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ciates must place moat complete con- fitlence In hliu when they leave to him the adjustment of ms Hera such as I understand they do. He tells them whnt la Jual, and they abide by bls decision,’’ Harriet shook her head. “No; It Isn't quite that," she said. "Whnt, thanF ’You are correct In saying that men of the moat opposite sorts—and most Irreconcilable to each other- con stantly place their fate In Father's hunt!; and when he tells them what they must tlo. they abide by his de clslon. But he doesn't decide for them whnt In Just." "1 don't understand. What does he tell them, then?" "lie tells them whnt would be the outcome If they fought, who would win nn<l who would lose anti by how much. And they believe him anti abide by his decision without fight ing; for be knows; and they know Hint I k » knows and la absolutely hoiifial Eaton WIK silent for a moment a« “'flow can be they wHlkeil along. ■ omr to hin decision F tie asked at last -How r "I mean, much of the material pre sen ted to him must he documentary.'' “Much of It la.” "Then someone must read It to him.” "Of course " Eaton started to speak—then re trained. “Wliat were you going to snyF she questioned. “That the person—or persons—who reads the documents to him must oc cupy an extremely delicate tiowltlon.'’ "lie iloea. In fact, I think that po sltlon Is Father's one nightmare,“ B lind M an ) E yej BY WILLIAM M ac HARG^EDWIN BALMEK Illustrations by R.H.Ltvingstone J L corrxowT »v umi. asoww, *no ( osmio synopsis CHAPTKn I -GabrM Wardaa, BaatUa rapltallal, tails hla butler ha la asps, ting a cellar, tu ba admitted without question Ho inhume hie wife ol 4at>a«r Hist throatona him l| ha pureuaa a souraa ha eonaldaro the anly hmaarable Ma War den laarvea tha houaa la hla rar and meats a man whom he takes Into the machine when the car returns home. Warden la found dead, murdered and alone The sailer, a young man. has been at War den's house but leaves unobserved. CHApTKR II.-Bob Connery, conductor. ?>celvee orders to hold train for a party lee mon and e girl hoard the train ho father of the girl, Mr Ikrrno. la the person for whom the train waa held Philip 11. Paton, a young man, also boarded thg train t>dms tefla hla daugh ter and hla Secretary, Don Avery, to mid out what they can canoamtnw him CHAITKR 111,—The two make Eaton'» acquaintance Tiro train la stopped by snowdrifts CHAPTER IV— Eaton receives a tele fram addressed to Lawrence HUlward. Which he claims It warns him he is being followed CHAPTER V.—Passing through the car, Connery notln Dorn»» hand hanging outside the berth 1!; ’ Ha _ aacartaina Dorn»'» bell has recently rung Perturbed. Investigates and finds Dorna with hla skull crushed Ha rails a surgeon. Dr •In' lair, on the train CHAPTER VI filnclalr recognises Inl'irrd man as Itasll ttantolne. who, though blind, la a peculiar In ths _____ power _______ ,j ■nanciai ~ advisor to "bla Intar 4 world as sots •• L; _________ .______________ lila recovery la a matter of ___ doubt CHAPTER VII.—Circumstances point to Eaton as Hantolna's assailant. CHA1TKR VIH Kston I» pr«w(l «lb pla>»l undar «rr,»i. Ha raluaaa lo maka a>i4anatl‘*n( *■ lo hl» pravloua move- inania bafora boanllna Iha traln. bul •dmlta ha Waa tha man »he callad on Wanlan iba nlght tha financiar «(a mur dered CHAITKB IX. —Baton pleads with Her- riot Bantnlno to withhold tudgment tell Ing lirr ho la In serious danger, though Innocent of the crime against her father ><e facia the girl believes him CIIAPTKR X-Henlolno recovers »ufil- clontly to 'ineellon Eaton, who refuser to rarest hie identity The Unaer ler re quires Eaton to acK-mnany him Io the ■anloins home, where no la tn the posi tion of a setal-prlooner CHAPTER XI Kuiotr meets a resident ef the house, Walla's llUv hfvrd. ani s young girl, Mildred Davis with whom aplksrontly bo hi acquainted, though they comesi tne fact, lotion's mlesbm la Io savore certain documenta «nidi aro vital to ht» Interests and hla being admitted to the house la a remarkable stroke of luck. The girl agiese to aid him He becomes deeply Inlet anted In Harriet Ban loins, and she In him (Continued front last week. I "It either Im» been »ent to him, or It will be sent to him very soon— here." "Where will It be when It Is here?" "Where? Oh!" The Kirf* fie« went to tile wnll clone tn where Eaton stood; she seemed to measure with I hem n definite distance from the door and n point »houlilor high. and to resist the Impulse to come over and put her hand upon the spot. A» Ea ton followed her look, he heart! a alight and intifi1c<l dick as If from the atudy; hut no sound could reach them through the study doors and what he hen rd crime from the wnll Itself. “A safe?" he whispered. “Yen ; Ml»» Rnnlolne—she's In there. Isn't she?—cloned It Just now. Then1 are two of them hidden behind the books, one on etich itltle of the door." Eaton tapper! gently on the wnll; the wnll wna brick; the safe undoubt edly wits backed with steel “The best way Is from Inside the room.” he concluded. She nodded. "Yes. If you—” "txiok ottf I” Someone now was coming down stairs The girl had time only to whisper swiftly, "If we don't get a chance to apeak again, watch tliht vase.” She pointed to a bronxe an tlqiie which stood on a table nenr them. "When I'm sure the agreement Is In the house. I'll drop a glove-but ton In that n black one. If I think It'll be In the snfe on the right, white on the left. Now go." Eaton moved quietly on nnd Into the drawing mom. Avery’s voice Im mediately afterward was heard; he wns speaking to Miss Dnvls, whom he had found In fttc hallway. Eaton was certfiln there wns no suspicion that he had talked with her there; Indeed. Avery seemed to sit|qw>si* that Enton wns still tn the study with Harriet Snntolnc It was her lapse, then, which hnd let him out and had given him thnt chance; hut It waa n lapse, he discovered, which was not likely to favor him again. From Hint time while never hold strictly In restraint? he found himself always In the sight of someone. Enton let himself think, Idly, about Harriet- how strange her life had been—that part of It nt least which was spent, iis ho had gathered most of her wnking hours of recent years had been spent, with her father. Strange, almost, ns hla own life! And what a wonderful girl It hail made of her—clever, sweet, lovable, with mote than n woman's ntdlnary ca pacity for devotion tu>4 self sacrifice Rut, If her service to her father wns not only on his personal side but if also she wns Intlninte In his busi ness affairs, must she not therefore have shared the cruel code which hat! terrorised Eaton for the last four years ami kept Idin an exile In Asin _ _______________ J and which, nl any hour yet. threat ened to lake hl» life? A grim set ■•nine to Eaton's lipa; hla mind went «gain to Ills own affair». CHAPTER XII him aside and rolled him over and over. As stie rusher! to Eaton, the two men In the rear seat of the < ai turned their hetitls and looked back, hut without cheeking Its speed or swerving, the enr dashed on and dis appeared down the roadway. She bent over Eaton and took hold of him. lie struggled to hla feet and. tlased. tottered So thnt she support ed him. A m she reallxed that he was not greatly hurt, stu* stnred with hor ror at the turn Io the road where the car had disappeared. “Why. he tried to run you down! He meant to! He trle<| to hurt yeti I” she cried. “No,” Eaton denied. “Oh. no, I don't think so. It must have been— an accident. He was—frightened when he saw what lie had done." •It wasn't st all like an accident I” ' she persisted. “It couldn’t have been an accident there nnd coming up from behind the way he did! No; he meant to do It! Did you ace who was In the car—who waa driving?" He turned to her quickly. “WhoF he demanded. “One of the people who was on the train! The morning Father was hurt Don't you remember—e little man, nervous, tout very strong; a mun al most like an apeF He shuddered nnd thep controlled himself. “Yea. I remember a felh/w the conductor tried to scat me oppo site." “This was the same man !*’ Efiton shook his hend. "That conld hardly be; I think yon must be mis taken." “I am not mistaken; a was that man!“ Tha Man Prom th» Train, In the supposition Hint he was to have lose liberty, Eaton proved cor rect Harriet Nnntolne, to whose Im pulses had been due his tire! privi leges, showed toward him n more con- strained attitude the following morn ing Rhe did not suggest hostility, as Avery constantly did; nor. Indeed was there any evidence of rotrogres alon lu her attitude toward him; she seemed merely to be mu In I sluing th, an me position; nnd since thin seemed difficult tf they were often together, "Still. I think yon must be" he she avoided him Eaton understood again deuieti. I that Haidolne, steadily Improving but She stared, studying him- “I'erbaps ”Tlie person he trusts must not noi yet able to leave bln bed. bud only he absolutely discreet but ab I waa." she n greet I; but she knew she taken up his work ngnln. propped up solutely honest." hnd not lieen. “I am glad, whoever by plllowe; one of the nurses had “I should think so. If anyone In it was. he didn't Injure you. You are been dismissed; the other was only that position wanted to use the tn- m H right, aren't you?" u | mui day duty. But Eaton did not “Quite." he assured. “Blense don’t fonustion brought to your father, he Bee Rnntolne nt nil; mid though he could make himself millions over trouble about it. Miss Santolne." learned that Mtns l»nvls or another night, undoubtedly, and ruin other They walked back rather silently, Stenograph«*, whose name wns West, she appreciating bow passionately men." came dally to the house, he never was "And kill Father too." the girl she bad expressed herself for him. In a | h >»HI"U again to encounter any added quietly. "Yen.” she said as and be quiet because of this and oiitalder either coming or going. Eaton liatked at her. “Father puts other thoughts too. There was no longer room l’l,r Fa They found I>onnld Avery In front nothing above Ida trust. If that trust (on to doubt Hint Harriet hnd the con- were betraysd—whether or not Father of the house looking for them as they fitlence of her lather to alnio»t n com were In any way to blame for it— came up. Eaton succeeded In walk plete extent. Now thnt Santolne wns I think It would kill him." ing without limping; but he could not 111. she worked with him dally for “So you are the one who Is In that conceal the mark» on his clothes. hours; am! Enton lenrned Hint she position.” “Harriet, I’ve Just come from your did the same when he wag well. Rut father; he wnntr you to go to him "Yea; that Is. 1 have beeu." Avery worked with the blind num too; “Good “You mean then* Is another now; at once,“ Avery directed. tie. too, wus certainly lu a confidential that la. of course. Mr. AveryF morning Eaton. What's happened?" capacity. Was it not probable then “Carelessness.'' Eaton deprecated. "Yes; here at this house Mr. Avery that Avery, anti n<>t Harriet, was en nnd 1, anil Mr. A-verj at the other. “Got rather In the way of a motor trusted with the eeenMa of <limger<ms Before Mr. Avery came, I wns the anti was knocked over for It." and ugly matter*«; or wns It possible only one who helped here at the Harriet did not correct this to thnt fids girl, worshiping her fstlier house.” Avery. She went up to her father; as she did. could know und be »lire "When was that?" she was still trembling, still sick thnt, because her father approved "Wlieu Mr. Avery came? About with horror at whnt she hnd seen— these punters, tie y were right? five years ago. Father had an Im an attempt to kill one walking at her A hundred times a day. ns Enton mense amount of work at that time. side, fttie stopped outside her fa saw or spake with the girl or thought Business comlltlon» were very mnen ther's door to comjwse kerselt; then of her presenee nenr by, thin obsessetl unsettled. There wan trouble at that she went In. him. A score of times during their time between some of the big eastern The blind man was propped up on cnsus) talk upon meeting at meals or anti big westerh men. and at the same elsewhere, he found himself turned time Hie government was prosecuting his bed with pillows into almost a toward some question which would the trusts. Nobody knew what the sitting position; the nurse was with nld him In determining what must be outcome of It all would be; many of him. "What did you want, FatherF Har the fact; hut ench time he checked the biggest men who consulted Father himself, until one morning—It wns were like men groping In the dark. riet asked. He had recognised her step and the fifth after Ids urrlval nt San- I don't suppose you would remember tolne's house- Harriet was taking the time by what I say; but you had been about to speak to her; but at the sound of her voice he stopped him for his walk In the garden before would reinember It. ns nearly every the words on his Bps and changed the house. She hnd Just told him, body else does ky this: it was the them Into a direction for the nurse at his Inquiry, that her father win time of the murder of Mr. Ijitron.'' to leave the room. very much stronger thnt morning, and “Yea; 1 remember thnt" said Ea He waited until the nurse had left her manner niorv than ever evidenced ton ; “and Mr. Avery came to you at her pride In him. and closed the door behind her. Har that tlmeF riet saw that. In his familiarity with They walked on slowly. "I wish "Xes; Just at that time I was her tones and every Inflection of her yon could tell me more about your thrown from iny horse, and could not voice, he had sensed already that self, Mr. Eaton " do as much as I had been doing, so something unusual had occurred; she "I wish so loo.” he sold. Mr. Avery was sent tn Father." reiwntetl. however, her question as "Then why cun you not?” Shs "Then Mr. Avery waa reading to turned to him frankly; he gazed at Idin at lhe time you spoke of—the to what he wanted. "That tloes not matter now, Hat“ her n moment and then looked awny time of the Latcon mttrderF riot. Where have you heenF and shook Ills bend. Did she know "No; Mr. Avery came Just after "I have been walking with Mr. nil of whnt was known even under ward. I was reading to him at that Eaton." her father's roof; and If she knew all. Hine.” “What happened?" Would she then loathe or tiefeud It? "The papers must have been a good She hesitated. "Mr. Enton was al A motor sped near, halted anti then deal for a girl of eighteen." most run down by a motorcar.” speeded on ngnln; Enton. looking up. “At that time, you mean? They “Ah! An accldentF nnw It was a niimbout with Avery She hesitated again. "Mr. Eaton alone In It; evidently, seeing them In were; but Father dared trust no one else." ,sald it was an accident," she an the rood, Avery had halted to pro "Mr. Avery handles those matters swered. test, then thought better of It nnd "But youF gone on. But other motors passed now for your father?” "The continuation of what waa go “It dkt not look like an accident. now with |ieople who spoke to Har ing on then? Yea; he took them up Father. It—It shewed Intention." riet and who stopped to Inquire for at the time I was hurt nnd so has “You mean It was an attackF her father nnd wish him well. “Yes; It was tin attack. The man "Your father does not seem to be kept on looking after them; for there one of the great mon without honor has been plenty for me to do without In the car meant to run Mr. Eaton In hla own neighborhood," Enton salt! thnt; anti those things have all been down; he meant to kill him or to more or less settled now. They have hurt him terribly. Mr. Eaton wasn't worked themselves out us things do, hurt. I called to him and pulled { though they seemed almost unsolvable him—he Jumped awny In time.” at the time. One thing that heiped “To kill him. Harriet? How do yon - In their solution was that Father waa knowF ' able, that time, to urge what was Just, She caught herself. “I—I don't , ns well aa what wns advisable.” know. Father. He certainly meant to "You mean that In the final settle Injure Mr. Eaton. When I said kill him. I was telling only what I ment of them no one suffered?" thought.” “No one, I think—except, of course “Thnt Is better. I think so too." poor Mr. Latron; mid that »in n prl- “That he meant to kill Mr. Eaton’" ■ vute mnIter not cohnected in any dl- "Yes." ( rect way with the question at Issue. Why tlo you ask all thia. Mr. EatonF ' She watched her fnther's face; "I was merely Interested In you— often when relating things to him, in whnt your work hns been with your she was aware from his expression Father, nnd whnt It la," he answered that she was telling him only some thing he already had figured out and quietly. They had been following the edge expected or even knew; she felt that of the road, she along a path worn now. “Fnther. did you expect Mr. Enton In the turf, he on the edge of the roatl Itself anil nearer to the tracks of the to be attacked?" "Expect ? Not that exactly; It was \ motors. Suddenly she crletl out and clutched nt him. As they had stopped, possible; I suspected something like she had heard the sound of a motor thia might occur." “And you did not warn him?” approaching them rapidly from be The blind man's hands sought each ! hind. Except that Ahls car seeiuet speeding faster than the others, shs other on the coverlet and clasped to hnd pnld no attenMon and had uot gether. "It was not necessary to warn turned. InatuntaBeevelys as slw hnd him, Harriet; Mr. Eaton already “Every One Who Knows Fsthsr Likes . cried anil pulled upon him. she had knew. Who was In the carF "Three men.” "and Admires Him I" 8ha Rejoiced. realized that this car waa not pass- "Hnd yon seen any of them heforeF , Ing; it waa directly behind and almost to her nfter one of these had halted upon him. She felt him spring to the "Yes, one—the man who drove.” nnd gone on. "Where?" aide aa quickly na he could; but her “Everyone who knows Father likes cry anti pull upon him were almoat too “On the train.” nnd admires him I” she rejoiced. The color on Santolne's face grew i late; as ho leaped, the car struck. The "Itlol^t menu exactly thnt," Fat loti blow was glancing, not direct, ant! he brighter. "Describe him, dear." went on. “They must trust him too. wns off his feet ami In motion when He watted while she called together In un extraordinary way. Ills asso the wheel struck; but the car hurled her recollections of the man. I * i “1 can't describe him very fully. Father," she said “He was one of the people who had berths In the for ward slaaptng car. I can recall see Ing him only when I parsed through the car—I recall lilui only twice tn that car and once In the diner.” “That Is luteresting." said Man toina. "What, FatherF “That In five days up<«> the train you saw the man only throe time»." (Continue«! Next Week.) F 'The Bank That Gives You Service” THE CITIZENS BANK Grand Ave. at E. 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