Show IZ 4 4 aud M an s ey e 4 0 11 4 by william macharg edwin balmer 04 1 4 by little brown n and nd rn 4 UNTIL I 1 COME TO YOU AS she at af his us hand no noa no she cited you enlist in uit get af me far amm is you can before they contel ionic im going back to weal and hold leold them she threat the car into the reverse backed and aimed dirtied it and it ii again onto the road lie he came beside her ter Ol a fain aill puff lity out ais his hand ahe A e seized il her it ands for nn an instant dutty to it his to io hers heis you au must antus go ro quick she urged but bill how am I 1 to io know what becomes of you where you iter shall I 1 I 1 hear from filin you all I 1 ever eier ve couf you no A y news idill be good news hi he said until Vitt until fil anlu J and lid adain that aut unknown something which a mou swid times it ii seemed to io her had his word nord and action toward rd lier her made hini him pause but nothing could completely tely bar them froin one oi enother voir noil until they catch balch and destroy me ine or atul I 1 come to you as if mg is you harr known me yet iet what a situations herf here are two lo 10 young obviously in love with each other tile tho girl jt s ai aiding ding the file trian man to escape oc nio yet the man mail i is virtually a prisoner prito ncr on an tho the country coti estate of her father who i is trying to solve clr a inot complicated and baffling mystery which concerns concern ih all for tile the man is ii suspected cleil of a murderous mur clerou attack on oil the viv acerb a ferB as blind rather father moreover lie he is i apparently connected with a murder and finally he has jut just taleen part in a midnight oam encounter counter in the girls girl home in which a relative has ha been shot hot to death lia in the man is ii using an admed assur ned name and will not tell who hio t is or what i i s hi his purpose pur poe but the lie girl erl who i is it fk nice girl know wilia love prescience that the man is i worthy and daires to put her faith to tile the tet test love mystery action a cleall dt ep wrong righted ted the confounding of wicked what more is ii needed for a good story torye the authors are william macharg MacHar jf and edwin balmer those inter k titling st iroff chicago brothers in law who separately anti and together have won the reada aff 9 public CHAPTER I 1 I 1 A financier dies dice halrid warden railroad 01 director metor owner of enines s mid and til williber liber ianda sti nt at twenty a cow cf puncher lit ono one of tile predominant niom of tle northwest Nort liest cubist paced inic til w quick ilski uneven ktelis hl the great ewie ker living arumn of ill hm lowe just libov anc Se little on Il iliin iii Aou rid twice within lt liln t it lit in arvd sra u sed used tilt alic teh liono in tin tilt kinli it to arft urft lve elve tile main aann reply that the train loin rot which tit lie lilt anid in had conn colue in will lint tit tin pas iggers atad h id left tin it station it 1 u ua alt like ili id nervousness of sort Nol llo cle doorman who w therefore rind soni ething strange in ili ills 14 wat elied hint through the bilich blaut off ux the living A sin ilia idail Wit bitteti teti suddenly and pr pepsi irps pd alte aril to call it servi servient int K nia d tile robill ti in lie noticed then emilit V Var bruus bardens nr dens hand alch which ans ns still tilt watch before him ans its haiti Hi iti tes A ik young inan aho vho lio may or iiii amt c i 1 name will ask for tile me in M fik monn I tits ifo say hay lit he called ay iy take lilii jilt nt at timo once to ans ny iny i boking mo king room rodin lint I 1 wl hlll I 1 I 1 see MO lawre I 1 atil am going to mrs war iiii li ii a hallil now we IVA went till it tho still kando no tk d stilt absently holding li ills sri IT ills va ardjill ard pill controlled ills nan nervousness amre tM re alering en ills hir cifes room slip r albed walli lilt ailin casually for it nio mo nt or er 0 x o lio fire stio she evev even sent anway latr glicr maid etien they were nione she sow that it c tin linia colne coine to her I 1 tu aliisa 11 sonie sonic serious subject oira lie salti when lie he had tio ed tile ali door sifter tile 1 I vant avant our on nn a business question A bustnes busl nes ii tin estion I 1 she ni vis r yn matl atly v surprised lie he wits one of 0 rak fidell who belleve all business avii s i should ile be kept front froin their lwiws vi 1 I 1 bienn it came to me file through h soine U 1 us illness ines disco discoveries verles quid you cannot decide it for your medal aritt 17 1 bad decided it ile HP looked axall lit ahli it antell 1 I hall quite dec dechdel idel t xv bur now it inny lend lead to some ault i which I 1 have suddenly felt that hint I 1 the right to decide itle entirely irv wardens dons wife for tip tile birst time felt a alberi tra tm annn it mo me directly iff both tier hand in hl his s I mil 1 MI tier lier before him ilk lie ile said what would you iou i ou p it i tr ww r 10 lo do if von oil knew I 1 hall li ul found tit hit stint it a voting num imm a ansin tallo riff ri rf tive no ago lind find it 11 ty tv i ie fe w gig as any ninn inight lalit had apen t enral jilt mn ral tit in very verv right alli liv fly anen who im my aw yek andr would kulil ou lil 1011 1 oil have tile XU vaa 1 fr for blin or or t n iava tiie alf st stared at him mith aith only fir tie ej i rit utis MS proud of lils ills e at 1 l to fight of tit the power ji kaev tie ie posse sed to furce force ills fill why you volt attl light then cwi want vint me ina to hshi lot f course coin sc no matter what it colts coits co its she then that what lip lie wa racine was vas very gr ivr att tie he sail 1 I dian didn t conw to 0 o uk your advice Putt putten ln hlll toils 4 Illa lH ory to you it I 1 RO go into mo this mam r aloof bs h not only sin nn opponent tt ti irn bof if rny my resent fr londi I 1 shall ina threat tit tt them something they nuy tsy t iak 1 1 1 afi sary to remove demov she earled out olit you ideall hiie tillight kill you should ild that inep tile inc front ft nil going in sin se hesitated llo hi chit fit on oil would aull noti oi have ili inc to to a to lie be done vora coin no till alic said alii 1 I would oi not all right llian till nil I 1 lind had to know now ii th 1 lie loleng oiin illard Is four coill hur to see mr tong toight ht cori cora prohn I 1 it y lies hes down stalls ill tell von uil nil fill I 1 aits nits nn after ive IM with lalni lip hta went nt tl damn talas ns as it lie p passed through kinli the telephone loell rang warden lihn elf answered it kondo kendo overheard wardens ell pud if tin till n apparently the lie oilier person perso 10 lo sw lit t olwe aiu e warden all rig t ill ia voine conic anti yet get ant for tile nip h re then lie hung till ill turning to lip lie or dereI ills cair kondo transmitted the order nial f Vird cris cont fit tint ind I 1 ci c all t hot 1 eolith opt ned tin the hoube dibir rot fir and the door of the linin due lint been brought bro under the porto elc I 1 I 1 e it i t the was ns 1111 arlio or lio it oung who lio lint lind been in biti flens employ fur for more than live mallrs felirs ills faithfulness to lo warden was never questioned cor or loy my drove drop it to tho place wardell lind hild directed As they aln topped it 11 young I 1 I 1 I 1 OV is tj q As A they stopped a 2 young man of less le than medium height broad shouldered and wearing a makin tosh came to the curb and spoke ke to warden man of fesq linn ined luin brond and wearing I 1 intosh benine to the lie curl chirl find to 11 irden corboy Cor lioi gilld not aivar flit name lint but 11 the man into tilt tip cur fir in he directed ciruti Cirl ti in ret urn lionia tin doltl lh 0 lint but MIR lits lill ped of in tile hii way t Us coina to if complete i s t atril bitnes as lif lie inet al ewt mrs 4 in other vehicles pill on streets imort immediately sifter and left flit house flit lie dool rang iiii mid find nondo au bored it A ninn anan with etli n I 1 quiet pilot tind and bearing in ili Itil red for mr mill and said lip iw 4 arne ay rondo into tin the sill oking rowell ri rtin flit lit franker united lit in about forty min altes corboy corbo v elroe the cur car under tit I 1 porte cocheres again and got down fill belled tile lie loir dt wano mi fill tion inside in lile tite lie the beur looked it ir and paw mr warder lying back iltis aly tilt lie cuili tons ions in tile lie bark back of if the seat lie wa MI corboy not that tile cur talim nil an about hall had liven hron pulled lawn flown hr iti 1 touched tile the button find gurnei on tile tho light nt at the top full of the lie cur car anti then tie lie saw that warden wits ta daud his lil call was ns n aini tile top lop of lifs ills awai had been hy li it heavy chlow the brew gasping kondo behind ailin on the steps cried out till inid ran into tile alie house cr illing for help 1 rw l kotlier servants sen nuts and mrs airs warden v i romainer roma ined nervously in fi lier tool i 1 down rhe 0 VI 1 0 hud been li waiting uniting now MV seen ken for tit alio first time by mrs mis warden anine out olit front the lip to t alp help them ti ile he aided in taking the body from ilia car lintl and belvea to varry it lilt into tin the living nf 1 loom jay it on oil n R colli coin h it lie jintil it wits was PI fall that hint warden hm had been killed hills d inn 11 ili nothing could br be dolle when tills hd bot 1 establish ell and lint further confirmed toy liy tit lie doctor ulio mill wits called rondo kondy and 3 alra 1 rs warden irdon I 1 looked oo 00 li ed arouni fur for the young oi iiii ninn man lint hut lie he it is nu no longer here the nis news of if the murder brought lirou slit extras out upon tit lie of seattle tacoma anti portland lit ten that seattle stirred tit nt once tit nt the lie of oil one of its mosi most t prominent citizens still lit alio new air proof pi bof that hint warden had beell n 1 I power in business hilll liminie llin li mince mcc lien alien 11 us 1 tile demild ans lays 11 1 patt hes front from alif it larger catl eltges came in it stirred I 1 ti aird time tit nt tit alic realization for so 1111 tillit tills WIN was lie second till elmp such it lind fill I 1 ed warden lilt lind been alint wag ni called wen of hu and fin finet it ii member of the lie latron crowd lit hall beell close lt lit one fill to till flit knat great western capitally capit allt matthiew matt liew ln in tron tho ilia pro pertle lit in u bich lie hall le ills tind shohe iiii all it 1 I ra I 1 lot blid ailin ill the respect and attention of other inen ine lint lidid been dohe closely allied or of evell Illi long those knowal nt Is tile latron fit roii pi find and latron Ls itron five file fidis before hall ln lit trolls rolls murderer hall licin I 1 i annn who lw c willrd upon 1 by and na vin tens it hild been litoni equally h knon to him or nt least t of tills IS at gnudi itch n us Is lilliq in III tile Kist lon IK nim ana will lir litins the two to the statements or if kil and corly corboy wert veril led it MS aven learned tit nt what lint spot wardens ibur derer lind left tin tilt nistor unobserved by 1 corboy beyond tills no nn trace was found or and tin lilt to if f the young ill ahi w NO nine to warde house tind bulled alt id there for three quart ars or if nn nil hour to ill see PC ailin uis alo Hlll olvie lU CHAPTER II 11 1 I tile the express Is held for or a personage hub lot Con contieri tiery conductor for tile cimet of one olle or ir ilia Is wits ny linvel lin Iii antl on oil his city off nt lils ills little cottage fol on oil tile the alion of iii ot when ann lit lio was treated to tn tile tin usual sight of a large alir nr stropping before ills 18 door tin the hurried front tilt tu car to tit lie house with nn lilt en clOpP lit 1114 lilt fill connery ni him tit fit the hie floor in IN and foulad within nil all ordvin nor in HIP flip hall linial aritina of cf tit the presh lent or tile the mil 1 oad and over ills si linture annio colmery nio no u fi 5 belli loping in held tit it seattle corint ind HI until natif welock hlll rin otle one hour lute inte till this Is aur nour authority tu it atlo rade till the man ni a II 11 I ii I prepa prepared reI to I 1 RO go to t i you ion will litto every ilc debirt ilac lind i nil bobev olt when eilf nn anny n request quest pvn us its to tn running or of if ilic whim lii be inide 1 by u 1111 enger ulio ho will himself ailin alf lv by at icil voird filin file 11 II it litvin 11 the I 1 lie to KI take A luiis lui if of trallis shi 11 inuos ell anti great nf if tiny nil sort lort tu it travel publicly or privately in haicl t mgt red ed tin tile beav lun leini cream colored olfred note paper aich tit alic order ats Is att rit len tint looked oil bip lit the the order its enough in to ti colliery iery sonic some passenger ii or or was ais it alv take elie train not the hip hold ilir of tie trafim for in an lijour told thib but there was as tile he fur flit mer plain sia lement ali that it flit berr ue rr IT would lu be incognito aleso IM was me fint fact hint the HIP order wits ai written upon private pr luitt ibar find bovit larrit it a ot alie fit toi lot of the lint but it had iven 1 dpn tarn orr on that would kili not flave licon been if nir mr find cut fit f elie order from bont U who am have hall lie ilia president i 11 tile boiu rond call upon fill ani fit at inar pir pi r ven lit in ahe inori ting sanol nin have told mr jarvis to hold tile express fir tin onra Coti nery ivas is ceran of cf elie ive it characters of the lom ants hand tin tilt erigina of the lie order however it binl tit hlin filin so u that lit lir pretend ell doubt lian where li cn hil fill you get tills this lie fie cani edged llie elie chauffeur arom front mr air jarvis of course but where ili erf vun yeii want mant to f vasa mals contier Conti Cont iviry ir muffled quietly yu letl if lie hp hlin if f naj at trusted to be cautious an the a also is tur he ain ay h wax accustomed to bo in 1 n t lie aiu ploy or of one who tio required reticence onti pry looked front tile he note to the liti irr moie keenly there rink was soine thing familiar fit the face ance just to line have fiade connery bobee allo bl lo nt at that probably nl lie find seen the inan ine eting some soine ims er tit nt alic tit station you me are connery ventured casti bastiany any in ili private employ yes ies sit sir the nian fill cut olt off quickly then connery lne knew him it was when hon gabriel warden on oil conner Con nerys train that the hill seen hem this finuf four tills till was ns corboy who lind ha driven warden the night lie he was killed wit lint connery having won von ills his point knew letter better than to show it val walling ting for a receipt front from me file he asked nr as if lie lint lind aban loneil ilia the connery took a lirot i of paper wrote on it sealed it it ili an envelope mo loro and lin tided it over oer tile chadim ur hastened back bach to ills his ear cur atilt drove off cannery whistled softly to himself 1 I vI dently hla big passenger was IMIS it to bo bi one of the great inen lit in eastern mit matilice li nince ilice who ft ho lind imd leen been brought aest by wardens death As tilt lie car disappeared connery gazed off to the sound ill alic march morning was windy and wet with etli it ft blo blowing wang lit in from froin the niel broin inina hay bay reverberated anted the roar of tit tin str ini whistle of some large ship t signaling its intention to pass another to the loft left tile the incoming joasil loon loomed lel in sight flight anti and showed tin flit graceful lines the lie single funnel mid tit lie life and led ling of the japanese line the nippon Islia connery saw that lint it wits was as lie he lie kiiru duo due two MO days before lie fore lulling having been delayed by luid bad weather over the pacific it would dock connery estimated just lit in tinia tinip to it pas 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