The Dolores star., 1923-05-18

pgnltlp0 any mere IA hii'
,ot into Canada and, from vancouver
went TO China. We had very little
money left. Mr.. Santulne. What hnd
not heen-loSt through Latron hnd
been spent in my defense. ] got
nosltion in a mercantile house over
there 1t was a good country for me;
people over there don't ask questions
for fenr someone will ask questions
about them. We had no near rela-
tiyes for Edith to 20 to and she had
to take up stenoGraphy to support her
self and-and change her name, MIR.
Suntuine, because Of me"
"Go on" said Santoine. "fou
thought | knew who Latron's muir
derer was and morally, though not
technically. perjured myself Mt your
trial to convict You in his place.
What next?"
THAT was It," Eaton assented. ave
thought you knew that some of those
around you who served as your eyes
must know 1t. too"
Harriet gasped. Eaton. looking at
her, knew that she understood now
what had come between them when
she had told him that she herself had
served us her fathers eyes all through
the Latron trial. He felt himself
flushing rs he looked at her; he could
not understand now how he could
have believed that she had aided in
conccallng 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. l had been
away almost five years; my face was
forgotten. and we thought l could
take the chance Of coming back to be
near ut hand so | could act If anything
did come out. Lawrence met me at
Vancouver. We were about to start
east when | received a message from
Mr.. Warden. l did not know Warden
and l don't know now how he knew
who | was or where he could reach
me. His message merely said he knew
| needed help and he was prepared to
give 1t and made an appointment for
me to see him at his house. You know
what happened when l tried to keep
the appointment.
"Theu you came to Seattle and took
charge of Wardcn's affairs. l felt GER
tain that If there was any evidence
among Warden's effects rs to who had
| killed Latron. you would take it back
with you with the other matters re.
| latlng to the Latron reorganization
You could not recognize me from your
| having been at my trial because you
were blind; I decided to take the train
| with you and try to get possession OF
| the draft Of the reorganization agree
| ment and the other documents with II
which Warden had been working on
l had suspected that l was being
watched by agents Of the men protect.
| ing Latron's murderer while | was in
| Seattle. | had changed my lodgings
| there because of that. but Lawrence
| had remained at the old lodgings to
| find out for me. He found there was
n man following me who disappeared
after l had taken the train, and Law.
renee, after questioning the gateman
at Seattle decided the man had taken
the same train | did. He wired me In
the cipher we had sometimes used In
| communicating with each other. but
not knowing what name | was using
on the train, he addressed 1t TO him
self, confident that if telegram
reached the train addressed to Law,
renee Hillward' l would understand
and claim it.
"Of course, l could not follow his
| instructions and leave the train: W,
were showed in. Besides, | could not
| imagine how anybody could have fol
lowed me onto the train, as / hat
taken pains to prevent that very thine
by being the last passenger to ger
aboard it,"
The man whom the gateman saw
did not follow you he merely watched
| you get on the train and notified tw,
Others, who took the train at Spo
kane. They had planned to get ric
of you after you left Seattle so as t,
run less risk of your death being con
nected with that Of Warden. 1t wa,
my presence which made it necessar,
for them TO make the desperate at
tempt 10 kill you on the train"
"hen l understand. The other tel
egram was sent me- of course, b,
Edith from Chicago, when she learne,
here that you were using the name o
Dorne on your way home. / learne,
from her when I got here that the doc
uments relating to the Latron prop
critics, which l had decided YOU dIt
not have with you, were being sen
you through Warden's office. Throup,
Edith I learned that they had reache,
you and had been put in the safe,
managed to communicate with Hill
ward at the country club, and tha
night he brought me the means O.
forcing the safe.
Eaton felt himself flushing again n.