The Glenwood post., 1923-04-12

She Struggled to Free Herself From
| toward the picture on the table; the
manner made her furious.
''Let me go, DOM"
/ ''Tm sorry, dear" He drew her to
him. held her only closer.
"Don; Father wants to see you He
wanted to know when he came in he
will let you know when you can 60
to him."
when did he tell you that2 When
he gave you the picture?"
"Yess'
Avery had almost let her go; now
he held her hard again. 'Then he
wanted me to tell you about this
Eaton"
"Why should he have you tell me
obout-Mr. Eaton?"
You know!'' he said to her.
"What have you to say about him,
Donald?"
"You must never think of him again,
dear; you must forget him forever"
Donald, am not child. If you
have something to say which you con-
slider hard for me to hear, tell it to
me at once"
"Very well. Perhaps that is best.
Dear, either this man whom you have
known as Eaton will never be found
or, If he is found. he cannot be let to
live. Harry, have you never seen q
picture with the numbers printed in
below like that? Can't you guess yet
where your father must have sent for
that picture? Don't you know what
those numbers mean?'
"What do they mean?'
"They are the figures of his num-
ber in what Is called The Rogues'
Gallery And they mean he has COM
mitted crime and been tried and
convicted of it; they mean in this case
that he has committed a murderl"
"a murder!'
"For which he was convicted and
sentenced"
Sentenced"
''Yes; and Is alive now only because
before the sentence could be carried
out, he escaped. That man, Philip
: Eaton, is Hugh"
"Hugh!"
Hugh Overton, Harry!"
"Hugh Overton. ~
'Yes; l found it out today The
police have just learned it. too. was
coming to tell your father. He's
Hugh Overton, the murderer of Mat
thew Latron!''
mo; moi"
"Yes, Harry :. for this pan Is GER
tainly Hugh Overton."
at isn't sol I know 1t isn't sol"
you mean he told you he was
some one else, Harry?"
"NO; / mean" She faced him de-
family. "Father let me keep the pho
tograph. I asked him, and he said,
Do whatever You wish with it He
knew l meant to keep 1t He knows
who Hugh is, so he would not have
said that, if-if-"
She heard sound behirfl her and
turned. Her father had come into
the room. And as she saw his man.
ner and his face she knew that what
Avery had Just told her was the truth.
She shrank away from them. Her
hands went to her face and hid It,
She knew now why it was that her
father. on hearing Hugh's voice, had be-
Come curious about him, had tried to
place the voice In his recollection
the voice of prisoner on trial for his
life, heard only for an instant but
fixed upon his mind by the circum-
stances attending it, though those cir
cumstances afterward had been for
gotten. She knew why she, when she
had gazed ut the picture few minutes
before. had been disturbed and fright.
ture unfamiliar to her and threatening
her with something unknown and ter
rible. She knew the reason now for
score Of things Hugh had said to her.
for the way he had looked many times
when she had spoken to him. It ex-
planned all that! 1t seemed to her, in
the moment. to explain everything
except one thing 1t did not explain
Hugh himself; the kind of man he
was. the kind of man she knew him
to be-the man she loved-he could
not be murderer! >
Her hands dropped from her face
she threw her head back proudly and
triumphantly. as she faced now both
Avery and her father.