Show th blind by e william macHarg mans ey behs edwin balmer by bittie brown and company AN ACCIDENT gabriel warden seattle capitalist tells his butler he I 1 Is expecting ft a caller to be b admitted without question he informs nn his wife ol of danger that tk cit abens atens him if he pursues a bourre he considers the only honorable one warden leaves the house in his car and meets a man w whom hom h he e takes into the machine hi wh when the car returns home warden Is found dead murdered and alone the caller a young man has been at wardens house but leaves unobserved bob connery e ry conductor receives orders to h old hold train for a party five men and a girl board the train the eastern express the father of 0 the girl mr dorne dome Is in the person for whom the train was held philip D eaton a young man also boarded the train dorne dome tells hla his daughter end and his secretary dun avery to find out what they can concerning h him the tw two make iain batons acau acquaintance tance dorne dome Is found ne nearly arly dead from a murderous ou as assault A surgeon operates dorn dome Is revealed as an basil ball san boin e blin blind d and a power in the financial world as an the adviser of bit biff interests eaton Is in suspected and questioned he refuses information ms t ion bout about himself and admits he was the caller at t wardens howie house eaton pleads ath with harriet Bant Sant olne to withhold judgment tolling her he 1 Is in serious danger though innocent of the crime against hr her father he feels the girl trl believes him Sant santone olne recover are sufficiently to question eaton who refuses his hi identity the linen financier cier requires eaton baton to accompany him to the Bant Sant olne home ai a semi saml prisoner eaton meets a resident of the house wallace blatchford and mildred davis a stenographer with adm he Is acquainted quain ted though they conceal the th fact batons mission Is to secure certain doo documents which are vital to his interests CHAPTER XI continued B Q eaton drew further back into the alcove as an some une pas passed aed through uie the hall above the footsteps footstep S ceased over oTer liend hend enton eaton assured no one ne was coming down the stairs spoke spoke swiftly to tell her an ai much as tie he might in their moment he Sant olne taken ill III on oa the train edith he was attacked attacked Attack edl 1 her lips barely moved he was almost killed but they concealed it adith alth pretended he was only ill I 1 was on the train you know of course I 1 got your sour wire 1111 and a thy they suspected me ine of the alie attack you nut but they flud out about you ou hugh no they are investigating san tolne colne would not lot let them make anything public ile he broi brought ight me here while he Is trying to ing to find out about abou t me so im here edith herel Is it here too again steps sounded in the hull hall above the girl swiftly busied herself with gloved and hat eaton stood stork stark in ili suspense the servant sennet above aboe it was it a servant sen ant they inid had heard before he recognized now merely crossed from one room to another overhead head now the girls lips moved again it she formed the question the draft of the new agreement it either has been sent to him or it will be sent to him very nry soon here where will it he when it Is here where oh ohl I 1 the girls eyes ees went to the wal I 1 close to where enton eaton stood she seen seemed I 1 ed to measure with them a definite nite distance frani fram the door and a point shoulder high sad and to resist the impulse to come over oer and put her hand upon thi tha spot As katon eaton followed her look he heard a 8 slight and muffled click as it if from the study but no sound could reach them through the study doors and what he herd heard came from the alie wall iteld elf A safe lie he whispered yes miss Sant olne ashes sh es in there she it just now there then are two of them hidden behind the books one on each side shia of the lie door eaton tapped gently on the wall the wall was brick the lie safe undoubtedly ed I 1 y was backed with savi stal I the best way Is from inside the room he concluded she nodded yes if you look out I 1 someone now was ing coming downstairs the girl had biad time only to whisper swiftly if we dont got get a chance to speak again watch that chat rase she pointed to a bronze brone antique evich stood on a table near them when im sure the agreement Is in the house ill drop a glova but ton in that a black one if I 1 think be in the safo on the right white on the left now po go eaton baton moved quietly on ond into the drawing draw in room averys avers voice immediately was heard he be was speaking tu to hilss aless davis eliom tic lie lind had found in ane hallway enton was wag certain there ans no ni that h had tallied talked ith her there avery acry seemed to suppose se that enrot vidis still in the study with harriet tt it was her ber lapse lale thim hah had let him out and lind had glen given him that cannee clinn cp but bill it wn ans a filp lie discovered which was ans not nit llach to favor bilm again from that billic while never hold held strictly in aint he found hitri hamsuit self alwita 1 t 1 ia sight of someone fa eaton ton let himself think idly about harriet how strange her life had been that part of it at least which was spent as he had gathered most of her waking waiting hours of recent yeats years had been spent with her father strange almost as an his own eifel and what a wonderful girt girl it had made of her clevet clevea sweet lovable loable with more than a womans comans ordinary ca for devotion deot lon and self sacrifice but if her service sen ice to her father was not only on his personal side but it if also she was intimate in his business affairs must she not therefore have shared the cruel code which had bad terrorized eaton for the last tour four years and kept him fin an exile elle in asia and which at tiny hour yet et threat ened to take his life A trim grim set come to antons lips his mind went again to his own affairs CHAPTER XII I 1 man from the train in the supposition that he was to have less liberty eaton proved cor P spat t harriet Sant olne to whose fin pulses ses had been due his first privileges showed toward him a more con strained attitude the following morn lag ing she did not suggest hostility as avery constantly did nor indeed was there any evidence of 0 retrogress ret slon in her attitude toward him she seemed merely merel to be maintaining same nine position and since this seemed difficult if they the were often together she avoided him eaton baton understood that Sant olne steadily improving but not yet et able to leme leave his bed had taken up his work again propped up by pillows one of the nurses had been dismissed the other was only upon day duty but eaton baton did not see Sant olne at all and though he learned that miss davis or another stenographer whose name was west caroe came dally daily to the house he never was la in a position again to encounter any outsider either coming or going there was no longer room for baton to doubt that harriet had the confidence of her father to almost a complete extent now that Sant olne was ill she worked with him dally daily for hours and eaton baton learned that she did the same when lie was well but avery aver worked with the blind man too he too was certainly in a confidential capacity was it not probable th that avery and not harriet was waa ern entrusted with the secrets secret of dangerous and ugly matters or was it possible that this girl worshiping her father as she elie did could know and be sure tant because her father approved these matters they were right A hundred times a day as eaton baton saw or spoke with the girl or thought of her presence near by this obsessed him A score of times during their engual talk upon meeting at meals or elsewhere eli eheim he found himself turned toward sonne some question which would aid him in determining what must be the lie fact but earh time he be checked himself until one morning it was the fifth after his arrival at san house harriet was taking him for his walk in the garden before the house she had just told him at his inquiry that her father was wag very much stronger that morning and ler her manner more than ever eer evidenced her pride in him they walked on slowly 1 I wish you ou could tell me more about yourself sir bir eaton 1 I wish so BO too he said then why can you ou not slie he turned to him frankly tinn lJ he gaz gazed e d at her a moment and then looked away and shook his head did she know all of what was known even een under tinder her fathers roof and if she knew all would she then loathe or ded it A motor sped near halted and then speeded on again eaton up saw it was a runn runabout bout with avery aery n lone alone in it evidently e identa tf them I 1 em in the rond road avery aien had united to protest then thought better of it and gone on but other motors pal posed now with ith people who spoke to harriet and who stopped to inquire for or her father and wish him well your lour father lops does not seem to t be one of tile the great men without in his own onan neighborhood E enton aton suld said to her after one of these had hulled and g pi ne me on everyone Ke ione who knows father likes and admires himl him 1 slip rejoiced 1 I dont mean that raton enton went on they the must trust him too in an extraordinary way wai his associates must place most complete con in jilin when they the leme leave to him abe ibe adjustment of matters such as I 1 understand they the do HP tells fell the them what Is just and they abide in by his big decision harriet shook her I no it isn t that she K ild what then thell you oi are correct in seln that dpn of the most limit opposite ilits sorts tind illi most t irreconcilable tn tf ench oilier fiher em e m place their ailt 1 it in I 1 bilici s hand arid he ivin IK flipi all v must do tiley IP ill eilf 1 I i ill il li 1 elsion but he be ilar n 1 el ri i lii tor UK thi in iii ehni ali H li 1 I dont ln t 1111 enli laiq mand M 11 11 h tell tit ali tit in ill ih 11 ls lh ih in neuil hol I 1 ait oit i ir if III f i 1 na ln i 1 ln nicil I 1 I 1 1 0 11 abide by his bis decision without fighting for he knows and they know that he knows and la in absolutely honest eaton was silent for a moment as they walked along how can he be come to his big decision ho he asked at lost how cowf 1 I mean much of the material presented to him must be documentary much of it Is then someone must read it to him of course eaton baton started to speak then refrained fra ined what were you going to say she questioned that the person or persons who reads the documents to him must occupy an extremely delicate position he does in fact I 1 think that position Is fathers one nightmare nightmare the person he trusts must not only be absolutely discreet but absolutely sol honest 1 I should think so 0 o it if anyone in that position wanted to use the information brought to your father he could make himself millions overnight undoubtedly and ruin other men and kill father too the tiri girl added quietly yes she said as naton enton looked at her I father rather putt puts nothing above his trust if that trust were betrayed whether or not father were in any way to blame for it I 1 think it would kill him so you are the one who Is in that position yes that Is I 1 have been you mean there Is another now that ta Is of course ur mr avery yes here at this house mr avery and 1 I and mr avery at the office before mr air avery came I 1 was wai the only one who helped here at the house when was that when mr avery came carabet about live five yearn yeara ago father had an immense amount of work at that time business conditions were very A every one who knows know father likes like and admires admire himl she rejoiced unsettled there was trouble at that time between some of the big eastern and big western men and at the same time the government was prosecuting the trusts nobody knew what the outcome of it all would be many of the biggest men who consulted father were like men groping in the dark I 1 dont suppose you would remember the time by what I 1 say but you would remember it as nearly everybody else does by this it was the time of the murder of mr aft latron yes I 1 remember that said enton eaton and mr air avery came to you ou at that time yes just at that time I 1 was thrown from my horse and could not do its as much ns as I 1 had been doing so mr avery was sent to father then aa mr I 1 r avery was reading to him at the time you spoke of the time of the antron murder no mr avery came just afterward I 1 was reading to him at that time the papers must have been a good deal for a girl of eighteen at that time you mean they were but father dared trust no one e else 1 se 11 mr avery handles those matters now for your father the continuation of what was going on then yes he took them up at the time I 1 was hurt and so has ban kept on looking after them for there has been plenty for me to do without that und and those things have all been more or less settled etl led now they have worked themselves out ns as things do thourl though they seemed ali nilst unsolvable tit nt the chup one thing that lie helped appl ppl in their solution wits ivas that father was uhle that time to urge what ant was just us its well ell as alint was ad viable you metin that in ill the lie finall settlement nf f them no one nii N 11 one I 1 think except of course nil mi liaman Lii triin mid abat wits a pit bif nt nt not connecter connect eI ia in tiny liny ill dl i it ni IV with tile the question at issue wily why do you yon ask all this BIT r I 1 1 I wn wan merely interested in you in what your work ban hn been with your our father and what it Is he answered quietly they had been following follow ini the edge edee of the road she along a path worn woin in the turf he on the edge of the road itself and nearer to tile the tracks of the motors suddenly sudden she cried out and clutched at him As they had stopped she had heard the sound of a lu motor 0 tor approaching I 1 lem them rapidly from behind except that this car seemed speeding faster than the others sir she had paid na no attention and had not turned instantaneously as she sh had cried and pulled upon him she ehe had realized that this car was not pass ing it was directly behind and almost upon him she felt him spring to the side as quickly as he be could but her cry and pull upon him were mere almost too late as he leaped the car struck tin the blow wan glancing not direct and he ha was off his feet and in motion when the wheel struck but the ca car r h burled u A e d him aside and rolled him over and over As an she rushed to eaton baton the tw two vo men in the rear seat of the car turned their heads head and looked back but without checking its speed or 01 swerving the car dashed on and tits disappeared down the roadway she bent over eaton baton ind nd took hot hold d of him he struggled to his feet and dazed tottered so that she supports support ed him As she realized that he was not greatly hurt she stared with horror at the turn in the road where the car had disappeared why he tried to run you down I 1 lie ile meant to I 1 he tried to hurt you I 1 she cried no eaton baton denied oh n no 0 1 I dont think so it must have been i an accident he was frightened when he saw what he had done it at all like an accident I 1 she persisted it have been an accident there and coming up from behind the way he did dudl I 1 no he meant to do it I 1 did you see who was in th car who was driving he turned to her quickly chor he be demanded one of the people who wits was on the train 1 the morning father was hurt dont you remember a little mar man nervous but very strong a man almost like an ape he shuddered and then controlled himself yes I 1 remember a fellow the conductor 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