| Show the iffie blind nd mans eyes by WILLIAM macharg EDWIN BALMER copyright by little po ind and CHAPTER continued ier rhe rho tol tot I 1 him I t eg innIng ft ith her tier din dl tT forar Pr of I 1 anton riton in iho the garage and slid ending with ills lil tier and with donald avery A very a 11 finding her in ilip motor and no now noa A othe held tack one ord only ills lila name hillh hl h hf ile hall 11 ti i 11 ler tier flush birr ter anther listened intently inu end and mr air faton paton appear to have thom miller melt har arfet bricf fie h oaf all I 1 has he be thild you noth till in fit alent wit hallm if which bach you have not told trip axt ion loll have liny pen seen gotling ant ienir con eming lihn which ou tiny not told 7 her mind went quickly brick to ohp polo jame allf felt a floh which his hi blind eyed not ic sec dyeing her check end and forehead for chend the blind man wait walto I 1 for a TOO ran ment he put out hie his hand and rind prease I 1 the bell which railed called the at efird neither poke spoke until the steavard came fairley Rant Sant nino olne mill said then nul elly etly ml Sant olne and I 1 have jut just agreed that for the present oil 11 report reports regarding the pursuit of he the roi men who entered the tudy study lait last night are fire to be mode made direct to roe me not through illes Sant olne or mr sir avery very well sir air fhe she still oat sat dent silent after the steward kad ad cone gone the thought for an instant her father had forgotten her presence pre enc then he moved slightly that to I 1 til all dear he laid mid quietly she cot tot up and left him and went to her own rooms I 1 abe be did nat pretend to herself that she he could rest she flatbed bathed and dressed and went down stairs the library haa had windom a facing to the went she he went la in t there here and nd stood looking out her mind une fatt unon upon only one thing even of that she he could not think con bome year years ago something ehe she did not know wha thad nap hap opened to blugh tool fht in one some strange vay ny unknown to her it had bad culminated in her father fathers tudy study he lie had fought someone he had rushed away to follow someone honl had he heard that someone in the neudy and gone down had he be been fighting their battle her fathers and herst hers she knew that was not so hugh had been fully dressed eseed ur what did it mean that he had nid said to her that these events would cither either de etroy stroy him or would send him back to her as as its something different her iter thought supplied no aisner ans vier but whatever be had bad done whatever he no might be she knew his fate wai was hera hers bovit now fot for the she bad given even herself to him utterly she had bad told that to herself as she fled fied and pursued with mm him that nights ehe the had told it to hima him ahe he later had told It though she the had not meant to yet to her father she could only pray now that out 0 the events of this night might not come COMO a grief to her too great for her to bear sho she went to the rooms that had been catona the police in tripping stripping them of his possessions had overlooked his cap she he found the bit of gray irmy cloth and hugged bugged it to her she whispered hi his mime to herself hugh that secret of his name aich the he had kept she gloried that the he had that secret with him which she could keep from then them all what they give just to share that with her his name bush I 1 she started suddenly looking through the window the east above 0 toe the lake like was beginning to grow gray tha th dawn own was coming I 1 ft lit was be ginning to be day I 1 she hurried to the other side of the house houm looking toward the west how could she hare have left him hurt and bleeding and alone in the nighal I 1 she could not have done that but that his bla asking her to go had told that it was for his safety as well as hen hers she could not help belp him any more then she would only hare bate been in 14 the way but now she started to rush out ou but ont rolled herself 1 she bad to stay in the house that w was as when where the first arst word boum come if they caught him and then he would need her how much moret the reporters on the lawn below her seeing her ber at the window called up to her to know further particulars of what had happened and what the murder meant she the could a see them plainly in to the in barizi er light she could see the awu and land the road before the house bouse day bad had come and with the coming of day the un certainty and disorder within and about the house seemed to increase dot but in the thel south wing with its its sound proof doors and its window windows closed against the molses from the lawn there was st silence lence 4 and in n this an exact compelling compe lUnt methodic met hodle machine was working f the uund ot basil Sant olne was striving vainly as a yet but with growing growling chances of sue suc cesa em to lit at together into the order la in which they belonged and aake clear the events of the night and all that had gone cone behre before arranging ordering testing discarding picking up again and reordering all that had happened lace since that other murder of ot gabriel wardah 10 CHAPTER what one can 70 do without eyes gym 11 three menat benat least three men to in the study tn in eaton it was wils berala had bad um the only one from the home house pres sat bt when the first abts wen were fired faton won ben ba alone against the edw Ibert two iroT bia babeo bateo bea bm oae am rima of the other two the third it probable to that baton eaton had been alone or had conic eme alone to the tb study and had diet met hia his enil thore Flan Rento irr felt that the probabilities re that batons enemies had op opened nd itie 1110 onto and had been sur prim I 1 by 1011 hut but if they had opened the afe they were not only atone latone l one ene delei they arre ere alao six San they were ere the men who threatened san colnes nine a runt those whom horn anion had fought in the room had had iad infect perfect opportunity for killing Hant olne if they wished wl eliol hut jut I 1 felt certain no one had made army any attack upon him at any moment in the roo illi he had had no feeling at fit any Ini tant that any of the shots fired had been directed at him film too had been until tacked until he had mado made it plain that he fie had hall recognized one of the in tru dr then before ll Il latchford could call the name he had been ahot shot down it was wits clear then that what had protected Sant olne was as hia his blindness he had no doubt that if he half been able to ace see and recognize the men in he the room after the lights were ere turned on he would have been ahot shot down alio Is hut but San Sant totne olne recognized that thia this did not fully account for hia his tm tin two weeks before an at tack which had been meant for eaton had bad struck down down Bant Sant olne instead Ini tead and no further attempt against enton eaton had bad been made until it had become publicly known that San Sant totne olne waa was not goina aa to die if Santol nea death would hare have served for batons death two weeke before why was Sant olne immune now did possession 1 of the contenta contents of San Sant totne olne a iafe safe accomplish the same thing aa As Sant olnee death or more than hia his death for theae these men for what men it was as not Bant Sant olne was certain presence in the study which and eo so astounded blatchford atchford ni wallace and eaton had passed days together and blatchford atchford lU waa was accustomed to ba ea tons presence in the house someone whom ni atchford knew and whose name San Sant totne olne also would know and whose presence pretence la in the room was as ao so and astonishing that blatchford bad tried to prepare Sant olne for the announcement bad been there the man whose name was on blotch blatch ford fords tongue or the companion of that man bad shot blatchford rather than let Sant olne hear bear he the name lie ile was beginning to find and events fit themselves together but they fitted imperfectly as its yet Sant so olne knew know that he be lacked the key many men could profit by pos the contents of Santol San nea safe and might have shot blatchford rather than let Sant Sint olne know their presence there it wax was impossible for Sant olne olno to tell which among these many many the roan man who had been in the study might be who batons enemies were was equally unknown to Sant olne but there could be but one man or at most one small group of mentho could be at the same time enemy and Sant otnes olues to hare have known who eaton was would have pointed this man inan to Sant olne gabriel warden had bad had bad an appointment with ith a young man mail who had come from ada aida and who Warden baa bal told his had discovered lately had bad been greatly wronged baton faton under conductor onn eryll questioning had bad admitted himself to be bo that man Sant olne bad had verl fled bed this and had learned that baton eaton was at least the youage man who had bad gone cons to wardens house that night but gabriel warden had bad not been allowed to help belp eaton so a far from that he be had bad nal even been allowed to meet and talk with baton won he had been edited called out plainly to prevent his meeting baton eaton and killed baton eaton disappeared and concealed himself at once after warden mur der apparently fearing that he be would also be attacked but baton eaton was not A man whom this personal persona 1 fear would have restrained from coning coming forward later to ten teu why warden had been killed ile had bad been urged to come forward and promised that others would giro give him help in wardens place still he had concealed himself this must mean that others than war den could not help baton eaton baton eaton evidently did not know or else could not hope to prove what warden had bad discovered Sant olne held this thought in abeyance ancel he be would jee see later how bow it checked with ath the facts baton had remained in Seattle or near Seattle eleven days dils apparently and to escape attack during that time he had been able to conceal himself had been obliged however to ir re teal veal himself hen he took the train and as soon as possible a desperate attempt had been ade against him bin which through mistake Mis had bad struck down San totne tolue instead of baton faton baton eaton had baa taken the train at seattle because Sant olne was on an it he had hall done this at great risk to himself the possibilities were that baton had taken the tram train to inform san tolne colne of ot something or to learn something from him but baton eaton had had I 1 ample opportunity since six to inform Sant olne olat of anything he be wished and he had not only not informed urn bim of anything but had bad refused consistently and determinedly to answer any arly of San questions it was to learn something from Sant olne then that eaton had bad taken the train the no blind man turned upon his bed he was cuiling that events fitted together perfectly Us ie felt certain now hat gat baton eaton hail gone to gabriel war den expecting to get roa warden some som information that h he needed and that to dregent wordeal arta wn I 1 this warden bad been killed then wardens dent death had caused santol bantosino Ban toino to go to seattle and take chargo of many of warden wardens affair affairs eaton hal bat thought that the th information which whirl bad had been la in wardens 1 might now be b in Sant olne olnee kat aaton therefore had followed Sant olne onto the train 1 the inference wa plain thai that some ia thing abin which would have glyn 1 sun son loll 1011 toltie the ilia information harden had lind had and which faton raton now required lil had ien I 1 en brought into Santol nos aimse hu and ind put tn in Santol nea at it wn oil to get illon of thin this something before it had blied Sant olne thai that the into had been forced Sant oln olno put out hi his hand aini pressed fied a bell A errant servant taino it t th the door hlll you and MIM mist Sant olne the blind man directed and ak ask her tier to come here I 1 the servant withdrew Rant rantoine olne halted presently the tho dar stain opened and he heard his buith d tera term step ikpe you want wall eriken from the eafe safe Harrie harrieta tr sant ine asked rot not yet father tho the blind man thought an tin litant harriet thIng hanx hn been brought into the house houi eor or the manner of keeping something in the houe house ham ha teen I 1 eta changed within vt a very few doii in a linco the time I 1 think when ili the attempt to run katon paton down with the motor car wai was made hat was visa that some thiner his 1 daughter reflected the rho draft of the new agreement about the la tron properties and the hits lists of stock holders in the properties which came through hr ur liar warden dens office odee she he replied those were in the safer sater tea yes you had not given 1 me any in about them BO so I 1 had put them in the other safe but when 1 I went to let get the correspondence I 1 saw them there and put them with the correspondence in my own oan safe Sao San totne tolue lay still ho besides donald knew that you did that hat daughter be he asked ao no one thank you harriet recognized this as dismissal and went out the blind man felt the blood beating fiercely in his temples tero and at his finger tips it amazed as 1 I 1 P hav have you listed what was taken from the safe harriet Sant olne asked founded bam to realize that warden a murder and all that thit had bad followed it had bad sprung from the latron case cam lie he recollected that bet had bad been vaguely conscious ever since murder of something strained something not wholly apen open to his relations with those nen men whose interests had been most closely allied with Lilt latrone roten it had bad been open nothing pal pable it was wa only that b be e h had a d fe felt I 1 I 1 at rt times tn in them a k knowledge now ledge of some 9 general e D deml condl condition tl 0 n 90 governing vern ing them which was wax not wholly known to himself whoever blatchford had en seer WM was someone well known to him whose presence pretence had bad been so amazing that speech had failed blatchford for the moment and he had feared the effect of the announcement a on san this could hare been only the principal himself some circumstance which Sant olne comprehended only imperfectly imperfect ly as yet had forced this man to come out from behind hie bin agents and to act even at the risk of revealing himself it was probably he whoa who andina Blatch fords presence made in inevitable evitable had bad killed blatchford blitchford but these circumstances cum stances tave gave Sant San olne tolue no clew as to who the man be the bl blind ind man inan tried vainly to guess the only circumstance retarding regarding the m man of ot which Bant Sant olne now felt sure was that he be was one of ot the many concerned la in the latron case cose or with the latron properties impert les 1 what met timo la Is it the blind man suddenly asked the lprse nurse it la Is nearly noon ur mr Sant olne will you it leave aye me at alone 0 ne for a few moments moment sr he directed de ile listened till 1111 be heard the door close behind the nurse then he be seized A iced the private phone beside his bis bed and caned called his broker now Is the marketa he inquired ther there wai as something approaching to a panic on the stock exchange it appeared some moTt ment arist is rising ni from causes not yet clear had bad dro dropped aped the bottom out of a score scort of important tocks stocks how Is Uld landar sann tol colne tolne a asked askel it led the decline Sant bine felt the th blood in his tem ples 11 al M and N smelters he aked down debit r and nd dr tiofil point points ftc 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