Show 2 Is I 1 the he blind 11 nd manss mans eyes es ifs is i el by william Ma macharg cHard edwin balmer 1 4 M by little i ir brown ra aga Cm CaT nibs TiT ac CHAPTER continued 17 A As he struggled forward impatient a at t these delays he came several times upon narrow unguarded roads arid and crossed them at other times the little wilderness which protected him changed suddenly to a well kept lawn where some great house with its garages and out buildings loomed ahead and afraid to cross these open places he was obliged to retrace hla his steps step and find a way round the distance from the bridge to the place where the men he was following had got out of their motor he had thought to be about two mites miles but when he had been traveling more than an hour he had not yet reached it then suddenly he came upon the road for he was looking somewhere to the east along it was the place he sought lie ile crouched as near to the road its as he dared and where he could took look up and down it tills this being a main road was guarded A motorcar with men in it passed him and presently re passed evidently PI pa froling the road its lights showed him a man with a gun standing at the first bend of the road to the east eaton baton drew further back and moved parallel to the road but far enough awa away y from it to be hidden A quarter 0 of f a mile further he found a second man the motorcar evidently was patrolling ng only to this point another car win wile on oil duty beyond tills As baton halted tills this second car approached pro ached and was waa halted backed gad turned its il headlights swept through the ids und tind revealed kuton I 1 uton the ninn man it anding in ili the rond road died cried out the flarin lind did alred nt lit union lien point blank lie he lind a and third time naton eaton flod fled back into the shadow as a lie he did so lie heird the igei crying to one oile another and ami leaping from the atie cur car und and following ailin ill ile hu tIll tell to tile the woold wont further along iilona will clime link back tu to the road lying hit flat upon lis ills face ngali lind annit ins till some me other oilier car in ili pasing rai ln should hould give biln light to see nam senk tind mid illy from its his wounds tind confused ed by du dar kness liness will ami ills his tiivi ti iii lle le through lenou ll nou the boils woods hail had no exact idea liev long iong it hall had lafin to crt to tills this but lie knew that jt it could conk lime hilve bien hardly les less than two IMO hours since lie le had loft left ilar riot the hie men lie he wits following 1114 that much start of ill lalni nal d till ude ill ailin wild ailta lah lin in but did 11 not 11 cour 1 ailin iti his nn mn wounds katun understood in ido H lils esipow esi po practically ado Iw callo tiny one who saw othild lit once challenge ond and detain ilin lafin till and the hie ither illier wall man ns its still inore s minded it was nut not his e esah cape that eaton Iii tuii feared it was ns con of milt liim the ninn inan hall been tikon 11 irdill ilir car because liccari iu ills his condl tion MI so 0 derfus lait that there was vas no hpe or of it balon thought lie insist ie m ahad lie i ocHil to find ilio iho libil abdy lii il tian oiled under inder dead leies leaves hu 11 lelly ill biddell alic nl lil hit biad cleared eil a little ta to flu tit amith unton emild see stars sud slid danly danl tin tho lond aind in tile aenlle b bustled bustles tit rt Us its sacs Ili thed out in ili the bright light if it motorcar passing pasing E aaton aton bom font leird ird ile ho hall found the place t lice lie he smi ht there was has no doubt it fi var brid turned tinned off the road some ahne before and stopped there the of ninny cars had so tracked tile rind that none of the men ilion in tile the sovin pl to have notice a an it Y thing of sign Meance there thare but eaton sav aw plainly ail in tile the soft oft ground tit at tile lie 1 ILI if the woods the footmarks foot marks of or two to invin imn one behind the lie other iipp alim the car had p passed ased ho he siept dorward boiu ail in thedarl alie dirk and fingered in distinct net hep beel and tie te ingilis in the aft on soil por for a little distance 11 tance lie ile could billit fidlow thein by 1 feeling foill ns then ns ti I 1 they the led iril him into tile edge of nt the u v nods the hie anund prow grew linder harder and ile he im 1111 hoci loll 1011 er diw kilell in tint wily i it was fis to lint sunil spid oc cill cunial red to tio nun ilion lim laid I 1 g i ot it ait oit lit I 1 of till cm lit here nirl find hall ii id I 1 out and 1 11 1 rl in it i biord lie le knelt nhi itlie boulo ft fid el tin tho list list foint liy lie cobil I 1 ditont looked loo lel lirou nl alln in lil ht lioi lloil ildri lIm ni ill ili er ill il but tile inan till of it iiii id 11 ailin lit iii h lind lif hid 1 id ii klinl i il 11 1111 tile hurt hint ills in I 1 bic in ll aldin Ilo din mik liina re shill lilii 1 routs till mil lii dmd li id cut li ills his sinks ch all lorn loin tin tho 1111 11 11 ills ill skin idl nils lit hilt nicil dry ill valli ft lic nar r nil 1 ill ili heno he id si niti lynip N ns lait net et inlet 11 lit li tn sio set ony ln ill t inc lull but I 1 iti n it cais to tit alii and I 1 cl io l r to 0 till flir loi iid owilda iii 01 ilin L 1 11 tin th van oil on in tile lal tivy I 1 ani 11 II id from tiivi tile the amo loail ino inlo hit lir mils 4 on oil tin the attel rt tel leanon lind tl hi wa MII fl dirk dark main st in n fm few fali ps hem ml ther tl riu was is another 11 liton aton hii it 11 ifill and alln iain it anew anc tant lint alln wrt bloma 8 si tin ill lilloll N it is s nil ill doad nl alit len n lit in had lii iwen i n 11 f tt LI fl hii tilt dir lint iut ili liu hall hint MIN n ill ti lull 1111 llin filim self if wil MI probably binl II nl if thor ill keell nin lilly hope for fir libni ills coti cd i not he din inn him hi lu in tills this MI kiy awny imn from liny nn or of jurg ait alt lal 1 n ulton foloi il ns fig tile lo 10 1 1 tue tte aois woods tilt llo huil had I 1 gone very slowly carrying this heavy beavy weight they had stopped frequently to rest and had laid their burden down then sud suddenly dealy he ca came m e to a place where plainly a longer halt had been made the ground was trampled around this spot when the trucks tracks went on they were changed in character the two men were still carrying the third a heavy man whose weight strained them and made their feet sink in deeply where the ground was soft rut but now BOW they were not careful how bow they carried him but went forward merely as though bearing a dead weight now too no more stains appeared on the brown leaves where they had passed their burden no longer bled eaton realizing what tills this meant felt neither exultation nor surprise he had known that the man they carried though evidently alive when taken from the car was dying nut but now he watched the tracks more closely even than before looking for them to show him where the men had got rid of their burden it was quite plain what had occurred the wet sand below was trampled by the feet of three or four men and cut by a boats bow they had taken the body away with them in the boat to sink it somewhere weighted with heavy stones in the deep water batons search was hopeless now but it could not be so go it must not he be sol set batons eyes ees searched fever feer isail ashly the shore and the take but there was A as nothing in sight upon either ile he crept back from the edge of the bluff hitting hiding beside a fallen log banked with lend lead le bees ageg what was w is it lie had find said to harriet 1 I will come collie back to you ou its as you ou have never neer lil known loNn tile me be before forel I 1 ile he rehearsed the woid noris i in mockery how would he return to tier now As he moved a alerc hot pain from the clotted wound in his shoulder shot blin through 1110 through with agony find and the silence and of unconsciousness over ailin CHAPTER not eaton overton awoke at five fe th blind ninn felt strong and beeady it in lind food brought bhul leini while I 1 he ie wa it ills its ine returned return ci saw the antin bilone ond and lie hall sed him lie he sout for ills daughter riet went up to him bilm fearfully alie blind ninn calin alra tind mid quiet a thin square packet lay iny on the lied bed beshle blin he held field it out to tier lier without speaking slie she snatched it in dread the shape 0 f the packet and the in mitch it wits was fastened told tier lier it be a philoe imph open it tier lier fitcher directed what aliat liat is it anu nu to know father slie she ashell hint Is tile of eaton yes 1 cs 1 I thought SO she to asure n suie herself of the th e shil sando do of the in her fu authers tone but she could not she understood that tier lor recognition of the pl ale ture had satisfied lim jilin in ili begird to over oer which lie he lind hall seen in doubt but whether tills was to work in favor of hugh and lier heiselt self she thought of herself now inseparably hugh or whether it threatened I 1 lien ihen she could not tell rather father what nhat does tills this mean she earled to him what deir dear your lour lining having the picture bere e 11 ill you get it 1 I knew uie zihere it might be I 1 sent for it cut but but father it rame to lier her now iio lint alint tier father must linow v lio ho hush was is who mio 11 1 I know who ulio he Is nov ilow her father ald said cul lulY 1 I 1 nill tell you sou when I 1 can when ln n you can yes ie lie nid where Is avery API nf I 1 ills his lind 11 ind ad gone to an it i or suba subject c et instantly ile HP tills leiis not been in I 1 lillee belleve since n on 1 I he le Is oversee hig the for foi I 1 iti n lc anil for him tell hlin him I 1 wih mi to vt lalni hele lit tho houe lio iise lie he 14 1 to iain aln the lione houe until I 1 line have 1 11 film 8 si UK in lid fler fil s borle biml perill oxell lii her slie lie liin thol udit lit of I 1 n nutt now mily i nl is as the it va ii r will mill inget vindictive ric of Eat hatjis I 1 jis pur pini iier cis k gnp if tier father donald ion from uniting those hi ie echio liton eaton anc n lie tor for libin jill lot Ie vause hiie lie lelnd find lust just mils ns sm 11 holcli 1111 ninke in ike bol ii 4 rl clomis artill or till lind desperate de tho the search cirr li the J lie mind 1 allans q louk find vinner i anid her not liln you ju mean dnald ln ill Is to tn walt unit li here re i mil you inn end feild for fir hini him fitly that lint Is it it anns ns the blind ieans tono tn of adli 1111 al llo ile to flav forgotten ilic ifie picture tit lit loaft as ills daughter tile the door he g anio aye no llo f lion don concerning it slie site illk bolted d ii kank hadi back ut lit him she would not arry air the lie picture away secretly like fills site blie was ns not ashamed of her love irne for baton whatever wha misfit be said or thought of him she ebe trusted him she was proud of her love tor for him 1 may I 1 take the picture she asked sten t end dlly ily do whatever you want with it her father answered quietly and so she took it with her she found a servant of whom she inquired for avery he be had not returned so she sent for him she went down to the deserted library and waited there with the picture af hugh in her hand band the day had drawn to dusk she could no longer see the picture in the fading light she could only recall it and now as she recalled it the picture itself not her memory of her fathers manner in relation to it gave euve her vague discomfort she got up suddenly switched on the light and holding the picture close to it studied it what it was in the picture that gave her this strange uneasiness quite separate and distinct from all that she had felt when she first looked at it site she could not tell but the more she studied it the more troubled and frightened she grew the picture was as a plain print pasted upon common square cardboard without photographers emboss or signature and printed with the picture were four plain distinct numerals she did not know what they meant or it if they had any real significance but somehow now she was more afraid for hugh than she had been she trembled as she held the picture again to her cheek and then to tier her lips site she turned some one had come collie in from tile the hall it was donald she saw tit at tier her first glance at him that ills his search had not yet et succeeded and she threw tier her heam lack bick in relief seeing the liblit he had looked into the library idly but when hon lie he saw her lie approached appi duellen duelled tier her quickly what have you there lie demand ei ell of tier she nt at the tone what right haap lia nou ou to ask iler iier instant In stint impulse lind been tu to conceal the picture but that would make it seeni sit bilic V 1 1 1 l ni les I 1 rill ill it she struggled to free herself from him anns its tisba med of it she held it so don aid alil could see it if lie looked lie he did look and suddenly seized the picture from her where did you ou get tills this harriet hanlet pon don 1 lacre where did you got get it lie repeated are re you sou ashamed to sni say ashamed isha ined father gave BIC it to met mel your our ft ither avery aery started but if anything in thins lind had caused him slon it instantly disappeared then lie till tell you ou who mho this man naton eaton Is what dill did lie siy say to you 31 ou ant to do you sou mean don lie ile put the picture don on the table beside him and ns as she rushed for it lie seized both tier hands hand and held field her hei before him I larry dearl dear lie he sald said to her haul larry I dear dont call me that I 1 dunt dont speak to rite me that she struggled to free herself lioi from him 1 I know kno of course coure lie said its bec because aue nf if him lie jerked ills liend toNNi ird the on the table the alie nian tier anade aci let furious let jot tile tiie K g jim hii 1 im I in sorry dear lit ile drew dic tier to him told let only onh clo clod or don father wants ints to top eve ini ile HP andl wanted to t know iian lie cadue in lie will nil lt let irm w ehnow ani mien atu DU can ain go afi to billit ann 11 bild lild lie toll you 01 ol tha tint t when lion lie he pine gave sou the pitkin piti urell in IP avear had nani it let t lur her agn sn nou dill lie to bold lind hard 11 in linn ic lie willi ted tile me ti to tell you tills 1 n tann li bouli it in have you ou toll tell nip 1110 about mr arr 11 aton dwi hnott 1 lie he sidd to lier her what ham ou if to say sn about him donnld donald yon must inist think of nf him hilli den dear boti inist jilin fore firu eril eil donald I 1 nin am art a el 1 ild if you jou lne to ally sn bilili all li 1 lili you nn rin it sidor hind hard for tilt nip to 11 in ear ir tell it to me tit nt once very well elt ps that lint Is 19 host dear either tills ninn wm you bui havo known as cuton will ft never be found or it if he Is found he cannot be let tt tl live harry have you never seen been I 1 picture with the numbers printed in below like that cant you guess yet where your father must have sent for that picture dont you know what those numbers mean what do they mean they are the figures of hla his number in what Is called the rogues gallery and they mean he be has committed a crime and been tried and convicted of it they mean in this case that he has committed a mur murder derl 1 A murder I 1 for which he was waa convicted and sentenced sentenced I 1 yes and Is alive now only because before the sentence could be carried out he escaped that man philip eaton baton la is hugh 1 hugh I 1 hugh overton ton harryl harry r hugh overton overtone nl I 1 yes I 1 found it out today the th police have just learned it too I 1 was coming to tell your father hes hugh overton the murderer of matthew latron I 1 no DOI no yes harry for this man Is certainly hugh overton Ch |