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EATON SUSPECTED
Gabriel Warden, Seattle capital-
ist, tells hig butler he is expecting
a caller, to be admitted without
question. He informs his wife of
danger that threatens him If he
pursues § course he considers the
only honorable one. Warden leaves
the house In his car and meets a
man whom he takes Into the ma-
chine. When the car returns home,
Warden is found dead, murdered,
and alone. The caller, a young
man, has been at Warden's house,
but leaves unobserved. job Con-
nery, conductor, receives orders to
hold train for & party. Five men
and a girl board the train, the
Eastern Express. The father of
the girl, Mr, Dorne, is the person
for whom the train was held. Philip
wl) Eaton, & young man, also
boarded the train Dorne tells his
daughter and his secretary, Don
Avery, to find out what they can
concerning him The two make
Eaton's acquaintance Dorny is
found nearly dead from a murder.
ous assault A surgeon operates
Dorne is revealed as Basil Santoine,
a great corporation lawyer
CHAPTER VIi—Continued.
De
continually by
projects,
men con
immersed
Consulted
cerned in great
day and night In vast affairs, eapable
of living completely as he wished—he
had been, at the age of forty-six, great
but not famous, powerful but not pub
At that time an event
which had forced the
unwillingly from his
known.
occurred
man out
licly
This event had been the murder of
western financier, Matthew
There had been nothlopg Ir
this affair which had in any
shadowed dishonor upon Santoine
the great
was
Ro
ever fought,
Latron: but his
against the man
There had come
and un
was In
awakening to the
strange things, ap
to the likeness of
had being
under the unassuming name of
Seandal—financial scandal
more strongly against
personality Santoine
had been not
against methods,
time of uncertainty
public consciousness
process of
that
close
the
knowledge
been
business,
—hrenthed La-
He hand
he had his ene
western men, heen
might have been counted one and he
had his friends, both In high places:
Then, all of
had been struck
r
a sudden, the man
some private
quarrel
nd till then unheard-of man
The trembling and
h should have carried to the walt.
world the expected news of La
tron's carried the
men whisnered, by an
wires cables
conviction, instead
followed The first
public
bonds of the great Latron properties:
evidenced by the
tron wiliroads
utilities stood
shock of thelr
and mines and public
firm even agninst the
builder's death As
the
tence of
trial, conviction
Latron's
to and sen.
murderer; and It
this trial that Santoine's
had become more publicly
Not that the blind man
of any knowledge-—much
in the crime:
becanse of na
the ea
circum.
was
had been
ger questioning into Latron's
Santoine
As 8
blind man,
gightless In
himself by
crime,
court
was summoned
witness
led
the
The into the
witness chair
his spoken, and
court,
the unknown guilders of the
the most powerful-—himself
till then hardly heard of but plainly
one of the nation’s “uncrowned rulers”
had eaught the public sense. The
Latron himself, lost temporarily their
interest in the public curiosity over
the personality of Santoine.
It had been reported for some days
that Santoine had come to Seattle di.
rectly after Warden's death: but
when this was admitted, his associ
ates had always been careful to add
that Santoine, having been a close
personal friend of Gabriel Warden,
had come purely In a personal capac.
ity, and the impression was given that
Santoine had returned quietly some
days before. The mere prolonging of
his stay in the West was more than
suggestive that affairs among the
powerful were truly In such state as
Warden had proclaimed: this attack
upon Santoine, so similar to that
which had slain Warden, and delly.
ered within eleven days of Warden's
death, must be of the gravest signifi
cance,
Jonnery stood overwhelmed for the
moment with this fuller recognition
of the seriousness of the disaster
which had come upon this man in
trusted to his charge; then he turned
to the surgeon,
“Can you do anything fob him here,
Doctor? he asked,
The surgeon glanced down the ear.
“That stateroom-—Is it occupled 1
LI .0.9.9.9.
.
“It's occupied by his daughter,
“We'll take him In there, then”
The four men lifted the inert figure
of Basil Santolne, carried It into the
drawing room and laid it on Its back
upon the bed.
“I have my Instruments,” Sinclair
said. “I'll get them; but before I de-
cide to do anything, I ought to see
hls daughter. Since she is here, her
consent is necessary before any opera.
tion on him."
“Miss Santoine is In the observation
car,” Avery sald. “I'll get her™
The tone was in some way false—
Eaton could not tell exactly how,
Avery started down the aisle,
“One moment, please, Mr. Avery!”
said the conductor. “I'll ask you
to tell Miss Santoine before
other passenger that there
an attack upon her father, Walt un
til you get her inside the door of this
not
any
car.”
“You yourself nothing,
that can have made her suspect
Eaton asked.
Connery shook his head; the
ductor, in doubt and anxlety over ex
actly what action the situation
then
it?
said
con
called
“Can You Do Anything for Him Here,
Doctor ™ He Asked,
for—unable, too, to communicate any
.
hint of it to his superiors to the
4
west
wenanse of the wires down
had resolved
being
learly to keep the at.
pon Santolne
nothing defini
ay
trainmen.,” he
time sald
to the
even
replied ;
you gentlemen {oo pron
wfore you leave this car the
say nothing until I give yo
His
one to 8
eves shifted
nother, until he ass
himself that all agreed As Ax
the car, Eaton found a
ne of the end sections near the
He did
sont
draw
not know wheth
ng room
remain: and he would have
for recollection of Har
Then urtain at
the end of the car was pushed further
aside, and she came in.
She was very pale, but quite con-
trolled, as Eaton knew al
looked at Eaton,
speak as she passed; she
rectly to the door of the
room, opened it and went in, followed
by Avery. The door closed, and for
a moment Eaton could hear volces In
the room-—Harriet Santoline's
Sinclair's, Connery's. The
then came to the door of the drawing
room and sent the porter for water
and clean linen; Eaton heard the rip
of linen being torn, and the car be
came filled with the smell of ant
septics,
Donald Avery came out of the draw
ing room and dropped into the seat
across from Eaton. He seemed deep
iy thoughtful—so deeply, indeed, as to
be almost unaware of Eaton's pres
ence, And Eaton, observing him,
again had the sense that Avery's ab
sorption was completely In conse.
quences to himself of what was going
on behind the door-—in how Basil
Santoine’'s death or continued exist.
ence would affect the fortunes of Don
ald Avery,
A long time passed-—-how long. Ea-
ton could not have told: he noted
only that during It the shadows on
the snowbank outside the window ap
preciably changed their position. Fi.
nally the door opened, and Harriet
Santoine came out, paler than before,
and now not quite so steady.
Eaton rose as she approached
them; and Avery leaped up, all con
cern and sympathy for her immedi.
ately she appeared. He met her In
the aisle and took her hand.
“Was It successful, dear?” Avery
asked,
She shut her eyes before she an-
swered, and stood holding to the back
of a seat; then she opened her eves
saw Baton snd recognized him and
sat down In the seat where Avery had
been sitting.
“Doctor Sinclair says we will know
In four or five days” she replied to
Avery; she turned then directly to
Eaton. “He thought there probably
was a clot under the skull. and be
operated to find It and relieve It
+
ought to
gone except
Santoine.
riet the «
ie would he
She but did
went
not
di
drawing
side
conductor
Edwin Balmer
There was one, and we have done all
we can; now we may only walt, Doc
tor Sinclair has appointed himself
nurse; he says 1 can help him, but
not just yet. 1 thought you would
Hke to know.”
“Thank you: I did want to know,”
Caton acknowledged. He moved away
from them, and sat down in one of
the seats further down the car.
Soon he left for his own car, and
as the door was closing behind him,
# sound came to hiy ears from the car
he just had left—a young girl sud.
denly crying in sbandon. Harriet
Santoine, he understood, have
broken for
the strain the operation;
ton halted though to
feeling the blood drive sud
his heart Th
must
the moment, after
and Ea
turn back
down
of
as
lenly upon
that he
to go to her, he went on
en, recollecting
CHAPTER VII
Suspicion Fastens on Eaton.
Eaton found his ‘er filled
than It had been before, for the people
shifted from the car behind had heer
scattered through train, Keeping
himself to his section, he watched the
car and outside the for
signs of what Investigation Connery
and Avery Whoever
had attacked
car be
the
windows
were making.
must
no one could have
No
and Connery
Rantoine still be
upon the train, for
escaped through the snow
cape. Av
er else was making
them
letting anyone ki
being Lage E
his
ine
could now es ery
and whoes
with
investi
giatioon were not
inv et
ton
back from
knos thi an
gntion was
to lunch; on
diner, } luctors with pa
1estioning a pas
were starting
the (nrs
ners ir ani 1
senger ey evidently
systematically through exam
ining each person; t
the plea of
the
railroad
they were maki
of a report to
offices of names and ad
dresses of all held yp by the stoppage
necessity
started toward the rear
he train,
"A mm
Eaton
on
oment, sir!" called,
Eaton halted.
fronted him.
“Your name, sir? Connery asked
Connery
The conductor con
“Phil's D. Eaton"
Connery wrote down the answer
Your address”
it ad
ve no address I was
tel In Chicago-—which one 1
decided yet.™
HDPE fre
you coming from?
address,
ardly an
no address
there
“I ean give you
had ae fixed address
f the time. |
the Asiatic steam
Conners
[isWw
! the
replied in
thes
who the
what said was
“You can
your family
stiggested
“1 have no family.”
“Friends, then?”
“1-1 have no friends.”
“Nowhere?
“Nowhere.”
pondered for several mo
ments, “The Mr Hillward—lLaw-
rence Hillward, to whom the telegram
was addressed which you
this morning, your associate who was
to have taken this train with you~
will you give me his address?
“1 don’t know Hillward's address.’
“Give me the address, then, the
man sent the telegram.”
“1 am unable to do that, either”
Connery spoke again to the Pullman
conductor, and they conversed nan
dibly for a minute. “That is all,
then,” Connery said finally,
He signed his name 10 the sheet
on which he had written Eaton's an-
swers, and handed it to the Pullman
conductor, who also signed it and re.
turned it to him; then they went on
to the passenger now occupying Sec.
tion Four, without making any fur
ther comment.
Eaton told himself that there should
be no danger to himself from this in-
quiry, directed against ne one, but
including comprehensively everyone
on the train. When the conductors
had left the car, he put his magazine
away and went into the men's com-
partment to smoke and calm his
nerves, His return to America had
passed the bounds of recklessness;
and what a situation he would now be
in if his sctjons brought even serious
suspicions against him! He finished
his first cigar and was debating
whether to light another, when he
heard volces cuatside the car, and
opening the window and looking out.
he saw Connery and the brakeman
struggling through the snow and mak.
Ing, apparently, seme search, Pres
ently Connery passed the door of the
campartment carrying something
loosely wrapped In a newspaper in
his hands, Eaion finished his clgar
and went back to his seat In the “or.
As he glanced at the seat where
he had left his locked traveling bag,
Connery
claimed
.
of
who
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he saw that
there, It
seals on
the
stood
bag was no
ween the
pleking it
now het
lwo
the floor, and up
tened and
which told
forced.
He set
knees and
with marks
plainly
about the
that it had
it on the floor between
checked over [ts
Nothing had been taken,
he could tell; for the bag
tained only clothing, the
tionary and the box of cigars, and
all apparently were still there
had laid out the things
acrogs from him while
up, and now he began te
back in the bag. Suddenly
that one of
sing: what
now
so far
had
ns
these
He
seat
the
checking
put
he
wis
pairs
on
them
them
3
noticed ROCKS
his
had been
only ten pairs
mig leven
was and one
sock,
This disappearance of a single sock
WHE 80 sirange, bizarre
plexing that-—uniess It was
tal-—he could not account for it at all.
No one opens a man's bag and steals
one sock, and
80
BO
aceiden-
Or
per
he was quite sure there
had been eleven complete pairs there
in the day. Certainly
been accidental: the bag
opened, contents taken
examined, and In putting
sock had been dropped un.
The of the
meant no than that
of the had been
oughly investigated, By whom?
the man whom the
Hillward
earlier
had
heen
and
bat x,
its
one
noticed aheence
the
thor
By
then, more
contents hag
against
directed to Lawrence
varned Eaton?
Ever since hi
gram, Ena
the train In go
for
had
of the tele
through
from the
had been
which,
was
receipt
ton-—-a8 he passed
to and
other reasons
"or
ng
trying covertly to determine
if anyone, among
who,
him,
first
that
to fear must be
Later he had fel
could not be the
any one of
1
would have spoken
the passengers,
the
“following™ him.
to
he
train
the “one” telegram
warned
For at
mean
had
wins
had
one of “them'
on
certain
for
who
he interpreted it
* whom
the
that
cane,
“them” knew
by this time. Now
his suspicions that one of “them” must
be aboard the returned,
had not been
door of the
train
The bag certainly
ried
cnr
car,
the
out the forward
he seen it from
of
would have
the
The
enrried out
who
! car
compa
riment at that end
where k
he had sat smoking.
the
had
still
therefore
:
rear i in mia
[ent man
"row
hed heen
a -
must
cigar-Case
casualness
of
rear
car, who
passing
WHE en
toine
tlet In
ne lay was closed.
to the observation
d women passen
or talking
through the
the he
standing alone
platform. The
her back was
went out onto
of the
her, she turned
si line
sh
fn
loor end of
ine
ohservation
at the
Harriet
} the
girl did him;
toward As he
the platfor: id the
Car,
santo
not see
the car
sound
closing {o
{to meet
looked
gray shadows
white and
‘her
and tired,
underneath
She
faint
“Your Name, Sir?” Connery Asked.
eyes showed where dark circles were
beginning to form.
“1 am supposed to be resting.” she
explained quietly, accepting him as
one who had the right to ask.
“How ia your father?
“Just the same; there may He no
change, Doctor Sinclair says, for days.
It seems all so sudden and so—ter
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“You dog!” he mouthed, “Han
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