The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-01-26


tickets. AS he entered this car, how
ever, Avery stopped him.
"Mr. Dorne would like to speak to
you, Avery said.
Connery stopped beside the section,
where the man with the spectacles sat
with his daughter. Dorne looked up
at him.
You are the train conductor?" he
asked.
Yes, sir" Connery replied.
Dorne fumbled in his inner pocket
and brought out card-case, which
he opened, and produced a card. Con-
merry, glancing at the card while the
other still held it, saw that it was
President Jarvis visiting card, with
the presidents name in engraved
block letters; across its top was writ
ten briefly in Jarvis familiar hand,
This is the passenger" and below,
it was signed with the same scrawl
of initials which had been on the note
Connery had received that morning
III. r. J."
Connery's hand shook as, while try
ing to recover himself, he took the
card and looked at it more closely,
and he felt within him the sinking
sensation which follows an escape
from danger He saw that his too
ready and too assured assumption
that Eaton was the man to whom Jar
Wis note had referred, had almost led
him into the sort of mistake which is
objectionable in trusted" man; he
had come within an ace, he realized
of speaking TO Eaton and so betray-
ing the presence on the train of
traveller whose journey his superiors
were trying to keep secret.
You need, of course, hold the train
no longer" Dorne said to Connery.
Yes, sir; l received word from Mr.
Jarvis about you, Mr. Dorne. / shall
follow his instructions fully
AS he went forward again after the
train was under way, Connery tried
to recOllect how it was that he had
been led into such a mistake, and de-
Tending himself, he laid it all to old
Sammy. But old Sammy was not
often mistaken in his identifieations
II Eaton was not the person for whom
the train was held, might he be some
one else of Importance? Now as he
studied Eaton, he could not imagine
what had made him accept this pas
senger as a person of great position.
1t was only when he passed Eaton a
third time, half an hour later, when
the train had long left Seattle, that
the half-shaped hazards and guesses
about the passenger suddenly sprang
into form. Allowing for a change of
clothes and different way Of byush-
ing his hair, Eaton was exactly the
man whom Warden had expected at
his house and who had come there
and waited while Warden, away in his
car, was killed.
Connery- was walking back through
the train, absent minded in trying to
decide whether he could be at all sure
of this; and trying to decide what he
should do if he felt sure, when Mr.
Dorne stopped him.
Conductor, do you happen to
know" he questioned, who the young
man is who took Section Three in the
car forward?"
Connery gasped; but the question
put to him the impossibility of his
being sure of any recognition from the
description. "He gave his name on
his ticket as Philip d. Eaton, sir"
Connery replied.
as that all you know about him?"
"Yes, sir"
IF you find out anything about him,
let me know" Dorne babe.
"Yes, sir" Connery determined to
let nothing interfere with learning
more of Eaton: Dorne's request only
gave him added responsibility.
Dorne, however, was not depending
upon Connery alone for further infor-