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Show I .,! Jill THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, The Blind Man's Eyes that she felt he was only put I I ting her off. Harriet Santolne knew that what had attracted her friends to Eaton was their recognition of bis likeness to themselves; but what had Impressed her In seeing hhn with them was his difference. Was it some mem- - j club was coming down, Eaton, like a ory of his former life that seeing flash and apparently without lifting these had recalled to him, people a ball his mallet at all, caught the which had affected his manner toward sharp, smacking stroke. It leaped like her? a bullet, straight and true, toward the Again she looked at him. Copyright bj Llttla, Bran and goal, and before Avery could turn, Ea"Were you sorry to leave the club?" ton was after It and upon It, but he she asked. did not have to strike again; It bound "I was quite ready to leave," he standing off by himself. She waited ed on and on between the answered Inattentively. till he looked toward her, then sig- while together with the applause for "It must have been pleasant to you, naled him to come over. She got the stranger arose a laugh at the ex to to be among the sort of though, down, and they stood together follow- pense of Avery. But as Donald halted people again that you you used to before her, Harriet saw that he was know. Miss Furden" she mentioned ing the play. "You know polo?" she - questioned not angry . or discomfited, but was one of the who had seemed most him, as she saw the expression of smiling triumphantly to himself; and Interested girls In him, the sister of the In when his face as a player as she called In praise to Eaton appreciation boy whose place he had taken In the an antagonist and he came close again, she discovered daringly "rode-off- " polo practice "is considered a very saved a "cross." She put the ques In him only dismay at what he had attractive person, Mr. Eaton. I have tion without thought before she rec- done. heard It suld that a man any man-- not ognized that she was obeying her faThe practice ended, and the players to be attracted by her must be e ther's instructions. rode away. She waited In the forearmed against her by thought or "I understand the game somewhat," till Avery and Eaton came up memory of some other woman whom Eaton replied. Donald's he holds dear." from the dressing rooms. "Have you ever played?" triumphant satisfaction seemed to "I'm "It seems to deserve its reputation have Increased; Eaton was silent and stand." ,afraid I don't quite under as the summit of sport," he replied. preoccupied. Avery, hailed by a group The mechanlcalness of his answer He answered so easily that she of men, started away; as he did so, reassured "I mean, Mr. Eaton" not could decide whether he was evad he saluted Eaton almost derisively. she forced her. her tone to be light "Miss ing or not; and somehow, Just then, Eaton's return of the salute was open Furden was not as attractive to you she found It Impossible to put the ly hostile. She looked up at him as she might have been, because there simple question direct again. to deter has been some other woman in your keenly, trying unavallingly "Good! Good, Don!" she cried en mine whether more had taken place life whose memory or or the exand bands her thusiastically clapped between the two men than 6he herself pectation of seeing whom again proas Avery suddenly raced before them. had witnessed. tected you." caught the ball with a swinging, back'You had played polo before and Has been? Oh, you moan before." handed stroke and drove it directly played It well," she charged. "Why Yes, of course," she answered has toward his opponent's goal. Instantly did you want to pretend you hadn't?" tily. his raced mount, Avery whirling away No none," he replied simply. "It's He made no reply. As she began to after the ball, and with another clean talk of she discovered other rather things, ungallant. Miss Santolne, but stroke scored a goal. Everyone about with surprise that his manner toward I'm afraid I wasn't thinking much cried out In approbation. about Miss Furden." "He's very quick and clever, Isn't "She felt that his denial was the he?" Harriet said to Eaton. truth, for his words confirmed the ImEaton nodded. "Yes; he's by all pression she had had of him the night odds the most skillful man on the before. She drove on or rather let field, I should say." the horse take them on for a few The generosity of the praise Im moments during which neither spoke, to the it. pelled girl, somehow, qualify They had come about a bend in the "But only two others really have road, and the great house of her famuch that man and that." played ther loomed ahead. A motor whizzed "Yes, I picked them as the experi past them, coming from behind. It enced ones," Eaton said quietly. was only Avery's car on the way "The others two of them, at least home ; but Harriet had Jumped a little are out for the first time, I think." In memory of the day before, and watched the rapid course of They her companion's head had turned the ball up and down the field, the quickly toward the car. She looked scurry and ecamper of the ponies np at him swiftly; his lips were set after It, then the clash of a melee. and his eyes gazed steadily ahead Two ponies went down, and their after Avery, and he drew a little away riders were flung. When they arose, from her. A catch in her breath one of the least experienced boys almost an audible gasp surprised limped apologetically from the field, her, and she fought a warm impulse Avery rode to the barrier. which had all but placed her band "I say, any of you fellows, don't you on his. want to try It? We're Just getting "Will you tell me something, Miss warmed up." Santolne?" he asked suddenly. Avery looked over to Eaton and "What?" gave the challenge direct "I suppose, when I was with Mr. "Care to take a chance?" Avery this afternoon, that if I had Harriet Santolne watched her com attempted to escape, he and the chaufpanion; a sudden flush had come to "You Needn't Wait for Him Unless feur would have combined to detain his face, which vanished, as she You Wish; I'll Drive You Back," me. But on the way back here did turned, and left him almost pale; but She Offered. you assume that when you took me his eyes glowed. Avery's manner In in charge you had my parole not to challenging him, as though he must her had taken on even greater formal try to depart?" refuse from fear of such a fall as he ity and constraint than it had had one was silent for a ' moment Just had witnessed, was not enough since his talk with her father the day thoughtful. "Do you mean that you before. to explain Eaton s start have been considering this afternoon "How can IT" he returned. The afternoon was not warm enough the possibilities of escape?" "If you want to play, you can," to sit outside; In the club house were "It would be only natural for me to "Furden" that gathered groups of men and girls do Avery dared him. that would It not?" he parried. was the boy who had Just been hurt who had come In from the golf course "No." "will lend you some things; hls'll Just or from watching the polo practice. "Why not?" about fit you ; and you can have his She found herself now .facing one of don't mean that you might not try "I mounts." these groups composed of some of her to exceed the limits Father boa set for Harriet continued to watch Eaton; own friends, who were taking tea and ; you might try that and of course the challenge had been put so as to wafers In the recess before some win you you would be prevented. But you will give him no ground for refusal but dows. They motioned to her to Join not" (she hesitated, and when she could not and she well refuse, went on she was them, timidity. quoting her father) "You don't care to?" Avery taunted especially as this had been a part of your position here." her father's Instructions. The men "sacrifice him deftly. "Why not?" "Why don't you try It?" Harriet rose, as she moved toward them, Ea you tried to gain It or ton with her; she introduced Eaton; If "Because found herself saying to him. not exactly that at least you had a was chair for forward her. some He hesitated. She realized It was pushed In wanting to be near not timidity he was feeling; It was and two of the girls made a place for Fatherobject which have not yet gained." you something deeper and stronger than Eaton on the window seat between She hesitated once more, not looking that It was fear; but so plainly It them. at him. What it was that bad hapAa they seated themselves and were was not fear of bodily hurt that she during the afternoon she could moved Instinctively toward him In served, Eaton's participation in the pened not make out; Instinctively, however, He looked swiftly at polo practice was the subject of con she felt that It had so altered sympathy. Eaton's Avery, then at her, then away. He versation. She found, as she tried to relations with them that now he might seemed to fear alike accepting or re- talk with her nearer neighbors, that attempt to escape. fusing to play; suddenly he made a she was listening Instead to this more They had reached the front of the which decision. conversation had Eaton general and a groom sprang to take the house, saw She "I'll play." that these people horse. She let Eaton Joined. help her down He started Instantly away to the had accepted hlra as one of their own as entered the house, Avery they dressing rooms; a few minutes later, sort to the point of Jesting with him who had reached the bouse only a few when he rode onto the field, Harriet about his "lucky" polo stroke for a moments before them was still In was conscious that In some way, Ea beginner; his mnnner toward them the hnll. And again she was stnrtled ton was playing a part as he listened was very different from what It had In the of the two men by meeting to now been to Avery's directions. Just herself; he seemed Avery's triumph and the swift flure Avery appointed himself to oppose at ease and unembarrassed with them. of defiance on Eaton's face. Eaton wherever possible, besting him One or two of the girls appeared to She changed from her afternoon In every contest for the boll ; but she have been eager even anxiou- sdress As she did so. she saw that Donald, though he took It meet hlra ; and she found herself oddly broughtslowly. In review the events swiftly attitude the of these girls. of the day. Chiefly It was to the polo upon himself to show all the other resenting players where they made their mis- - Her feeling was indefinite, vague; it practice and to Eaton's dismay at lakes, did not offer any Instruction to made her flush and grow uncomforthis one remarkable stroke that her Eaton. One of the players drove the able; to recognize dimly that there mind went. Had Donald recognized ball close to the barrier directly be was In It some sense of a proprietor In Eaton something more than merely fore Harriet; Eaton and Avery raced ship of her own In hi in which took a good player trying to pretend Igno for It, neck by neck. Eaton by better alarm at seeing other girls attracted rance of the game? The thought sud riding gained a little; as they came by him ; but underneath It was her un denly checked and startled her. For np, she saw Donald's attention was easiness at his new manner to herself. how many great polo players were not upon the ball or the play; In which hurt because she could not ex- there in America? nun Were there stead, he was watching Eaton closely, plain It. A the party finished their dred? Fifty? Twenty-five- ? She did across hi looked to she And she realized suddenly that Don tea, in. not know ; but she did know that there ald had appreciated as fully as her "Are you ready to go, Mr. Eaton?" were so few of them that their name self that Eaton'a clumsiness was she asked. and many of the particulars of their "Whenever Mr. Avery la ready." pretense. It waa no longer merely lives were known to every follower of two were the "You for wait needn't him Donald, unless the sport polo playing; or even certain you wish; I'll drive you bock," she suspecting perhaps (TO BE CONTINUED.) that Eaton knew the game, was try offered. ing to make him show It, and Eaton "Of course I'd prefer that, Miss San High Aspirations. was watchfully avoiding this. Just In tolne." Joseph McKee amazed front of her, Donald, leaning forward They went out to her trap, leaving even his own mother, the other eveswept the ball from In front of Ea Donald to motor bnrk alone. As soon ning. They were discussing automoton's pony's feet as she had driven out of the club bile accidents, and expressed the hope For a few moments the piny was all grounds, she let the horse take Its that they would have none, when lie at the further edge of the field; then own gait, and she turned and faced suld : the ball crossed with a long curving him. "Mother, I know of a way I'd miner shot and came hoiping and rolling "Will you tell me." she demanded. He tlmn in an automobile acriiicnt. I'd rather die In an electric chair. U along the ground close to where she "what have I done this afternoon t stood. Donald and Eaton raced for It make you class me among those who would he the qulrkcst way of all. "Stedmnn I" Avery called to leurn Wouldn't It?" oppose you?" mate to prepare to receive the ball "What have you done? Nothing, after he had struck It; and he lifted Miss Santolne." We have r.o Minute Men now. Bui his mallet to drive the ball away from "But you are classing me so now." the country Is full of men any Inspector la front of Eaton. But as Avery's "Ob, no," he denied ao unconvlnc would class as second, Ingly ctnsrd FecPe is. By CHAPTER XV Continued. 12 He thanked her and withdrew. He ( , , did not look back as Miss Davis closed the door behind him ; their eyes had not met ; but he understood hat she had comprehended him fully. Today he would be away from the Santolne house, and away from the guards who watched him, for at least four hours, under no closer espionage than that of Avery; this offered opportunity the first opportunity he had had for communication between him and his friends outside the house. He went to his room and made some slight changes In his dress; he came down then to the library, found a book and settled himself to read. Toward noon Avery looked In on him there and rather constrainedly prof-- fered his invitation. Eaton accepted, and after Avery had gone to get ready, Eaton put away his book. Fifteen minutes later, hearing Avery's motor purring outside, Eaton went into the Tall ; a servant brought his coat and hat, and taking them, he went out to the motor. Avery appeared a moment later, with Harriet Santolne. She stood looking after them as they spun down the curving drive and onto the pike outside the grounds ; then she went back to the study. She dismissed Miss Davis for the day, and taking the typewritten sheets and some other papers her father had asked to have read to him, she went up to him. Basil Santolne was alone and awake. "What have you, Harriet?" he asked. She sat down and glancing through the papers in her hand, gave him the subject of each; then at his direction she began to read them aloud.. As he finished the third page, he interrupted her. "Has Avery taken Eaton to the country club as I ordered?" "Yes." ."I shall want you to go out there In the afternoon; I would trust your observation more than Avery's to de termine whether Eaton has been used to such surroundings." She read another page, then broke off suddenly. "Has Donald asked you anything today, Father?" , "In regard to what?" "I thought last night he seemed dis turbed about my relieving him of part of his work." "Disturbed? In what way?" She hesitated, unable to define even to herself the Impression Avery's man ner had made on her. "I understood he was going to ask you to leave It still In his hands." "He has not done so yet." "Then probably I was mistaken." She read again for half an hour after luncheon, finishing the pages she had brought. "Now you'd better go to the club," the blind man directed. She put the reports and letters away In the safe in the room below, and going to her own apartments, she dressed carefully for the afternoon. As she drove down the road, she passed the scene of the attempt by the men In the motor to run Eaton The lndefinlteness of her down. knowledge by whom or why the attack had been made only made It seem more terrible to her. Unquestionably he was In constant danger of its repe tition, and especially when as today he was outside her father's Instinctively she hurried grounds. her horse. She stopped at the club house only to make certain that Mr. Avery and his guest were not there; then she drove on to the polo field. As she approached, she recognized Avery'e lithe, alert figure on one of the ponies; with a deft, quick stroke ' mm As 6h Approached She Recognized Avery's Lithe, Alert Figure en One f the Ponies. he cleared the ball from before the feet of an opponent's pnny, then he looked up and nodded to her. Harriet drove up and stopped beside the barhailed her from all sides, rier; people moment the practice was and for a stopped as the players trotted over to peek to her. Then piny beirnn aenin. and she had the opportunity to look for Eaton. Her father, she knew, had Instructed Avery that Eaton was to be Introduced as his truest ; but A very evidently had either carried out these instructions In a purely mechanical manner or had not wished Eaton to h with others unless he himself was bwt tot Harriet discovered Eaton William MacHarg Edwin Balmer Barnes on World Financial Conference Conclusions regarding Europe's economic problems, reached by the Rome congress of the international chamber of commerce, are fully endorsed by President Julius H. Barnes of the chamber of commerce of the United States. He says, among other goal-post- club-bous- Nine-year-ol- d SfUL things: "The resolution adopted, while laying emphasis on the reparations question, expresses the conviction of the it 4 " " ' assembled business leaders of many nationalities that the related problems of the allied debts, national budgets, International credits and ex--' change, must be solved In one compreThe International hensive whole. chamber expresses the view that a financial conference for a complete cettlement Is Inevitable. "There Is a definite code of requirements essential to each phase of the settlements to be made. The reparations agreement must represent the determination of the aggressor nation In the great war to devote all of Its resources to the utmost of Its ability to fulfilling Its obligations; while any plan of settlement must also assure hereafter the security of national frontiers, elim inating recurring alarms of war. "Interallied war debts must be maintained at a high standard among in ternational obligations, which prohibits the general application of any principle of cancellation ; but each debt should be surveyed with due regard for the abil ity of the debtor nation to pay. National budgets must Insure governmental economy." Lord Robert Cecil Visits Us to Talk Lord Robert Cecil Is here on a visit of a month or more. He Is the guest of the Foreign Policy association, and will deliver several addresses He Is, on the European situation. however, most anxious that his visit shall not be supposed to be undertaken in a missionary spirit "I have been asked to speak on several matters on which I have spe cial Information," he said, but I hope It will not be thought that I am Interfering In American politics or am coming to preach the League of Nations." Few names In British history are better known than Cecil. There are Cecils dotted through British history as regularly as bank holidays. One of Lord Robert's forefathers was prime minister to Queen Bess in the days when a Spanish armada set soil for ' the Cliffs of Dover. Two more grand fathers, one on another's heels, served Queen Victoria as premier and president of the privy council. Today, In the present generation, there are five Cecil brothers living all prominent One, eldest and heir to the title "Marquis of Salisbury," Is a famous Tory lord president of the council In the new cabinet of Bonar Law. Altogether It la a spectacular family. j"! Work Affecting the Whole Community Two Olsons In Chicago United States District Attorney Edwin A. Olson and Chief Justice Harry Olson of the municipal courts are especially active Just now In work that affects the welfare of many people. The district attorney Is engaged In a special campaign against "dope" peddlers and dealers In Illegal narcotics. He-I- s working In accordance with special instructions from Washington, the result of a conference with Rush L, Holland, personal representative of At' torney General Daugherty. Chief Justice Olson of the municipal courts (portrait herewith) has Just announced that the police department of Chicago have begun keeping watch on the homes and relatives of mentally unsound persons who puss through the psychopathic laboratory. "We will do this out of kindness, not In anger," he said. "A mentally deficient person Is sick. You would not expect a cringe with only one leg to walk normally. Neither should you expect one with a part of bis brain gone to behave In a rational manner." Then the chief Justice said that most of the offenders brought to court were suffering from hereditary mental troubles, and he declared that It luy in the power of the courts and the police to correct them In the future before they did another wrong. .Tude Olson added thnt It was also part of police duty to locate members of the unfortunate's family, to learn If others also were afflicted. He said many schools and churches were aiding hlra In this work. Congress May Investigate Fascisti Here the organization of Italian Fascisti In the United States as "reprehensible to the best American Institutions," Senator William J. King, Democrat, of Utnh said that the next congress would be asked to Investigate the "blnck shirt" movement. "For naturalized Italians to Join sirh alien organisation Is to betray their loyalty to the American constitution and for unnaturalized Italians to Join Is a betrayal of our hospitality." King said. "Such an organization as the "blnck shirts" cannot exist In the United States and will not exist even If a congressional Investigation Is necessary to stop It. "I think, however, the movement will die without offl'inl action. This organization, bawd primarily on principles rf forre and usurpation of utterly conflicts with our own of lllx-itand government by Hie ballot. Our aw n lti'l!utlons nfTWd inlc'iiiitP protection of II ' . property nnl pursuit of hrppincfs ai d thi-r- Is no room In Atncibn f..r Hlien institution)! such as the I'asrlstl. "If Its ircnii7itlon Ims grown formidable by December I will ask for a aliens lu back of It can be congressional Itnesiivntlon so the deported. the Denouncing |