The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-25
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Continued From Our Last Issue
CHAPTER XIII.
The Man From the Train

Inc Man from tne Tram
Convinced that Basil Santoine
had had a sinister connection with
affairs which deeply concerned
him, Eaton was puzzled to place
his daughters part in them. Was
she as innocent as she looked?
The fifth morning after his ar
rival Harriet was taking him for
his walk in the garden. She had
told him her father was very
much stronger. He had spoken
with bitterness of his experiences
with men. She had tried, without
success, to draw his confidence.
Finally they strolled out upon the
pike.
They had been following the
edge of the road, nearer to the
tracks of the motors. Suddenly
she cried out and clutched at him.
She had heard the sound of a mo-
tor approaching rapidly from be-
hind. She had paid no attention
and had not turned. lnstan-
taneously, as she had cried and
pulled upon him, she had realized
that this car was not passing; it
was directly behind and almost up
on him. She felt him spring to
the side as quickly as he could;
but her cry and pull upon him
were almost too late; as he leaped
the car struck. The blow was
glancing, not direct, and he was
off his feet and in motion when
the wheel struck; but the car
hurled him aside and rolled him
over and over.
AS she rushed to Eaton, the two
men in the rear seat of the car
turned their heads and looked
back. But without checking its
speed, the car dashed on.
Eaton struggled to his feet and,
dazed, tottered so that she sup
ported him. She stared with horror
at the turn in the road where the
car had disappeared.
"Why, he tried to run you down
He meant to! He tried to hurt
you!" she cried.
"No!p Eaton unsteadily denied.
ct must have been--an accident.
| He was-frightened when he saw
what he had done"
ut wasn't at all like an acct
dent" she persisted. mo; he
meant to do it! Did you see who
| was in the car-who was driving?"
"Who?" he demanded.
| Zone of the people who was or
the train! A little man, nervous
but very strong; a man almost like
an ape"
| He shuddered and then controll'
ed himself. Eyes. | remember. {
! fellow the conductor tried to sea-
. me opposite"
9 "This was the same mani"
Eaton shook his head. THAT
could hardly be; ] think you must
be mistaken"
81 am not mistaken; 1t was that
4 mani"
"Still think you must be-" he
again insisted.
She stared studying him. Per
haps | was" she agreed; but she
knew she had not been.
When she insisted upon return
ing to the house, he made no OBJ.
lection, but refused to walt for a
car to take him. They walked
back rather silently.
They found Avery looking fol
Them as they came up.
a Harriet, your father wants you
- at once" Avery directed. GOOD
morning, Eaton. What's hap
pened?"
"Carelessness, Eaton deprecat-
f. ed. Got in the way of a motor
and was knocked over"
u Harriet did not correct this to
"a Avery. She went up to her father;
Z she was still trembling with horror
IA What did you want, father?
\ Harriet asked.
At the sound of her voice he
asked the nurse to leave the room
"Where have you been?'
Walking with Mr.. Eaton"
"What happened?"
She hesitated. "Mr. Eaton was
almost run down by a motor car"
"Ah! An accident"
"Mr. Eaton said 1t was an acct
dent" she answered.
"But your"
at did not look to me like an
accident. father. lit showed in
tention."
"You mean II was an attack"
Eyes; the man in the car meant
to kill Mr.. Eaton or to hurt hin
terribly"
| ITO kill him, Harriet? How dc
Iyou know"
| She caught herself. Il dom
know, father When I said kill him
II was telling only what thought
2 THAT is better. think so. too;
I suspected something like this
might occur"
"And you did not warn him?"
at was not necessary to warn
him, Harriet; Mr.. Eaton already
knew"
After gaining from Harriet wha'
description she could give Of the
men in the car, Santoine said:
Bring Eaton to me-"
She went slowly down the stairs
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