THE
Copyright by Little
By
William MacHarg
Edwin Balmer
“AN ACCIDENT?
en
Gabriel Warden, Seattle capital-
ist, teljs his butler he is expecting
a calier, to be admitted without
question. He informs his wife of
danger that threatens him if he
pursues a course he considers the
only honorable one, Warden leaves
the house in his car and meets &
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, Bob Con-
nery, conductor, receives orders to
hold train for a party. Five men
and a girl board the train,” the
eastern express, The father of the
girl, Mr. Dornd, is the person for
whom the train was held, Phillip
D. Eaton, a 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 maks
Eaton's acquaintance, Dorne is
found nearly dead from a murder.
ous assault. A surgeon operates.
Dorne is revealed as Basil San-
tolne, blind, and a power In the
financial world as the adviser of
‘big interests.” Eaton is suspected
and questioned. He refuses infor-
mation. about himself and admits
he was the caller at Warden's
house Eaton pleads with Harriet
Santbine to withhold judgment,
telling her he is In perious danger,
though Innocent of the crime
against her father, He feels the
girl believes him. Santoine recov.
ers sufficiently to question Iaton,
whe refuses his identity. The
financier requires Eaton to accom-
pany him to the Santoine home as
a semi-prisoner Eaton meets na
resident of the house, Vialiace
Blatchford, and Mildred Davis, a
stenographer, with whom he is ac.
quainted, though they the
fact, Eaton's misslon is to secure
certaln documents which are vital
to his interests.
conceal
CHAPTER Xl|—Continued.
a he
further back
une passed
into the
through
laton drew
Ricove. as some
the hall above,
overhead ; Eaton, assured no one was
coming down the stairs, spoke swiftly
to tell her much as he might
their moment. “He
taken ill on the train, Edith;
a tacked.”
“Attacked I" Her lips barely moved
“He was almost killed; but they
concealed it, Edith-—pretended he was
only fll. I was on the train—you
kuow, of course; 1 got your wire—and
they suspected me of the attack.”
“You? But they didn't find
about you, Hugh?”
“No; they are Investigating
toine would not let them make
thing public. He brought me
while he Is trying to find out about
me. So I'm here, Edith—here!
here too?”
Again steps sounded
above. The girl swiftly
scif with gloves and hat: Eaton stood
stark in suspense, The servant above
~-it was a servant they had heard
before, he recognized now-—merely
crossed from room to another
overhead. Now the girl's lips moved
again,
“RT™ She
noiseieasly,
“The draft of the new agresment.™
“It either has been sent to him,
or it will be sent to him very soon—
here”
“Where will it be when it Is here?”
“Where? Oh!” The girl's eves
went to the wall close to where Eaton
stood; she seemed to measure with
them a definite distance from the door
and a point shoulder high, and to
resist the impulse to come over and
put her hand upon the spot. As Ea-
ton followed her look, he heard a
slight and muffled click as If from the
study ; but no sound could reach them
through the study doors and what he
heard came from the wall itself
“A safe? he whispered,
“Yes; Miss Santoine—she's In there.
isa’'t she?—closed It just now. There
are two of them hidden bend the
beoks, one on each side of the door”
Eaton tapped gently on the wall:
the wall was brick; the safe undoubt-
edly was backed with steel
“The best way Is from inside the
room,” he concluded,
She nodded. “Yes,
“Look out!”
Someone now was coming down.
stairs. The girl had time only to
whisper ‘swiftly, “If we don't get a
chance to speak agaln, watch that
¥ase” She pointed to a bronze an-
thiue which stood on a table near
them. “When I'm sure the agreement
is In the house, I'll drop 8 glovebut-
ton in that--a black one, If 1 think
it'd be In the safe on the right, white
on the left. Now go”
Baton moved quietly on and into
the drawing room. Avery's volee Im.
mediately afterward was heard; he
was speaking to Miss Davis, whom he
had found In the hallway. Eaton was
cectnin there was no suspicion that
he had talked with her there; indeed,
Avery seemed to suppose that Eaton
‘was still In the study with Harriet
Santoine. It was her lapse, then,
which had let Wim out and had given
him that chance; but It was a lapse,
he discovered, which was not likely
to favor him again. From that time
while never held strictly fn restraint,
he found himself siways In the sight
of someone;
ns
he was
out
any-
in the hall
husled
one
formed the question
If you"
daton let himself think, ldly, about
Harrjet-—how strange her life had
been—that part of it at least which
was spent, as he had gathered most 4
of her waking hours of recent years
had been spent, with her father.
Strange, almost, as his own life! And
what a wonderful girl It had made
of her—clever, sweet lovable, with
more than a woman's ordinary eca-
pacity for devotion and sel{-sacrifice
But, If her service to her father
was not only on his personal side but
If also she was Intimate ih his busi-
ness affairs, must she not therefore
have shared the cruel code which had
Eaton for the last four
at any hour yet, threat.
ened to take lHfe? A grim set
came to Eaton's lips; his mind went
again to his own affairs.
and which,
his
The Man From the Train,
In the supposition that he was
liberty, Eaton proved cor-
Harrlet Santoine, to whose (m-
due his first privi-
to
less
pulses had been
She did not suggest hostility, us
constantly did; nor,
she
the
toward him:
seemed merely to be maintaining
often
Eaton
if they
avoided him.
were together,
understood
not yet able to leave his bed,
by
of
the
had
only
not
he
the
other
Eaton
and
Davis
name
pillows ;
heen
one nurses
dismissed ; Was
did
though
or anot
was West,
at all;
Miss
whose
that
stenographer,
to encounter ]auy
There was no longer room for Ea-
plete extent
{1,
Now that Rantolne wns
worked with him dally
and Eaton learned that
did the same when he was well.
she
she
But
ablde by his decision
ing; for he knows;
that he knows and
honest.”
Eaton was silent for a moment as
they walked along. “How can he
come to his decision?’ he asked at
last, ”
“How?
“1 mean, much of the material pre-
sented "to him must be documentary.”
“Much of it Is."
“Then someone
him."
“Of course”
Eaton started
fralned,
“What were yon going to say?’ she
questioned,
“That the person-—or persons—who
reads the documents to him must oc-
cupy an extremely delicate position”
“He does. In fact, 1 think that po-
sition Is Father's one nightmare.”
“Nightmare?
“The person he
only be absolutely
solutely honest”
“I should think so
that position wanted
without fight-
and they know
is absolutely
must read it to
to speak--then re
trusts not
fo
must
but
discreet
If anyone In
to use the
could make himself millions over.
men.”
kill Father too”
quietly, “Yes,” she
looked at hor “FF
nothing above his trust. If
were liot
the girl
said
puts
trust
added
rther
that
to blame
kill him.”
in any
I think it
“No you are the or
position.”
“Yes: that is. 1 have
“You mean there Is ar
that is, of course, Mr
“Yes: here at this house Mr, Avery
and I, and Mr. Avery at the
Before Mr. Avery came, |
only who helped
house.”
“When was
“When Mr
way
would
wither now:
"
Avery?
office
1
was [he
here at the
one
that 7"
Avery ecame® About
five years ago Father had an im
amount of work nat
conditions
| mense that time
i Business Were very macs
Was it not
that Avery, and not Harriet. was en
matters:
that this girl,
as she did,
that,
or was it possibie
could know and be sure
because her father
they were right?
A hundred times a day. as Eaton
him. A score of times during
he found himself turned
some question which would
aid him in determining what must be
the fact; but each time he
himself, until} morning-—it
fifth after his arrival at
house—Harriet was
one
taking
the house. She had just told him.
at’ his inquiry, that her father was
very much stronger that morning. and
her manne more than ever evidenced
her pride in him.
They walked on slowly.
you could tell me
self, Mr. Eaton."
“1 wish so 100.” he said.
“Then why can you not? She
turned to him frankly: he gazed at
her a moment and then looked away
and shook his head. Did she know
all of what was ‘known even under
her father's roof ; and if she knew all,
would she then loathe or defend it?
A motor sped near, halted and then
speeded on agaln; Eaton, looking up,
saw It was a runabout with Avery
alone in it; evidently, seeing them in
the road, Avery had halted to pro-
test, then thought better of it and
gone on. But other motors passed
now with people who spoke to Har-
riet and who stopped to Inquire for
her father and wish him well
“Your father does not seem to be
one of the great men withofit honor
in his own neighborhood,” Eaton sald
to her after one of these %ad halted
and gone on.
“Everyone who knows Father likes
and admires him!" she rejoiced.
“I don’t mean exactly that,” Eaton
went on. "They must trust him too,
in an extraordinary way. His asso
ciates must place most complete con-
fidence in him when they leave to him
the adjustment of matters such as I
understand they do. He tells them
what Is just, and they abide by his
decision.” |
Harriet shook her head.
isn't quite that” she sald.
“What, then?”
“You are correct in saying that men
of the most opposite sorts-—and most
irreconcilable to each other — con-
stautly place thelr fate In Father's
hand; and when he tells them what
they must do, they abide by his de
cision. But he doesn't decide for
them what Is just.”
“I don't understand. What does he
tell them, then?”
“He tells them what would be the
outcome If they fought, who would
win and who would lose and by how
“1 wish
more about your-
“No; It
“Every One Who Knows Father Likes
and Admires Him!” She Rejoiced.
unsettled. There was trouble at that
time between some of the big eastern
and big western men, and at the same
time the government was prosecuting
the trusts. Nobody knew what the
outcome of it all would be; many of
the biggest men who consuited Father
were like men groping in the dark.
I don’t suppose you would remember
the time by what | say; but you
would remember It," as nearly every-
body else does by this: it was the
time of the murder of Mr. Latron”
“Yes; I remember that” sald Ea.
ton; “and Mr. Avery came to you at
that time?"
“Yes; Just at that time 1 was
thrown from my horse, and could not
do as much as ' had been doing, so
Mr. Avery wus sent to Father”
“Then Mr. Avery was reading to
him at the time you spoke of-—the
time of the Latron murder?’ '
“No; Mr. Avery came just after.
ward, I was reading to him at that
time.” : .
“The papers must have been a good
deal for a girl of eighteen”
“At that time, you mean? They
were; but Father dared trust no one
else.”
“Mr. Avery handles those matters
now for your father?”
“The continuation of what was go.
ing on then? Yes; he took them up
at the time I was hurt and so has
kept on looking after them; for there
has been plenty for me to do without
that; and those things have all been
more or less settled now. They have
worked themselves out as things do,
though they seemed almost unsolvable
at the time. One thing that helped
In their solution was that Father was
able, that time, to urge what was Just,
as well as what was advisable,”
“You mean that In the final settle
ment of them no one suffered?”
“No one, 1 think—except, of course,
poor Mr. Latron; and that was a pri
vate matter not connected In any di
much, And they believe him and
¥
rect way with the question at lssue.
i
HALL, PA.
Why do you ask all this, Mr. Eaton?
“I was merely Interested In yoti—
in what your work has been with your
Father, pud what it in,” he answered
quietly.
They had been following the edge
of the road, she along a path worn
in the turf, he on the edge of the road
Itself and nearer to the tracks of the
motors. Suddenly she cried out and
clutched at him, As they had stopped,
she had heard the sound of a motor
approaching them rapidly from be
hind. Except that this car seemed
speeding faster thzr the others, she
had pald no attention and had not
turned. Instantaneously, as she had
cried and pulled upon him, she had
reailzed that this car was not pass
ing; It was directly behind and almost
upon him. She felt him spring to the
side as quickly as he could: but her
the wheel struck; but the car hurled
him aside and rolled bim over
over,
As she
men in
turned
rushed
the rear
their heads
without
to Eaton, the
seat of the
and looked
checking its
two
car
gpeod
She bent over Eaton and took hold
tottered so that she supports
ed him.
ror at the turn in the road where the
car had disappeared.
“Why, he tried to run you
He meant to! He tried to hurt
cried, -
Eaton denied.
think so. It must
accident, He was—frightened
when Le saw what he had done.”
“It wasn't at all like an accident '™
persisted. “It
you.
she
“No,”
don't
“Oh,
she couldn't have been
behind the he did! No:
you see who was in the
Way
Did
was driving™
» turned to her
demanded
3
“One of the people who was on
The morning Father was Ii
-3 little
s{rong. & man
like an :
shuddered
elf. “Yes,
nductor
and then controlled
I remember a fellow
the co tried to seat 12e. oppo
site.”
* nr)
This
Eaton shook his head
be: I think
Was the same man!
“That
he
could
You must mis
»
“I am uot mistaken: it that
Was
“Still, 1 think you must be
She stared, studying him
I waz" she agreed:
had not been. “1
it was he didn't
right, aren't
“Quite.” he
“Perhaps
but she knew she
am glad,
injure you. You are
you®”
axsured “Please don't
They
she
walked back rather
appreciating how
had
he
silently,
expressed herself for him
quiet becanse of this and
in front
as they
They found Donald Avery
of the house looking for then
succeeded
but he
Eaton in
Without umping ;
his clothes
“Harriet, I've just come from your
to go to him
directed “Good
What's happened?”
slessness.” Eaton deprecated,
rather in the way of a motor
and was knocked over for it”
Harriet did not correct
Avery, She went up to
she was still trembling,
with horror at wha: she
he wi
Avers
Enton
ints
you
“Cat
“Lit
this te
her father:
still
had seen—
side. She stopped outside her fa-
ther's door to compose herself: then
she went in
The blind man was propped up on
his bed with pillows into almost a
sitting position; the nurse was with
him.
“What did you want, Father?" Har
riet asked.
He had recognized her step and
had been about to speak to her: but
at the sound of her voles he stopped
the words on his lips and changed
them Into a direction for the nurse
to leave the room.
He waited until the nurse had left
and closed the door behind her. Har
riet saw that, In his familiarity with
her tones and every inflection of her
voice, he had sensed already that
something unusual had occurred: she
repeated, however, her question as
to what he wanted.
“That does not matter now, Hare
riet. Where have you been?"
“I have been walking with Mr.
Eaton.” !
“What happened 7
She hesitated. “Mr. Eaton was al
most run down by a motorcar.”
“Ab! An accident?” .
She hesitated again. “Mr. Baton
sald It was an accident,” she an
swered.
“Bat you?
“It did not look like an accident.
Father. [It--it showed intention.”
“You mean It was an attack?”
“Yes; It was an attack. The man
in the car meant to run Mr. Eaton
down; he meant to kill him or to
hurt him terribly. Mr. Eaton wasn't
hurt. 1 called to him and pulled
him-~he Jumped ‘away io time”
“The attack made on me was
meant for you" ‘
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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