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BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C. Tfa Blind e HARRIET Gabriel Warden, Seattle capital ist, tells his butler he is expecting a caller, to be admitted without question. He informs his wife of danger that threatens him if he pursues a course he considers the only honorable one. Warden leaves the house in his oar and meets a man 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. Hob Con ner)', conductor, receives orders to hold train for a party. Five men and a girl hoard the train, the Bastern Expies3. CHAPTER II Continued. 2 The remaining man. carrying his own grips, set them down in tin- gate and felt in his pocket for his transpor tation. This person had appeared suddenly after the line of four had formed in front of old Sammy at the gate; lie had taken his place with them only after scrutiny of them. His ticket was a strip which originally had held coupons for the Pacific voyage and some indefinite journey in Asia he fore; unlike the Engl ishma n's -a nd his baggage did not hear the pasters I of the Nippon Ynseii Kaisha the ticket w as close to the dale w hen it , would have explreH. It Pore upon the line where the purchaser signed, the inline "Philip 1. Eaton" in plain, vig orous characters without shading or flourish. As a sudden eddy of the Kale about the shed Mew the ticket from old Sammy's cold finders, the yimiiK man stooped to recover it. The wind blew off his cloth eap as he did so, ;md as be bent and straightened before old Sammy, the obi man suddenly gasped ; and while the traveler pulled on bis cap, recovered his ticket and hurried down the platform to the train, the PHfeman stood staring after him as though tryinp to recall who the man present !np himself as Philip I). Eaton was. Connery stepped beside the old man. "Who Is it, Sammy?" be demanded. "Who?" Sammy repeated. His eyes were still tixod on the retreating fig ure. "Who? I don't know." The pateman mumbled. repealin'' to himself the names of the famous. the great, the notorious, in his effort to f't one to the man who had just passed. Nil one ele belated and bound fur the Eastern Express was in sii.i!. The president's order to the conductor and to the dispatcher sim ply had directed that Number Five would run one hour late; it must leave in five minutes; and Connery. guided by the impression the man last through the irate had made upon him and old Sammy both, had no doubt that the man for whom the tram had been held was now on hoard. Connery went out to the train. The passengers who had been parading the platform had trot aboard; the last live to arrive also had disappeared info the Pullmans, and their luppape had been thrown into the bappape car. Connery jumped aboard. The three who had passed the pate first the pirl, the man with the plasses and the younir man in the cut away it had now become clear were one party. They had had reservations made, apparently, in the name of Iorne; the piii's address to the spec tacled man made plain that he was her father; her name, apparently, was Harriet; the young man in the cut away coat was "I on" to her and "Avery" to her father. His relation, while intimate enough to permit him to address the girl as "Harry," was unfailinply respectful to Mr. I orne ; and apainst them both Jioriie wnn his way; his daughter was to occupy the drawinp ro,.m; ,r ami Avery were l have s,. epulis in the upon car. "Vuii have Sections uiie and Three, sir." the Pullman conductor told him. And Ihiflie directed the porter to put Avery's luggage in Section one, bis own in Section Three. The Enplishinan was sent to Section I-our in Car Three--(he next car for ward and departed at the heels of the porter. Connery watched more closely, as now it came the turn of the younp man whose ticket bore the name of Eaton. Eaton pad no reser vation in the sleepers; he appeared, however, to have some preference as to where he slept. "Ciivp me a Three, if you have one," he requested of the Pullman conduc tor. His voice. Connery noted, was well modulated, rather deep, distinct ly pleasant. At sound of it. I lorne. who with his daughter's help was set tling himself in his section, turned and looked that way ami said something In a low tone to the pirl. Harriet Iorne also looked, and with her eyes on Eaton. Connery saw her reply in audibly. rapidly ami at some length. "i can pive you Three in Car Three. Opposite the peiitleman I just as signed," the Pullman conductor of fered. "That'll do very well," Eaton an swered in the same pleasant voice. As the porter "now took his haps. Eaton followed him out of the ear. Connery went after them into the next ear. He expected, rather, that Eaton would at once identify himself to him as the passenger to whom President Jarvis' s'aort note had referred. Ea ton, however, paid no attention to him. but was busy takinp off his coat and fettlin,'; himself in his section as Con nery passed. The eonductor, willing that Eaton should choose his own time for iden tifying himself, passed slowly on, look- Man's Eyes By William MacHarg Edwin Balmer ' Copyright by Little, Brown and Company ing over the passengers as he went. He stood for a few moments in con versation with the dining-car conduc tor; then he retraced his way through the train. He again passed Eater, slowing so that the young man could speak to him if he wished, and even halting an instant to exchange a word with the Englishman; but Eaton al lowed him to pass on without speak ing to him. Connery's step quickened as he entered the next ear on his way hack to (ho smoking compartment of the observation oar, where he expect ed to compare sheets with the l'ull ihan conductor before takinp up the tickets. As he entered this car, how ever, Avery stopped him. "Mr. I rne would like to speak to you." Avery said. Connery stopped beside the section, where the man with the spectacles sat 'Give Me a Three, If You Have One,'" He Requested of the Pullman Con ductor. with hi laughter. Itorne lookt up he at him. "Vim are the train inductor asked. "Yes. sir." Connery replied. I orne fumbled in his inner pocket and brought out a card-case, which he opened, and produced a card. Con nery. planning at the card while the other still held It, saw that it was President .Tarvis' visiting card, with the president's name in engraved block' letters; across its fop was writ ten briefly in Jarvis' familiar hand. "This is the passenper"; and below, it was signed with the same scrawl of initials which had been on the note Connery had received that morning "H. K. J." Connery's hand shook as. while try inp to recover himself, he took the card and looked at it more closely, and he felt within him the sinking sensation which follows an escape from danper. He saw that his too ready and too .assured assumption that Eaton was the man to whom Jar vis' note had referred, had almost led li 1 in into the sort of mistake which is unpardonable in a "trusted" man; he had come within an ace, he realized, of speaking to Eaton and so betray ing the presence on the train of a traveler whose journey his superiors were trying to keep secret. "You need, of course, bop the train no longer," Porno said ti "Yes. sjf; I reeehod w Jarvis about you. Mr. I i ( 'i iiihery. on! from Mr. rne. I shall follow his instructions fully." As he wont forward again after th train was under way. Come ry tried to recollect how it was that ae had been led into sinb a mistake, and de fending himself, be laid it all to Jd Sammy. P.ut old San my was not often mistaken in his identifications. If Eaton was not the person for whom the train was held, might he be some one else of importance? Now as he studied Eaton, ho could not imagine what had made him accept this pas senger as a person of great position. It was only when he passed Eaton a third time, half an hour later, when 'e train had long p. ft Seattle, rhat The half-shaped hazards and guesses about the passen"er suddenly sprang into form. Allowing for a change of clothes and a different way of brush ing his hair. Eaton was exactly the man whom Warden had expected tit his house and who bad coine there and wailed while Warden, away in ids car, was killed. Connery was walking back through th.e train, absent-minded in trying to decide whether he could be at all sure of this; and Irving to decide what he should do if he felt sure, when Mr. I orne stopped him. "Conductor, do you happen to know." be questioned, "who the young man is who took Section Three in the ear forward?" Connery gasped; but the question uit to him the impossibility of his being sure of any recognition from the description. "He gave his name on his ticket as Philip D. Eaton, sir," Connery replied. "Is that all you know about him?" "Yes. sir." "If you find out anything about him, let me know," Dorne bade. "Yes, sir." Connery determined to let nothing interfere with learning more of Eaton; Dome's request only gave him .added responsibility. 1 lorne, however, was not depending upon Connery alone for further infor mation. As soon as the conductor had gone, he turned back to his daughter and Avery upon the seat op posite. "Avery," he said in a tone of direc tion, "I wish you to get In conversa tion with this Thilip Eaton. It will probably be useful If you let Harriet talk with him too. She would get im pressions helpful to me which you can't." The pirl started with surprise but recovered at once. "Yes, Father," she said. "What, sir?" Avery ventured to protest. CHAPTER III Miss Dome Meets Eaton. Dorne motioned Avery to the aisle, whore already some of the passengers, having settled their belongings in their sections, were beginning to wan der through the ears seeking ac quaintances or players to make up a card game. Eaton took from a bag a handful of cigars with which he filled a plain, uninitialed eipar case, and went toward the club ami obser vation car in the rear. As he passed through the sleeper next to him the last one--Harriet Dorne glanced up at him and spoke to her father; Dorne nodded but did not look up. 'The observation room was nearly empty. The only occupants were a young woman who was reading a mag azine, ami an elderly man. Eaton chose a scat as far from these two as possible. He had been there only a few min utes, however, when, looking up, he saw Harriet Dorne "and Avery enter the room. They passed him, engaged in conversation, and stood by the rear (bjor looking out into the storm. It was evident to Eaton, although he did not watch them, that they were argu ing something; the girl seemed insist ent, Avery irritated and unwilling. Her manner showed that she won her point finally. She seated herself in one of the chairs, and Avery left her. He wandered, as if aimlessly, to the reading table, turning over the maga zines there; abandoning them, he gazed about as if bored; then, with a wholly casual n i toward Eaton and j side linn. j "Rotten weather ! observed somew hat i ' Eaton could not j "It's been getting J nietited. "ever since tinner. t.M,k til h came Seat be- Averv . isn t it ungraciously, well avoid a reply. Wofse." he com- we left Seattle." "We're running into it. apparently." Again Avery looked toward Eaton ami waited. "Ye-- lucky if we get through." The conversation on Avery's part was latently forced; and it was equally forced on Eaton's; neverthe less it continued. Avery introduced the w ar and other subjects upon w hich men. thrown together for u time, are accustomed to exchange opinions. ;ut Avery did not do it easily or natu rally: be plainly was of the cast? whose pose it is to repel, not seek, overtures toward a chance acquaint ance. His lack of practice was per fectly obvious when at last he .asked directly: "Peg pardon, but I don't think I know your name." Eaton Wiis obliged to give it. "Mine's Avery." the other offered; "perhaps you beaid it when we were getting our berths assigned." And again the conversation, enjoyed by neither of them, went on. Finally the girl at the end of the car rose and passed them, as though leaving the car. Avery looked tin. "Where are you going. Harry?" "I think someone ought to be with Father." "I'll go in just a minite." She had halted almost in front of them. Avery, hesitating as though he did not know what he ought to do, finally arose; and as Eaton observed that Avery, having introduced him self, appeared now- to consider it his duty to present Eaton to Harriet Dorne, Eaton also arose. Avery mur mured the names. Harriet Dorne, resting her hand on the back of Avery's chair, joined in the conver sation. As he replied easily and In terestedly to a comment of Eaton's, Avery suddenly reminded her of her father. After a minute, when Avery - still ungracious and still irritated over something which Eaton could not guess rather abruptly left them, she took Avery's scat; and Eaton dropped info his chair beside her. Now, this whole proceeding though witidn the convention which, forbid ding a girl to make a man's acquaint ance directly, says nothing against her making it through the medium of another man had been so unnatu rally done that Eaton understood that Harriet- Dorne deliberately had ar ranged to make his acquaintance, and that Avery, angry and objecting, had been overruled. She seemed to Eaton less alertly boyish now than she had looked an hour before when they had boarded the train. Her cheeks were smoothly rounded, her lips rather full, her lashes very long. He could not look up without looking directly tit her. for her chair, which had not been moved since Avery left it, was at an angle with his own. To avoid the appearance of study ing her too openly, he turned slightly, so that his gaze went past her to the white turmoil outside the windows. "It's wonderful," she said, "isn't It?" "You mean the storm?" A twinkle of amusement came to Eaton's eyes. "It would be more interesting If it allowed a little more to be seen. At present there is nothing visible but snow." "Is that the only way it affects you? An artist would think of it as a back ground for contrasts a thing to sketch or paint ; a writer as something to be written down in words." Eaton understood. She could not more plainly have asked bin" what he was. "And an engineer, I suppose," he said, easily, "would think of it only as an element to lie included In his for mulas an x, or an a, or a b, to be put in somewhere and square-rooted or squared so that the roof-truss he was figuring should not buckle under its weight." "Oh so that is the way you were thinking of it?" "You mean," Eaton challenged her directly, "am I an engineer?" "Are you?'' "Oh, no; I was only talking in pure generalities, just as you were." "Let us go on, then." she said gayly. "I see I can't conceal from you that I am doing you the honor to wonder what you are. A lawyer would think of it in the light of dai'iage it might create and the subsequent possibilities of litigation." She made a little pause. "A business man would take it into account, as he has to take into account all things in nature or human ; it would dehuy transportation, or harm or aid the winter w heat." " r stop competition somewhere," he observed, more interested. The flash of satisfaction which came to her face and as quickly was checked .and faded showed him she thought she was on the right track. "Business," she said, still lightly, "will how is it the newspapers put it? will marshal its cohorts; it will send out its generals in command of brigades of snowplows. its colonels in command of regiments of snow shov eiers and its spies to discover and to bring back word of the effect upon the crops." "You talk," he said, "as If business were a war." "Isn't it? like war, but war in higher terms." "In higher terms?" he questioned, attempting to make his tone like hers, but a sudden bitterness now was be trayed by it. "ir in lower?" "Why. in higher." she declared, "de manding greater courage, greater de votion, greater determination, greater self-sacrifice. Recruiting otlieers can pick any man off the streets and make, a good soldier of him. out no one could be so sure of finding a satisfac tory employee in that way. Doesn't that show that daily life, the every- day husiness hearing one's world, denial)' f earning a living and share in the workaday s greater qualities than war?" Her face had flu spok e : a da rker. b lied eagerly as she .id flush answered her words on his. "Hut the opportunities for evil tire greater. too," be asserted almost fiercely. "How many of those men you speak of on the streets have been de liberately, mercilessly, even savagely sacritiod to some b jsjness expediency, their future destroyed, their hope killed!" Some storm of passion, whose meaning she could not divine, was sweeping him. "You mean," she asked after tin ln- She Had Halted Almost in Front of Them. slant's silence, "that you. Mr. Eaton, have been sacrificed in such a way?" "I am still talking in generalities," he denied ineffectively. He saw that she sensed the un truthfulness of these last words. Her smooth young forehead and her eyes were shadowy with thought. Eaton was uneasily silent. Finally Harriet Dorne seemed to have made her de cision. "I think you should meet my father. Mr. Eaton," she said. "Would you like to?" He did not reply M once. He knew that his delay was causing her to study him now with great surprise. "I would like to meet him, yes." be said, "but" be hesitated, tried to avoid answer without offending her, but already he had affronted her "but not now. Miss Dorne." She stared at him, rebuffed and chilled. "They know ycu. One is fol lowing. Leave train instantly." (TO BE. CONTINUED.) Physicians won't even give their pa tients hope without pay. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchool T Lesson T (By REV. P. B. FITZ WATER. D. D.. Teacher of English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright. 1922. Western Newspaper Union LESSON FOR JANUARY 14 JESUS TEACHING HUMILITY LESSON TEXT Luke 14:4-14. GOLDEN TEXT God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 1 Peter 6:5. REFERENCE MATERIAL John 13:1 17; Phil. 2:5-11. PRIMARY TOPIC The Story of a Great LMnner. JUNIOR TOPIC Teaching Courtesy. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC Others. YOUNG PEOILE AND ADULT TOPIC The .Solrit of Christian Service. I. Jesus Dines With a Pharisee (v. 1). Jesus entered freelv into the common social customs of the day. We see Him at a wedding, a dinner party, in the home of sickness, and at it funeral. He was truly a man among men. He was unlike John the Raptist in this respect. The Christian's inlluenoe is best when mingling with his fellow iticii in till right relations and positions in life, even though selllsh and evil minded persons are found iiiiii them. This does not mean that he should be a partaker of their evil deeds. Jesus in thus moving in all circles of human society showed the divine sympathy. While Jesus was in society he was not f it. So should the Christian be. Jesus was in a com pany outwardly courteous but inward ly hostile. Doubtless the motive of the invitation was to ffiid an occasion against Him. This is implied in the statement "they watched Him." II. Jesus Healing a Dropsical Man (vv. 2-(5). 1. Why This Man Was Present (v.2). There is no way of absolutely de termining it, but likely it was part of a plot of the Pharisees to trap Jesus by getting Him to violate the Sabbath rules. '-. Jesus' Question (v. ,T). Jesus' question was an answer to the thought; of the lawyers and Pharisees who were watching Him, for they had not spoken. Hefore healing this man He submitted the case to their judgment. They were free on the Sabbath day to hold a feast where their seltlsh pride and vanity could be displayed, but they w re horrified that a follow -man should be healed on the Sabbath. They were silent because their consciences made them ashamed of their heartlessiiess. 0. Healing the Man (v. -I). While they were in a state of embarrassment Jesus healed the man and let him go. 4. Jesus Rebuked Them (vv. f. C) . He laid bare their hypocrisy by show ing them that their w Uiingio-ss to show mercy to a beast on the Sabbath should induce them to regard as not sinful to relieve a human being of distress on the Sabbath. They were again silent for they perceived their inconsistency and inhumanity. III. Jesus Rebukes Selfish Ambi tion (vv. 7-10). 1. The occasion (v. 7). He observed that the guests while taking their places at the table chose the best seats for themselves. This is still tru of men and women. In the railway cars, hotels, street cars, etc., they scramble for the best places. In the homes even members of the same fam ily will try to get the best food, etc. 2. Instruction (Jiven (vv. S-ll). When bidden to a feast, take the low est place lest you suffer the humilia tion of being, asked to take a lowter seat. This is more than a lesson on courtesy or table manners; it Is a severe rebuke of that selfishness which tills the human heart, causing it to seek to be ministered to Instead of minister ing to others. I'n.seltisbness will ex press itself in humbly taking the low est place, esteeming others better than ourselves. The fundamental principle of the philosophy governing the moral world. Jesus declares to be: "Whoso ever ex.ilteth himself shall be abased, iind he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." IV. The True Motive in Deeds of Charity (vv. 12-14). Jesus takes advantage of this social occasion to teach a great principle. The Jews, like many of the rich today, made social dinner occasions fur dis play. They invited only those whose wealth would enable them to recom pense them by inviting them in return. Jesus took note of the selfishness thus displayed and set forth to them the right prin-ciple, namely, that they should extend their hospitality to the poor and atllietod. All charitable deeds should be done with unselfish motives. Jesus assured them that compensation would be made at the resurrection of tiie just. This doeri not mean that friends and neighbors of certain rank should never exchange pleasant hos pitalities. Wealth should be used to confer blessings upon the poor and needy instead of ministering to the pride and vanity of the possessor. How Churches Grow. Once there was a Chinese laundry. Then is became a store. Then it be came a church. 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