BY WIUIAMM ac HARO^EDWIN V ¡Uustrattoru by R.H.LM Cmn g ifTi t " i •YWORtie cr r BALMER. natone / .■■■■■■J at once." Ho heard the servant's footsteps going rapidly away. He was shaking with anger, horror, resentment; he was almost—not quite—cure now of all that had taken place; of why Warden bad been tnurdored. of what vague shape had moved behind and guided all that had happened since. He recalled Eaton s voice ao he had board It flrat on the train at Beattie; and now he was almost sure- not quite—that he could place that voices that ha knew where he hod beard it before. Ho lay with clenched bands, shak ing with rage; then by effort of his will bo put these thoughts away. The nurse reminded him again of hie need for food. T want nothing now,” ho said. “Have It reedy when I wake up. When the doctor comes, tell him I am going to get up today and drees.” He turned and «fetched himself upon hie bed; oo, finally, be slept ! 3 went to get the correspondence I caw them there and put them with the correspondence In my own safe.” CHAPTER XXI Santoine lay still. "Who besides Donald knew that you The Man Hunt Then Budd only Hs Camo Upon the did that. DsughtevF bo asked. The rolling, rarine-gullled land Read for Which He Waa Looking. "No one.” where Harriet had left Eaton wee “Thank you." Eaton fled madly back Into the shad wooded thickly with oaks, maples and Harriot recognised thia aa dismissal ash; the glare from the burning ow ; as he did so. he heard the men and went out. The blind man felt the bridge lighted the ravine for only a crying to one another and leaping blood beating fiercely tn bls temples little way; Eaton had gained the bot from the car and following him. He end at file Anger tips. It amssed. as tom of the ravine beyond the ixdnt ret reate*] to the woods, went further tounded Mui to reel I m that Warden'e where thio light would have made him along and canto back to the road, ly murder and all that bad followed It visible and bad made the best speed ing fiat upon his face again and wait had sprung from the Latroa case. He be could along it away from the lights ing till some other car In passing recollected thet he had been vaguely and voices on ths road. This speed should give him light to see. conscious ever since Latroo'« murder was not very great; bls stockinged Eaton, weak and dlxxy from his of something strained, eomethlng not fret sank to their ankles In the soft wounds and confused by darkness and wholly ofiea, tn bls relations with mud of the ravine; and when, realis his struggle through the woods, had tboee men whose Interests had been ing thst he wss leaving a trace easily no exact Idea how long It ha<| taken moot closely allied with Latron's. It followed even by lantern-llghL ho him to get to this place; but be knew bed been nothing open, nothing pal clambered to the steep side and tried that it could have been hardly less pable; It was only that he had felt to travel along Its slope, be found his than two boura since he had left Har The men he was following st times in them a knowledge of progress slower still. In ths dark riet CHAFTm V Puata« throuah (ha ear, ©eeewT —On e Derae'a k«n4 han«tn( some general condition governing ness be crashed sometimes full against therefore, had that much start of •utaMa the berth He aaceriataa Don»«'» them which wag no: wholly known to the tree-trunks; bushes which bs could him. and thia made him wild with Im bell hae reeeetly rue* l'«rturt>«4. he braatiaaiao as 4 Unde Derae with *- himself Whoever niatchford had seen not see seised and held him, ripping patience but did not discourage him. ahnU eru«h«4 Ma • alia a eu>«een. wee someone well known to him, and tearing at hie clothes; Invlstbls. Hts own wonnd* Eaton understood, ■arialr. aa the trwta whose presence hed been eu «making fallen saplings tripped him. and bo made Ms escape practically Impoaai- AM-hll VI -Sinclair reeeealaae tlM thst speech bad failed Blatchford for stepped Into unseen holes which ble, because any one who saw him •4 man aa Beall Bantulae. who. _ •1 thouah Mine la a »orullar |>ow«r la the the moment and be bad feared the threw him headlong, so that twice ho would at once challenge and detain ■aaaciai worM aa advlaar la ’ »la tater- effect of the announcement oo Hau rolled clear to the bottom of the him; and the other man waa still more estat Hi« recarery la a matter eT doubt. ravtue with fierce, hot pains which Mriously wounded. It was not his es CHAPTER VII. — Circumatancee nearly deprived him of his senses cape that Eaton feared; It was con point to Eaton aa Santoine’a as shooting through his wounded shoul cealment of him. The man had been sailant. taken from the car because his condi der. CHAPTER VIII.—Eaton , practically When he had made, as he thought tion was so serious that there was no Glared under a meet. He refuses to fully three-quarters of a mile and hope of hiding It; Eaton thought be make explanations aa to hi« previous movements before boarding the train, must be, allowing for the winding of must be deed. He expected to find but admita he waa the man who the ravine, at least half a mile from the body concealed under dead leaves, called on Warden th night the finan bla pursuers, he climbed to the brink hurriedly hidden. cier waa murdered. The night had cleared a little; to of the bank aud looked back. He waa CHA ITER IX.—Eaton pleads with not. as be bad thought, half a mile the north, Eaton could eee stars. Sud Harriet Santoine to withhold judg from the road; he was not a quarter denly the road and the leafless bushes ment. telling her he ia in aerioua of a mile; be could still see plainly at Its sides flashed out in the bright danger, though innocent of the crime the lights of the three motorcars upon light of a motortar passing. Eaton againat her father. He feel» the girl the road and men moving In the flare strained forward. He had found the believe« him. of tbees lights. Hs waa certain that place he sought; there was no doubt CHAPTER X Banteln« rocovara «uIB- he had recognised the figure of Avery a car had turned off tbs road some etentlr la quMtlan Baton, who refuaea to reveal hie Ideality The financier re among these men. Pursuit of him, time before and stopped there. The quire« Baton to accompany him to the however, appeared to have been passing of many care had so tracked ■anlolne home, whore ho to la U m poet- checked for the moment ; he heard the road that none of the men In the Uon of a eemi-prtoonor. neither voices nor any movement In motor« seemed to have noticed any OHAPTSR XI - Baton meeta B reoldenl the woods Eaton, panting, threw thing of significance there; but Eaton ef the houao, Wallace niatchford, and a young girt. Mildred De via, with whom himself down to recover breath and saw plainly In the soft ground at apparently he to acquainted. though they the edge of the woods the footmarks strength to think. conreal the tart Kalona mission Io to aeruro certain documenta which are vital There was no question In Eaton's of two men walkiug one behind the to hie Interest«, and file being admitted mind wbat his fate would be If bo other. When the car had passed, be to the houoe to a remark able «trek« of luck The alrl ag.'eea Vo aid him Ho surrendered to, or was captured by, crept forward In the dark and fingered bec ome, deeply Interacted In Harriot Baa- his pursuers. What he had seen tn the dlatlnct heel and toe marks la toln* and oho In him. Sentolne's study an hour before waa the soft son. For a little distance CHAPTKR XIL-Harriot telle Baton oho "Have You Listed What Waa Taken ao unbelievable, so completely unde- he could follow them by feeling; then and Donald Avery not ao "«»»•" to tan From the Safe, HarrietF Bantolne tolna reeding to him the document« on monstrable unless he himself could as they led him Into the edge of the which he ha««« hie Judgments While Asked. walking with her. two men In an auto prove his story that he felt thnt he woods the ground grew harder and mobile deliberately attempt to run Baton would receive no credence. Blatch he could no longer follow them IB tolne. This could have been only the down. He ««-'«P«, with alight Injurleo Th« girl recognlaeo one ef the mon ae principal himself. ford, who had seen It In ths light In that way. having been on the train on which they It was plain to Mm what had oc Rome circumstance which Santoine the study, was dead; Bantolne. who cam« from Bratt la comprehended only Imperfectly as yet would have seen It If he had had eyes, curred ; two men had got out of the CHAPTKR Kill.—Santoine question« had forced thia man to come out from was blind. Eaton, still almost stunned car here and had lifted out and car «ton cloooly. but the latter Io reticent ried away a third. He knelt where • blind man telle him he 1« convinced behind Ills agents and to act even at and yet wildly excited by that sight, the attack made on him on the train waa be could feel the last footsteps ho the roeult of an «rror. the attacker hav the risk of revealing himself. It was felt only. In the mad confusion of his could detect and looked around. ing planned to kill Baton. Santoine tell« probably he who. finding Blatchford'« senses, the futility of telling what be Harriet ehe Io to take charge of certain The wound In his shoulder no long presence made revealment Inevitable, had seen unless he were In n position paper« connected with the ‘'Latron iwop- erflae.” which had hitherto boon In had killed lUiitchford. But these cir to prove IL Those opposed to him er bled, but the pain of It twinged Avory'e charge cumstances gave Bantolne no clew as would put his statement aside with him through and through; his hesd CHAPTER XV—At the country club to who the man might be. The blind the mere answer that he was lying; throbbed with the hurt there; his feet Baton reveal« a remarkable proficiency al polo, «aamlngly to Avery'« gratlfira- man tried vainly tn guess. . The only ths most charitably Inclined would were raw and bleeding where sharp tlon Baton Indue«« Harriet to allow him circumstance regarding the man of think only that what he had been roots and branches had cut through to leave the grounda for a tew mlnutee his socks and torn ths flesh; his skin which Santoine now felt sure «it through had driven him Insane. that nlgpt Eaton understood that his possibil was hot and dry with favor, and Ms that he was one of the many con CHAPTER XVI -That night Baton tn- vad«« Bantoln«'« library, cooking Ute pa cerned in the Latron case or with the ity of escape was very small, even If head swam. Ear« he 1« determined to poe.ee« There La Iron properties. There waa not yet light enough to escape had been his only object; but • find« two men one of whom ho rocog- nl«o« with bewildered aurprlae. on the “What time Is ItF the blind man Eaton's problem waa not one of es see any distance, but Eaton, accus earn« errand The throe men engage ta suddenly asked the nurse. cape—It was to find those he pur tomed to the darkness and bending a olotol duet. sued and make certain that they were close to the ground, could discern the "It le nearly noon, Mr. Santoine." CHAPTER XVII — Aroused by the «hoop. “Will you leave me alone for a few captured at th« same time he waa; footmarks even on the harder soil. Ing. Sanmina deacenda to the library. The and, as he crouched panting on ths They led away from the road Into »mhatanta are thor«, but allent. Wallace moments F he directed. etch ford arrlvee and 1« on the point of He listened till he heard the door damp earth, he was thinking only of the woods On the rotted leaves and Informing Santoine of the Identity of one twigs waa a dark stain; a few steps of the rntrudera when ho le «not and close behind the nurM; then he seised that. Imtantly killed. The flshtere earape The the private *phone beside hie bed and Aa he struggled forward. Impatient beyond there was another. Eaton ante baa been rifled and Important paper« at thsae delays, be came several picking np a leaf and fingering IL called hie broker. taken times upon narrow, unguarded roads knew that they were blood. So the "How Is the niarketF he Inquired. CHAPTER XVIII.—Harriet flnde Baton, There was something approaching and crossed them; at other tlmee the man was not dead when he had been badly wounded. She help« him and ao- lifted from the car. But he had been companlea him In ao onto In puratilt of to a panic on the stock exchange. It little wilderness which protected him the Invadero of the houoe. Ho eatlafloo Some movement, arising changed suddenly to a well-kept lawn hurt desperately, was unable to help hof of hl« Innocence, which ehe haa never appeared. himself, was probably dying; If there doubted Avery and a haitlly aummonM from causes not yet dear, had dropped where some great house with Its pooeo pureuo Eaton. Satlefled ho haa garages and outbuildings loomed bad been any hope for him, bls com the bottom out of a score of Important wounded the man ho recognliod In Ban- ahead, and afraid to cross these open panions would not be carrying him tolno o study. Baton leave« Harriot and stocks. takaa up yio trail through the woods "How Is Pacific Midlands?" San places, ho was obliged to retrace hia in this way away from any chance of steps and And a way round. The die surgical attention. toine asked. CHAPTER XIX.—Harriot revoala het action« to her father. She to confident tanco from the bridge to the place Eaton followed, as the tracks led “ It led the decline. ” be haa a duo to the myetery The men had Santoine felt the blood In hia tem where the men hs wee following had through the woods. CHAPTKR XX.—Peculiar happening« Is ples got ent of their motor, he had thought gone very alowly, carrying this heavy "M. and N. Smelters F he £« «lock mark«t apparently convtnc« to be about two miles; but when be weight Thfey fiad stopped frequently ntoln« of the truth of a theory ho asked. had been traveling more than an hour, to rest snd had laid their burden haa formed "Down seven points." he had not yet reached It Then, down. Then suddenly he came to a ” S. F. and DF (Continued from last week.) suddenly he cams upon the road for Cee wh?re plainly a longer halt bad "Eight points off.” n made. Santoine waited. Presently the door Santoioe'e hand, holding the tele which ha was looking; somewhere to tgaln opened, and he heard hia daugh- phone, shook in lie agitation; hia bead the egst along It was the place he The ground waa trampled around w*e atep. was hot from the blood rushing sought He crouched as near to the tMa spot; when the tracks went on “Have you Hated what wna taken through ft, hie body was cb.llled. A“ road ns he dared and where he could they were changed in character. The from the safe, Harriet?" Santoine idea *6 strange, so astounding, so in look up and down It. This being a two men were still carrying the third credible as It first had come to him main road, waa guarded. A motor —e heavy man whose weight strained "Not yet, rather.” thnt hie feelings refused It though hie car with armed men In it passed him, them and made their feet sink tn The blind man thought an instant reason told him ft wee the only pos and presently repaeaed, evidently pe deeply where the ground was soft. "Harriet eomethlng haa been brought sible condition which could account troling the road; Its lights showed But sow they were not careful bow tftte the house—or the manner of for all the facta, now waa being made him a men with a gun standing at ths they carried him, but went forward keeping eomethlng In the house hae all but certain. He named stock after first bend of the road to the east. merely as though hearing a need been changed- within a very few daye stock; all were down—seriously de Baton drew further back and moved weight. Now, too, no more stains ap —since the time. I think, when the creased or had been supported only by parallel to the road but far enough peared on the brown leaves where attempt to run Raton down with the a desperate effort of their chief away from It to be hidden. A quarter they hsd passed; their burden no of a mile further he found a second longer bled. Eaton, realising what motor ear waa mads. What was thst holders. The bltnd man could write ae well man. The motorcar, evidently, was thia meant, felt neither exultation ‘fotnethtng'F His daughter reflected. “The draft aa any other by following the position patrollng only to thia point; another nor surprise. He had known that the As man they carried, though evidently of the new agreement about the La of the lines with the fingers of hie left car was on duty beyond thia. th» propertie« and the liata of stock hand. He wrote a short note swiftly Eaton halted, thia second car ap alive when taken from the ear, was holder« ip the properties which came now, folded, sealed and addressed It proached, and waa halted, backed dying. But now he wetebed the trucks and turned. more closely even thsn before, look through Mr. Warden'« office,” ehe re and handed It to the servant. Its headlights awept through the ing for them to show him where the plied. "Have that delivered by a messen woods and revealed Baton. The man men hud got rid of their burden. "Those were In the safer' ger at once,” he directed. "There It was quite plain whet had oc "Teo | you had not given me any tn- will be no written answer, I think; standing In the road cried out the slana and fired at Eaton point blank; curred ; the wet sand below waa tram •tnictlons about them, eo I had put only eomethlng sent back—a photo he fired a second and third time. pled by the feet of three or four men them in the other cafe; but when I graph. See that It la brought to mo S and cut by a boat's bow. ftey hsd taken the body away with them la the boat. To sinta It somewhere weighted with heavy stones In tbe deep water? Eaton's search was hot«less vow, Rut It could not be eo; It must not be sol Eaton's eyes searched fever ishly tbs shore snd the lake. But there was nothing in sight upon either. He <-rept back from the edge of the bluff, hiding beside e fallen log hacked with dead IcavM. What was It bo had said to Harriet? “I 7111 come back to you-■ss you have never known me before I” He rehearsed the words In mockery. How would be re turn to her now? As he moved, a fierce, hot pain from the clotted wound In bis shoulder shot him through snd through with agony and the alienee and darknesa of unconaclousnees over whelmed him. CHAPTER XXII Not Eaton—Overton. Bantolne awoke et five o’clock The blind man felt strong and steady; he had food brought him; while he was eating IL his messenger returned. Bantolne aaw the man alone «nd when he had dlasnlsaed him, be sent for his daughter. Harriet went up to him fearfully. The blind man seemed calm and quiet; a thin, square packet lay on the bed beside him; be held It out to ner without speaking Khe snatched It In dread; the shape ef the packet and the manner la which it was fastened told her It must be a photograph. “Open it,” her father directed. “What Is It you want to know, Fa ther?” she asked. “That Is the picture of Eaton F “Tes.” "I thought so.” She tried to assure herself of tbe shade of the meaning In her father's tone; but she could not She under stood that her recognition of the pic ture had satisfied him In regard to eomethlng over which be had seen tn doubt; but whether this was to work tn favor of Hugh and herself—she thought of herself now Inseparably with Hugh—or whether it threatened them, she could not tell. "Father, what does this mean?" she cried to him. “What, dear?" “Tour having the picture. Where did you get ItF "I knew where It might be. I sent for It” “But—but. Father—” It came to her now that her father must know wnp Hugh was. "Who—" IN MT LIBRARY "I know who he la now," her fa- - (By Daaiel C. Doran) tber said calmly. "I will toil you when I can." Come sit beside me, love, and we With our companions hero may "When you eauF roam "Tee," he said, “Whore io AveryF as though hia mind had gons to an Across the land and mystic sea, Nor ever stir a step from home. other subject instantly. "He has not been In, I believe, sine« I Here we may watch the silent night noon." Descend upon the Lombard plain, “He la overseeing the search for Or trace the water-fowl’s far flight. Eston F Beyond the freighted ships of "Tee." Spain. "Send for him. Tell him I wish to Here we may tread the Kaff, re heath, see him here at the house; he is to walk the Irish road in spring. remain within the house until I have Or stroll the Arden woods beneath seen Mm.“ A thousand song birds carroling. Something In her father's tone startled and perplexed her; ehe Here we may see dark frigates ride, thought ef Donsld now only as the Beside the mist-swept Golden Gate, most eager and most vindictive of Or mark the swift Pacific tide Sweep through the portals of the Eaton's pursuer* Wap her father strait. removing Donald from among those seeking Eaton? Waa he sending for Here we may bask 'neath summer him because what he had just learned skies, was something which would maks All fleeced with soft white clouds mere rigorous and desperate the of June, search? The blind man's look and Blue as the blue of your eyes, manner told her nothing. When Andalusia rests st noon. "You mean Donald Is to wait here Here we may walk Assisi’s lanes. until you send for Mm, FatherF Tread where the gentle Francis "That to it" trod, It waa tbe blind man's tone ef dis And found amid his joy and pains missal. He seemed to have forgotten A jMtohway to the throne of God. tbe picture; at least, eo his daughter moved toward tbe door, he gave no We need not cross beyond the door. direction concerning It. She halted, But we can bring the whole world looking back at him. She would not in. carry the picture away, secretly, like And choose from out our treasure store this. 8he waa not ashamed of her Prince, jester, saint or mandarin. love for-Eaton; whatever might be said or thought of him, she trusted him; So light the little lamp with me. she was proud ef her love for him. And we will wander far and wide. "May I take the picture F she asked Across the mystic land and sea, steadily. Nor ever stir a step outside. (Continued Next Week.) Riddles Why is a thumb like a hat? Be cause it is felt. I am forever, yet was never? Eternity. How do you swallow a door? Bolt it Why is a fool’s mouth like a hotel door? It is always open. When are eyes not eyes? When the wind makes them water. What bird is in season all the year ? The weathercock. What will turn without moving? Milk. Why is an army like a newspaper? Because it has leaders, columns and reviews. What can cross a stream in the most brilliant sunshine and not cast a shadow ? Sound. They were rehearsing for the opera when the conductor was nearly frightened out of hia boots by a terrific blast from the trombone player in the corner. “What are you doing?” roared the conductor. “I’m sorry, sir,” came the reply, “it was a fly on my music, but, he added with just a touch of profes sional pride, “I played him!” Angus—I hear yer free nd Donald has marrit a third wife. Sandy—Ay, Donald’s an expensive free nd; two wreaths and three pres ents in 14 yean—Boston Transcript. Mrs. X: “Is Mrs. de Muir an ac tive member of your sewing circle?” Mre. Y: “My good ness, no! She never has a word to say—hut sits there and sews all the time.” ^IIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIlllUlllllUmillllllllllUlillllllllllllllllllllllllHMIlUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRIHItlllllHIIIIIIIIHlHHIIIIHIIlttilllUHIIIM^ | YEAGER THEATRE U&EH | = lents Richard Barthelmess I —in— Come Early FURY HILE football coach at the University of Oregon Hugo Bezdek used to begin his every speech with this statement: “Oregon is a great state.” “Bez” was, and is, right In the next five years the Northwest will market a greater amount of lumber than ever before in a like period. Already some Oregon mills are running three eight-hour shifts. Agreat many are running two shifts. Deserted mills are reopening all over the state. New mills are being erected. One great Portland mill, now running 24 hours a day, has orders booked for 18 months. Such is the story of one great Oregon industry. In line with this report of prosperity The Columban Press, Inc., can report business in the printing field as good. The March, 1923, business of The Columban Press, Inc., was 215 per cent greater than the February business and 188.40 per cent greater than the Jan uary, 1923, business. We state these facts because they indicate to us that “Oregon is a great state,” and Portland’s alright i The Columban Press, inc. Railway Exchange Building BRoadway 2242 (Stark Street, between 3rd and 4th) PRINTERS PUBUSHERS LINOTYPERS