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A w \ B lind M ai ¿5 E ye BY j WILLIAM M ac HARG* EDWIN BALMER. not find anything which helped ner. •YNOFtia She pushed the letter» away, then, ■ nd sat thinking. Mr. Warden, who CltAFTKn I-«tobrtol Wartm. S mi U. appeared to have known more about rapItoltoL i.lia hl» butler ha la »»p»ctlM Eatou lhaa anyone else, had taken Ea a naUer, te be admitted without auooUow. Ha Informs hie wife of dancer that ton’s able; It was because lie had been tore.i ana him If ha eurouaa a oourna ha conaid.ro the enly hbearable oaa War- going te help Eaton that Mr. Warden dan laeaee the houee la hla car end moole had been killed. Would not her father a man whom ho lahae Into the machine When the oar return, homo. Warden la be ready to help Eaton, then. If he found dead, murdered, end alone- The knew as much about him as Mr. War dbUer. a round man. naa been at War den had known? Hut Mr. Warden, don e bouaa. but iearrea unoboorved. apparently, h»d kept what he knew i'll A1“1*I8H 11.—Bob Coaaery. oeaduotor. even from hla own wife; and Eaton Erlroe brdara to hold train for a party e men and a girl board the train was now keeping It from everyone— I father of the <irl, Mr. Dorna Io the her father Included. Rhe felt that her •eraon fur whom the train wan hold Ptrlllir 1> Baton, a young maa, aloe father had understood and appreci boarJed the tram Horn, tofis hie dauah ated all this long before herself—that tor an l hie aocratary. Don Aeerr. to nod •tat what they ran cnnraml.e him It was the reason for hl» attitude toward Eaton on ibe train and, tn part, CHA ITCH 111.-The two mahe Atone aeeualntanra The train to .topped by the cauae of hl» conalderate treatment oaowdrifta of him all through. CNAPTBH IV.-Baton raroleee a toto- Ho. Instead of being estranged by Hru .ddreorad to lawrenco lllllw.rd. Eaton*» manner to her father, she felt Ich h. clalma It warna him ho to ng followed. an Impulse ef feeling toward bltn flooding her, a feeling which ahe tried CHAITKIl V - Panning through the oar, Connery notice. Itnmo a hand hanging to esplaln to herself as sympathy. Hut outaide the berth lie aocortaine Daraf’s It waa not Just sympathy; she would til han rooonlly rung Perturbed, ho roatlgatoo and flnde Dorna with hla not say even to herself what It w » l ahull cruahod Ho celto a eurvooa. tar Uh«- got up suddenly and went to Mnclalr. on the train the door and looked Into the ball; a CHAPTKR VI -Btnclalr reoedntMo the servant came to her. tnjurrd man ae Baall Maatolna. who. al though blind, la a peculiar power la the "Is Mr. Avery still with Mr. Ban- ■nanclal world aa ad»leer to "big Inter tolneT* she asked sato." Hla recovery to a outttor of doubt “No, Miss Antoine; he has gone CHAPTER VII -Clreumatamoo point to Baton aa gantotno'e aneallant. out.” **Thsnk you.” CHAPTKR VIII -Alon la practically Itoeed wader err eat Ila refuaea to make Hhe went beck, and bundling the ■Maaaton« aa to hla urovteua ......... E^^eofore boarding the train, >ve- but correspondence together as It had been tototto ho erne the man who called on before, she removed the books from a [arden the night the Bn eactor wa. mur shelf to the left of the door, slid bsck another panel and revealed a second PWR fX.—Paton plaada with Her wall safe corresponding to the one to lolno to withhold ludgmont, tall- ho to In eerloua danger, though the right of tlie door from which «lie of the crime agalnal her father aela the girl bollevea him. had taken the palters. The combina tion of this second safe was known CHAPTER X gwntolne recovers euin only to her father and heraelf. She dent Ir to quoettun Alon, who rofuaer to reveal hie identity The dnam-ler re put the envelopes Into It, closed It, quire. Alon to accompany him to the and replaced the books. Then she Antoine home, whore ho to la the poet lion of a eeml-prlwmer Went to her father’» desk, took from a drawer a long typewritten report of CHAPTER XI - Eaton meota a rooldont ef the houee. wallace lllalchfurd. and a which lie had asked her to prepare a yming girl, Mlklred Davla. with whom digest, and read It through; conscious apparently ho la acquainted, though they conceal the fact r.lun’i mlaelon la to ly concentrating, »he began her work. •»■ ure certain documenta which are vital At three »he heard Avery's motor, and to hla lot.rente, and ble being admitted to the houee la a remarkable etroka of went to the study door amt looked out fuck The girt arreen to aid him. Ho aa he entered the hall. become, deeply Inleroated In Harriot An tolna, and aho in him “What have you found. IkmF' ahe inquired. CHAPTER XII.-Harrlet telle Alon aha and Donald Avery act aa "ayea" to An- “Nothing yet. Harry.” tolne, reading to him the document, on “You got no trace of them?” which ho Imaea hla judgment.. While walking with her. two men In an auto “No; too many motors pass on that mobile deliberately attempt to run Alon dawn. H. aw ape. with alight Injurio. road for the car to be recalled par The girl rwwgnl.ee one of the men ae ticularly. I’ve started whai Inquiries having been on the train on which they are possible and arranged to have the camo from Boattlo. road watched In case they come back CHAPTKR X III—Antoine quoatlone Aton cloaely. but the latter la reticent this way.” The blind man telle him ho la convinced He went past her and up to her fa the attack made on him on tha train wa. ther. Hhe returned to the study and the result of an error, the attacker hav ing planned to kill Alon Hantolna tell. put away her work. Harriet ah. l. to lake charge of certain pap.ro conne-led with the "lattron prop Hlnner was served In the great ortion," which had hitherto boon In Jacobean dining room, with wall» pan Avery*, oharge eled to the high celling, logs bias ing In the big stone fireplace. A» they (Continued from laat week ) Tltla correa|>on«l.*n<*t»—a consider- j seated themselves, she note«! that Avery seemed moody and uncommu able bundle of letter» held together with wire flip» and the two envelope» nicative; something, clearly, bad Irri tated and disturbed him; and as the bound with tnpo which »he hud put Into the »sfe the <!«> before—made up meal progressed, he vented his Irrita the paper» of which her father had tion upon Eaton by affronting him more openly by word and look than spoken to her. There letter» repre- •etiled the contention» of willful, pow he had ever done before In her pres erful »nd sometimes ruthlcaa and vio ence. Rhe was the more surprised at lent men. Hulu of one man by an hla doing this now, because ahe knew other—ruin Ananda), social or moral, that Dooald must have received from or »11 three together— wm the Inten her father the same Instructions a» tion . of the principal» concerned In had t>een given herself to leant what thia correspondence; too often, »he over was possible of Eaton’s former knew, one man nr one group had car position In life. Before Eaton’s entrance Into her ried out a fierce Intent upon another; life »he had supposed that some time, and aometlmea. ahe waa aware, theae as a matter of course, she was going bitter feuda had carried certain of to marry Donald. In spite of thia, she her father*» client» further even than personal or family ruin; fraud, vio had never thought of herself as apart from her father; when ahe thought of lence and—twice now—even murder marrying, It hrtd been always with the were represented by th!» correspond- Idea that her duty to her husband ence; for the paper» relating to the must be secondary to that to her Warden and the I-atron murder» were father; she knew now that she had here. Rhe had felt always the horror of thia violent and ruthle»» aide of accepted Donald Avery not because he had become necessary to her but the men with whom her father dealt; but new »he knew that actual appre because he had seemed essential to her father and her marrying Itonald ciation of the crimes that pnssed a» would permit her life to go on much bnalnea» had been far from her. And. strangely, »he now realised that It waa as It was. Donald had »odal position and a not the attack» on Mr. Warden and her father—overwhelming with horror certain amount of wealth and power; now suddenly ahe was feeling that he a» theae had been—which were bring had nothing but these things, that hit Ing that appreciation home to her. It waa her understanding now that the own unconscious admission was Mini fo be worth while he must have them attack wa» not meant for her father that to retain and Increase them was but for Eaton. hla only object In life. Rhe had th« Though Harriet had never believed feeling that theae were the only things that Eaton had been concerned In the he would fight for; but that for these attack upon her father, her denial of he would fight—fairly, perhaps. If he It had been checked and »tided be- could—but, If ha must, unfairly, de» cau»e he would not even defend him plcably. self. She bad not known what to Rhe had finished dinner, but ahe he» think ; ahe had aeemed to heraelf to Itated to rise and leave the men be waiting with her thought» In abey alone; after-dinner cigars and the fic ance; until he should be cleared, »he tion of the masculine conversation had tried not to let heraelf think more aigmt the table were Insisted on by about Eaton than wa» necessary. Blatchford. Aa ahe delayed, lookln* Though he wa» Involved with her fa across the table at Eaton, hla eyet ther In some way, »lie refused to be met hers; reassured, she rose at once . lieve he was against her father, but the three rose with her and stood clearly he was not with him. How while she went out She went up could he be Involved, then, nnle«» the stairs and looked In upon her father Injury he had Buffered win some »uch he wanted nothing, and after a con act of man against man as these let- vernation with blm aa short as aht tars and statement» represented? Rhe could make It »he came down again looked carefully through all the con No further disagreement between tht tents of the envelopes, but she could two men. apparently, bad happen««*, after she left the table. Avery now was not visible. Eaton and Blatchford were In the music-room. With a re pugnauce against bar fatliar's ordert which ahe had never felt before, she began to carry out the Instructions her father had given her. Rhe noticed that Eaton was familiar with almost everything she had liked which had been written or was cur rent up to five years before; all later music was strange to him. To this extent be had been of her world, plainly, up to five years before; then be had gone out of It. Hhe realised thia only as something which »he was to report to her father; yet she felt a keener, more personal Interest In It than that. Harriet An toine knew euougti of tlie world to know that few men break completely •II social connections without some link of either fact or memory still holding them, and that this link moat Often 1» a woman. Toward ten o’clock Eaton exc*uae«l himself and went to hla rooms. Hhe •at for a time, Idly talking with Blatchford; then, as a servant paused through the hall and »he mistook mo mentarily hla footstep» for those of Avery, she got up suddenly and went upstairs. It was only after reaching her rooms that she appreciated that the meaning of thia action was that she shrank from seeing Avery again that night. But she had been In her rooms only a few minutes when her house telephone buzzed, »nd answer ing It. she found that it wa» Donald speaking to ber. “Will you come down for a few minutes, please, Harry?" Rome strangeness In bls tone per- plexsil her. “Where are you?" »lie asked. "In the study." Hhe went down at once. Aa he came to the study door to meet ber, she saw that what had perplexed her in hla tone was apparently only the remnant of that irritation he had showed at dinner. He took her band and drew her Into the study. “You don’t mind my calling you down. Harry; It la so long since we had even a few minutes alone to gether,” he pleaded. "What la It you want, Don?" she naked. “Only to two you. dear—Harry.” He took her band again; she resisted anil withdrew It “I ran’t do any more “Will You Com« Down for a Few Mln- i/t«». Ptoaae, Harry?" work tonight. Harry. I find the cor respondence I expected to go over this evening Isn’t here; your futher has It, I suppose.” “No; I have It, Don." “Your “Yea; Father didn’t want you both ered by that work Just now. Didn’t he tell you?" “He told me that, of course, Harry, gnd that he had asked you to relieve me as much as you could; be didn’t say he had told you to take charge of the papers. Did he do thatr “I thought that was Implied. If you need them. I’ll get them for you, Don. Do you want themr She got up and went toward the safe where ahe had put them; suddenly ahe stopped. What It was that she had felt under his tone and manner, she could not tell; it was probably only Irritation at having Important work taken out of his hands. But whatever It was, he was not openly expressing It—he was even being careful that It should not be expressed. And now suddenly, ae he followed and came dose behind her and her mind went swiftly to her father lying helpless up stairs, and htr father’s trust In her, she baited. “We must ask Father.” she said. “Ask him I” he ejaculated, “Why?" Hhe faced him uncertainly, not an swering. “That’s rather ridiculous, Harry, es pecially as It la too late to ask him tonight.” His voice was suddenly rough in his Irritation. *’I have had charge of those very things for years; they concern the matters In which your father particularly confides In me. It la Impossible that he meant you to take them out of my hands like thia. He must have meant only that you were to give me what help you could with them I Harry, don’t you see that you are putting me In a false position— wronging me? You are acting ae though you did not trust me!” "I do trust you, Don; at least I have no reason to distrust you. I only say we must ask Father." “They’re in your little safe?" She nodded. “Yes." “And you’ll not give them to me?’ "No." Ho stared angrily; then lie shrugged ■nd laughed and went back to his desk and began gathering up hla scattered papers. Rhe stood Indecisively watch ing him. Suddenly he looked up and she mw that !>• had quite conquered hla Irritation, or at least bad concealed It; his concern now seerm-d to l>e ouly over bls relation» with heraelf. "We’ve not quarreled. HarryF be asked. “Quarreled? Not at all, Don,” she replied. Hhe moved toward th« door; be fol lowed and let her out, and she went back to ber own rooms. CHAPTKR XV •antoln«’» “Fy«a” Fall Him. i i Eaton, coming down rather late the next morning, found the breakfast room empty. He cboee his breakfast from the dishes on the sideboard, and while the servant set them before him and waited on him, be Inquired after the members of the household. Miss Antoine, the servant Mid. had break fasted some time before and was now with her father; Mr. Avery also bad breakfasted; Mr. Blatchford was not yet down. As Eaton lingered over his breakfast. Ml»» Davis passed through the hall, accompanied by a maid. Tlie maid admitted her Into tlie study and closed the door; afterward, the maid remained In the hall busy with some morning duty, and ber presence and that of the servant In the breakfast room made It Impossible for Eaton to attempt to go to the study or to risk speaking to Miss Davla A few min utes later, he heard Harriet Santolne descending the stairs; rising, be went out Into the hall to meet her. “I don’t ask you to commit yourself for longer than today, Miss Hantoine," be Mid, when they had exchanged greetings, “but—for today—what are the limits of my lenshT’ "Mr. Avery Is going to the country rtub for lunch; I believe he Intends to ask you If you care to go with him." Rhe turned away and went into the study, dosing the door behind her. Ea ton, although he bad finished his break fact, went back Into the breakfast room. He did not know whether he would refuse or accept Avery's Invita tion ; suddenly he decided. After wait ing for »»me five minutes there over a second cup of coffee, he got up and crossed to tlie study. “I beg pardon. Mias Antoine,” be explained bls Interruption, “but you did not tell me what time Mr. Avery la likely to want me to be ready to go to the country club." “About half-past twelve, I think." “And what time shall we be coming back?" “Probably about five." He thanked her and withdrew. He did not look back as MI m Davis clotted the door behind him; their eyes bad not met; but be understood tbst she had comprehended him fully. Today he would be away from the Antoine house, and away from the guards who watched him, for at least four hours, under no closer espionage than that of Avery; this offered opportunity—the first opportunity he had had—for com munication between blm end his friends outside the house. He went to his room and jnade some slight changes tn his dress; he came down then to the library, found a book and settled himself te read. Toward noon Avery looked In on him there and rather constrainedly prof fered hla Invitation. Eaton accepted, and after Avery had gone to get ready, Eaton put away hla book. Fifteen minutes later, hearing Avery's motor purring outside, Eaton went Into the hall; a servant bronght hla coat and hat, and taking them, he went out to the motor. Avery appeared a moment later, with Harriet Suntolne. She stood looking after them as they spun down the curving drive and onto the pike outside the grounds; then she went back to the study. She dismissed Miss Davis for the day, taking the typewritten sheets some other papers her father h asked to have read to him, she went up to him. Basil Antoine was alone and awake. “What have you, Harriet?" he asked. Rhe »at down and glancing through the papers In her hand, gave him th« subject of each; then at his direction she began to read them aloud.. A« she finished the third page, he Inter rupted her. “Has Avery taken Eaton to ths country club as I ordered Y* “Yes" ”1 shall want you to go out there In the afternoon; I would trust yout observation more than Avery's to de termine whether Eaton has been used to such surround Inga.” Rhe read another page, then broke off suddenly. “Has Dooald asked you anything today. Father?” "In regard to what?" “I thought last night he seemed dl» tnrbed about my relieving him of part of his work." “Disturbed? In what way?” 8he hesitated, unable to define even to heraelf the Impression Avery's man ner bad made on her. “I understood he was going to ssk you to leave it still In his hands." "He has not done so yet." “Then probably I was mistaken.” Hhe read again for half an hour after luncheon, finishing the page» she had brought. “Now you’d better go to the club," the blind man directed. Rhe put the reporta and letters away In the safe In the room below, and going to her own apartments, »be dressed carefully for the afternoon. As she drove down the road, »ha passed the scene of the attempt by the men In the motor to run Eaton down. The Indeflnlteneas of her knowledge by whom or why the attack had been made only made It seem more terrible to her. Unquestionably he was In constant danger of Ito rep* titloa. and eepaelally where -as t* And still mother and children smile paper mark* or eight times what day—be was outbid«- her father’» \ gravely out of the oval, like the ljing had received fdr his preMRta- grouuda Instinctively she hurrlad OTal „f the ,-re«t »melling wood over tion of the leading character in on» aer horse. Ae etopped at the rtn?t- which the cunning pencil passed.— of the most fame us production» in tha house only to make certain that Mr. > Boston Monitor. world. Avery and bls guest were not there; > — then she drove eu to the polo field. EXHIBIT OF ART WORK “Well,” Mid the cheerful wife who BY OBERAMMERCAl.’ERS thought she had a soprano voice, “if the worst comes to the worst I can Oberammergau.—(By N. C. W. C.) keep the wolf from the door by sing —A contract has been signed where ing.” by 60 of the artisans who worked on “I don't doubt that would do it,” the production of the Passion Play replied the husband, who had suf here last summer will go to America fered much, "but suppose the wolf next fall. This step was made neces should happen to be deaf?” sary because the directors of the Oberammergau Home Arts company, S757 «Sth St. 8. E. SUnset «621 which produces the Passion Play, was financially unable to raise the money necesMry to begin preparations for Piano and Furniture Moving, Bag the next play. The artizans' work gage and Express will be exhibited in New York. Daily trips to Mt. Scott and Woodstock In this connection it was revealed ag’ts for Rock Springs and King Coal Portland, Or. that Anton Lang, the Christus of the Stand: 1st and Taylor play, received 26,000 paper marks for his services during the past summer. Recently Lang had occasion to visit a dentist in Munich and the bill for the latter’s work amounted to 200,000 (Continued Next Week.) THE STORY OF A PICTURE A fair-haired youth walked gaily along the forest path. He waa tall and graceful, and as he went on, with a long, swinging stride, he whistled and sang. His big brown eyes looked keenly about him, and his full red lips seemed made to smile. A hand some youth, indeed, was Raphael San- xio, one whom everybody liked. By profeMion he was an artist; already, though hardly more than a boy, he had painted some wonderful pictures. Today the fancy had seized him to take a »troll by himself, a good long tramp in the glorious air amor.; the Tuscan hills. Suddenly he came upon a clearing in the center of which was a quaint little cottage, and next it a sort of workshop. All about were large barrels with stout hoops around them. At the door of the cottage Mt a young woman in a quaintly carved chair with a bambino, as the Italians call a baby, in her arms. Near her a beautiful child played with one of the stout barrel-hoops. “Good morning, Signora,” said the youth politely. “It is a fira» day.” “It is, indeed,” she replied, “but you must have walked a long way. Wil) you not have a glass of milk and some goat’s cheese?” "Since you are so kind, I shall be glad if I may,” replied young Raph ael. “What lovely little ones you have.” “Yes,” she said, xs she poured out the rich, foamy milk. “My husband is a cooper. He has gone to town to day for the fiesta. A holiday is good to take. I am having one quietly at home.” “I, too,” Mid the young man, “am taking a holiday.” “And what may it be that you work at?” inquired she. "I try to be an artist,” he said modestly. “Ah,” she cried, “I wish I could see the pictures you make.” “I will make you one now,” and, with a merry wave of the hand, he began to draw on the head of one of the big barrels. “Move closer to your mother," he Mid to the larger child. Then he drew rapidly on the smooth sweet-smelling wood. He forgot where he was. An inquisitive squirrel came to hi^i. A songbird alighted near him. The sun sent golden splotches of light through the cool green. The woman sang softly and the children watched silently. “Ah,” Mid Raphael, “it is done. AU I can do now, at least. Come and see.” The woman looked and gasped in astonishment. “But it is beautiful," she exclaimed. And beautiful is what people still say when they look at the Madonna della Sedia (Madonna of the Chair), for the artist made from his sketch a picture so lovely that for hundreds of years the world has admired and wondered at it. It hangs stiU, rich in reds and blues, at the Pitti palace, but you may see copies of it every where. The cooper's wife, with her two children, looks placidly at you just as they looked at young Raphael, centuries ago, in the quiet green forest with the birds and squirrels frisking about them. One also wishes to see the handsome boy as he happily worked, but you may see his picture, painted by himself; and it shows you just how he must have looked when he took his holiday and found a new picture to draw, where he least ex pected it. One likes to think of the happy morning this simple gay group spent together, and how interested the good cooper must have been when he came home after the fiesta. None of them could guess that today artists would say “If only I could do work as good as that! What color! What charm! What gracious loveliness!" J, S. Miller Transfer 6eo. W. Crockwell, M. Naturopath, Spinologist The wonder,cure for Rheumatism 70S, 720 Dekuat Bldg. 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