Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24

got into Canada and, from Vancouver,
went TO China. We had very little
money left. Mr. Santolne. What had
not been-lost through Latron had
been spent In my defense. / got a
Dosltlon In a mercantile house over
there. II 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-
lives for Edith TO go to and she had
to take up s~tenography to support her
self and-and change her name, Mr..
santoine, because of me-"
"Go on" said Santoine. "You
thought I knew who Latron's muir
derer was and morally. though not
technically. perjured myself at your
trial to convict you In his place.
What next?'
THAT was It," Eaton assented. "We
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 hat she understood now
what had come between them when
she had told him that she herself had
served as her fathers eyes all through
the Latron trial. He felt himself
dushlng as he looked at her; he could
not understand now how he could
have believed that she had aided in
~conceallng 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
yearNshe learned that there was TO
be1 reorganization of some of the
batron properties. We hoped that,
during that. something would come
out which might help us. | had been
away almost five years; my face was
forgotten. and we thought l could
take the chance of coming back to be
near at hand so / could act If anything
did come out. sLawrence met me at
Vancouver. We were about to start
east when / received a message from
Mr.. Warden. / did not know Warden
and / 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 It and made an appointment for
me to see him at his house. You know
what happened when / tried to keep
the appointment.
Then you came TO Seattle and took
charge of Warden's affairs. / felt GER
tain that If there was any evidence
among Warden's effects as to who had
killed Latron, you would take 1t 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 take the train
with you and try to get possession of
the draft of the reorganization agree
ment and the other documents with 1t
which Warden had been working on.
/ had suspected that / was being
watched by agents Of the men protect
ing Latron's murderer while | was In
Seattle. i 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
q man following me who disappeared
after / had taken the train. and Law
renee, after questioning the gateman
at Seattle decided the man had taken
the same train l did. He wired me In
the cipher we had sometimes used in
communicating with each other. but
not knowing what name l was using
on the train, he addressed 1t to him
self, confident that If q telegram
reached the train addressed to Law
renee Hillward' / would understand
and claim Ii.
"Of course, 1 could not follow his
instructions and leave the train; we
were showed In. Besides, l could not
imagine how anybody could have fol-
lowed me onto the train, as I had
taken pains to prevent that very thing
by being the last passenger TO get
aboard It,"
THE man whom the gateman saw
did not follow you he merely watched
you get on the train and notified two
OliltIS, WIZ LUX the lldin Ut DpO-
kane. They had planned to get rid
of you after you left Seattle so as to
run less risk Of your death being con-
nected with that of Warden. 1t was
my presence which made 1t necessary
for them to make the desperate at
tempt to kill you on the train"
'Then / 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. learned
from her when / got here that the doc
uments relating to the Latron prop
critics, which I had decided you did
not have with you, were being sent
you through Warden's office. Through
Edith / learned that they had ryached
you and had been put in the 8 .fe. /
managed to communicate with 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 way7 He