The Supply Republican (Supply, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1923 Page: 3 of 10
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THE SUPPLY REPUBLICAN
r
The Blind
Man’s Eyes
Coprrlsht by I.lttl*. Brown and Company
By
William MacHarg
Edwin Balmer
“AN ACCIDENT?"
Gabriel Warden, Beattie capttal-
lat, telle hie butler he la expecting
a caller, to be admitted without
question. He Informe hla wife of
dancer that threatene him If he
pureuea a courea he conaldere the
only honorable one. Warden leaven
the houae In hla car and meeta a
man whom he taken Into the ma-
chine. When the car returne home,
Warden la found dead, murdered,
and alone. The caller, a young
man, haa been at Warden'a houae,
but leavea unobserved. Bob Con-
nery, conductor, recelvea ordere to
hold train for a party. Five men
and a girl board the train, the
eaatern eapreeat The father of the
girl, Mr. Dome, la the peraon for
whom the train waa held Philip
D. Eaton, a young man. also
boarded the train. Dome telle hla
daughter and hie eecretary, Don
Avery, to find out what they can
concerning him. The two make
Eaton's acquaintance. Dome la
found nearly dead from a murder-
oua assault. A surgeon operates.
Dome la reveal id ae Basil San-
mina. blind, and a power In the
financial world as the adviser of
"big interests." Baton la suspected
and questioned. He refuses Infor-
mation about himself and admits
he waa the caller at Warden1*
houae. Baton pleads with Harriet
Santolne to withhold Judgment,
telling her ha l* In serious danger,
though Innocent of the crime
against her father. He feel* the
girl believes him. Santolne recov-
era sufficiently to question Eaton,
who refuses hi* Identity. The
financier requires Eaton to accom-
pany him to the Santolne home a*
a semi-prisoner. Eaton meet* a
resident of the house, Wallace
Blatchford, and Mildred Davla. a
stenographer, with whom he Is ac-
quainted, though they conceal the
faot. Eaton1* mission Is to secure
certain documents which are vital
to his Interests.
Eaton let himself think, Idly, about
Harriet—how strange her life had
been—^that pert of It at least which
was spent, as he had gathered moat
of her waking hours of recent years
had been s|>eut, with her father.
Strange, almost, as his own life I And
what a wonderful girl It had made
of her—clevet, sweet, lovable, with
more than a woman’s ordinary c*.
paclty for devotion and self-sacrifice.
But, If her service to her father
was not only on hls personal side but
If also she wns Intimate’ In hls busi-
ness affairs, must she .not therefore
have shared the cruel code which had
terrorised Eaton for the last four
years and kept him an exile In Asia
and which, at any hour yet, threat-
ened to take hls life! A grim set
came to Eaton's lips; hls rnlud went
ugaln to hls own affairs.
CHAPTER XI—Contlnusd.
CHAPTER XII
Eaton drew further back Into the
alcove as some one passed through
the hall above. The footsteps ceased
overhead; Eaton, assured no one was
coming down the stairs, spoke swiftly
to tell her as much as he might In
their moment. “He—Santolne—wasu’t
taken 111 on the train, Edith; he was
attacked."
"Attacked I” Her lips barely moved
"He was almost killed; but they
concealed It, Edith—pretended he wus
only 111. I was on the train—you
know, of course; I got your wire—and
they suspected me of the attack."
“You? But they didn’t find out
about you, Hugh?”
"No; they ure Investigating. San-
tolne would not let them make any-
thing public. He brought me here
while he Is trying to find out about
me. So I’m here, Edith—here! Is It
here too?”
Again steps sounded In the hall
above. Tke girl swiftly busied her-
aelf with gloves and hat; Eaton stood
atark In suspense. The servant above
—It was u servant they bad heard
before, be recognized now—merely
crossed from one room to another
overhead. Now the girl's lips moved
again.
"It?” She formed the question
noiselessly.
“The draft of the new agreement.”
"It either has been sent to him,
or It will be sent to blin very soon—
here.”
“Where will It be when It Is here?"
"Where? Oh!” The girl's eyes
went to the wall close to where Eaton
stood; she seemed to mensure 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
•light and muffled click ns 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.
"Yeth Miss Santolne—she’s In there.
Isn’t she?—closed It Just now. There
are two of them hidden behind the
books, one on each side ot' 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 concJiid.nl.
She nodded. “Yes. If you—”
“Look out 1"
Someone now was coming down-
stairs. The girl had tlihe only to
whisper swiftly, “If we don’t get a
chance to speak again, watch that
vase.” She pointed to a bronze an-
tique which stood on a table near
them. “When I'm sure the agreement
Is In the house. I’ll drop a glove^but-
ton In that—a black one. If I think
It'll be In the safe on the right, white
on the left. Now go."
Eaton moved quietly on and Into
the drawing room. Avery's voice Im-
mediately afterward was heard; he
was speaking to Miss Davis, whom he
had found In the hallway. Knton was
certain 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
Santolne. It was her lapse, then,
which had let him 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 In restraint,
he found himself always In the sight
#f someone
The Men From the Train.
In the supposition that he was to
have less liberty, Eaton proved cor
rect. Harriet Santolne, to whose Im-
pulses had been due hls first privi-
leges, showed toward him a more con-
strained attitude the following morn
lng. She did not suggest hostility, as
Avery constantly did; nor, Indeed,
was there any evidence of retrogres-
sion In her attitude toward him; she
seemed merely to be maintaining thf
same position; and since this seemed
difficult if they were often together,
she avoided him. Eaton understood
that Santolne, steadily Improving but
not yet able to leave hls bed, had
taken up hla work again, propped up
by plliowe; one of the nurees had
been dlsmleaed; the other was only
upon day duty. But Eaton did not
see Santolne at all; and though he
lenrned that Miss Davis or another
stenographer, whose name was West,
came dally to the house, he never was
In a position again to encounter any
outsider either coming or going.
There was no longer room for Ea-
ton to doubt that Harriet hud the con-
fidence of her father to almost a com-
plete extent. Now that Santolne was
ill, she worked with him dally for
hours; and Eaton learned that she
did the same when he wns well. But
Avery worked with the blind man too;
he, too, was certainly In a confidential
capacity. Was It not probable then
that Avery, and not Harriet, was en-
trusted with the secrets of dangerous
and ugly matters; or was It possible
that this girl, worshiping her father
ns she did, could know nnd he sure
that, because her father approved
these matters, they were right?
A hundred times a day, ns Eaton
saw or spoke with the girl or thought
of her presence near by, this obsessed
him. A score of times during their
casual talk upon meeting nt menls or
elsewhere, he found himself turned
toward some question which would
aid him In. determining what must be
(he fact; but each time he checked
himself, until one morning—It w-as
the fifth after hls arrival nt Snn-
tolne's house—Harriet was taking
him for hls wnlk In the garden before
the house. She had Just told him.
at hls Inquiry, that her father was
very much stronger that morning, and
her mnnner more than ever evidenced
her pride In him.
They walked on slowly. "I wish
you could tell me more about your-
self, Mr. Eaton.”
“1 wish so too,” he said.
"Then why can you not?" She
turned to him frankly; he gazed at
her a moment ami then looked away
and shook Ills 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 again; 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 nnd who stopped to Inquire for
her father and wish him well.
"Your father does not seem to he
one of the great men without honor
In hls own neighborhood," Eaton said
io her after one of these had halted
and gone on.
"Everyone who knows Father likes
nnd admires him!" she rejoiced.
"1 don’t moan exactly that,” Eaton
went on. "They must trust him too,
In an extraordinary way. Hls asso-
ciates must place most complete con-
fidence In him when they lenve 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. "No; It
Isn't quite that," she suld.
"What, then?"
“You are correct In saying thnt men
of the most opposite sorts—and most
Irreconcilable to each other — con-
stantly place their fate In Father’s
hand; and when he tells them what
they must do, they abide by hls de-
cision. But he doesn't decide for
them what Is Just."
“I don't understand. What does he
tell them, then?"
"He .ell* them what would be the
outcome If they fought. wt». would
win and who would lose and by how
much. And they believe him and
abide by hls decision without fight-
ing; for he knows; and they know
that he knows and la absolutely
honest.”
Eaton was silent for a moment as
they walked along. "How can he
come to' hls decision?" he asked at
last.
“Howr
“1 mean, much of the material pre-
sented to him must be documentary."
“Much of It la."
“Then someone must read It to
him."
"Of course.”
Eaton started to speak—then re-
frained.
"What were you going to say?" she
questioned.
"That the person—or persons—who
reads the documents to him must oc-
cupy an extremely delicate poeltlon."
“He does. In fact, I think that po-
sition Is Father's one nightmare.”
"Nightmare?"
"The peraon he trusts must not
only be absolutely discreet but ab-
solutely honest.”
“I should think »o. If anyone In
that position wanted to uae the In-
formation brought to your father, he
could make himself millions over-
night, undoubtedly, end ruin other
men."
"And kill Father too," the girl
added quietly. “Yea,” ehe said as
Eaton looked >t her. "Father puts
nothing above hla trust If that trust
were betrayed—whether or not Father
were In any way to blam# for It—
think It wcnld kill him.”
“So you are the one who Is In that
position.”
“Yes; that la, I have been.”
"You mean there la another now;
that Is, of counts, Mr. Avery?"
"Yes; here at thla house Mr. Avery
and 1, and Mr. Avery at the office.
Before Mr. Avery came, I was the
only one who helped here at the
house."
"When was that?"
"When Mr. Avery came? About
five years ago. Father hnd an Im
mense amount of work at that time.
Business conditions were very muen
JW,
“Every One Who Knows Father Likes
and Admires Him!” She Rejoiced.
unsettled. There was trouble at that
time between some of the big pnstem
and big western men, and at the same
tlmq the government wus prosecuting
the trusts. Nobody knew what the
outcome of It all would be; ninny of
the biggest men who consulted Father
were like men groping In the (lark.
I don’t suppose you would remember
the time by what I say; but you
would remember It, as nearly every-
body else does by this; It wns the
time of the murder of Mr. Lntron."
"Yes; I remember that," said Ea-
ton; "and Mr. Avery came to you at
thnt time?"
“Yes; Just at that time 1 was
thrown from my horse, and could not
do as much us I had been doing, so
Mr. Avery was sent to Father."
"Then Mr. Avery was reuding to
him nt the time you spoke of—the
time of the Latron murder?"
"No; Mr. Avery came Just after-
ward. I was reading to hiiu 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-
lng on then? Yes; he tocf.c 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
a*, the time. One thing that helped
In their solution was that Father was
able, that time, to urge what was Just,
ns well as what was advisable."
“You mean that In the final settle-
ment of them no one suffered?"
"No sne, I think—except, of course,
poor Mr. Latron; and that was s prl
,ate mutter not connected In sny dl
rect wsy with th# question at Issue.
Why do you ask all this, Mr. Eaton?"
*T was merely Interested In you—
In whet your work has been with your
Father, and what It la,” he answered
quietly.
They had been following the edge
of the road, ehe along a path worn
In the turf, he on the edge of the road
Itself and nearer to the tracks ef ths
motors. Suddenly she cried out an^
clutched at him. As tliey had stopped,
she had heard the aound of e motor
approaching them rapidly from be-
hind. Except that this car seemed
speeding faster than ths others, she
had paid no attention and had not
turned. Instantaneously, as shs had
cried and pulled upon him, shs had
realized 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 hs could; but her
cry and pull upon him were almost too
late; as he leui>ed. ths car struck. The
blow was glancing, not direct, and he
wus off hls feet and In motion when
the wheel struck; but the car hurled
hltn aside and rolled him over end
over.
As she rushed to Eaton, the two
men In tho rear seat of the car
turned their heads and looked back,
but without checking Ha speed or
swerving, the car dashed on and dis-
appeared down the roadw-ay.
She bent over Eaton and took hold
of hltn. He struggled to hls feet and,
dazed, tottered eo that she support-
ed him. As ehe realized that he waa
not greatly hurt, ahe etered with hop-
ror at the turn In the road where the
car had disappeared.
Why, he tried to run you down I
He meant to I Ha triad to hurt you I*
ahe cried.
No," Eaton denied. "Oh, no, I
don’t think eo. It must have been—
an accident He was—frightened
when he saw what he had done."
‘It wasn’t at all like an accident I”
she persisted. “It couldn't have been
an accident there and coming up from
behind the way ha did I No; he meant
to do It I Did you eee who wee In the
car—who wae driving?"
He turned to her quickly. “Who?"
he demanded.
"One of the people who wae on the
train I The morning Father waa hurt
Don't you remember—e little man,
nervous, but very atrong; a man al-
moat like aa ape?"
He shuddered and then controlled
himself. “Yea, I remember a fellow
the conductor tried to seat me oppo-
site."
“This was the same man I"
Enton shook hls head. "That could
hardly be; I think you must bo ml»
taken."
"I am not mistaken; It was that
man !’’
"Still, I think you must be," he
again denied.
She stared, studying him. "Perhaps
I was,” she agreed; but she knew shs
had not been. "I am glad, whoever
It w as, he didn't. Injure you. You ars
all right, aren’t you?"
“Quite," he assured. "Please don’t
trouble about It, Miss Santolne.”
They walked back rather silently,
she appreciating how passionately
she had expressed herself for him,
nnd he quiet because of this and
other thoughts too.
They found Donald Avery In front
of the house looking for them as they
came up. Eaton succeeded In walk-
ing without limping; but he could not
conceal the marks on hls clothes.
’’Harriet, I've Just come from your
father; he wants you to go to him
at once,” Avery directed. “Good
morning Eaton. What's happened?"
’’Carelessness," Eaton deprecated,
"Got rather In the way of a motor
and was knocked over for It."
Harriet did not correct this to
Avery. She went up to her father;
she was still trembling, still sick
with horror at what she had seen—
an attempt to kill one walking at her
side. She stopped outside her fa-
ther's door to compose herself; then
she went In.
The blind man was propped up on
hls 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
hnd been about to speak to her; but
nt the sound of her voice he stopped
the words on Ills lips and changed
them Into a direction for the nursa
to leave the room.
He waited until the nurse bad left
and closed tbe door behind her. Har-
riet saw that, In hls familiarity with
her tones and every Inflection of her
voice, he had sensed alreudy that
something unusual had occurred; she
repented, however, her question as
to what he wanted.
“Tnat does not matter now, Har-
riet. Where have you been?"
“I have been walking with Mr.
Eaton."
"What happened?"
She hesitated. "Mr. Eaton was al-
most run down by a motorcar."
"Ah! An accident?"
She hesitated again. "Mr. Enton
said It was an accident," she an-
swered.
“But you?"
"It did not look like an accident.
Father. It—It showed Intention."
"You mean It was an attack?”
“Yes; It was un 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. I called to him and pulled
him—he Jum|>ed away In time.”
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