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Show 1 he Blind Man's Eyes HARRIET Onrf!.. Warden. Srtttl capitalist, capital-ist, tell:, his hut.cr I j c- l.l ex peel our k outer, to be r 1 1 f i f.i "l without J J 1 ion. He Infoioir, hi wife of 'iu toat Ilirciuwifi l.ioi if he COSU.:3 It (our.ie he '0':-.le!H tile omv tionorito!. one. U jjrilen I -ave.; tlte holier; in h;n car met meets a rrim whotii he tak"H into the mail:. ma-il:. lie. Whin the car returns home. War. ten is louii't il. a', in urd.-rt i, H:el alone. 'i'he c;il..-r, a yoim mm, has been at Waplei's houe, b it leaves unob.-ierv.-U. Bob Cun-to-iy, coniiiictor, receives onU-rn to holij train fr)r a pany. Five in-ii and a Kill board thu train, the ' I't.iiern l'xpress. CHAPTER II Continued. 2 The remaining tn;in, carrying his jwn (Trips, set tlit'in flown In tin; gate ml felt In his pocltot fur his transpor- tltlloll. 'J'liis person had appeared suddenly fli'r the line nf four had formed In front of old Sammy nt tlie gate; lie had taken his place w 1 1 1 1 tliein ( i j 1 1 -ifter scrutiny tif lliem. His ticket was n strip which originally had lielil coupons for tlie Pacific voyage unil some Indefinite. Jouniey In Asia he-fore; he-fore; unlike the Englishman's antl tils baggage did not hear the pasters of the Nippon Yusen Kalslin the ticket was close to the (late when It would have expired. It bore upon the line where the purchaser signed, the name "Philip D. Eaton" In plain, vigorous vig-orous characters without shading or Oourlsh. As a sudden eddy of the gale about the shed blew (he ticket from old Sammy's cold fingers, the young man stooped to recover It. The wind blew off his cloth cap as lie did so, and as he bent and straightened before old Sammy, the old man suddenly gasped ; and while the traveler pulled on bis cap, recovered bis ticket anil hurried down the platform to the train, the paienian stood staring nfter him as though trying to recall who the man presenting himself us Philip I). Eaton was. Connery stepped beside the old man. , "yVho Is It, Sammy?" lie demauded. "Who?" Sammy reppated. His eyes were still fixed on the retreating figure. fig-ure. "Who? I don't know." The gateman mumbled, repeating to himself the names of the famous, the great, the notorious, in his elTort to fit one to the man who had Just passed. No one else belated and hound for the Eastern Express was In Bight. The president's order to tlie conductor and to the dispatcher simply sim-ply had directed that Number Five would run one hour late; It must leave In five minutes; and Connery, guided by tlie Impression the man last through the gate had made upon him and old Sammy both, had no doubt that the man for whom the train had been held was now on board. Connery went out to the train. The passengers who had been parading the platform had got aboard ; the last five to arrive also had disappeared Into the Pullmans, and their luggage had been thrown into the baggage car. Connery Jumped aboard. The three who had passed the gate first the girl, the uihu with the classes and the young man in the cutaway cut-away it had now become clear were one party. They had had reservations made, apparently, in tlie name of Dome; the girl's address to the spectacled spec-tacled man made plain that he was her father; hor name, apparently, was Harriet ; tlie young man In the cutaway cut-away coat was "Don" to her and "Avery" to her father. Ills relation, while intimate enough to permit him to address the girl as "Harry," was Unfailingly respectful to Mr. Dome; and against them both Dome won his way; his daughter was to occupy the drawing room; he and Avery were to ;hcve suctions in the open car. "You have Sections One and Three, sir," the Pullman conductor told him. And Dome directed the porter to put Avery's luggage In Section One, his own In Section Three. The Englishman was sent to Section four In Car Three the next car forward for-ward and departed at the heels of tlie porter. Connery watched more closely, as now it came the turn of the ..oung man whose ticket bore the name of Eaton. Eaton had no reservation reser-vation In the sleepers; he appeared, however, to have some preference as to where he slept. "(live me a Three, if you have one," he requested of the Pullman conductor. conduc-tor. His voice. Connery noted, was well modulated, rather deep, distinctly distinct-ly pleasant. At sound of it. Dome, who Willi his daughter's help was settling set-tling himself in his section, turned and lo!.ed that way anil saiil something In m low tone to the girl. Harriet I'onie also looked, and with her eyes or. Eaton, Connery saw her reply in-Miidibly. in-Miidibly. rnpi.llv and at some length. 1 can give ton Three in Car Throe, opptvsite the gentleman I just assigned," as-signed," the Pullman conductor offered. of-fered. "That'll tie very well," Eaton answered an-swered In the same pleasant voice. the porter now took his bags. Kntjn followed him out of the car. t"umery went after them Into the next car. He exiected. rather, that Katon would at once Identify himself to him as the passenger to whom President Jarvls' short note had referred. Eaton, Ea-ton, however, paid no attention to him. hut was busy taking off his coat and settling himself In his section as Connery Con-nery passed. The conductor, willing that Eaton oliould cboose his own time for Iden- Ifylnic hUnnelf. passed alowly o. lock- By William MacHarg Edwin B aimer Copyright tiy LitUa. Brown and Company ifig over the passengers as he went, lie stood for a few moments In conversation con-versation with the dining-car conductor; conduc-tor; then lie retraced his way through the train. He again passed Eator, slowing so that tlie young man could speak to him If he wished, and even balling an instant to exchange a word with the Englishman; but Eaton allowed al-lowed him to pass on without speaking speak-ing to him. Connery's step quickened as he entered the next car on his way hack to the smoking compartment of the observation car, where be expected expect-ed to compare sheets with the Pullman Pull-man conductor before talcing up the tickets. As he entered this car, however. how-ever. Avery stopped him. "Mr. Dome would like to speak to you." Avery said. Connery stopped heside the section, where the man witii l lie spectacles sat Html fill "Give Me a Three, If Ycu Have One," He Requested of the Pullman Conductor. Con-ductor. with bis daughter. Dome looked up nt him. "You are the train conductor?" he asked. "Yes, sir," Connery replied. Dome fumbled In his inner pocket and brought out a card-case, which he opened, and produced a card. Connery, Con-nery, glancing at the card while the other still held It, saw that It was President .Tarvis' visiting card, with the president's name in engraved block letters; across Its top was written writ-ten briefly in .Tarvis' familiar hand. "This Is the passenger" ; and below, it was signed with the same scrawl of Initials which had been on the note Connery had received that morning "h. it. j.'; Connery's hand shook as, while trying try-ing to recover himself, he took the card and looked at it more closely, and he felt within him the sinking sensation which follows an escape from danger. He saw that his too ready and too assured assumption that Eaton was the man to whom Jar-vis' Jar-vis' note had referred, had almost led him into the sort of mistake which is unpardonable In a "trusted" man ; he had come within an ace, he realized, of speaking to Eaton and so betraying betray-ing the presence on the train of a traveler whose journey his superiors were trying to keep secret. "You need, of course, hold (he train no longer," Dome said to Connery. "Yes, sir ; I received word from Mr. .Tarvis about you, Mr. Dome. I shall follow his Instructions fully." As he went forward again after tlie train was under way. Connery tried to recollect how it was that he had been led Into such a mistake, nnd defending de-fending himself, he laid it all to old Sammy. Eut old Sammy was not often mistaken in his identifications. If Eaton was not the person for whom the train was held, might be he someone some-one else of importance? Now as lie studied Eaton, he could not imagine what bail made him accept this passenger pas-senger as a person of great position. It was only when he passed Eaton a third time, half an hour later, when the train had long left Seattle, that tlie half-shaped hazards and guesses about the passenger suddenly sprang into form. Allowing for a change of clothes and a different way of brushing brush-ing ids hair, Eaton was exactly the man whom Warden had expected at his house and who had come there and waited while Warden, nway In his car, was killed. Connery was walking back through the train, absent-minded In trying to deckle whether he could be at all sure of this; and trying; to decide what he should do If he felt sure, when Mr. Dome stopped him. "Conductor, do you happen to know," he questioned, "who the young man Is who took Section Three In the car forward?" Connery gasped ; but the question put to him the Impossibility of his being sure of any recognition from the devcription. "He gave his name on his ticket as Philip D. Eaton, sir," Connery replied. "Is that all you know about him?" "Yes, sir." "If you find out anything atvout him, let me know," Dome bade. "Yes, sir." Connery determined to let nothing Interfere with learning more of Eaton ; Dome's request only gave him added responsibility. Dome, however, was not depending upon Connery alone for further information. infor-mation. As soon as the conductor had gone, he turned back to his daughter and Avery upon the seat opposite. op-posite. "Avery," he said in a tone of direction, direc-tion, "I wish you to get in conversation conversa-tion with this Philip Eaton. It will probably he useful if you let Harriet talk with him too. She would get impressions im-pressions helpful to me which you can't." The girl started with surprise but recovered at once. "Yes, Father." she said. "What, sir?" Avery ventured to protest. pro-test. CHAPTER III Miss Dome Meets Eaton. Dome motioned Avery to the aisle, where already some of the passengers, having settled their belongings In their sections, were beginning to wander wan-der through the cars seeking acquaintances ac-quaintances or players to make up a card game. Eaton too; from a bag a handful of cigars with which he filled a plain, uninitiated cigar case, and went toward the club and observation obser-vation car In the rear. As he passed through the sleeper next to him the Inst one Harriet Dorne glanced up at him nnd spoke to her father; Dorne nodded but did not look up. The observation room was nearly empty. The only occupants were a young woman who was reading a magazine, mag-azine, and an elderly man. Eaton chose a seat as far from these two as possible. He had been there only a few minutes, min-utes, however, when, looking up, he saw Harriet Dorne and Avery enter the room. They passed him, engaged in conversation, and stood by the rear door looking out Into the storm. It was evident to Eaton, although he did not watch them, that they were arguing argu-ing something; the girl seemed insistent, insist-ent, Avery irritated and unwilling. Her manner showed that she won her point finally. She seated herself in one of the chairs, and Avery left her. He wandered, as If aimlessly, to the reading table, turning over the magazines maga-zines there; abandoning them, he gazed about as if bored ; then, with a wholly casual manner, he came toward Eaton and took the seat beside be-side him. "Rotten weather, Isn't it?" Avery observed somewhat ungraciously. Eaton could not well avoid a reply. "It's been getting worse," he commented, com-mented, "ever since we left Seattle." "We're running Into II, apparently." Again Avery looked toward Eaton and waited. "Yes lucky If we get through." The conversation on Avery's part was patently forced ; and It was equally forced on Eaton's; nevertheless neverthe-less It continued. Avery Introduced the war and other subjects upon which men, thrown together for a time, are accustomed to exchange opinions. Put Avery did not do It easily or naturally; natu-rally; he plainly was of the caste whose pose it Is to repel, not seek, overtures toward a chance acquaintance. acquaint-ance. His lack of practice was perfectly per-fectly obvious when at last he asked directly: "Beg pardon, hut I don't think I know your name." Eaton was obliged to give It. "Mine's Avery," the other offered; "perhaps you heard it when we were getting our berths assigned." And again the conversation, enjoyed by neither of them, went on. Finally the girl at the end of the car rose and passed them, as though leaving the car. Avery looked up. "Where are you going, Harry?" "I think someone ought to be with Father." "I'll go in just a minute." She had halted almost in front of them. Avery, hesitating as though he did not know what he ought to do, finally arose; and as En Ion observed tli a t Avery, having Introduced himself, him-self, appeared now to consider it his fluty to present Eaton to Harriet Dome. Eaton also arose. Avery murmured mur-mured the names. Harriet Dorne, resting her hand on the hack of Avery's chair, joined In the conversation. conver-sation. As he repl'eil easily and Interestedly In-terestedly to a comment of Eaton's, Avery suddenly reminded her of tier fatiier. After a minute, when Avery r-:till ungracious and still irritated over something which Eaton could not guess rather abruptly left them, she took Avery's seat; and Eaton dropped into his chair beside her. Now, this whole proceeding though within the convention which, forbidding forbid-ding a girl to make a man's acquaintance acquaint-ance directly, says nothing against her making it through the medium of another man had been so unnaturally unnatu-rally done that Eaton understood that Harriet Dorne deliberately had arranged ar-ranged to make his acquaintance, and that Avery, angry and objecting, hail been overruled. She seemed to Eaton less alertly boyish now than she had looked an hour before when they had hoarded the train. Her cheeks were smoothly rounded, her lips rather full, her lashes very long. He could not look up without looking directly at her, lor her chair, which hail not been moved since Avery left it. was at an angle with his own. To avoid the appearance of studying study-ing ber too openly, he turned slightly, so that his gaze went past her to the wldte turmoil outside the wlnMows. "It's wonderful," she said, "Isn't lir "You mean the storm?" A iwiuMr of amusement came to Eaton's eyes "It would be more Interesting If li allowed a little more to be seen. Ai present there Is nothing visible ut snow." "Is that the only way it affects you? An artist would think of It as a background back-ground for contrasts a thing to sketch or paint; a writer as something to he written down in words." Eaton understood. She could not more plainly have asked him what he was. "And an engineer. I suppose," he said, easily, "would think of It only as an element to be included In his formulas for-mulas an x. or an a, or a b, to be put In somewhere and square-rooted or squared so that tlie roof-truss he was figuring should not buckle under its weight." "Oli so that is the way you were thinking of it?" "You mean," Eaton challenged her directly, "am I an engineer?" "Are you?" "Oil, no; I was only talking In pure generalities, just as you were." "Let us go on, then," she said gayly. "I see I can't conceal from you that I am doing you tlie honor to wonder what you are. A lawyer would think of it In the light of damnge It might create and the subsequent possibilities of litigation." She made a little pause. "A business man would take It Into account, as he has to take into account all things in nature or human; it would delay transportation, or harm or aid the winter wheat." "Or stop competition somewhere," he observed, more Interested. The flash of satisfaction which came to her face and as quickly was checked and faded showed him she thought she was on the right track. "Business," she said, still lightly, "will how Is it the newspapers put It? will marshal its cohorts; It will send out its generals In command of brigades of snowplows, Its colonels in command of regiments of snow shov-elers shov-elers and its spies to discover and to bring back word of the effect upon the crops." "You talk," he said, "as if business were a war." "Isn't It? like war, but war In higher terms." "In higher terms?" he questioned attempting to make his tone like hen, but a sudden bitterness now was te-trayed te-trayed by it. "Or In lower?" "Why, in higher," she declared, "demanding "de-manding greater courage, greater devotion, de-votion, greater determination, greater self-sacrifice. Recruiting officers can pick any man off the streets and make a good soldier of him, but no one could be so sure of finding a satisfactory satisfac-tory employee In that way. Doesn't that show that daily life, the everyday every-day business of earning a living and bearing one's share in the workaday world, demands greater qualities than war?" Her face had flushed eagerly as site spoke; a darker, livid flush answered her words on his. "But the opportunities for evil aie greater, too," he asserted almost fiercely. "How many of those men you speak of on the streets have been deliberately, de-liberately, mercilessly, even savagely sacrifice! to some business expediency, their future destroyed, their hope killed!" Some storm of passion, whose meaning she could not divine, was sweeping him. "You mean," she asked after an 1a- She Had Halted Almost in Front of Them. stant's silence, "that yon, Mr. Eaton, have been sacrificed in such a way?" "I am still talking in generalities," he denied ineffectively. He saw that she sensed the untruthfulness un-truthfulness of these last words. Her smooth young forehead nnd her eyes were shadowy with thought. Eaton was uneasily silent. Finally Harriet Dorne seemer? to have made her decision. de-cision. "I think you should meet my father, Mr. Eaton," she said. "Would you like to?" He did not reply nt. once. He knew that his delay was causing her to study him now with great surprise. "I would like to meet him, yes," he I said, "but" he hesitated, tried to avoid answer without offending her, but nlready lie had affronted Lr "but not now. Miss Dome." She stared at him. rebuffed and chilled. j I - "They know you. One l following. fol-lowing. Leave train Instantly. I c (TO Bfc CO.s'7 1.NLB.U |