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Show THE The Blind Man's Eyes By "m WILLIAM MacHARG EDWIN BALMER Copyrishtby Little, Brown and Company "SHIELD HIM?" Gabriel Warden, Seattle capitalist, tell hia butler he la expecting a caller, to be admitted without question. He in forma hla wife of danger that threaten him If he pursues a courae ha consider the only honorable one. Warden leave the house In hla car and meet a man whom he takes Into the machine. When th car return home. Warden la found dead, murdered, and alone. The caller, a youna man, haa been at Warden'a house, y. but leavea unobserved. Bob conductor, receives order to hold train for a party. Five men and a girt board the train, the eastern express. The father of the girl, Mr. Uorns, I the person for whom the train was held. Philip D. 'Eaten, a young man, also boarded the train. Dome tells hla daughter and hla aecretary, Don Avery, to And out what they can concerning him. The two make Eaton'a acquaintance. Dome la found nearly dead from a murderous assault A surgeon operates. Dome Is revealed a Basil blind, and a power In the financial world aa the adviser of Interests." Eaton la auapected "big and questioned. He refuses Information about himself and admit he waa the caller at Warden'a house. Fa ton pleads with Harriet Santolne. to withhold Judgment, telling her he Is In serious danger, 'though innocent of the crime against her father. He feela the girl believes him. Santolne recover sufficiently to question Eaton, who refuses hla Identity. The financier requires Eaton to accompany him to the Santolne home aa a Eaton meets a resident of the house, Wallace Blatchford. and Mildred Davis, a stenographer, with whom he la acquainted, though they conceal the fact. Eaton'a mission la to secure certain documents which are vital to hla Interests. Harriet tells Eaton ah and Donald Avery act as "eyes" to Santolne. While walking with her, men in an automobile deliberately attempt to run Eaton down. The girl recognizes one of the men a having been on the train. Con-ner- Ea-tlo- 8an-toln- e, semi-prison- ' CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII Continued. 10 "To kill him, Harriet? How do you know?" She caught herself. "I I don't know, Father. He certainly meant to Injure Mr. Eaton. When I said kill him, I vii telling only what .1 thought." "That Is better. I think so too." "That be meant to kill Mr. Eaton?" "Yes." ' She watched her father's face; often when relating things to him, he was aware from bis expression that she was telling him only something he already had figured out and expected or even knew; she felt that now. "Father, did you expect Mr. Eaton to be attacked?" "Expect? Not that exactly; It was possible; I suspected something like this njght occur." "And you did not warn him?" The blind man's hands sought each ther oo the coverlet and clasped together. "It was not necessary to warn Mm, Harriet; Mr. Eaton already knew. Who waa In the car?" Three men." "Had you seen any of them before?" Tee, one the man who drove." "Where?" "On the train." , The eolor on Santolne's face grew brighter. "Describe him, dear." He waited while she called together her recollections of the man. "I can't describe him Tery fully, Father," ahe said. "He waa one of the people who had bertha In the forward aleeplng ear. I can recall seeing him only when I passed through the ear I recall him only twice In that ear and once In the diner." ' "That la Interesting." said Santolne. "What, Father?" , "That In Ave daya upon the train you aaw the man only three times." "You mean be must have kept out ef sight as much as possible?" "Have you forgotten that I asked you to describe him, Harriet?" ' She checked herself. "Height about Ave feet five," ahe said, very heavily set ; I reft) ember he Impressed me aa being unusually muscular. Hla hair was black ; I can't recall the color of hla eyes; tils cheeks were blue with a heavy beard closely ahaved. I remember hla face was prognathous, and hla clothes were spotted with dropped food. I it seetna hard for me to recall htm, end I can't describe him very well." , "Dut you are aure It waa the same motor?" pan In the ITe seemed an animal sort i Tea. of person, small, strong, and not parIt seems hard ticularly Intelligent. (for me to remember more about him ' . "broad-shouldere- tbap that" "That la Interesting." d, "What?" "That It la bard for you to remember him very well." "Why, Father?" Her father did not answer. The other men In the motor?" he asked. "1 can't describe them, I I was excited about Mr. Eaton." ' "Thank you, dear. Bring Eaton to tne." "He baa gone to hla room to fix tilmsilf up." i Til aend for him, then." Santolne pressed one of the buttons beside hla bed to call a servant; but before the bell could be answered, Harriet got r 1 go myself," ahe said. went out Into the hall and closed the door behind her; she waited until she heard the approaching ateps of the man summoned by Santolne's bell; then, going to meet htm, she sent him to call Eaton in his rooms, and she still waited until the man came back and told her" Eaton had already left his rooms and gone downstairs. She dismissed the man and went to the head of the stairs, but her steps slowed there and stopped. She knew that the blind man's thought In regard to Eaton bad taken gome Immense stride; but ahe did not know what that stride had been, or what waa coming now when her father saw Eaton. She went on slowly down the stairs, n and when halfway down, ahe saw In the halt below her. He waa standing beside the table which held the bronze antique vase; be seemed to have taken something from the vase and to be examining It She halted again to watch him; then she went on, and he turned at the sound of her footsteps. She could see, as she approached him, what he had taken from the vase, but she attached no Importance to It; It was only a black button from a woman's glove one of her own, perhaps, which she had dropped without noticing. He tossed it indifferently toward the open fireplace as he came toward her. "Father wants to see you, Mr. Eaton," she said. He looked at her Intently for an Instant and seemed to detect some strangeness In her manner and to draw himself together; then he followed her up the stairs. She It Grows Plainer. Basil Santolne's bedroom waa so that anything nearly sound-proo- f going on In the room could not be heard In the hall outside It even close to the double doors. Eaton, as they these doors, listened approached vainly, trying to determine whether anyone was In the room with Santolne; then he quickened his s'.ep to bring htm beside Harriet "One moment, please, Miss Santolne," he urged. She stopped. "What la It you want?" "Your father has received some answer to the Inquiries he has been having made about me?" "I don't know, Mr. Eaton." "Is he alone?" "Yes." Eaton thought a minute. "That Is ell I wanted to know, then," he said. Harriet opened the outer door and knocked on the Inner one. Eaton heard Santolne's voice at once calling them to come In, and aa Harriet opened the second door, he followed her Into the room. "Am I to remain. Father?" she asked. "Yea," Santolne commanded. Eaton waited while ehe went to a chair at the foot of the bed and seated herself her clasped hands resting on the footboard and her chin upon her hands In a position to watch both Eaton and her father while they talked; then Eaton sat down. "Good morning, Eaton," the blind man greeted him. "Good morning, Mr. Santolne," Eaton answered. Santolne was lying quietly upon hla back, hla head raised on the pillows, bis arms above the his finger-tip- s touching with the fingers spread. "You recall, of course, Eaton, our conversation on the train," Santolne aald evenly. "Yea." "I want to call your attention In a certain order to some of the details of what happened on the train. You had rather a close call this morning, did you not?" "Rather, I waa careless." Santolne "You were careless?" smiled derisively. Terhaps you were In one sense. In another, however, you have been very careful, Eaton. You have been careful to act aa though the attempt to run yon down could not have been a deliberate attack ; you were careful to call It an accident; you were careful not to recognize any of the three men In the motor." "I had no chance to recognize any of them, Mr. Santolne," Eaton replied easily. "Idld not see the car coming; I waa thrown from my feet; when I got np. It waa too far away for me to recognize anyone." "Perhaps so ; but were you surprised when my daughter recognized one of them aa having been on the train with us?" Eaton hesitated, but answered almost Immediately: "Your question doesn't exactly fit the case. I thought MIsa Santolne had made a mistake." "But you were not aurprlsed; no. What would have been a surprise to you, Eaton, would have been If you bad had a chance to observe the men to have found that none of them none of them had been on the train I" Eaton started and felt that he had colored. How much did Santolne know? Had the blind man received. as Eaton feared, some answer to his Inquiries, which bad revealed, or neariy revealed, Eaton'a Identity? Or waa It merely that the attack made e on Eaton that morning had given new light on the eventa that had happened on the train and particularlyEaton guessed on the cipher telegram which Santolne claimed ' to bava translated. w TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, "You assume that, Mr. Santolne," expected him to attack yo-e-. Eaow he asserted, "because " He checked ing that Eaton knowing that I want himself and altered hla aentence. to call your attention to the peculiar"Will you tell me why you assume ity of our mutual positions oa the thatr train. You had asked for and were "That that would have surprised occupying faction Three in the third you? Yes; that la what I called you sleeper, In order I aasume and, I beIn here to tell you." lieve, correctly to avoid being put In Aa Santolne waited a moment be- the same car with me. In the night, fore going on, Eaton watched him the second sleeper the car next In The blind man turned front of yours waa cut off from the anxiously. himself on his plllowe so aa to face train and left behind. That made me Eaton more directly. occupy In relation to the forward part "Just ten days ago," lie aald evenly of the train exactly the name position and dispassionately, "I was found un- aa you had occupied before the car conscious In my berth Section Three ahead of you had been cut out I of the rearmost sleeper on the trans- waa In Section Three In the third continental train, which I had taken sleeper from the front" Eaton stared at Santolne, fasciwith my daughter and Avery at Seattle. I had been attacked assailed nated; what had been only vague, during my sleep some time in that half felt, half formed with himself, was becoming definite, tangible, under first night that I spent on the train and my condition waa serloua enough the blind man'a reasoning. His handa so that for three daya afterward I cloaed instinctively. In hla emotion. waa not allowed to receive any of the "What do you mean?" "You understand already," Santolne particulars of what had happened to me. When I did finally learn them, asserted. "The attack made on me I naturally attempted to make certain waa meant for you. Someone stealing deductions as to who it waa that bad through the cars from the front to attempted to murder me, and why; the rear of the train and carrying la and ever since, I have continued to hla mind the location of Section Three occupy myself with thoee questions. In the third car, struck through' the I am going to tell "yon a few of my curtains by mistake at tne Instead of deductions. If you fancy I am at you. Who was that Eaton?" "I don't know," Eaton answered. fault In my conclusions, wait until you "You mean you prefer to shield discover your error." Santolne waited an Instant; Eaton hlmr "Shield hlmr thought It was to allow him to apeak "That la what you are doing, la It if he wanted to, but Eaton merely not? For, even If you don't know the waited. "The first thing I learned," the blind man directly, you know In whose man went on, "was the similarity of cause and under whose direction he the attack on me to the more success- murdered Warden and why and for ful attack oa Warden, twelve days whom he la attempting to murder previous, which had caused his death: you." Eaton remained silent The method of the two attacka was In hla Intensity, Santolne had liftthe same; the condition aurroundlng them were very similar. The des- ed himself from hla pillows. "Who la that man?" ha challenged. "And what perate nature of the two attacka, and la that connection between you and their almost Identical method, made It practically certain that they origi- me which, when the attack found and nated at the same ' source and ware disabled me Instead of you, told him carried out probably by the same that In spite of hla mistake hla result had been accomplished? told him hand and for the same purpose. "Mrs. Warden's statement to me of that. If I waa dying, a repetition of her interview with her husband a the attack against you was unaeces-aary?-" half-hou- r before hla murder, made It Eaton knew that he had grown very certain that the object of the attack on him waa to 'remove him. It pale; Harriet must be aware of the seemed almost Inevitable, therefore, effect Santoine'a worda had on him, that the attack on me must have been but he did not dare look at her now to see how much she waa comprehendfor the same purpose. "I found that a young man your- ing. "I don't understand." He fought to self ad acted so auspiciously both before and after the attack on me compose himself. "It la perfectly plain," Santolne said that both Avery and the conductor "It waa believed at first In charge of the train had become patiently. convinced that he waa my assailant, that I had been fatally hurt; It was and had segregated him from the rest even reported at one time I understand that I was dead ; only Intimate friends have been Informed of my actual condition. Yesterday, for the first time, the newspapers announced the certainty of my recovery; and today an attack la made on you. They did not hesitate to attack you In aight Jl HI I of my daughter." ml &t "But" 1 - s, Ran-toln- "You are merely challenging my deductions will you reply to my questions? tell me the connection between ua? who you are?" "No." "Come here I" "Whatr aald Eaton. "Come here close to me, beside the bed." Eaton hesitated, and then obeyed. "Bend over I" Eaton stooped, and the blind man'a handa seized him. Instantly Eaton withdrew. "Waltr Santolne warned. "If you do not atay, I shall call help." One hand went to the bell beside his bed. Harriet bad risen ; ahe met Eaton'a gaze warnlngly and nodded to him to comply. He bent again over the bed. He felt the blind man'a sensitive fingers searching hla features, hla head, hla throat Eaton gazed at Santoine'a face while the fingers were examining him; he could aee that Santolne waa merely finding confirmation of an Impression already gained from what he had been told him about Eaton. Santolne ahowed nothing more than thla confirmation; certainly he did not recognize Eaton. More than thla, Eaton could not telL "Now your handa," Santolne ordered. Eaton extended one hand and then the other; the blind man felt over them from wrists to the tlpa of the fingere; then be let himself sink back against the pillow a, absorbed la "You Understand Already," Santolne Asserted. of the passengers. Not only this, but and this seemed quite conclusive to them you admitted that you were the one who bad called upon Warden the evening of hla murder. It seemed likely, too, that you were the only person on the train aside from my daughter and Avery who knew who I waa; for I had had reason to believe from the time when first heard you apeak when you boarded the train, that you were someone with whom I had previously very briefly come tn contact; and I had asked my daughter to find out who you were, and ahe had tried to do so, but without success." Eaton wet hla lips. "Also," the blind man continued, "there was a telegram which definitely ahowed that there waa soma connection, unknown to me, between you and me, aa well aa a second or rather a previous suspicious telegram In cipher, which we were able to translate." Eaton leaned forward. Impelled to apeak ; but as Santolne clearly detected thla Impulse and waited to bear what be waa going to say, Eaton reconsidered and kept silent "Yon were going to say something about that telegram In cipher 7" Santolne asked. "No," Eaton denied. "I think you were; and I think that a few minutes sgo when I said you were not aurprlsed by the attempt made today to run you down, you were also going to apeak of It; for that attempt makes clear the meaning of the telegram. Ita meaning waa not clear to me before, you understand. It said only that you were known and followed. It did not aay why you were followed. I could not be certain of that; there were several possible reasons why you might be followed even that the 'one who 'wsa following might be someone secretly Interested In preventing you from aa attack oa me. Now, however, I know that the reason you feared the man was waa following waa because .ran if thought "You may go," Santolne aald at last Oor Eaton asked. "You may leave the room. Blatchford will meet you downstairs." Santolne reached for the house telephone beside hla bed receiver and transmitter on one light bar end gave directions to have Blatchford await Eaton In the hall below. win vii mix ME Mayfield's Seat in Senate Is Contested The controversy over the Ku Klux Into the United States senate with the filing of proceedlnga contesting the right of Earle B. May-fiel- d to become a senator from Texas. The contest was brought by George E. B. Peddy, Republican, and "independent Democratic" candidate for senator In the election last November, who declared himself elected despite the majority credited to Mayfleld. Democratic nominee. A scathing Indictment of the klan, of which It was charged that Mayfleld was a member, waa Included In the petition. Klan officers were charged with "Illegal and fraudulent" acts In the petition, which also alleged fraud la counting the ballots, Illegal expendl-ture- a 's of more than $150,000 In behalf, and numerous other Irregularities. The senate was asked to preserve and recount the Texas ballots, to the Texas primary and election, and to prohibit Mayfleld from taking the oath when the next congress convenes. Mayficld'a credentials having bees received, the whole matter will be referred to the privileges and elections committee, and pending the committee's Investigation the oath will be administered. Senator-Elec- t Mayfleld Is a lawyer of Austin and was born In 1881. He la a college man, a Methodist and a Mason. Elan waa taken May-field- Our Woman Assistant Attorney General Mrs. Mabel Walker Wlllebrandt who la known to fame as one of the assistant United States attorney generals, evidently has considerable "pep." Anyway, she forfeited $10 in traffic court at Washington when she failed to appear to answer to a charge of violating speed regulations. She had been stopped by a motorcycle policeman and served with notice to appear In court. It was said by the police, and when she failed to do so had been arrested on a warrant and required to put up the collateral which she forfeited. Mrs. Wlllebrandt came originally from a little town In Michigan Buck& ley where her father, David W. Walker, was a banker. It was largely to fulfill a lifelong desire of her father that Mrs. Wlllebrandt took up the law at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. Mrs. Wlllebrandt first taught school In Michigan, then In Arizona and In California. It waa while she was principal of Jhe high school at Pasadena that she decided to take up the law course, with two classes a day, one at 8 o'clock in the morning and the other at 5 o'clock In the evening. It was five years before she obtained her diploma and finally was admitted to the bar, for her attendance waa Intermittent Mrs. Wlllebrandt has been active In politics In California. She Is a member of the Republican State Central committee. m'i 'J Hines, New Head of Veterans' Bureau Brig. Gen. Frank Thomas HInea ta the new director of the veterans bu- reau. One of the first messages to reach him, waa this: "You've taken a devil of a Job." "I am not at all aure I can get away with thla thing," the general aald, "but I'm going to do my level best There la no difference of opinion from President Harding down aa to what ought to be done. There la a considerable difference of opinion aa to how It ahould be done. If bard work will get It done the right way, I will pull through." To make the Job even harder the first thing General Hines haa got to do Is all snarled up with politics. He haa got to help a congressional committee Investigate hla bureau. This." he aald, "la the big thing Immediately in front of me. We will ; and It la to be give full hoped that the Inquiry will be benefl-Octnot only to the veterans but to the bureau Itself." The fact that General HInea, wbo la not a West Pointer, baa reached bla present position, ahowa he's a big man for a btg Job. He made an enviable reputation In charge of the embarkation service during the World war. He la forty-fou- r years of agtt. He began bla army career aa a private In the Philippines In the Spanish-Americawar. km$mt I al n Newspaper Man Ambassador to Spain Alexander P. Moore of Pittsburgh, Pa haa been appointed ambassador to Spain. He succeeds Cyrua E. Wooda "You yourself will aasume of Pennsylvania, who haa been appointef the charge correspondence of ed ambassador to Japan In place of which I spsak. Daughter." Mr, Charles B. Warren, resigned. Moore, who recently retired from tbe years publ'sblng business, la fifty-si(TO BE CONTINUED.) old. and haa been a close friend of President Harding for many years, Mr. It Broke Hla Fall, Moore sailed for Europe on the George Mose Ltghtfoot one of the best on the Job, lost hla footing Washington. He was assigned to ocand fell to the street, four storiea be- cupy the same suite he had when he sailed a little more than a year ago low. Mose lit on hla head, struck the ce- with hla wife, the late Lillian Russell, ment pavement and went through te who made a tour of Europe for the the basement aecretary of labor to study emigration When the foreman went to the base- problems, Mr. Moore said be would debark ment, expecting to find Mose cold and stiff, be met Mose coming up the stepa. at Cherbourg and go direct to Paris, "Oreat Scott man, aren't you remaining there for short time. He will then visit other parts of Europe be cried. killed "No," Mose replies, trusting off hla to do some special diplomatic work clothes. 1 guess dat concrete pave for Secretary of State Hughes. Mr. Monre thought be would reach Madrid within a month. Hla niece, Mrs. Mil-drment mast a broke man fall Andrews Martin, also of Pittsburgh, will Join blra at tbe embassy and will reside there for a while, Up te Data. Mr. Moore has been connected with th newspaper business since 1878 as Kntcker What baa reporter, city editor, managing editor, editor la chief, owner and publisher. Hsj "obey" la the marriage service I ras editor and publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader when b rlred x hod-cartie- ra r r d |