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Show i THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, T1 AGlU a at XVI 14 Continued. Eaton knelt on one knee behind his table; now he was wildly, exultantly excited; his blood leaped hotly to his hand pointing his pistol ; he panted, almost audibly, for breath, but though his pulse throbbed through his bead too, his mind was clear and cool as he reckoned his situation and bis chances. He had crossed the Pacific, the continent, he had schemed and risked everything with the mere hope of getting Into this room to discover evidence with which to demand from the world righting of the wrong which had driven him as a fugitive for Ave years ; and here he found the man who was the cause of It all, before elm in the same room a few paces away In the dark I For It was Impossible that this was not that man; and Eaton knew now that this was he who must have been behind and arranging and directing the attacks upon him. Eaton had not only seen him and heard his voice, but he had felt his grasp; that sudden, instinctive crouch before a charge, and the savage lunge and tackle were the Instant, natural acts of an old linesman on a championship team In the game of football as It was played twenty years before. That lift of the opponent off his feet and the heavy lunge hurling him back to fall on his bead was what one man In the rougher, more cruel days of the college game had been famous for. On the football field that throw sufficed to knock a helmeted opponent unconscious; here It was meant, beyond doubt, to do more. Upon so much, at least, Eaton's mind at once was clear; here was his enemy whom he must destroy If he himself were not first destroyed. Other thoughts, recasting of other relations altered or overturned In their bearing by the discovery of this man here everything else could and must wait upon the mighty demand of that moment upon Eaton to destroy this enemy now or be himself destroyed. Eaton shook in his passion ; yet coolly he now realized that his left shoulder, which had taken the shock of his fall, was numb. He shifted his pistol over to cover a vague form which hnd seemed to move; but. If it bad stirred. It was still again now. Eaton strained to listen. It seemed certain that the noise of the 6hot, If not the sound of the struggle which preceded it, must have raised an alarm. Basil Santolne, as Eaton knew, slept above; a nurse must be waiting on duty somewhere near. Enton had seen the row of buttons which the blind ninn had within arm's length with which he must be able to summon every servant In the bouse. So It could not last much longer now this deadlock In the dark. And one of the two, at least, seemed to have recognized that. ' Eaton had moved, warily and carefully, but he had moved ; a revolver flashed before him. Instantly and without consciousness thnt his finger pulled the trigger, Eaton's pistol flashed back. In front of him, the flame flashed again, and another spurt f fire spat at one side. Eaton fired back at this he was prostrate on the floor now, and whether he had been hit or not be did not yet know, or whether the blood flowing 'down his fnce was only from a splinter sprayed from the table ehlnd which he had hid. He fired gain, holding his pistol far out to one side to confuse the aim of the others; e thought that they too were doing khe same and allowed for It In his aim. Ge pulled his trigger a ninth time ho had not counted his shots, but he knew he had had seven cartridges In the magazine and one in the barrel and the pistol clicked without disHe rolled over farther charging. away from the spot where he had last fired and pulled an extra clip of cartridges from his pocket. The Mood was flowing hot over his face. He made no effort to staunch It or even to fee! with bis fingers to find exactly where or how badly he had been hit. He Jerked the empty cartridge clip from his pistol butt and snapped In the other. He swept his sleeve over his fnce to clear the blood from his brows and eyes and stared through the dark with pistol at arm's Blood length loaded and ready. spurted over his face again; another weep of bis sleeve cleared It; and be moved bis plstol-poln- t back and forth in the dark. Purely now the sound of firing In that room must have reached the man In the room above; surely be must be summoning his servants. Eaton listened ; there was still no sound from the rest of the house. Hut overhead now, be heard an almost imperceptible pattering the sound of a barefooted man crossing the floor; and he knew that the blind man In the bedroom above was getting up. CHAPTER XVII Under Cover of Darkness. Basil Santolne was oversensitive to sound, as are most of the blind; In the world of darkness In which he llvd, sounds were by far the most slgbiflrsnt and almost the only means he bad of telling what went On round him; ne passed his life listening for or determining the nature of sounds. So the struggle which ended n Eaton's crash to the floor would are waked htm without the plstol-bot- s That Immediately following. roused htm Immediately and brought blm sitting op In bed, forgetful of Ma own condition. Ills band went at once to tbe bell- wlde-auak- e WILLIAM Mac II A EG Coprrlcht k? half-prisone- V heard, Santolne waa told, upon any of the bells which he had tried to ring from his room. Eaton was the only person from the house who was miss- EDWIN CALMER Uttl. Brm'u board, nd he rang at the same time for the nurse outside his door and for the steward. Santolne did not consider the possibility of robbery of plate or Jewelry long enough to have beet, said to consider It at all ; what he felt was that the threat which bad been hanging vaguely over himself ever slnoe Warden's murder was being fulfilled. But It was not Santolne himself that was being attacked; It was something Santolne possessed. There was only one sort of valuable article for which one might enter that room below. And those articles Santolne pressed all the bells again and then got up. He had heard absolutely no sound outside, as must be made by anyone escaping from the room below; but the battle seemed over. One side must have destroyed the other. The blind man stood barefooted on the floor, his hands clasping In one of the bitterest moments of his rebellion against, and defiance of, bis helplessness of blindness. Below him as he believed his servants had been sacrificing life for him ; there In that room he held In trust that which affected the security, the faith, the honor of others; his guarding that trust Involved his honor no less. And particularly, now, he knew he was bound, at whatever cost, to act; for he did d not doubt now but that his guest, whom Santolne had not sufficiently guarded, was at the bottom of the attack. The blind man believed, therefore, that It was because of his own retention here of Eaton that the attack had been made, his servants had been killed, the private secrets of his associates were in danger. Undoubtedly there was danger below; but that was why he did not call again at the other door for some one else to run a risk for him. He put his hand on the rail and started to descend tbe stairs. He was almost steady In step and he had firm grasp on the rail ; he noticed that now to wonder at It. When he had aroused at the sound of firing, his blindness, as always when something was happening about him, was obtruded upon blm. He felt helpless because he was blind, not because he had been injured. He had forgotten entirely that for almost two weeks he hnd not stirred from bed ; he had risen and stood and walked, without staggering, to the door and to the top of the stairs before, now, he remembered. So what he already hnd done showed him that he had merely again to put his injury from his mind and he could o on. He went down the stairs almost steadily. The blind count stairs, and he had and realised gone down twenty-on- e fully his futility; but now he would not retreat or merely call for help. "Who Is here?" he asked distinctly. "Is anyone beret Who is hereT" And now SanNo one answered. tolne knew by the sense which let him feel whether It was night or day, that the room was really dark dark for others as well as for himself; the lights were not burning. So an exaltation, a sense of physical capability, came to Santolne; In the dark he was as fit, as capable as any other man. He stepped down on the floor, nnd In his uncertainty as to the position of the furniture, felt along the wall. There were bookcases there, but he felt and passed along them swiftly, until he came to the case which concealed the safe at the left side of the doors. The books were gone from thnt case; his bare toes struck against them where they had been thrown down on tbe floor. The blind man, his pulse beating tumultuonsly, put his hnnd through the case and felt the panel behind. That was slid back, exposing tbe safe; and the door of Santolne's the safe stood open. bands felt within the safe swiftly. The safe was empty. He recoiled from It, choking back an ejnculatlon. Tbe entry to this room had been made for the purpose which he supposed; and the thieves must have succeeded In their errand. Tbe blind man. in his usclessness for pursuit, could delay railing others to act for him no longer. He started toward the bell, when some scrape on the floor not of the sort to be accounted for by an object moved by the wind sounded behind blm. Santolne swung toward the sound and stood listening again; and then, groping with his hands stretched out before him, he left the wall and stepped toward the center of the room. He took two sterol three, four with no result; then his foot trod Into some fluid, thick and sticky and not cold. Santolne stooped and put a fingertip Into the fluid and brought It near bis nose. It was what he supposed It must be blood. He could hear now someone breathing more than one person, From the house, still shut off by Its double, sound proof doors, he could hear nothing; but someone outside the bouse was hurrying up to the open window at the south end of the room. That one came to. or Just Inside the window, parting the curtains. He was breathing hard from exertion or from excitement. "Who Is It 7" Snntolne challenged clearly. "Basil!" Blatchford's voice exclaimed Ms recognition In amazement "Basil ; that is yoc '. What are you Com pur forward. "What brought you hereT" Santolne demanded Instead of reply. "Tou were running outside; whyt What was out thereT What did you seer" "Seer I didn't see anything except the window here open when I came up. But I heard shots, Basil. What has happened here?" Santolne felt again the stickiness at his feet. "Three or four persons fought In this room, Wallace. Some or one was hurt. There's blood on the floor. There are two here I can hear breathing; I suppose they're hurt. Probably the rest are gone. Get help. I think those who aren't hurt are gone. They must be gone. But get help first, Wallace." "And leave you here J" Blatchford rejoined. He had not halted again; the blind man heard his cousin still moving along the wall. The electric switch clicked, and Santolne knew that the room was flooded with light Santolne straightened, strained, turning bis head a little better to listen. With the flashing on of the light, he had heard the sharp, Involuntary start of Blatchford as he saw the room ; and, besides that, Santolne heard movement now elsewhere In the room. Then the blind man heard his friend's "Good God I" cry. "What Is ltr Santolne cried. "Good God I Basil I" "Who Is It, Wallace the blind man knew now that his friend's Inco- herence someone, r came from recognition of not alone from some sight of horror. "Basil! It Is It must be him I KNUTE NELSON, 80, U. S. SENA. TOR, SINCE 1835, DIES WHILE ON WAY TO HIS HOMZ ing. doing down here?" Blatchford started Is" shot roared I know It A In front of Santolne. The blind man, starting back at the shock of It, drew In the powder-ga- s asv mam lip A FREIiCH HOVE DIES ON TRAIN r CHAPTER sew "They came, at least some of them came" Santolne had risen, fighting down his grief over his cousin's death "for what was In your safe, Harriet." "I know ; I saw it open." "What la goner Santolne demanded. He heard her picking up the contents of the safe from the floor and carrying them to the table and examining them. "Why nearly all the formal paper seem to be gone ; lists and agreements relating to a dozen different things." "None of the correspondence "No; that all seems to be here." Santolne was breathing quickly; the trust for which he had been ready te die for which Blatchford had died seemed safe. "We don't know whether he got It then, or not!" It was Avery's voice which broke In upon him; Santotne merely listened. "Her Who?" He heard his daughter's challenge. It Is plain enough "Why, Eaton. what happened here. Isn't It?" Avery answered. "He came here to this room for what he was after for what tever he has been after from the that may have been ! He came prepared to force the safe and get It! But he was surprised " "By whom 7" tbe blind man asked. "By whoever It Is that has been following him. I don't attempt to explain who they were, Mr. Santolne; for I don't know. But whoever they were in doing this, he laid himself open to attack by them. They were watching saw him enter here. They attacked him here. Wallace switched on the light and recognized him ; so he shot Wallace and ran with whatever he could grab up of the contents of the safe, hoping that by luck he'd get what he was after." "It Isn't so It Isn't so I" Harriet denied. Her father checked her; he stood an Instant thoughtful. "Who Is directing the pursuit, Donald?" Avery went out at once. "Now, Harriet," he commanded. She understood that her father would not move till she had seen the room Veteran Solon Left Washington Accompanied by Nleoe and Insurance Commissioner; Death Ends Long Career York, Pa. f with his breath; but the bullet was not for him. Instead, he heard his friend scream and choke and half coll, half cough. "Wallace!" Santolne cried out; but his voice was lost In the roar of another shot. This was not fired by the same one who had Just fired ; at least. It was not from the same part of the room ; and Instantly, from another side, a third shot came. Then, In the midst of rush and confusion, another shot roared ; the light was out again ; then all was gone; the noise was outside; the room was still except for a cough and choke as Blatchford somewhere on the floor In front of the blind man tried again to speak. Basil Santolne, groping with his hands, found him. He was still conscious. Santolne knew that he was trying his best to speak, to say Just one word a name to tell whom he had seen and who had shot him ; but he could not. Santolne put his hand over a hand of his cousin. Blatchford's fingers closed tightly on Santolne's ; they did not relax but now remained closed, though without strength. The blind man bowed and then lifted his head. His friend was dead, and others were rushing Into the room the butler, one of the chauffeurs, Avery, more the light was on again, and mid the tumult and alarms of the discoveries shown by the light, some rushed to the windows to the south In pursuit of those who bad escaped from the room. Avery and one or two others rushed up to Santolne; now the blind man beard, above their cries and alarms, the voice of his daughter. She was beside him, where he knelt next the body of Blatchford. and she put back others who crowded about. "Father! What has happened? Why are you here? Oh, Father, Cousin Wallace!" "He Is dead," Santolne said. "They shot htm! They were three, at One was not with the others. They fired at ench other. I believe, after one shot him." Santolne's hand was still In ISlatchford's. "I beard them below." He told shortly how he had gone down, how Blatchford had en tered and tpn shot. The blind mnn. still kneeling, hesrd the ordering and organizing of others for the pursuit ; now women servants from the other psrt of the house were taking charge of affairs In the room. There bad been no si gin I s; laf. Nelson Death occurred shortly after the train left Baltimore. Senator Nelson was accompanied by his niece and by the commissioner of Insurance of Minnesota. Senator Nelson was one of the most colorful figures in the senate. He had been In politics since 1868, had twice served as governor of Minnesota and was first elected to the United States senate la 1869. Short and thick set. Senator Nelson of the old striking was physically type when In his prime. Of Norwegian extraction, strong personality and will, the Minnesota senator had been prominent In the Republican organization for years. Elected first to the senate In 1805, Senator Nelson was reelected In 1901, 1907, 1913 and 1918. Senator Nelson's reelection In 1918 was with the advice and consent of Woodrow Wilson, who, though a Democratic president, placed no obstacle In Nelson's way because of the latter's strong support of the Wilson administration's war policies. first-wha- I. W. W. Strike Spreads San Francisco. The general strike call of the Industrial Workers of the men World resulted In additional walking out Saturday In Pacific coast states. Oregon reported a camp at The Dalles shut down and the West Const Lumbermen's association with offices in Portland, received a letter from the strike committee setting forth eleven demands. Estimates as to number of men on strike in Washfor him. ington, as reported by employers "There was some sort of a struggle were that 10.000 had responded to near my safe," she said. "Chairs the strike call, but the I. W. W. headeverything there Is knocked about." quarters said the number was be"Yes." tween 20,000 and 30,000. Waterfront "There Is also blood there a big employers in Seattle said tbe strike of the marine workers had produced spot of It on the floor." "I found that," said Santolne. no noticeable effect. The leaders of "There are bullet marks every- the strike said It was spreading in where above the mantel, all about." eastern Washington and nothern Ida--h- o "How was the safe opened?" lumber camps. "The combination has been cut completely away; there Is an an Instru- N. Y. Hippodrome Closes for Good New York. The Hippodrome, tha ment connected with the electric-ligh- t fixture which seems to have done home of big spectacles and New the cutting. There Is a hand-dril- l, York's greatest playhouse, closes itf too I think it Is a hand-drilTbe doors for good Saturday and no Inner door haa been drilled through, longer will Its audiences, each repreand the catches drawn back." senting hallf the states in the Union, "Who Is this?" wonder where the diving girls go Tbe valet, who had been sent to Ea- when they disappear Into the huge ton's room, had returned with his re- tank and never are seen from the port. "Mr. Eaton went from his room front to reach the surface. About fully dressed, sir," he said to San- 40,000,000 persons ore computed to tolne, "except for his shoes. I found have entered the vast auditorium durall his shoes In bis room." ing the eighteen years of its exisDuring the report the blind man felt tence. The was erected his daughter's grasp on his arm be- on the site Hippodrome of the old Sixth avenue come tense and relax and tighten car barn. The great playhouse will again. Then, as though she realized make way for a business structure. she was adding to his comprehension of what she had already betrayed, she Mayor Sentenced To Prison Term suddenly took her hand from her faIndianapolis, Ind. Roswell John, arm. Santolne let tbe servants, son, mayor of Gary, Ind. Saturday ther's at his daughter's direction, help him was sentenced to serve one year and to his room. His daughter stood be- six months in fined 52,000 and prison side blm while tbe nurse washed the for violation of liquor laws, in the from bis bands and United States district court here, feet. with fifty-fou- r other Gary Johnson, "Father?" she questioned. was convicted of conspiracy residents, "Yes." to violate the prohibition laws. Three "You don't agree with Donald, do of those Indiclted were new you? that Mr. Eaton went to the trials. William II. I mnn, granted former city to to and that get something, study whoever has been foflowlng him found Judge of Gary, was sentenced to serve him there and and Interrupted him a year and a day in prison and fined $1,000. and he killed Cousin Wallace?" Santolne was silent an Instant Coal Monopoly Is Charged "That seems the correct explanation, In a formal complaint Harriet" he evaded. "It does not byWashington trade commission the federal the seems ; as correct it fully explain but Coal Pock Operators' Northwestern far as It goes. If Donald asks you what my opinion is, tell blm It Is association of Minneapolis, Its officers and directors, have been chanced with that." He felt bis daughter shrink away conspiracy to suppress competition and create a monopoly in the sale of from him. The blind man made no move to anthracite and bituminous coal at and retail in Minnesota, draw her back to him ; he lay perfectly wholesale still ; his head rested flat upon tbe pil- Wisconsin, North Ihikotn, South Pa. lows; his bands were clssped tightly kota and Iowa. together above the coverlet He had Cecil Sails for Home accused himself. In ' e room below, New York. Kohcrt Cecil, represen. manner he ha enosen because, by the In the league to treat Eaton, be had slain the man tntlve for South Africa on the Olympic he loved best and had forced a friend- of nations, sailed after a tour of the United ship with Eaton on bis daughter Saturday he said, bad convinced which, be saw, had gone further than States which, mere friendship ; It had gone, he knew him that Americans "from Main now, even to the Irretrievable between street to Wall street" were Interested man and woman had brought her, in the league, even though all were that Is. to the state where, no matter not converts. what Eaton was or did, she must sufOne Survivor Rescued From Mine fer with blm! Hut Santolne was not Miami, Fla. Several men were still accusing himself now; he was feeling only the fulfillment of that threat burled at the Cactus mine, tn miles against those who had trusted hlra west of here, late Saturday as a re. with their secrets, which be bed felt suit of a caveln at tha mine shortly vaguely after the murder of Gabriel after Friday midnight. One m:in, who Warden and, more plainly with the was taken from the workings unconevents of each succeeding day, ever scious early Saturday Is In a critical since. For that threat. Just now, had condition at the county hospital. He culminated In bis presence In pur- was the only man removed fr-- m tho poseful, violent action; but Santolne workings. Ifo said be believed many In his blindness had been unable and of bis fellow workmen wero rnng!it was still unable to tell what that In the shifting ground that fell oo fVm. actios i.icnnf. (TO BE CONTINUED.) l. Shot Roared in Front of Santoine. Senator Knute of Minnesota died on a Pennsylvania train near York Saturday night According to a message received by E. C. Greening, trainmaster here, the cause of death was heart disease. Senator Nelson left Washington on the Dominion express at 7 p. m. CAUSES BREAK DELEGATES AWAIT ARRIVAL MILITARY MESSAGE EXPERT OF WITH FOR TURK8 Ismet Pasha Not Blamed for Threat, ening Action of Turkish Near the Syrian Border Lausanne. A French military ges caused grave ture against Turkey concern at the Near East peace con ference Monday. Delegates at the conference awaited the arrival of General Pelle, the French Near East expert, from Paris to see to what extent the French expect to carry their move. It Is feared that, it may Influence allied and Turkish delegates here who are trying to find a suitable basis for peace. ft General Pelle haa been InstrucTed. it Is said, to tell Ismet Pasha, the. leader t the conference Turkish here, that the French government movement of regards the Turkish to war." an "incitement as troops This cannot be tolerated by tha French government which trusts Ismet personally but fears the general Turkish attitude, Pslle is expected to say. He Is to add, It Is said, that the French cannot trust some of the elements at Angora who might wish to stir up trouble at the Syrian border In order to influence the outcome of the present peace confab. France has a mandate over Syria and her troops are already stationed there to assist the Syrian army In patroling the border. Reports were circulated more than a week ago that two dlcisions of Turkish forces had been moved toward Syria to a spot where they could easily reach the border In a day's travel. Court Says Ships May Carry Liqirer supreme court Washington The out knocked Attorney GenMonday eral Paugherty's ruling banning liquor from American ships throughout the world, but held that foreign ships cannot bring liquor inside the limit. The high American three-mil- e court held that there is nothing in the to prevent eighteenth amendment American ships from having liquor on board when in foreign waters, but decided the amendment does not apply specifically to foreign ships entering territorial waters of the United States. Foreign ships cannot bring liquor in as sea stores, the court held. Fire Wrecks Courthouse; Safe Looted Omaha, Neb. Fire wrecked the Lincoln county, Nebraska courthouse at North Platte early Monday following which it was discovered that the safe In the county treasurer's office had been looted of $00,000 of which S1.200 was cash and the remainder to According bonds and securities. telephone advices received at Omaha. Hope Abandoned for Lost Ship San Francisco. Hope for the four masted barkent:ne Alta, which lert Ran Pedro, Calif., C9 days ago for Rellinrham, Wash., was abandoned here Monday. It usually requires lii days to make the trip and the ship has not been heard from since Its departure. Besides one woman Mrs. Charles Sexon, wife of the captain, the Alta carried a crew of 3.". blood-splotch- I Socialists Object to Annuity Chicago. The national executive committee of the Socialist pnrty announced Monday that It had adopted a resolution urging the resignation or Impeachment of William Howard Taft, chief Justice of the I'nlted States, because of his continued acceptance of a $10,000 annuity from the late Andrew Carnegie. Daugherty Is Back on Job After convalescing1 Washington. for two months in Florida, Attorney Ceneral II. M. Dnifgherty, who has been "very sick" since last winter, returned to Washington Monday to again assume his dual role as bead of tne department of Justice and political advlser-tn-chle- f to President Harding. Missouri Mob Lynches Negro Columbia, Missouri. Police officials here re trying to find out the names of members of the'mob, which early Sunday stormed the Jail here, removed James Scott a negro, and A panged him to n rnllroad bridge. has been rmnd Jury investigation promised by Iluby M. Ilulen, prosecuting attorney of Boone county. Peace Offer of Rebel D'sregarded Dublin. Ktimnn De Valera's proclamation asking Hepubllcin Irregular to suspend activities Monday at noon wns disregarded by the Free State. As the manifesto was not addressed specifically to the Free StaU and as It did not order to surrender up their arms to the government as demanded by the Free State It was passed oer by tbe Free State government and tit r Mn was taken. |
