Mountain View Times (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1922 Page: 3 of 12
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THE INDIAN DRUM
'Hy William SMacHarg and Edwin Calmer
= Copyright'by Edwin Balmrr
HENRY SPEARMAN
SYNOPSIS.—Wealthy ami highly
placed In the Chicago buaincaa
world. Benjamin Corvet la Nome-
tliiiiK of, a rerJjjse and a mystery
to hla associates Alter a atoriny
Interview with hia partner,• Henry
Spearman, t.'orvet seeks Constance
Sherrill, daughter of hla Other
business partner, larwrence Sher-
rill, and secures from her a prom-
ise not to marry Spearman. He
then disappears. Sherrill learns
Corvet has written to a certain
Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kan
aas, and exhibited strange agita-
tion over the mutter. Covet's let-
ter summons Conrad, a youth of
unknown parentage, to Chicago
Alan arrives In Chicago. From a
statement of Sherrill It seems prob-
able Conrad Is Corvet’* Illegitimate
son. Corvet has deeded his house
and Its contents to Alan, who takes
possession That night Alan dis-
covers a man ransacking the desks
and bureau drawers In Corvet’e
apartments. The appearance of
Alan tremendously agitates the In-
truder, who appears to think him
a ghost and raves of “the Mlwa-
kit " After a struggle the man es-
capes.
V
CHAPTER V.—Continued.
—5—
Alan took up his hat ami looked
about the house; he was going to re-
turn and sleep here, of course; he was
not going to leave the house unguard-
ed for any long time after this, hut,
4ifter what had just happened, he felt
lie could leave It safely for half an
hour, particularly if he left a light
burning within.
He did this and stepped over to the
Sherrills'. The mail who answered his
ring roeognized him at once and ad-
mitted him; in reply to Alan’s ques-
tion, the servant said that Mr.•Sherrill
had not yet returned. When Alan
■went to his room, the valet appeared
mid, finding that 41I1UI was packing,
the man offered his service. Alan let
him pack and went downstairs; a mo-
tor had just driven up to Hie house.
It proved to have brought Constance
mid her mother; Mrs. Sherrill, aflcr
Informing Alan that Mr. Sherrill might
not return until some time later, went
upstairs and tli'd not appear again.
'•Constance followed her mother hut,
ten minutes later, came downstairs.
“You're not staying here tonight?”
she Hsked.
“I wanted to say* to your father,"
'Alan explained, "that I believe I had
better go over to the other house.”
"Are you taking any one with you?"
site inquired.
“Any one?”
“A servant, I mean.”
“No."
“Then you’ll let us lend you a man
Jfrom here.”
“You’re awfully good; but I don’t
think I’ll need anyone tonight. Mr.
•Curvet's—my father's man—is coming
back tomorrow, I understand. I’ll get
•along very well until then."
She was silent a moment as she
looked away. Her shoulders suddenly
jerked a little. "I wish you’d take
some one with you,” she persisted. "I
don't like to think of you alone over
there."
“My father must have been often
alone there.”
"Yes,” she said. “Yes." She looked
at him quickly, then away, checking a
■question. She wanted to ask, he knew,
■what he had discovered In that lonely
bouse which had so agitated him ; for
lief. Sherrill further hail said that
benjamin Corvet, if he hud wished
Sherrill to know those eireiinistunces,
would have told them to him ; blit Cor-
vet hail not done that; Instead, he had
sent for Alan, Ids son. He had given
his sou Ids conlhlence.
Sherrill' had admitted that he was
withholding from Alan, for the time
being, something that he knew about
benjamin Corvet; It was nothing, he
Intd said, which would help Alan lo
learn about his father, or wluit had
become of him; hut perhaps Sherrill,
not knowing these other tilings, could
not speak accurately as to that. Alan
determined to ask Sherrill what he
iuiti been withholding, before he told
him all of what had happened In Cor-
vet's house. There was one other cir-
eumstunce which Sherrill lutd tueti-
lioned hut not explained; it occurred
to Alan now.
“Miss Sherrill—" lie checked him-
self.
“What Is It?"
"This afternoon your father said
that you believed that Mr. Corvet’s
disappearance was in some way con-
nected with you; lie said that he ditl
not think that was so; hut do you
want to tell me why you thought It?"
“Yes; 1 will tell you.” She colored
quickly, “One of tlic last things Mr.
Corvet did—in fact, tlie Iasi thing we
know of his doing before he sent for
you—was to come to me and warn me
against one of my friends.’’
“Warn you. Miss Sherrill? How? I
mean, warn you against what?”
“Against thinking too much of him.”
Six* turned away.
“I think i’ll come to see your father
In the morning," Alan said, wlieu Con-
stance looked hack to him.
“But you’ll come over here for
breakfast in the morning?"
“You want me?”
“Cert it Inly.”
“I’d like lo come very much.”
“Then I’ll expect you." She followed
him to the door when he hod put on
his things, and lie made no objection
when she asked that the man he al-
lowed to carry his hag around to the
other house.
When lie had dismissed Simons and
re-entered the house on Astor street,
he found no evidences of any disturb-
ance while he had been gone. On the
second floor, to the east of the room
which had been his father's, was a
bedroom which evidently had been
kept ns a guest chamber; Alan carried
his suitcase there and made ready for
bed.
The sight of Constance Sherrill
standing and watching after him In
concern as he started hack to this
house, came to him again and again
and, also, her flush when she had
spoken of the friend against whom
Benjamin Corvet had warned her.
Who was he? It had been Impossible
at that moment for Alan to ask her
more; besides, if lie had asked and she
had told him, he would have learned
only a name which lie could tfot place
yet In any connection with her or with
Benjamin Corvet. Whoever he was. it
was plain that Constance Sherrill
“You’re Not Staying Here Tonight?”
She Asked.
of course she had noticed agitation in
hint. And he had intended to tell her,
or, rather, her father. He had been
rehearsing to himself the description
of the man he had met there In order
to ask Sherrill about him; hut now
Alan knew that he was not going to
refer the matter even to Sherrill just
yet.
Sherrill had believed that Benjamin
•Corvet’s disappearance was from cir-
f'umstances too personal aud intimate
to he made a subject of public inquiry;
and what Alan had encountered in
Corvet's house had continued that be-
"thought of him;” lucky man, Alan
said to himself. Yet Corvet had
warnejj her not to tit in k of him. . . .
Alan turned back his bed. It had
been for him a tremendous day. Bare-
ly twelve hours before he hail come to
that house. Alan Conrad from Blue
Rapids, Kan., now . . . phrases
from what Lawrence Sherrill had told
him of his father were running
through his mind as lie 'opened the
door of the room to be able to hear
a try noise in benjamin Curvet's house,
of which he was sole protector. The
emotion roused by his first sight of the
lake went through him again us he
opened the window to the east.
Now—he was in bed—he seemed to
he standing, a specter before a man
blaspheming benjamin Corvet and the
souls of men dead. “And the lode
above the eye! . . . The bullet got
you! . . . So it's you that got Ben!
. . . I’ll get you! . . . You can’t
save the Miwaka!”
The Miwaka! The stir of that name
was stronger now even than before; it
had been running through his con-
sciousness almost constantly since he
had heard it. He jumped up and
turned on the light and found a pencil.
He did not know how to spell the
name and it was not necessary to
write it down; the name had taken on
that definiteness and ineffnceahleness
of a tiling which, once heard, can
never again be forgotten, but. in
panic that lie might forget, lie wrote
it, guessing at Hie spelling—“Miwaka."
It was a name, of course; hut the
name of what? It repeated and re-
peated Itself to him, after he got hack
into bed. until its very iteration made
him drowsy.
Outside, the gale whistled anti
shrieked. The wind, passing its last
resistance after its sweep across the
prairies before it leaped upon the lake,
battered and clamored In its assault
about the house. But as Alan became
sleepier, lie heard it no longer as it
rattled the windows and howled under
the eaves and over the roof, but as out
on the lake, above the roaring arid ice-
crunching waves, it whipped and cir-
cled with its chill the ice-shrouded
sides of struggling ships. So, with the
roar of surf, and gale in Ids ears, he
went to sleep with the sole conscious
connection hi his mind between him-
self and these people, among whom
benjamin Curvet’s summon* had
brought him, the one name "Miwaka."
CHAPTER VI.
The Deed in Trust.
Memory, If Alan could call it that,
had given him a feeling for ships and
for the lake, but these recollections
were only what those of a three-year*’
child might have been. Not only did
they refuse to connect themselves with
anything else, but by the very flmtlity
of their isolation, they warned him
that they and perhaps a few more
vague memories of similar sort—were
all that recollection ever would give
him. He caught himself together and
turned Ids thoughts to the approach
'ing visit to Sherrill—and Ids father's
offices. He had accepted Constance
Sherrill’s Invitation to drive him
downtown to bis destination.
Observing the towering buildings to
tils right, he was able to identify some
of the more prominent structures, fa-
miliar from photographs of the city.
Constance drove swiftly a few blocks
Sherrill Opened a Drawer and Took
Out a Large, Plain Envelope.
down this boulevnrd; then, with a
sudden, “Here we are!’’ she shot the
car to the curb and stopped. She led
Alan into one of the tallest and best-
looking buildings.
On several of the doors opening upon
the wide marble hall where the eleva-
tor left them, Alan saw the names,
“Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman.”
Constance led the way on past to a
door farther down the corridor, which
bore merely the name, “Lawrence
Sherrill"; evidently Sherrill, who had
interests aside from the shipping busi-
ness, had offices connected with but
not actually a part of the offices of
Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman. A girl
on guard at the door, saying that Mr.
Sherrill had beet) awaiting Mr. Con-
rad, opened an inner door and led
Alan into a large, many-windowed
room, where Sherrill was sitting alone
before a table-desk. He pulled the
“visitor’s chair” rather close to his
desk and to his own big leather chair
before asking Alan to seat, himself.
“You wanted to tell me, or ask me,
something last night, my daughter has
told nit',” Sherrill said cordially. “I’m
sorry 1 wasn’t homo whe.) you came
hack."
“I wanted to ask you, Mr. Sherrill,"
Alan said, “about those facts in re-
gard to Mr. Corvet which you men-
tioned to me yesterday hut did not ex-
plain. You said it would not aid me to
know them; but 1 found certain things
In Mr. Corvet’s lioii.se last night which
made me want to know, if I could,
everything you could tell me.”
Sherrill opened a drawer and took
out a large, plain envelope.
“On the day after your father disap-
peared,” lie saiii. “hut before I knew
lie was gone—or before any one except
my daughter felt any alarm about him
—I received a short note front him.
The note was agitated, almost incoher-
ent. It told me he had sent for you —
Alan Conrad, of. blue Rapids, Kansas
—hut spoke of you us though you were
some one 1 ought to have known about,
and commended you to my care The
remainder of it was merely an agitat-
ed, almost Indecipherable farewell to
Lae. When I opened the envelope, a
key had fallen out. The note made
no reference to the key, hut, compar-
ing it with one I had In my pocket, I
saw that it appeared to he a key to a
safety deposit box in the vaults of a
company where we both had boxes.
“The note, taken in connection with
my daughter’s alarm about him, made
it so plain fhat something serious hud
happened to Corvet, that my first
thought'was merely for him. Corvet
was not a man with whom one could
readily connect the thought of suicide;
but. Alan, that was the idea 1 had. I
hurried at once to his house, but the
hell was not answered, and I could not
get in. His servant, Wassaquam, has
very few friends, and lhe few times he
has been away from home of recent
years have been wluvt he visited an
aequalntunce of his —the head porter
• In a South Side hotel. I went to the
telephone in the house next door and
called the hotel and found Wussaqiuim
I here. I told him over the telephone
only that something was wrong, and
hurried to my own home to get the
key, which 1 had, to the Corvet house;
hut when I came hack and let myself
Into tin* house, 1 found It empty and
with no sign of anything having hap-
pened.
“The Di>xt morning, Afan, I went to
the safe deposit vaults as soon its they
were open. 1 presented tin* numbered
key ami was told that It belonged to a
box rented by Corvet, end that Corvet
hnd arranged about three days before
for me to hiive access to the box if I
presented the key. 1 had only to sign
my name in their hook and open the
box. In It, Alan, I found tin* pictures
of you which 1 showed you yesterday
and the very strange communications
that I tun going to show you now."
Sherrill opened the long envelope,
from which several thin, folded papers
fell. He picked up the largest of these,
which consisted of several sheets
fastened together with u clip, and
handed it to Alan without comment.
Alan, as he looked at It and turned the
pages, saw that it contained two col-
umns of typewriting carried from page
to page after the manner of an ue-
count.
The column to the left was an Inven-
tory of property and profits and in-
come by months and years, and the
one to the right was a list of losses
and expenditures. Beginning at an in-
definite day or month in the yeur lsiKi,
there was set down in a lump sum
what was indicated as the total of ben-
jamin Corvet’s holdings Ht that time.
To this, in sometimes undated items,
the increase had*been added. In the
opposite column, beginning apparently
from the same date in 1895, were Hie
missing man’s expenditures.
Alan having ascertained that the pa-
pers contained only this account,
looked up questioningly to Sherrill;
but Sherrill, without speaking, merely
handed him the second of the papers.
Alan unfolded it and suw tliut it was
a letter written in the same hand
which had written the summons he
had received in Blue Rapids and had
made the entries in the little memo-
randum book of the remittances that
bad been sent to John Welton.
It began simply:
"Lawrence—
"This will come to you in the event
that I am not able to carry out the
plan upon which I am now, ut last, de-
termined. You will find with this a
list of my possessions. Deeds for all
real estate executed und complete ex-
cept for recording of the transfer at
the county office; bonds, certificates,
and other documents representing my
ownership of properties, together with
tjigned forms for their legal transfer
to you, are in tills box. These proper-
ties, in their entirety, I give to you in
trust to hold for the young man now
known As Alan Conrad of Blue Rap-
ids, Kan., to deliver any part or all
over to him or to continue to hold It
all in trust for him ns you shall con-
sider to be to his greatest advantage.
“This for the reasons which I shall
have told to you or him—I cannot
know which one of you now, nor do I
know how I shall tell it. But when
you learn, Lawrence, think us well of
me as you can and help him to he
charitable to me.
"With the greatest affection,
“BK’NJ AMI N COR V FT."
your lather was particularly anxious
that you should take a personal as
well as a filianciul place among tlm
men who control the traffic of the
lakes. | have told Spearman that tills
•a my intentiou. lie has not been ahln
to see it my wuy as yet; hut lie limy
change liis views, 1 think, utter meet-
ing you."
Sherrill got up, Alan arose a llttlo
unsteadily. The list of properties lie
had rend and the letter and SJiernll’s
statement portended .so much that Its
meaning could not all cotue lo him at
once, lie followed Sherrill through a
short private corridor, flunked with
tiles lettered "Corvet, Sherrill, and
Spearman," Ipto Hie large room he had
set*n when lie came In with Constance.
They crossed this, ami Sherrill, with-
out knocking, opened the door of the
office marked, "Mr. Spearman." Alan,
looking on past Sherrill us the door
opened, saw that there were some half
dozen men in the room, smoking and
talking. IBs gaze went swiftly on past
these men to the one who, half seated
on the top of the tint desk, had been
talking to them; and Ills pulse closed
upon Ids heart with a shock; he start-
ed, choked with astonishment, then
swiftly forced himself undeta control.
For this was the man whom lit* had
mot and whom lie hud fought in Hcn-
jnmln Curvet's bouse the night before
the big mnn surprised in Ills blas-
phemy of Corvet and of sot.is “in h I"
who, at sight of an apparition with n
bullet holt* above Its eye, had cried out
in his fright, “You got ben! but you
won’t get no*—d—n you I I)—n you!"
Alan's shoulders drew up slightly,
tml the muscles of nis bauds tight-
ened, as Sherrill led him to this man.
Sherrill put his bund on the man's
shoulder; his other hand was still on
Ainu's arm.
".Henry," he said to the man, “this
Is Alan Conrad. Alan, I want you to
know my partner, Mr. Spearman."
Spearman nodded an acknowledg-
ment, hut bid not put out his hand;
his eyes—steady, bold, watchful eyes
—seemed measuring Alan attentively;
and In return Alan, with his gaze, was
measuring him.
CHAPTER VII.
Mr. Corvet’s Partner.
The Instant of meeting, when Alan
recognized In Sherrill’s partner, the
man with whom lie had fought in Cor-
vet’s house, was one of swift readjust-
ment of all his thought—adjustment
to a situation of which he could not
even have dreamed, and which left
him breathless. Hut for Spearman,
obviously. It was not that. Following
his nonconunittill nod of acknowledg-
ment of Sherrill’s introduction and his
first steady scrutiny of Alan, the big,
handsome man swung himself off from
the desk on which lie sat and leaned
against It, facing them more directly.
“Oh,* yes—Conrad,” lie said. Ills
tone was hearty; In it Alun could rec-
ognize only so much of reserve as
might he expected from Sherrill's
partner who had taken an attitude of
opposition. The shipmasters, looking
Alan, as he finished reading, looked
up to Sherrill, bewildered und dazed.
"Whut doe> It menu, Mr. Sherrill?—
Does It menu that he has gone away
anti left everything he had—everything
to me?”
“If Mr. Corvet uo4s not return, and
I do not receive any other instructions,
I shall take over his estate, as lie lias
instructed, for your advantage."
"And, Mr. Sherrill, he didn't tell you
why? This is all you know?"
"Yes; you have everything now. All
we can do, Alan, is to seurch for him
in every way we cau. There will he
others searching for him too now; for
Information of his disappearance has
got out. There have been reporters ut
the office this morning making in-
quiries, and Ids disappearance will be
in the afternoon papers,"
Sherrill put the papers hack in their
envelope, and tfie envelope back into
the drawer, which lie relocked.
"I went over, all tiii.s with Mr. Spe^r-
in iff this morning,’’ lie suid. “He is as
much at a loss to explain it as I am."
lie was silent for a few moments,
"The' transfer of Mr. Corvet’s prop-
erties to urn* for you," tie said sudden-
ly, “includes, as you have seen, Cor-
vet’s interest in the firm of ’Corvet,
.Sherrill & Spearman.' I went very
carefully through the deeds and trans-
fers iu’ the deposit box, and it was
plain that, wiiile he had taken great
cure with the forms of transfer for all
the properties, he had taken particular
pains with whatever related to his
holdings jn this company and his
shipping interests. If I make over Hie
properties to you, Alan, I shall begin
with those; for it seems to me tliut
Steady, Bold, Watchful Eyes Seemed
Measuring Alan Attentively.
on. could see. in> doubt, nol even that ;
except Jur the excitement which Alan
himself could not conceal, it must ap-
pear to them only uu ordinary intro-
duction.
Alan fought sharply down the swift
rush of his blood and the tightening of
his muscles.
“1 can say truly that I’m glad to
meet you, Mr. Spearman,” he man-
aged.
There was no recognition of any-
thing beyond the mere surface mean-
ing of the words in Spearman's slow
smile of acknowledgment, as he turned
from Alan to Sherrill.
“You can see why I have to
distrust the young fellow who'i
come to claim Ben Corvet’*
place.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
HAS FIRST WELL
DAY IN 6 YEARS
Huntington Citizen Could Neither
Sleep Nor Eat With Any Sat-
isfaction Before He
Got Tanlac.
“before tuklng Tanlac I had not
seen a well day In six years," said
\V. It. Peoples, fl'JS 22nd St., lliintltlg-
ton, W. Vti.
“It seemed like I had lost my health
for good. 1 could neither sleep nor
♦•at with satisfaction. I wu9 badly
run down, nervous, had no appetite
and had to force down every mouthful
I ate. F.ven then my food soured. I
would fill up with gas until I hud in-
tense pains In my stomach aud chest.
Headache almost drove me mad, rheu-
matism in my arms, shoulder and hips
kept me In pain all the time, aud I
hnd to force myself to work.
“TilnlAc went right after my troubles.
On four bottles I gained ten pounds
and the rheumatism and stomach
trouble soon left me. My wife has
given a statement about the good Titu-
lar did her, mid I am glad to add my
endorsement of thin wonderful medi-
cine.”
Tanlac Is sold by all good druggists.
As He Understood It.
Robert came home from Sunday
school not long ago liiiiiimliig the
music of the closing hymn, "Jesus Is
seeking the humble heart.”
“What Is that you are hunitnlrig,
Robert?" asked Ids mother. “I haven't
heard you say the words yet."
“Don't you know, mother?" an-
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