THE
By
WILLIAM MacHARG
EDWIN BALMER
Copyright by Little, Brown and Company
“SHIELD Him?"
r—
Gilbriel Warden, Seattle capitals
ist, telis his butler he is expecting
a caller, to be admitted without
question. He informs his wife of
danger that threatens him If he
pursdes a course he considers the
only honorable one. Warden leaves
the house in his car.and meels a
maa 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
castern express, he father of the
girl, Mr. Dorne, is the person for
whom the train was held. Philip
D. Eaton, a young man, also
boarded the train, Dorne tells his
daughter and his secretary, Dun
Avery, to find out what they can
concerning him. The two make
Katon's acquaintance, Dorne is
found nearly dead from a murder
ous assault. A surgeon operates.
Dorne is revealed Basil San-
toine, 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
Santoine to withhold judgment,
telling ber he is In serious danger,
though innocent of the crime
against her father, He feels the
girl believes him. Santoine recov-
ars sufficiently to question Eaton,
who refuses his identity The
financier requires Eaton to accoms-
pany him to the Santoine home as
a semi-prisoner Eaton meets a
resident of the house, Wallace
Biatchiford, and Mildred Davis, a
stenographer, with whom he is aco-
quainted, though they conceal the
fact. Eeton's mission is to secure
certain documents which are vital
to hin Interests. Harriet tells Eaton
she and Donald Avery act as
“eyes to Santoine. While walking
with her, men in an automobile
deliberately attempt to run Eaton
down. The girl recognizes one of
the men as having been on the
train
49
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CHAPTER" X11—Continued.
ne} ne
“To kill him, Harriet?
know?
She caught
know, Father.
jure Mr. Eaton
hit, I waa
thought.”
“That Is better. 1 think
“That he meant to kill Mr. Eaton?
You™ J
She - watched her
eofiem when relating
she was aware from his expression
that she was telling him only
thing he already had figured out and
herself. 1
le certainl
Wher I sald
telling only what
y meant to
S00 foo
father's
things to him,
face;
some
ROW,
“Father, did you expect
te he attacked?
“Bxpect?
possible; I suspected
this might occur”
‘And you did not warn him?
‘The blind man's hands sought each
ether on the coverlet and clasped to
Mr. Eaton
something
hima, Harriet: Mr. Eaton
knew. Who was In the car?
“Three men”
‘Had you seen any of them before?
“Yes, one—the man who drove.”
‘Where?
On the train.”
The color on Santolne’s face
brighter. “Deseribe him, dear.
grew
her recollections of the man.
“I can’t describe him
Father,” she said. “He
very fully,
Was one
ward sleeping ear. 1 can recall see.
the car—I recall him only twice
that car aud once in the diner”
“That Is interesting" said
toine, 2
“What, Father?”
“Theat five days upon the train
you saw the man only three times”
“You menn he must have kept out
of sight as much as possible?”
“Have you forgotten that [I asked
you to describe him, Harriet?”
She checked herself, “Height about
five feet five,” she said, “broad
shouldered, very heavily set: 1 re
member he Impressed me as belng un-
usually muscular. His hair was black:
I can't recall the color of his eyes:
his cheeks were blue with a heavy
beard closely shaved, 1 remember his
face was prognathous, and his clothes
were spotted with dropped food. [-—
it seems hard for me to reeall him,
and | can’t describe him very well”
“But you are sure it was the same
man im the motor?” :
“Yes. He seemed an animal sort
of person, small, strong, and not par.
ticularly intelligent. It seems hard
for me to remember more about him
then that"
“That Is Interesting.”
“What?
“That hi is hard for you to remem-
ber him very well”
“Why, Father?
Her father did not answer, “The
other men in the motor? he asked,
“lI ean't describe them, [1 was
excited about Mr. Eaton.”
“Thank you, dear. Bring Eaton to
we" .
“He has gone (o his room to fix
himgelf up.”
“I'' send for him, then” Santoine
pressed one of the buttons beside his
bed to call a servant; but before the
bell could be auswered, Harriet got
in
San-
ia
“I'l go myself,” she sald.
She went out into the hall and
closed the door behind her; she wait
ed until she heard the approaching
steps of the man summoned by San
toine's bell; then, going to meet him,
she sent him to call Eaton in his
rooms, and she still walted until the
man came and told her Eaton
had already left his rooms and gone
downstairs. She dismissed the man
and went to the head of the stairs
but her steps slowed there and
stopped, She knew that the blind
man's thought in regard to Eaton had
taken some Immense stride; but she
did not know what that stride had
or was coming when
Eaton.
She went on slowly down the stairs
Eu
wus
held
the bronze antique vase; he seemed
have taken something from
and to be examining It.
halted again to watch him: then she
went on, and he turned at the sound
footsteps. She could see, as
him, what he had
taken from the vase, but she attached
no importance to it; it was only a
black button from a woman's glove
one of her own, perhaps, which
had dropped without noticing
back
what now
in the halr below her. He
fireplace as he came toward her.
“Father wants see you,
Eaton,” she said.
He looked at her
‘instant and seemed to
strangeness in her manner
draw himself together; then
lowed Lier up the stairs.
io
intently for an
detect some
and to
he fol
CHAPTER XI}
it Grows Plainer.
Basll Sauatoine's
nearly sound-proof
going .on In the room
heard in the hall outside It,
to the. double doors Eaton,
approached these doors,
vainly, trying to determine whether
anyone wus in with San.
toilne;: then he quickened his step fc
bring him beside Harriet,
“One
was so
anything
}
not
bedroom
that
could he
even close
as they
listened
the room
Miss San
momen
t, please,
he urged
.
"
tolne,
“What is it
» has received some
nquiries he has been bh
it me?
w, Mr. Eaton”
“is alone?
“Yes”
Eaton thought a minute.
all I wanted
Harriet
to know, then” he
opened door
the inner
Santolne's volce at once culling
to in, and as Harriet
the second door, he followed
the room
the outer
on one,
come
opened
her Into
“Am 1
asked,
“y og”
Eaton
chair at
ed
to remain, Father?" she
Santoine commanded,
walted while went to a
the foot of the bed and seat
herself-—her clasped hands resting
the footboard and her
bands—in a position
she
chin
to
upon
watch
talked ; then Eston dat down,
“Goosl morning, Eaton,” the
“Good morning, Mr. Santolne” Ea
ton answered
Santoine was lying quietly upon
his back, his head raised on the pil
with the fin.
“You recall. of course. Eaton, our
on the train,” Santoine
sald evenly.
“Yes
“I want to call your attention in a
what happened on the train. You had
you not?”
“Rather, 1 was careless”
“You were careless?”
smiled derisively. “Perhaps you
were-——in one sense. In another, how
ever, you have been very careful. Es
ton, You have been careful to aet
as though the attempt run you
down could not have been a delib
erate attack ; you were careful to call
it an accident; you were careful not
to recognize any of the three men In
the motor.”
“l had no chance to recognize any
of them, Mr. Santoine,” Eaton re
plied easily. “I did not see the car
coming; I was thrown from my feet;
when I got up, It was too far away
for me to recognize anyone”
“Perhaps so; but were sou sur
prised when my daughter recognized
one of them as having been on the
train with us?
Eaton hesitated, but answered al
most Immediately :
“Your question doesn't exactly fit
the case. J thought Miss Santoine
had made a lstake”
“But you were not surprised: no,
What would have been a surprise to
you, Eaton, would have been—if you
had had a chance to observe the men-—
to haye found that none of them
none of them had been on the traid
Eaton started and felt that he had
colored. How ‘much did Santolne
know? Had the blind man received.
us Eaton feared, some answer to his
inquiries, - which had revealed, or
nearly revesied, Eaton's Identity? Or
was It merely that the attack made
on Eaton that merning had given San.
tolne new light on the events that
had happened on the train and par
ticularly Eaton guessed-—on the of
pher telegram which Santoine claimed
to have transiated,
Santoine
to
“You assume that, Mr. Bantolne
he nsserted, “"becanse—~" He checked
himself and altered his sentence
“Will you tell me why you assume
that 2"
“That that would have surprised
you? Yes; that Is what 1 called you
in here to tell you”
As Santolne waited a
fore going on, Eaton watched him
anxiously, The blind man turned
himself on his pillows so us to face
Eston more directly.
“Just ten Gavs ago,” he sald evenly
and dispassionately, I was found un
conscious in my berth—Section Three
of the rearmost sleeper-—on the trans.
continental train, which | had taken
with my daughter and Avery at Se
attie,. 1 had been attacked-—assalled
during my sleep some time ino that
first night that I spent on the train
and my condition was serious enough
that for three days afterward 1
was not allowed to receive any of the
particulars of what had happened to
me. When I did finally learn them
I naturally attempted to make oertain
deductions as to who it was that had
attempted to murder me, and why;
and ever since, 1 have continued to
occupy myself with those questions.
I am going to tell you a few of my
deductions. If you fancy I am at
fault In my conclusions, walt until you
discover your error.”
Santoine walted an
thought It was to allow
if he wanted to, but
waited
moment be
sO
Instant; Eaton
Lim to speak
Eaton merely
the blind
of
“The first thing 1 learned,
man went on, the similarity
“was
ful attack on Warden, twelve
previous, which had caused his death
The method of the two attacks was
the ; the conditions surrounding
very similar, The des
perate nature of the two attacks, and
their almost identical
ft practically certain
at the same
rarried out
hand and for
“Mrs. Warden's statement
her iuierview with
half-hour before
certain that the
on him w
almost
that the attack on me must have heen
days
sae
them were
method, made
that
|GuUree
they OF igi
and
the
purpose
probably by
the same
to me of
her husband =n
his murder
oh}
} made
oct of
us to ‘rethove
seemed inevitable, therefore
purpose,
“1 found that a
self--had acted
and
that both Aver
in of
young
susp ©}
before after
charge
“You Understand Already”
Asserted,
Santoine
of the passengers. Not only
them-—you admitted that were
the bne who had called upon Warden
the evening of his murder. It seemed
likely, too, that you the only
persen on the train aside from my
daughter and Avery who knew who |
was; for | had had reason to believe
from the time when 1 first heard you
speak when you boarded the train,
that you were someone with whom |
had previously, very hriefly come In
contact; and I had asked my daugh
ter to find out who you were, and she
had tried to do so, but without suc
cess.”
Eaton wet his lips,
“Also,” the blind man continued,
“there was a telegram which definite
ly showed that there wags some con-
ection, unknown to me, between you
and me. as well as a second-—or
rather a previous>suspicious tele
gram in cipher, which we were able
to transiate.”
Eaton leaned forward, impelled to
speak ; but as Santoine clearly detect-
ed this impulse and waited to hear
what he was going to say, Eaton re
considered and kept silent,
“You were going to say something
about that telegram In cipher?’ San.
toine asked,
“No,” Eaton denied.
“1 think you were; and 1 think that
a few minutes ago when | sald you
were not surprised by the attempt
mnde today to run you down, you
were also golng to speak of lt; for
that attempt makes clear the meaning
of the telegram. [Its meaning was not
clear to we before, you understand.
it sald only that you were known and
followed. It did not Bay why vou
were followed. 1 conld not be certain
of that; there were several posgible
reasons why you might be followed
even that the ‘one’ who ‘was follow.
ing’ might be someone secretly inter
ested In preventing you from an st
tack on me. Now, however, | know
that the reason you feared the man
you
were
who was following was because you
expected him to attack you. Know-
ing that, Enton—knowing that, I want
te enll your attention te the peculiar
ity of our mutual positions on the
train. You had asked for and were
occupying Section Three in the third
sleeper, In order—1 assume and, I be
lieve, correctly-—te avoid being put in
the same ear with me. In the night,
the second sleeper—the car next in
front of yours—-was cut off from the
train and left behind, That made me
occupy In relation to the forward part
of “the train exactly the same position
48 you had occupled
ahead of you had
was In Section Three
sleeper from the front.”
Eaton stared at Santoine,
nated; what had been only vague,
half felt, half formed with himself
was becoming definite, tangible, under
the blind man's reasoning.
closed instinctively, in his
“What you mean?” .
“You understand already,” Santoine
asserted, “The attack
was meant for you, Someone steall
through the cars from front to
the rear of the train and carrying in
his mind the location of Section Three
in the third ear, struck through the
curtains by mistake at me Instend of
you, Who was that, Eaton?"
“1 don't know,” Eaton unswered,
“You mean you prefer
him?"
“Shield
"That is what you are doing, is it
not? For, even If you don't know the
man directly, you know whose
cause und under whose
murdered Warden—and
whom is attempting
you."
Eaton remained silent.
In his Intensity, Santoine had
ed himself
$
that
the Car
out i
third
before
cut
in the
been
fasci
emotion,
do
On
made me
the
to shield
oe
him?
in
direction
why and for
murder
he to
lift
from his pillows. “Who is
“And what
between
man?’ he challenged.
i4 s) Sal ¥ 1 4
is that connection ana
and
You
me which, found
when the atisck
bled me ins ead
of his
accomplished ¥
dying. a
ugainst
told
MisIn Kelis
of you
Hatl—in spite
sult had been
that, if |
attack
sary?”
Eaton knew that he had gros
Harriet
Santolne's
not
wis repetition
the YOU Was unneces
WI Vers
of
must be aware the
w IF paw
effect on him,
her
now
such she was comprehend
words had
but he did dare look at
{0 see how
understand.” He fought to
“1
don't
84 5
been
at ne tim
fatally
was dead: only
been
ation,
the
wd sata i § 3 x .
riends have nforined
Y ester
Dew ka per
day.
is made on
are merely challenging my 4
:
itl you reply
fis 13d
0 165
clion
gues
CONN
be
iad "
sald Eaton
“Come here-close to me. hes
bed.”
Eaton
Pend
Eaton
hands
hesitated, and then obeyed
as or ges #
stooped, and the blind man's
seized him Instantly Eaton
Santoine warned “If sou
“Want
do pot stay, 1
hand to
Harriet had rizen: she met Eaton's
gaze Warningly and nodded to him to
comply. He bent again the bed.
He felt the blind man's sensitive fin
his features, his head
Eaton gazed at Santoine’s
shall call help” One
went the bell beside his bed
aver
his throat
pression already gained from what he
had been told him about Eaton. San
toine showed nothing more than this
confirmation ; certainly he did not rec
ognize Eaton, More than this, Eaton
could not tell.
“Now your hands”
dered,
Eaton extended one hand and then
the other; the blind man ‘felt over
them from wrists to the tips of the
fingers; then he let himself sink beek
against the plliows, absorbed In
thought.
“You may go.” Santoine sald at last
“Go? Eaton asked,
“You may leave the room. Blateh
ford will meet you downstairs"
Santoine reached for the house tel.
ephone beside his bed--recelver and
transmitter on one light bar—and
gave directions to have Blatchford
awalt Eaton in the hall below.
Santoine or.
“You yourself will assume
charge of the correspondence of
which | speak, Daughter.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
——————— ——
it Broke Mis Fall,
Mose Lightfoot, one of the best hod
carriers on the job, lost his footing
and’ fell .to the street, four stories be
low,
Mose lit on his head, struck the ce
ment pavement, and went through to
the busement.
When the foreman went to the base
ment, expecting to find Mose cold and
“Great Scott,
Killed 7” he cried,
“No,” Mose replied, dusting off his
clothes. “1 guess dat concrete pave
went musta broke mah fall”
man, aren't you
.
Up to Date.
Kpicker—~What has sgcceeded
“obey” In the marriage '
*
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(Q, 1923, Western Newspaper Union. )
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