The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-03-30
CHAPTER WI
Suspicion Fastens on Eaton.

suspicion FaStens on Eaton.
Eaton found his car better filed
than II had been before, for the people
shifted from the car behind had been
scattered through the train. Keeping
himself to his section, he watched the
car and outside the windows for
signs OF what Investigation Connery
and Avery were making. Whoever
had attacked Santoine must still be
upon the train, for no one could have
escaped through the snow. No one
could now escape. Avery and Connery
and whoever else was making investi.
gatioon with them evidently were not
letting anyone know that an inveSti-
CATION was being made. Eaton went
TO lunch; on his way back from the
diner, he saw the conductors with pa
pers in their hands questioning a pas.
senger. They evidently were starting
Systematically through the cars, exam
ming each person they were making
the plea of necessity OF q report TO
the railroad offices of names ana nd.
dresses of all held up by the stoppage
of the train.
Eaton started on toward the rear
Of the train.
"a moment. sir" Connery called.
Eaton halted. The conductor con
fronted him.
"Your name, sir?" Connery asked.
philip d. Eaton"
Connery wrote down the answer.
"Your ~addreSs?"
"I-have no address. I was COINS
TO a hotel in Chicago-which one !
hadn't decided yet"
where are you coming from?"
"From Asia"
That's hardly an address, Mr.. Ea-
toni"
Il can give you no address abroad.
/ hard no fixed address there. / was
travelling most of the time. / arrived
In Seattle by the Asiatic steamer and
took this train
"Ah! you came on the Tamba
Maru.'
Connery made note Of this, as he
had made note of all the other uueS
tons and answers. Then he said
something TO the Pullman conductor.
who replied in the same low tone;
what they said was not audible to
Eaton.
"You can tell us at least where
your family Is, Mr.. Eaton Conncry
suggested.
q" have no family"
"Friends, them"
Il have no friends"
:. "Nowhere?"
nowhere"
Connery ~pondered for several mo-
ments. "The Mr.. Hillward-Law-
renee Hillward. TO whom the telegram
was addressed which you claimed
this morning, your associate who was
to have taken this train with you
will you give me his address,"
II don't know Hillward's address,"
"Give me the address, then. OF the
man who sent the telegram"
81 am unable 10 do that, either"
Connery spoke again to the Pullman
conductor, and they conversed inau-
dibly for a minute. "That is all.
them" Connery said finally.
He signed his name to the sheet
on which he had written Eaton's an
swers, and handed 1t to the Pullman
conductor, who also signed 1t and re-
turned II to him then they went on
to the passenger now occupying Sec
ton Four, without making any fur
Their comment.
Eaton told himself that there should
be no danger to himself from this In
quiry, directed against no one, but
including Complementary everyone
on the train. When the conductors
had left the car, he put his magazine
away and went into the mems com
partment to smoke and calm his
nerves His return 10 America had
passed the bounds OF recklessness;
and what a situation he would now be
in if his actions brought even serious
suspicious against him. lie finished
his first cigar and was debating
whether to light another, when he
heard voices outside the car, and
opening the window and looking out.
he saw Connery and the brakeman
struggling through the snow and max
ing. apparently. some search. Pres
emily Connery passed the door OF the
compartment carrying something
loosely wrapped in a newspaper In
his hands. Eaton finished his cigar
and want hack m HE coaf n, tha co.
AS he glanced at the seat where
he had left his locked travelling ~