The Dolores star., 1923-02-02

one most likely to he an efficient aid,
he handed 1t to Eaton. "Will you
help me. please? Strike a light and
hold It as / direct-then draw 1t away
slowly
He lifted the partly closed eyelld
from one OF the eyes OF the uncon-
scious man and nodded to Eatoni
Hold the light in front of the pupil"
Eaton obeyed, drawing the light
slowly away us Sinclair had directed,
and the surgeon dropped the eyelld
and exposed the other pupil.
whats that for?" Avery now
asked.
II was trying to determine the Sc.
robustness of the injury to the BRAIN
| was looking to see whether light
could cause the pupil to contract.
There was no reaction"
His optic nerve is destroyed"
"Ah, He was blind?"
Yes, he was blind" Avery admit.
ted.
"Blind" Sinclair calculated Blind,
anu uJoI NllllIH Two years
by Kuno Garrt" Kuno Cart operat-
ed only upon the all-rich and powerful
or upon the completely powerless and
poor; the unconscious man In the
berth could belong only to the first
class of CARTS clientele. The sur
geon's gaze again searched the fea-
lures In the berth; then 1t shifted to
hn l.
aisle
"Who did you say this wasp he de-
manded Of Avery.
~ said his name was Nathan
Dorne." Avery evaded.
mo. mo-" Sinclair jerked out I'm
patiently. Isn't this" He hesl-
tated, and finished in voice suddenly
lowered: isn't this Basil Santolne 2"
Avery, If he still wished to do SO,
found it impossible to deny.
Basil Santoine! I" Connery breathed.
To the conductor alone, among the
four men standing by the BERTH the
name seemed to have come with the
sharp shock Of surprise with 1t had
come an added sense of responsibility
and horror over what had happened
to the passenger who had been con-
fided to his care, which made him
whiten as he once more repeated the
name to himself and stared down at
the man in the berth.
Conductor Connery knew Basil San
toine only in the way that Santoine
was known to great numbers of other
people-that Is, by name but not by
sight.
Basil Santoine ut twenty-five hao
been graduated from Harvard, though
blind. His connections-the family
was of well-to-do southern stock-his
possession of enough money for his
own support, made it possible for him
to live idly If he wished; but Santoine
had not chosen to make his blindness
an excuse for doing this. He had
at once settled himself to his chosen
profession, which was law. He had
not found IT easy to get start in
this, and he had succeeded only after
| great effort in getting place with a
small and unimportant firm. Within
| short time. well within two years,
| men had begun to recognize that in
this struggling law firm there was a
powerful, clear. compelling mind.
Santoine, youth living in darkness
unable to see the men with whom he
talked or the documents and books
which must be read to him, was be-
ginning to put the stamp of his per.
sonality on the firms afairs. A year
later his name appeared with others
OF the firm; at twenty-eight his was
the leading name. He had begun to
specialize long before that time, In
corporation law; he married shortly
after this. At thirty the firm name
represented to those who knew its
particulars only one personality, the
personality Of Santoine; and at thirty.
hve-though his indifference to money
was proverbial-he was many times q