| Show 6 r caa 7 AA xI I 1 35 rv i T the h e biad ba in d is fe i by william macharg balmer A X 04 M X oi 4 r I 1 lt by little Jl ana 4 g a EATON SUSPECTED 0 id capital capit hii 1 don btty abell lc tells butler he h to apt acting caller 1 W b adroit ted without 4 hi his wife ot cc lion it 1 I informs ut threaten threatens him if tie he r he conler lr the th P ur 1 lues bon tk cratil 9 W lv 21 hato I 1 q X Y mola 1 take tants nio into ui ule nu ma w the h fir car return home v arden an und dead murdene ra 0 the th caller ayoub A A 11 ll be at t house bog at bob cn frond cond I 1 tor lot receives oraw to bold 1 train fr f r ar party ilya v inon g a it t berd board 1 the 0 rain tha tb met ta i t pr the tl father el 61 airl U do dome s li to the breon the A r whom ne trai was philip eaton A YOU man also beed the train derfl tell tells his hi blighter er a d his ha secretary don averl ry to and out what they can tan concerning him th two make faton on i 4 k dorne 14 I 1 found tear ly dead min ft a murder marlault A auwon operated su done hinr IS re 1 to basil Sant olne a great ret lawyer chapter vf V continued 5 V insulted bolh d continually by y men con fraed 1 in great project projects immersed jay and 1 night in vat vast affair affairs capable if flying completely as he be wished wiehe dhe he ad been een at the age ac ot of fortl eli sli great 1 but not ot famous powerful but not pub aey known at that time HMO an fin event A occurred which hichi had forced the bd tain man out unwillingly from big ruy nit i erent event had been the murder of abl put att estern financier matthew matrol e their there had bad been nothing in tills watch had iq in any way alla wed dowed dishonor dif honor upon Sant olne so adlich aa in his role of a mind without Sant Gant olne ever fought he be bad fought against latron bat but bis his lot bad had been not against the man bat methods there had come tell a time tinte of uncertainty and un rd consciousness wae was in th process proms of awakening to the kin tedge that strange thing things ap pro aching 1 close to the likeness lilt eness of tut men call crime had bad been being do under the unassuming name of f lin lans iffa scandal fi financial scandal breathed more strongly against la tin than perhaps against any of the western men ile had been it their biggest be had hie his ete ne of hom impersonally San santelle Sante tolue lae might t have been counted one and he had his friends both in high places 14 was n a world fleure figure then all 0 f A sudden adden the he man had been struck lal killed because of some private artl men whispered by an obscure ad till then unheard of man tbt wires and cables illich h should have carried to the wait 11 world orld the expected new of lai ml carried instead the awl i of labroo Lat roo death and disorder wed vied the first arst public concern id been of come couie for the stocks and of the peat great latron properties 24 bigness had seemed only evidenced by the tanch nes lh which alch the abe latron banke the la J railroads and mines and public its stood orm even against the boa k of heir their builder buil dees death As red 1 vs of thia this public interest had shift 3 to e the trial conviction and aen sen of lAt latrone rons mu and it ita lerer during this trial that tat Ban San olnes 1114 had become more publicly IM not that the blind man was wits d of any knowledge much 1 I of any complicity in the crime bad been because of a vely 1 private matter but in the ea questioning into latron circum t and lad surroundings previous lou to t Sant olne wa was summoned court frt as 14 a witness tle blind man led into the court tag sightless in IR the witness chair lab himself by his spoken and more by his withheld replies as wabe of oe unknown gelders of the 11 of 01 the to continent and AS coun the most powerful 3 tien hardly heard of 4 at the but plainly 1144 atone notions uncrowned rulers caught ue the public wc ate of sense the atron the m murderer ur derer the tile crime even wu himself self lost temporarily their interest in the it i tta had abao been of public santola sant oln curiosity l e over at ported reported I 1 for 0 r some days doys colne tolne had bad estly come to seattle dl di heil wardens n death but this tes ht bad WM as admitted ed hr his assoil t OUT way bee been careful to t add ys 41 lne h alvidr been a close mend friend 44 of gabriel abriel Cl warden me purely 14 11 a personal capac and the I ate u had pr easlon was given glyen that r 11 before returned quietly some th e mere prolonging of KIT in i L the sf west wa was more than gerful that affairs among the frere tr lm d ell truly in such tate state as 04 bad u pr OCI almed thia this attack A had 20 0 similar to 0 that within mardex wll roea and d delav W tk knust clevell be days of wardens lick of the signoff st i stood overwhelmed for the with b this tb the fuller had bouwes ells of the disaster di ted t a his 10 pon ihla man in 16 it b A e W then he turned la a 00 fee fe him re its by lili ills daughter well ako take him film in then there then the four met ne line lined te tile inert figure of basil bant Sant olne car carried rieti it into the he drawing room anil and laid it on its barl ban upon the bed 1 I have my sinclair mid III get eliom hut but before I 1 de 1 I e tl 11 ce CIO any I 1 n 1 to two tit d bier slie Is 1 here tier edwill Is ie necessary hoce seary before any opera t ion flon on him ailts lilts ml so saline olne ie Is in the observation oi car aury sold ill lit get her tier the tone was we in some way false fake eaton could not ell tell exactly how avery started down domn the isle ahle on one moment pleasa plea mr lir aeryn mid said he the cond conductor or 1111 ask k you not 10 0 o tell ml Bant Sant olne before any kotlier passenger that there here has been an attack upon lier tier father walt volt un th of you set get her inside the door of this car ton you yourself wild uld nothing then that can hae we gade her suspect so it eaton connery book his hi head he the con doctor actor in doubt and anxiety over ex acely what action the situation called can you do Any for him here doctor asked for crable unable too to communicate any hint of it to his III superiors to the west because of the wires being down clearly imd land resolved t to keep the at tack upon San Sant totne olne secret for some time 1 I 1 said nothing dennite deh nite even to the trainmen he be re reeled Filed and land I 1 ant you gentlemen cent lemen to promise irom lse me before you leave this car that you vi III ay say nothing until I 1 give 1 you leave ills ill eye eyes bitted shifted from the tn face of one to another until he bad assured himself that all agreed ai an avery left the car baton eaton found a bat at in 10 one of the end sections near the draw ing lag room he ile did not know whether to ask to leave the car or whether be he ought to remain and he be would have tone gone except for recollection of harriet harmet Sant olne then the eat curtain tain at the end of the car ear was wall pushed further aside and she the came in she was very pale but quite con trolled strolled troll ed as eaton knew she would be she looked at eaton but did not speak as she he passed she went directly to the door of the drabin room opened it and went in followed by avery the door closed and for a moment eaton could hear bear voices in side the room harriet San bantle Santol tle net Sin sili clairs clates Con nerys the conductor hen then came to the door of the drawing room and sent the porter for water and clean linen katon eaton heard the rip of linen beloff belog torn and nd the car became filled with the smell of anti and skeptics sept les cs donald avery came out of the draw ing room and dropped into the seat across froni from eaton ue lie seemed deeply so deeply indeed as to be almost unaware of presence and eaton observing him again bad the sense that averga absorption wall wa completely in cons consequences to himself of what bat was going on behind the door boorin in how bow basil Sant olne death or continued existence would affect the fortunes 0 of f don aid avery A jong ws te time passe dhow long eaton eston could DOC not bare have told he noted only that during it the shadow on the snowbank outside the window appreciably preci ably changed their position finally the door bened opened and harriet Sant olne came out paler than before and now not quite so steady eaton rose tale as she approached them thim and avery leaped up all concern and sympathy thy for ber fin in edl abely he she appeared d tie lit met her in the alste aisle and took her band hand WM it successful dearr avery asked she shut hut her ber eyes before she 1 an all SIT elered ered and stood homin holding to the back of a it seat then she opened her I 1 eyes yes saw eaton and recognized film an anil at the eat seat where avery ayery had bad been doctor sinclair slays we will know in bour conr or five daye baw she be re replied plied to she turned then directly to there atno HU i am tte e have done all we ran can now up se my nial only ao ait doc a tor lui ins alloin tea nure nurge ha he me in i I 1 inn o 0 him but not t just jet I 1 ou would like to 0 o know thank ou I 1 did want to knew know aton he ile macd jimay from tho thorn n I 1 i dillu lull I 1 in tv 4 uw u w 9 a of the stalk M donn domn the car boon h he lift for lilt ills own on car and As hie tile doer dor mat a losing behind him it sound come me to lilu ills eura ears from tile car lie jut just lied left a ai oung girl bud sud denly cring 1 in abandon harriet he lie understood must have hayt broken down domn for lie the moment after lie the strain of the lie operation and ea tn ila ns as though to turn bock feeling the lie blood druc suddenly upon lit ills heart then recollecting that he had no right to go to her be lie anent ent oa ou CHAPTER VII suspicion fattens en an eaton faton found ills bli car better filled than it lind lied been before for the people shifted from the en behind had been Ite scattered altered sli the train keeping brin self to hia ills section be watched led the car and outside the window windows for or lena signs of what connery and awry avery were making whoever had attacked atta cled Sant San olne tolue must still be upon the train for no one could have esc escaped aried through the enow snow no one boum now escape avery A very and connery and whoever else was mas malting loresto with ith them evidently were ere not letting anyone inow that an invests cation gallon waa was being made eaton went to lunch on his may ay back from the diner he be saw the conductors conduct ora with pa pers in their bands hands questioning a pas aeng er they evidently were starting systematically through the fra tirs exare ining each person they mere viere the plea of nece necessity salty of a report to the railroad of names and 0 dresses of all held up by the stoppage of the train eaton started on toward the rear of the train A moment air girl 1 connery eaton halted the conductor eba on fronted him tour your name sarr air connery cannery asked philip D eaton connery wrote down the answer tour your address addre Rs 11 1 I have bave no address I 1 waa going to a hotel in chicago which lie 1 I ladet decided yel abere here are you coming drotar aroa from asia hardly an addred ad dresa mr ea pa toai r 1 I can give you no address abroad d I 1 had no fixed address there I 1 wae was tra traveling most of the time I 1 arrived in seattle by the asiatic steamer and ad took this arale train ant you came on the maru connery fiode note of this aa As he had made nete note of all the other questions and adwers then he lie fald said something to the dw pullman conductor tar who replied la ilk abe same low tone what they said vex was not audible to eaton eat you can tell OB us at least where your family Is lir eaton country suggested uK eted 1 I have no family Trie friends 11 II have no friends Now lierer herer nowhere connery pondered for several the dillward law rence reace hallward Hlll ward to whom the telegram was addressed which you claimed this morning your associate who was to base t arald I 1 vh you reles will you give ine As ad addre saT sF 1 I 1 dont know nill wards address give me the address then of the tile m man n who sent the telegram 1 I 1 am unable to do that either connery poke spoke again to the pullman conductor and they cooTer conversed sed inaudibly for a minute that Is all then connery said finally he ile signed his ills name to the sheet on which he had vi written ritten eatone an and handed it to the pullman conductor who alto signed it and returned turn ed it to him then they went on to the passenger now occupying section four without making any fur ther comment eaton told himself that there should be no danger to himself from thie this in directed against no ow one but including rely everyone everY on the train when the conductors had bad left t the he car be he put bis his magazine away and went into the men a I coin COM anil and calm Ms his to amole smoke apartment part ment to america bad had nerv gervea his ills return passed the bounds of rec klemen and slid what bat a situa situation he lit woold would new tiow be in if his 1111 1 actions brought e ven serious I 1 suspicions against t him himl I 1 he ile finished his first cagar an and d was debating dehat lne whether to lugt another when lie he heard beard voices outside the and eabe window out he saw Con connery tiery and the blakem bra keinan ling through tile snow and annit some me ae search aren pries apparently ing APP antly antly alery tannery 1 pass ed abe be door 10 lo of the comparing compartment arry hii loosely wrap eft in a newspaper in a his K band handt eaton on finbel his hi adgar ila 1 aw saw that the tile bag mile no loncki one there it stood cod now bete between tn the two seats eat on the tile floor door and picking if it up anil and loo looking kIni at t it he lie found it uncas laened and with mith nark marks about the lock which told plainly that it had been forced re 01 u set it on the floor door between his inces and checked over lt it contenta contents nothing had been taken a tar aa its he lie could tell for the bag had contained only clothing the chinese dc flonary and the tile box of at clean cigars and these all apparently aare ere still till there he lie had lied laid out the tile thing things on the eat sent across from him film n title chec checking kinc them up DR and now he began to put them kock hack in the be bar suddenly he noticed aliat liat brie b ai e of his socks kocks was wa u hat had been cleven pain pair VIA 11 now ow only ten pairs and one odd sock thie tills di disappearance of a single lock sock as so stron trance so bizarre warm so to per that unless it was wee accidental he could not account for it at alt all N 0 one opens a mans bag bog and meals one bock sock and he lie as quite gulte surf or thew there had been eleven complete pain pairs there earlier in the day certainty then it had been accidental accidentals I 1 the bag bad b been n opened if its content contents taken out and examined and in to putting them hack back one out lock sock bad been dropped unnoticed the absence of the aock sock then meant no more than that the contenta cou tenta of the bag had bad been thoroughly lilly investigated py BY chorol by the trian against whom the telegram directed to lawrence ward had bad w tried eaton ever tince since hta his receipt of at the tele tram eaton as in k passed through the train in going to and from the diner or for other reasons had been trying irling covertly cov ertly to det determine emine which if anyone almonr ne the passengers pas senen was the one who the telegram had warned him hini was following follow inc urn mm for at lit arst he lad lied interpreted k t to mean that one ot of them whoa whom he had to fear drost be on the train later tater he be had bad felt certain that this could not be 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