| Show ass T the lie B BLIND L IND i MANS mana 65 EY EYES E S ind I 1 it by william macharg j 0 O edwin edin balmer 4 a 4 at t get illustrations BY e ay 1 amo ht by atud uro brown ww comp compa y 1 CHAP CHAPTER TER continued wa eaton baton was distinctly frightened by the reve revelation lation he just had had bad 0 a ines clear implacable reasoning re carding him for none of the blind mans deductions about him had been wrong a all 11 had been tho the exact ly though incomplete t truth ruth it w was ut clear to lini film that Sant olPe was close I 1 much aucta closer even than Sant olne himself himsel yet ap appreciated prec to knowing ng et I 1 batons identity identify it was even probable that one single additional fart fact the discovery for instance that sit miss 88 was the source sour ce of the second 4 telegram received by eaton on the train would reveal everything to Bant olne and eaton wits was not certain that Sant SantOl olne lle even without any n new ew information lon would not reach the 1 truth unaided tit at tiny any moment so Eaton knew that he himself must inest act before this bapp happened ened BU t iso long as the lafo are to in San study was kept locked or was wad left open only w while someone was in the room with it he could not act until he had received help bell from outside and fie be had not yet received that help he be cord tint nt jurry hurry it or even tell how on it wa likely to come I 1 As his mind reviewed almost instantaneously V these considerations he be glanced again at harriet her eyes this time met ahls brutshe she too looked ked way away immediately As he went toward the door she made no move to accompany him he went out witt without speaking and closed tho the inner and the outer doors behind him then he went down to Di blatchford atchford for several minutes after eaton I 1 had left the room Sant olno olne thought la in silence where are yo you U harriot harriet r r he bo asked tit dt last she knew it wnm was not necessary to answer him but therel merely to move 81 so L that he could oil her position she he moved slightly and hla hits 3 eyes shifted at once to where obe e stood A i how did he be net act Sant bind asked t I 1 she reviewed swiftly py tho conversa i tion supplementing tits his blind apper 4 captions of batons manner gitil what whal she herself had seen what nave been your 0 batons previous social condition daughter he asked you have talked with him been with him both on the train and here ha have keyou you been able to determine what sort of people he has been accustomed to mix with have its S ls ben business men professional men society Pe people the deep and unconcealed note of trouble in her fathers voice start startled lea her in her familiarity with every tone and every express expression loin she answer answered eI his bis question 1 I dont know father 1 I want you to find out A in what way you must find a wai way I 1 shall tell avery to fiela 11 lj he thod thought glit for several moments while she stood waiting we wust have that motor and the men in it traced of course flar riet there are certain matters corre which has fias been looking after for me do you know what correspondence 1 I in mean mean yes tos father r V 1 I would rather not uve avery bothered with alth jilin him to civo his whole attention to this present inquiry you yourself will assume charge of the correspondence of which I 1 scenic daughter yes father do you yott wont want anything else nowr now not of you fiend avery 0 o me 4 t CHAPTER ek ltv illva donad dona d avery is moody harriet went down the stairs into the study she assed pissed through the study into am the main purt odthe house and found donald and s sent ent him to her fattier father then she returned to the study she closed and fastened the die doors and after glo glonning neing about the room she removed the boults boons in front of a wall safe to the right of th chri door ahoi slid back eafe too movable panel opened the me and took out a bundle of porre corre she closed safe and Jin panel nil and thu put back we thle books and carrying desk correspondence to her her balbera fal bera she f began to look over it IL this correspondence te a considerable bundle of letters held together bound with wire clips and th two eny envelopes elopes with t tapo ape which chic it phe ilie had put pot into tile the sate sa te the day betor made up the ho papers of which tier her father hud spoken to tier lier these letters depre dented the contentions of willful powerful and som dinies ruthless and violent nien men ruin ru 11 of one man by another euln social or moral merul or nil all three together was tile tho intention of uio tile principals concerned in this correspondence too often she know one man or one group hail had carried out a i fierce larco intent upon another and sometimes sollie silo was aware these bitter feuds had carried cortlin of tier her fathers clients further even than personal or family ruin fraud vio lence lanco and twice now oven even murder yore were represented by tilts tills correspondence for the papera relating to the warden tin and the antron murders were hero here sho she lind had felt always the horror of tilts this violent and ruthless tilde fildo of the men with whom tier her father dealt but now silo knew that actual appreciation of the erlines crimes that passed as business had been far from her and strangely she now realized that dint it wits was not tho the attacks on oil mr air warden and tier her father overwhelming with horror as these had been which were bringing that appreciation home to tier her it was tier her understanding now that the attack wits was not meant for her father but for raton enton though harriet had bad never believed that eaton hild had been concerned in the attack upon tier her father her dental denial of it had been checked and stifled because ho be would not even defend himself site she had not known what to think she ahe had seemed to herself to bo waiting with tier her thoughts in abeyance until lie he shul I 1 bo be cleared she had tried not to lot herself think more about eaton en ton than v wal w necessary though he ha was involved witt with tier her father in somo some way she refused to believe he be ans against her father but clearly h lie was iras not with elir how holy could he be involved then unless the injury lie he had suffered was wai some such auch r act of man against man as these letters and statements represented she looked carefully through all the contents of tho the envelopes but she could not mot find anything which helped her she pushed the letters away then th and sat eat thinking mr warden who appeared to have known more about eaton baton than anyone else had taken take ea E a tons side it was because he had been going to help eaton tat mr air worden warden had been killed would not her father be ready to help eaton then if he knew as much about him as mr warden had known but mr warden apparently had bad kept what he be knew even from his own wife and eaton baton wits was now keeping it from everyone her father included Indu ded she felt that her father had bad understood and appreciated all tills this long before herself that it was tile the reason for his attitude toward eaton baton on the train and in apart the cause of his considerate treatment of him all through so instead of being estranged by batons manner to her father she felt an impulse of feeling toward him flooding hof her a feeling which she t tried ried to explain to herself as sympathy but it was not just sympathy she would not say even to herself what it was she got up hud suddenly denly and went to the door and looked into the hall a servant come to her djs Is mr avery still with mr san tolne colne she asked no miss ailsa Sant olne ho he has gone out thank you she went bock back and bundling the correspondence together as it had been be before fore she ehe removed the books from a 0 shelf to the left of if the d door slid back another panel find and revealed a second wall safe corresponding to the one to the right of the door from which she ehe had taken the papers the combination of this second safe was known only to tier her father and her herself seif sh she e put the envelopes envelop eny elopes es into it closed it and replaced the books then she went to her fathers desk took from a drawer a long typewritten report of which be had asked tier her to prepare 6 a digest ond and read it through consciously ly concentric concen concentrating ting site she began her har work at three she heard averys avery Is n motor und went to the study door and looked 1001 ed out as ile he ente entered ted the hall what have you found don she 1 inquired 1 wo nothing gothing thing yet harry you got no trace of them NO too many motors pw pas is on that road for the ca car r to be recalled particularly ticul arly ive started what inquiries arp are possible alad arranged to have the toad road I 1 watched in case they come bock back this way lie he went past her and up to her father she returned to the study and put awai anway her work dinner was served in the great jacobean dining room with walls paneled to the high cel citing ling logs blazing in the big stone fireplace As aa they seated themselves she noted that seemed moody and nica tive something clearly ha irritated and disturbed him and as the meal progressed he vented his irritation upon eaton baton by affronting him more openly by word and look than bedad ev ever i ei done before in lier her presence she was the more sit surprised at ills his doing this now nov because she knew that donald must have rece received ired from her hei father tile the same instructions as hal had been given herself to ib learn wb what a t ever eur was vas possible of unions former position in ill lire before matows entrance into tier her alto shu had supposed d unit sati sonic I 1 L I 1 t III le its s it mutter of course coulse coul se site she was going coill g to marry donald iu in bilte silte 0 of f thi tills 8 silo she liml never thought of iler self na as apart from tier her father when site shu thought of marrying it had been beell ill always boj ys with the idea that tier her duty 0 to o tier husband must bo be to that to tier her father r she know knew now ilow that eho bile had accepted donald avery not becal 41 lie he lind had become necessary to tier her but because lio lie had seemed nei essen tint to tier her fattier father tind and tier her donald would permit her life to go BO on inucci us as it wils donald lind had social position and a certain amount of wraith wealth ani power now sud suddenly lenly bile wils was feeling that lio lie lind nothing but these thIli things gs tits his own unconscious admission was that to bo be worth while lie hy must ill t ii have av e th C ili diat that to retain and increase then them was tits ills only object in life site she lind tit alio feeling tant these were the only things ho he would fight for but that for those ho would eglit fit irly berha ps I 1 it if 11 ho could but if ho he must unfairly despicably pic ably silo sho had finished dinner but she hesitated to rise bild leavo leave tile the men alone after dinner cigars and tile fiction of the masculine conversation nebout tile the table were insisted on by lU Iii atchford As she delayed looking across tile table nt at ElI enton tOll lila ills eyes met hors hers reassured slie bile rose nt at once tile the three roso rose with tier her and stood while she went out site she went upstairs and looked in t upon poll her r father ho he wanted nothing and after A conversation tion with ill itam as short ns as 8 alio 1 L could ninko it 1 cattle down a again g a in no further disagreement between the two men lien apparently lind had happened after she left the table avery now was not visible enton eaton and blatchford were in tile the music room ly with I 1 t h a repugnance pug nance against her fathers orders which she had never felt before she began to carry out the instructions her f faither ther h had lid given her she noticed that eaton baton was familiar with almost everything she had if liked ked which had been written or was current ur up to five years before all later music wits was strange to him to this extent ho be had been of her world plainly up to five years before beford then tbell he had kone gone out of it silo she realized this only as something which she was to report to her father yet she felt a keener more personal interest in it than that harriet son san tolne colne know knew enough of the world to I 1 pa 10 1 she removed th the books in front of a wall safe to the right of af the door know that few men break cimpl completely ebely all social connections s without 6 some oine link of eathl either er fact or memory still folding bolding them and that till this slink link most af pf aften ten Is a apman toward ten leitton dedton excy excused sed himself and went to his rooms she sat eat tor for a time idly talking with blatchford then HO as a 11 servant passed through tile the hall and she mistook momentarily menta rily his footsteps for those of avery she got up suddenly and went upstairs it wail was only after reaching her har rooms that she appreciated that the meaning of this action was that she shrank from seeing avery again abat ilij night but she blie had been in her rooms only it a fe few v minutes when her houba telephone buzzed and answer lug ing it she found that it was donald speaking to her will you come down for a few minutes please harry some strangeness in his tone perplexed it her 0 r where are you she asked oin in the study she went down at once As he come came to the study door te tc meet her she saw that what had perplexed her in his tone was wall apparently only the remnant of 0 that irritation he be had bad showed at dinner he took her band rand and drew her into the study you dont ant mind my calling you down harry it la is so BO long dinep since we had even a few minutes alono ato 0 o ic gether lie he pleaded what Is it you want D don 0 n she asked only to s see ee youlear you dear harry ile he took her hand again she resisted and withdrew it 1 I cant do any aej anbro 0 dvork ork tonight harry I 1 find t alio to cur n I 1 expected to go 90 over tills athla evening here your our father lina has it 14 I 1 suppose no I 1 have it don you yes yea father want you yet bo bothered th by that work murk just now lie ho tell you lie toli told 1110 no tillit or of courtie harry und iud lie ho lind asial you to relieve L 1210 10 us its much ns as you could co d lie JIL sy SO ho hold told you to tuko charo of f tit tho 43 papers did lie ho do tant chilt 1 I thought thou glit that wits implied Cd if you bcd need ocd tilen ill got get thein for you dou don do you want mint thell slie silo got up mul and went toward tile safe where silo sho hud had put them etheln 5 suddenly sho she st tl what it wita MIB th alint tit sho bile had felt under ills tono tone ind id manner ill iller silo lio could not tell I 1 it aris probably only irritation tit nt having important work enken out of ills his hands hut whatever it was nas ho was not openly expressing it iglio lie wag oven I 1 being that it should not he bo expressed and now suddenly us its lie ho followed and came close clos bellind tier her and tier her mind went swiftly to her father lying helpless up ill stairs and tier fathers trust in her alio 1 halted wo vc must ask father silo sho said ask him I 1 ho ejaculated why she faced him uncertainly not answering ewel ing alina rather ridiculous harry ea especially peel ally tilly ns na it la Is too late into to ask is k him to tonight llight ills voice wits suddenly rough in ills irritation 1 I linao had ad charge of those very things for denra mrs they concern concern the in which your father particularly confides in ma ina it la ig impossible that ho he meant you to take them out of my lily hands like this ho must have |
