The Supply Republican (Supply, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1923 Page: 3 of 10
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THE SUPPLY REPUBLICAN
The Blind Man’s Eyes
WILLIAM MacHARG
EDWIN BALMER
Copyright by Little, Brows tod Company
“SHIELD HIMr
Oabrltl Warden. Brattle capital-
ist. tells hit butler he It eipei tlng
a caller, to be admitted without
question. Hs Inform his wife of
danger that thieatena him If hs
pursues a course hs 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 ts 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. Borne, la the person for
whom the train was held. Philip
D. Eaton, a young man, also
boarded the train. Dome tells his
daughter and his secretary, Don
Avery, to And out what they can
concerning him. The two make
Eaton's acquaintance. Dome Is
found nearly dead from a murder-
ous assault A surgeon operates.
Dome ts revealed as Basil 8an-
lolne, blind, and a power In the
Ansnclal world as the adviser of
"big Interesla" Eaton Is suspected
and questioned He refuees Infor-
mation about himself and admits
he was the caller at Warden’s
houss. Eaton pleads with Harriet
Santoine to withhold Judgment
telling her he la In serious danger,
though Innocent of the crime
against her father. He feels the
girl believes him. Santoine recov-
ers sufficiently to question Eaton,
who refuses his Identity. The
financier requires Eaton to accom-
pany him to the Santolns home as
a semi-prisoner. Eaton meets a
resident of the house. Wallace
Blatchford, and Mildred Davla, a
stenographer, with whom he Is ac-
quainted, though they conceal the
feet. Eston’s mission Is to secure
certain documents which are vital
to hie 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 aa having been on the
train.
“PH go myself," she
She went out Into the hall and
closed the door behind her; aha wult-
ed until ahe heard the approaching
steps of the man summoned by 8an-
toine's bell; then, going to meet him.
the sent him to call Raton In hls
rooma. and ahe atlll waited until the
man came back and told her Eaton
had already left hla rooms and gone
downstairs. She dismissed the man
and went to the head of the atalra.
but her step* slowed there and
stopped. 8h# knew that the blind
man's thought In regard to Eaton had
taken aome Immense stride; but ahe
did not know what that stride had
been, or what was coming now when
her father *aw Eaton.
She went on slowly down the atalra,
and when halfway down, she saw Eu-
tlon In the hair below her. He was
•tandlng beside the table which held
the bronze antique vase; he seemed
to have taken something from the
vase and to be examining It. 8he
halted again to watch him; then ahe
went on, and he turned at the sound
of her footsteps. She could aee, as
she approached him, what he had
taken from the vase, but she attached
no Importance to It; It wa* only a
black button from a woman's glove-
one of her own. perhaps, which she
had dropped without noticing. He
tossed It Indifferently toward the open
fireplace as he came toward her.
“Father wants to see you, Mr.
Eaton,” ahe said.
He looked at her Intently for an
Instant and seemed to detect some
strangeness In her manner and to
draw himself together; then he fol-
lowed her up the stairs.
CHAPTER Xlll
CHAPTER XII—Continued.
—10—
•To kill him. Harriet? How do you
%now?”
She caught herself. “I—I don’t
know, Father. He certainly meant to
Injure Mr. Eaton. When I said kill
film, I was telling only what J
thought.”
"That Is better. I think so too.”
'That he meant to kill Mr. Eaton7’
“Yes.’’
She watched her father’s face;
often whpn relating things to him,
•he was aware from hts expression
that she was telling him only some-
thing he already had figured out and
expected or even knew; she felt that
mow.
“Father, did you expect Mr. Eaton
to he attacked?”
“Expect? Not that exactly; It was
giosglble; I suspected something like
this might occur.”
“And you did not wnru him?"
The blind man s hands sought each
other on the coverlet and clasped to-
gether. “It was not necessary to warn
him. Harriet; Mr. Eaton already
knew. Who waa In the car?”
‘Three men."
“Had you seen any of them before?”
"Yes. one—the nmn who drove.”
“Where?”
“On the train.”
The color on Snntolne’s face grew
brighter. “Describe him, dear."
He waited while she called together
her recollections of the man.
“1 can’t describe him very fully,
Father," she said. “He was one of
the people who had berths In the for-
ward sleeping car. I can recall see-
tig him only when I passed through
the car—1 recall him only twice In
that car and once In the diner.”
"That Is Interesting,” said San
tolne.
“What, FatherT’
“That in five days upon the train
you saw the man only three times."
“You mean he must have kept out
•f sight as much as posslbleT*
“Have you forgotten that 1 aaked
you to describe him, Harriet?"
She checked herself. “Height about
five feet five,” she said, “broad-
•houldered. very heavily set; I re-
member he Impressed me as being un-
usually muscular. His hair was black ;
I can’t recall the color of his eyes;
Ms cheeks were blue with a heavy
beard closely shaved. I remember his
face was prognathous, and his clothes
were spotted with dropped food. 1—
it seems hard for me to recall him.
and I can’t describe him very well.
“But you are sure It was the same
Oinn In the motor?"
“Yes. He seemed an animal sort
of person, small, strong, and not par
tlcularly Intelligent. It seems hard
for me to remember more about him
than that.”
“That Is Interesting."
“Whaty
“That It 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.
“I can’t describe them. I—I was
txelted about Mr. Eaton.
“Thank you, ueur. Bring Eaton to
Be."
“He has gone to his room to fix
himself up.”
•Til send for him. then.” Santoine
greased one of the buttons beside his
bed to call a servant; but before the
bell could be answered, Harriet got
•P-
It Grows Plainer.
Basil Snntolne’s bedroom was so
nearly sound-proof that anything
going on In the room could not be
heard In the hall outside It, even close
to the double doors. Eaton, as they
approached these doors, listened
vainly, trying to determine whether
anyone waa In the room with San-
toine; then he quickened hla step to
bring him beside Harriet
“One moment, please, Mlse San-
toine,” he urged.
She stopped. “What la It you
want?”
“Your futher has received some an-
swer to the Inquiries he has been hav-
ing mnde about me?’
“I don’t know, Mr. Eaton."
“Is he alone?”
“Yes."
Eaton thought a minute. "That Is
all I wanted to know, then,” he aald.
Harriet opened the outer door and
knocked on the Inner one. Eaton
heard Santolne’a voice at once calling
them to come* In, and as Harriet
opened the second door, he followed
her Into the room.
“Am I to remain, FatherT’ ahe
asked.
“Y’es,” Santoine commanded.
Eaton waited while she went to a
chair at the foot of the bed nnd seat-
ed herself—her clasped hands resting
on the footboard and her chin upon
her hands—in a position to watch
both Eaton and her father while they
talked; then Eaton sat down.
"Good morning, Eaton,” the blind
man greeted him.
"Good morning. Mr. Santoine,” Ea-
ton answered.
Santoine waa lying quietly upon
his back, his ht^ul raised on the pil-
lows, his arms above the hed-oovers,
his finger-tips touching with the fin-
gers spread.
"You recall, of course, Eaton, our
conversation on the train," Santoine
said evenly.
"Yes."
"I want to call your attention In a
certain order to some of the details of
what happened on the train. You had
rather a close call this morning, did
you not?"
“Bather, I was careless.”
“You were careless?" Santoine
smiled derisively. “Perhaps you
wore—In one sense In another, how-
ever. you hnve been very careful, Ea-
ton. You have been careful to act
as though the attempt to 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.”
”1 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 you 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. I thought Miss Santoine
had made a mistake.”
‘But you were not surprised; no.
What would have been 8 surprise to
you, Eaton, would have been—If you
had had a chance to observe the men—
to have found that none of them--
Done of them had been on the train!"
Eaton started and felt that he had
colored. How much did Santoine
know? Had the blind man received,
ns Eaton feared, some answer to his
Inquiries, which had revealed or
nearly revealed Eaton’s Identity? Or
was It merely that the attack mnde
on Eaton that morning had given San
tolne new light on the events that
bail happened on the train and par-
ticularly—Eaton guessed—on the H-
ph*r telegram which Bantolne claimed
to have translated.
“Ton assume that, Mr. Santoine.
he asserted, “because--” He checked
himself end altered his sentence
•Will you tell me why you assume
that?” . .
’That that would have eurpriee.i
you? Yee; that Is what I called you
in here to tell you.”
Ae Santoine waited a moment be
fore going on. Eaton watched him
anxiously. The blind man turned
himself on hla pillows so aa to face
Eaton more directly.
"Just ten days Bgo," he said evenly
and dispassionately, "I was found un
conscious In my berth—Section Three
of the rearmost sleeper—on the truns
continental train, which I had taken
with my daughter and Avery at Se
attle. I had been attacked—assailed
during my sleep some time In that
first night that I spent on the train—
and my condition wus serious enough
so that for three days afterward I
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 certain
deductions aa to who It wus that had
attempted to murder me, and why;
and ever since, I 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 ray conclusions, wait until you
discover your error.”
Santoine waited an Instant; Eaton
thought It was to allow him’ to speak
If he wauted to, but Euton merely
waited.
"The first thing I learned." the blind
man went on, “was the similarity oi
the attack on me to the more success
ful attack on Warden, twelve day*
previous, which had cauaed hla death.
The method of the two attacks wag
the same; the conditions aurroundlng
them were very similar. The dee
perate nature of the two attacks, and
their almost Identical method, made
It practically certain that they orlgt
nated at the same source and were
carried out—probably—by the same
hand and for the same purpose.
“Mrs. Warden's statement to me of
her Interview with her husband a
hulf-hour before his murder, made It
certain that the object of the attack
on him was to ’remove’ him. It
seemed almost Inevitable, therefore,
that the attack on me must have been
for the same purpose.
“I found that a young man—your-
self—had acted so suspiciously both
before and after the attack on me
that both Avery and the conductor
In charge of the train had become
convinced that he was my assailant,
and had segregated him from the rest
*4
inuiiliiqinnwnll
ML
“You Understand Already,"
Asserted.
Santoine
of the passengers. Not only this, but
_and this seemed quite conclusive to
them—you admitted that you were
the one who had called upon Warden
the evening of hla murder. It seemed
likely, too. that you were the only
person on the train aside from m>
daughter and Avery who knew who I
was- for I had had reason to believe
from the time when I first heard you
speak when you boarded the train,
that you were someone with whom I
had previously, very briefly come In
contact; and I had aaked my daugh-
ter to find out who you were, and she
had tried to do so, but without suc-
cess."
Eaton wet hls lips.
"Also." the blind man continued,
there was a telegram which definite-
ly showed that there was aome con
nectlon, 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 translate.”
Eaton leaned forward. Impelled to
speak ; but aa Santoine clearly detect-
ed this Impulse and waited to hear
what he was going to say, Eaton re-
considered and kept allent.
“You were going to say something
about that telegrum In cipher?" San-
toine asked.
"No," Eaton denied.
“I think you were; and I think that
a few minutes ago when I said you
were not surprised by the attempt
made today to run you dowu. you
were also going to speak of It; for
thai attempt makes clear the meaning
of the telegram. Its meaning was not
clear to me before, you understand.
It said only that you were known and
followed. It did not suy why you
were followed. I could not be cerluln
of that; ttiere were s vent I possible
reasons why you might be followed—
even that the ’one’ who ‘was follow-
ing’ might he someone secretly Inter-
ested In preventing you from an at-
tack on me. Now. however. I know
that the reason you feared the roan
who waa following was because you 1
expected him te attack yen.
mg that, Eaton—knowing that, 1 waul
to call your attention te the peculiar-
ity of our mutual position* o* the
train. You bud asked for and were
occupying Section Three In the third
sleeper. In order—1 assume sud, I be-
lieve. correctly—to avoid being put la
the same car with me. In the night,
the aecond sleeper—the car next U»
front of youra—was cut off from the
train and left behind. That made ms
occupy In relation to the forward part
of the train exactly the same poeltloo
aa you had occupied before the car
ahead of you had been cut out. I
was In Section Three In the third
sleeper from the front."
Eaton stared at Santoine* fasci-
nated; what had been only vague,
half felt, half formed with himself,
was becoming definite, tangible, under
the blind man's reasoning. Hla hand*
closed Instinctively, in hls emotion.
"What do you meant'
'You understand already," Santoine
asserted. ‘The attack made on me
was meant for you. Someone steullng
through the cars from the front te
the rear of the train and carrying In
hls mind the location of Section Three
In the third car, struck through the
curtains by mistake at me Insteud of
you. Who was that, EatonT’
"I don't know," Eaton answered.
'You mean you prefer to shield
him 7’
Shield him?"
‘That Is what you are doing. Is It
not? For, even If you don't know the
man directly, you know In whose
cause and under whose direction he
murdered Wardeu—and why and for
whom be Is sttsmptlng to murder
you."
Eaton remained silent
In hls Inteuslty, Santoine had lift-
ed himself from hls pillows. “Who Is
that man 7' he challenged. "And what
Is that connection between you and
me which, when the attack found and
disabled me Instead of you, told him
that—In spite of hls mistake—hla re-
sult had been accomplished? told him
that, If I was dying, a repetition of
the attack against you wus unneces-
sary?"
Eaton knew that he had grown very
pale; Harriet must be aware of the
effect Santolne's words had on him,
but be did not dare look at her now
to aee how much ahe was comprehend-
ing.
"I don’t understand,” He fought to
compose himself.
"It Is perfectly plain," Santoine said
patiently. “It wa* believed at first
that I had been fatally hurt; It was
even reported at one time—I under-
stand—that I was dead; only Intimate
frlenda have been Informed of my ac-
tual condition. Yesterday, for the
first time, the newspapers announced
the certainty of my recovery; and to-
day an attack Is made on you. They
did not hesitate to attack you In sight
of my daughter."
“But—”
"You are merely challenging my de-
ductions! Will you reply to my quee-
tlons?—tell me the connection be-
tween us?—who you are?”
"No."
"Come herel"
“What?” said Eaton.
"Come here—close to me. beside the
bed.”
Eaton hesitated, and then obeyed.
“Bend overl"
Eaton stooped, and the blind man's
hands seized him. Instantly Eatoe
withdrew.
"Wattr Santoine warned. "If you
do not atay, I shall call help." 0ns
hand went to the bell beside hls bed.
Harriet had risen; she met Eaton's
gaze warnlngly and nodded to him to
comply. He bent again over the bed
He felt the blind man's sensitive fin-
gers searching hls features, hls head,
his throat. Eaton gazed at Santotns’s
face while the fingers were examining
him; he could aee that Santoine waa
merely finding confirmation of an Ira
presslon already gained from what hs
had been told him about Eaton. San-
toine showed nothing more than this
confirmation; certainly he did not rec-
ognise Eaton. More than this, Eaton
could not tell.
"Now your hand*,” Santoine or
dered.
Eaton extended one hand and then
the other; the blind man felt over
them from wrists to the tip* of the
finger*; then he let himself sink back
against the pillows, absorbed In
thought.
“You may go.” Santoine said at leet
“Go7’ Eaton aaked.
“You may leave the room. Blatch-
ford will meet you downstairs."
Santoine reached for the house tel-
ephone beside hls bed—receiver end
transmitter on on* light liar—and
gave direction! to have Blatchford
await Eaton In the hall below.
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Frankie (age eight)—Did ya bawl
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Enterprise and energy know few
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Much unsteadiness la due to • steady
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By the time people become thorough*
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Mrs. Martha Jafter ton
“You yourself will assume
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(TO BK CONTINUED.)
It Broke Hla Fall.
Mose Llghtfoot, one of the best hod-
carriers on the Job, lost hls footing
and fell to the street, four stories be-
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Mose lit on hla head, struck the ce-
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When the foreman went to the base-
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“Great Scott, man, areu't you
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