| Show tr afee A brisbi due ev e i by Willi william arn macharg edwin balmer w py right by little M cf M XIII CHAPTER ti C 1114 1 etly frightened by idt a was distill laffon he u just hll had had of santo lacatis zoning reasoning re deer 1 irn biffl for none pf the blind bout bin him bad had imag 1 all 11 bad had been the exacta incomplete troth trum it waa wits that Sant olne oln wu doe does al aft than Ban Sant totne olne even w closer do alir a i 1 tf apar edited to knowing L 1 identity it was we even fact A on single for r instance nw that masal A was the source of 0 the na second aks go received 11 by eaton on the U alil reveal everything to olm and baton eaton wa was a not ot certain lem 1 olne even without any new now cout would not 0 reach the ji unaided lit t a any ny doment so st that he himself hinie elf must act 0 o this happened but to long lon ae As n 0 tudy study was wa kept arti it wits va left opa open only while tok too was ul in the th room with lt it he de U 4 got e act until be had received its ir imm outside ou tilde and h he had not lit k that help he could ot dot it or even tell how it wa will adoll is could a 0 n ill mind reviewed almost la ili ath amly ahm tle considerations IB pad spin 1 at darritt Ua her 1 tw tu time net met hubut but she be looked immediately As be he went vs arf 4 lbs th door the he made no move if M him lie Us went out with and closed the inner and baer door doors behind him then he alim it to blatchford 1 I CL x so minute minutes after baton eaton rw I 1 lift left the room Sant olne thought bell ire are yoa you harrieta Harrie tr he is TL 1 it lait lail add 4 bw knew it was not hect necessary to t w him but merely to move 90 hold t be k could tell her position he she d and his sightless eIg bUess eyes rid id it at once to where ehe she stood ilk IN did be he act ctr Sant olne inked asked m r U reviewed swiftly the daw his a blind apper pdt el bu of batons manner with what a m COB had seen atit TW have been your impressions impression previous social condition no tar he asked too you bare have lot 4 wu him been with him both Jolt jolton mn ki bib and aa here have you been all to determine what hat sort it 6 people dubeen lu been accustomed to mil mix with op r it his friends been business bosl ness ineal the 1 men society peopled rob A dep and unconcealed concealed cn note of 14 1 la in her rather voice 1 startled 11 bier let familiarity with every tone ivory expression she answered 1 I dont know father lut yon you to find out A lat way bayr r tor lu 1 but must find a way ishall I 1 ahall tell I 1 1 CL 1 I to is kelp help he ile thought for sev 1 moments while the he tood stood wait walt W must hare have that motor and aft la 14 it traced of courna har nor SUB are certain which avery haa been after tot for me do doroa you know waft M it I 1 mean me 1 aur icher 10 ather I 1 1 crould rather 54 not have avery bind ural with it juet just now flow I 1 want him arll il bole whole attention to 1 till 10 1 Ill tolura yoa you yourself wila wul 01 charge of 0 the correspondence abick I 1 peak daughter 0 ihie killer do you want any idd now r at rf of yon YOU s end send avery to me CHAPTER XIV MO easm donall donald avery is moody mood its ima went down the stairs into lif 1111 ibe phased through the j cyble the main part of the house botni loud donald and ent sent hina to her bear r ahm she he returned to the th study doled and fastened the dowe doors and arid 1111 CIal about the room she he ted the all book books la in front of ft a wall to the dt light of the door slid t N tt 0 y movable panel damel opened the tho zt a took ou a bundle of 0 corro rl rT 61 C she h closed safe and panel fw aptt back a the book books and carrying car to her fathers ili began to look over it wa 4 1 a consider of lett letter arll held together 11 and the two envelopes ka ta IB tape which she bad had put mf the day before made up wan of which bar her father had bad m to ber ler ibm letters tb depre contention contentions of willful pow ow lome ruthless ruth les and tio 1 bola of 11 ida one ono man by an a social or moral arft r was the dinten wl P i concerned in 7 ate 11 CIO too often the i a 4 1 4 flere aree or one group bad had car torn I tImeo intent another she it ftak he had 4 WM was gwilm these carried i rilent certain of pf 4 or LS tw family farther further ruin fraud even than vio tco n now even murder C K for the by y thu this correspond L adon pr papers gelatin relating LU the to the larroll 00 murders i were M li violent elt the borror matuu leas arith 1 d thien less tide of wh ora 01 her father 4 knew dealt that 1 actual th a bilm ampre that sis gutswa f tut from swa heir andl strangely he she now realized reali sed that it wai was not the attack attacks on mr lit warden lul aul her ather father with fill horror ai in been which were bring ing that appreciation home 0 to o her it wai was her understanding now that the attack we wait not meant for her father but for katon eaton though harriet It arriet had never believed bell ered that eaton had been concerned in the attack upon her father her denial of it had been checked and stin ed because he would not oven defend hiro him belt she had bad dot not known what to think abe the had emel to herself to b be waiting with her thoughts in abey ancel ance until he be should b be cleared ri earod be she had tried not to let herself think more about eaton una than was emary though be wai wits involved with her fa ther IQ in tome dome way he she refused to bal lieve he waa was against her father but clearly he yu hot with him how could fie be le then unless the injury he had luff suffered ered WAS urh act ot of man against man aa As these let tit 4 she removed the booksin bobki in front of a wall safe to the right of the door tere fers and statements represented I 1 she looked carefully through all the con tents of the envelopes but she could not find anything which helped her she pushed the the letters away then and eat sat thinking mr warden who appeared to have hate known more about baton eaton U than anyone else had taken eaton side it was because he had been going to help eaton that mr warden had been killed would not her father be ready to help eaton then if he knew as cinch much about him as mr war den had known but mr warden apparently had bad kept what be he knew eyed from his own wife and eaton wu was now keeping it from everyone her father included she felt that her father had understood tood and appreciated all this lonz long before herself thit that it was the reason moon for his hi attitude 1 toward eaton on the th train and in part pam the cause of his considerate treatment of him all through so instead of being estranged by baton manner to her father she he felt an impulse of feeling toward him flooding her a feeling which he she tried to explain to herself ae sympathy bat but it was not just sympathy ibe she would not say even to herself what it was wal she cot got up suddenly and went to the door and looked into the 11 ball a errant servant cam came to her as mr avery still 1 with mr mt san BAD she asked askel no mies miss Sao Sant toine olne be he baa has rone tons out thank you she went back and bundling the correspondence together as it had been before she the removed the books from a shelf to the left of the door slid back another panel and revealed a second wall safe corresponding to the one to the right of the door from which she had bad taken the paper papers the bombina tion of this second safe was known only to ber father and herself she put the envelopes into it closed it and replaced the books then she went to her fathers father a desk took from a drawer a long typewritten report of which he be bad had asked her to prepare a digest and read it through consciously concentrating ehe she began her work at three she heard avery s 8 motor and went to the study door and looked out as he entered the hall what have yon you found don I 1 she inquired nothing yet Ilar harry 77 ton got no trace of them I 1 wo no too many motor motors pass on that tha t road for the car to be recalled par ive ave started filist bat inquiries are possible and arranged to have the road watched in case they come back this way ile went past her and cp up to ber fa ther she returned to the study and put away her work dinner was wall served in the grea great t jacobean dining room with walls wells pan poll oled to the th high cell cel belling ing ling logs lop bisi bliz ing in the big stone fireplace As they seated themselves abe he noted that avery seemed moody and cam nu nl cUTt something cl cle ariy carly had arri fated and disturbed lamand as the meal inal progressed be he atut tented his ata ua tia span baton by bl him mm more oia by word and look than he had ever lone done before in her arc pre enco alie waa was the more surprised it at hi lit doing thi this now because the knew that donald aut must have received from her father fattier the same I 1 its had been ITCH given her herself self to learn what MM ever waa was possible p oble of batons former position la in life before ealon entrance into her life she he had supposed that some time 1 l a 4 matter of coure couro oho he waa wag going to marry donald in spite of thia ahe she had new never thought of herself aa as apart from her father when he the thought of marrying it had been alway always with the idee idea that her duty to her husband raut must be secondary condary le to that to her father ahe she knew know now that ahe abs had a dibi donald avery not became because he had bacomo to her but because he had seemed essential to her fatter and lier marrying donald would permit her life ills to go on much aa as it waa wall donald had nodal social position and a certain amount of wealth and power now suddenly jud denly he she was that he bad nothing but the these thing that big own unconscious admission waa was that to be onh orth while he be must have them thorn that to retain and increase ln cree them waa wits his hi only object in life she had the feeling that these were the only thiap be he would fight for but that for these be he would fight fairly perhaps per hap if he could but if he must unfairly de des plen tily she had dinner but the she bee hes listed to rise and leave the men alone after dinner cigars and the fiction of the masculine conversation about the table were insisted on by blatchford Bletch ford A As ehe she delayed looking across the table at eaton bl his eye eyes met ben hers reassured rens she rose at once the three rose with her and stood while ehe she went out she went upstairs and looked in ili upon her father he wanted nothing and after a con venation with him aa as short as an she could make it ehe she came down again no further disagreement between the two wo men apparently bad happened avery now vias a not visible eaton and blatchford were 14 the music room with a repugnance pus pug nance against her father fathers order orders which she had hid never felt before she began to carry out the instructions her father had giren given her she noticed that eaton was familiar with almost everything ehe she bad had liked which had been written or wai was current up to five fire year years before all later music wa was strange to him to this thi extent he be had been of her world plainly up to five yeara years before then he had gone out of it IL she realized allied re this only as something eom ething which ehe she was to report to her father yet she he felt a keener more personal Int interest prestin jn it than that harriet san tolne colne knew enough of the world to know that few men break completely all social connection connections without gome some link of either fact or memory till still holding tb them and that this link most often ie Is a woman toward ten baton eaton himself and went to his hl room rooms she fat at for a time idly talking with blatchford thea then as a errant servant passed through the halt and ehe she mistook momentarily menta rily ruy bli big footsteps foott for thoe those of avery the he got up suddenly nd deoly and went opet aln it wu was only after reaching her room rooms that she he appreciated that the meaning of thie this action wai was that ib hrank from seeing feeing avery again that bight bat but the he had been la her rooms only a few minute minutes wt when her will yeu you come doam tor for a few min utts please harrar hoc house telephone buried buzzed and anwer answer ing it ehe she found that it was wa donald speaking to her will you come down tor for a few minutes please some in hia W tone per flexed her where arc are your she h asked in th the a study she wen went down at once oum As A he came to the stady door to meet her she eh MW saw that what bad had perplexed ber her la in his hi only the too tons wa we a of that irritation he h bad showed at dinner Us took ber bar bad bud SW am bar lato into the tb guill you dont dout mind ay ray calling down harry it is so long lines anc w had eve a a few minutes alone to tether be pleaded what ij Is it you want went conr ab aked asked only to pe e you dear Harry took her hand band again she he restated rl ted withdrew it it 1 I cant can t do any work tonight harry I 1 find tb the correspondence twe I 1 expected to f to over evening here hers your father ba hu it I 1 suppose no I 1 hir have it it don DOIL your ti ye rather want you ym bothered by that work just now tell your you r ile told me that ot of murga ita n 7 and that he had asked you to artil ev me ai as much a as you could he he had told you to tafe tar e charge of lh paper did he do that 1 I thought that waa was implied if U ced need them ril rt pt them for you don do you want theer she got ot op up and went toward the safe where she had put them suddenly ud denly stopped what it wi was that she be had felt under bla his ton tone and manner meaner ah the could not tell it waa was probably irritation at hating haying important work taken out of bla his band bandl dut but it wits ai be he waa wag not openly expressing ibbe it bg wai was eren ev being careful that it should not be and now suddenly lud denly ai is be followed and came cloe dose behind ber her and ber her mind went swiftly to ber her father lying helpless belp leaa up and bar lar father fathers i trust la in ber her the she baited we mut must aak ask rather abe she said aak ask himi be he ejaculated why myr she faced bim him uncertainly not an iwer log thata rather rid ev ilous starry to specially pec lally ally ai it li to too late to aak ask him tonight ilia IHS voice wae was suddenly rud denly rough in his hi irritation 1 1 I have had charge a of those very thing things for yeara years they concern the matter matters in which your father particularly coardes in ma me it if Is impossible that be he meant you to take them out of my banda hands like thia he ile must have meant only that you were to give me what help you could with themi harry dont you see bes that you are putting me la a false position wronging me m ton you an acting as though you did not trust met me 1 1 I do trust you don at least I 1 have no reason to distrust you I 1 only say we must ask rather father in your little atef safer she nodded tee yes and not giro give them to mer ne no ile stared atit angrily Tily I 1 then be shrugged and laughed and went back to his desk and began bem gathering up lap his big scattered papers she stood indecisively watching him suddenly he looked up and she saw that be he had quite conquered his irritation or at least bad had concealed it his concern now seemed to be only over his relations with herself weve not dot quarreled harrar he asked quarreled Quarrel edt not at aia all don abe be replied she moved toward the door he followed and let her out and she the went back to her own rooms CHAPTER XV tant olny bayse ey fall him eaton coming down rather late the next morning found the breakfast room empty he chom cho his breakfast from the dishes on the |
