The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, April 13, 1922, Image 4
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A Cbpvjr^hf by EdwTrvTBalmcr >---^L
(Continued from last wwk)
CHAPTER IV.
nin??a oiTt; well."
s the door closed behind Sherrill,
Alan went over to the dresser and
picked up the key which Sherrill had
left. He put It, after a moment, on
the ring with two or three other keys
he had, und dropped them into his
pocket; then he crossed to a chair and
at down.
Sherrill had spoken of the posslbll- '
lty that something might have "huppeued"
to Corvet; but It wus plain he j
did not believe he hud met with actual
violence. He had left It to Alan to examine
Corvet's house; but he had not
urged Alan to exumlue It at once; he
had left the time of the examination
to be determined by Alali. This
allowed clearly Ihut Sherrill believed
?perhaps had suftlclent reason for believing?that
Corvet had simply -"gone
away." Corvet, Sherrill had said, had
married In 1888. But Sherrill in long
knowledge of his friend, had shown
Arm conviction that there hud been
no mere vulgar liaison In Corvet's life.
Did this mean that there might have j
been some previous marriage of Alan's <
father?some murrlago which had ,
strangely overlapped and nullified his j
public marrluge? In that case, Alan |
could be, not only In fact hut legally, I
Curvet's son; and such things as this, j
Alan knew, hnd sometimes happened, I
and had happened by u strange combl- ;
nation of events. Innocently for all i
, parties. Corvet's public separation ;
from his wife, Slierritl hud said, hud
taken place In 1807, hut the actual
separation between them might, pos- ;
Ihly, have taken place Idng before j
that.
The afternoon hud chungcd swiftly
Into night; dusk had been gathering
during his lust tulk with Sherrlll, s<>
that he hardly hnd been able to sec
8herrlU's fuce, and Just after Sherrlll
had left him, full dark had come. Alui:
did not know how long he hnd been
altting in the darkness thinking out
these things; but now u little clock
which had l>een ticking steadily In the
blackness tinkled six. Alan licurd a
knock at his door, nnd when it was re
peated, be called. "Come in."
The light which came In from the
La", us the door was opened, showed
a man servant. The man, al'ter a respectful
inquiry, switched on the light,
He crossed into the adjoining room?
a bedroom; the room where Alan was,
he thought, must be n dressing room,
and there was a bath between, l'res
ently the man reappeared, und moved
softly about the room, unpuclflng !
Alan's suitcase. He hung Alun's other
auit in the closet 011 hangers; he put
the Unea, except for one shirt, in the ;
dresser drawers, and he put Alan's
few toilet things with the ivory- j
backed brushes and comb and other
articles on the dressing stand.
Alan wondered, with a sort of trepl- J
dation, whether the man would expect
to stay aud help him dress; but he
only put the buttons In the clean shirt
and reopened the dresser drawers and
laid out a change of things.
"I wus to tell you, sir, Mr. Shcrrlll
Is sorry he cannot be at home to dinnor
tonight. Mrs. Sherrill and Miss
gherrlll will be here. Dinner Is at
seven, sir."
Alan dressed slowly, after the man
had gone; and at one minute before
even he went downstairs.
There was no one In the lower hull
and, after un Instant of Irresolution
and a glance Into the empty drawing
room, he turned luto the small room
at the opposite side of the hall. A
handsome, stately, rather large woman,
whom he found there, Introduced
herself to him formully us Mrs. Sher_411
Us> ..A* ?I '
KIM? icoci ?*!v, niuiuai iuu
casuul acceptance of Alan's presence,
told him thut she knew all the par.
tlculars about himself which Sberrill
had been able to give; and as Conatance
came down the stairs and
Joined them half a minute later, Alan
was certain that she also knew.
Dinner was announced, and they
went Into the great dining room,
where the table with its linen, sliver,
and china gleamed under shaded
lights. The oldest and most dlgulhed
of the three jnen 8, pvunts who waited
apon them in the dining room Aluu
thought must be a butler?a species of
creature of whom Alan had heurd hut
never had seen; the other servants, at
least, received aud handed things
through him, ar2 took their *x>rders
from bin.
What Slierrill nod told Alan of his
father had been Iteruting Itself again
and a agin in Alan's thoughts; now he
recalled that Bherrlll had said that his
daughter believed that Corvet's disappearance
had had something to do
with her. Alan bad wondered at the
moment how that could.be; and as he
watched her across the table and now
and then exchanged a comment with
her, It pussled him still more. He
had opportunity to ask her when she
waited with him In the library, after
dinner was finished and her mother
had gone upstairs; hut he did not see
then hew to go about It.
Tn sorry," she said to hlin, "that
we cant be home tonight; bat perhaps
pea would rstht* be alone?"
Be did not answer that.
-*Have yoi a picture here, Miss Sher
fill, ?my father?" he asked.
"Uncle beany ha J had very few pic?
tares taksnc but there Ig one here."
*" * 1 ???? II I, I
Closer to the Tight. The racy that
looked up to him from the heavily
glazed page was regular of feature,
handsome In a way, and forceful.
There were Imagination and vigor of
thought In the broad, smooth forehead;
the eyes were strangely moody
and brooding; the mouth was gentle,
! rather kindly; It was a queerly Impelling,
haunting facc^ This was his
I father! But, as Alan held the picture,
, gazing down upon It, the only emotion
which came to him was realization that
\ he felt none. He had no emotion of
] any sort; lie could not attach to this
man, because he bore the name which
some one hud told him was his fa
iuvt a, iue passions WHICH, when
dreamlug of hlg father, he had felt.
Alan stood still a moment longer,
then, remembering the book which he
held, lie drew a chair up to the light,
and read the short, dry biography of
his father printed on the page opposite
the portrait. It summarized In
a few hundred words his father's life.
Alan shut the book and sat thoughtful.
The tall clock In the hall struck
nine. He got up and went out Into
the hall and asked for his hat and
coat. When they .had been brought
him, he put them on and went out.
He went down the steps and to the
corner and turned west to Astor street.
When he reached the house of his father
he stopped under a street lamp,
looking up at the big, stern old mansion
questionlngly.
He could not call up any sense that
the house was his, nny more than he
hud been able to when Sherrlll hod
told him of It. He own a house on
that street! Vet was that In Itself
any more remarkable than thnt he
should be the guest, the friend of such
people as the Sherrllls? No one as
He Could Not Call Up Any Sense That
the Houso Was His.
yet, sinte Sherrlll bad told liiin he was
Corvet's son, hnd called him by name;
when they did, what would they call
him? Alan Conrad still? Or Alan
('orvet? ;
He noticed, up a street to the west,
the lighted sign of a drug store and
turned up thul wuy; he had promised,
he had recollected now, to write to
. . , those In -Kansas?he could not
call them "father" and "mother" any !
more?and tell them what he had dls- 1
covered a9 soon as he arrived. He
could not tell them that, hut he could
write them at lenst that he had arrived
safely and was well. He bought
a postcard In the drug store, and wrote
Just, "Arrived sufely; am well" to
John Welton In Kansas. There was
a little vending machine upon the conn- j
ter, and he dropped In a penny and got I
a box of matches and nut them In his
pocket.
He mailed the card and turned back
to Astor street; and he walked more
swiftly now, having come to his decision,
and only shot one quick look up
at the house as he approached It. With
what had Ills father shut himself up
within that hou*! for twenty years?
And was It there still? And was It
from that that Benjamin Corvet had
tied? lie saw no one In the street,
and was certain no one wus observing
him as, taking the key from his pocket,
he ran up the steps and unlocked the
outer door. Holding this door open
to get the light from the street lamp,
he-fitted the key into the inner door;
then he closed the outer door. For ful
ly a minute, with fast-bentlng heart
and a sense of expectation of he knew
not what, he kept his hand upon the
key before he turned It; then he
opened the door and stepped Into the
dark and silent house.
CHAPTER V
An Eneounter.
Alan, standing in the darkness of
the halt^ felt In his pocket for his
matches and struck one on the box.
The light showed the hall In front of
hint, reaching back Into some vague,
distant darkness, and great rooms with
wide portlered doorways gaping on
both sides. He turned Into the room
upon his right, glanced to see that the
shades were drawn on the winddws
toward the street, then found the
witch and turned on the electric light.
* Alan had the feeling which so often
comes to one in an unfamiliar and
vacant hews that there was some we
In the house with him. He listened
(?t?y oo? hamY*
Hla voice brougtt no response. He
k went half way up the curve of the wide
i stairway and called again, and lls1
toned; then he fought down the feeling
he had had; Sherrlli hud said there
j would be no one in the house, und
I A!au was certain there was no one.
! So he went back to the room where
I he had left the light.
The center of this room, like the
' room next to it, was occupied by a
library table-desk. He pulled open
some drawers in it; one or two hud
blueprints and technical drawings in
them; the others had only the miscellany
which accumulates in a room '
much used. Thete were drawers also
under the bookcases all around the
j room; they appeared, when Allan
j opened some of them, to contain pamphlets
of various societies, and the
scientific correspondence of which >
Sherrlli hRd told him. Alan felt that j
seeing these things was bringing his
father closer to him; they gave him a
little of the feellug he hnd been unnhle
to get when he looked at his father's
picture. He could realize better now
the lonely, restless man. pursued by
some ghost he could not kill, taking
up for dlstrnctjon one subject of study
after another, exhausting each In turn
until he could no longer make It engross
him. and then absorbing himself
In the next.
On the top of a chest of high drawers
In n corner near the dressing j
-
ini'if were some papers. Alun went
over to look nt them: they were Invl- I
tatlons, notloes of coneerts and of j
ploys twenty years old?the mall,
probably. of the morning when Corvet's
wife had gone away, left where her
maid or she herself had laid them,
and only picked up and put hack there
at the tlmea since when the room wna
dusted. As Alan touched them, he
saw that his fingers left marks In the
dust on the smooth top of the chest;
he noticed that some one else had
touched the things and made marks
of the same sort as he had made. The
freshness of these other innrks star,
tied hint; they had been made within
a day or so. They could not have
been made by Sherrlll, for Alan had
noticed that Sherrlll's hands were
! slender and dellcntely formed; Corvet,
too, was not a large man; Alan's
| own hand was of good slr.e and powerful,
hut when he put his fingers over
the marks the other man had made, he
found that the other hand must have
been larger and more powerful than
his own. Had It been Corvet's servant?
It might have been, though the
marks seemed too fresh for that; for
the servant, Sherrlll had said, had left
. the day Corvet's disappearance was
| discovered.
This proof that some one had been
prying about In the house before himself
and since Corvet had gone, siartlcd
Alan and angered hltu. Who had
been searching in ltenjamln Corvet's
?In Alan's house? He pushed the
drawers shut hastily and hurried
across the hall to the room opposite.
In this room?plainly Renjnmln Corvet's
bedroom?were no signs of Intrusion.
He went to the door of the
room conneetlng 1th It. turned on
the light, and looked In. It was a
smaller room than the others and
contained a roll-top desk and a cabinet.
The rover of the desk was closed,
and the drawers of the eablnet were
shut and apparently undisturbed. He
tried the cover of the desk, but It an
penred to he locked; after looking
around vainly for a key, he trivu
again, exerting a little more force,
and tliia time the top went up easily,
tearing away the metal plate Into
which the claws of the lock clasped
and the two long screws which had
held it. He examined the lock, surprised,
and saw rtint the screws must
have been merely set into the holes;
scars showed where a chisel or some
metal Implement had been thrust In
under the top to force It up. The
pigeonholes and little drawers In the
upper part of the desk, as he swiftly
opened them, he found entirely empty.
He hurried to the cabinet; the draw- >
ors of the cabinet too had been forced, }
and very recently; for the scars and |
the splinters of wood were clean and '
fresh. These drawers and the drawers
in the lower part of the desk
either were empty, or the papers in
them had been disarranged and tumbled
in confusion, as though some one
had examined them hastily and tossed !
them back. To Alan, the marks of .
violence and roughness were unmls- :
takably the work of the man with the
big hands who had left marks upon
the top of the chest of drawers; and
the feeling that he had been In the
house very recently was stronger than
ever.
Alan ran out Into the hall and 11 s^~~-SHAI.D
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tened ; he heard no sound : but he went
hnek to the little room i ore excited
than before. For what Had the other
man been seurchlng? F-r the same
things which Alan \va oklng for?
And had the other n\ got them?
Who might the other ' . and what
might he hlB connection with llenjamln
Corvet? Alan had doubt that
everything of Importni > must have
been taken away, but 1 - would make
sure of that. He took s e of the papers
from the drawers ami began to
examine them; after i, n-!y an hour
of this, he had found on!; one artlele
which appeared conned- ' 10 any way
with what Slierrlll ha-' ,?ld hlto or
with Alan himself. In '-m c,( the little
drawers of the desk hr f?-.:nd several
hooks, much worn as though from
being carried In a pocl t. and one of ;
these contained a aer'es of entries'
stretching over several years. These
listed nn amount?$l.p?0 o? poslte a s?
rles of dates with only 'ha year and
the rnvr'.h given, and -te was nr.
entry for every second i. < nth.
Alan teit his outers t:e: .Mteg a-> he i
turned the puges of tin little- hook J
and found at the end <T the list a
blank. nn#l tiolnur in < >.. >-?-?
, .? , U Ii;r isaiau: IlillMI
lirtt in writing wliich l.ud changed
slightly with the passag of years, another
date und the conf. tnlng entry of
$1,500. Alan looked thimr.h the little
book nguiu and put it in his pocket. <
It was, beyond doubt, bis father's
memorandum of the sums sent to Hlue |
Rapids for Alan; it told Mill that here
he had" been in his fat!. ?r's thoughts
He grew warm at the ibought as he
began putting the other things back
Into the drawers.
lie started and straight* ned suddenly
; then ite listened a tentively, and
his skin, warm an Ins :int before,
turned cold and prickled. Somewhere '
within the house, unmls'.akably on the
floor below him, a door had slammed.
Some one?it was beyond question
now, for the renllr.nUon w: s quite different
from ihe feeling be had had
tlhfkll t Htuf "-o* 1" 4k A u ?
? % ?%?. uvtvic ?? U" III UIC IimiM*
with him. Was It . . . his father
who had come hack? That, thouKh
not Impossible, seemed Improbable.
Alan stooped quickly, unlaced and
stripped off his shoes, and ran out
(Continued on It t oage)
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LMA
imbia, A]
d MONDAY, APRIL
Arrival of County Qu
works and opening of Pa
8:30 P. M. Fashion Shov
tion of County Queens an*
cert.
TUESDAY, APRIL
Industrial exhibits, $
1| band concert in the aften
T ing at 8:30 Style Sho
Queens.
|? WEDNESDAY, APRI
Afternoon, Introductio
riD ty Queens> style show, j
" Evening at 8:30, Band coi
Bayes, style show, intrc
Queens. At 9:30, Dinner
at Ridgewood Club fi
Queens given by the Foci
; Greatest Gala
ELIZABETH (
(Delayed Letter)
Quite a number attended the fun- ^
eral of Mr. A. B. Osbourn here Sunday
afternoon. in
Mrs. Lillie Hendricks and family
have, been quite sick with "flu" for SP
the past week but hope they will soon
be well again. M
Mrs. Lonnie Ratliflf visited Mrs. s?
Kittie Redfearn Sunday afternoon.
Several from here attended ser- P>
vices at the Mt. Croghan Methodist; th
Church Sunday night. Rev. Ingram
preached a very interesting sermon. =
Mrs. J. W. Lowery spent Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. Spencer Sellers.
Mr. and Mrs. Georgia Ratliflf spent
Sunday aftemon at he home of his (
mother, Mrs. Dave RatliflT.
M iss Edith Griggs is very sick with
the "flu" but hope she will soon be fc
well again.
Miss Rosa Mae Watson was the
guest of Misses Elease and Grace Hilton
Wednesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. James Brasington of
Cheraw spent Sunday with her aunt,
Mrs. Lillie Hendricks.
Several from here attended the
funeral of Miss Anna Thurroan near ,,,
Ruby Monduy.
Rev. Caudle will preach here Sat- Qj
urday afternoon at 3. Sunday morn- pt
ing at 11. Every body come.
St
INFORMATION WANTED B<
Thomas R. Rivers, of U. S. Ship, Ct
Jones, care Post Master of San Diego, CI
California, wishes to know the where- Pi
abouts of Lewis C. Rivers of Ruby, S. Pi
C., Route No. 1. Ri
v
- A.
The Farmers' Bulletin, Number
1262, entitled, "The Boll-Weevil ^
Problem," is now ready for distribu- yy
tion, and the same can be had by writ- gj
ing to Hon. W. F. Stevenson, Washington.
It contains valuable information
in this connection. q
M
CARDUI HELPED
REGAIN STRENGTH I
Di
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Alabama Lady Waa Sick For Three :'1
Tears, Suffering Pain, Nervous j.'j
and Depressed?Read Her Zi
Own Story of Recorery. A
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Paint Rock, Ala.?Mrs. O. M, Btegall, M
Of near here, recently related the Col- p]
lowing interesting account of her re- p
eovery: "I waa In a Weakened con
ditlon. I waa alck three years in bed. l,
suffering a great deal of pain, weak, A1
nervous, depressed. X waa so weak, M
I couldn't walk aoross the floor; Just p
had to lay and my little onee do the ?
work. I was almost dead. I tried b
?very thing I heard of. and a number of U
doctors. Still 1 didn't get any relief. B
I couldn't eat, and slept poorlyw I
believe If I hadn't heard of and taken
Oardul I woul<\ have died. 1 bought "
six bottles, after a neighbor told me.J
what it did for her. {,>
"I began to eat and sleep, began to p
gain my strength and am now well p
and strong I haven't had any trouble
since ... I sure can testify to the s
good that Oardul did me. I don't S
think there Js a better tonio made y
and I believe it saved my life." c
For over 40 years, thousands of wo* ,
men have used Oardul suoeessfully, "
In the trt.ttmeat of many womanly (
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Dril 17 t<
17TH THURSI
leens. Fire- Afternoon
lmafesta at season. At 8
i, introduc- band concert
a u j
11 uaiiu cull- x*uccu cuiite
18TH FRID/
luto show. Announce
loon. Even- Queen, Palm
w, County industrial an
P. M., Crowi
L 19TH Palmafeata,
>n of Coun- cert,
auto races.
ncert, Nora 5ATURI
duction of
and stunts Baby and
or County Evening, Bai
is Club. fireworks an*
Week, Don
WHITE OAK f
The farmers in this section are
isy preparing their land and plantg
their crops.
Mrs. Catherine Jordon and family
ent Sunday near Jefferson.
Misses Ida and Lara Brown from'
iddendorf 3pent the week-end in this ' ,
ction.
i
We are sorry to report Mrs. W. J.
lrvis quite sick with pneumonia at *
is writing but hope her a spee- 1
r recovery.
COUNTY TA>
State
Ordinary County
Roads
Bridges
>tal
leiaW
arburg
range Hill
its Branch
e Dee
afford
,'thel
rnter Point
iceterfleld
irker
ne Grove
lby
liloh
tow Hill
afford
iughan
amble Hill
ack Oepk
nter
mter Grove
-oss Roads
t. Croghan
iby
exford
inzo
on
iffalo
idlcy
ve Forks
angum
igeland
ains
on
ngelus
enter Grove
larks
ifferson
acedonia
lains
ay Springs
reen Hill
eland
tiddendorf < ...
[cBee
rovidence
andy Run
nion
ay Springs
ear Creek
ethesda
uniper
[iddendorf
atrick
ats Branch Branch
hiloh
tafford
/hite Oak
lat Pond
uniper
lusley
'atrick
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JAY, APRIL 20TH
, Opening of base ball
:30 P. M., Nora Bayes. I
closing of Palmafesta j I
st. J 1
kY, APRIL 21ST I
ment of Palmafesta 1 H
tafesta Queen's Parade, j H
d floral parade. At 8 :30 j 5
ning pageant Queen of I I
style show, band con- 1 o
)AY, APRIL 22ND I
I educational parade. I 1
id concert, style show, I S
d closing of Palmafesta. I I
't Miss It! J
Miss Helen Campbell spent the
week-end at her home near Angelus.
School closed for this session Friday,
April 7th.
NOTICE OF DISCHARGE
On May 1st, 1922, I will apply to
the Probate Court of Chesterfield
County, South Carolina, for a discharge
as administrator of the estate
of Austin IIillian, deeased.
C. H. Rivers, Administrator.
C LEVY 1921
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