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Title: The Blind Man's Eyes

Author: William MacHarg
Edwin Balmer

Illustrator: Wilson C. Dexter

Release Date: July 3, 2010 [EBook #33064]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: "Until I come to you as--as you have never known me
yet!"]

THE BLIND MAN'S EYES

By WILLIAM MACHARG & EDWIN BALMER

With Frontispiece

By WILSON C. DEXTER

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers ---- New York

Published by Arrangements with LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY

_Copyright, 1916,_

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

To

R. G.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A FINANCIER DIES
II THE EXPRESS IS HELD FOR A PERSONAGE
III MISS DORNE MEETS EATON
IV TRUCE
V ARE YOU HILLWARD?
VI THE HAND IN THE AISLE
VII "ISN'T THIS BASIL SANTOINE?"
VIII SUSPICION FASTENS ON EATON
IX QUESTIONS
X THE BLIND MAN'S EYES
XI PUBLICITY NOT WANTED
XII THE ALLY IN THE HOUSE
XIII THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN
XIV IT GROWS PLAINER
XV DONALD AVERY IS MOODY
XVI SANTOINE'S "EYES" FAIL HIM
XVII THE FIGHT IN THE STUDY
XVIII UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS
XIX PURSUIT
XX WAITING
XXI WHAT ONE CAN DO WITHOUT EYES
XXII THE MAN HUNT
XXIII NOT EATON--OVERTON
XXIV THE FLAW IN THE LEFT EYE
XXV "IT'S ALL RIGHT, HUGH"--AT LAST

THE BLIND MAN'S EYES

CHAPTER I

A FINANCIER DIES

Gabriel Warden--capitalist, railroad director, owner of mines and
timber lands, at twenty a cow-puncher, at forty-eight one of the
predominant men of the Northwest Coast--paced with quick, uneven steps
the great wicker-furnished living room of his home just above Seattle
on Puget Sound. Twice within ten minutes he had used the telephone in
the hall to ask the same question and, apparently to receive the same
reply--that the train from Vancouver, for which he had inquired, had
come in and that the passengers had left the