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Show THE NEPHI. UTAH S, RIDES T5ne I Man s v 0 V By William MacHarg, Edwin Balmcr V ay Oopyrisht "It's occupied by his daughter." "We'll take him in there, then." The four men lifted the Inert figure of Basil Santoine, carried It into the drawing room and laid It on Its back upon the bed. EATON SUSPECTED Gabriel Warden, Seattle capitalexpecting-be admitted without of question. Ha informs his wife danger that threatens him if he pursues a course he considers the only honorable one. Warden leaves the house In his car and meets a man whom he takes Into the machine. When the car returns home. Warden is found dead, murdered, and alone. The caller, a young man, has been at Warden's house, but leaves unobserved. Bob Connery, conductor, receives ortwi to hold train for m party. Five men and a girl board the train, the Eastern Express. The father of the girl, Mr. Dome, is the person for whom the train was held. Philip D. Eaton, a young man, also boarded the train. Dome tells his his secretary, Don daughterto and find out what they can Avery, him. The two make concerning Dome Is Eaton's acquaintance. found nearly dead from a murderous assault A surgeon operates. Dome Is revealed as Basil Santoine, a great corporation lawyer. ist, tells Ms caller, to butler he is CHAPTER VI a Continued. 5 Consulted continually by men concerned in great projects. Immersed day and night in vast affairs, capable of living completely as he wished he had been, at the age of forty-six- , great but not famous, powerful but not publicly known. At that time an event had occurred which had forced the blind man out unwillingly from his obscurity. This event had been the murder of the great western financier, Matthew Latron. There had been nothing in this affair which had in any way shadowed dishonor upon Santoine. So much as in his role of a mind without personality Santoine ever fought, he bad fought against Latron ; but his fight had been not against the man but against methods. There had come then a time of uncertainty and unrest; public consciousness was in tie process of awakening to the knowledge that strange things, approaching close to the likeness of what men call crime, had been being done under the unassuming name of business. Scandal financial scandal breathed more strongly against Latron than perhaps against any of the other western men. He had been among their biggest ; he had his enemies, of whom impersonally Santoine might have been counted one, and he had his friends, both In high places: he was a world figure. Then, all of a sudden, the man had been struck down killed, because of some private quarrel, men whispered, by an obscure and 111 then unheard-o- f mnn. Tlifc trembling wires and cables, which should have carried to the waiting world the expected news of conviction, carried Instead the news of Ifron's death : and disorder followed. The first public concern had been, of course, for the stocks and bonds of the great Latron properties; and Latron'a bigness had seemed only further evidenced by the stanchness with which the Latron banks, the Latron railroads and mines and public utilities stood firm even agnlnst the shock of their builder's death. Assured of this, public Interest hud shifted to the trial, conviction and sentence of Latron's murderer; and It was during this trial that Snntolne's name bad become more publicly known. Not that the blind man was suspected of any knowledge much less of any complicity In the crime; the murder had been because of a purely private matter; but In the eager questioning Into Latron's circumstances and surroundings previous to the crime, Santoine was summoned , lnto court as witness, "i-- The blind mnn. lel Into the court, sitting sightless In the witness chair, revealing himself by his spoken, and evrn more by his withheld, replies as one of the unknown guiders of the destiny of the Continent and as counselor to the most powerful himself till then hnnlly heard of but plnlnly one of the nnl Ion's "uncrowned rulers" had caught the public sense. The fate of the murderer, the crime, even Latron himself, lost temporarily their Interest In the public curiosity over the personality of Snntolne. It had been reported for some days that Santoine had come to Seattle directly after Warden's desih; but when this was admitted, hit associates had always been csreful to add that Snntolne, having been a close personal friend of Gabriel Warden, bad come purely In personal capacity, and the Impression was given that Santoine had returned quietly some day before. The mere prolonging of Ms stay In the Wet was more than ancgestive that affairs among the powerful were truly In such ttatt as Warden had proclaimed; this attack upon Snntolne, so similar to that which had slsln Warden, and dellv-, ered w ithin eleven days of Warden's ' death, jnust bt of the gravest signlfl- 1 ear.'. Ot'hery slot overwhelmed for the moment this futler cncitlon tbt disaster of the a.v1. mnn In .which had r1ar upMi touted to Ms charge; then t. turned , 's i tili to the TIMES-NEW- '. surer eon, "Can jmn do anything for him hare, i ttvctnrY he s sited, Too surffotJ gtsnred down fl eat t It occupied There was one, and we have done all we can ; now we may only wait. Doc- tor Sinclair has appointed himself nurse; he says I can help him, but not Just yet. I thought you would like to know." "Thank you ; I did want to know," Eaton acknowledged. He moved away from them, and sat down in one of the seats further down the car. Soon he left, for his own car, and as the door was closing behind him, a sound came to his ears from the car he Just had left a young girl sudHarriet denly crying in abandon. Santoine, he understood, must have broken down for the moment, after the strain of the operation ; and Ea ton baited as though to turn back, feeling the blood drive suddenly upon his heart. Then, recollecting that he had no right to go to her, he went on. liiih urown ana r"nTtn V for i uiat ipta,runmi Supplied ihm A mar lean Legion Nws Service.) (Copy be saw that the bag was no longoi there. It stood now between the two seats on the floor, and picking it up and looking at It, he found it unfastened and with marks about the lock which told plainly thut It had been forced. He set it on the floor between his knees and checked over its contents. Nothing had been taken, so far at he could tell ; for the bag had contained only clothing, the Chinese dictionary and the box of cigars, and these all apparently were still there. He had laid out the things on the seat across from him while checking them up, and now he began to put them back in the bag. Suddenly he noticed that one of his socks was missing; whnt had been eleven pairs was now only ten pairs and one odd sock. This disappearance of a single sock was so strange, so bizarre, so perplexing that unless It was accidental he could not account for It at all. No one opens a man's bag and steals one sock, and he was quite sure there had been eleven complete pairs there earlier in the day. Certainly then, it had been accidental : the bag had been opened, its contents taken out and examined, and In putting them back, one sock had been dropped unnoticed. The absence of the sock, then, meant no more than that the contents of the bag had been thoroughly investigated. By whom? By the man against whom the telegram directed to Lawrence Hillward had warned Eaton? Ever since his receipt of the telegram, Eaton as be passed through the train in going to and from the diner or for other reasons had been trying covertly to determine which. If anyone, among the passengers, wat the "one" who, the telegram had warned him, was "following" him. For at first he had Interpreted It to mean that one of "them" whom he had to fear must be on the train. I,nter he had felt certain that this could not be the case, for otherwise any one of "Ir.em" who knew him would have spoken by this time. Now his suspicions that one of "them" must be aboard the train returned. The bag certainly had not been carried out the forward door of the car, or he would have seen It from the compartment at that end of the car where he had sat smoking. The bng, therefore, had been carried out the rear door, and the man who had opened it. If a passenger, must still be in the rear part of the train. to Eaton, refilling his clgnr-cas- e give his octlon a look of casualnesa, got up and went toward the rear of the train. A porter was still posted at the door of the Santoine car, who warned him to be quiet In passing through. The car, he found, was entirely empty; the door to the drawing room where Snntolne lay was closed. He went on Into the observation car. A few men and women passengers here were reading or talking. Glancing on past them through the glass door at the end of the car, he sow Harriet Santoine standing alone on the observation platform. The girl did not see him ; her back was toward the car. As be went out onto the platform and the sound of the closing door cams to her, she turned to meet him. She looked white and tired, and faint gray shadows underneath her If you see a ci' tbled veterans rldl by ft4 y K erl Oil Cloyd Heck Marvin Heads University of Arizona; Proud of His Captain's Bars. hcufl set Wasl.i Legionnaire and youthful president of the University of Arizona are two of the qualifications of Cloyd his hi give U,l i W. B. Miller. dlsnbler' v. Ice men of Walter Reed large hospitals in the CapA He also provides cars to carry' naires and families of dead hero Arlington cemetery to attend Heck Marvin, who has a string of Initials a foot long after that name, but la funerals of the overseas dead. proudest of all of the Capt., Inf., U. S. that be A., T liA once wore. Hl In a atntrle- DeSS PU'"PS8 ' has carried him far into his Cloyd H Marvin. thirty-thre- e years of life. Through grade, high school and several colleges his aim has been toward the peaks in educational affairs. The outbreak of the war found him nearing the top. He dropped plans and enlisted ; was sent to the second officers' training camp at the Presidio; was made a captain and assigned to charge of spruce production In the Northwest. After the war Mr. Marvin undertook business advising, siding several firms in Los Angeles and in the Enst. He returned to his chosen field when the post at the head of the University of Arizona was offered to him. Lw ON J. CROSS-CONTINEN- V. that FLIGHT T Jackson Made Tour of Twenty-FivStates Boosting Next Con-- . vention City. e air Starting on a plane flight, on two hours' notice, would dampen the enthusiasm of most advance agents, but J. W. Jackson, anxious to win the 1023 American Legion convention for San Francisco, answered "Let's Go," when the summons came, stepped Into a naval plane with nulf a dozen apples Tor proveuaer ana started a little air Journey that cov ered 25 states and part of Mexico. And San Francisco, exploited by bis achievement, did get the convention The San Francisco Legion committee laid careful plans to capture the majority of the votes at the last Legion gathering in New Orleans. Jackson volunteered to travel to the Crt-scent City by plane, provided a pilot and plane were furnished, and scatter S. V. propaganda, after the same fash ion that aviators scattered leaflets over enemy trenches in the lute fracas. The steering committee accepted Jackson's tender of services and set about getting the plaue. Nothing came of it. Jackson gave up the Idea and bought bis round trip railroad ticket to New Orleans. He was about to leave his home for the railroad station when a telephone message Informed him that Senator Hiram Johnson had obtained the air equipment for the Journey. Jackson gathered up a few apples, put on some fleecy clothes and gave up his lower berth to a ludy. San Francisco swept the delegates off their feet by Its appeal and there was no hesitancy about naming It the convention city. Then Jackson, scornful of railroads, decided to go on to the eastern seaboard, advertising his native city by the Golden Gnte, as he went The plane took him to Washington, then back through the Middle West, across the Rockies and buck to the shadows of Mount Tnmulpals. Legionnaires of San Francisco bava raised $100,000 to entertain their comrades In October. Lieut. Gen. Hunter. Liggett, former commander of the First American army, la In etiurge of arrangements. cross-contine- nt i - y THE FLAG. The following poem, written by Stafford King, adjutant of the Minneof the Ainericuu sota department Legion, is popular with Leiouiiulres la all purts of the country: When the American nag-- aas created. Qoo, In his Inlinits wisdom. Biassed It as a symbol of freedom. Inspired It as a Ihint of brainy. And wrota It deep aitliin hla book, "A Melody of Uervke." It la fashioned With tne sold and the (team of the stars Acamst the vaulted asure of a summer sky; It la spaced with the sheen of a silvered moon 1'pon the pure, sweet snow Which gleams from the lily's petals; And striped with the crlmaoa Uauie Which kps and glances Froai the baby's heart. - tnnk-Ing- v. ' LEGION MAN IS 'U' PRESIDENT ' V B Bus Man, S Get AMERICAN "I have my Instruments," Sinclair said. "I'll get them; but before I decide to do anything, I ought to see his daughter. Since she Is here, her consent is necessary before any operation on him." "Miss Santoine Is In the observation car," Avery said. "I'll get her." The tone was In some way false Eaton could not tell exactly how. Avery started down the aisle. "One moment, please, Mr. Avery I" said the conductor. "I'll ask you not to tell Miss Santoine before any other passenger that there has been an attack upon her father. Walt un til you get her Inside the door of this car." CHAPTER VII "You yourself said nothing, then. that can have made her suspect lt7" 8ueplclon Fastens en Eaton. Eaton .asked. Eaton found his car better filled Connery shook his head ; the con than It had been before, for the people ductor, in doubt and anxiety over ex- shifted from the car behind had been actly what action the situation called scattered through the train. Keeping himself to bis section, be watched the car and outside the windows for signs of what Investigation Connery and Avery were making. Whoever had attacked Santoine must still be upon the train, for no one could have escaped through the snow. No one could now escape. Avery and Connery and whoever else was making Investigation with them evidently were not letting anyone know that an investigation was being made. Eaton went to lunch ; on his way back from the diner, he saw the conductors with papers in their bands questioning a passenger. They evidently were starting systematically through the cars, examining each person ; they were making the plea of necessity of a report to the railroad offices of names and addresses of all held up by the stoppage of the train. Eaton started on toward the rear of the train. "A moment, sir!" Connery called. Eaton halted. The conductor confronted him. "Tour name, sir?" Connery asked. "Philip D. Eaton." Connery wrote down the answer. "Can You Do Anything for Him Hero, "Tour address?" He Asked. Doctor?" "I have no address. I was going for unable, too, to communicate any to a hotel In Chicago which one I hint of It to his superiors to the west hadn't decided yet." "Where are you coming from?" because of the wires being down "From Asia." clearly had resolved to keep the at"That's hardly an address, Mr. Eatack upon Santoine secret for some time. "I said nothing definite even ton I" "I can give you no address abrood. to the trainmen," he replied ; "and I want you gentlemen to promise me I had no fixed address there. I was before you leave this car that you will traveling most of the time. I arrived In Seattle by the Asiatic steamer and say nothing until I give you leave." Ills eyes shifted from the face of took this train." "Ah I you came on the Tamba one to another, until be had assured As Avery Maru." himself that all agreed. Connery made note of this, as he left the car, Eaton found a seat In one of the end sections near the draw- had made note of all the other quesThen he said ing room. He did not know whether tions and answers. to ask to leave the car, or whether he something to the Pullman conductor, in same low tone; ought to remain ; and he would have who replied said the was not audible to what they Harfor recollection of gone except riet Santoine. Then the curtain at En ton. "Ton con tell us t lenst where the end of the car was pushed further your family Is, Mr. Eaton," Connery aside, and she came In. She was very pale, but quite con- suggested. "I have no family." trolled, as Eaton knew she would he. "Friends, then?" She looked at En ton, but did not "I I have no friends." Kpeak as she passed; the went di"Nowhere?" rectly to the door of the drawing "Nowhere." room, opened It and went In, followed Connery pondered for several moby Avery. The door closed, and for "The Mr. Hlllward Lawa moment Eaton could hear voices In- ments. side the room Harriet Santolne's, rence Hlllward. to whom the telezrnm Sinclair's, Connery'. The conductor was addressed which you claimed then came to the door of the drawing this morning, your associnte who was room and sent the porter for water to have taken this trnlii with you and clean linen; Eaton Jienrd the rip will you give me his address?" "I don't know IIHhvard's address." of linen being torn, and the car be"Give me the address, then, of the came filled with the smell of antimnn who sent the telegram." septics. "I am unable to do that, either." Donald Avery came out of the drawConnery spoke again to the Pultmsn ing room and dropped Into the seat across from Eaton. He seemed deep- conductor, and they converged for a minute. "That Is all ly thoughtful so deeply. Indeed, as to be almost unaware of Eaton's pres- then," Connery said finally. He signed his nnme to the sheet And Eaton, observing him. ence. again had the tense that Avery's ab- on which he hnd written Eaton's ansorption was completely Id conse- swers, and handed It to the I'ullinnn quences to himself of what was going conductor, who uIko signed It and reon behind the door In how Ilasll turned It to him ; then they went on to the passenger now occupying SecSantolne's death or continued existence would affect the fortunes of Don- tion Four, without making any further comment. ald Avery. Eaton told himself that there should A long time passed how long. Eaton could not have told; he noted be no dunger to himself from this Inonly that during It the shadows on quiry, directed senilis! no one, but the snowbank outside the window ap- including comprehensively everyone preciably changed their position. Fi on the train. When the conductors nally the door opened, and Harriet had left the car, he put his magazine Santoine came out, paler than before, away and went Into the mens com"Your Name, 8ir7" Connery Asked. and now not nulte to tteady. partment to smoke and calm his Eaton rose as she approached nerves. Ilia return to America had eyes showed where dark clrclci were them; and Avery leaped tip, all con passed the bounds of recklessness; beclnn'ng to form. and what a situation he would now be cern and sympathy for her Immedl "I am supposed to be resting," she ately ah appeared. He met her In In If his actions brought even serious explained quietly, accepting him as the sidle and took her hand. suspicions against him I He finished cne who had the right to ask. "Was It successful, dearT Avery hit first cigar and was delisting "How Is your father? asked. whether to light another, when he "Just the snne; there may be no She shut her eyes before aha an heard voices outside the car, and chance. Doctor Sinclair says, for days. swered, and stood holding to the back opening the window and looking out. If seems nil so sudden and so- terf a seat; then she opened her eyes, ha saw Connery snd the brakemnn rible. Mr. Eaton." . saw Knfon and recognized him and struggling througl) the snow snd pnt down In the seat where Avery had apparently, some search. Pres. ieen sitting. "You dog!" he mouthed. "Marently Ciinnery passed the door of the "Doctor Sinclair ssyt we will know rompsrtmenf something carrying ry, this It the man that old II" In four or flte days," she replied to loosely wrapped In a fiewipnper In Avery; she turned then directly to his hands. Eaton finished his cltrar (TO MZ to.NTIM'KUl Enlon. "lie thought there prnhnhlv and went back to his rnt In the car. a was clot onder the skull, and he At he glanced at the seat wher Tm h needs no flowers of apeaclw operated to find It and relieve It ha had left his locked traveling has Inon-dlhl- Watson I I PROUD OF LEGION WRESTLER Charles Gordan of Dodge City, KasVf the Man Who Won at Na. tional Convention. The Kansas department of fsa American Legion Is proud of the rec ord of Charles Gordan of Dodge City, Kan., who is rapidly becoming known as one of the cleanest wrestlers in the Middle West. Gordan la a farmer and 14T weighs pounds. He had made such a rep--n t a 1 1 o n around Dodge City for Charles Gordan. his fast and clean work that he was entered In the wrestling contest held at the Legion national convention in New Orleans. In the finals he met some of the best men of his weight In the country and threw them all. He received a medal and the honor of being the best that the American Legion had to offer. Gordan Is an active member of tha Legion post at Dodge City. BOY GOOD ESSAY WRITER Gena Haver, Vlcktburg (Miss.) Youna eter, One of National Contest Prize Winners. Of all citizens of this country tha American Legion valuea the good opinion of none more than the boya of grade and early high school age; wlda wake youngsters, still bound by e ties to dogs and swimming holes and pirate caves, but beginning to take an unfeigned Interest in mathematics and history and composition. Of such Is Gene Haver of Vlcksburg, ? one of the prize winners In Mississippi In the recent national essay contt ' conducted by the legion. Girls and boya were Invited on the euhliwf? "Tlnut iV ma wgwn oesi serve' First prize was wotv fcv a of Chlnoarnrrtlun, of Hif W .ond of ize by a school girl oils'; third, by an Amrrl. 1 fTl Italian blood In Bridgeport I Gene Haver'a essay wat I one of the best submitted I sters below tha Muson and D He was of the sort the Legloi to reach an outdoor boy. wl for a pnl; but a studious yo wlthnl. first In his class In mar. affee-tlonat- j - ;J Jects. L'espue ins accomplishment as I essayist. Gene aspires to ba a ci engineer, he snys. IN THE ARKANSAS HOSPITALS Rehabilitation of Former Service Mew Making Rapid Progrete; Some Net Receiving Compensation. Ilehabilliatlon of tha former service men In the hospitals of tha atata of Arkiina-- a Is making rapid progress, and the auxiliary members of that department express themselves aa well pleased with existing conditions an1 the constructive plans which are being executed by the hospital management. Hed Cross workers, etc., especially at the 1'nlted Statea Veterans hospital at Fort Hoots, which was recently visited by Mrs. James II. P. rooks, department president of Arkansas. Within Its blue and white and red Is enfolded ail there Is Mrs. Crooks was well satisfied with Of liberty, justice and democracy. conditions and remarked upon tha Sanctified to us by biood find tears; noticeable Improvement In a number Mothers' tears, Whi-- ii shine throush sacrifice of the patients. However, she waa Like glistenm pearls much concerned over fact that at tnrath lha softly undulating waves ef least 30 per cent of thethe men southern ho died. And blood of tiitn pHtients wrra not receiving compensaAs One who has died upon the cross, tion, and becane of this, are denied That other inea might 1: y. many little things tli-- y crave, purticu-larltheir "smokes." such a To Americana ran flag say: -Whither thou gneet. I will go, Tills is a field for work for the mem-ar- e And whither thou lidtssl. I will, lodge of the auxlllnry, both In the de1 Thy ppl ahali he my people, partment of Arkansas and other statea. And thy Uei, my Uod." se-i- a; j r Hospitalization of disabled veterans Is one of Mr. Miller's chief Interest He is a member of the Legion's Fourth district hospitalization board, comprising the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Mr. Miller lias assisted score men visiting of needy Washington for adjustment of clnlma with the United States veterans' bureau. Although he was well over the draft age, Mr. Miller enlisted early in tha World war and served as a captain In the Motor Transport corps. A |