Show IL BLIND BLI ND MAIM BY EDWIN BALMER illustrations by b 7 RA AY T LITTLE 11 BROWN AND COMPANY HIM film otari ardan boatti clell lt bolle his hi butler he r to I 1 eap exp p ling alln a C hairr or 10 lo L ad w thou II 11 informs arne III I 1 Is wife 0 of danger dial I 1 I 1 realm I 1 im if he h punuri a a course h he ronald pre the h honorable ono only I 1 lono rabi rable one on warden batea ira the th 11 licul nee in his car and meets a man horn hom h he lake takes into the in me m thine hin va aln on the h car return home wardan wai alm ilm I 1 Is found drad dead and arid klona tl TI a clr ofle a young man us been at arden a hour house but a e ei U nob aerel hoi bob ton lon nry nory o bondu adu tor receives lye order orders to holl boll irain train lor for a party 1 lve mn men and nil ft a girl irl board the train the th eastern express the th father of the h girl irl ur dome to I 1 the person for whom the th train wa was hold I 1 phillp D baton eaton a young man trian alio board d the th train dome dorn tell tells his duh dough or r and hi his effry secretary DO don avry avery to find out what they cn tin him the two maki make eaton a acquaintance dom dome li is found marly nearly dead from a murder mur ir oui dug awault suit A surgeon operates op rat dome to revealed rv ld is a aall ean balne blind and a power in the h world ai as the h adviser of I 1 big lote rests faton Is I 1 lus petted slid II 11 refuses infer mat mallot 04 afoul abou t himself and admit admits he h wu was 0 6 calr collar at warden a hour house i vill V ill continued 7 enton eaton had sensed already what the kafure of f the message ines sace must lc be though is ts the conductor hen held it out to him I 1 ie A could read only tits name at t he the top of the sheet and did not know it i what the actual wordin was wa atlow acceptance of it must doean arrest indictment for tile crime otral rist basil Sant Sunt olne and that Ivi aether or not tie lie inter later uns wn HP ne quilted wusi destroy him but der danini illif of f the lessage low auld bo be hope leei it if IS youra yours lant it colmery u creed yes its it mine eaton admits vi and ti to make tits ail acceptance lie took the lite paper from Cun bunnery Cu onery nery As A U loola dully doun ht tit it IL tie he read ili jl li Is on your train under the ane itne of dorne dome vw message wa was not signed connery touched him on the tile shoulder come with me mr caton eiton F ston got ot up stoby and meehan leally and followed the conductor at the joor loor he halted and looked back li arlet Sant olne atas as oot got looking loo kinc tier their face ace waa was covered with her hande hands eato i hesitated thea then tr be nent eat on connety threw throw open the door of the next to the and to the drawing room at the other eod end of the car but vallel mal lei do well enough in here herk he lie tried the door upon raton and locked it IL aa As katon eaton stir cooil icid starla arias at the floar he could hear bear through the partition artl llon of the walin mita xin the ferrou terrou ter rou almost hysterical replis of en sin ciri girl the thing was done in so far for as the authorities on the tain were concerned it was knowl that he be was wa he the man who had bad the appointment alth ith gabriel wardin and had find disappeared and in me 99 far as the train could act art fee be vu waa accused and confined for the attack upon basli 11 Sant olne kut but be idea was overwhelmed bilth ith the hor for 01 ol pt this position lon the manner in hufh n tie he had been accused imil hall round ted him to helpless ancer anger to rose rage rt his accusers which aich still increased U a he heard the sounds on the other aldeo ue the partition p where avery nas bobu towN wIng yin to silence harriet san tola and lead her aay 1 CHAPTER IX it the blind mana mans eyes connery tome roe to his door ddll connery eaton eat on saw ilar liar let Bant olne and abery eaton raton d op up and as he saw the ciria girl a vale ale face tam the color left his onn own on n aitu Bant olne has bag asked to speak to 0 o yen connery announced and he admitted dmit ted harriet and avery ad i himself remaining outside to n the asle dosed closed the door upon them allow Is your katherr eaton asked 4 ai seems just the met at least I 1 chint see we any chalu mr ur baloe can doctor sinclair eee sea any wv differ mer crey eaton asked dwor sinclair will not commit except to aay say that so farill fr as aa afta M ml IM the are arv flonor bles ej he H seems to thedr the no airl but villen ben the treat on olk her 1 were very bright and her lips eld did not tremble doctor sinclair 4 to think mr eaton that fa fig liber I 1 was found just in time and slid thai ahat 1 I 1 ver chance be he baa has for recovery ery mea from ou on sometimes SO father insomnia and get to bleep till late in 10 the so 90 I 1 pod nd mr avery too would have left la until nono doctor OW SAYs that if it be he had been left 94 a tow WM SA OIL be lit would wold hav have bid md no an owal awe at all sit tor he ika wa lie hoi fins a chonce then film now nowr 1 pa lint uc e atoll dunt I 1 kaw how much 11 II nautili you to inow know mr aalon flint I 1 tint that the tile clano FR fn her may lieve rame through jou u and flint I 1 am nin irvins aa to think of IOU ou ui as the one uhn tin gave him the lie chance cli once the norm blood 1 diton fare face find anti lie bourd his head she site then uns not wholly sholly hostile to film etie ithe find not been completely con vinced by arery avery her tier ebes rested upon eaton stead lly and bille he lie had been appe appealing allt to her tier a flush had find come to her tier check and faded anny and come again and again alth her impulse impulses oa as he poke spoke if you do 14 it aay dont you help us she tie cried help you goulf yes tell us who you are end and what you are tire dolne doing why did you take the train because father fattier we was on it it you didn t mean any harro harm to him why dont you tell us where you are going or where you have been or what you hare have been dolne doing why cant you CIT the name of abbody an body you know or tell us as of anyone who know knows about your 1 I inight ask yon you in to return eaton mid RA why you thought it orth bille mis MISS Sant olne to ask so much about nhen you gret met me and before any of this had bad happened why nere were n ere you curious about nie me my aly father asked me to flud find out about you U by hyp harriet had reddened under baton coze gaze lou understand air baton eaton it as a was entirely impersonal with me my father being blind Is obliged to use the tile ejea of other mine for one and he lie has tins mr ur avery he ile calls us his ill CK ees and it liias onty only only because I 1 had been cont to hod find out about you that I 1 was obliged to show so much curiosity harriet arose and eaton got dp up as she did and stood as she betit toward the door avery had reached the door hold bold in it open for lier tier to ro go oat sudden ly enton eaton tore the handle from averys grasp slammed the door but abut upon him cod and braced his foot against I 1 alias Sant olne he pleaded his hi roice roles hoarse with his emotion for bod code 5 uke make hem them think what hat they are sire doln doing before they make a public accusation against me before they charse charge roe me with this to other others not dot on till train t it will not be merely accusation they make against me it III be my sen en tencel I 1 behall he sentenced before I 1 am tried coo damned flit hout a chance to defend myself I 1 that 1 Is the reason I 1 could not come fort forward tard after the murder of mr warden 1 I could not hare have helped bilm or aided tn to the pursuit of his enemies if it I 1 had appeared I 1 merely would have been destroyed myself the only thing I 1 could hope to accomplish lias tins been la in following fol lowin my present course which I 1 swear to you vou has hit no connection with n jtb the attack upon your father fattier what mr sir avery and connery are pl planning annin to do to me they cannot undo they trill will merely complete the outrage and injustice already done me beof of which mr air warden spoke to his wife and they will not help your father for grids biake keep them from coin going fur furthers therl her tier color deepened and for an art instant he be thought he saw full belief in him growing in her eyes but it she I 1 th dry oy dashed the door open then could ni not t accept the charge against him neither could aha she deny it and stud the hands she ah had been pressing pres together suddenly dropped aim 11 aim afraid gothic nothing I 1 could say would have much effect tat on them knowing as little about about you OU as I 1 do dor r they dashed the door cheu then atle aced aad and bem and ii i n m B i hey they took tier her from the room ad a d left him film alone ton fin again but her tier was left with him aich they could not take tor for in I 1 the moment he had stood alone ion with her an annl passionately ale pleading adina something om ethin find passed between themie thein fis could che cl no nim name to it but be he knew thil that harriet never could think of hin him spin without a shirring of her tier which drew her toward him the following mornin morning ih the relieving noiA plows arrived from the tho east and mon fell felt it an the beginning of the end for him he lie watched from hit his window inen men struggling in the lit now snow shout the forward end of the ruin train hen then the tile train moved forward anit it the shoveled and nd rumpled trampled now snow here rock mad nd pieces of lie tile snowplow were beside the track topped stopped walled fla rilly it wont ent on again and becan began to 0 take up if its saady progress the attack upon Sant olne having taken place in montana caton volon thought that he lie would be turned over to the police thin that state and he lie expected it bould be done at the lie first slop top but when the iraln slowed at simons he BOW saw the town own uns nothing more than a little elaml ef beside a emo side track they surel surely y could not deliver him to the village authorities here it made no material difference to him film realized whether hether the lie police took him hira in montana or oil cos cog since in either elther case re ilon of him would be ile certain in the end bat but in n chicago this must be immediate complete and ad at teny convincing the train nas as traveling trav elint steadily and faster than if its regular schedule it esi evidently dently nas AAs running as a special some other ollier train taking the ordinary traffic it halted now only at t the largest cf if la in the morning it crossed into minnesota and la in the late aftem afternoon oon slowing elow inc it rolled into some larice large city eaton knew must be minneapolis or st paul the car here nas its uncoupled from the train and picked up by a switch engine as dusk fell eaton peering out of his big window coald see that they had been left lying in the railroad yard yards and about midnight awakening an in his hill berth he realized that the car was ara still motionless he ile could account for this stoppage stop pace in their prof freas iress only by some chance change in the he condition of Sant olne was Sant olne sinking so that they no longer dared to irate was he be perhaps dead no sounds came to him from the car to eaton jn in any con clu elusion ilon there was bothin nothing 1 to 0 be learned from anyone outside the car eaton lay for a ions long time listening Its for other sounds and wondering nhat it fiat aas os occurring or had occurred at the other end of his car toward coming be he fell asleep CHAPTER X publicity not wanted basil Sant Sont olne blind mil roll leonaire llo lion alre laer talen taken tal en III on oil train the alarm of the cry come to answer eaton question early the next morning he brew threw up the curtain and saw a vagrant newsboy ness boy evidently passing through the railroad yards to cell sell to the trainmen eaton hailing the boy put out bis his hand blind for a paper ue he spread the dewe nhat be fore tore him film and read that San condition was very low and becoming rapidly worse but below under a montana Uon tans dateline date line baton eaton saw aw it proclaimed that the blind millionaire was merely sick there was no eug gelon anywhere of an attack the paper stated only that basil santalee Sant olne alne re turning from seattle nith his danah ter and hl his secretary donald aery had bad ben boen taken seriously III upon a train which bad been stalled slatted for two tuo days lays in the snow in to montana the column ended alth ath the statement tant mr Sant olne had passed through minneapolis and gone on to chicago under care of dr douglas sindall Sin dalr lair eaton stared at the newspaper with ith oot out reading after he saw that he ile had not realized until now that lie ile was as told that harriet had gone for if it her father had bad gone on of course she was wall with hirthe alm abe extent to which he had felt her fairness almost her friendship to him blin at least he be knew now inow that since sin ce she the had spoken to him after be was first accused 0 of he the attack on her father he had not felt entirely deserted or friendless till now dom but why if it San Sant totne olne bad had been beti taken imay an ay or avia wa dead or dying bad had they left eaton faton all night in 11 the car in to the yards since Sant San olne tolue was dying would here there be any longer an object la in con concealing milne the fact that he had been murdered t he lie dreamed and then pared back and forth the two or ahr three steps hl lit compartment allowed him blou he stopped now and then to listen from outside came cum the noise noises of the yani yard but he made out DO to sound within he the car if it bad find been occupied as on an the days previous praT ious he most hare have heard some one coming to t the wa washroom shOta at hie his end wa wits be lone alone in the car ear now flow or bad had the cw ma tomary moving bout about taken place before he hd awoke finally malty to td free himself from bb nervous listening for sounds which never came he be picked op lip he the paper agam again be Us road reada the pew of mr air Santol nea g dall 1 of a week oa on the coast if biot known already la to great financial circle circles if Is likely to prove interesting there for per year years he be has been the chief agent in keeping peace among some of the great conflicting interests and m ore than thin once be baa has advised lie the beclar ing of financial dri andal war when war seemed to bin him the correct solution thus are alv year years are ago when the violent death of matthew mat thew latron threatened to pro pre trouble among western santola Sant oln kept order ic fr abt very rr tom keme financial chaim if his wot recent avult to lie tilt kaciff cout coast vias aj not purely for personal pe ronal won reasons but wai was also 1 I lo 10 adjust antagonisms uch such ai as charged chari by gabriel warden before till his death the luu loss of Sao toine loine at t thil this jim time may precipitate trouble troubles which aich thing hi his adair mil and information ml allt ht have been able to prevent having read and reread this hi long paragraph caloa vaton bruit thrust lie tits out lint the window win dour an A he lie sat at think ing with III lluc tight closed lie he beard for the be first time that morning foot amit tepa steps at t till tits end of the car 71 tir A door of hie his co compartment As ua locked and opened and be uw saw D doctor sine Sint id laIr ir mr Sant olne wants to peak speak to you 1 the surgeon announce il quietly this startling negation catlon ne of ill all ir bia unnerved eaton its started up then sank back for let bet ter composure compo eure mr bunt bant olne Is here the nr lleren of course lies berer and bee lies conscious 1 he lie |