Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 2

SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1922 which was in sight. Alun put. his pocket, he said: d over the letter ! ve come to see Mr. | ~Mr. Benjamin Try Our Service Under The New Management American and Chinese Dishes Expert’ chefs have been st ured and . the cafe will be.first class in every espect. Clean and properly prepared foods: -well served and courteous reatnient, will be features always found here. Your trade is solif;ited and wiil be appreciated. “What is your name?” Alan gave his name; the man re- peated it after him, in the manner of a trained. servant, quite without in- Alan, not familiar with such So far as flection. | tones, waited uncertainly. | he could tell, the nas, strange to_ the’ s neither welcome nor opposition, hut indifference. : The man stepped back, Jl’but not in sudiza paoner s to invite Alan in; on the ,contrary, he half | elosed the door'as he stepped back, leaving it open only un luch or two; + but it was enough so that Alan heurd him say to some one within: i | i< it i ! | M i i t ¢ SYNOPSIS CHAPTER L—-Wealthy and highly laced in the Chicago business world, enjamin Corvet is something of a r cluse and 2 mystery to his assoclat After a stormy [nterview .with his part- ner. Ilenry Spearman, (orvet seeks Con- stance -Sherrill, daughter of his other business partner, Lawrence Sherrill, and secures from her w promisa not to marry Spearman. He then disappears. Sherriil learns Corvet has_written to a_ce Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kan and exhibited strange agitation over the matter. (Continued from last issue) in CHAPTER 11 Who Is Alan Conrad? ¢ jle>of Llfe tawis store e et b s Ak The recipient of the lettor which | drin « itions and i the everlgs. | e statlon, pricked In Alants_ velns, ;“"""“"“I'ii;“““ oEbeny "p‘“‘;: the special flavor of the newspaper—and demand the UNION LABEL-on all com- nji oy vrition and | Atin always earried fHs money sttty he dropped the window to | Judged: like girls hrougl I flave 5P n Benjumiu. Corvet pad written and | SR L of those arrears which | T B e at. - The luke, | Wealthy families, she. seetued to, Alan | Lucky Strike Cigarette — modities you purchase whenever possible. i B s right s : g " The following BUSINESS INTERESTS of our city solicit er 50 excitedly attempted to res ing himself a question the same as the COVEr, WAS is which was almost harbor. A different uir seemed to| i A trains which stopp It was addressed this time not to | 4 | . ender-thetire P '..'I';h:."n'.';']:'.mll\-,:.l.‘“.'lh :\.\.'\I\‘;.h.;rmll“ll:xil. papu, It o Alun Conrad. He selzed | COM® from it; sounds ... . Suddenly child.. He “““;l‘:"’| “;'.’:(‘;._ “l'w':,; And also because it's - BUY AT HOME! Hapids which e called home. As | It tore it open, and & bank draft for shut the —taxleub, Ireseed dike n| ©f Gugrmicedty ! L little, was dashing between dressed $is6 1 %‘ s M Tong s he could laok back into his 1i he guestion, who is (his person they call Alau. Convad, and what am 1 to the man who writes from Chicugo, had been the paramount enigma of exixt- ence for -him. Since he was now fwenty-three, as nearty as he had been | showed that the draft had beeu pur- | |0, 00 ol and there was something altogether ! ) : o which the sedd; build- : i i ym able to approximate it and as distinet | €hused with currency, so there %08 B0\ g o o500 G, el ! likable ana simple about her, as she ; Overland DeLeuil Co. A. 0. Ak b Phome BOLSW recollection. of fsoluted, extraordinary [ vecord of the identity of the person | Gl T g i crashing ex- | Studied Alan now. - She was slightly EASE BACKS bl e Tt events went back to the 1 when he was five, it fas quite eighteen years sinee he had fivst noticed the question put to the people who had him in charge: “So this is little Alan Con- . Who is he?” . x some knowledgg of her, and she seemed | £ h and f 8 G, i to “father; and that fall Jim, Alan’s | €reat, not loud ; und whiclr Alan ; A . % giow of warmth and comfort. 3 Following. the r .‘.f certain i II.'rme l\\'hl‘l’[‘ "‘um"‘lp But. | had heard befo xeept the soughing | surprised- to’see that her nume did ot | ° 564 for rheumatism, neuralgia, BAKERIES Nymcze Jetters, which were distinguished from g * | of the wind ovet his prairles, enme mean more to him. s ins and strains, aches and pains, Nymore Market and Grocery . tica, sore muscles, stiff joints and || Home Bakery—Phone 425 Phone 452 most others arriving at the house by having no ink writing on the envelope but just a sort of purple or black peinting Jike newspapers, Alan in- variably recelved a dollar to spend just us he Jiked, To he sure, unless “papa” took him to town, there was nothing for him to spend it upong likely- enongh, It went Into the square tron bank, of which the key wus los but quite often he did :mi i body: his pleasant, strong yonng face | T8 . o angl he studied: her in indecision, won- acquiveld selfrolianges sontr ad soatehed off his hat and, leaning | o L cording to plul rewd upon among | Aeauited self-relianee and self-control. | 3 3 4 f | dering who that father might be that L = P sl IO SEOME ] it ne filled with possibilities for | Y8 of the window sucked the lake alr tvpn-mtl Mr. Corvet's_telegrains. CLOTHIERS MEAT MARKETS all bis friends and, in memory aceastons aud - in anticipation of next, rs dollar” became o com- munity institution ainong the children “Who gives it to you, T was more often asked, as thme am went e, The only answer Alan could | No physical sexperience in all . hi i « : an comlid ) d returned to eare for themt. for [ N0 physical cexperience n all DS E o050 5 s give was, “It comes from Ciacago! Lo 'nl v e l‘] & ]- e ;l'll b b | nemory had affected him - like this; | might I.[. Her 100k was scrutiniziog, J. E. Maloy—Phone 287 Robert J, Russell—313 4th St. The postmark on the envelope, Alan | fahers heatth had faited nod Jim, who 1 LTRSS O Gon Cwarning; the | questioniug, anxious, bt ot une To Lo untrained s and Cor. Minnesota and 2nd St. _————— notic ways Chleago: that | Bl vpenet u luw oftiee In Karisas e wi¢hiy | riendly. “After he had ‘written Yon those dinzusted withhard, || ERn e omery—Phone 4 wa all he ever conld find oat ahout § G113 €ould do nothing t elp. T e I, 4o he | Wnd_something else hiad happerred— biy. we invite corferpondencs || Wy, C. Christianson—Phone 219-3 RESTAURANTS Nis dollar. He was shout ten years | . N0 more moner had followed the s the ear. Lrausht, At 1 think—to alarm my father wbout the Tarber e Our en- Nymore - | Enterprise Cafe Wraft from Chicigo aud (here had | Prive down-town was strengthened | ) Bey o cine here to his house to lared_location with complete; TP old when, for on as inexplicable now.n thousandifold; it ampzai: haig: | U, father cung here < w-todate equipment, . "f;fi ' Third Street. Cafe—Phone 90 as the dollar's coming, the Jetters with 1he typewritten addresses and the en- closed money ceased. | Lixeept for the loss of the dollar at | the end of every secoud month—a loss | much discussed by all the children | and not aceepted as permanent ti) more than two y < had poassed-— And noy the afternoon hefore— Alan felt. no humediate results from o i i Tk LLEGE, Ihe cossatlon of the letiers fron | !N summons hid come, et “r.”:‘ht}' LWIII‘MI“; b £ ‘:IM 204 eomesin Adense Princess Candy Shop L . @ ten ™1 s time, he tore open the epe |Some generation older, apparently, 3 e A l\\-ll‘;l.‘lnf‘l‘f i Il‘l‘l": o Ix‘m“"v";\ velope, he saw fhat oside i check, | than_ the houses on each side of 1, Rlzmsane’s ELECTRIC COMPANIES | Abraham Confectionery Store ‘u the farm o be given up, and %l 3! i e . N - N A A B e fm1S® el gt dousn, gt | fhere writing within—an uneven | Whieh were brick and terra cotty of Bemidji Electric Co.—Tel.. 303-W ) . ent fashionable architecture; Alan _UNDERTAKERS papi went to work in the woolen mill beside the river, Papn and mnua, at first surprised and dismayed by the stopping of the letters, still clung to the hope of the ho had brought him there the money, censed coming beca who sent it was dead? counection of Alan with the he helonged per- Or would some other ion from that source reach maoney, then Would he be sent for person communle: him some time—if not something clse? Alan’s learning the little abont himself made no change in his way of living; he went to the town schbol, which com- bined. zrammar and high schools under one roof ; and, as he grew older, he elerked in 1w of the town storés had mounted up against him since the letters ceased coming. At sevenieen, having finished high school, he was clerking officially in Merrill's general store, when the next letter came. fifteen hundred dollars fell out. There was no letter with the enclosure, no word of communication; just the draft to the order of Alan Conrad. Alan wrote the Chicago bank by which the draft had been lssued; their reply who hud sent it. More than that was due for urrears for the curs during which no money s sent, even when the fotal which i had earned was deducted. So amount Wi A Alan merely endorsed the draft over when Jim discovered that it not only was possible but plamed at the uni- versity for n boy to work his way through, Alan went also, Four wonderful years followed. Tn companionship with educated peopl imd manners eame to him which ing to his muscular, himself which it had never held before, Sut on lis day of graduation he had put away the enterprises he hal planned and the dveams he dreamed and, conseions that his debt to and mother still remuined unpait been no communication of any kind; but the receipt of so considerable n sum had revived Alan’s speenlations ahout himself, The vague expectation of his that sometime, in some he nt for'”: had g last six pars to a ¢, he would wi during the definite belief, and nervous-looking but plainly legible communieation in longhand. The letter made no explanation. It told him, rather than asked him, to come to Ch nogave minute instructions for the journey. mml advised bim to s have acquired at hunm:u } htenedddnd sui@ed B BPWIL g pf P e ek e wellformed | and intensitied all childhood | On the Train He Took the Letter From His Pocket and for the Doz- enth Time Reread It boulevard where tall tile and brick and stone structures towered till theic roofs were hidden In the snowfall. A strange stir and tingle, quite distinct from the excitement of the arrival at as he had known since his geography | iy to the ‘enst of Chicag therefore that void out there beyond the park was the lake or, at least, the | :a row of buildings broke abruptly to show him a wooden- walled chasm in which flowed the river full of ice with a tug dropping its smoke us it cut below the panse, The sound, Alan knew, had beeu coming to him as an undertone for many minutes; now it overwhelmed, It was | from one point; even the monstrous | city murmur was centered in compari- son with this. Over the lake, as over Fthe dand, the soft snowflakes Jazily I floated dow ely stirred by the | slightest br that roar was th | voice of the water, that awful pow Alun choked and gasped: for In h, | hix pulsex pounding in-his throat; he There had.been nothing cpect this overwhelming The lake—he had us a great sting sight that was all. in his ungs, to muke him crush of feelin thought of it, of course, bady of er, an int for a prairie | fightened, half dizzied him. Now, as the motor suddenly swung arcund a corner and shut the sight of the luke from him, Alan sat back breathless. The car swerved to the e curh about the middle of the hlo and i to a stop. The house before which it had halted was a large stone re only glanced at them long enmugh to get that impression beforé he opened the I door and got ont: but as the cab drove away, he stood heside his sultease looking up at the old house “He says he’s him.” “Ask him in; I will speak to him.” It was a girl’s voice—this second one, a volce sueh Alan never had heard, before. It low ana soft but quite e¢lear and distinet, with youthful, imn-| pulsive modulations and the manner of accent which Alan knew must go with the sort of people who lived in hou like those on this street, The servant, obeying the vojce, re- turned and opened wiide the door. “Will you come, in, sir?’ Alan put down his suitcase on the stone porch; fhe man made no move to plek it up and bring it in. Then Alan stepped into the hall face to face with the girl who had come from the big room on the right. She was quite. n young to have yained young wormnhood in ater degree In some rvespects | it the tained | far g than the girls he knew, while, suwe time, in other ways, she more than tl some chinacte sl the open of the girl. Her face— smoothly oval, with straight brows and a skin delicate that at the temples the veins showed dimly blue— was at once womunly and youthfuls her gray.ey pale, he noticed; and thére were lines of strain and trouble about her eyes. “[ am - Constance Sherril,” she an- noun Her tone implied quite evi- dentl; it she.expected him to have “Mr. Corvet is not here this morm- ing,” she said.” 1@ hesitated; hnt: persisted: “I was to see him here today, Miss Sherrill. wrote me, and I telegraphed him I would be here to-day.” X “F Know,” Slfe answered. “We had YOUr 1C1CENI T, COPVEt Wats 1ot here - when it! dame, “so nry “father opened it Her voice broke oddly, “Mr. Corvet went away yery. sud- denly,” she explained. She seemed, he thought, to he- trying to make ‘some- thing plaii to him which :might be a shock to him:" yet herself to be un- certain what the nature of that shock look after him. He thought seme- thing might have . . . happened to Mr. Corvet here in his house. But Mr. Corvet was not here.” mean he ; he has disapy gazed at ber dizzily.. Benja- min Corvet—whoever he migigt be— disappeared?” " his little boat up the USE SLOAN’S TO Apply Sloan’s Liniment freely, with- our rubbing, and enjoy a penetrative tic after effects of weather exposure. For forty years pain’s enemy. your neighbor. Keep Sloan’s handy. At all druggists—35c, 7Cc, $1.40. Slioan Liniment o Robert Fulton taking Hudson. The invention of steam navigation —a lucky strike for him. LUCKY STRIKE, ‘When we discovered the toasting process six years ago, it was a Lucky Strike for us. ) Why? Because now millions of smokers preter - because It’s Toasted* K —which seals in the delicious Burley flavor * Elko OU can’t do your best when your back and ecvery muscle aches with fatigue. Ask LEARN ey —the— BARBER TRADE Grand Theatre—Phone 139-W AUTO ACCESSORIES Edwin Akre—Phone 265-W Bemidji Electric—Phone 303-W Overland DeLcuil Co. \ Sanitary Baking Co.—Phone 789 1 Bemidji Bottling Wks—Phone 59 1 'BOOT and SHOE. DEALERS Bemidji Shoe Store—Phone 172-W \ 1 Laqua Cloth. Store—Phone 581-J Guarantee Clothing Co. 5 " Mandarin Cafe —~———SECOND STREET— W. H. SHORT, Manager . CO-OPERATION your-Friends and Families ‘All Union Men and Women, TRONIZE HOME INDUS-- are requested to be consistent, PA 1 ) N S TRY, and co-operate with the Business Firms listed in this BEMIDJI CENTRAL LABOR UNION AMUSEMENTS Theatre—Phone 252-W AUTO DEALERS- BOTTLERS Clothing Co.—Phone 188 \ l CONFECTIONERS Princess Candy Store tent._instructora, st possibility killed, operator DRUGGISTS Boardman’s Corner Drug Store Phone 304 CITY DRUG STORE—Phone 52 TWIN CITY BARBER BELTRAMI NURSERY Largest Nursery Farthest Bemidji, Minn. North CREAMERY Bemidji Creamery Co.—Phone 143 FURNITURE Hannah Market—Phone 129-W b ————————————— the support of all-working people, by the l HARDWARE STORES Palmer Hardware—Phone 250 Wold & Olson—Phone 190 Nymore Nymore Meat Market—Phone 452 \ and are recommended GROCRIES and GENERAL MERCHANDISE Clifford & Co.—Phone 800 Co-operative Store—Phone 66 Edwin Akre—Phone 265-W, Nymore Qualey Cash Grocery—Fhone 216 J. K. Ramsey—Phone 46 LUMBER Matson.Ritchie Lumber Co. Phone 30. PLUMBING SOFT DRINKS and BILLIARDS Dinty’s Place—Phone 8 ‘Wm. McDermid—Phone 155 Wm. Ibertson Undertaking Phone 817-W Christianson—Phone 219-J. Nymore famillar, typewriter-nddressed en- | chich bore the her given in Bel r e . . » Jeral : telegraph when he started, The | Which bore the number given in Ben- Write For Pr List! velope appeaving againg but when, in Corvet's lotter. then & rite for rrice LiISt: ) L o o iy | ity Nis expenses. — Check and letter llu:|nl]u'| houses and back to that - = R ! krowing agninst the person who lm;l; were signed by a name. complately | S8 S ———————— e — 4 Delonged somewhere olse than in the | to meet him, the letter had said. He } | ) — Little o Totse i< all that any | gve the Astor street address and got | OMLY half way, and the 1 d R One Day ° . ° Examinations one there could tell bim: and ihe ! into the cab. withing gazing out i Alan question- (Continued in Next Issue) Service nlon entlsts Free Kudwledge gave persistence to wany | It had hegan to snow heavily, For a | ‘"fi‘-"gl wis, obiv eryant. E. S o or Extractions Internal questionings, . Where did he | few biocks the taxieah drove north [ “WRSE i it 0, 7id. alin 5 &NT ADS Ouot Tor A siisy 50c S Delangs Whe was he? Whe wis the! past more or less ordinary buitg. | Steod luoking at bim sud past him to | TH): PIONEER Wi atignts, Opposite City Hall Bemidji, Minn Phone 266 \ | tnes. thien turned east,on @ brong ' e MAFTON section ot darkened hnll\‘ BRING RESULTS - Alan sent the money began to turn against Alan; and his “parent<” told Kim all they knew about him. In 1896 they had noticed an adver-| tivement for ons o care for a| ehlid; they answered It to the | oftice of the newspaper which printed | i, In response to the letter a man! called upon them and, after seeing | them and going around to see their sriends, had made arrangements with them 1o take u boy of three, who was | in- gond health and eame of good | people. He paid in advance bonrd for | o year and agreed to send n cortain | amount every two months after that time. The wman brought the boy whom he ealled Alan Convad! agglert | Nig. For seven years the money | aggeed upon came; now it had censed, and papa had ne way of finding: the man—the nawe given by him appeaved to be fictitions, and he had loft no ¢ . except “general delivery. m.‘,‘ porter with his sultease from the ecar, '\";:’::Ir‘":::m‘ " “‘;“':":":h:_"';l “““ "‘;””;'I" “No eme has seen Mr. Corvet,” she ONLY .. Aimdhads, SRS TN b ’ i i ey PP e e crowds | VI » Was— vhom, 3 et, he - > lay he wrote to | eagor—T'apa knew nothing more than | Stepped down —among the ¢rowds 4 Bd Tons » | £ald, e the duy , - e tcerttsed T the ni.| hurrying to and front ‘the' traig, e | Wl not Enw—were betore hink. . e} you, we knew ihat—thut he becume CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK $6 ) papers after the money stopped | W he had communicated ] ¢ one named Conrad in or | nedr Chfeago, hut he had learned noth- ing. at the age of thirteen, definitely knew that what he | already bad guessed—the fact that he! coming, strange to him, He was a distinetly attractive look- ing Iad, s he Stood uow on the station platform of the little town, while the easthound train rumbled in, and he fingered in his pocket the letter from Chiengo, On the train he took the letter from his pocket and for the dozenth time rerend it. Was Covert a relative? Was he the man who had sent the remit- tanees when Alan a little boy, and the one who later had sent the fifteen hundred dollars? Or was, he merely 0 go-hetween, perhaps & law- yer? There was ne letterhead to give aid in these speculations. ‘The -ad- dress to which Alan was to come was in Astor street. e had never herd the name of the street hefore. Was jt 1 business street, Corvet's addresy in some great office building, perhaps? At Chicago Alan, following the was not confused, he was only in- tensely excited. Acting in impliclt ac- cord with the instructions of the letter, which he knew by heart, he went to the uniformed attendant and engaged A taxicab—itself no small experience; there would be no one at the station The: neighborhood ebyiously pre- cluded the probabllity of Corvet's be- Ing merely a lawyer—a go-hetween. He must be some relative; the ques- tion ever present in Alan’s thought since the receipt of the letter, but held in abeyance, ns to the possibility and nearness of Corvel's tlon to him, took sharper and more exact form now than he had dared to let it take hefore. Was his relationship to Corvet, perhaps, the closest of all re- ionships? Was Corvet his . 2 e checked “the question himself, for the fime had peculation upon it Alan was trembling excitedly; for—whoever Corvet might . bhe—the enignia of Alan's existence wis' goitg 1o be answered when he: Hiideenterert that house. He was going to Know who he was. Al the possibilities, the | responsibilities, the attachments. the | within passed for mel now, | excitedly unsteady, he pushed the bell beside the door. The door opened almost instantly— so quickly after the ring, indeed, that , with leaping throb of his heart, | khew that some one must have heen | awalting him. But the dove opened went up the steps and, with fingers | 300 o0 0 b doing. that—writing Alan Gazed ag Her Dizlly—Benjamin & Corvet— had_ disappeared ; he had gone. })hl any one elge, then, know abouf Alan Conrad? to yom—that we thought you must Dring with you -information of him.” “Information " “%6 we have heen waiting for you to come here and tell us what you know about him or—er your connec- tion with hinw” : BIG 0 9 : Set of Teeth, __HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU: IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF DENTAL WORK, DON'T WAIT A MINUTE LONGER. YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE LIKE THIS IN :MANY A DAY Prices Cut Down to Pre-War - . ' Levels! -Act NOW if you would share in these big _savings on Guaranteed Dentistry. FFER ENDS MARCH 5 GUARANTEED TO FIT ~natural in appear Madec in conformity to the natural t lar $12 Crowns, ONLY. ... eeth; regu- We Guarantee All Work for 10 Years