The BLIND MAN'S EYES By William MacHarg Edwin Balmer 2 ILLUSTRATIONS BY R. H. Livingstone a Bn ede Copyright by Little, Brown snd Company CHAPTER XX!Il—Continued. ne “In other words, you instructed whether Overton could be handed over Jor execution and the facts regarding Latron kept secret, or whether some other course was necessary.” The blind man did not wait for any answer to this; he straightened sud denly, gripping the arms of his chair, and got up. There was more he wished to ask; in the blindness having been him an unconscious things of which Avery ly, he was resolved that had shared knowingly in them go unpunished. But now he heard the noise by approach Eaton's oenptors, Santoine stood listening, the without became coherent to him. “They have taken he cemmented., “Of taken no one else. I shall tell in charge of him he Is the they are to hold prisoner but that I have another for them here.” The blind man heard no from Avery. Those having Overton in charge seemed to be coming into the house: the door opened and there were confused sounds. Then Santoine heard his daug voice in a half less appeal him: he felt 1 Ci used to make agent in these spoke so ecalmm- no one who made of As sounds Overton, Avery, course they have not one answer CTY, Harriet ran her cold, trembling fir him and beseceching Father! They say to him. gers him -they sping “Father! say-—they will— He put clasp dear,” walt hers, “My would hands ing hers patting it. he said, “I thought you for me; I told you to He heard house now: and beside him “Who is in manded, The volece of one of the his and over others comir into hel ae as he faced them charge just nswered him I ain the chief of pe “y keep you ome in ice.” speak to will May 1 tnken t In ms here In ny I you: | not ISK You to FOUr prisoner occupied attentic my word that it is guard ‘ait! edd, ard ejacwiat mean that you have Is. He because 101186 n by doctor? You can necessary he tions “1 do not 3 have not to Wait ! excla ions to correct him him. as h direct mistaken who is Hugh Overton, he Hugh say what I Sanioioe abandoned effort to sepa rate and comprehend or to try to an swer the conf of charge questioning around He cerned himself, at the moment, with bis he drew him, heid her and said gently, dear; there! Everything is have not been able to explain and I cannot take time now: at least, will take my word that have nothing to fear for him ing!” He heard her gasp with incredulity and surprise; then she drew back froin kim, staring at him, she breathed deep with relief and clasped him, sob bing. He still held her, as the hall was cleared and the footsteps of those carrying Overton went up the stairs: then, knowing that she wished to tor low them, he released her. She drew away, then clasped his hand and kissed it; as she did so, she suddenly stiffened and her hand tightened on his spasmodically. Semeone else had come into the hall and he heard another volce—a wom- an's, which he recognized as that of the stenographer, Miss Davis. “Where Is he? Hugh! What have you done to Hantoine! Mr. Santoine! he?" The blind man straightened, holding his daughter to him; there was anxi ety, horror, love in the voice he heard: Harriet’s perplexity was great as his own, “Is that you, quired, “Yes: yes” the girl repeated “Where is—Hugh, Mr. Santoine?” “You Jo not understand,” the volee of a young man broke in on them. “I'm afrald 1 don’t,” Santolne said quietly. “She Is Hugh's «ister, Mr. Santolne ~ghe ix Edith Overton.” “Edith Overton? And who are you?’ #*You do not know me. My name is Lawrence Hillward"” antoine asked nothing more for the ment. His daughter had left his side. He stond an instant lstening to the confusion of question and answer In the hall; then he opened the door Into the library and held it for the police chief to enter, is Overton do.” uglon him. con only daughter: fo you, you Hugh! him? Mr. Where is Miss Davis?’ he n- CHAPTER XXIV “It's All Right, Hugh”—at Last. Faton—he still, with the habit of five years of concealment, even thought of himself by that name awoke to full consciousness ant elght o'clock the next morning. He was In the room he had occupled before in Santoine’'s house; the sunlight, re- flected from the luke, was playing on the ceiling. His wounds had been dressed; his body wis comfortable and without fever, He saw and recognized, against the lighted square of the window, a man standing looking out at the lake, “Lawrence,” he sald, The man turned and the hed. “Yes, Hugh.” Eaton raised himself excitedly upon his pillows, “Lawrence, that was he— last night—Iin the study. It was La tron! 1 saw him! Yeu'll believe me, Lawrence—you at least will. They got away on a boat—they must be fol- lowed-—" With the first return of up again that battle against eclrcumstances which had been his only thought for five years, But suddenly he was aware that his sister was in the sitting Her hand came forward and clasped his; bent over him, holding bim and fondling him, “hh all right, came toward nlso room, is Hugh.” she whis- pered—*“oh, Hugh! it is all right now. Mr. Santoine knows: he—he was not what we thought him. He believed all the while that you were justly sentenced, Now knows wise" “He—S8antoine—belleved ton asked incredulously. “Yes: he his blindness was used by them to make him think so. he Is very angry; he says no had anything to with It escape. He figured It all out— wonderfully—that it must have Latron in study. He has been working all night—they have al- ready made several arrests and every port on the lake ig being watched for the boat they got away on.” “Is that true, Edith? Lawrence, Is it true?” “Yes; quite true, Hugh!” choked and turned away. Eaton sank back against his pil lows; his eyes—dry, bright and filled still with questioning for a time, as he tried to appreciate what he just had heard and all that It to he that? Ea snys one who do shall most heen the Hillward meant that from ized that It was over now. struggle to clear hig name Just Come in Answered Mim. “I, gir ==] Am the Chief of Police. seemed so hopeless He could not realize it the full as yet: cancesl- fear, the sense monstrous injustice done him had marked to of they were gone for good So only realization that he had been set right with Santolne-—Santoine, whom he bimself had misjudged and mis trusted. And Harriet? needed to be met right with her; she had believed and trusted him from the first, In spite of all that had seemed against him. Gratitude warmed him as he thought of her——and that other feeling, deeper, stronger far than gratitude, or than anything else he ever had felt toward anyone but her, surged up in him and set his pulses wildly beating. as his thought strained toward the future, “Where Is Misa asked, His sister answered, “She has been helping her father. They left word they were to be sent for as soon as you woke up, and I've just sent for them.” Eaton lay silent till he heard them coming. The blind man was unfa- millar with this room; his daughter led him In, Her eyes were very bright, her cheeks, which had heen pale, flushed as she met Eaton's look. but she did not look away. He kept his gaze upon her, Santoine, under her guidance, took the chair Hillward set beside the bed for him. The blind man was very quiet; he felt for and found Eaton's hand and pressed it. Eaton choked, a8 he returned the pressure. Then Santoine released him, “Who else is here? the blind man asked his daughter, “Miss Overton and Mr. Hillward,” she answered, “I understand, 1 think, everything now, except some few particulars re. garding yourself,” he sald. “Will you tell ine those?” “You mean-" Eaton spoke to San. tolue, but he looked at Harriet, “Oh, I understand, 1 think. When [-- escaped, Mr. Santoine, of course my Santoine? he » pleture had appe ared in all the news. papers and I was not safe from rec ognition anywhere in his counery. 1 got Into Canada and, from Vancouver, went to China. We had very little money left, Mr. Santolne, What had not been—lost through Latron had been spent In my defense, I got a position In a mercantile house over there. It was a good country for me; people over there don't ask questions for fear someone will ask questions about them. We had no near rela tives for Edith to go to and she had to take up stenography to support her. self and—and change her name, Mr, Santoine, because of me” “Go on" sald Santoine. thought I knew who Latron's derer and morally, though technically, perjured myself at trinl to convict you in his What next?” “That was it," Eaton assented. thought you knew that some of those around you who served as your eyes must know it, ” Harrlet gasped. “You mur. not your wns (00, Eaton, looking at her, knew that she understood now what had come between them when she had told him that she herself had the Latron trial. He felt flushing as he looked at her: not understand now how have believed that she had in concealing an Injustice against him, no matter what Influence had been ex- erted upon her, She was all all true. “At first,” Eaton did not find out anything. year, learned that be #® of Latron properties, We h during that, something out which might help us. 1 away almost five years: ms forgotten, and we thought I take the chance of coming near at hand so I could did Lawrence met Yancouver, were east when I received a Mr. Warden. [I did not and I don't know now who I was or where me. His message merely sal I needed help and he was pi give it and made an me to see him at his what happened when I the app ent, “Then came to Seattle = afl he could alded good ; went on, “Edith Then, this wis to of the that she there reorganization sOne Ong i had been face was could hack to be act if out, ut We come ne about to start message trom know Warde: how he knew oglg reach he knew he - appointment house, tried to uhtn you and took Warden I felt cer taln that If Was any among Warden's effects as to who | killed Latron, you with you with the other lating to the Latron reorg ould not recognize me ig heen trial becans blind ; 1 deci with you and try the draft of the irs thers eviden: would tak at ms were reorganize and the other docume Warden had thnt heen Suspect od agents of the 1 hed bs atron’'s murd le I had changed brew loror Seat ause of that, bn remained at the for me. He me man following the ried NG ont Kon f#fter qu nt Seattle decid train the « ipher we commun ing not knowing what name 1 the train, he confident ient enech other, Was addressed it to hi that if a telegram train addrsssed to ‘Law rence Hillward' I would understand clalm It. “Of his we I conld follow and leave were snowed in. anybody onto the course, not the Besides, train; I could could have train, as | fol lowed me had Ly belng the last passenger to “The man whom the gateman saw you get on the train and notified two others, who took the train at Spo- They had planned to get rid run less risk nected with of your death being con. that of Warden. [It my presence which made it necesenry for them to make the desperate at tempt to Kill you on the train” “Then I understand. The other tel egram was sent me, of course, hy Edith from Chicago, whén she learneq here that you were using the name of Dorne on your way home. 1 learned from her when 1 got here that the doc uments relating to the Latron prop- erties, which I had decided you did not have with you, were bein sent you through Warden's office. Through Edith I learned that they had reached you and had been put In the safe. 1 managed to communicate with Hil ward at the country club, and that night he brought me the means of forcing the safe. Eaton felt himself flushing again. as he looked at Harriet. Did she resent his having used her In that way? He saw only sympathy in her face, “My daughter told me that she helped you to that extent,” Santoine offered, “and I understood later what must have been your reason for ask. ing her to tcke you out that night” “When I reached the studs,” Eaton continued, “I found others already there, The light of an electric torch flashed on the face of one of them and I recognized the man as Latrop the man for whose murder I had been convicted and sentenced! Edith tell« me that you know the rest” There was silence In the room for several minutes. Santolne again felt for Eaton's hand and pressed it “We've tired you out” he sald. “You must rest” “You must sleep, Hugh, if yon ean” Edith urged. J P wna his eyes, look for of his Enton obediently hut opened them at Harriet, She had line or vision. Santolne rose: he stood an Instant walting for his daughter, then snd. denly he comprehended that she was no longer in the room, “Mr. Hillward, I must ask your help,” he said, and he went out with Hillward guiding him. Eaton, low closed once to moved out turning anxiously on his pit- and looking about the room, saw no one but his sister. He had known when Harriet away from side the but he had not suspected that she was leaving the room. Now suddenly a great fear filled him. “Why did Miss Santoine go away? Why did Edith?” he tioned, “Yon, moved frie bed : she po, must sleep, Hugh,” only, Harriet, when she slipped room, had gone downstairs. She could not huve herself leave he fore she had heard Hugh's story, she could not even what the feeling had been made her leave as ns finished; but she sensed the reason vaguely, Hugh had told her two davs before, “I will hack to you as you have never known me and it had proved true, had him as a man in constrained, carefully guarding himself against hers and against betrayal by self: a man all the seemed that her thy-—and something than her To out of the forced to herself that had he had define to soOon Come yer™ She fear, to whom opposed ©. so RY Impa- afterward more to and threat all he f revealing her sympathy--had gone out him. thant repressed she hi told him, with a frankness been Impossible ed him to would except that she 3 Know that she was re addy vith him, longe piace stand again him; he had ag t i world the world was no friends, a In life w receive him: would be ter, amd of his own sort, she had jet know all that she that gioried still In her hoped _posaessed methine mild th ink lie awake ot send for he stood vimhili a she saw Ives } “Hugh has beet isking Miss ton for tinu If find } and see Harri ! not ) hat ghe ms ran of Hugh's sister: had to halt to yOu con. your oan in Answer upstairs she out of Hugh’ her de a8 soon as she was sight then, at & door, cateh breath hefore she opened and looked in upon him. He 1 asleep: at least Harriet #1 Him. the door oy ys closed instant His worn, dent than when to her father. him, through his were gazing at Was peaceful stood face now but he had been talking As she stood watch felt her blood coursing as pever before and she her Chic Accessories For New Outfits and Veils Among Spring Decorations. Now tha¥ the gpring sult or wrap rome an actuality, the attention to the delightful acces sories which do so much to sdd chic Jewelry this spring, is particularly attractive penris being In great de- from the long 54-inch strand to one which fits closely about the The long strands usually the shorter These long strings often are knotted or doubled about the The vogue for the short pearl lengths are gradu- and fear—fear of him or of herself, fled from her: and love-—jove which | to deny-<possessed her, “Harriet!” She heard from his lps and she saw, as opened his eyes and turned to there was no surprise in his look: he had been sleeping, he had dreaming she was there: had been thinking of her, “What Is it, Hugh? She was be side him and he was looking up into her eyes, “You meant it, he her, it heen then? All you said and-—and all you did when we-—you and J-were alone against them It's so, Harriet! You mean iti» “And you did too! Dear, it was only to me that you could come back only to me?™ “Only in his never dreamed fo you! exultation. “Oh, my Harriet in all the days der what might be for me if every. | Influence of the Second Empire modes, Pletures of the fashionable beauties f that day—Eugenie was one of he most famous—show them wear ng just such short strings of lustrous earls, Tassel pearl earrings are They fall from pear] settings, w from those of marcasite, onyx or and dominant white, are ¢ Jewelry realm Crystal still becuse of the vogue for black and other {tems of Interest In Marcasite is used nearly all of the settings, while ets and earrings of varl- ms colored compositions featured, tints being onyx, mn ende, hirace Hre i Carnelian und different of jade brown in Imitation shown, The by the carved Egyptian use of n influence is expressed chalng of scarab in which the figures the in used long or thos mummy} beads, ike are notifs, the fry . tiny 3 1n 3 © 1 mummies of gold being als and Egyptinn colorings for earrings, holders Printed are still a pencils perfume silk bandeaus fenture of departments and all mer. The are used and or kerchiefs the neck promise to be wear good sum dye us Pi These batik Ch and nisl ley, inese Greek Georgette Crepe Gown Fine for Spring Bride For the bride's gown, what could be more appropriates than the charming georgette crepe, beaded in pearls to enrich its loveliness; the headband bears the influence of Egypt. p——— - im ‘Many Use Gay Ribbon Ben Hur is sald to have been fond bt ribbons and to have appreciated | their beauty. He had them streaming from his chariot ; their manes and tails, Male scoffers of today wear ribbon New Spring Fur Coat for Chilly Weather i This new spring coat is of fur. It will be found very comfortable when the weather is cool. It is of the soft. est mole, with inserts of Russian chip- note of bandana bath. bordered the season, turba in fur while fire a smart like accompany satin or crepe FvIIRS EYDEY ns are shown to ivy ov f ng suits o tant part in the They may be ning down may fall concealing are upon from the semi-ciren- are ither case they igain they long and scarf-like - embroidered are chenille or wool, ing a contrast wi he i itself, the embell nent 1 ally form color For seve especially since the ezdvent loose sleeve nave been a prominent note 2 VER n ey are of interest nitrasts be Inse Tn, ¥ Blitce? manner In The brit tes also in Ag to the is exceptional) with featu ferent glove shad good as it greens whic Beige, mode, champaign and bisque are other desired red tones of gray, shades Effective Background for Use of Gay Ribbon Ribbons, being as symbolic of spring and summer as flowers and Trult, are being combined gracefully on the spring and summer hat. The ever popular, widebrimmed hats of lat ticed straw are an effective back- ground for the use of ribbons. Red ribbon may be wound in and out the interstices, culminating in ¢ bunch of red cherries just at the end of the crown under the brim Or violet shaded ribbon combined with a cluster of purple grapes is bright and gay for of and ribbon sautoirs for their glasses, sometimes their pencils pens. Not to mention the little bow of ribbon inside every man's hat. And | think of the ribbons and ribbons that the boys who fought in the World war dreamed 1 could win a reward lige this” “Like this?" Hye opened his eves agnin and drew her down toward him. “Like you!" She bent until her cheek touched hig and his arms were about her. felt her tears upon his face. “Noto thata: not that-<you mustn't ery, dear,” be begged, “Oh, Harriet, aren't you happy now?’ “That's why. Happy! 1 didn't know hefore there could be anything like this™ "Nor 'L . . . No, it's al right, Harriet; everything Is all right now? “All right? Oh, its all right now, if I con make It so for you,” she answered, LTHE END) lied countries. As to conventions and | gatherings where jdentification | necessary or wise, look at the badges! Mary's dress was old. She had worn | Yes, the year before inst, Every night when Mary, she tried to decide how to make the old one new. At last she was re. home from work she saw beautiful rib- bons displayed In one of the store windows. Ribbons tied mito the most | bewitching bows! “I'll make it over with a new-—olii such a beautiful new ensh,” she decided, “with a hustle bow. gash,” And she did. When her very best friend remarked upon her new dress and asked where she got it, she answered happily, If in vernacular, “Got it, you mean! Three years ago, | Fireplace Fittings Should Be Artistic Long years ago the entire life of the home was built about the fireplace. For the humble it provided warmth and was their only means of cooking: for the dwellers In more palatial resi dences it was the center of both do- So the fireplace of today has its significance in the home, and should have fittings as ar- tistic as any other corner of the house. There is wide choice In andirons, | screens, grates and fire irons, for they may be had in varied finishes—plain black, bright, rubbed or antique brass, | brass and black, antique gray or old | English Jnish, and this variety assures | the harmony of fireplace fittings with the other furnishments of the room. Use Soap and Water to Clean Lacquered Brass Lacquered brass should never he cleaned with metal polish or paste of any kind. Rub it up with a leather, with soap and warm water, dry with A soft cloth, and polish with a leather, Never use soda in the water as it re moves the lncquer, but the brass may be washed with a sponge wrung out in vinegar and water, Should the Incquer wear off and leave brown patches, the only thing to do is to relacquer it. Shodld the article be sold brass this is an easy matter, First boll the braks in hot soda water, dry In sawdust, thea polish with any good metal polish,
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