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SYNOPSIS
hla house and who had come there
and walled while Warden, away In hla
ear, was klUetl.
Connery waa walking back through
the train, absent-minded In trying to
decide whether he could be at all aure
of thia; and trying to decide what he
ahould do If he felt sure, when Mr.
fierce st»p|>ed him.
“Conductor, do you happen to
know,“ ho queotl<med, “who the young
man Is who took Bed Ion Three In the
ear forward F*
Connery gas[>ed ; but the question
put to him the Impossibility of hla
being aure of any recognition from the
description. “Ho gave bls name mi
hie ticket as Idilllp D. Eaton. Mr,”
Connery replied.
“la that all you know about him?"
“Yes. sir."
“If you And out anything about him,
let me know," Horne bado.
"Yea, sir." Connery determined to
let nothing Interfere with learning
more of Eaton; Horne's request only
gave him added responsibility.
iHiroe, however, was not detwndlng
upon Connery a|on« for further Infor
mation.
As soon as the etmductor
had gone, he turned back to his
daughter and Avery upon the seat op
posite.
,
"Avery.” he Mid In a tone of direc
tion. “I wtah you to get In convrrM
lion with this Philip Eaton. It will
probably be useful It you let Harriet
talk with him t<». She would get Im
pressions helpful to me which you
can’t.'
The girl started with surprise but
recovered at once. “Tea. Father." she
Mid.
“What, air?" Avery ventured to pro
test.
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(Continued from last week.)
I Him» runihl«Ht tn Na Inner parks!
and brought out a card caea, which
he opened, and produced a card Con
nary. glancing at the card while the
ether still held It. aaw that It war
I’realdent J ar» la' «tailing card, with
the prealdrnl'a name in engrave«!
block letters; across Its top was writ-
ten briefly tn Jarvis* familiar hand.
“Thia la the passenger", and below,
tt waa signed with the same scrawl
of initials which had been on the note
Connery had received that morning—
“H R. J"
Connery’s hand shook aa. while try
ing to recover himself, ho took the
card and lookard at It more closely,
and he felt within him the sinking
eenaatlon which folione an escape
from danger, lie saw that hla too
reedy and loo aaaured assumption
that Fntnn waa the man to whom Jar-
vie* note had referred, had almost led
blhi into the sort of mistake which Is
untwrdonable In a “trusted** man; he
had come within an ace. he rm Used,
CHAPTER III
of speaking to Raton and so betray
ing the presence nn the train of a
Miss Dome Meets Baton.
traveler whose Journey hla superiors
Dorna motioned Avery to the aisle,
wore trying to keep secret.
where alrendy some of the pnsaengera,
“You need, of course, hold the train
having settled their belongings In
no longer.“ l*ome Mid to (.'«winery.
their sections, were beginning to wan
“Yea, str; I received war«! from Mr.
der through the rars seeking ar«
Jarvis about you, Mr. I Hirns. I shall
qualntanccs or players to make up a
follow hla Instructions fully.“
card game. Eaton took from a bag
As ho went forward again after the
a handful of cigars with which he
train waa under way, Connery tried
tilled a plain, unlnltlaled cigar case,
to recollect how It waa that he had
and went toward the club and ohser
been led Into au«*h a mistake, and de
vat Ion car In the roar. Aa he posse«!
fending himself, he laid It all to old
through the sltx-per next to him—the
Sammy.
Ilut old Sammy waa not
last one—Harriet (torce glanced up
often mistaken In hie Identifications
at him and spoke to her father; Home
If Raton was not the person for whom
nodded but did not look up.
the train was held, might he be some
The observation room was nearly
one else of lm|>ortanceT Now as he
empty. The only occupants were a
studied Eaton, he could not Imagine
young »«nan who waa reading a mag
what had made him accept thia pae
asine, and an elderly man. Eaton
aenger aa a person of great position.
chose a seat aa far from these two aa
It was only when he pnssed Raton a
possible.
third time, half an hour later, when
He had been there only a few mln
the train had long left Beattie, that
utee, however, when, looking "up. he
the half-shaped haMrda and guesses
about the passenger suddenly sprang saw Harriet Horne and Avery enter
the room. They passed him. engaged
Into form. Allowing for a change of
clothes and a different way of brush In conversation, and stood by the rear
ing hla hair, Eaton wag exactly the door looking out Into the storm. It
was evident to Eaton, although he did
man whom Warden had mow «»«* -•
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not wstrh them, that they were argu
ing something; the girl seemed insist
ent, Avery Irritiitrd and unwilling.
Her manner showed that she won her
point Anally. She seated herself In
one of the chairs, and Avery left her.
He wandered, as If slmltuuly, to the
reading table, turning over the mags
sines there; abandoning them, he
gased about as tf bored; then, with a
wholly casual
manner, he came
toward Eaton and took the smi be
side him.
“Rotten weather. Isn't It?" Avery
observed somewhat ungrarioualy.
Eaton could not «well avoid a reply
"It's been getting worse," he com
mented, “ever since we left Seattle.”
“We're running Into it, apparently."
Again Avery looked toward Eaton and
waited.
“Yee—lucky If we get through."
The converMtion on Avery's part
waa patently forced; and It was
equally forced on Eaton’s; neverthe-
I vm It cvotlnaed.
Avery Introduced
the war and other aubjecte upon which
meh, thrown together for a time, are
accustomed to exchange opinions. But
Avery did not do It easily or natu
rally ; he plainly waa of the caste
whose pose It la to repel, not seek,
overtures toward a chance acquaint
ance. Hie lack of practice was per
fectly obvious when at last he asked
directly: “Beg pardon, but 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 aMtgned."
And again the eooverMtluu, enjoyed
by neither of them, want on. Finally
"Oil, no; I was only talking In pure
generalities. Just as you were,"
“Let us go oh. then,” she Mid gayly
"I see I can't conceal from you that
I am doing you the honor to wond«-r
what you are. A lawyer would think
of it lu the light of diiamge It might
create end the auiistspient {H>»albllltfe«
of litigation.” Hhe made a little painw*
“A busineM man would take It Into
account, as he lies to take luto account
all things In nature or human; It
would delay transportation, or harm
or aid the winter wheat.”
"Or stop rouipetltlon somewhere,”
ha observed. more Interested.
The flash of Mtlsfactlon which came
to bar face end as quickly was
checked and faded showed him she
thought she was on the right tract.
“BusineM," she Mid. still lightly,
“will—how la It the newspapers put
lt>—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 and Its spies to discover and to
bring beck word of the effect upon the
_ - -_ ••
crop®.
"You talk," he Mid, “as If business
were a war."
“Isn't It?—like war, but war tn
higher terms.”
“In higher termer he questioned,
attempting to make hie tone like hers,
but a sudden bitterness now was be
trayed by It. "Or In lowerF'
"Why, In higher," she declared, “de
mandlng greater courage, greater de
votion, greater determination, greater
aelf-Mcriflce. Recruiting officers can
pick any man off the streets and make
a good soldier of bltu, but no one
the girl at the end of the car rose and
passed them, aa 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.”
Mhe had Halted almost in front of
them. Avery, hesitating as though he
did no* know what he ought to do.
flimlly arose; and aa Eaton observed
that Avery, having Introduced him
self. appeared now to consider It his
duty to present Eaton to Harriet
Horne. Eaton also arose. Avery mur
mured the names.
Harriet itorne.
resting her hand on the ba<-k of
Avery's chair. Joined In the conver-
Milon. Aa he rvplle«l easily and In
terestedly to a cotnni«*nt of Eaton's.
Avery suddenly reminded her of her
father. After a minute, when Avery
—atlll ungracious and still irritated
over something which Eaton could not
gueM—rather abruptly left them, she
t«»ok Avery's scat; and Eaton dropp»M
Into hla chair beside her.
Now, this whole proceeding—though
within the convention which, forbid
ding a girl to make a man's acquaint
ance directly, says nothing against
her making It through the medium of
another man—had been so unnatu
rally done that Eaton understood that
Harriet Horne deliberately had ar
ranged to make his acquaintance, and
that Avery, angry and obj«*ctlng. had
been overruled.
She seemed to Eaton leas nlertly
boyish now than she had looked an
hour before when they had boarded
the train. Her cheeks were smoothly
rounded, her lips rather full, her
Inahra very long. He «'ould not look
up without looking directly at her, for
her chair, which had not been moved
since Avery left It. was at an angle
with hla own.
To avoid the apprarance of study
ing her t«m openly, he turned slightly,
so that hla gase went past her to the
white turmoil outside the windows.
"It's wonderful." she Mid, "Isn’t ItY'
"Ton mean the storm V A twinkle
of amusement came to Eaton's eyes.
“It would be more Intereating If It
allowed a little more to be seen. At
present there la nothing visible but
enow."
"Is that the only way It affects you?
An artist would think of It aa a back
ground for contrasts—a thing to
sketch or paint; a writer as something
to be written down In words."
Eaton understood. She could not
more plainly have asked hlna what he
was
“And an engineer, I suppose." he
said, easily, "would think of It only as
an element to be Included In hie for
mulae—an x, or an a, or a b. to be
pnt In somewhere and square-rooted
or squared so that^the roof-tntM he
waa figuring should not buckle under
Its weight."
“Oh—so that Is the way you were
thinking of it?"
"You mean,” Eaton challenged her
directly, “am I an engineer?”
"Are yooF'
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Eaton went Into the men’s compart
ment of his car, where he Mt smok
ing till after the train was under way
again.
The porter looked in upon
him there to ask tf he wished bls berth
made up now; Eaton nodded assent,
and fifteen minutes later, dropping
the cold end of his cigar and gvuig
out Into the ear, be found the berth
ready for him. A half hour later the
paSMge of uoio«*one through the aisle
and the sudden «Ummlng of the crack
of light which »bowed above the cur
tains told him that the lights In the
car bad been turned down.
Eaton
closed hla eyes, but sleep waa far
from blm.
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Where He Sat
jha Train Was
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(Continued Next Weed.)
Eaton Went Into the
ment of His Car,
Smoking Till After
Under Way Again.
She Had Halted Almost In Freni of
Them.
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In the circuit court of the state of
Oregon for Multnomah county, de-»
port men t of probate.
Ln the matter of the guardianship
of Catherine L. Overbeck and Richaro«
H. Overbeck, minors.
No. 18329
Order to Show Cause
This cause coming on to b? heard
on the petition of Helen R. Over-
bcck, guardian of the estates of
Catherine L. Overbeck and Richard H.
Overbeck, minora, for a license and
order permitting her to sell certain
real property of the estates- of said
wards, and it appearing to the court
that it is necessary and will be bene
ficial to the «raid wards and to their
estates that the following described
parcel of real property of the estates
of said wards should be sold-by said
guardian, to-wit:
An undivided one-half of the fol
lowing d«*scribed tract in Clatsop
county in the state of Oregon, to-wit:
The south half of the northeast quar
ter and the southeast quarter of the
northwest quarter and the northeast
quarter of the southeast quarter of
section twenty-four (24) in township
four (4), north of range «even (7),
west of the Willamette meridian.
It is therefore ordered. That the
next of kin of said wards and all
persons interested in the estates nf
said wards shall appear before the
above entitled court at the courtroom
thereof in the city of Portland, Mult
nomah county, state of Oregon, ¿a
Thursday, February 8, 1923, at the
hour of 9:S0 o’clock in the forenoon
of said d«y and show cause, if any
there be, why a license should not be
granted for the «e’e by said guardian
of the above described real -property
of the estates of said wards.
It is further ordered. That a copv
of thia order be publishe«! for three
successive weeks prior to said Febru
ary 8, 1923, in The Catholic Sentinei,
a newspaper of general circulation in
Multnomah county. Oregon.
Dated this 9th «lay of January, 1923.
GEORGE TAZWEI.L.
Judge of the above entitled court.
Date of first publication, January
11, 1923.
Date of last publication, February
I, 1923.
could be so sure of finding a satisfac
tory employee in that way. lh*esn't
that show that daily lire, tie every
day business of earnlug a living and I
bearing one's share In the w.vrkaday I
world, demands rrvan-r qualities than
war?"
Her face had fashed eagerly as she
spoke; a darker. livid flush answered
her words on his.
"Eut the opportunities for evil are
greater, too," he asserted almost
flercely. “How many of those men you
break of on the streets have been <Je- ,
I
llburatcty, mercilessly, even savagely
sacrlflc«, to some busineM expediency,
their future destroyed, their hope
killed I"
Some storm of passion,
whose meaning Hhe ’could not divine,
was sweeping him.
"You mean." she asked after an In
stant's silem-e, “that you. Mr. Eaton
have been sacrificed in such a wayF’
“I am still talking In generalities,"
he denied Ineffectively,
He mw that she sensed the un
truthfulness of those last words Her
smooth young forehead and her eyes
were shadowy with thought. Eaton
waa uneasily silent. Finally Harriet
Horne eeeuied to have made her de
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
cision.
“I think you ahould meet my father,
In the circuit court of the State of
Mr. Eaton." she Mid. “Would you Oregon for the County of Multnomah
like tor
probate department.
He did not reply at on«*e. He knew
In the matter of the estate of Kath
that hla delay was causing her to erine MacDonald, deceased.
study him now with greut surprise.
Notice is hereby given that the
"I would like to meet him, y«*a," he undersigned has been appointed admin,
Mid. “but"—he. hesitated, tried to istratrix of the estate of Katherine
avoid answer without offending her, MacDonald, deceased, by the circuit
but already he had affronte«! her— court of the State of Oregon fur
Multnomah county, and has qualified.
“but not now. Miss Dorn«*."
All persons having claims against
She stared at him, rebuffed and
said estate are hereby notified to
chilled.
present the same, duly verified as by
"You mean—" The sentence, obvt- law required, to the undersigned at
ousl.v, was one she felt It- better not suite 430 Worcester building, Port
to finish. Aa though he recognised land. Or., within six months from the
that now she must wish the converse
date hereof.
tlon to end. he got up.
She rose
Dated and first published January
4. 1923.
stiffly,
“I’ll see you Into your car. If you're
Last publication, February I, 1923.
returning there," he offered.
, CARLOTTA O’CONNOR,
Neither spoke, aa he went with her
Administratrix.
Into the next car; and at the section P. J. BANNON,
where her father sat. Eaton bowed
Attorney.
silently, nodded to Avery, who coldly
returned hla nod. and left her. Eaton
went on Into hie own car and sat
doom, his thoughts In mad con fusion.
How near he had come to talking
to thia girl about himself, even though
he had felt from the first that that
was what she was trying to make him
do I Was he losing his common sense?
Was ths eelf-c«»mmand on which he
had so counted that he had dared to
take this train deserting him? He
felt that he must not see Harriet
Home again alone. In Avery he had
recognised, by that Instinct which so
strangely divines the personalities one
meets, an enemy from the start;
Horae's attitude tqprard him. of
course, was not yet defined; as for
Harriet Horne—he could not tell ;
whether she was prepared to be hie j
enemy or friend.
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