® ~~ CHAPTER XVI—Continued, yn Eaton knelt on one knee behind his fable; now he was wildly, exultantly excited; his blood leaped hotly to his hand pointing his pistol; he panted, almost audibly, for breath, but though his pulse throbbed through his head his mind was clear and coo! as reckoned his situation and his chances. He had crossed the Pacific, the continent, he had and risked everything with the mere hope of getting into this room to discover evidence with which to demand from the world righting of the wrong! which had driven him as a fugitive for five years: and here he found the man who was the cause of It all, before him in the same room a few away In the dark! For it was Impossible that this was not that man; and Eaton knew now that this was he who must have been behind and arranging and directing the attacks upon him. Eaton had not only seen him and heard his voice, but he had felt his grasp; that sudden, in stinctive crouch before a charge, and the savage lungze and tackle were the instant, natural acts old lines man on a championship team game of football as it was twenty years before. That lift of the opponent off his and the heavy lunge hurling him k to fall on his | head was what man- the rougher, more cruel days of the col lege game— On | the football sufficed | to knock a scious; h doubt, to do more Upon much, at mind at once was clear: here was his enemy whom must destroy if he himself first destroyed. Other thoughts, recasting of other re ations altered overturned in th bearing by the discovery of this hRere—everything else could and wait upon the mighty demand of the woment upon Eaton to destroy enemy now or be himself destroyed Eaton shook In coolly he now realized his left shoulder, which had taken shock of his fall, was numb. He shifted his pistol! over cover a vague which had seemed to move: but, if it had stirred, it was still now Eaton strained to listen. It seemed certain that the noise of the shot, if not the sound of the struggle which preceded it, must have raised an alarm Santoine, as Eaton knew, slept above: a nurse must be waiting duty somewhere near. Eaton had seen the row of but tons which the blind man had within | arm's length with which he must be | able to summon every servant In the | house. So It could not last much | longer now-—this deadlock In the dar!: And one of the two, at least, seemed to have recognized that, Baton had moved, warlly and care fully, but he had moved: a revolver flashed before him. Instantly and without consciousness that his finger pulled the trigger, Eaton's pistol flashed back. In front of him. the flame flashed again, and another spurt of fire spat at one side. Eaton fired back at this—he was prostrate on the floor now, and | whether he had hit or not he | did not yet know, or whether the blood flowing down his face was only from a splinter sprayed from the table | behind which he had hid. He fired | again, holding his pistol far out te one side to confuse the alm of the others: he thought that the same and allowed for it in his alm He pulled his trigger a ninth time- be had not counted his shots, but he knew he had had seven cartridges in | the magazine and one in the barrel and the pistol clicked without dis charging. He rolled over farther | away from the spot where he had last fired and pulled an extra clip of car. tridpes from his pocket, The blood was flowing hot over his face. He made no effort to staunch It or even to feel with his fingers to find exactly where or how badly he bad been hit. He jerked the empty cartridge clip from his pistol butt and snapped in the other. He swept his sleeve over his face to clear the blood from his brows and eves and stared through the dark with pistol at arm's length loaded and ready. Blood spurted over his face again: another sweep of his sleeve cleared it; and he moved lus pistol-point back and forth In the dark, Surely now the sound of firing In that room must have reached the man in the room above; surely he must be summoning his servants, Baton MHstened; there was still no sound from the rest of the house. But overhead now, he heard an almost Im. perceptible pattering——the sound of a barefooted man crossing the floor: and he knew that the blind man in tke bedroom above was getting up. Tod, ne schemed paces of an in the played foe ba one had been famous for, field that helmeted throw uncon beyond opponent re VAS meant, 50 least, Eaton's he were not i or eir naar it this his passion: ye! that the form {to again ¢ Jasil on been they too were doing CHAPTER XVII Under Cover of Darkness. Basil Santoine was oversensitive to sound, as are most of the blind: In the world of darkness In which he lived, nds were by far the most significant—and almost the only— means he had of telling what went on around him; he passed his life listen. ing for or determining the nature of sounds. So the struggle which ended in Eaton's crash to the floor would have waked him without the pistol shots Immedintely following, That roused him wideawake Immediatel: and brought him sitting up In bed. for getful of his own condition, His hand went at once to the pell WILLIAM MacHARG By % EDWIN BALMER hoard, and he rang at the same time for the nurse outside his door and for the steward, Santoine did not consider the pos sibility of robbery of plate or jewelry long enough to have been said to eon- sider It at all; what he felt was that the threat which had hanging viiguely over himself ever since War- den's murder was being fulfilled. But It was not Santolne himself that was being attacked: it was something San been toine possessed. might enter that below. And those articles Santoine pressed all the bells agnin and then got up. He had heard ahso lutely no sound outside, as must be made by anyone escaping from the room below; but the battle seemed over One side must have destroyed the other. The blind man stood barefooted on room moments of his rebellion against, and deflance of, his helpless ness of blindness. Below him—as he believed nts had been sacri there in that room trust that which the faith, is guarding W aonor no i - HIS Servo in the honor that trust in- And partie was bound for he others: h less knew he to act; that Santoine had was at the volved his ularly, now, at whatever doubt he cost, now but guest, whom sufficiently guarded, tom of the attack. The blind man be therefore, that it retention here attack had been had been killed, s of his Undoubtedly there but again at one else to run a risk for him He put his hand on started to descend the stairs ned bot lieved, wis because his own int the made. his the private associates were in dan was danger that iid was why he d not the other door for some the rail an He was almost steady In step and he had firm When he had aroused at the sound of firing, blindness as always when something was hap- pening about him upon He felt helpless because he was he had in forgotten his was obtruded blind, not because been Jured. He had from hed: he had risen and stood and walked, without staggering. to the door and the top of the stairs before, now, he remembered. So what he already had done showed him to his mind and he could go on He went down the stairs al most steadily. The blind count stairs, and he had gone down twenty.one—and realized fully his futility; but now he would “Who Is here? he asked distinetly, “Is anyone here? Who is here?" No one answered. And now tone knew by the sense which let him feel whether It was night or day. that the room was really dark—dark for others as well as for himself: the lights were not burning. So an exal tation, a sense of physical capability came to Santoine: In the dark he was as fit, as capable as any other man He stepped down on the floor. and in his uncertainty as to the position of the furniture, felt along the wall There were bookcases there, but he felt and passed” along them swiftly. until he came to the case which San The books were gone from that case; his bare toes struck agninst them where they had been thrown down on the floor. The blind man, his pulse beating tumultucnsly, put his hand through the ease and felt the panel behind. That was slid back, exposing the safe; and the door of the safe stood open Santolne’s hands felt within the safe swiftly, The safe was empty, He recoiled from it. choking back an ejaculation. The entry to this room had been made for the purpose which he supposed: and the thieves must have succeeded in their errand The blind man, In his uselessness for pursuit, could delay calling others to act for him no longer. He started toward the bell, when some scrape on the floor—not of the sort to be ae. counted for by an object moved by the wind--sounded behind him, San. tolne swung toward the sound and stood listening again; and then, grop- ing with his hands stretched out be fore him, he left the wall and stepped toward the center of the room. He took two steps-—three, four—with no result; then his foot trod Into some fluld, thick and sticky and not cold, Santoine stooped and put a finger. tip Into the fluid and brought it near his nose. It was what he supposed it must be--blood. He could hear now someone - breathing—more than one person. From the house, still shut off by its double, sound-proof doors he could hear nothing: but someone outside the house was hurrying up to the open window at the south end of the room, That one came to, or just Inside the window. parting the curtains, He was breathing hard from exertion or from excitement, “Who Is It?" Santoine challenged clearly. “Basil 1* Blatehford's volce ex Inimed his recognition tn amazement “Basil; that is yon! What are you doing down here? Blatehford started forward, “What brought you here?’ Santolne demanded Instead of reply. “You were running outside; why? What was out theré? What did you see?” “See? | didn't see anything the window here open when I up But I heard shots, Basil. has happened here?” Santoine felt again the stickiness at feet. “Three or four fought in this room, Wallace, or one was hurt, There's blood on the floor. There are two here I can hear breathing: 1 they're hurt Probably the rest are gone. Get help. I think who aren't hurt They must be gone. jut help first, Wallace.” “And rejoined, the blind moving except came What person “ Some Suppose those fire gone, get leave 4 He you here? Blatchford had not halted man heard his along the wall clicked, and again: cousin still The ele Santoine ‘trie switch knew Hight turn- with strained, to the light, he the room was flooded straightened ing his head little With the flashing on had heard the sharp, of Blatehford as better of i he saw the roan and, besides that, Santoine heard movement now elsewhere In the room ’ cry “Good God!” “What “Good God! “Who Is It knew now t is it?" Santoine cried. Basil Wallace? friend's in the hat his r recognit from Came irom not alone SOE of horror “Basil! It him! It is A shot roared In blind man, shock of it, ist must bel know front starting drew in with his breath; but the bullet was not for him. Instead, he heard his friend scream and choke and half call, half cough “Wallace I” Santolne cried out: but his voice was lost in the roar of an other shot. This was not fired by the same one who had just fired: at least, it was not from the same part of the room; and instantly, from side, a third shot came. Then. in the shot roared; the light was out again: then all was gone: the noise was out. side; the room was still except for a cough and choke as Blatchford somewhere on the floor In front of the blind man-—tried again to speak. Basil Santoine, groping with his hands, found him. He was still con scions, Rantoine knew that he was trying his best to speak, to say just one word-—a name-—to tell whom he had seen and who had shot him; but he could not. Santoine put his hand over a hand of his cousin, Biatchford's fingers closed tightly on Santoine's: they did not relax but now remained closed though without strength. ‘The blind man bowed and then NHfted his head, His friend was dead, and others were rushing into the room-—<the butler. one of the chauffeurs, Avery, more men. servants; the light was on again, and amid the tumult and alarms of the discoveries shown by the light, some rushed to the windows to the south In pursuit of those who had escaped from the room. Avery and one or two others rushed up to Santoine: now the blind man heard, above their cries and alarms, the volee of his daughter. She was beside him, where he knelt next the body of Blatchford. and she put back others who crowded about, “Father! What has happened? Why are you here? Oh, Father, Cousin Wallace I” “He is dead,” Santolne sald. “They shot him! They were three, at least. One was not with the others. They fired at each other, I believe, after one shot him.” BSantolne’'s hand was still In Blatehford’s. “I heard them helow.,” He told shortly how he had gone down, how Blatchford had en tered and heen shot, The blind man, still kneeling, heard the ordering and orpanizing of others for the pursuit: now women servants from the other part of the hones were taking charge of affairs In the wom, There had been no sign! # heard, Santoine was told, upon any of the bells which he had tried to ring from hls room. Eaton was the only ing. came”—Snntoine had risen, down his grief over his cousin's death ~“for what was In your riet.” “TI know; I saw it open.” “What 1s gone?’ Santolne manded. He heard her picking of the from carrying the amining “Why seem to be gone: relating to a things.” “None of the correspondence?” “No: that all seems safe, up the con- the tuble floor and tents safe them to them, ex lists and agreements dozen different to be here” the in Santoine was breathing quickly: trust for which he had been reads for which Blatchford had died seemed safe, “We don't then, which die know whether or not!” It was broke in upon | merely listened i “He? Who i ter's challenge, “Why, Eaton It | what happened here, is “He room for what he was ¢ { he after from whatever at may have | he got it Avery's voles sant him: oine He heard his daugh. is in enough it? Ay to ery | answered, came re this 1fter been t} th has i i wen! came prepared to force the = ife it! and But he was su blind man whoever it 1g that has } 1 ret prised whom?" the naked, iim don't who don't doing hey Mr know, But-——s this, he laid by them Were i himsel They were him enter They him here Wallace switched the light and recognized Wallace snd ran ever he em attack watehing—saw here | attacked on he shot with what iid grab up of the saf was after.” it isn't so!” hat he “ht 1 nied, Her father checked her instant tit the ng went su't so Harriet de he thoughtful “Who is Donald? Avery OO “Now, he understood that her father till she had | an di. i rec pursuit out at Harriet” commanded would nove seen the ron * Was some sort of a struggle safe” she sald sverything there is knocked al out.” “Yon” “There loon] #pot of It on the floor ™ “I found that” sald Santoine “There are bullet marks where-——ahbove the mantel. “How was the safe opened?” “The combination has been cut com pletely away: there an-——an ment with the electric light fixture which seems to have done the cutting. There af hand-drill, too—1 think it Is a hand-drill inner door has been drilled and the catches drawn back.” “Who is The valet, who had been sent to Ea ton’s room, had retorned with his re port. “Mr. Eaton went from his room fully sir" said to San t toine, “except for his shoes I found { al} his shoes io his room.” Praring the report the blind man felt his daughter's grasp on his arm be come tense and relax and tighten again. Then, as though she realized { she was adding to his comprehension of what she had already betrayed. she { suddenly took her hand from her fa. ther's arm. Santoine let the servants at his daoghter's direction, help him to hig room. His daughter stood he side him while the nurse washed the | blpod-splotches from his hands feet, “Father? she questioned “Yes” is also | there-—a big every. it "ii in connected is through this?” dressed he You?-that Mr. Eaton went to the study to——to get something. and that whoever has been following him found him there and--and and he killed Cousin Wallace ?™ Santoine was silent an Instant “That seems the correct Harriet,” he evaded. “It does not far as it goes, what my opinion is, that.” If Donald asks you tell him from him. together above the coverlet. accused himself, In the room below, now, even to the Irretrievable between man and woman--had brought her, that Is, to the state where, no matter what Eaton was or did, she must suf. fer with him! But Santoine was not accusing himself now; he was feeling only the fulfillment of that threat against those who had trusted him with their secrets, which he had felt vaguely after the murder of Gabriel Warden and, more plainly with the events of each succeeding day, ever since. For that threat, just now, had enlmingted In his presence in pun poseful, violent action: but Santoine in his biindaess had been vnable—aml was «till unable-<te tell what that netion wenn (TO BE CONTINUEDS ¥ Be Buong! the days are biame? fold the not evil-—-who's tw hands and acquliesce-O ip, rpeak out, and in nanie bravely, $ OCK. FOR BAXING DAY nat Hike to cut a shapely loaf while Is hot, so dough molding bread, roll a round place in a and bake, Out in loaf piate light, Way Le broken und eaten { favorite with the { call such a loaf 1 bannoe k. Potato Pancakes three large Scoteh people, potatoes and' let morning grate add one-half stund over night. 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