Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1925, Page 35

Who Stole the Bride? And Why! The Nighgif By C. N.and A. M. WILLIAMSON, Authors of “The Lightning Con romances of my The Legend of the Hall. SN'T it the most wonderful old house?” asked Evelyn Haste, who had been Evie Carroll no longer ago than the morning. She looked all around the beautiful dining room, with its dark walls of “linenfold” paneling, and then flashed one of her dazzling smiles at Kennedy Haste, her husband of a few hours. “Now aren’t you glad 1 would accept the loan of it from Sir Don? It Just is Romance!” ‘It's certainly a wonderful house. But—no, I'm not very glad—vet,” said Haste. “It doesn’t seem playing the zame, somehow! Poor old Don was so horribly in love with you. 1 belleve you'd have married him if—— I T hadn’t met you!" laughed Eve. “Well, if 1 had married him it would have been to get this place. I've got You instead, which is about & million times better. But the next best thing 10 being mistress of Hidden Hall Court is having it lent to one—for one's honeymoon with the most thrilling man on earth.” When the most beautiful girl in the world lied one the “most thrilling man on earth,” and one had just| snatched her away from dozens of | other men who wanted her, one had 1o throw off the shadow of gloom. Ken nedy smiled adoringly across the din ing table at his American bride. All the same, it was a pity to have tha smallest hlot on such happiness as his, which should have been perfect, nd Haste felt that he would rather have spent his honeymoon in a work man's cottage at Clapham than at Sir Rawdon Wells' famous old place in Essex. Rawdon was his friend, and Ken liked and admired him. But in Raw don’s place, if he'd had such a house, he would not have offered to lend it for the girl he loved to pass her honey moon with another man. Besides, it wasn't like Rawdon to do such a thing. }e was rather a brooding, revengeful | ®ort of fellow, more like his Italian | mother than any of the extremely Tnglish ancestors whose faces adorned | for didn’t adorn) these walls. Why, | then, had he made such a point of Yivie accepting the loan of Hidden Hall Court? Haste couldn't rid him self of the heavy presentment of some- thing queer—something which would make them both repent coming here to stay. Stupid, perhaps. But there it was! “Why is it called Court?” Eve was asking queer name, isn't it wcret rooms and things “Shouldn't wonder if there are se ®ret rooms and things,” said Haste. *‘But the place wasn't called after any thing of that s Hidden’ was an old family name of some ancestors of Don Wells, who died out for good in he elghteenth century. That's when the Court came to his branch, and was supposed to bring bad luck with it.” “As i such a glorious place could bring bad luck!” laughed Eve *““That's the story, anyhow And the Wellses—men and wonmen—are always having some t dy or other in thei lives. Trom generation to gener tion.” o there is a “Somebody told me there think who now. unless it dear V. A. D.. Gillett Sir Don. and nded have heard When did tlon?’ ). house? es. T believe Teflected. e 114 Hidden Hall “It’s such a Sounds like se story?” said as. T can'’t was vour T asked never to Bve M he pr thi vou have that conversa Haste inquired. rather sharply s It when he offered to lend the it was then,” Eve he wouldn't crab the place f he wanted vou to inhabit it, would he? e laughed. “You're a jealous boy. You look gloomy and cross when- | we have to mention Sir Don.| What if 1 glared or_sniffed when vou «@7 FUTURE and | | FLORIDA | Every ome gives some thought to tomorrow. Just what does it hold for you? 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C. w. & -« 2 District Mgr., W ve etery and love Copyright. 1924, by Public Ledger Company. | however, | ghost, | suddenly il Kmvel itself invaluable for the many &g Wedding nductor” and other fascinating spoke of Pandora—or even of Miss Glllett?” “Pandara’s my adopted sister,” sald Ken. “And poor Miss Gillett—why compared to you she’s what & ‘penny dip’ is to the planet Venus.” “They both hate me like poison, all the same,” said Eve. “Not that I mind. It's & compliment. And I loved having Pan for my bridesmaid, and in viting Miss Glllett to the wedding. You can't say you ‘loved’ asking Sir Don and his thrilling Italian cousin, Paolo Magnani!” Ken laughed now. “A man doesn't exactly ‘love’ having two chaps who'd joyfully see him struck by a thunder- bolt wishing him at the devil while he's belng married. And look here, if I'm ‘thrilling’ you're not to use the same adjective for anybody else.” “I adore you!" cried Eve. "Now, if you really know it, tell me the story of this house.” “I know the story, but I don't know its truth,” sald Haste. “It's probably tommyrot. You've heard the ballad of The Mistletoe Bough,' haven't you?” The bride who ran away from her friends on her wedding day and hid in an old oak chest? Well, once some- thing of the sort happened here, they say. She was Italian, like Don’ mother, and a beauty—a princess or omething. ‘Her husband. the first Sir Rawdon Wells who ever lived at the Court, brought her home directly after their marriage, though the girl didn't want to come. had heard there was a curse | on the place. What happened exactly seems never to have been found out whether there was a_quarrel through jealousy, and the bride was murdered by the bridegroom: whether she simply ran away: whether she was ‘be. witched.” But at all events she van Ished and was never seen again—not even in skeleton form, like the bride in the ballad. They do say she haunts a room called the Tapestry Boudoir which was given to her as her own sitting room. Her name was Bianca. She ought to be a beautiful | but I'm not keen on seelng| her."” “I'd love to. if you were with me,” said Eve, with a delicious little shiver. “Not it 1 were alone. I'm not super- stitious, but T might be slily! Did Bl anca disappear on her wedding day?" | “On the wedding night, T rather think. But I've forgotten that detail.” | “You won't get rid of me in any such way, T can tell you!” Eve smiled at him. | Though the paneled dining room was | hung. a small gate-leg table had been produced from somewhere a to the newly married couple in p of the great Tudor bulk with its heavy | struts. This was their first meal in the house, for they had arrived from London in a motor car only fust in | time to dress for dinner. Haste had not | heen able to help wondeéring whether | Rawdon Wells had thought of this de- | tail. or whether they had the butler to thank. 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They had had coffee together there, rather than move and break the dream of thelr first diuner as “Capt. and Mrs. Haste.” Yet neither had smoked, as the long-drawn-out excitement of the wedding day had glven Eve a head ache. Cigarettes had been left on the table, however, by the wonderful Ma. rianti and his British assistants, and now the girl waved her hand at the silver box as she jumped up. “Stay and smoke, Ken, and drink like,” she com- manded. “I'm going to the music room to play you something special.” But Ken was on his feet, with no in tention of letting her go. “I'll_come with'you, my beauty, you -don’t mind!" he exclaimed. ** d 't care a hang whether I smoke or not. All I want is to be with you." “Oh, I do mind!” she argued. “Be cause, you see, I Want history to re peat itself. “Surely you remember what happen ed the first night we met-wjust before | tive husband. 2 | him, or think of him, either. | “Rawdon of you as I sing. You'll think of me | dark gray eves that made her hair we met." “Don’t 1!" said Haste. |lend it to us,” Kve consoled her sensi “But let's not talk of | with all its gold - I'll think | thought of; | thought that I should have my wedding E Wells got your aunt to invite me to dinner so 1 could meet you. I had 96 hours’ leave——"" “Yes! You crossed over to London. of each othe night of our times better, meetin; becaus And Aunt Jean and I were on leave | ‘that girl too, doing a rest cure from what ‘we | called our war weqrk'-——as Miss Gilletc would say. And tl most divine place, though 1 breakfast there. I didn't hear Sir bring you room because I was singing. And then Ritz seemed the | delicate, little | wing-like sleeves of tull music_room Don | both do into Aunt Jean's sitting | These v Ritz!" E: slim figure adjoining. 'S open 0 you in white, , float into the “We'll leave an hear me. as you smoke. And we'll both think | 100k yellow by contrast; the sweet It will be like that first | mouth which seemed never to be twice only a hundred | the & you did marry | That trick of hers when you first met On this plea Ken had to let her go.|Was, of pretending to be just a silly Tle held open the door and watched the with | upward glance and a few words drop | ped as if inadvertently, which showed Is are thicker than at the | ve threw him a glance over you two were alone, for Aunt Jean |her bare shoulder and disappeared had been taking a nap or something. I | Haste went reluctantly bac into the sang calmly on, and—you thought I|dining room, and still more reluctantly had a nice voice!” “So nice that I—well, you know the | had lately rest You sald to Sir Don, ‘Is that an deserted flung himself down in the chair he | The image of his | adored girl was so clear to his mind that it was as if she still sat opposite | angel or a girl? Because if it's a girl | him, her little elbow on the table. I've got to marry her.” " ‘ “That's what I sald. And he said poor old bean'—T hope I'm going to| do that. Yet rting our honeymoon in his house. Perhaps he doesn’t mind so much | so on Kennedy | cold-blooded now, or he wouldn't have wanted to The thought that she should be his wife! Evelyn C: here we are tonight.| heiress, but that | dazzling thought. ¢ for a cold-blooded was far of her I was a asn Haste It was he The Hub—Seventh & D Sts. N.W. 1 1 L\ 3-Piece Bed Outfit 18 This splendid outfit consists of 2arich white continuous post amel bed, link spring and combina tion mattress 50c a Week Phone Stand and Stool Made of oak—fumed finish—stool and stand complete . Fernery Artistic brown finish fiber reed fernery, with metal container il Cook Stove -burner style, with base (top extra). A standard make. Fully guaranteed. Two Library Table Mahogany - fin- 1 1 ish Shaped-top . 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