ew that she understood now
what had come between them when she had told him that she herself had
served as her father's eyes all through the Latron trial. He felt
himself flushing as he looked at her; he could not understand now how
he could have believed that she had aided in concealing an injustice
against him, no matter what influence had been exerted upon her. She
was all good; all true!

"At first," Eaton went on, "Edith did not find out anything. Then,
this year, she learned that there was to be a reorganization of some of
the Latron properties. We hoped that, during that, something would
come out which might help us. I had been away almost five years; my
face was forgotten, and we thought I could take the chance of coming
back to be near at hand so I could act if anything did come out.
Lawrence met me at Vancouver. We were about to start East when I
received a message from Mr. Warden. I did not know Warden and I don't
know now how he knew who I was or where he could reach me. His message
merely said he knew I needed help and he was prepared to give it and
made an appointment for me to see him at his house. He was one of the
Latron crowd but, I found out, one of those least likely to have had a
hand in my conviction. I thought possibly Warden was going to tell me
the name of Latron's murderer and I decided to take the risk of seeing
him. You know what happened when I tried to keep the appointment.

"Then you came to Seattle and took charge of Warden's affairs. I felt
certain that if there was any evidence among Warden's effects as to who
had killed Latron, you would take it back with you with the other
matters relating to the Latron reorganization. You could not recognize
me from your having been at my trial because you were blind; I decided
to take the train with you and try to get possession of the draft of
the reorganization agreement and the other documents with it which
Warden had been working on. I had suspected that I was being watched
by agents of the men protecting Latron's murderer while I was in
Seattle. I had changed my lodgings there because of that, but Lawrence
had remained at the old lodgings to find out for me. He found there
was a man following me who disappeared after I had taken the train, and
Lawrence, after questioning the gateman at Seattle decided the man had
taken the same train I did. He wired me in the cipher we had sometimes
used in communicating with each other, but n