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Show THE Fhe Blind Man's Eyes 15 , Pursuit. Harriet Santolne, clad only In a heavy robe over her nightdress and In slippers, went from her father's bedroom swiftly down Into the study again ; what she was going to do there She she did not definitely know. heard, as she descended the stairs, the steward In the hall outside the study calling up the police stations of the neighboring villages and giving news of what had happened and Instructions to watch the roads ; but as she reached the foot of the stairs, a servant closed the study doors. The great, curtained room In Its terrifying disorder was brightly lighted, empty, abShe had given dlrec-- , solutely still. tlons that, except for the removal of tHatchford's body, all roust be left as K was In the room till the arrival of the police. She stood an Instant with hands pressed against her breast, staring down at the spots upon the floor., Was one of them Eaton's? Something within her told her that It was, and the fierce desire to go to him, to help him, was all she felt Just now. It was Donald Avery's and her father's accusation of Eaton that had made her feel like this. She had been feeling, the moment before Donald had spoken, that Philip Eaton bad played upon her that evening In making her take him to his confederate In the ravine In order to plan and consummate something here. Above her grief and horror at the killing of her cousin and the danger to her father, had risen the anguish of her guilt with Eaton, the agony of her betrayal. Bnt their accusation that Eaton had killed Wallace Elatchford, seeing him, knowing him in the light had swept all that away; all there was of her seemed to have risen in denial of that. Before her eyes, half shut, she saw again the body of her cousin Wallace lying In Its blood on the floor, with her father kneeling beside it, his blind eyes raised in helplessness to the light; but she saw now another body teo Eaton's not here lying somewhere In the bare, wind-swewoods. shot down by those pursuing him. She looked at the face of the clock and then down to the pendulum to see whether it had stopped; but the pen dulum was swinging. The hands stood at half past one o'clock ; now she re called that. In her first wild gaze about the room when she rushed In with the others, she had seen the hands showing a minute or. so short of twenty minutes past one. Not quite a quarter of an hour had passed since the alarm I The pursuit could not have moved far away. She reopened the window through which the pur suers had passed and stepped out onto the dark lawn. A half mile down the beach she heard shouts and a shot; she saw dimly through the night in that direction a boat without lights moving swiftly out upon the lake. Ber hands clenched and pressed gainst her breast; she stood strain It tng at the sounds of the man-hun- t. had turned west. It seemed ; It was coming back ber way, but to the west of the house. She crossed the lawn toward the garage. A light suddenly hose out there, and she went on. The wide door at the car driveway was pushed open, and someone was within working ever a cor. His back was toward ber, and he was bent over the engine, but, at the glance, she knew Mm and recoiled, gasping. It was Eaton. He turned at the same Instant and saw her. "Oh; it's your he cried to her. Her heart, which almost had ceased to beat, raced her pulses again. At the sound she had made on the driveway, he had turned to her as a hunted thing, cornered, desperate, certain that whoever came must be against him, His cry to her had recognized her as the only one who could come and not be against him; It had hailed her with relief as bringing him help. He could not have cried out so at that Instant at sight of her If he had been guilty f what they had accused. Now she saw too, as he faced her. blood flow ing ever his fare; blood soaked shoulder of his coat, and his left arm dangling at his side; but now, as he threw back his head and straightened In his relief at finding It was she who had surprised him, she saw In him an exultation and excitement she had sever seen before something which her presence alone could not have caused. Tonight, she sensed vaguely, something had happened to him which had changed his attitude toward her and everything else. "Tea; It's II" she cried quickly snd rushed to him. "It's II It's I, wildly he reassured him. "You're hurt !' Bhe touched his shoulder. "You're hurt I I knew you were!" He pushed her buck with his right hand and held her awy from him. "Did they hurt your father?" Hurt Father? No." "But Mr. Rlatchford " "Dead," she answered dully. "They killed him. then I" ne "Yes; they " She Iterated. was telling her now unnecessarily that he had had nothing to do with It; It was the others who had done that. lie released her and wiped the Mood from his eyes with the seel of his hsnd. "The poor old ma u," be said, the poor old manl" NEPHI, UTAH lights, revealing her to them, hushed suddenly their angry ejaculations. She recognized Avery In the first car; he leaped out and ran up to her. "Harriet ! In God's name, what are By you doing here?" She sat unmoved In her seat, gnzlng at him. Men leaping from the cars ran past her down the road toward 9 the ravine and the burning bridge. Avery, gaining no satisfaction from her, let go her arm ; his hand dropped to the hack of the sent and he drew It up quickly. "Harriet, there's blood hers!" She did not reply. He stared at her killed her cousin but as those who had and seemed to comprehend. threntened Eaton. He Jumped from the car and ran to "What do I care what happens to the assembled men. They called me, if we catch them?" she cried in answer to his shout and she could "Harriet !" he repeated her name see a man pointing out to them the again. way Eaton had gone. The men, scat"Philip!" tering themselves at Intervals along She felt him shrink and change as the edge of the wood and, under she called the name. It had been clear Avery's direction, posting others In to her, of course, that, since she had each direction to watch the road, be known him, the name he had been gan to beat through the bushes after using was not his own. Often she had Eaton. She sat watching; she put her wondered what his name was; now cold hands to her face ; then, recalling she had to know. "What should I call how Just now Eaton's hand had clung your she demanded of him. to hers, she pressed them to her lips. "My name," he said, "is Hugh." Avery came running back to her. "Hugh!" she called It "You drove him out here, Harriet I" "Yes." he charged. "Him? Who?" she asked coolly. "Hugh" She waited for the rest; but he told no more. "Hugh!" she "Eaton. He was hurt!" The tri whispered to herself again his name umph in the ejaculation made her re- now. "Hugh !" coll. "He was hurt and could not Her eyes, which had watched the drive, and you drove ilm out" road for the guiding of the car, had He left her, running after the men followed his gesture from time to time Into the woods. She sat in the car, pointing out the tracks made by the listening to the sounds of the hunt machine they were pursuing. These She had no Immediate fear that they tracks still ran on ahead; as she would find Eaton ; her present anxiety gazed down the road, a red glow be- was over his condition from his hurts yond the bare trees was lighting the and what might happen If he encounsky. A glance at Hugh told that he tered those he had been pursuing. In also had seen It that neighborhood, with Its woods and "A fire?" she referred to him. bushes and ravines te furnish cover, "Looks like It" the darkness made discovery of him They said no more as they rushed by Avery and his men Impossible if on; but the red glow was spreading, Eaton wished to hide himself. Avery and yellow flames soon were in sight appeared to have realized this; for shooting higher and higher; these now the voices In the woods ceased were clouded off for an Instant only and the men began to struggle back to appear flaring higher again, and toward the cars. A party was sent on the breeze brought the smell of sea- foot across the ravine, evidently to soned wood burning. the road beyond. The rest beguard "It's right across the road!" Hugh gan to clamber Into the cars. She announced as they neared It backed her car away from the one in "It's the. bridge over the next ra front of it and started home. vine," Harriet said. Her foot already She had gone only a short distance was bearing upon the brake, and the when the cars again passed her, travpower was shut off; the car coasted a high speed. She began then at eling on Blowly. For both could see now to pass individual men left by those that the wooden span was blazing In the cars to watch the road. At the from end to end; it was old wood. first house she saw one of the large to burn and going like tinder. cars swift She again, standing empty. There was no possible chance for the A mile without it stopping. passed car to cross it The girl brought the a little group of men carrymachine to a atop fifty feet from the further, guns stopped her, recognized her ing of the so was the fire edge ravine; let her pass. They had been hot that the gasoline tank would not and called out they told her, by Mr. Avery nearer. be safe She gazed down at over the telephone to watch the on the road. the for Eaton ; they had Eaton's deroads "They crossed with their machine,' scription ; members of the local police Bhe said to Hugh. were to take charge of them and di"And fired the bridge behind. They rect them. She comprehended that must have poured gasoline over It was surrounding the vacant Avery It and lighted at both ends." where Eaton had taken refuge She sat with one hand still strain- acreage to be certain that Eaton did not get ing at the driving wheel, the other away until daylight came and a search playing with the gear lever. him was possible. "There's no other way across that for Lights gleamed at ber across the I ravine, suppose," Hugh questioned broad lawns of the houses near her her. house as she approached father's great "The other road's back more than car, people a mile, and two miles about" She It; at the soundto of herwindows and the running threw In the reverse and started to came out She understood that news turn. Hugh shook his head. "That's looked of the murder at Basil 8antolne's had no use." and brought "No," she agreed, and stopped the aroused the neighbors car again. Hugh stepped down on them from their beds. on the drive As she left her motor the ground. The double glare from the head beside the house for tonight no one from the garages to take It lights of a motor shone through the came tree-trunas the car topped and the little clock upon Its dash marked came swiftly down a rise three quar half past two. ters of a mile away and around the CHAPTER XIX last tum back on the road; another of followed. There blinding lights pair Waiting. was no doubt that this must be the Harriet went Into the house and pursuit from Santolne's house. Eaton stood beside Harriet, who had stayed toward her own rooms ; a maid met and stopped her on the stairs. In the driving-sea- t of the car. "Mr. Santolne sent word that be Tm going Just beside the road here," he said to her, quietly. "I'm wishes to see you as soon as you came armed, of course. If those are your In, Miss Santolne." Harriet went on toward her father's people, you'd better ge back with them. I'm sure they are; but Til wait room, without stopping at her own-- wet and see." with the drive through the damf Site caught his hand. "No ; no !" she cried. "You must get as far away as you can before they cornel I'm going back to meet and hold them." She threw the car into the reverse, backed and turned It and brought It again onto the road. He came beside ber again, putting out his hand; she seized It. Her hands for an instant clung to It, his to hers. "You must go quick!" she urged; "hut how am I to know what becomes of you where you are? Shall I hear from you shall I ever see you?" "No new will be good news," be said, "until" "t'ntll what?" "Until" And again that unknown something which a thousand tlmei It aeetned to her had checked his word and action toward her made him pause; but nothing could completely bar them from one another now, "Un til they catch and destroy me, oi until I come to you as as you have never known me yet!" An Instant more she otnng to him. The double headlights flared Into sight again upon the road, much nearer now and coming fast. She re- "Until I Come to You As A You leased him; he plunged Into the Have Never Known Ms Yetl" bushes beside the road, and the damp, linre twigs Inshed against one another night nnd shivering now with Its chill. at his passage; then she shot her car Iter father's voice answered her knock with a summons to come In. forward. Put she had mmle on!y "Where have you been. Daughte-- r few hundred yards when the firt of fhe two cars met her. It turned to he asked. Its rich I to pass, she turned the same "I have been driving with Mr. Eaway; the approaching car twisted to ton In a motor." she snld. the left, she swung hers to oppose It "Helping him to escne7" A spesm The two cars did not strike; they crossed the Mind man's face. "He said not; he he was following stopped, radiator to radiator, with reiir wheels locked. The second ea the men who shot Cousin Wallace." drew op behind the first The glare The Mind tnnn lav for an Instant of her headlights showed her both still "Tell me," he commanded finally were foil ef armed men. Their head (TO ES CXNTViVKD.) Edwin Balmer She drew toward him in the realiza tion that he could find sympathy for others even In such a time as this. "Where's the key for the battery and magneto the key you start the car with?" She ran to a shelf and brought it to him; he used It and pressed the starting lever. The engine started and he sprang to the seat. His left arm still hanging useless at his side, he tried to throw In the gears with his right hand ; but the mechanism of the car was strange to him. She leaped up beside him. "Move over I" she commanded. "It's this way!" He slipped to the side and she took the driving seat, threw In the gears expertly, and the car shot from the garage. She switched on the electric headlights as they dashed down the driveway and threw a bright white "You're S, William MacHarg Copyright by Little, Brown and Company. CHAPTER XVIII TIMES-NEW- Hurt!" She Touchtd Shoulder, His glare upon the roadway a hundred yards ahead to the gates. Beyond the gates the public pike ran north and south. "Which way?" she demanded of him. slowing the car. "Stop !" he cried to her. "Stop and get out I You mustn't do this!" "You could not pass alone," she said. "Father's men would close the gates upon you." "The men? There are no men there now they went to the beachbefore I They must have heard some thing there ! It was their being there that turned him the others back. They tried for the lake and were turnsd back and got away In a machine; I followed back up here!" Harriet Santolne glanced at the face of the man beside her. She could see his features only vaguely; she could see no expression ; only the position of his head. But now she knew that she was not helping him to run away ; he was no longer hunted at least he was not only hunted; he was hunting others too. As the car rolled down upon the open gates and be strained forward in the seat beside her, she knew that what he was feeling was a wild eagerness in this pursuit "Right or left quick!" shs demanded of him. "I'll take one or the other." "Right" he ahot out "There are their tracks 1" He pointed for ber. "How do you know those are their tracks?' ah asked him. "I told you, I followed them to where they got their machine." "Who are they?" "The men who ahot Mr. Blatchford. "Who are they? she put to him directly again. He waited, and she knew that he wa not going to answer her directly Suddenly he caught her arm. The road had forked, and he pointed to the left; she swung the car that way, again seeing as they wade the turn, s the tiny were following. The car raced up a t'ttle hill and now again was descending; the head lights showed a bridge o.-e-r a ravine. "Slow I Stop f her companion com manded. She raced the car on; he put his hand on tbe wheH and with his foot tried to push hers from the accelera tor; but she fought Mm; the car swayed and all hut ran 'way as they approached the bridge. "Give it to me!" she screamed V him and wrenched the car about. It upon the bridge and across M; they they kidded upon the mud of the road gain, they could hear the bridge cracking behind. "Harriet!" he pleaded with her. She steered the car on, recklessly, her heart thumping with more than the thrill of the chnse. "They're the men who tried to kill you, aren't they?" she rejolr.cd. The speed at which they were going did not permit her to look nhcnt; she had to keep her eyes on tin road at that moment when she kne, within herself and was telling th man beside her that she from that nomml must he at one with him. For already she hnd said it; as she risked herself In the pursuit, she though! f the men they were after not chiefly as those who ha! tire-track- s tire-mar- mm ?C Flammarion Says Souls Survive Body Here is a new portrait of Camllle Flammarion, the noted French astronomer and scientist, who has Just brought out a book, "After Death," In which he asserts that he has definite proof that the soul survives after death. According to his own statement from Paris he "proves a future life exists ; that the soul survives the decomposition of the body." Flammarion cites a hundred cases of the Intervention by dead persons In human atTalrs, in his work, and he professes with absolute certainty that these phenomena are due exclusively to the Influence of those who have linsscu ueyona. ; The great astronomer is not, however, sure of the immortality of the soul. He only knows that it survives a certain time. Also his InvestigaA s , v '"' 4, ,y.-L 'i' " tions have led him to the conclusion Is It that the souls of the more materially-minded which cling persist ently to earthly affairs after death. This, for him, explains the 'commonplace character of most of the alleged messages from beyond the veil. The more highly developed souls apparently rise Immediately to a higher plane far removed from human preoccupations. Among the proofs offered by Flammarion are cases of dead persons fulfilling promises, giving notice of their own demise and giving warnings of events which afterward materialized, even such as the execution of vengeance for wrongs through mediums previously unaware of the wrongs done. He says he has applied to his investigations the strict rules of scientific research. s y- Comptroller General vs. Navy Secretary J. R, McOarl of Nebraska (portrait herewith), who two years ago became comptroller general of the United States, has laid down the law to Secretary Denby In Insisting that even cabinet officers must bow before the authority of his office In fiscal affairs. At the same time Secretary Denby prepared to take to the attorney general for an opinion the question of how far the authority of the comptroller general legally extends into the administrative workings of the Navy 1 , " department Mr. McCarl's action, constituting a warning that he Intends to force strict compliance with the law In the expenditure of public money, became known through a letter he addressed to the navy secretary. In the letter he asserted that so long as ne ruled on matters within his Jurisdiction, his authority under the law could be questioned by no official of the executive branch of the government. Provisions of the budget act In which the office of comptroller general was created say specifically that he, as head of the general accounting office, may exercise his powers "without direction from any other 1 officer." Stinnes: "Germany Must Do More Work" Hugo Stinnes, Germany's greatest Industrial magnate, Is a man of dominant personality. He has his own f 1ftjS l";"'.vtN Ideas about Germany's needs today. At a recent meeting of the German economic council, held at a time when the reparations commission was sitting In Berlin, Stinnes made a speech on the stabilization of the German mark. He approaches the problem from the f" standpoint of a man of business, and 'aw,..wr,- - - ' ias says what he would do if he were in charge of Germany as a business proposition. He does not hesitate to Is what Is say that - I vwrong with Germany, and that the eight-hou- r day must be abandoned by "V.I German labor If the country Is ever to recover. Says Stinnes: "The question of the work we must do is not a labor question, but a problem of productivity. I do not consider the eight-hou- r day a question f.L., : ,r,'ir?,,- which we should discuss; we cannot discuss it with profit But now that all the Instruments of our national economy are not tuned to the eight-hou- r day, as It Is interpreted today, despite our desperate situation, It Is a question of life or death for us so to utilize these instruments that they produce enough for us to live on. It Is of the utmost Importance that all of us accept the consequences of the war and work two hours more dally, so that we may live decently and address ourselves to works of progress. Otherwise we shall have nothing to eat nd be doomed to perish miserably." m under-productio- n Lewis on the "Chester Concessions" Fear that American built rallronds and steamship lines would be seized by n enemy end used to transport soldiers and munitions Is the serret behind official protests from France and Turkey against American concession In Turkey, says J. Hamilton Lewi, former senator from Illinois. Mr. has Just returned from the Turkish fields of conquest where he acted s counsel for American Interests In the concessions. These "Chester concessions" have been ratified by the Turkish congress or Angora assembly but official protests have been filed In Washington. The Amerlcnn-Tiirklstreaty now being prepared will settle the misunderstandings to the satisfaction of all v -- h 'm Concerned, Mr. Lewis believes. "At the Geuoa and Lausanne conferences, as well as at The Hague and VV St the Paris meeting, the government! of Turkey and Kraiice Protested against the decision which granted the concessions In fiivor of the Interests for which we Ameriran lawyers were speaking," said Mr. Lewis. "ihe protest Is no, against American because they are the victors In the Jeclslon. nor against American developing the oil wells and transporting the oil. It turns on the fuct that In the concessions Is the privilege of building railroads nd using dorks and steamship lines along borders betwrn countries In conflict with each other; each of tbse lands one tf the being backed Europeaa countries." . |