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THE McHEXRT PLAIXDEALER, McHENRY, IIX.* aThe Blind Man's Eyes P? m* CHAPTER XV--Continued. ---12-- 8* thanked her and withdrew. He did not look back as Miss Davis closed the door behind him; their eyes had not met; but he understood that she had comprehended him fully. Today he would be away from the Santolne house, and away from the guards who watched him, for at least ft^ir hours, under no closer espionage than that of Avery; this offered opportunity--the first opportunity he had had--for communication between him and his friends outside the house. He went to his room and made eome slight changes In his dress; he came down then to the library, found a book and settled himself to read. Toward noon Avery looked in on him there and rather constrainedly proffered his Invitation. Eaton accepted, and after Avery had gone to get ready, Eaton put away his book. Fifteen minutes later, hearing Avery's motor purring outside, Eaton went Into the hall; a servant brought his coat and hat. and taking theni. he went out to the motor. Avery appeared a moment later, with Harriet Santolne: She stood looking after them as they spun down the curving drive and onto the pike outside the grounds; then she went back to the study. She dismissed Miss Davis for the day, and taking the typewritten sheets and eome other papers her father had asked to have read to him, she went up to him. Basil Santolne was alone and awake. "What have you, Harriet?" he asked. She sat down and glancing through the papers In her hand, gave him the subject of each; then at his direction she began to read them aloud.. As she finished the third page, he Interrupted her. "Has Avery taken Eaton ' J the country club as I ordered?" "Yes." "I-shall want yon to go out there In the afternoon; I would trust your observation more than Avery's to determine whether Eaton has been used to ribch surroundings." She read another page, then broke off suddenly. , "Has Donald asked yen anything today. Father?" "In regard to what?" "I thought last night he seemed distorted about my relieving him of part of his wor^." "Disturb^? In what way?" She hesitated, unable to define even to herself the Impression Avery's manner had made on her. "I understood he was going to ask you to leave It Still In^bls hands." "He has not done so yet" -H "Then probably I was mistaken." She read again for half an hour after luncheon, finishing the pages she had brought. "Now you'd better go to the dab,", the blind man directed.. She put the reports and letters away In the safe in the room below, and going to her own apartments, she dressed carefully tot the afternoon. As she drove down the road, she passed the scene of the attempt by the men In the motor to run Eaton down. The lndefiniteness of her knowledge by whom or why the attack had been made only made It seem more terrible to her. Unquestionably he was In constant danger of Its repetition, and especially when--as today-- he was outside her father's grounds. Instinctively she hurried her horse. She stopped at the clubhouse only to make certain that Mr." Avery and his guest were not there; then she drove on to the polo field. As she approached, she recognized Avery's lithe, alert figure on one of the ponies; with a deft, quick stroke he cleared the ball from before the feet of an opponent's pcny, then he looked up and nodded to her. Harriet drove up and stopped beside the barrier; people hailed her from all sides, and for a moment the practice was stopped as the players trotted over to speak to her. Then play began again, and she had the opportunity to look 1 By fv miam IVfacttarfc Edwin Balmer As She iproached She Recognized "Avery's Lithe, Alert Figure on One of the Ponies. for Eaton, tier father, she knew, had Instructed Avery that Eaton was to be Introduced as his guest; but Avery evidently had either carried out these Instructions in a purely mechanical manner ir had not wished Eaton to be with others unless he himself was by; for Harriet discovered Eaton standing off by himself. She waited till he looked toward her, then signaled him to come over. She got down, and they stood together following the play. » "You know polo?" she questioned Mm, as she saw the expression of appreciation In his face as a player daringly "rode-off" an antagonist and aaved a "cross." She put the question without thought before she recognized that she was obeying her father's instructions. "I understand the gaftie somewhat," replied. "Have you ever played?" "It seems to deserve Its reputation as the summit of sport," he replied. He answered so easily that she could not decide whether he was evading or not; and somehow. Just then, she found It Impossible to put the simple question direct again. "Good ! Good, Don!" she cried enthusiastically and clapped her hands as Avery suddenly raced before them, caught the ball with a swinging, backhanded stroke and drove It directly toward his opponent's goal. Instantly whirling his mount, Avery raced away after the ball, and with another clean stroke scored a goal. Everyone about cried out in approbation. "He's very quick and clever, Isn't b6?" Harrfet said to Eaton. Eaton nodded. "Yes; he's by all odds the most skillful man ' on 4he field, I should say." The generosity of the praise Impelled the girl, somehow, to qualify It. But only' two others really have played much--that man and that." "Yes, I picked them as the experienced ones/' Eaton said quietly. "The others--two of them, at least-- are out for the first time, I think." They watched the rapid course of the ball up and down the field, the scurry and scamper of the ponies after It, then the clash of a melee. Two ponies wen: down, and their riders were flung. When they arose, one of the least experienced boys limped apologetically from the field. Avery rode to the barrier. "I say, any of you fellows, don't you want to try It? We're Just getting wanned up." Avery looked over to Eaton and gave the challenge direct. "Care to take a chance?" , Harriet Santolne watched her companion; a sudden flush had come to his face, which vanished, as she turned, and left him almost pale; but his eyes glowed. Avery's manner In challenging him, as thoi'gh he must refuse from fear of such a fall as he just had witnessed, was not enough to explain Eaton's start. "How can I?" he returned. "If you want to play, you can,** Avery dared him. "Furden"--that was the boy who had Just been hurtwill lend you some things; his'll Just about fit you; and you can have his mounts." Harriet continued to watch Eaton; the challenge had been put so as to give him no ground for refusal but timidity. "You don't care tor Ajrery taunted him deftly. "Why don't yoti try It?" Harriet found herself saying to him. He hesitated. She realized It was not timidity he was feeling; it was something deeper and stronger than that. It was fear; but so plainly It was not fear of bodily hurt that she mo\ed Instinctively toward him In sympathy. He looked swiftly at Avery, then at her, then away. He seemed to fear alike accepting or refusing to play; suddenly he made a decision. "I'll play." He started Instantly away to the dressing rooms; a few minutes later, when he rode onto the field, Harriet was conscious that, In jsome way, Eaton was playing a part as he listened to Avery's directions. Avery appointed himself to oppose Eaton wherever possible, besting him in every contest for the ball; but she saw that Donald, though he took It upon himself to show all the other players where they made thel.- mistakes, did not offer any Instruction to Eaton. One of the players drove the ball close to the barrier directly before Harriet; Eaton and Avery raced for it, neck by neck. Eaton by better riding gained a little; as they came up, she saw Donald's attention was not upon the ball or the play; instead, he was watching Eaton closely. And 6he realized suddenly that Donald had appreciated as fully as herself that Eaton's clumsiness was a pretense. It was no longer merely polo the two were playing; Donald, suspecting or perhaps even certain that Eaton knew the game, was trying to make him show it, and Eaton was watchfully avoiding this. Just In front of her, Donald, leaning forward swept the ball from in front of Ea ton's pony's feet." For a few moments the play was all at the further edge of the field; then the ball crossed with a long curving shot and came hopping and rolling along the ground close to where she stood. Donald and Eaton raced for It. "Stedman!" Avery called to a team mate to prepare to receive the ball after he had struck It; and he lifted his mallet to drive the ball away from In front of Eaton; But as Avery's club was coming down, Eaton, like a flash and apparently without lifting his mallet at all, caught the ball a sharp, smacking stroke. It leaped like a bullet, straight and true, toward the goal, and before Avery could turn, Eaton was after It and upon It, but he did not have to strike again; it bounded on knd on between the goal-posts. whlfB^-togethej- with the applause for the stranger arose a laugh at the expense of Avery. But as Donald halted before her, Harriet saw that he was not angry or discomfited, but was smiling triumphantly to himsel"; and as she called In praise to Eaton when he came close* again, she discovered in him only dismay at what he had done. The practice ended, and the players rode away. She waited In the clubhouse till Avery and Eaton came up from the dressing rooms. Donald's triumphant satisfaction seemed to have increased; Eaton was silent and preoccupied. Avery, hailed by a group of men, started away; as he did so, he saluted Eaton almost derisively' Eaton's return of the salute was openly hostile. She looked up at him keenly, trying tmavalllngly to determine whether more had taken place between the two men than she herself Jhad witnessed. 'You had played polo before--and flayed It well," she charged. "Why did you want to pretend you hadn't?" He made no reply. As she began to talk of other things, she discovered w ith surprise that his manner toward her had taken on even greuter formality and constraint than It had had since his talk with her father the day before.. The afternoon was not warm enough to sit outside; in the club house were gathered groups of men and girls who had come in from the golf course or from watching the polo practice. She found herself now facing one of these groups composed of some of hqp own friends, who were taking tea and wafers in the recess before some windows. They motioned to her to Join them, and she could not well refuse, especially as this had been a part of hej father's instructions. The men rose, as she moved toward them, Eaton with her; she Introduced Eaton; a chair was pushed forward for her. and two of the girls made # place for Eaton on the window seat between them. As they seated themselves and were served, Eaton's participation in the polo practice was the subject of conversation. She found, as she tried to talk with her nearer neighbors, that she was.listening instead to this more general conversation which Eaton had Joined. She saw that these people had accepted him as one of their own sort to the point of Jesting with him about his "lucky" polo stroke for a beginner; his manner toward them was very dlffe&nt from what It had been Just now to herself; he seemed at ease and unembarrassed with them. One or two of the girls appeared to have been eager--even anxious--to meet him; and she found herself oddly resenting the attitude of these girls. 'I "You Needn't Wait for Him Unless You Wish; I'll Drive You Back," She Offered. Her feeling was Indefinite, vague; It made her flush and grow uncomfortable; to recognize dimly that there was In it some sense of a proprietorship of her own In him which took alarm at seeing other girls attracted by him; but underneath It was her uneasiness at his new manner to herself, which hurt because she could not explain it. As the party finished their tea, -she looked across to him. "Are you ready to go, Mr. Eaton?" she asked. "Whenever Mr. Avery Is ready." "You needn't wait for him unless you wish; I'll drive you back," she offered. "Of course I'd prefer that, Miss Santolne." They weflt out to her trap, leaving Donald to motor back alone. As soon as she had driven out of the club grounds, she let the horse take its own gait, and she turned and faced him. "Will you tell me," she demanded, "what have I done this afternoon to make you class me among those who oppose you?" "What have you done? Nothing, Miss Santolne." "But you are classing me so now." "Oh, no," he denied so unconvlnc- Ingly that she felt he was orily nutting her off. Harriet Santolne knew that what had attracted her friends to Eaton was their recognition of his likeness to themselves; but what had Impressed her in seeing him with them was his difference. Was It some memory of his former life that seeing these people had recalled to him, which had affected hlc manner toward her? Again she looked at him. "Were yott sorry to leave the clubr* she asked. **I was qnfte ready to leave," he answered inattentively. "It must have been pleasant to you. though, to--to be among the sort of people again that you--you used to know. Miss Furden"--she mentioned one of the girls who had seemed most Interested In him, the sister of the boy whose p^ace he had taken in the polo practlce;--"is considered a very attractive person, Mr. Ea'on. have heard It said that a man--any man-- not to be attracted by her must be forearmed against her by thought--or memory of some other woman whom he holds deaV." "I'm afraid I dont quite understand." The mechanlcalness of his answer reassured her. "I n_ean, Mr. Eaton"-- she forced her tone to be light--"Miss Furden was riot as attractive to you as she might have been, because there has been some other woman In your life--whose memory--or--or the expectation of seeing whom again--protected you." "Has been? Oh, you mean before." "Yes, of course," she answered hastlly. „ "No--none," he replied simply. "It's rather ungallant. Miss Santolne, bnt I'm afraid I wasn't thinking much about Miss Furden." She felt that his denial was the truth, for his words confirmed the impression she had had of him the night before. She drove on--or rather let the horse take them on--for a few moments during which neither spoke. They had come about a bend In the road, and the great house of her father loomed ahead. A motor whizzed past them, coming from behind. It was only Avery's car on the way home; but Harriet had Jumped - little In memory of the day before, and her companion's head had turned quickly toward the car. She looked up at him swiftly; his lips were set and his eyes gazed steadily ahead after Avery, and he drew a little away from her. A catch In her breath-- almost an audible gasp--surprised her, and she fought a warm Impulse which had all but placed her hand on his. "Will yon tell me something, Miss Santolne?" he asked suddenly. "What?". "I suppose, when I was with Mr. Avery this afternoon, that If I had attempted to escape, he and the chauffeur would have combined to detain me. But on the why back here--did you assume that when you took me in charge you had my parole not to try to depart?" She was silent for a moment, thoughtful. "Do you mean that you, have been considering this afternoon the possibilities of escape?" "It would be only natural for me to do that, would It not?" he parried. "No." "Why notr "I don't mean that you might not try to exceed the limits Father has set for you; you might try that, and of course you would be prevented. But you will not" (she hesitated, and when she went .on -she was quoting her father) "--sacrifice your position he*®." "Why not?" J "Because you tried to gain it--or-- if not exactly that, at least you had some object in wanting to be near Father Which you have not yet gained." She hesitated once more, not looking at him. What It was that had happened during the afternoon she could not make out; instinctively, however, she felt that it had so altered Eaton's relations with them that now he might attempt to escape. They had reached the front of the house, and a groom sprang to take the horse. She let Eaton help her 4own; as they entered the house, Avery-- who had reached the house only a few moments before them--was still In the hall. And again she was startled in the meeting of the two men by Avery's triumph and the swift flare of defiance on Eaton's face. She changed from her afternoon dress slowly. As 6he did so, she brought swiftly In review the events of the day. Chiefly it was to the polo practice and to Eaton's dismay at his one remarkable stroke that her mind went. Had Donald recognized In Eaton something more than merely a good player trying to pretend Ignorance of ihe game? The thought suddenly checked and startled her. For how many great pole players were there In Ameilca? Were there a hundred? Fifty? Twenty-five? She did not know; but she did know that there were so few of them that their names and many of the particulars of their lives were known to every follower of the sport. •• "* (TO BE CONTINUED.) High Aspirations. Nine-year-old Joseph McKee amazed even his own mother, the other evening. They were discussing automobile accidents, and expressed the hope that they would have uone, when he said: "Mother, I know of a way I'd rather die than in an automobile accident. I'd rather die In an electric chair. It would be the quickest way of alL Wouldn't it?" 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