Show the he blind bl d dy by mans eyes ey edwin dwin dalmer balmer copyright hf hr 1111 I 1 ittle drew grown sa company AN ACCIDENT gabriel uarda kran atti cap fait ite lit tell his t itier 1 he h is expecting ft a call 11 to in be without question qu ullon lie arif his hi wife of danger ht that threatens him it he h pursues bucu pucu a courno he considers lr the th only honorable one on arden 11 leaves the th house hou in his car and meets ft a man whom he h fin takes into the th nit me chino bin wh ahn a th he or r returns horn home warden I 1 found dead murdered and ad alone ion th the caller a ounla oun man hai his been at wardens houas hou but lv unobserved hob lon nry nery conductor receives orders to hold train for a party p five nun men and ft a girl irl board tie tl train the th arn oiL press the th father ahr of the th irl mr porn is f the ierson lor for whom the th train wi wits hu hold 1 phillp 1 alton ton a young win man also 10 lo boarded the th train irn tells his daughter duh lr and nd hi his secretary in avery to find out what 0 t or y can n concerning him the th two mak make eaton 8 acquaintance dorn is t found nearly 1 dead from a murder oui ous assault A surgeon dora dome li to revealed as dull basil san tolas blind and a power in the th financial world an the adviser of dig big baton eaton li is suspected md and questioned quit lond lit II 11 refuses refu anfor madlik about himself and admits he h was wk the th caller 11 at t warden a houd house eton eaton pleads with Itar arrit rist flunt Bant olne oln to withhold Judem nt telling hr her he h Is I 1 in serious arioul danger innocent of the th crime ILI calust hr her father ito II 11 feet the th ma irl believes allt bl lT him bantola Bant Sant oln olne we n sufficiently to question katon eaton who refuses his hi identity the th financier require requires eaton to ascom panr pany him to the th bantola Bant Hant oln olne horn home to a ml prisoner faton ireton moots a resident of at th the house callaco allec Nal all laco tc blatchford atchford DI and mildred davis 1 a stenographer with whom he h if 14 to though they conceal the th fact feet mission tl Is to secure cur certain documents which art to his ht inter inott Int Tt 1 CHAPTER XI continued 0 96 paton drew further back into the alcove as some one une passed through the halt hall above the footsteps footit eps coated overhead laton eaton assort d no one wab wa coining down the stairs poke spoke to tell her at as much as he might in their moment llo gasn wasn t taken ill on the train edith be he wa was attacked attacked I 1 her iler lipe lips barely moved lie ile was almost killed but they concealed colue aled 14 it edith pretended be wn was only ill I 1 naj as on the train you know of course I 1 got your vl Ire re and they suspected me of the attack you I 1 nut but they and out bout about yoo you nuter no they are san tolne colne would not let lot them make any thine thin public lie ile brought me here whir while he tg Is trying to find out about in rae so rm hero hem edith aerel herel Is it here her toot toor asala steps bounded sounded in the hall abom the girl swiftly busted ber her elf self with gloves and hat eaton stood tark stark in suspense the servant above it wae was a servant they bad had heard before he recognized now merely crossed 81 from one room to another over overhead bead now the ars lips ups moved again mtr she formed the question noiselessly the draft of the new agreement it either has been sent to him or it will be sent to him very soon here mere where will it U be when it Is herer where when oh ohl the girl eyes went to the th wall close to where eaton stood she seemed to measure with them a definite alto distance from the th door and a point shoulder high and nal nfl to resist the impulse to come over and pot put her hand bend upon the spot As A eaton followed her look he heard a light slight and muffled click cuck as if from the study but no bound sound could reach them through the study doors and what he be heard came from the wall itself A eater safe he whispered tes yes ulis WAR Santo olits in to there she cloned it just now there are two of them hidden behind the books one on each stile of th the e door eaton tapped gently stuffy on OU the wall wan th ewall was brick the safe site undoubtedly was backed with steel the no best way Is from inside the room he concluded she nodded tea if you o look out outa I 1 someone now was coming down etala the girl had time only to whisper swiftly if we dont get a ik chance to speak again spin watch that tat tase ae pointed to a bronze an tique stood on 04 a table near them when rm sum the agreement Is to in the house III drop a glove but ton in that a black one it if I 1 think itil be in the afu lafo on the right white on the left now go W ap eaton moved quietly on oil aad and into the drawing room avery voice im lm med mediately lately afterward was heard he was speaking to miss davis whom be he had bad found in the hallway eaton was certain there uns as no 11 that he be bad had talked with her there indeed avra seemed to suppose that eaton was still in the study with harriet antohne ant olne ne it was ber her lapse then which had bad let him out and had bad given bilm that chance bat but it was a it lapse be he discovered which was not likely to favor hia him again from that time walle whit cover held strictly in 4 U found himself alvais la qa U sight mora faton 1 let inh idly bout about t how strange br her life had been that part of it at least which win vins spent ai an be he bad had gathered most of ajor waking asking hour hours of recent year years lied had been with her rather father strange almost am bli his own life I 1 and what a wonderful onil ond erful girl irid it bad made mado of her duvet sweet lovable with more than then a woman omans a ordinary ca parity for devotion and self sacrifice hut but if her mice service to her father was not only on hia his personal pera onal tilde ld hut but if alio also the he was intimate in hie his bull bust nen neis affairs inest he not therefore have iii hared the cruel coda which aich had terrorized eaton for the kit last four year years and kept him an exile in alia asla and which at any hour yet let threat ened to take hia his lit A grim ret pet came to eaton a lips hit his mind went again to till his own affair affairs CHAPTER XII I 1 thi th man from the train in the that he wa was to have lees less liberty eaton proved correct harriet Bant Sant olne to whom ira im bulges had been due hie his arat leges showed towa toward rd him a more mor constrained atral ned attitude the following morn mom ing she did not suggest as avery constantly co did nor indeed wa was there any evidence of retrogress alon slon la in her attitude toward him abe the seemed merely to ba b maintaining same position and find since thi this seemed difficult if they were often together ahe she avoided him baton eaton understood that Bant Sant olne steadily atea dlly improving but nut not yet able to leave hia his bed bad taken up bla his work again propped up by pillow one of the nurses had been dismissed the other wa wax only upon day duty but baton eaton did not see Sant Sent olne at all and though he ht lear learned ried that mims davis or another stenographer whose name waa was west came dally to the house he never waa was in a position again to encounter any outsider either coming or going there was wa no longer room for baton to doubt that harriet bad had the confidence of her father to almost a complete extent now that Sant olne was ill ehe she worked with him dally for hour hours and eaton learned that ehe she did the same when he was well ell but avery worked with the blind man too h he too took was as certainly in a confidential capacity was it not tot probable then that avery and not riot fl harriet arrIeL was entrusted with the secrets of dangerous and ugly matters or was it possible that this girl worshiping her father as he she did could know and be sure that thai because her ber father approved these matters they were right A hundred times time a da day as eaton saw or poke spoke with alth the por girl or thought of her presence near by this obsessed him A score of times during their casual talk upon meeting at meal meals or elsewhere he found himself turned toward some question which would old him in determining what must be the fact but each time be he checked himself until one lt was the fifth after his arrival at san house bouse harriet was taking him for bis his walk in the garden before the house she bad had just told him at his inquiry that her father was very much stronger that morning and her manner more than ever evidenced her pride in him they walked on slowly 1 bm I you could tell me more about yourself ur mr eaton 1 I wish so too he be said then why can you fotr not she sho turned to bim him frankly be he gazed at her a moment and then looked away and shook his bead head did she know all of what was known even under her fathers roof and if she knew know all would she the thea then loathe or defend it A motor sped near baited and then speeded on again baton eaton looking lookin 9 up saw it was a runabout with avery alone in it evidently seeing them in the road avery bad had halted to protest then thought better of ot it and gone on but other motors passed now ath people who spoke to liar ijar riet and okho ho stopped topped to inquire for her father and wish him well your father does not seem to be one of the great men without honor bonor in his own neighborhood baton eaton said sald to her after one of these bad had baited halted and gone cone on everyone who knows father likes and admires him she rejoiced 1 I dont mean exactly that eaton estop went on they roust must trust him too in an extraordinary way his ills associate must place most complete coo con glence in him when they leave to him the adjustment of matters such as I 1 understand they do ue he tells them what Is to just and they abide by his ded decision 11 harriet arriet shook her head bead s no it quite that she the said what abenr then you are correct in saying that men of the most opposite and most irreconcilable ia to each scantly place their fate la to fathers hand and when he be tells them what they must do they abide by his decision but he decide for them what Is just juav 1 I dont understand what does doeg he tell um abear he tells them what would be the outcome if it they fought who would win and who would lose logo and by how much and they believe belle vili aim him and aw abide bide bf by bis his decision without fighting for he know knows and they know that he know known and ww if Is absolutely honest honsl katon eaton was allent for fior a moment as they walked along how ran can be come to his hl decision dedsion he b asked at leet lost 11 1 I mean much of the mateT material ial presented to him must be documentary much of it Is IL then someone must read it to him I 1 of court course caton eaton started to speak thea then retrained what were you going to mayr she abe questioned that the person per or persons who readi reads the documents to him must occupy nn an extremely delicate petition if does in fact I 1 think that position la Is fathers one nightmare nightmare I 1 the person he trusts must not only be absolutely abiol discreet dia creet bat but ab toly honest 1 I should think to if anyone in IJ that position lon wanted to use the in i formation bronchi brought to your father fathe r he h could make himself millions overnight undoubtedly and rata ruin other men and kill rather father too the girl added quietly tel ahe she said aa as eaton looked at her father puta puts nothing above hia his trust if that trust were betrayed whether or not rather father were la 14 any way to blame for it I 1 think it would kill him so you are the one who la is in that Posit position loe yea that la Is I 1 have been yott you mean there 1 Is another now that fl of course mr averye tea yes here at thia this house mr avery and 1 I and mr avery at the office before mr avery came I 1 as the only one who helped here at tit the house ahen TV hen was when mr mir avery came about five live year years ago rather father bad had an immense amount of work at that time business conditions were very muen ii a 3 every one who knows father lakee alk t and admire admires himl she ah rejoiced unsettled unsettle iL there was trouble at a that time between some of the bg big eastern and big western men and at the fame same time the government was prosecuting the trusta trusts nobody knew what the outcome of it all would be many of the biggest men who consulted rather were like men groping in the dark I 1 dont dout suppose you would remember the time by what I 1 say ay but you would remember it it aa as nearly pearly everybody else doea does by this it was the time of the murder of mr latron yea yes I 1 remember that said eaton i and mr avery came to you at that timer tea yes just at that time I 1 was wag thrown from my borse horse and could not do ax AS mach as I 1 had bad been doing so go mr avery was red to father then irben mr abery waa was reading to him at the time you spoke of the time of the latron murders no I 1 mr avery came just after ward I 1 was wits reading to him at that time the papera papers must have been a good deal for ft a girt bf of eighteen at that time you mean they were wore but father dared trust no one else else mr avery handles those matters now for your katherr the continuation of what was go ing on heni then ye yes he took thear up at the time I 1 was hurt and eo so hat ba kept on lookin looking after theta chetti for the there has been plenty for me to do i without that 1 and andr those things have all been more or lesa less settled now they have worked themselves ree oot but aa As things do though they teemed seemed almost unsolvable 1 at the time one thing that helped in their was that father was wits able that time to urge what was just is its well aa as what was advisable you mean that in the final settlement of them no tie one ene no one I 1 think except of ot cou coarse arse poor mr latron atron Li and that waa wag a tate vate matter not connected in any direct dit way we with tb question at t IMIN ne 1 why I by do yen you a IX sit all thia this clr batt r 1 I I waa was merely interested la in louin lout t what your work has ha been with year your father rather and what it Is ha be answered quietly they had been following the edge dg of the road she he along ft a path worn wom in the turf tie he on the edge of the tb road itself and to the track tricks of the motor motors suddenly ahi she cried out and clutched at him aa As they had bad topped stopped she h had heard board the sound of a motor approaching ronchin them rapidly from behind except that thia this car seemed kidding fitter than thin the other others the had paid no to attention and had not turned instantaneously aa as the she had bad cried and pulled upon him the she had realized that thia this car waa was not pass pi ing it waa was directly behind and almost upon him she felt him spring to the aide side its quickly to 11 be could hut but her cry and pull upon him were almost toe late as 01 ho he leaped the oe car cat struck tb the mow blow una uso glancing not direct and he was as off his feet and in motion when the wheel atrock struck but the ce car r hu buried irl a d him aside and rolled him over ot and over aa As ahe the rushed to baton eaton the two men in the rear meat of the cat turned their heads and looked back bic k but without checking ita its speed or of nerving the car dashed on and die appeared down the roadway she bent over eaton and took hold of him he lie niggled struggled to hie his feet fet and dated tottered to that ahe she support op port ed him aa As she he realized that he h wet wa not greatly hurt ahe she stared with burn bufor at the torn turn in the road when where the car had disappeared hy by |