Show wa zo C 0 V heb he LIND BLIND MANS AN EYES V I 1 A gy by william macharg accia ac IIa S edwin balmar by bf battle brown and company AFTER I 1 I continued 18 ad waited n nearly early halt half an hour door land hod no not t been library 0 of tile tho closeness tho the again bagain she went to nied emed choking her throw it open tho the rind and sat it door it clear and cool but was the chill of the air that from pt I 1 she gazed out at the as is I 1 brough which she had bad driven blugh ugh tho the night before there f int it for him III had id been going on V there she pictured hira him now kness I 1 ness in sulf suffering fering alone hurt i and with all tho the wor world id but her him I 1 steps and stood down tile the ran an noises lots s of the lawn awn tho the vague wore till audible dible nov low no longer pod od in the silence of 0 the eve rained and fear fearfully fully listening st thero there seemed to bo be no sound ars s other than tile the gl gonalo antle rush waves on the beach tit nt the foot 1 then in the I 1 bluff behind her bar ato direction site she defined the un e of bamo bomo faraway far away contusion confusion limes aes it seemed to bo be shouting ly a murmur of movement and site she ran up the road a hundred in its direction and halted the noise was nearer and a confusion of motor and id voices and now nov one sound red louder and louder and d nearer rapidly and rose above est cst the roar of a powerful moor mor mer r racing with cutout cut out open rising racket of it terrified nar bar ith its recklessness and triumph that was it t triumph 1 the far I 1 was the noise of shouts and of triumph the racing car blar ts s way through the night wits was the er of news of success of tho in let went colder as she bhe know knew then she ran up the road to meet car coming she saw the glare ts 8 headlights through the trees 1 a bond bend in the road she ran on the beams of the cars headlight and glared down the road UY upon her the car leaped at 1 she ran on toward it arms in 1 air the clatter of tho the car be ie 3 deafening and the machine was aly ly upon her when the dri or rec zed that tle tie girl in the road was less eess and might throw herself abe W 1 him unless lie ho stopped ile ho cht his car up short and sIdd dIng at Is it he be cried as ho he muffled engine feat la Is it what Is 13 it she cried sturn hla ie man inan recognized her miss san 0 31 feat Is it got halml tho the man cried dve ve got him I 1 ilir amr nr hal I 1 hugh overton overtone nl I 1 eaton baton 3 Sant olne hes laugh hugh overton nt t you heard apa weve got II 11 sot got him I 1 where Is ig air avery ho he demand ive ye got to tell mr avery he made no response but throw bolt it in front of the car and cir clasped sped cleel as tho the man started to throw i ills his gear ile he cried to herb her and d to get her off but she ads dent deaf lm niile looked in the direction of house shut hut off air his power and led down ho he left the machine machina raa all on the road toward the house houge riet alet started the carand turned it k in III the direction from which it line come she speeded and soon cr r headlights flared at hers a num of then them four or five cars at it were in file up the road and I 1 were crowding and horsemen e riding beside them he be rushed on so BO close that she s saw av alarmed them they cried a warn the ile horsemen and the men ou on t jumped from beside the road and leading car swung to on one 0 side hut rit let caught h her er car on the brakes 1 swung mung it straight across the road topped stopped it bhe dosed closed the I 1 1 ahr throttle 0 atle P pulled the key from tho the star starting and flung lun git it into the woods she ae sat in th the 0 c car ar waiting tor foi the tors ors of hugh to come up where is he she asked them here e Is he hd hey y did not tell her but reply 3 a unnecessary othere Other kil eyes pointier heril to td 1 11 the hugh be was I 1 in n the back Q second machine machin a with two one on ea each ch side of him ara U ti stopped topped at tile ino side aide of tho the car chero lie ho was and she put tier her hand ou on tit the edge of tile tho tonn enu you have been hurt again blugh she managed atea steadily dily Il hurt illert no lie ho said ns is constrainedly no tit tho car started and she sat silent with her liand hand still upon ills as they went on to her fathers house CHAPTER the flaw in the left eye Sant olne after harriet let lind had loft the library stood waiting until lie ho henri heard tile tho servant go out ail and close tit th door when lid did you learn that eaton was overton Ov orton avery lie ho asked today illow how did you discover it it was plain front from the first there was something wrong with the man avery replied but I 1 tin had of course no way of placing him until lie he gave himself awny at polo the other lay day I 1 saw that lie ho was pretending not to 1 now a game which ho a did know when lie he put over oi OL i 3 particular stroke I 1 was suro sure lie he knew the game very well ivell tile tha number of men in this country dhove played polo at till all very large and those who can play great polo tire are very few faw so go I 1 sent for the polo annuals for a few years back the ones I 1 wanted came to the club today ills picture Is in the group of the spring Aten meadows flows club lie he back for them five years ago TIIS Is anille was under tho the picture of course 1 I understand I 1 nm am glad to know how it wits was ono one loss less certain of your fidelity than I 1 am might have put another construction on oil your silence one less certain avery might have thought that til already ready knowing batons identity you preferred instead of telling it to me to have me discover it for myself and so for that reason you trapped him into a polo game in harriets presence for a moment Sont Stint olne paused tile the ninn man across from litin him did not speak but San Santol nos intuition told him in drew himself together for some shock of course said rantui knowing who eaton Is gives us no aid I 1 in n determining who the men vore vere that fought in my study last night lo it gives none to roe me mr air Sant olne avery said steadily it gives to you gant Sant olne repeated and shw very peculiar behavior of the stock elchan exchange c today I 1 suppose that gives YOU no help other cither all day they have been gain down avery tho se securities curit les the stocks and bonds of the properties still known ag as tho the latron properties without apparent reason they have been going down and that gives you no help either avery yet you are a er y clover clever mar man there Is nj ni question about that I 1 have even found it worth while at times flints to talk over with you matters maters problems which were troubling lin me to consult with you have I 1 not yes very well I 1 am going to con consult stilt with ou ju now I 1 hava an infirmity as you know avery I 1 am blind I 1 have just found out that for several years for about five years to bo be exact that Is for about the same length of time that you have been with me my iny blindness has been used by a certain group of men to make me the agent of R monstrous and terrible injustice to an innocent man E except for my blindness except for that avery this injustice never could have been carried on it if you find a certain amount of bitterness in my tone it Is duo due to that a man mail who hns has an in fIr mity avery cannot well wall help being a little sensitive in regard to it you are willing I 1 should consult with you in regard to this of course I 1 am at your service mr Sant olne 11 averys was harsh and dry we must go back to the quite serious emergency to which I 1 am indebted for your faithful service five years ago the american perfectly convinced that the only way to win true happiness and perpetuate prosperity was to accuse condemn and jail tor for life if execution were not legal tho the heads of the important groups of industrial properties just at that time one of these men one of the most efficient but also perhaps the one personally roost most obnoxious or unpopular committed one of hig gravest In discretions it concerned the private use of deposits lit in national banks it was wag a federal offense of the most patent and provable kind he was indicted considering the temper of any possible jury at that time there hare i hut but to alternative was waa a absolutely no believe the man under indictment must spend many succeeding years if not the rest of his life in the feder federal at penitentiary at atlanta or leavenworth now the man was in complete c control on of a group of the most valuable properties in america and prosperous before his gaining con control arol the properties had bad been almost ruined by differences feren ces cbs between the minor men who them only the calling of tried to run matthew latron clittron into control saved themselves they required those men from thera them his tal taki him to govern chaar und ruin ing away would bring mong among them again they knew that just before bo be must 9 go 0 to trial la tron iron himself became convinced that lie faced confinement for the rest of its iila life then fato fate effectively intervened to end rill nil tits his troubles lea ills body charred ail and almost by fIn flames tiles but nevertheless tile identified body of Matt matthew liew antron troll was found in the smoking ruins of ills his shouting shooting lodge willell which hurtled to tile ground two days before ills trial Sant olne vent on oil A young voting ninn was shown to inive followed follo weil latron to tile shooting lodge a witness vItI loss ap lio ired ared who lind seen scon tills this young shoot latron Ln tion a second witness had soon seen litin liliu sot set fire to the lodge the young man ician hugh overton was put on trial for ills life 1 I myself us as a witness nt at the trial sup supplied piled the motive for the crime for though I 1 lilt lind liever met overton I 1 knew that lie ho lind lo 10 lost it tile whole N hole of 11 largo large fort fortuno lIllo through investments recommended to liln him by antron overton was convicted sentenced to death lie escaped before tile the sentence was carried out bec mccamo atile a fugl fugitive tivo without a namo name who if lie ho ever appeared would bo be handed d over for execution for tile the evidence lind had boen been perfect complete lie ile had shot latron purely for revenge killed him in tile most lost despicable blo manner for there was no doubt latron was dead was there avery none avory avery said huskily that was tho time you came caino into my employ avery recommended to me by ono olle of tile men ta alio biad been at closest to latron I 1 was not connected with the latron properties except lis as till an adviser but many papers relating to them must go inevitably through my illy limido I 1 was rather on it tile inside in till all that concerned those properties hut but I 1 could not myself see the papers I 1 ans blind therefore I 1 had to have othora others servo as eyes for mo ille and from the first avery you served as my e oed es in connection with all papers relating to the latron properties if anything over ever appeared in those papers which might have led mo 1110 to suspect that lilly any injustice hild had been done in tile punishment of la irons murderer it could leach mo 1110 only through you nothing of that sort ever ild did reach i mo me avery you yell must have mado do quite a good thing out of it what 1 I say your position hero here roust must have been rather profitable to you avery I 1 have not treated you badly myself recognizing that you must often be tempted by gaining In forina tion here from which you might inako mal ca money and your other employers I 1 must have overbid me 1 41 I dont understand I 1 beg your pardon mr Sant olne but I 1 do not follow what you are talking about no then we must go a little further this last year a minor reorganization became necessary in sonio some of tho the labroi properties my friend gabriel warden who was an honest man avery avers had recently greatly increased tits his interest in those properties it was inevitable the reorganization should be largely in tits his hands during tits his work with the latron properties warden tho honest man ayery avery discovered the terrible injustice of which I 1 speak 1 I do not need to draw your attention avory avery to the very peculiar condition which followed wardens death warden had certainly had communication with overton of some sort over tons enemies therefore were unable u anble to r rid ad themselves of him by dellver delivering lug him up to tile the police because they did not know how much overton knew when I 1 found that warden had bad made tile roe tits his executor find and I 1 went west and took charge of tits his affairs their difficulties were intensified for they did not dare to let suspicion of what had been done reach nw there was no course open to them therefore but to remove overton before my suspicions were aroused even if it could bo be done only at desperate du risk to themselves what I 1 ani aiu leading up to avery la Is your own events you looked after your own interests interest rather carefully carti fully I 1 think up to a certain point when knowing who eaton baton was you got him into a polo game it was so that if your interests were best served by exposing him you could do so without revealing the real source of your knOWle knowledge of him but an unforeseen event arose the drafts alq lists relating to tho the reorganization of the latron properties contal containing ning the very facts no doubt which first had aroused wardens suspicions were sent I 1 luu through wardens ce at first there wils was nothing threatening to you in this because their contents could reach me only through you kut but in the uncertainty 1 I felt I 1 had my daughter take these matters out of your hands that night avery you sent at al unsigned telegram from the office in the village almost iv within twenty four entered the safe hours my study was inaccessible to you was broken open the ca contents were carried away do suppose I 1 do not know that one you ot of the tw two a men in the study fast night was di 0 P principal rinel pal whose agents had flirted flitted in two attempts to get rid of overton for him w whose hose other agent yourself avery imd failed to inter capt the evidence which would hay have revealed the truth to me so that no longer trusting to agents lie ho hl jsck had conic come in ili desperation to prevent lily learning tile nets facts I 1 realize ron llo fully avery that by means of you my blindness aind lily reputation have been used for live five years to conceal from froin tile public tile fact that matthew latron troll hai not been murdered but wa still allive I 1 hoard heard avery pot got up hp he stood nn nil instent rind tried to si ea I 1 ht but ut ills brontoli caught nervously 1 I havu anve anything to do 10 with convicting Over toll or know illow anything about it until that an t was nil over I 1 nover saw hini him till I 1 saw him on the ti alii I 1 t know warden it wua was going to bo be hilled Ivl llod chit allut you were acro accessory to the rot roh hory hery of lily bouso last night alad therefore accessory to the of nin tellford last I ast night to too knowli iR overton was innocent of ev charged against ill ailin you gave orders to tire re upon ailin nt lit sight tind and lie was fired upon and what were you telling when 1 I callo in you have told tho police th a t 0 avor ver ton Is tile murderer of latron that so the police will to believe anything he to may say and vat return to the death cell for the sentence to bo be executed upon him tho the law will call these things attempted murder avery alint Is it you vant to know sir who killed john yarrow Is ills anino lio lie was it sort of hanger on of Lat lations rons I 1 dont |