu.it
before Gmi. "Go inquire for me an i
for’them llial are left, fur great is
the wratli of the Lord Hint is |M»urel
out upon u* His sense of sin was
so keen that he sent them t<» inquire
ns to whether there w»- any means
of averting the judgments of the Lord.
Instinctively the human heart turn*
from Gods threatening judgments to
a means of escape. The soul that
sorrows for sin inquires for a way • f
esc# pe.
gospel. The law- i
to bring us to Christ. The soul under
condemnation inquire*
do to be saved?”
3. The Message of
Prophetess (vv. 22-28).
i ti<»n of what the law said (vv. 22-25).
1 She said that al! tlte curses written
i in the law must fall, for the sins
j had been so flagrant that God s wrath
I could not be restrained.
was hanging
| was too late
1 too late to
from God,
sequence of sin must be realized. This
finds fulfillment on every hand today.
The murderer must hang His soul
may go directly to heaven, provided
he has accepted Jesus Christ. (2>
Acceptance of Josiah's repentance (vv.
26-28). Because of his tenderness of
heart and deep penitence, the Lord
said he should tv gathered to his
grave in (wace. : fid should not see
j all the evil to b<> brought on Jerusalem
and its people. What Hnidah said
was true even though Josiah died in
1 battle (35 : 23-25). When God «■•-
i cept* a man and forgives him. his
! death is a peaceful one even though
I it may be on the battlefield God's
presence Is with him and lie thus will
Con*lan<e Sherrill, on the following
aftermacn. received a telephone call
from her father; lie was coming home
earlier tltati usual, he
planned Io k
til after he ;
mall wns upon a
turnml it over, looking through it
vltalions. social notes,
from among them an
dre'M-d to herself in a firm, c lear
hand, which, unfamiliar to her. still
queerly startled her. and tore it open.
"Dear Miss Sherrill," she read.
"I am viewing, for the time being,
the house which, for default of other
ownership. I must till mine The jh>s
slbility that what has ocemrrmi here
would cause you and your father anxi-
ety about me in case 1 went away
without telling you of my ^mention is
| the reason for this note. |
I tile only reason. 1 could
J without telling you how
predate the generosity
i you ami your father have shown me
1 in spite of my position here ami of the
j fact that 1 had no claim at all upon
you 1 ‘ball not forget those, even
though what happened here last uigld
makes it impossible for me to try io
see you again or even to write to you.
"ALAN CONRAD”
She heard her father's motor enter
tlii* drive and ran to Idm with tl:c If'-
I.’ in. .Lu li.
The Land of the Drum
Alan vveol with WasMaqumu into the
front library, after the- Indian bad
•bown Spvvirimin out.
'Tin* wa* th*- mau. Judah, who c ame
for Mr. Corvel that night 1 ua» hurl?
“Ye*. Alan," Waasaquam said,
then, wtoo came
leant, to »ee Mr
two of
French
thia Hat
other pug** of the M*t
them through for hi* own name; but
It wa* not there
•Icect« upon the fable and got up and
began to *trfi|e almut the room.
He felt that tn thia Hat and in three
dipping*
*oHie one general meaning they must
relate in *ome way to one thing: they ,
mil'! bate deeply, intensely c-oncemed
Beniamin Conet’* til“appeanin<e nnd
hl* preM-nt fate, whatever that might
be. and they mu*t
a* well. But In
their linnliereiice,
common thread,
bond <su)ld there
Benjamin Corvel at ot <<■ with an old
man dying upon a jeoorfarm in Emmet
county, wherever that might lie ami
with a baby girl, now -c>n" two year-
old, In Sturgeon Bay. Wisconsin?
He called Wa“ii«piam into the li-
brary and brought the list* and clip
1 pings out again.
“Do you know at all "hat these are.
Judah?” he asked
“No. Alan. I have seen Ben have
The Things From Corvet’s Pockets.
Mi«s Con’tauce Sherrill
Harbor Springs. Michigan." '
Ttee address, in largi scrawling let-
ter* was written acr<-< ihe brown
; paper of Ihe package which had been
brought from the post olficv in the lit- ,
I tie resort village only a few momenta ‘
! before. The paj*r c overed a shoe box, 1
crushed aud old. bearing the name of I
' S. Klug. lualer in Fine Shoe- Mani-
towoc, Wi-cujsin.-’ The box. like the (
wrapping, waa carefully lied
with a string.
(4Hi‘tatice. kimwing^no one in Mani- j
towoc and surprised at the nature of
the pa> kage. glanced at the postmark
on the brown paper who
moved; it too was
woe
box and took off the cover.
and brown dotted ‘.Ik cloth filled the
box; and. seeing it. <'oustai>ce '•aught
her breath. It was —al least
very like tbe muffler which
Benny U‘»*d to wear tn winter.
She started with trembling
to take it from Hie box; then, realiz-
ing from the weight of the package
that the doth was <
at least, that other
box. she picked up
and ran up to her
the door and put
bed ; now she lifted
was a wrapping, for
! came with it; and
vealed itself plainly
1 de Benny's scarf!
' out as she begun to
c ross I......1 leaf evidently torn from a
pcH-kcl memorandum bc«,k.
been folded and rolled up.
it out; writing wa* upon it. ihe small
irregular letters of Uncle Benny •
band.
uooo at ttee oOlce. asking to bold I
tn abeyance for tbe time being the
trust that Ben bad left me and return
mg the key of the bouee to me for
Mfrkreping "
"Ha* be already gone?”
“I suppoee ao: 1 don't know
We mutt find out." She caught up
her wrap* and began to put them on
Sherrill hesitated then absented; and
they went round the blo<k together to
tbe Oorvet bout* Sherrill, after a few
instant*' fiesitatio*. took the key from
hla po«ket and unlocked the door and
went tn. Tbe room* they aaw were
all in perMt order; summer covers
had be*m put npoo tbe furniture; pro-
tecting clatha had been spread over
tbe bed* upetair*. After tbeir in«pe<-.
Bon. thev c-arue out again at the front
door, and her father closed it with a •
snapping of tbe spring k.
Constance, as they walked away,
turned aud lo»>ked back at th* old i
house gloomy and dark among 1t<
newer, freeher-looking neighbor*, aud
suddenly she choked, and her eye* (
grew wet. That feeling was not for
Uncle Benny: the dram of days past
had evbausted such a surge of feeling
for him. That which she could
wink away wa> for the boy who
come to that house a few weeks
and for the man who just now
foundering Point. Lake
Nov 26. I**' this watch la
•im.ated by the Buffa'o Merchants' Ex
change"                 (
Uncle Benny < naute. etidentiy. had
t.een engraved uj-oti the c..ns..,» t'eu
ataiM f . otM i»ar”'
leer the rescue of the people of
WWlHIli.
Constance Cteeked, and Her Eyes Filled
W’lni.ebago; 18UU was year* before ahe
was Itori,. and Uncle Benny did
tell her tha' sort of thing about him
self.
<'<ctisiance left the watcb opeu and,
shivering a little, she gently laid it
down upon her bed. Tbe pocketknife
had no distinguishing mark of any
«ort The coin* were abraded and pit
ted disks a silver dollar, a half dol-
lar aud three quarters, not so much
abraded, three nickels, and two pen
nies.
t’onstance choked, and her eyes filled
with tear* These things- plainly
they were the things found In Uncle
Benny's pockets — corroborated only
too fully what Wassaquaui believed
and what her father had been coming
to believe—that Unde
The muffler and the scrap of
into the
Clise; the inscription was obliterated
in part.
“For his courage and skill in
ecam       mn«t*r of . . which he
'.n ugl.f to Ihv n‘i i:r of ’! .■   ;---c i
Constance could
June 2. 1801."
1896.
that Alan
He gave the list* Io Wassaquam.
who studied them through
holding them t<> the lamp.
"No. Alan."
"Have you ever heard
their nantes before?"
"That nil) he. I do not
are common nuiues."
"Do you know the place
"Yes -the place* I he) are lake
porta or little villages on the lakes. I
have been In most of them, Alan. Em-
met county. Alan. I < amt- from there
Henry come* from there, too."
‘Then that is where they hear the
Drum?'
Tea. Alan."
“My father tovk uewspapers from
those places, did he not?"
(Vn*snn,'’r,tt le«d.o«! over tlte nd-
dr» *•*•* hgotit. 'Ji'*: liulu all.   He
was
Sand had ‘ee|w«l
iB all."
the Indian.
•toiffify methodical n tb» nil* st o'
iM* events went dowustaii* a.
<wu»n<*l to prepare a dimer who t
AJan knew ha could not eat. Alan go:
up and moved atxait ttur hm>ihsj I.-
went back sod looked over the ti»'«
and dippings <jt>re more; then he
moved aU»ut again How strange a
picture «»f hie father did these thing*
call up tu him' When be bad bought
of Benjamin Corvet before, it bad beet
as .•‘herrill had described him. pur ■
«ued by aotne thought he could uot
conquer, •eeklng relief In study, in cor
reapoodeme with scientific societies
>n anything which could engross bint
I and abut out memory. Rut now be
must think of bim. not merely as one
trying to forget; what bad thwarted
('orvet'a Hf* wa« not only in the past :
It wat Botnet Ling still going on It had
amazed Sherrill io learn that Corvet.
for twenty years had kept trace of
Alan; but Corvet l^d kept tra« e in the
same way and with the same secret v
ef many other people—of about a
•core of people When Alan thought
of Corvet. alone in hia
he mutt think of him
F--       ■
“Yea."
"I was «tire of It."
you tell me
Judah?"
"I have told you I d<» t
Wassitqimtn replied. "Hen i
him; Ben gave Idm money
know why."
Alan had I...... holding hi* band over
the paper* which he hud thrust
hi* |m>« km; he went back Into
smaller library and spread them under
file reading lamp to examine them
But. ns he looked the page* over now.
he felt a chill "f disappointment and
chagrin
Ml rathe
vet s life; they did not even relate to
u single event. They were no mirra
five Ht all. They wore In hl* fir«t
examination of them, lie could not tell
what they were.
They i-on
sheets of Irregular size
had Ix-cti
ers a f
fresh
which
lowed and worn J<>ok. must
eat. and "bleb mit‘t have
fnr many year*, eonti
»>f name* and nddre**
tng page*. wbl<h tee
h> number, contained nearly « hnn-
dred brief ,lipping- from newspapers:
the clippings hud l>een very carefully
cut out. they had been pasted with
painful regularity on the shevffs. nnd
each had been dated acro«s If* face
date* made with many different pen* 1
and with many different ink*, hut al!
tn the same Irregular handwriting a*
the letter which Alan had received
front Benjamin Corvet.
Alan, his fingers nuntb In his dtwp
polntni«nt turned and examined all
these pages; hut they contained noth-
ing else He read one of the clippings,
which was dated "Feb 1912."
‘The parsing away of one of th*
oldest residents of Emmet county oc-
curred at th* poorfamt on Thur-day
of last week Mr Fred Westhonse
was one of four brothers brought by
their parents Into Emmet county In
1846 H* established bim«elt here na
a farmer and was well known among
onr people for many years. He was
nearly the last nt his family, which
was quite well off at one lime Mr !
Wrsfhon*< •’ roe bncher* m»«i his
f. lliec li;tvi:.g J-rri*i'eu in viui- il* ■'.!*-
hJurred.
nothing upon it to tell how
It had been w ritten; imt it
written certainly before
"After June 12." It said
That day was Anru*t the eighteenth.
R was seven months since I’ncle
Benny had gone away. After h|s
strange interview with her that day
and his going home, had Uncle Benny
gone out directly to his death? There j
was nothing to show that he had not;
tbe watch and <oins must have lain
for many weeks, for months, in water
and In *aud to become eroded In this
way But. aside from this, there was
nothing that could be Inferred regard
Ing the tine- or place of Uncle Benny's
death. That the package hail l»een
mailed from Manltownr meant nothing
definite. Some <>ne- Constance could
not know whom had bad the muffler
and the scrawled leaf of directions;
later after lying in water and in sand,
the things which were to be "sent"
had come to that some one's hand.
Most probably this some one had been
one who was going about on ships;
when his ship had touched at Mani-
towoc, he had executed his charge.
Constame left the articles upon the
bc-d and threw the window more wide-
ly open She trembled and felt stirred
and faint, as she leaned against the
window.
air, full
of tbe
house
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JNTERMEDIATBAND SENIOR FOPh
How to Make th. 8 ble Our Own
VOUNG PBOPLIt AND ADUi-T TOPU
-The AHtiiority »t <1 influan** of th.
Bible
mg mom prwtce Spearman jeraeq
M^fieniy up; Alan, going to ttee door
and looking into tbe bali. »*• "’••*•
guam Tbe Indian evidently had r*
turned io tbe teon»e «ot»e time befewe;
tee bad beet, bringing lo Alan now the place, wa
nccountB which be had settled Hr
•eetned lo have beet' standing in tlte
hall far aome time livteoing: but he,
cam*- In now, looking inquiringly froaa
ooe lo I tie other of I term
“Nut friemi.r be Inquired t“Tou
•mi Henry?”
Alan's pa»Bion broke out suddenly.
•We're anythitcg but that. Judah I
found him. He frat night I K«l ’
aud while )ou *er*. away, going
through my fatlier'fl thing* I fuugb’
with bim. ami he ran away H* waa
the ot>e that broke into my father»
d»«k*. maybe yoti'H Itelieve that even
if no <«ne rise will.”
“Y'eo?" the Indian questioned (
“YcbT’ It wa* plain lliat tee ted only '
heltrvcd hut lhai believing gave tdru
about ll.ese people; as seeking fnr
tbeir names in the newspa;>ers which
he took for that purpose, ami a> re-
curqing 'he changes in their lives Ihe
deaths the births, the marriage*
among three |>evpie had Iteen of tbe
intense** interest to Corvet.
It wa* p< *-ible that none of tb«-*e
[people knew about Corvet: Aiuu had
not known about him in Kansa*. but
had known only that «otn«- unknown
peraon had **nt money for hi* support.
But he appreciated that it dhl not
matter whether they knew about him
or not; for at some ;»olnt common to
all of them, the lives of these people
must have tout tied Corvet s life. When
l Alan knew what had been Heat |miiit
of cmpavi. tee would know almut C<>r- j out!uide
ret; he would know about himself
Alan bad «ren among Corvet a
books a set of charts of Ihe Great
laikes He went and got that now and
an at la*. Opening them upon the ,1a
hie he looked up the addresses giva
on Corvet'■ list- They were must uf
them he found, towns about the north
ern end of tbe lake; a very few iipc*
other lakes- Superior and Huron
but most were upon or very <•!<►*»• to
laike Mic higan. These people lived by
means of the lake; t*t»**y got their su* I
dropped the j teuance from it. as Corvet bad lived.
and as Corvet lead got bls wealth. Al:m
was feeling like <»ne who. Irnuud, I-hs
tceerc suddenly unloosed. From the- time
when, coming to see Corvet. he httd
found Corvet gone, until now. lie bad
felt ihe impossibility of explaining
from anything be knew or seemed like-
ly to learn the mystery which had
niund-'d himself and which hud
rounded Corvet But these name* and
addresses! They indeed offered some-
thing to go upon, though l.uke now
wa* forever still, and hla pockets had
told Alan nothing.
He found Emmet
and put his
Wassaquam
there, "The
*aid aloud,
stirred in hhn a*
land on the chart-
villages,
their light
A feeling of "home" bad come to him.
which he liacl not had on coining to Chi-
cago. There were Indian name* and
French up then- about tlte tm-e'ing*
of the great waters. Tlte sense that
i he was of these lake*, that surge of
j feeling which he had fell tir-t in con
versatlon with Constance Sherrill was
j strengthened an hundredfold
He gazed down at the list* of namea
1 which Benjamin Corvet had kept *o
1 carefully and so secretly; these* were
his father's people-, too; these ragged
shore- and the islands studding the
channel* were the lands when* his fa
ther had spent the most active part
of his life. There, then—these lists
now made it certain—that events had
happened by which that life had beep
blighted. North, there hy the meeting
I of the* waters, was the region of the
, wrong which was done.
“That's where I must go!" tie said
aloud. “That's when* I must go!"
Adversity.
... j . . ij truth
t 'Mi**-
!>t* had re-
tain ped Manito-
She rut the strings about the
A black
matrimony
Escanaba
well”
He read
"Bora to
a daughter Saturday afternoon las*
M!«s Vera Araiwlla French at her ar-
rival weighed eeven end •ne-MI*
pound* "
This clipping saa dated. In Beuja
min Corvet • hand. ’'Sturgeon Bay, 1
\V1* Aup 1914." Alan put It arid*
In bewilderment and amaze aud took
up again 1 ■<* slieets he first had looked
at The name* and addr*“es on the**
olde»t. veduwed page* had been fir*t
written, it wa* plain all at the Mine
time and with the same pen and Ink.
and **'-h sheet In the Icegiiinlng bad
<-oUtalned wveu or eight names. Some
of these original name* and even tlw
sddre**es had heei, left unchanged,
but most <«f them had l>ee«i scratched
out aud altered many
and quite- different name
substituted;
finally
»<-rawls rewritteu again and again in
Corvefs « rauipe<l hand, j
forward, holding the first
light                   ✓
Alan seized tlie dippings he had
looked at before and compared them
swiftly with the (cage he had just read :
the names- We«thou«e and
were lice same a* the*** upon
Suddenly Ice grasped the
and looked ,
’ Les?on.’.
(My             b                    k>- D-.
Tesca.r of English Blbi* i»
Bible InBtltutB of '.Ti'.cMB »
J
them, ami take them out and put them [
| hack.
"Send !<• Alan Conrad," she read; |
there followed a Chicago nddre** the
number <>f Uncle Benny’s house on
Astor street. Below this was another
line:
"Better e-are of Constance Sherrill
(Miss).” There followed Ihe .'Iter-
rills’ address upon the Drive. And to
this was another correction:
“Not after June 12: then to Harbor
Springs. Mich. Ask some one of that;
tee -tire the date; after June 12."
Constance, trembling, unrolled the
sc-arf; now <<>ius showed from a fold, j
next a pocketknife, ruined and rusty,
next a wal< h a mini's large gold i
watch with the ease qm-erly pitted
ami worn completely through in places,
and last a plain little band of gold of
ize for a woman's Anger a wed-
ring. Constiim-e, gasping and
fingers shaking so from excite
that she could scarcely hold
> objects, picked them up and ex
I.atnined them the ring first.
It very evidently was. as she had
* Immediately thought, a wedding ring
once tiltyd for n finger only a trifle
les* slender than her own. One side
of the gobi bund wa* very much worn,
not with the sort of wear which a
ring get- on a hand but by some dif-
ferent sort of abrasion. I lie other
side of tile band was roughened and
pitted hnt nut so mm h worn; the In-
! side stiU
wriptlon.
| all alive.'
' the date.
It was in January,
rernembeivd.
■ been brought to the people in Kansas;
' he then was "about three years old "
I If this wedding ring was his mother's,
the date- would be about right; it wa-
I a date probably something more than
a year before Alan was horn, t’on-
stanee put down the r>ug and picked
up the watch. It was like Uncle Ben-
ny's watch or like one of his watches.
He had several, -he knew presented
| to him at various time-- watches al-
most always were the testimonial*
I given to seamen
, nmi bravery. The spring which
, I crated the cover would not work.
<'mi at a nee forced the cover open.
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