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Show THE mEn TP Tl TIMES-NEW- T! ay -- I WILLIAM MacIIARG REFUSE" Gabriel 'Warden, Seattle capitalist. ulU hU butler be la expecting caller, to be admitted without question. He Inform bla wife of danger that threatens him if he pursues a course be considers the Cepyris T tittle. into the ambulance. Harriet Santoine, after giving a dlrectiou to a man who apparently was a chauffeur, got Into the ambulance with ber father. The surgeon and the nurses rode with them. They drove off. Avery entered another automobile, which swiftly d la-Conductor Connery came appeared. for the last time to Eaton's door. "Miss Santoine says you're to go with tbe man she's left here for you." The porter appeared with his over coat and hat Eaton put them on and stepped out of the car. The conductor escorted him to a limousine car. "This Is the gentleman," Connery said to the chauffeur to whom Harriet Santoine had spoken. The man opened the door of the limousine; another man, whom Eaton had not before seen, was seated In the car; Eaton stepped In. Connery extended his hand "Oood-by- , sir." only honorable one. Warden leaves the bouse In his car and meets a man whom he takes Into the machine. When the car returns home. Warden la found dead, murdered, and alone. The caller, a young man, has been at Warden's house, but leaves unobserved. Bob doctor, receives orders to hold train for a party. Five men and a girl board the train, the astern express. The father of the girl. Mr. Dome, Is the person for whom the train was held. Philip Eaton, a young man, also boarded the train. Dorne tells his d& lighter and his secretary, Don Avery, to find out what they can concerning him. The two make Dome is Baton's acquaintance. found nearly dead from a murderous assault. A surgeon operates. Dome Is revealed as Basil blind, and a power in the financial world as the adviser of "big Interests." Eaton la suspected and questioned. He refuses information about himself and admits he was the caller at Warden's house. Eaton pleads with Harriet San-tolto withhold Judgment, telling her he is In serious danger, though against her pTnllSl"'" father, lie feels the girl believes him. NEPHI, UTAH S, V Bnwm tmt f but EDWIN CALMER Tunny CHAPTER XI The Ally In the House. The first gray of dawn roused Eaton, and drawing on trousers and coat over his pajamas, he seated himself by the open window to see the house by daylight As it grew lighter, he could see It was an Immense structure of smooth gray stone. Eaton was In its central part, his windows looking to the south. As he watched, one of the two nurses who had been on the train came to a window of the farthest room on the second floor of the south wing and stood looking out; that. then, must be Santolne's room; and Eaton drew back from his window as he noted this. The sun had risen, and its beams. reflected up from the lake, danced on his celling). Eaton, chilled by the sharp air off the water and knowing "Good-by.- " now the locality where he must be The motor-ca- r drove down a wide, pulled off his coat and trousers and winding road with tall, spreading trees Jumped back into, bed. He realized on both sides. The man In the car that circumstances had given him with Eaton, whose duty plainly was time for anything be might wish to "iiia.iine only that of a guard, did not speak to do ; for the night's stop at Minneapolis Eaton nor Eaton to him. The motor and Santolne's unexpected taking him passed other limousines occasionally; into his own charge must have made then, though the road was still wide Eaton's disappearance complete; for X Continued. CHAPTER and smooth and still bounded by great the present he was lost to "them" It was lonelier; no houses ap- who had been "following" him, and to While she spoke, the blood, rising trees, for half a mile; then lights his friends alike. His task, then, was peared with her embarrassment, had dyed directly ahead ; the car ran un- to let his friends know where he was Harriet's face; suddenly now she glowed e of a great stone without letting "them" learn it; and der the looked away from him and out the a servant sprang to thinking of how this was to be done, country mansion; window. It ; he fell asleep again. the door of the limousine and ."He would be called, I Judge, a another man seized Eaton's opened At nine he awoke with a start; likable-lookin- g man?" Santoine rather from beside the chauffeur. Eaton then, he everything, recollecting aid tentatively; his question plainly entered a beamed and paneled Jumped up and shut his windows. large, someto to lead meant was only up hallway with an Immense fireplace There was a respectful, apologetic thing else; Santoine bad judged In with logs burning In It; there was a knock at the door; evidently a servant that particular already. wide which the servant, who had been waiting In the ball for some "Mr. Eaton" Santoine addressed had stairway himself Eaton's sound within the room. appointed that ascended. Eaton followed himguide. hlin suddenly "I understand and "May I come In, sir?" were at admitted that you you have found hall another The "Come great upstairs. in," the house of Gabriel Warden the eve- servant led him to one of the doors The man who had attended him the car. his while in was killed he ning opening off this and Into a large room. evening before entered. Is that sof fitted for a man's occupancy, with "Your bath, sir; hot or cold in the Tei" said Eaton. dark furniture, cases containing books morning, sir?" of thon whom v5rSSTir?TTiTr" ... AVU " V v.' on hunting, sports and adventure, and "Hot" Eaton answered. Gabriel Warden spoke to his wife?" smoking things; off this was a dress "Of course, sir; I'd forgotten you'd "I believe so." ing room with the bath next; beyond just come from the Orient, sir. T shall so?" "You believe was a bedroom. tell them to bring breakfast up, sir; "I mean," Eaton explained quietly, "These are to be your rooms, sir," or will you go down?" the man asked. call to came I by appointment "that the servant said. A valet appeared Eaton considered. The manners of on Mr. Warden that night. I believe and unpacked Eaton's traveling bag. servants are modeled on the feelings that it must have been to me that Mr. Eaton went to bed, but amazement of their masters, and the man's defer Warden referred In the conversation would not let bim sleep. ence told that, although Eaton with his wife which has since been lie was In Santolne's house; he might be plainly a prisoner, he was not to in the newspapers." quoted knew It could be no other than Sanas such. "Because you were In such a situa- tolne's house. It was to get Into San be treated openly "I think I can go down," Eaton re tion that, if Mr. Warden defended tolne's house that he had come from He found the hall and the you, he wuld himself meet danger?" Asia ; he had thought and planned and plied. rooms below bright and open but un"I did not say that," Eaton denied schemed all through the long voyage a servant showed him to occupied; guardedly. on the steamer how It was to be done. a blue Delft breakfast room to the What, then, was your position In He would have been willing to cross east He had half finished his bacon regard to Mr. Warden?" the continent on foot to accomplish and greens before anyone else ap silent remained Eaton it; no labor that he could Imagine "You refuse to answer?" Santoine would have seemed too great to him peared. This was a tall, carefully dressed Inquired. If this had been its end; and here man of more than fifty, with hand"I refuse." it had been done without effort on well-bre- d features plainly a "In spite of the probability that his part, naturally, Inevitably I Chance some, man of position and wealth but with Mr. Warden met his death because and circumstance had done ltl And out experience in affairs, and with of his intention to undertake someas he realized this, his mind was out power. He was dark haired and for you?" thing full of what he bad to do in San wore a mustache which, like his hair, as fix to that able not been "I have tolne's house. For many days he had was beginning to gray. As he ap a probability." had It ; about seemed not thought that In the hall without hat or over "Mr. Eaton, have I ever Injured you Impossible that he could have any op- peared coat Eaton understood that he lived personally I don't mean directly, as portunity to act for himself. And In the house; he came directly Into man to man, for I should remember the return to his thoughts of pos room and evidently had the breakfast which ever I done have ; that anything sibility of carrying out his original not breakfasted. Indirectly has worked Injury on you plan brought before him thoughts of "I am Wallace Blatchford," the or your affairs?" friends who friends those his volunteered as Eaton looked stranger answered. "No," Eaton through his exile, had been faithful up. He gave the name In a manner "Who sent you aboard this train or whose existence which seemed to assume that he now to him but Identity "Sent me? No one." he had been obliged to deny, when must be recalled; Eaton therefore will own "You took the train of your questioned, to protect them as Well feigned recognition as he gave him because I was taking It?" as himself. his name in return. "1 have not said I took It because As he lay on his bed In the dark "Basil Santoine is better this morn you were taking It he stared upward to the ceiling, wide Blatchford announced. "That seems to be proved. You awake, thinking of those friends whose ing," understood he was very comfort "I It been has It from me; can accept devotion to him might be Justified at able last evening," Eaton cald. proved. Did you take the train In have not seen either Miss Santoine order to attack me?" or Mr. Avery, this morning." "No." "I saw Basil Santoine the last thing "To spy upon me?" last night," the other boasted. "He "No." was very tired; but when he was Snntolne was silent for an Instant home, of course he wished me to be "What was It you took the train to beside him for a time." tell me?" "Of course," Eaton replied, as the "I? Nothing." other halted. There was a humility Eaton." Mr. Is "That all, In the boast of this man's friendship Eaton started back to his compart for Santoine which stirred sympathy, ment As he turned, Harriet Santoine almost pity. met their and him looked up at eyes Eaton finished his breakfast but re end her look confirmed to him what he mained at the table while Blatchford, had felt before that her father, now ho scarcely touched his food, con taking control of the Investigation of tinued to boast, In his queer humility, the attack upon himself, was sot con of the blind man and of the blind tinuing it with prejudice or predis man's friendship for him. He checked posed desire to damage Eaton, ex himself only when Harriet Santoine him. accused evidence as the cept appeared In the doorway. He and more even now manner And her told, Eaton at once were on their feet plainly than Santolne's, that the blind "My dear I He wants to see me man had viewed the evidence as far now?" the tall man almost pleaded from conclusive against Eaton; and "He wants me to be with him this as Harriet showed that she was glad morning?" of that Eaton realized bow she must "Of course, Cousin Wallace," the hare taken his side against Avery In said gently, almost with com girl father. to her reporting passion. finished breakfast Eaton bad barely "You will excuse me then, sir," when a bumping against the car told him that It was being coupled to a The First Gray of Dawn Roused Blatchford said hastily to Eaton and Eaton, and Drawing on Trousers and hurried off. The girl gazed after train. The new train started, and now Coat Over His Pajamas, He Seated him, and when she turned the next the track followed the Mississippi Himself by the Open Window to See Instant to Eaton her eyes were wet river. Eaton, looking forward from House by Daylight the "Good morning, Miss Santoine. You his window as the train rounded curves, saw that the Santoine car was last; and he went over again and are coming to breakfast?" "Oh, no; I've had my breakfast; I now the last one of a train pre tested and reviewed the plan he bad was never had But formed. to it bound from presumed going out to see that things out Minneapolis sumably Chicago. At nine o'clock In the eve a position for him even If It was side the house have been going on Inside well since we have been away.' ning, some minutes after crossing the the position of a "Slay I go with you while you do state Una Into Illinois, the train Santolne's house. And he required topped at a station where the last more Information of the structure of that?" Eaton tried to ask casually the bouse than be as yet had, to cor Important te him as was the plan of car was cut off. and 1 other rect his plan further. But he could the house, it was scarcely less eswere waiting la not, without too great risk of losing sential for bim to know the grounds. limousine motor-car- s She hesitated. the light from the station. Eaton, everything, discover more that night "I understand it's my duty at pres eeated at the window, saw Santoine he turned over and set himself to go to ent to stay wherever I may be pot carHi out oa a stretcher and Put sleep. t. Ban-toln- e, porte-cocher- hand-baggag- e - r semi-prison- LIFE Eys HI hardly run away from yon while Inside your own grounds." This did not seem to be the ques tion troubling her. "Very well," she said at last She was abstracted as they passed through the hall and a man brought Eaton's overcoat and hat and a maid her coat Harriet led the way out to the terrace. The day was crisp, but the breeze had lost the chill It had had earlier In the morning; the lake was free from Ice; only along the little projecting breakwaters which guarded the bluff against the washing of the waves, some ice still clung, and this was rapidly melt ing. A graveled path led them around the south end of the house. Eaton saw at a little distance a powerful, strapping man, though he did not seem to be hiding behind some bushes. The man might have passed for an nnder- gardener; but he was not working; and once before during their walk Eaton had seen another man, power fully built as this one, who had looked keenly at him and then away quickly. Harriet flushed slightly as she saw that Eaton observed the man; Eaton understood then that the man was a guard, one of several, probably, who had been put about the house to keep watch of him. Had Harriet Santoine understood his interest in the grounds as preparatory to a plan to escape, and had she therefore taken him out to show him the guards who would prevent him? He did not speak of the men. and neither did she; with her, he went on, silently, to the gardeners' cottages, where she gave directions concerning the spring work being done on the grounds. Then they went back to the house, exchanging for the first time between them ordinary Inani ties. She left him in the hall, saying she was going to visit ber father. As Eaton stood, undecided where to go, a young woman crossed the main part of the hall, coming evi dently from outside the house she had on bat and jacket and was gloved ; she was approaching the doors of the room he Just had left and so must pass him. He stared at sight of her and choked; then he controlled him- - BEYOND DEATH Easter's Revelation Has Opened New Vistas. Natural Science Silent In the Presence of 'the Great Belief and Expectation. Easter brings completion to the sci- ences I half-conceal- Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping; and as she wept she stooped down and looked Into the sepulcher. And seeth two angels In white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had Iain. And they say unto her, Woman, why wepest thou? She salth unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had said thus, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that It was Jesus. Jesus said unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, salth unto him, Sir, If thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus salth unto ber, Mary. She turned herself, and salth unto him, Rabboni, which Is to say, Master. St. John, 20:11-18- . All the secular sciences conduct man as far as death, and there they stop. The door of the tomb Is a wall, tall, strong and Insurmountable by them. Geology, astronomy, geography, chemistry, physiology, biology and its other divisions bring us on, with an always increasing precision, to an understanding of life's functions and activities, up to that point There they drop us, for beyond death natural science has not learned to travel. It has no formulae to express anything on the other side of the closed door of death. And after much bruising of brain, and vain beating of hands against that obstacle. It confesses Itself beaten, It a has come to an Impasse, It declares that because It cannot pass, that there Is no passage, nothing beyond the tomb Is the end of all I Either that or It accepts the Easter miracle as It must If It will be fair towards evidence, towards historical revelation and towards theology, "the queen of all the sciences" and acknowledges that Easter's revelation crowns all human knowledge, and opens before it new, endless vistas for exploration and future progress. It would be a sorry conclusion to all science if it brought us only to an ending in the corruption, the annihilation of death. And an unsatisfactory ending I For the great majority of mankind never has, and never will believe that the closed tomb ends everything Life here Is too full of inequalities to make that just I The analogies In nature, which find no definite ending; for any 1 HOT CROSS BUNS IN HISTORY Originated as Part of the Spring Festival In Honor of the Goddess Eostrer Hot cross buns, the eating of which is one of the ceremonies of Good Friday, were first baked as part of the spring festival for the goddess Eostre, whose pagan name has clung to the season. The heathen cakes have never been dropped from the regular routine of the feasting, either. Dozens of early clergy tried to stop the more or less ceremonial Indulgence In them. They prohibited them, But nothing happened about it So they had them marked with the cross and took them over. The delights of children, and of most grownups eating cakes and kindling bonfires are actually the two oldest methods of celebrating in the world. They go back to the time that the regular set of gods and goddesses were Just in the process of beMost every group ing established. seems to have started off with a sun-go- d who was worshiped by fires and She Halted Suddenly Aa She Saw Him, lights and with a kind of goddess of and Grew Very Pale. plenty, or earth deity, or queen of This last lady was worHeaven. self rigidly, waiting until she should shiped with cakes In old China, in see him. ancient Mexico, In early Britain and She halted suddenly as she eaw In northern Europe. him and grew very pale, and her gloved hands went swiftly to her breast and pressed against It; she , Beautiful Altar Decoration. caught herself together and looked swiftly and fearfully about her and out into the haiL Seeing no one but himself, she came a step nearer. Her sur"Hugh!" she breathed. prise was plainly greater than his own had been at sight of her; but she checked herself again quickly and looked warnlngly back at the hall; then she fixed on him her blue eyes which were very like E'aton's, though she did not resemble him closely in any other particular as though 1 waiting his Instructions. , "Stay where you are, Edith," he whispered. "If we hear anyone coming, we are Just passing each other In the hall." "I understand; of course, Hugh I But you you're here I In his house I" "Even lower, Edith; remember I'm Eaton Philip Eaton." "Of course; I know; and Tm Miss Davis here Mildred Davis." "They let you come in and out like this as you want with no one watch ing you?" "No, no; I do stenography for Mr. it Avery sometimes, as I wrote you. That Is all. When he works here, I do his typing; and some even for Mr. Santoine himself. But I am not con Ut fidential yet; they send for me whep they want me." "Then they sent for you today?" "No; but they have Just got back, and I thought I would come to see If anything was wanted. But never mind about me; you how did you ret here? What are you doing here?" ' ' Oldest Church In Jerusalem. thing else but life, help to prove It untrue And Justness and truth are the keystones upon which natural science builds up all Its theories to arrive at ultimate fact Science, which Is perhaps the projec tion of the ripest and best of humanity, needs Easter. For Science cannot avert death Men live to their threescore and ten, or beyond that for a few years of labor and sorrow, as they did in the Psalmist's days, before science had traveled very far along the roads of 1 1 But since Easter rolled away the wall from the tomb, science may now claim to bring men onto the threshold of a new and glorified life, the resurrection life. The tomb Is now but an episode in lives which were always were immortal. Easter shows the tomb Is open on5" the other side from us open onto a new garden of Edenlc soul life, the Paradise of God. And some day It Is to open on our side also, and let those blessedly resting ones out into renewed bodily life, which cannot be bound between a birth and a death. For one man actually, undeniably went through the tomb into that Paradise, and came back at Easter with an everlasting, undying body I Just as the little crocus looks up stiff and straight as a prophecy that all the temporarily dead bulbs and roots and seeds will arise In their own v time. Science teaches the imperishability of matter, and it is true logically endowed when, advancing a step, it teaches also the immortality of man. Then there is but another step onward, to a grateful acknowledgment of the truth taught by the well attested fact of the Resurrection, that as Ha rose so shall all our dead also arise at the great Easter, which shall fulfill the promise of all the Springs It is the mission of the. Chorea which Is His Body here and now to complete the thus inspired teaching of v ' the n&iaral sciences, and show us that every one who really desires so to da may spend eternity along with Its This Easter set was exhibited at the King and Owner, after the last Easter international flower show In Grand has opened for ever the tomb of death f Central palace. New York, to show Montreal Family Herald. what beauty (lowers can add to a church If used tastefully and ii 1 P&f$: "Yes; It was an attack. Tht man In the car meant te run Mr. Eaton down." (TO BK CONTINUED.) motor-ambulan- ce Should Slow Dvwtx o man who Is The kind aivvt In a hurry is liable to dnsh past a good thing without teelo ,rj 1 |