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BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C. OOOOGOOOO MAN'S EYES By William MacHarg Edwin Balmer ILLUSTRATIONS BY R. H. Livingstone lOQOQCCOGett Copyright by Little. Brown and Company CHAPTER XXIII Continued. 19 "In other words, you instructed them not to lo si: until you found out whether Overton could he handed over for execution and the facts regarding Latron keit 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 bitterness he felt at his blindness having been used to make him hii unconscious ugent in these tilings of which Avery spoke so calm ly, he was resolved that no one who had shared knowingly in them should go unpunished. I5ut now he heard the noise made by approach of Eaton's captors. As Santoine stood listening, the sounds without became coherent to him. "They have taken Overton, Avery," be commented. "Of course they have taken no one else. I shall tell those in charge of him he is not the one they are to hold prisoner but that I have another for them here." The blind man heard no answer 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 daughter's voice in a half cry. half sob of hope less appeal to him. Harriet ran to him; be felt her cold, trembling fingers clasping h!m and beseeching him. "Father: Father: They say they say they will " He put his hands over hers, clasp ing hers and patting It. "My dear," he said. "I thought you would wait for me ; I told vou to wait." rat. S w i .pot c.rn. with him, dea r ha e and 1 cannot take time now b'jist. will tike lnv Word I ave ir t ; it.g to fear for Ing!" lb tier:. I tier gasp wnn am surprise ; t hen she from deep b:ng. dm. si aring at him wit li I'elicl an.l cla He still held her. ared and the foots! as cl. "arrvin iverton w eut up then, knowing that she wished to tof ! w them, he released her. She drew nwav. then clasped his hand and kls.ed it ; as she (lid so, she suddenly stiffened and her hand tightened on his spasmodically. Someone else had come into the hall nnd he heard another voice a worn m's. which he recognized as that of ,he stenographer. Miss Iavis. -Where is he? Hugh I Hugh: What have yoti done to him? Mr. Santoine: Mr. Santoine: Where is ''e?" The blind man straightened, holding his daughter t him; there was anxi ety, horror, love in the voice he heard; Harriet's perplexity was great as his own. "is that you, Miss Davis?" he in quired. "Yes; yes."' the girl repeated. "Where is Hugh, Mr. Santoine?" y.'uii do not understand," the voice of a young man broke in on them. 4f' I'm afraid I don't," Santoine said quiet iy. "She is Hugh's sister, Mr. Santoine she is Fdith Overton." "Fdith Overton? And who are you?" "You do not know me. My name is Lawrence Hillward." Santoine asked nothing more for the -non cut. His daughter had left his side. He st aid an instant listening to the i-onMision of Npiest ion and answer in the hall; then he opened the door into rhe library and held it for the police ydof to enter. CHAPTER XXIV "It's All Right, Hugh" at Last. Katon he still, with the habit of Ave years of concealment, even The BLIND S 8 SGCOGOQOOQOQOr lie heard others coming into the ! cLb j f C2 V-' 'J'' now; and he held his daughter j fi4j?&d J2$& boide him as lie faced them. ' 'yg'hSiSy WfT&Z were blind; I decided to take the train Win, is in charge here?" he d-l Jbik. .ftbrfTOjt n.a.Hed. " lmmmW. the draft of the" reorganization agr ! The -ice of one of those who had ' llMmmWWmh miHk " ,tHV ,"rU1,l,'ll,s with '! ' again .. ;c,, ,,;,), ,,, j.r in answered him. "1 sir- V. IM V I VS ypA which -I , .... -,.,;. ... von - , will not I V Mm lil li a' ! w.-ucle d by ;.,., of ;!,, - - ,Ma. 1 a-k o-i io have I : J-'ljMP ml' ' ' m ! ' 'i i . : : i i ' t . m 1 1 p !.". r w h i ! . I .v a - in c ,... ; . , , b a ioct.'.rV You can have j '--M "T ' ' ' ''f M ! !""' r""';'i,""i :,! ,:'! r" , and in :.;"m'ed of !,'..,': .'. u,r-u h.,-.e j. -:..rd 1 it-. V;;:r : Wait!" he direct- j "' ' ' it- H; J ' a man follow in.' ti.e who .!:-ippe;.iv.l 1 .,.,..; ,,.. ... ,r., ,. r,,r ,.r j ; . ; . .as j,.- board exclamation, and j , V "T?S' :,1'"'r 1 ::ik"" :!';,;,!- :' ' '"' ' her? K lb- i- Hugh ierton. I know ; i; i j ; fj Vi M 1 j 1 the- same tr,.m I did. II.- wired tie- in j -,-!. ha. bo.- a-; i;,g ;..r '.'.-;.i:m. he ! Hugh ert..n that I ! ;':'" US M ''' Kfc; j t he ci ;,,,- o h.-i n-"! i n '. , ,, , , , x s. it: t . . ; : . e. if y,,-, sa wl..-:! I do." I J . ffl Ih ; "vfo ' I !iimiitd.-,!t ing' With .-aeii oih. r. but ',;.! .j,,,, ;,,.;;.,. .,, :n i ,'. Sai-i.-it:,. abandoned effort to Mpa- j T" v W Y'-' i n"( ,;n"win-' wllil' ,,'ln:'' 1 v :!- , Harriet d;d no; ki.ow what nn-wr ;.nd comprehend or to try to an- X. W ' ; !l,r 'am. m- a.i-;iee., n to mm ,,,.,,,. she w-i:: -;-!.tir-: -,.. ! i! e ...ntii-i f charge and! j ''1'n,1,-IlJ !h:;I if t.'le-iam ;iS vl,n ;l ..,. U;l ,,f .j.r i.-n.r.g aionnd him. He con- reached the train addie-.-e,! to 'Law- nf Huglc Uter ; the!,, a' 1 1 ;h's door, d him-dt. at the moment, only The Voice of One of Those Who Had rem-,, llillwar.f I would und.-r-iatid vi. ,,, ,.,it ,,, . -;. h:- daagh-.-r; he drew her to Just Come in Answered Him. "I, sir . and claim it. . ; ate! compose her.. I : b--: oi e oj. ! :.. 1 ,or ,,1.. L'.-nl v iimh 1 " oiri to r-uoc. ' uio. 1 omu not tit- ,,., , loo n to,, 01 ,1,1 th.-re' FervihhiL is riidit T' Must ruct ioti and lcae the no, ,een ahle'to explain to . S""'m''1 '",lM j were snowed in. He-sides. I cedd not , ln, u(,,,. rl,.(L 1!:rntn ,,,., thought of himself by that name awoke to full consciousness at eight o'clock the next morning. lie was In the room he had occupied before In Santoine's house ; the sunlight, re flected from the lake, was playing on the celling. Ills wounds had been dressed ; his body was 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 said. The man turned and came toward the bed. "Yes, Hugh." Eaton ralseiF himself excitedly upon his pillows. "Lawrence, that was he last night in the study. It was Ma tron ! I saw him! You'll believe me, Lawrence you at least will. They got away on a boat they must be fol lowed " With the llrst return of consciousness he had taken up again that battle against circumstances which had been his only thought for five years. Hut suddenly he was aware that his sister was also in the room, sitting upon the opposite side of the bed. Her hand came forward and clasped his; she bent over him, holding him and fondling him. "It is all right, Hugh." site 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 he knows other wise " "He Santoine believed that?" Ea ton asked incredulously. "Yes; he says his blindness was used by them to make him think so. So now he Is very angry ; he says no one who had anything to do with it shall escape. He figured it all out most wonderfully that it must have been Latrou in the study. He has been working all nlght--they have al ready made several arrests and every port on the lake is being watched for the boat they got away on." "Is that true. Edith? Lawrence, is It true?" "Yes; quite true, Hugh!" Hillward 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 meant to him dampened suddenly as he real ized that It was over now. that long struggle to clear bis name from the charge of murder the fight which had m.i no id teeiitigs lie fact thai 1. No what came to him most strong! v now wa iilv realization thai he had been et right with Santoine - Santoine, whom he himself had misjudged and mis trusted. And Harriet ? He had tml needed to be set right with her; she had believed and trusted him from the Iirst. in spite ot ad that had seetnei 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 heating, as his thought strained toward the future. "Where is -Miss Santoine?" he 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." Katon lay silent till he heard them coining. The blind man was unfa miliar with this room; his daughter led him in. Her eyes were very bright, her cheeks, which had been pale. Hushed as she met Katun's look, but she did not look away. He kept his gaze upon her. Santoine, under Uer guidance, took the chair Hillward set beside the bed for him. The blind man was very quiet; he felt for and found Eaton's haml and pressed it. Eaton choked, as die 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. I think, everything now. except some few particulars re garding yourself," he said. "Will you tell me those?" "Y'oti mean " Katon spoke to San toine, hut he looked at Harriet. "Oh, I understand, I think. When I escaped, Mr. Santoine, of course my . real ze ll H Uie l.i: a- ei .-oiiceai- .r .... ),,,,, .oot,,,.l, ,0.0 1 !,.., ..1'. 1 ; but you. , , ima-me i.ow ,in.ho,i ..mid have ;..i instant gazing at him. : inellt fear. The nse .if mon-troiis , ..... ,1 , that you I . . . , , , , , ",UI nam. a l na-i !js peacful n,,,v !.T him noli,- i , " m " ''k"n ,,;ii"S " "'"V,'',t ",!" v''- tl'i"- worn and hi. pahmc ua. more j deeply all ,.. t.mnght. and tee.tng. ,,y fh, f ge, ,!,', ull(. ,,, rnlK;IU .ncretlulitv t,:lt hl" ,"U''1 1 " ..aboard It." - t hl.r ,,,, A. ,,,,, s, , u,t..h. ! thev were gon.- Tor g 1. So what i , ., drew back i , i I he man whom the gatemaii saw ,,,g him he feit her bh.n cour.ing . I came to him most .trough now was t ...... .. . , . she breathed , ,. . "u! 11111 i" 'ie mereiv watched through her as never before and , .. . onlv realization tlrU he had been et , ,, . , , . ,. ; , , , . .... pod him, sob- ...,.. . , ''t on the tram and notified two warming her tace and her imgorr.ns; . ,, rigiu nun am onte - ,anio me, w no n ,, i .i. .. . , . , as the hall ! . .. ' . others, woo took the train at epo- . ..,,,1 r,..,,. . u-.w of din or el lief. tit': . . lie ninisen nan misjungeu itim mis- i is ot those , . , , , . . , , , trusted. And Harriet.' He had not the stairs : . . . ... picture had appeared In all the news- papers and I was not sate from rec ognition anywhere In this country. I got into Canada and, from Vancouver, went to China. We had very little money left, Mr. Santoine. 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." "o on," said Santoine. "You thought I knew who Latron's mur derer was and morally, though not technically, perjured myself at your trial to convict you in his place. What next?" "That was It," Eaton assentej. "We thought you knew that souk- of those around you who served as your eyes must know it. too." Harriet gasped. Katon, looking at her, knew that she understood now what had come between them when she had told him that she herself had served as her father's eyes all through the Latron trial. He felt himself Hushing as he looked at her; he could not understand now how he could have believed that she had aided in concealing an injustice against him, no matter what Influence had been ex erted upon her. She was all good ; all true. "At first," Eaton went on, "Edith did not find out anything. Then, this year, she learned that 'here was to be a reorganization of some of the Latron properties. We hoped that, during that, something would come out which might help us. I had been away almost live years; my face was forgotten, and we thought I could take the chance of coming back to be near at hand so I could act if anything did come out. Lawrence met me at Vancouver. We were about to start east when I received a message from Mr. Warden. 1 did not know Warden and I don't know now how he knew who I was or where he could reach me. His message merely said he knew I needed help and he was prepared to give it and made an appointment for me to see him at his house. You know what happened when I tried to keep the appointment. "Then you came to Seattle and Took charge of Warden's affairs. I felt cer tain that if there was any evidence among Warden's effects as to who had killed Latron, you would take it back with you with the other matters re lating to the Latron reorganization. You could not recognize me from your having been at my trial because you were blind; I decided to t;ike the ;r;iin with you and try to get pnssesin of the draft of the reorganization agree ment and the other doruments with it Warden had been working on. Mipo.-ted that I was ISiell pr follow train ; s, I could w aliYl'oiiv i o'it'1 have wet tne onto t!,e train, as i taken pains to prevent that very thii y being the last passenger to get aboard It. l ne man h ihhii tne gatemaii saw did not follow you; he merely watch ymi get on the tram and notified tw tliers. woo took the train at Spo kane. They had planned to get rid of you after you left Seattle so as to run less nsk ot your death being con nected with that of Warden. It was my presence which made it necessary 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, by Edith from Chicago, when she learned here that you were using the name of Dorne on your way home. 1 learned from her when I got here that the doc uments relating to the Latron prop erties, which I had decided you did not have with you, were being ent you through Warden's otlice. Through Edith I learned that they had readied you and had been put in the safe. I managed to communicate wdth Hill 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 take you out that night." "When I readied the study," 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 Latron the man for whose murder I had been convicted and sentenced: Edith tells me that you know- the rest." There was silence in the room for several minutes. Santoine again felt for Eaton's hand and pressed it. "We've tired you out." he said. "You must rest." "You must sleep, Hugh, If you can," Edith urged. i Eaton obediently dosed his eyes, but opened them at once to look for Harriet. She had moved out of Ids line of vision. Santoine rose; he stood an Instant waiting for his daughter, then sud 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, turning anxiously on his pil low and looking about the room, saw no one but his sister. He had known when Harriet moved away from be side the bed; 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 she go, Edith?" he ques tioned. "You must sleen. Hugh." his sister answered onlv. ! Harriet, when she slipped out of the room, had gone downstairs. She could not have forced herself to leave be fore she had heard Hugh's story, and she could not define even to herself what the feeling had been that had made her leave as soon as lie had finished; but she sensed the reason vaguely. Hugh had told her two days before, "T will come back to you as you have never known me yet" and it had proved true. She had known him as a man in fear, constrained, carefully guarding himself against others and against betrayal by him self; a man to whom all the world seemed opposed ; so that her sympa thy and afterward something more than her sympathy bad gone out to him. To that repressed and threat ened man, she had told all she felt toward him, revealing her feelings with a frankness that would have neen linpossinie except ttiat she want ed him to know that she was ready to Stand against the world with him. Now the world was no longer against him; be had friends, a place in life was ready to receive him ; he would besought after, and his name would be among those of the people of his own sort. She had no shame that she had let him and others j lllml- rill thnr who f..lt t..n..,-.l );,.,. I .... ,n(. " I'll l " 'HI l i nun , she gloried still in it ; only now now, if he wished her, he must make that plain; she could not, of herself, return to him. So unrest possessed her and the suspense of something hoped for but ungudtilled. She went from loom to room, trying to absorb herself in her daily duties; but the house her fa ther's house spoke to her now only of Hugh and she could think of noth ing but him. Was he awake? Wa- he sleeping? Was he thinking of her? Or. now that the danger was over through which she had served hi:::, were his thought- of someone (!.'.- tear of ;m t lung at ah m lied from her ; and love knew that she Heed no to deny--possessed her. Harriet" She heard her nam. from his Hps and she saw, as he opened his eyes and turned to her. there was no surprise in his look ; if he had been sleeping, he had been dreaming she was there; if awake, lie 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, then? All you said and and all you did when we--you and 1 were 'alotie against them all! It's so. Harriet: You mean It:" "And you did too! lear. it was only to me that you could come back , only to me "only to you!" He closed his eyes in his exultation. "Oh. my dear. I never dreamed Harriet in till the days and nights I've had to plan and won der what might be for me if every thing could come all right, I've never dreamed I could win a reward like this." "Like this?" He opened his eyes again and drew her down toward him. "Like you!" She bent until her cheek touched his and his arms were about her. He felt her tears upon his face. "Nolo Ihata; not that you mustn't cry. dear." he begged. "Oh, Harriet, aren't you happy now ?" "That's why. Happy: I didn't know before there could be anything like this." "Nor I. . . . No, it's al right, Harriet; everything is all right now?" "All right? Oh, It's all right now, if I can make it so for you," she answered. THE ES"DJ 98 OUT OF EVERY 100 WOMEN BENEFITED An Absolutely Reliable Statement Important to Every Woman Remarkable Results Shown by a Nation Wide Canvass of Women Purchasers of Lydia E. 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