The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-04-20
WILLIAM MAcHARG " EDWIN BALMER
Copyright By Little Brown md ConpHy

into the ambulance. Harriet Santoine,
after giving a direction to a man
who apparently was a chauffeur, got
into the ambulance with her father.
The surgeon and the nurses rode with
them. They drove off. Avery entered
another automobile, which swiftly dis
appeared. Conductor Connery came
for the last time to Eaton's door.
Miss SantOine says you're TO 90
with the man she's left here for you"
The porter appeared with his over
coat and hat. Eaton put them On ami
stepped out Of the car. The conductor
escorted him TO a limousine car. This
is the gentleman" Connery said to
the chauffeur to whom Harriet San
tome had spoken. The man opened
the door OF the limousine; another
man, whom Eaton had not before
seen, was seated in the car; Eaton
stepped in. Connery extended his
hand-"Good-by, sir"
"Good-by.'
The motOr-car drove down a wide,
winding road with tall, spreading trees
on both sides. The man in the car
with Eaton, whose duty plainly was
only that Of a guard, did not speak TO
Eaton nor Eaton to him. The motor
passed other limousines occasionally {;
then, though the road was still wide
and smooth and still bounded by great
trees, it was lonefer; no houses APP
- r.. LaIF .sIN. than It1hNn
glowed directly ahead the car ran un-
der the porte-cochere OF a great stone
country mansion a servant sprang to
the door Of the limousine and opened 1t /;
another man seized Eaton's handbag
gage from beside the chauffeur. Eaton
entered a large, beamed and paneled
hallway with an immense fireplace
with logs burning in IT; there was a
wide stairway which the servant, who
had appointed himself Eaton'S guide,
assembled. Eaton followed him and
found another great hall upstairs. The
servant led him TO n Of the doors
opening off this and into n large room,
fitted for a mans occupancy, with
dark furniture, cases containing books
on hunting, sports and adventure, and
smoking things off this was a dress
ing room with the bath next; beyond
was a bedroom.
''These are TO be your rooms, sir"
the servant said. A valet appeared
Eaton went TO bed, but amazement
would not let him sleep.
He was in S%antoine's house; he
knew il could be no other than San
tones house. 1t was TO get into San.
tones house that he had come from
Asia he had thought and planned and
schemed all through the long voyage
on the steamer how il was TO be done
He would have been willing to cross
the continent on foot to accomplish
IL; no labor that he could imagine
would have seemed too great to him
If this had been its end; and here
II had been done without effort or
his part, naturally, inevitably Chance
and circumstance had done it! AND
as he realized this, his mind was
Iull Ol Will He Hdu W no III oah
tones house. For many days he hat
not thought about that 1t had seemed
impossible that he could have any op
p~ortunity TO act for himself. Ant
the return to his thoughts of pos
sibility OF carrying out his origina
plan brought before him thoughts o.
his friends-those friends whC
through his exile, had been faithful
to him but whose identity or existence
he had been obliged TO deny, wher
questioned, to protect them as vel
as himself.
As he lay on his bed in the dark
he stared upward To the ceiling, wide
awake, thinking Of those friends WHOSE
devotion to him might be justified a