Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1925, Page 14

14 Who Stole the Bride? And Why! The Ni; ht of the Wedding By C. N. M. WILLIAMSON, and A Authors of “The Lightni " and other fascinating romances of ry and love by Public Ledger Company. now who kidnaped her, and where is now."” ously pears You think she was kidnaped?” An- e i eabbed™: | son_asked doubtfully. 5 the part of his old ;‘\\:oll. she couldn’t anesthetize her- | se 2 5] amateur scien- | 0—o, I suppose not.” <| “One would think, to hear you, that \' | you thought she could do almost any- » | thing—like a young witch.” Anson laughed uneasily Mr. Dagon, if it was the and seventeenth centur: the twentieth, that’s j think —this girl was: “Well, xteenth instead of what 1'd A ‘young The Brain Image. EG pardon. I don't g catch your m stammered Anson. been done for her the other, sniffing smell it? An anesthetic erested in her!” | dian. “T'd like to get hold of her photo and see how much like the brain image' she really is. As Miss aste is friend enough of Sir Raw- don Wells to take a present of a int “B “Don't vou bas been used here.” | watch from him, she’s probably given Anson had not a keen sense of him a portrait of herself in a silver smell; neither was it defective. He |frame, and I shall come across it over at the Court.” “Yes, that's just what you will come |across in a room called ‘Sir Raw- had, {don’s den,'" sald Anson, “a portrait Iver frame. It stands on his considered himself normal in that re 1 s colleagues, he believed. 1f they would, of co e, have mentioned | in it, especially the wardress, who was | des de—" he temperamental, itive Welsh pughed in- VOl ied to man of Ard | stead, I”\)\\PI“ By ict, to a constable. the wr way.” Of course, he | Having been told of it, however,|wanted to help the London detective | nd put Anson’s ex |all he could, and it his business | But he didn't feel like add- | w_to the burden of i him a better [to do so. arn. {ing another str: , I believe |suspicion agains Sir Rawdon Wells. | he agreed, | The silver lining of that cloud had {turned leaden again with lmp:«m'%‘ pronouncement. This netv anesthetic | know how many |of Sir Rawdon's on Mrs. Haste's i | handkerchief had precisely the same s the odor | odor as_that which Dagon detected not com- |in cell 5. No need for him to ex- mon or garden chloroform or ether. |press his opinion that a blank place Must be one of those newly invented |on Sir Rawdon’s desk had probably things that chemists are always fuss- |been adorned until lately by a ing at.” framed picture of Evelyn Carroli! Instantly Pandora Haste’s words of | It was difficult, however, to put Inst night flashed back into Anson’s |that Canadian off a scent. brain. She had spoken of a new ‘es,” said Dagon, with the dreamy unesthetic invented by Sir Rawdon |air which seemed now and th | Wells. She had stol v upon him. X | a so she said- defiantly flanked on the other side of the desk | by a better and bizger one of the | beautiful M Carroll—until she | threw over Sir Rawdon for his] inson knew that the “sample | friend bottle” hag not T found on the | “So you know all about that al girl. The wardy . Jones, who |ready, do you?” grunted | had searched her nizht, had | “Well, T must say, Scotland hown him everything taken from |doesn’t seem to let much Miss Haste. There had been a purse, | under its men's feet. . I with nearly £12 in it, a locket con-|the Yard up on the phone from the taining two m one of Capt. Kennedy Hasf of Sir Rawdon Wells; a w with “To Pan from Don” i idy iniature photographs— | Court last night till a fairly late hour, e|and you must have started off en | ch | your motor bike at a fairly earfy | ribed in. | one, Mr. Dagon. Yet vou're up also a pearl ring and a quaint | the details of that little scandal which brooch. The brooch was a profile we folks in Ardry-le-Mare thought was representation in gold of an open fonly neighborhood gossip.” hox, from which a winged figure of | “I mustn't take too much credit for Hope, with jeweled wings, look- | the Yard or myself,” said Dagon, ing out. On the back of this w: I'm afraid I didn't get ‘up’ in those engraved “Pa Box. Hope | details between last night and this Never F : morning. I knew ‘em beforehand. As the ser ¢ duly displayed these | Perhaps you've heard that I was with objects to Dagon (having already | Pinkerton for a while. I might have shown the T mmed handker- | been there to this day, as I was doing chief, still holding its odor), he mo- |DPretty well, if it hadn't been for the | ticed that the Canadian examined the | war. I was a kid; but I had some trinkets with more interest than they |luck and was put on one or two big seemed to deserve. |jobs under Pinkerton. One of them “I suppose you don’t make anything | Was to find a string of pearls that special out of them, do you?” he |belonged to Miss Carroll's aunt—the asked almost jealously. Not that he |‘Aunt Jean' who's been chaperoning was jealous. But if this “kid detec- [her in England since the war broke | the disappe: tive” could deduce valuable evidence from these trifles, he could bring water from a stone, it would seem, and was worthy to be envied by the mere average man. No. I don't make anvthing spe- clal out of the things themselves,' out—Mrs. Payntor.” “Oh, then you met Miss Carroll!” exclaimed Anson, interested. Dagon laughed. “I didn't exactly ‘meet’ her,” he said, “except in the | front hall of her aunt’s house some- times. I was acting as Mrs. Payntor’s | | footman while I watched for the pearl | thief. It took me several weeks to | | polish off the job—yes, I did polish | |1t off'—and I had plenty of time to | | fall in love with the fair Evelyn. She | was my first love, so far as I can | remember. I've had three since, one French girl, one Belgian and one Eng:- lish V. A. D. Now I'm about ready for the fourth! But I've never fo gotten Miss Carroll, and the pleasure of a really hopeless passion. “I can jolly well. sympathize with Sir Rawdon Wells, I tell you! Natui in- sald Dagon slowly, with an odd, trospective look in his big, dark eyes. “But there's something queer about me. You may think I'm a fool. Sev- eral people have thought so. But 1 believe most of them have changed | their minds. I have—or I imagine I have (maybe it's much the same thing in the end)—the faculty of calling up | before my mind's eye the appearance of a person owning any object I hold in my hands. That comes maybe from trying to cultivate and wake my pineal gland! Probably vou've never heard of it—but if it interests you look it up in the encyclopedia later! Now, nobody has ever told me what this girl Pandora Haste is like, but listen while I describe what I seem to see and tell me if the description fits. Small, slim figure; hair, dark brown with red lights; big eyes, black —no, yellow brown: very thick lashes ac® straight black brows. Pert nose: smiling red mouth; determined dimple. What about it?” “By George, you must have seen a photograph!” broke out Anson. “I swear I haven't. And if I had I shouldn't have seen the coloring. I've described the image that comes up before me, that's all. Evidently T've hit it.” “You must be what they call a clairvoyant,” said Anson, uncom- fortably. “I don't know what I am. I know only what I can do,” returned the other. “I've heard of those crystal-gazers in London,” Anson went on. ‘“They ook in a glass ball and see what hap- pens somewhere else. You're like that, only you don't need to have the | crystal.” see what “I see— hold a per- in my hand. Then it Already that picture of ste is golng. But I shan't I wish to goodness I could In that case we'd “Unfortunately T happens,” amended Dag just an image—when I forget it. ses what happens. 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C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, ally I've sort of kept an eye on Miss Carroll's affairs over here on this side since I was demobbed and took up my old job as a ‘tec.” ™ “Then that was the real reason you wanted this particular job?" Anson blurted out before he stopped to think. But Dagon only laughed. “Well, that counted for something,” he confessed. “Still, I told you no lie. I always do go for anvthing that's got a scrap of Italy in it! Makes me feel at home— though if I'm Italian, as I may be, I haven't seen my part of the map since I was three or four, at which age 1 seem to have turned up in Canada, personally conducting my own tour! If I do say it myself, look- ing at it all round, I don’t think they could have got a man who'll take a keener interest than I shall in this case. And now we'd better be getting over to the scene of action, what?"” Amson agreed; but could not resist a question. 1 suppose you haven't formed any theory yet, from whut‘ you've seen und heard here, as to ance of the young lady | from her cell? “I've formed Dagon, promptly, sever: returned shall let them all sleep and get their much-needed rest until I've looked into things at the Court. Sir Rawdon Wells, who had given his word not to leave the house, had slept in his own bedroom—or, at least, occupled it. But Haste was up and out at early dawn, wildly searching for some trace of Eve. He worshiped her so_utterly, it seemed as it his love must be like a beacon, to show him the way by which she had gone. For he would not belleve that she was dead! It had been a hideous shock to hear that Pan—his petted “toy-sister,” Pan—had declared herself gullty of “doing away” with Eve—whatever that might mean. 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