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She caught at his hand.
and hold them.”
clung to it, his lo hers.
‘what becomes of you
shall I ever see you?”
“Until what?’
“Until—"
ward her made him pause;
from one another now.
What a situation!
with each other.
them all.
girl's blind father.
previous murder.
he is or what is his purpose.
faith to the test.
the reading public.
I'm going back to meel
He came beside her
Her hands for an instant
Shall I hear from you
destroy me,
if
OF we
Yet the man
CHAPTER |
wwe Je
A Financier Dies.
director, owner of mines
iands, at
forty-eight one
men of the
with quick, uneven steps
wicker-furnished living room
home just above Seattle on
sound. Twice within ten
of the
Northwest coast-—paced
the great
of
Paget
+
receive the same reply—that the train
from Vancouver, for which he had In
quired, had come in and that the pas
sengers had left the station.
show nervousness of any sort; Kondo,
the Japanese doorman, who therefore
had found something strange In his
telephoning, watched him through the
which shut off (he
room from the hall
Warden turned suddenly and pressed
the bell to call a servant, Kondo
entered the room: he noticed then
that Warden's hand, which
holding the watch before
shaking.
“A
him, was
young man who may,
or may
a few mornents,
appointment. Take him at once
smoking room, and I will see
I am going to Mrs. War.
to my
him there
den's room now"
He went the stairs, Kondo no-
ticed, still absently holding his watch
up
controlled his nervousness
She
talked with him casuslly for a mo
ment or so before she even sent away
her mald. When they were alone, she
suddenly saw that he had come to her
Warden
“Cora,” he sald, when he had closed
She was
one of
business
thelr
“A
greatly
business question!”
surprised. He was
who believe all
matters should be kept from
“I mean It came to me through some
business—discoveries.”
“And you cannot decide it for your-
self?”
“I had decided It.” He looked again
at his watch, “I had quite decided
it; but now— It may lead to some
result which 1 have suddenly felt that
I haven't the right to decide entirely
for myself”
Warden's wife for the first time felt
alarmed.
“You mean It affects me directly?”
He seized both her ‘hands In his
and held her before him.
“Cora,” he said, “what would you
have me do If you knew I had found
out that a young man--a man who,
four or five years ago, had as much to
live for as any man might-—had been
outraged in every right by men who
are ‘my friends? Would you have me
fight the outfit for him? Or would
you have me-—lie down?"
She stared at him with only pride
then; she was proud of his strength,
of his ability to fight, of the power
she knew he possessed to force his
way against opposition. “Why, you
would fight them!”
“You want me to fight them?"
“Of course.”
“No matter what It costs?”
She realized then that what he was
ficing was very grave, :
“Cora,” he sald, “I didn't come to
ask your advice without putting this
squarely to you, If I go into this
fight, T shall be not only an opponent
to some of my present friends; I ghall
be # threat to them-—something they
may think It necessary to remove.”
*
She cried out, “You mean
might kill you?”
“Should that
in?
She hesitated. He went on: “Would
you have me afraid to do a thing that
ought to be done, Cora?
“No,” she sald; “I would not.”
“All right, then. That's all T had
to know now. The young man is com-
someone
keep me from
he's downstalrs. I'll tell you all
Warden himself
Kondo overheard Warden's end of
conversation Apparently the
it.
the
once. Warden finished, “All right: I'l}
Walt for me there”
Turning Konda, ordered hi
Kondo transmitted the order and
brought Warden's coat and cap: the
to he
Corboy noticed that the curtains all
about had been pulled down: he
touched the button and turned on the
light at the top of the car, and then
he saw that Warden was dead: his
cap was off, and the top of his head
had been smashed by a heavy blow,
The chauffeur drew back, gasping:
Kondo, behind him on the steps, cried
out and ran into the house calling for
help. Two other servants and Mrs
Warden, who had remained nervousls
in her room, ran down. The stranger
who had been waiting, now seen for
the first time by Mrs, Warden, came
out from the smoking room help
He alded In taking body
the car and helped to carry it
into the lving room and lay It
couch: he until it was
tain that Warden had been killed
t could be done. When
had been establist irther
to
the
from
On a
remained cer
for the ng man--hut
was no longer
The news of the murder brought
out upon
Tacoma and
that night.
the murder of
citizens,
new proof tha
business a nance: then,
.
cond day's dispatches from
cities came in, it stirred a
at the realization—for
8o
second
a murder had happened,
$
3
that this was the
what was called
and finance
“Latron crowd”: he
to the
Matthew La
which
wl
ind been
n «
of the
close, at
Wf business
a member
had been
one time,
great western capitalist
tron; the properties in
and Re
had brought him
sntion of other men,
with or even
administration
the respect and att
had been closely
included among known as
“Latron properties”: and Latron.
years before, had been murdered
allied
those
five
been 1 man who
him by app
upon appointment,
Pere
much was mad
that the same agences
this
gostion
hind the two
The
}
boy
of Kondo and Cor
verified: It
statements
were was
even
Varden's mur
ii ryed
had left the motor unol
and the door of the limousine,
had under the
chauffeur
whieh
been brought
The
young
was
Irishman
employ for
his faithfulness
never questioned,
Corboy, a who
in Warden's
five
was
been
than YOurs
{or
directed. As they stopped, a
young
5)
ET
As They Stopped, a Young Man of
Less Than Medium Height, Broad.
shouldered, and Wearing a Mackin.
tosh, Came to the Curb and Spoke
to Warden.
man of less than medium height,
broad-shouldered, and wearing a
mackintosh, came to the curb and
spoke to Warden, Corboy did not
hear the name, but Warden immedi
ately asked the man into the car; he
directed Corboy to return home. The
chauffeur did this, bnt was obliged on
the way to come to a complete stop
several times, as he met street-cars or
other vehicles on intersecting streets,
Almost Immediately after Warden
had left the house, the doorbell rang
and Kondo answered It, A young man
with a quiet and pleasant bearing In
quired for Mr. Warden and sald he
came by appointment. Kondo ushered
him into the smoking $oom, where the
stranger waited. In about forty min
utes, Corboy drove the car under the
porte-cochere again and got down and
opened the door. There was no mo
tion inside the limousine. The chauf.
feur looked In and saw Mr. Warden
Iylng back quietly against the cush
fons in the back of the seat; he was
alone, :
i
i
i
CHAPTER II
Bob
the Coast divi
Conners eclal yduetor for
transcont
breakfast on his
on
he
cottage the shore «
when wae treated
of a large
sight
his door,
the car to the house
in his hand.
the opened and
found within an in the hand
writing of the president of the rail
rond and over his signature.
The chauffeur
with an envel
Connery, meeting
door, the envelope
order
“Connery :
“No. § being held at Seattle termi
nal until nine oclock—will run
hour late,
supersede the regular man as conduc
tor—prepared to go through to
cago.
and obey, when possible, any request
may be made by a passenger who will
identify himself by a card from me.
“H. R. JARVIS."
The conductor, accustomed to take
charge of trains when princes, envoys,
Presidents and great people of any sort
took to travel publicly or privately,
fingered the heavy cream-colored note-
paper upon which the order was writ.
ten and looked up at the chauffeur.
The order was surprising enough
even to Connery. Some passenger of
extraordinary influence, obviously, was
to take the train; not only the hold
ing of the transcontinental for an
hour told this, but there was the fur.
ther plain statement that the passen-
ger would be incognito. Astonishing
also was the fact that the order was
written upon private notepaper.
There had been a monogram at the
top of the sheet, but it had been torn
off; that would not have been If Mr.
Jarvis had sent the order from home.
Who could have had the president of
the road call upon him at half past
seven in the morning and have told
Mr. Jarvis to hold the Express for an
hour?
Connery was certain of the distine.
tive characters of the president's hand-
handwriting. The enigma of the or
der, however, had piqued him so that
he pretended doubt, :
“Where did you get this?’ he chal.
lenged the chauffeur, .
“From Mr. Jarvis”
"Of course; but where?”
“You mean you want to know where
he was?"
Connery smiled quietly, If he him:
self was trusted te be cautious and
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CX
ee ere
Little, Brown and Company
circumspect, the chauffeur also plain.
ly was accustomed to be In the em
of who required reticence
Connery looked from the note to the
bearer more keenly, There was some
thing familiar in the chauffeur's face
just enough to have made Connery
believe, at first, that probably he had
seen the man meeting some passenger
at the station.
“You
casually.
“In private employ; yes,
man cut off quickly. Then Connery
knew him: It was War-
traveled that
chauf
ploy one
APE Connery ventured
gir,” the
when Gabriel
on
Connery's train
hat
den
Vis who
Warden
But Cony
Carboy,
driven the he
inery,
show |t
he had abandoned his
onnery
of the great
heen
fi » One
nen in who had
wrought
the
off to the soun
The March morning wa
wet 1 ¢
Pacific
the roar of
large ship
ns death
car dis onnery
% windy and
ving in
steam-whistle of
jeft. The incom
in sight and showed
the funnel
red.-barred
single
and the
the Nippon Yusen
Connery saw that it was,
» anticipated, the
ays before, having been delaved
the Pacific. It
estimated, just
weather over
would dock, Connery
in time to
the Easte
111
perm
at were held
hastened
m Express if th
nine o'clock So, as he
smiilad
» fovy
niled at him
gateman,
{ a punch
mmy’'s scheme
sudden has a
wenith
vone
moment
¢ and ap-
, or some lost
r
:
ian by
: i iny
nay arrive
» off on
Connie ry quest] 3
Number Five
edd
as he approached.
Old Sammy she
overloaded
from
for a
frunk-truck, and baggagemen ran. A
group of people, who evidently had
the station in
crowded owt to the gate and lined up
old Sammy. The gateman
importantly and scruti-
ion-boys
scurried In
someone shouted
come to covered cars,
{0 pass
Connery Inspected with attention the
file at the gate and watched old Sam-
my also as each passed him,
The first In line was a girl—a girl
about twenty-two or three, Connery
guessed, She had the easy, interested
of assured position.
When Connery first saw her, she
seemed to be accompanying the man
who now was behind her; but she of.
fered her own ticket for perusal at
the gate, and as soon as she was
through, she hurried on ahead alone.
Connery was certain he did not
know her. He noticed that old Sam-
my had held ber at the gate as long
as possible, as If hoping to recollect
who she might be; but now that she
was gone, the gateman gave his atten-
tion more closely to the first man—a
tall, strongly built man, neither heavy
nor light, and with a powerful, pa-
trician face. His eyes were hidden
by smoked glasses such as one wears
against a glare of snow,
Connery found his gaze following
this man; the conductor did not know
him, nor had old Sammy recognized
him; but both were trying to place
him. He, unquestionably, was a man
to be known, though not more so than
many who traveled in the transconti.
nental trains, .
A trim, self-assured man of thirty
his open overcoat showed a cutaway
underneath-—came past next, proffer.
ing the plain Seattie-Chicago ticket.
An Englishman, with redveined
cheeks, fumbling, clumsy fingers and
curious, Interested eyes, immediately
followed.
“Avery, | wish you to get inte
conversation with this Philip
Eatoh, It will probably be
useful if you let Harriet talk
with him, too.” :
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