Show the th BLIND MANS EYES by william macharg edum balmer Q DY BY R H binte bf ill utta unwe WW wa CHAPTER continued 11 19 in other word words you instructed then them not to do su so until you found out whether bether overton could he be landed handed over for eie execution cution and the facts regarding latron kept secret or whether soine other court course was necessary the blind man did not wait watt for any answer to this he lie straightened mud ud donly denly gripping the inne arms of his hi chair and nd cot got up there wai was more he lie wished to nek ask in the file bitter bitterness niss he lie mt alt at his blindness having been asod to make him blin an unconscious agent in these things of which avery no so calm calill ly lio lie aas resolved dint that no one who had shared knowingly in them should go unpunished hut now he heard the nole made by up of along captor captors As A bant olne tn tood stood listening the pounds without dwaine colt trent to him they have taken overton avery 1 l he commented of course they be have e taken no olio one clue else I 1 liall shall tell thone those in charge of him he Is 1 not the one they are to hold pr ioner but that I 1 have another for thun here the tile blind ninn man heard no answer from avery those having overton in charge seemed to be coming into the house the door opened and there were viere confuted confused sounds then gant Sant olne heard his daugh daughter tees voice in a half hall cry half sob ob of hope is 1 appeal to lilia harriet ran to him he felt her cold trembling fingers clasping him and beseeching hin him Fa father therl 1 pother I 1 they say ay they nay any they will lie put his hands over hers clasping here hers and patting it my sly dear he eald sald 1 I thought you would wait for me I 1 told you to wait walt lie ile heard beard others coming into the house now anil and he lie held bis his daughter beside him film as he faced them 1 ho he Is in to charge li ahrer be he de do banded the voice of one of those who had bad juet just come in a ansi answered ered him 1 I sir air I 1 an am tho the chief of police 11 1 I to speak to you I 1 will not keep you long may I 1 ask you to have your prisoner taken to the room he occupied here in my bone house and given attention by a doctor you can have my word mord that it Is not necessary to guard him waitt walt I 1 he direct ed as he be beard exclamations and ejaculations to correct him 1 I do not mean that you have mistaken who he Is lie ile Is hugh overton I 1 know it Is because he Is hugh overton that I 1 say what I 1 do Sant olne abandoned effort to sepa spa rate and comprehend or to try to an awer the confusion of charge and questioning around him lie ile concerned himself at the be moment only with his daughter he drew her to him held her and said gently there dear there therel 1 Everth ever thine lug is right I 1 hare have not been able to explain to you and I 1 cannot take time now but you at least will take ay word that you hare have nothing to fear for him nothing he heard beard her gasp with incredulity and surprise then abe be drew back from him staring at him ahe the breathed deep with relief and clasped him cob sob aa ile still held her ber as the hau hall was cleared and the footsteps of those carrying overton vent went up the stain stairs then knowing that ih the wished to tollow them he be released her she drew away then clasped his big hand band and kissed it as she did so to she suddenly stiffened and her hand tightened on his ali spasmodically someone else had come into the hall and ho he heard beard another tolbee voice st wom ans which be he as that of III the stenographer miss davis where Is be het hugh I 1 what hare have you done to him mr Sant Santo olne luel I 1 mr ial where Is be her the blind man mao straightened holding his daughter to him there was anxiety horror love in the voice he be beard harriets perplexity as great as 23 hie his own IB ia that you misa miss daviar 1 he in quiren a tee yes yea yes the girl repeated PIN where bere 16 l mr San you do not understand the voice if f a young man broke in on them im afraid I 1 derev dont Sant olne said mid quietly ul elly she Is I 1 linens bister sister mr Sant olne ahe to brarton br erton edith overton and who are you your you do not know me my name Is lawrence Sant olne asked nothing more for the moment ills daughter had left his ide side lie ile stood an instant listening to the confusion of question and answer in the hall then he opened the door into the library and held it for the police chief to enter CHAPTER a pita if all alt huoh hugh il at last eaton be b rtuh with tae ae habit of fire of f thought of himself by that nam awoke to fun cons cousine at eight hi the th next moraine morning lie ile wai was in the room he b had occupied before tn in Sea hour house the th sunlight reflected from the lake like wai was playing on the coiling ilia wound had boon been dressed hit his body wai was comfortable and s nd without fever lie saw and tin tile i square of the window a man st findIng looking out at of the lake I 1 lawrence he lie laid said 1114 man turned and came toward the tile bod bed yet lulon rulka sicil excitedly edly upon his I 1 moms lawance Lawn nce that wai was he lift last ln in tile he study it wag was le JA bruni run 1 1 I raw bit blin I 1 believe me lawrince you at ski least will mill they got aaby on a boat they meat be fol lowd loed with the first return of 1 he had tied taken up again lint that battle against circumstances aich hod find been his only thought for ilia earn hut but suddenly lud denly he wai wits aware that ills wai was alio also in the room sitting upon the opp onlie ilde kide of the bed her ha and nd come forward and duped clasped his atie bent over him holding him and fondling him it li Is all richt hugh the ahl his isred oh hucht it Is 1 all right now mr air Sant Hant olne know knows he he wa was not what we thought him lie bellei believed ed all the while that you were justly entered now he knows otherwise 11 lip ll believed na ton asked incredulously lih he bay says his blindness wai was used by them to make him think po so now hu lie iii 1 very angry he says no who mho had anything to do with it ehatt shall escape lie figured it all out most wonderfully that it must halo been latron tn in the study lie ile hae has been all night they have nl at ready made several arrests and ever port on the lake Is 1 being watched for the boat they got away ausy on la Is that true edith lawrence li Is it truer yes quite true ward choked and turned away enton eaton nank sank ck against his pit low iowa his eyes eye edry dry bright and filled still ath alth questioning for a time ai as he tried to appreciate what ahat he juet just had bad beard and nil all that it meant to him dampened suddenly Bud denly ai as he real izod that it as over now that long st to clear hi his name from the charge of murder murd erthe the fight which had A the vote of one of thou those who had jut just come in answered Ann vered him 1 1 I ait ir 1 I 1 am the th chief of police teemed seemed be hopeless lie ile could not scallie it to the full as yet concealment fear the enie sense of monstrous rou injustice done him had marked so deeply all his thoughts and feelings that he could not tense sense the fact that they were gone for came to him most strongly now low wai was only realization that he bad been set et right with whom he be himself had misjudged and mistrusted and nar harriet riet ue be had not needed to be set et right with her she he had believed and trusted him alm from the first in pite spite of all that had seemed against him gratitude warmed him as a he be thought of berand ber hei and end that other feeling deeper stronger far than gratitude or than anything elie else be he ever had bid felt toward anyone but her purged surged up in him and set hie his pulses wildly beating ai as his thought strained toward the future where is l miss sant Santol neF otner be asked ilia ills sister answered she his ha been beta yelping helping her father they left word they were to be sent for as coon teen aa as you wok up and fre no just bent sent for them thera rilent silent till he heard beard them caming the blind man as enfa itar with this room his bit daughter led him in her lier eyes were teg bright her cheeks which had teen pale flushed dashed as the he met loot look but the did not look away ue kept his hi pie aze upon her Saat Sarit olne under her guidance took the chair set beside the bed for him the blind m man was wu veri quiet he felt for and found baton band and pressed it baton eaton choked as he be returned the pressure then Sant olne released him I 1 who else elm Is herer berier the blind win bian asked his daughter misa ulm overton and mr dillward nill ward she answered 01 understand I 1 think everything now except some few particular particulars regarding yourself he said will you tell me those you mean P eaton poke spoke to san tolne colne but he looked at Il harriet arrieL oh ob I 1 understand I 1 think when I 1 esca escaped Ded mr Sant olae olne of course nv picture had bad appeared in all ill the new news papyri papers and end I 1 waa was not pale from rec ree anywhere in thil this country I 1 kot got into canada and from vancouver Van coiner went to china we W had very little money left ft mr sir Bant Sant olne viat ball had tied not been lout loat through atron latron I hail hall been pent spent in my I 1 cot got a it po phaltion poal altion llon in a mercantile 11 over here there it ai an a rood good country fur for inc me people over there don dont t bk ask questions for benr someone will mill ah lonn about them ie e had no benr rein rola ohp for 1 idith to EO go to and pile hud had to take tal alp ilp stenography to mill 1 l port her acif sell and and change her name mr Hant olne 1 of mp mk 00 do oo on itald bantola Bant oln you thought I 1 knew who latron a imir mur derer was an I 1 morally though not perjured myself nt at your trial to convict you in his hi place kuhnt hat next that wa was it inton imon assented we ve thought you know that some of dome around you who ho served aa as you YOUN must know it too harriet gasped enton eaton looking at tier her knew that she he understood now what had fled come between theiu them when she he had told old film that ahe she herself had bad stayed an her father fathers 1 eyes all through the latron trial he lie felt himself flushing a ai as he looked at her he be could not understand now how he could hare have believed that ahe she had aldel aided in concealing an injustice against him no matter what influence had been ex arted her she wai was all good pod nil all true at first faton fitton went merit on edith did not find out anthina an thine thing then thie this year itie she learned that there wa ass to be a reorganization of toine some of the tile latron properties lee ve e hoped that during that something would come out which might help ue us I 1 had been away aay almost live five ears my face faco was forgotten and we thought I 1 could inko ake the chance of coming back to be near at band hand to so I 1 could act if anything did come out lawrence met me at vancouver 11 a were about to start east when I 1 received a message from mr wr warden I 1 did not know INar harden deti and I 1 don t know now how he knew who I 1 was or where here he lie could reach me rue ills message merely aid said he knew I 1 needed help and he was wn prepared pre to give it and made an appointment for me to see him at his hi house bouse you know what nhat happened when I 1 tried to keep the appointment then ou came to seattle and took charge of I 1 vardene affair affairs I 1 felt tain that if there was as any evidence among IN hardens arden a effects ai as to who ho had killed betron you would take it back with you with ith the other matters relating to the latron reorganization lou could not recognize me from your having been at my trial because ou were blind I 1 decided to take the train with you and try to get possession of the draft of the reorganization agreement and the other documents with it which harden had been working on I 1 had suspected that I 1 was being watched etched by agent agents of the men protect ing latrone murderer while I 1 was in seattle I 1 had changed my lodgings there because of that but lawrence larence had remained at the old lodgings to find out for me lie ile found there was a man following me who he disappeared after I 1 had taken the train and law rence after questioning the gateman at seattle decided the man had taken the tile same train I 1 did lie wired me in the cipher elpher we me had sometimes used in communicating with each other but not knowing what name I 1 aits as using on the train he addressed it to him self confident that if a telegram reached the train addressed to law low rence I 1 would understand and claim it I 1 of course I 1 could not follow his big instructions ond and leave the train we were anonen in besides I 1 could not imagine how anybody could have fol lowed me onto the train as I 1 had taken pains to prevent that very thing by being the last passenger to get aboard it if the man whom the gateman saw did not follow you be merely watched you get on the train and notified two others who took the train at spokane they had planned to get rid of you after you left seattle so as to run less risk of your death being con nested with that of warden it was my pre presence which made it necessary for them to make the desperate at tempt to kill you on the train then I 1 understand the other telegram was sent me of course by edith from chicago when she learned her here that you were using the name of dome on your way home homed I 1 learned from her when I 1 got here that the documents relating to the latron properties which I 1 bad decided you did not have with you were being sent you through warden wardena office through edith I 1 learned that they had reached you and had been put in the safe I 1 managed to communicate with ward at the country club and find that flight tight he bro brought light me the means of forcing the safe ate eaton felt himself flushing gushing again as he looked el at harriet fet did she the resent bis his having used her in that way lie saw only sympathy tn in her face my daughter told me that she the helped you to that extent Sant San olne tollie offered and I 1 understood later what must have been your reason for ask ing her to toko you out that night when I 1 reached the study eaton contla continued ved 1 I found others already there the light of an electric torch flashed on the face of one of them and I 1 recognized the man as latron the roan man for whose murder I 1 had been convicted and sentenced I 1 edith tells me that you know the r rest there was silence in the room for several minutes Sant olne again spin felt for eaton hand and pressed it we were tired you out he said sall 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