Show th AM 13 d E S HARRIET gabriel warden seattle capital tet tat tells hla his butler he la is expecting r an a caller c a 1 1 e r to bo be admitted without t a t i 0 n lie he informs hi his wife 0 of a nger anger that threatens him it if he pursues a course lie he considers the only honorable one worden warden leaves tho the house in his carand car and meets meeta a man whom he takes into tho the MS machins machine when the car returns homo home warden it IS found dead murdered and bone alone the callor caller a n young youn man manhan been gan at warden a house but leaves leaves unobserved bob con rold pery ery conductor receives receive orders ordera to hold train for or a party five men and nd a girl board the tb train tb the eastern express CHAPTER chaiten 11 continued 2 the remaining remal ning man carrying his own grips set them down ilithe in tho ginto and felt in ills his pocket for hla his tran tation this person had appen appeared Ted suddenly after tho the line of four had formed in front of old sammy at tho the gate he and aind taken his fits place with them only after scrutiny of them its ills ticket was a strip which originally had held coupons for the pacific voyage and bome indefinite journey in asia before unlike tho the English mans and Ms life baggage did not bear the posters bof of tho the nippon krishn the ticket wile was close to the date when it would have expired it bore upon tile the line alno where tile purchaser signed the inaina philip D eaton tit in plain vigorous characters without shading or flourish As a sudden eddy of the galo about the shed blew blev the ticket from old cold fingers fengers tho the young man stooped to recover it tho the wini wind 1 blow off his cloth coli cap as he did so and as ai lie he bent and straightened before old sammy the old man suddenly gasped 1 and while tile tho traveler pulled on ills cap recovered ills fits ticket and hurried flurried down tile platform to the train the gateman stood storing staring after him as though trying to recall who tho the man presenting himself as philip D eaton was connery stepped beside tile the old man who Is it sammy lie ho demanded who sammy repeated his eyes eye were still fixed on tho the retreating figure who I 1 dont know the gateman mumbled repenting repeating to himself tho the jamesr of the famous the great tho the notorious in his effort to fit ono one to tho the roan man who had just passed no ono one else belated and bound for the eastern express was lc jr tight tile the presidents order to the conductor and to the dispatcher simply had find directed that number five would run one hour late it must leave in five minutes and connery Con guided by tile the impression the man last through the gate had made upon him and old samm both had no doubt that the ninn man for whom tho the train had teen been held was now on board connery went out to io the train the passengers who lind been parading the platform had got aboard the last five to arrive also had disappeared into the pullmans and their luggage had been thrown into the baggage car connery jumped aboard tile the three who had passed tho gate first the girl tho the man with the glosses glasses and the young man in tile the cut abway lt it had now become clear were one party they had had reservations made apparently in the name of anje cie the girls address to the spectacled man made plain that to he was tier father her name apparently was harriet tho the young man in the cutaway coat was don to her anil avery to tier her father ilia his re relation littlon while intimate enough to permit hini him to address the girl as 1111 harry orry was unfailingly respectful to mr dorne dome mud bud them both dorne dpn hla his way his daughter was to occupy tho the drawing room mom he fie and avery were to have sections in the open car you have sections one and three mr the pullman conductor told min him and dorne directed the porter to put averys luggage in section one ills his own in section three the englishman was sent to section pour four in car three the next car for yard ward und and e departed at tile the heels of ot tile the porter connery wate watched ed more closely ns now it came the turn of the young titan man wl whose ose ticket b bore 0 re the name of enton enton eaton hod had no reservation in the sleepers he oppe appeared i ared however BOW ever to IM somo some preference as aa to where fie h slept give ghe mea me a three if you have hava one he requested of the pullman conductor con lue lils his voice connery rioted noted wom wo a well modulated rather miller deep distinctly plen plessant sant at cound of it dome 1010 with his tough laugh rs help was set aling himself in fit his section and looked that WHY way and said something in a low tone to the girl harriet dorne dome also looked and nn with tier her eyes on unton union connery saw he her reply in audibly rapidly and nt at go some alq length lenatti 1 I cann cnn give you three in car three abre opposite lite ho gentleman 1 I jut just us signed y tho the conductor anlu wn lu of do very well baton an by william macharg edwin balmer by utu brows aw 4 aw an the porter now took tits his bags bago eaton baton followed him out of tho the car connery went after them into the next car ile ho ex expected pitted rather that eaton baton would nt at once identify himself to him as the passenger to whom president short noto note hod bad referred eaton however paid no attention to him but was busy taking off ills his coat and settling himself in his section as con nery passed tho the conductor willing that eaton should choose ills his own time identifying himself passed slowly on looking over the passengers its as he went ue he stood for a bev moments in conversation with the car conductor then lie ho retraced life his way through the train ho he again passed enton eatoe slowing so BO that tile the young man could speak to him film if ho he wished sighed anti and even halting an instant to exchange a word with the englishman but eaton allowed him film to pass on without speaking to him Con nerys step quickened ns as lie ho entered the next car on ills his way avay back to the smoking compartment of 0 the observation car where lie he expected to compare sheets with the pullman conductor before taking up the tickets As he entered this car however avery stopped him mr air dorne dome would like to speak to you avery sold said connery stopped beside the section where the man with the spectacles sat with his daughter dome adorno looked up at him you aro are tho the train conductor he asked yes sir connery replied dome fumbled in hla his inner pocket find and brought out a card case which lie opened and produced a cord card connery glancing nt at the card while while the other still held bolo it it saw that it was president jarvi a it visiting card with tile tho presidents deLts name in engraved block letters across its top op was was writ ten len briefly in jarvis fa familiar mIllor liand this Is the passenger and below it was signed with the some same scrawl of initials which hod had been on the note coppery connery had received that in morning orning go n n R j Con nerys hand shook as while trying to recover himself he took card and looked at it more closely and ile ho felt within him the sinking sensation which follows an escape from danger he gal saw that his too ready and too assured assumption that ento baton n was was the man to whom jar via note had find referred had almost led him into the ho sort of mistake which ls Is unpardonable in a trusted man he had come within an ace he of nf sp speaking enkIng to enton eaton and so betray ing the presence on oil the train of n trai traveler veler whose journey his superiors were trying to keep secret you need of course hold tile lie train no longer dome mid aid to connery sch serj sir I 1 received word from froin mr jarvis about rou ou mr air dome I 1 shall follow its his instructions fully As he went forward again after the train was under way connery tried to recollect how it was as that ha fie had been led into such a mi mistake and defending fendl ng himself he laid it all to old sammy but old sammy was not often mistaken in his identifications if eaton was not the person for whom the train was held might he fie be some one else of importance now as lie he studied riton eaton he could not imagine what had made him film accept this passenger as a person of great position it was only when he fie passed assed eaton a third time bailit an hour titer liter when tile train had long left seattle thit that tile the balf slipped hazards and guesses guess about the passenger sud suddenly deny sprang into form allowing tor for a change of clothes and a different way of brushing his hair eaton was exactly tho nian man whom warden had bad expected a nt t his house and who had come there and waited while warden away in his bis car was killed connery was walking baft back through the train absentminded absent minded in trying to decide whether ho fie could be at all al sure of this and trying to decide whitt what ti he should ao 00 0 o it if bo felt sure when mr tome stopped mm him conductor do you happen ko know he questioned who the young roan man to Is who wh took section three in the car forward connery gasped but tho the question put to him the impossibility of lite his being sure of tiny any recognition from the description he gave his name on ills his ticket ns as philip D eaton sir connery replied Is that all you know about him yes air if you ond find out anything about him let me know 11 dorne bode bade aes sir connery determined to let nothing interfere with learn learning ilig more inore of enton eaton domes request only gave him added responsibility dome however was not depending upon connery alone for further inaz infer motion aa boon as the th conductor had 11 gone ho he turned back to his daughter dAught erand and avery upon the sent opposite tp avery lie ho said bald in a tone of direction 1 I wish you io get lo in conversa col converso versa alon with this philip eaton it will probably bo be useful it if you let harriet arriet talt talk with him too she would got get impressions pres helpful to we me which you cant the girl started with surp rilia but recovered at once yes father she ho said what sir air avery ventured to protest CHAPTER III miss mica dorna meets eaton dome motioned avery to tho the aisle where already some of the passengers having settled their belongings in their sections were beginning to wander through the cars seeking acquaintances quain or players to make up a card game anton took from n s bug n handful u I 1 of cigars with which lie he filled a plain cigar case and went toward tile the club claih and 0 observation v a ti 0 n 6 car r in the ilie rear As lie he passed through tile the sleeper blooper next nest to him the last one harriet dome glanced up tit at him and spoke to her father dome nodded but lid did not look up the observation room was wag nearly empty tile only occupants wore ivero n young woman who was vas rending reading a magazine und and an elderly man inan enton chose choe n seat as for far from cheso tj ano a as possible ile ho had been there only a few minutes however when looking up lie he saw caw harriet dorne anti and avery enter tile ho room they passed jilin him ang engaged aged in it conversation and stood by tho the rear door looking oui 0 u into the storm it ii was evident to enton baton although he did not watch them eliat ill at they were arguing something the girl seemed insistent anti avery irritated and unwilling her manner showed that she won her point finally silo glio a seated abed herself in one of the chairs and avery left her he wandered as if aimlessly to jile lie reading table turning over the magazines there abandoning them he buzed about us asif if bored then tile with a wholly casual manner he came toward eaton and took the sent seat beside him rotten weather it avery observed somewhat ungraciously eaton could not well avoid n reply its been getting worse lie iio commented ever since we left seattle were running into it apparently again Agai avery nAvery looked toward eaton baton and waited yes lucky if we get through tile the conversation on averys A berys part was patently patently forged forced and it was equally equa y forced on gatons Ea Ra tons nevertheless j it continued avery ae r V introduced abo war and other subjects upon which men thrown together to ether for a time are accustomed to exchange opinions nut avery did not do it easily or naturally he plainly vais v as of the caste aleso whoso pose it Is to repel not seek overtures toward a chance acquaint bince ills ilia jack incie of practice perfectly obvious ohp nt at last he fie asked directly beg pardon but 1 I dont think I 1 know your name 00 enton was obliged to give it mines nes avery tho he other offered perhaps perli apa you heard it when ilien we were getting our berths assigned 11 and ngoan the bon conversation enjoyed enjoy etl by neither of then them went on finally the girl at the end of the cur car rose and passed them as an though leaving the cor car avery looked up where ore are you going narry Irn rry 1 I think someone ought to be with father ill go 96 in just a ini minute nute 1 she had bad halted almost in front of them avery hesitating as though he did not know what he be ought to 10 to lo finally arose and as enton observed that avery having introduced himself appel appeared ired now to consider it his duty to jo present eaton baton to harriet dorne dome baton also arose avery murmured the ills it names atnes harriet dome resting her hand bond on the back of averys chair JI joined 0 ned in the conversation sat lon As he replied easily prid and in to a comment of r En nt tona oos avery aty suddenly reminded her of her fattier father after 1 a minute faute in when avery av e ry still ungracious and still irritate irritated ed over something which enton eaton could co d not guess rather abruptly lift left them she took averys sent and entea dropped into his chair beside tier now this whole proceed I 1 rig though I 1 within the convention which forbidding a girl to make a mans acquaintance I 1 directly says nothing I 1 per her maklan it through the medium of knottier ninn man been so 50 rally done that enton eaton understood that harriet dome deliberately had find ar tomake to anke his acquaintance and ehilt avery A very angry nad and obal inting had been overruled she seemed to enton less alertly boyish now lhnn she elie finif looked nn an hour before when they lina boarded tile the her cheeks Il leks were smoothly rounded her lips rather full lier lashes very long ha could not look up with without looking directly at t her bof ot lir chair which had not been moved since avery left ito it uns at an angle with lite his own to avoid t the 0 of studying her too open openly i lie he turned slightly so that ills his gaze went past her to tho the white turmoil outside the windows its wonderful won d erfa I 1 she said you mean tho the oford et orro A twinkle 0 of amusement come came to batons eyes it would be more interesting it if ai I 1 allowed a little be seen af present there la Is nothing visible but snow la Is that the only way it lC affects youl an artist would think of it as a back ground for contrasts a thing to sketch or paint a writer as something to bo be written down in words eaton understood she could not more plainly havo have asked him what ho he WON was and an engineer I 1 suppose suppo Bc he said easily would think of it only as on an element clement to bo be included in fit his for lulng on an x r or nn an a or a 0 b to bo be put in somewhere and square rooted or squared so that tile tho roof truss ho was figuring should not buckle under its weight oh so that Is tho the way you were thinking of it you menn mean eaton challenged her directly nm am I 1 nn an engineer are 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