Show the BLIND MANS j EYES by william macharg macku 0 edwin dwin balmer A a ii 1 l illustrations DY BY 0 1 I 1 R H livingstone ft 8 copyright by ettle brown and company DESCRIBE HIM gabriel warden seattle capitalist tells me hs butler he la Is expecting a caller to be admitted without question lie he informs lila his wife ot of danger that him it if he pursues a course lie he considers the only honorable one warden loaves leaves the house in ills his car and meets a roan man whom he takes into int tile the ma chine when the car rot returns lans home hom a warden Is found dead murdered murdene d and alone tile the caller a young man mail has been nt at wardens house but leaves unobserved bob con nory nary conductor receives orders to hold train for a party five men and a girl board the train the eastern express the father of the girl mr air dorne dome Is the person for whom the train was hold held philip D eaton a n young man also i boarded the train dome tells his i 1 1 daughter and hta his secretary don avery to find out what they can concerning him the two make batons acquaintance dorne dome la Is found nearly dead from a murder ous assault aaE ault A surgeon operates dorne dome la Is revealed as basil san ban tolne colne blind and a power in the financial world as the adviser of big interests eaton baton Is suspected and questioned questin led lie ho refuses information mation about himself and admits lie ha was the culler caller at wardens house 11 CHAPTER vill VIII continued 7 eaton had sensed already what the lie t nature of the message must be though hough as lie ho conductor held it out to him lie could read only jila jafs name nt fit the top of the sheet and did not know yet what the actual wording was below acceptance of it must mean arrest indictment for tile the crime against basil Sant Santol olne nc and that thai whether or botlick not lick later was wag acquitted must destroy him buts but dental denial ot of the message now would bo be bope less ks it Is yours it connery urged es its mine eaton eafon admitted and to make lits acceptance definite lio lie took the from connery As lie he looked dully down ut it ho he read ile ho Is on your train under the name of dorno adorno the message was not signed connery touched him on oil the ghoul i i de der como come with TOP mo mr eaton hilton enton got up ill slowly and mechanically and followed follow eq tho the conductor at the door lie he halted and looked back harriet Sant olne was not looking tier her face was as covered with tier her hands katon hesitated then lie ho went on connery throw threw open the door of the compartment next to the washroom vash room and corresponding to the drawing room at tho the otherene other othe rend end of tho cur but smaller do well enough in hero here lie ile closed the door upon eaton and 14 locked it As E enton anton stood staring tit at the floor door lia he could hear through the metal partition of the washroom the nervous nerv oua almost hysterical weeping of till an overstrained overstrain over strained pI girl tho the thing was ca done in ili so far its as the authorities on the train were concerned ned it wits was known that lie he was as the annn who had had the appointment with gabriel warden and had disappeared had aud in so far a as s the officials could act ile ho aias was accused and confined for the attack upon basil Sant olne but besides being overwhelmed with the horror of this position the manner I 1 in n which lie he had been accused had broiled roiled him to helpless liel pless anger to rage tit at ills his accusers which still increased as lie ho heard the sounds on the other A sida ald of the partition where chero avery was 11 naw now trying to silence harriet san tolne colne ani and lead her away CHAPTER IX the blind mans eyes at noon connery came to his door 1 and nd behind connery eaton saw harriet Sant olno and avery enton eaton jumped up tip and as lio lie saw tho the girls pule pale face tile the color left his own miss Sant olne tins has asked to speak to you connary announced and he 4 i admitted I 1 harriet Sant olne and avery i and hinis himself 0 elf remaining outside in the i aisle closed the door upon them illow how la Is your fa father eaton baton asked the girl lid ile seems just the samo same nt at least 1 I cant see any change mr eaton can doctor sinclair see any difference eaton baton s To etor sinclair win will not commit himself except to say that so far ar as lie he can tell tile the indications uro are favorable L he sells seems to think the girl choked but when she went on tier her blue eyes wore were very bright antl and tier her lips did not tremble doctor sinclair seeing to think mr eaton that father was found just in time and that whatever cliance chance lie ho tins has far for recovery came from you sometimes father had Inso insomnia ninin and get to sleep till late into in the morning ng so I 1 and mr avery too would have left him film undisturbed until noon doctor sinclair says that if lie he had been loft left as long its as that ho would have leave had no chance at all for life ile iio tins has a chance clin then now yes but wo dont know liow how much il I 1 l I wanted you to know nir mr eaton blint I 1 recognize that the alie chance father iriny have came through you and that I 1 nm nin trying to think of you as tho the one who gave him the chance the aarni blood flo flooded oled batons race ani ho bowed his lie head ad she then was not wholly hostile to lilli him she had not been completely convinced by avory avery her eyes rested upon enton eaton steadily and while lie he lind had been appealing to tier a flush lind come to tier her cheeks and faded away and come again and again with tier lier impulses ns as lie ho spoke if you tie do it why dont you hell us its she cried help couill you yes tell us who you are and what you are doing why did you take the train because father was oil or it if you merin any harm to him why dont you toll tell us where you are going or br where oliero you have been or what you have been doing why cant you give the name of anybody you know or tell us of anyone who knows about you 1 I might ask you in return eaon eafon said why you thought it worth while miss Sant olno to ask so much about myself when you farst met mo me and before any of this had happened why were you curious about me my imy father asked we mo to find out about you i 1 why 11 harriet had reddened under tinder batons gaze you understand mr eaton it was was entirely impersonal with roe me my father being blind Is obIl obliged ged to use the eyes of others mine for one and lie has mr avery A very he calls calli us hla his eyes sor sometimes betimes and it was only only because I 1 had been commissioned to und find out about you that I 1 was obliged to dhow so BO much curiosity liardet arose and eaton got up as she did and stood as aa she went toward the door avery had reached tile the door hold ing it open for tier her togo out suddenly eaton tore the handle from averys g grasp slammed the door shut upon h him I 1 in and braced his foot against it miss Sant olne he pleaded his voice hoarse with lila ills emotion fora ton gods sake make them think what they are doing before they make a public accusation against me before they charge me with this to others not on of this train I 1 it will not be merely accusation they make against m roc c it 1 t will be my sentence sen tencel I 1 I 1 bo be sentenced before I 1 am tried condemned without a chance to defend myself I 1 that Is the reason I 1 could not come forward after the murder of mr air warden I 1 could not have helped him ailin or aided in the pur pursuit stilt of his enemies if I 1 had appeared I 1 merely mer ely would have been destroyed myself I 1 the only thing ifould I 1 could hope to accomplish lias has been in following my present courso course which I 1 swear to you tins lias no connection with tl ti attack upon your fattier father what mr avery and connery are planning to do to roe me they cannot undo they will merely complete the outrage and injustice already dons done mo me of which sir mr warden spoke to his wife and they will not help your father F for or gods sake keep thera then from going fur further therl her color deepened and for an instant lie ho thought he eisaw full belief in him film growing in her eyes but if sho she could not accept the charge against jilin him neither could she consciously denyle deny it lt and tho the hands she had been pressing together suddenly dropped III 1 I im afraid nothing I 1 could say would have much effect on them knowing as little about about you as I 1 dol they dashed the door open then silenced and overwhelmed him and they took tier her from the room andi left him alone again but there hero was something left with him which they could not take away for in the moment lie had stood alone with wah her and passionately pleading something had passed between them ho he clotild give no name to it but tie ho knew that harriot harriet Sant olne never could think of him again without a stirring of tier her pulses which drew her toward him the following morning the relieving snowplows enow snow plows arrived from the east and eaton felt it was the beginning of the end for him he watched wat clied from his window men struggling in the snow about the forward end of the train then the train moved forward past the shoveled and trampled snow where rock and ana pieces of the snowplow were piled beside the track stopped waited finally it went on again and began to take up its steady progress the attack upon Sant olne having taken place in montana eaton thought that lie he would le ile turned over to the police somewhere 1 e 0 within that state and he expected expects 7 it would be done dodo at the first stop but when tile the train slowed at simons ho he saw the town was nothing more than a little hamlet beside a sidetrack side alde track it made no material difference to him eaton realized whether the pollee took him in montana or chicago since in either cither case recognition of him film would bo be certain in the end but in chicago this recognition must bo be immediate complete and utterly convincing the atie trola train was traveling stead lIr and faster than alinn its regular schedule it evidently was running ns as rl a special some other train taking tho the ordinary it halted now only at the largest in the morning it crossed into minnesota and in the late la to afternoon slowing blowing it rolled into somo largo large city which eaton baton knew must bo be minneapolis or paul tile the car hero here was uncoupled from tha oj train and picked up tip by a switch engine ns as dusk fell eaton peering out of his wirl window dow could seo see that they had been loft left lying in the railroad yards and ind about midnight awakening in his is berth lie he realized that tho the car was still motionless ho he could account for this stoppage n their progress only by somo some change in ili tho the condition of San Sant totne olne was Sant olno olne sinking so that they no longer dared to travel was lie he perhaps dead I 1 no coundi canno came to him from the car to eaton in any conclusion cl thero there wab nothing to be learned from anyone outside the car eaton baton lay for a long time listening for other sounds find and wondering what was occurring or had occurred at the other end of his car toward morning lie he fell asleep I 1 CHAPTER X publicity not wanted basil Sant olne dying 1 blind millionaire lion lio alre lawyer taken ill on train 1 the alarm of the cry cime to answer catona quest question lon early curly the next morning lie ile threw up the curtain and sa saw w a vagrant newsboy evidently passing through the railroad yards to sell to the trainmen eaton hailing the boy put out his hand for a paper he spread the newssheet news sheet be before him and read that Santol San nesco condition n they dashed the door open then was very low and becoming rapidly worse but below under a montana mont ahn dateline date line eaton saw it pro claimed that tho the blind millionaire was merely sick gick there was no suggestion anywhere of an attack the paper stated only odily that basil Sant olne returning from seattle with his daughter and his secretary donald avery had been taken seriously ill upon a train which had been stalled for two lays days in the snow in montana the column ended with tile the statement that mr San Sant totne olne had passed through and gone on to chicago under care of dr douglas sinclair eaton stared at the newspaper without reading after he be saw that ile he had not realized until now that lie he wits was told that harriet Sant gant olne had gone for if tier her father had bad gone on of course she atis was with him the extent to which he had felt her fairness almast her friendship to him at least lie ho knew now that since she had spoken to him after lie he was first accused of the attack on her father lie ho had not felt entirely deserted or friendless till now but why it if Sant olne had been taken away or was lend dead or dying had they left enton eaton nil all night in the car in the yards since Sant olne was dying would there bo be any longer an object in concealing the filet fact that lie he had bad been murdered ho he dressed and then priced paced back and forth the two to or three steps ills his compartment allowed him film he stopped now and then to listen fram from outside came tho the noises of the yard but he be made out no sound within the car jf if it had been occupied as on the days previous bo must have heard some gome one coming to the washroom at ills his end was ho he alono alone in the car now or had the customary moving about taken place before he hw awoke ole finally to free himself from ills hla nervous listening for sounds bounds which never came lie he picked up tile the paper again ile ho read the news of 4 mr San visit of a week on tho the const coast if not lot known already in great financial circles Is likely to provo prove interesting there for years ho he tins has been the clitee agent in keeping peace among some of tho the great conflicting interests and more than once ho has bag advised the declaring of financial war when war seemed to him the correct solution thus live five years ago when the violent death of matthew latron threatened to pre elpi tato trouble among western capitalists Sant olno kept order in what might very well become financial chars chaos it if ills his recent visit to tile pacific coast was not purely for personal reasons but was also to adjust antagonisms such as charged by gabriel warden before ills death the loss of dantoin Sant olno 0 n at t this S almo ahn 0 may precipitate cg which living his advice and information might have been ablo able to prevent having read and reread this long paragraph eaton thrust the sheet out the window As lie ho sat thinking with lips tight closed lie he heard for the first time that morning footsteps at ills his end of the car tile tho door of ills his compartment was un locked and opened and ho he saw doctor docter sinclair mr Sant olno olne wants to speak to you yon the surgeon announced quietly this startling negation of all he imagined unnerved eaton ho he started up then sank back for better composure 1131 mr Sant olne to la here then airo here of course lies here and lies hes con conscious ile ho tins has been conscious for the better part of two days they tell you eaton looked toward boward the window breathing hard 11 1 I heard tho the n newsboys aws sinclair shrugged the papers print what they can got get and in me lna way which seems roost most effective tc them was his only comment the surgeon led enton eaton to tho the doot dooc of the drawing room showed him hj hi and left him harriet Sant olne was sitting on tte te little lounge opposite the berth where tier her fat father i ier lay she was watching the face of her father and as eaton stood in |