Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 45

Who Stole the Bride? And Wh: The Ni.ght_tflc By C.N. the Wedding nd A. M. WILLIAMSON, Authors of “The Lightning Conductor” and other fascinating romances of my Copyright, 1925, by Pui Kennedy Haste, married to Eve Carroll, a charming” and rich girl. is starting the | hobeymoon” at Hidden' Hall Court. 1t is & Floomy and egended castle lent to the lal pair by Sir Rawdon Wells, an unsuc- cessful suitor for Eve's hand. Marked in Crimson. HERE had been a scene which left his nerves raw; but he would not have been a man with red blood in his veins if he had not kept a certain tenderness for the strong, hard, brave girl who loved him. He had reproach- @d Eve once for saying Miss Gillett had a cruel face, but now, suddenly, e thought the same. “I hope the history of this house isn’t going to repeat itself! she said. A wave of anger swept over Haste. He felt that he hated the woman. He Jknew she would be glad if Eve were dead. In a rage, he pulled the old-fashion ed bell rope again and again. Miss Gillett rushed from the room, and when a maid came running, he was alone. The servant stared at him, fright- ened. ‘Call Mrs. Haste's mald, " he sald “I must speak to her. Quick, lease!” He felt that he could not bear the | suspense; for suddenly it had become | actual suspense. He was afraild—icily afrald of something—he could not | have told what. | Ken _stood in_the | room where F things were | already scattered about: her mono- | srammed gold toflet things on the ! dressing table, a film of white lace and a soft fluff of pink chiffon and siik | on the bed, which must be a - il “nigh and robe de cham- My God, if anything ha: to her in this hateful place!” he mut- tered, half aloud. Then footsteps | ne hurryins along outside the door: nd somewhere in the distance a wom an s med The sound of the scream released | some force within Haste which his will had kept pent up. It was as if the power of a ca t had broken | thorough vast thickness of ice. Ken had not let himself acknowledge | that he was actually afraid. Then, suddenly he was overwhelmed with fear, sickened by, it | Something horrible had happened to Eve! That scream said so. What- ever it was had been discovered, and | some woman had cried out. He dreaded to know the truth, vet he felt that he must le t once, | lest his heart burst o open the door. he met It must have been her footsteps which had come ruunning along the hall. “Oh Josephine!” he heard himself say, wondering vaguely that he had A voice left. “Then it wasn't you who screamed “No, Monsieu French woman f know who screamed. 1 came quick from below. We were dining. Ma moiselle—I mean Madame—she is not nz happened | le pitaine, nted. “I—I the do not 1y God. Is thefe nobody who can | tell me anything!” eroaned Haste and flung away the question. He thought—so far.as he ‘was ca- pable of thinking—that the sound of the scream had come from the floor | below, and he dashed downstairs, two | steps at a time. Yes, he was right. A woman was in hysterics, jabbering between sobs and gasping for breath, A man's volce and a girl's mingled in trving to soothe her. The girl’s volce was Pan’s. The man's he did not recognize, nor trouble his mind | with the effort to do s Like a - sleepwalker beginning to | wake, he wandered on past the dining | room. where he and Eve had talked | together so happily a Iittie while— only a little while—ago, and went into the music room adjoining. It was empty, but a door that he had not seen in the paneling was open. There was a light beyond—and the voices. Oh, T knew—I knew something would happen! 1 didn’t want them to come here!” the wailing woman moaned. “Do be silent without answering You're making a fool of yourself!” Pandora said sharply. “‘It may not be- 7 Kennedy Haste felt it a hand ®ripped his throat as he walked through that deep doorway in the thick, old wall The room on small, octagonal in shape, 2 with tapestry He had never hefore; but he hardly thought « His eyes went straight to a group huddled together cl to the opposite wall. Above their heads cl faces smirked against a hackground of old greens and blues. andora there with the magnifi cent T butler and a woman of middle whom Haste had never neen. o “What vou talking abou heard himself demand roughly. Al three turned with @ start of surprise. They had been too deeply absorbed "to hea him coming and evidently their nerv had suffered a severe shock | Tt was Pan who answered, but it| at the woman Haste looked He | dly saw the girl the dignified | old man with the dark Ttalian brows and silver hair. The panic fear on| the woman's pale face fascinated him. | She stared with wide open black eves into his, as if stricken by the sound of his voice. ‘Who are you? The woman's appeared una spoke for her. she explained the other side was 1d hung seen it estr he he asked sharply. lips parted, but she to answer. Pan This is Mrs. Gillett,"” “Don’s housekeeper— Gillett's mother. The butler, ti, found this panel in the wali shed back, between the music room and this one—the tapestry boudoir, fhink it's called. That surprised him hecause—because 1t isn't a door any one knew about. Then—he-saw some thing here on the floor. And—and he | thought he ought to call Mrs. Gillett lie's new to the house and “What did he see?” Ken broke in on the halting explanation | He took a step nearer, but Pandora almost flung herself upon him, push ) ing him back with both hands on his breast. “Don’t come, Ken!” she cried. “Not now—not suddenly, like this! Haste swung the girl off her feet and set her behind him. Instantly and respectfully the butler made way for his master’s guest On the polished floor. close to the wall, was a man’s footprint, clearly marked in lquid red. There were also a few crimson drops sprinkled near, as if they had dripped from a wound; for the red fluid was certainly blood | “Oh, T wish 1 hadn’t seen it!" sobbed | the woman. “It was cruel to bring me here to look at such horror Haste gave her one glance. Strang if she were Rawdon Wells' hou Leeper, he had never before had a glimpse of her. Before the war he had_often come down for week ends | at Hidden Hall Court. There had been an old housekeeper in those days, a relic of Rawdon’s father's time. Suspiclously, Ken told himself that there was mystery about the nervous, haunted-looking creature— who must have been a beauty once And Fanny Gillett was her daughter! ‘Why should the two have schemed 1o get a footing in this house before the wedding?—for they must have! schemed! Could their plan have any connection—but the thought broke be- fore the rush of another, more i sistent. This was the room—this tap- estry boudoir—whence the tragic bride of Hidden Hall Court had vanished vears and years ago! “There must be a roncealed door Lehind the tapestry just -here,” he stery and love blic Ledger Company. sald, “or that footprint wouldn't be where it is, close to the wall. “It is so, 'I ‘was thinking, sare," ventured Marianti, the_butler, in un- derstandable English, though with a strong accent. “I sehd for ze 'puse- keeper, Madame ‘ere, because she know if zare is secret way out of zis oot “I know mnothing of the kind!” ex- claimed 'Mrs. Gillett. And turning again to Haste, she added, “I've been here only a few months. Rawdon was acquainted with my family. When his old housekeeper had to re- tire on account of her age, he engaged sl “What does all that matter?” Haste cut in, desperately. “There must be a door here, I tell you! I'm going to find it. There's no use now trying to keep back the truth from any one My wife has disappeared—not of her own accord. Something has happened to her. There's been foul play—" “Don’t’ say that, Ken!" Pandora begged. “You can't be sure. She may be playing you a trick *“You'd not dream that Eve would do such a cruel thing, if you'd ever |liked her or done her justice,” Haste reproached the girl bitterly “If ze gentleman permit me, I help im look for ze door be'ind ze tapes- try,” the butler quietly said. “I came from a great 'ouse in Italy, sare, amous ‘ouse wiz many secret sSIngs hidden. 1 'ave experience. “Help me, then, for heaven's sake," Haste said. He felt a vague impulse of gratitude to the handsome old man, who seemed to him at that dreadful moment the one intelligent, depend- able person at hand. Between the wide panels of tapestry which covered the whole wall of the ociagon room (save for the two win dows and one door set in oak) ran narrow strips of the ancient wood, beautifully carved, dividing the sec tions. Two of the latter were occu pied by long and exquisite windows, with leaded glass, like de Jewels, and one by a door, carved to match the carving of the strips of ocak between the sections. _All the rest was tapestry as old as Queen Hliza- beth. Ken watched the Italian as he began running his fingers lightly yet purposetully over. the carved fruits and flowers, and quaint, gargoyle-like faces on the strip of oak nearest the footprint, ust be here, some spring, some he muttered in his native forgetting in excitement the language of which he was hard to find. ves, because, if it were not, everybody would discover it, and there would be no secret to puzzle people for centuries. But—I shall find it—with patience. Haste had -been a close friend of tawdon Wells for too many years not e picked up a little Italian. He understood the old man's mutterings, and hung upon his words with grow ing trust. “Ah! 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The tapestry was lined with canvas, darkened by age, and underneath, in oak much paler than the rest, because not exposed to air or light, was a low door—an evil-looking, sinister door it seemed to Haste. “Ah, zare is more of it!" gasped the Italian, poking his white head for- ward ‘beneath the shadow of the sloped tapestry. ‘“See, ‘ere, sare! It| is w'at T expect. “More of—what?" stammered Haste. But he guessed the answer before it came. “Blood, sare; blood!" sald Marianti, making room for Haste by his side. He was right. On the oak, close krniob, was the mark in red of a hand, to and all over the visible spring, which was.a substitute for a door- thumb, four fingers and the outer cushions of the palm. “Zis ought not be touched, sare,” the old man went on. “Eet {s for ze police. Zay can tell— (To be continued). — Tennyson Lovers Visit His Home. Correspondence of the Associated Press. 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