Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 21

Who Stole the Bride? And Why? The Nigh‘t‘ of By C. N. and 4. M Authors of “Tt Copuright, 192} WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. EVELYN HASTE, beautiful and rich gi who iits down at the piang on her we ding uight—and mysteriously disappea KENNEDY HASTE, her husband, who su Pects’ complicity on the part of hi war comrade SIR RAWDON WELLS, an amateur scien- Ust. who has insisted on lending «couple Hidden Hall Cowt, his gloomy and mystery-ridien estate. for their hones- moon. ard who is folnd after the disap- pearaice 1n a secrel chamber. PANDORA, a gyspy-like girl, ado ol Kennedy and secretly 1 Wells. MISS_GILLETT, an ex-war in ‘love with Haste in Who is an intense person DAGON. vouthful Seor Aho hak war. He 1 thotigh ¢ ted sister tove who fell and nurse. a hospital tin temperament, nadian 10 training. The Portrait. HE had a dream. She felt obliged 10 come! And he had tried furi to remember whether Eve before he saw n. If only he could recall that one datail it would make all—or nearly all—the dif- ference. But at the time there had been no motive for impressing this t upon his mind. Just because it was not impressed there. when morning dawned Ken felt that he could not go to Ardry-le-Mare and beg for a word with Pan—or per- mission to send her a message. He be- lieved in her still, of course—but—he just couldn’t! As for seeing Rawdon Wells, that was also impossible for Kennedy Haste to do of his cwn free will. It Pan were guilty Rawdon was innocent. And he might be innocen: in any case. But when Ken learn from Fanny C att that Sir Rawdon was in the house still by request of the D he longed fiercely to be quit of it himself. Never. theless, it v s necessary for him to he there for Wells. He had not pledged himself to remain. But it was the last place wher> he had seen Eve, the place where she i still be. dden in some sm to which, porhaps, she b ured. Ho had thought of a man in London, a fangous architect who was a great expert on t hiding places in old houses and had written a s ntific sort of book ut_them Edgar Larned to come down ith or without the advice the police. As it happened he had ju called the architect up and got an answer when Mr. Dagon, from Scot Jand Yard were announced. ‘Let them come in!” he said. The two men entered, and at sight of the detective Haste uttered a sharp exclamation. i00d heavens! Who are yoi?” Ken flung the newcomer. Dagon, who had stepped briskly into the room, paused, and Anson immedi tely introduced him. By the. time this short ceremony was over Haste had controlled himself. ‘I am very jumpy.” he apologized, vet he continued to stare at the young man from Scotland Yard as if fasci- nated. “Let’s go to husines as quick E we can,” ing to cha delaved. * ge the subject. But Dazon hat’s what I am here for, till, I should very much . when you inquired who 1 was just now for whom you took me?" Oh. 1 took you for mo one in par- Haste raturned. “I was sur prised—preoccupied—I hardly knew at 1 said.” “I understand. That's quite natu- ral.”" Dagon accepted the explanation with no further questioning. But his words. “I understand,” held more than one meaning. It was clear to Anson that the detective belleved Capt. Haste had taken him for “some one in par- ticular,” and that he was wondering who that some one was, or trying quietly to deduce the truth from evi- dence bevond the sergeant's mental sight. The incident brought back to Anson an impression of his own at first glimpse of the boyish-looking motor cyclist. It had been a fleeting one, because surprise at the detective’s youth had soon pushed it out of his head. But he remembered now saying to himself, “This fellow is the image of some one I've seen. Who is it?” Anson stared hard at Dagon, as he recalled this first impression of his own. He wondered if Capt. Haste's thought had been the same. and if so why the dickens he objected to adm! ting it? Yet for his life the sergeant could not get that first impression back. In losing it he lost the chance of recalling the illusive face which re- Lightning Con romances of mystery and love by Public Ledger Company. the | witn | Ken datermined to phone | ment, alone? he added, evidently wish- | flq Wedding . WILLIAMSON, ctor” and other fascinating | aid, “about an elder branch of the family here having the name of 'Hid- den.’ There’s no trace left of them | except the name given to this house, believe. If they hadu’t died out Raw. |don Wells’ ancestors would not have | | inherited the Court. I was cocksure, then, in talking to my wife, that there | was ‘nothing esoteric about the word | ‘Hidden’ in connection with the house, | ! though T granted that there might be | | secret nooks. Since she disappeared, however, 1've been asking myself i | > not mistaken—if there may not have been some play on the name, to over ncealed room— Ilidcen Hall ‘ourt.” For any one not knowing that called Hidden had built the rt of the house tha idea of a ‘hidden hall’ would be obvious. I can't| help wondering if my wife has been lured into a secret room somewhere under this roof and if she's baing kep! there. | “It's possible,” Dagon admitted, | though he and Anson were both think- | i , and the hones 2 of the blood m: | —supposed to be human—found in the | * | furnace, to say nothing of the half-| | burned boots and the bit of pink satin. | “But even if so,” the detective went | on, “the name ‘Hidden Hall' migh | have had reference to the cellar where {r Rawdon's laboratory is. The ser seant was describing it 3 No,” Haste broke in. “It couldn’t be so, for that cellar isn't secret at all. Neither is the room Wells has turned | into a laboratory. The only part that's | secret there is” the staircase leading | down from the tapestry boudoir. | other way down idn't ‘hidden.’ “Well, no doubt you'll talk over vour theory * with the archit. vou've | phoned to come down here,” said Da- | gon. ““He will probably be able to find {out if there's anything in it. Mean while, if you'll permit me, I'll have a k at the rooms most concerned—the | dining room, the music room, the tap. | estry” boudoir, of course, th aboratory and cellar, all of which understand from Sergt. Anson have! been closed by his order. By the way, | is this the sir Rawdon Wells | calls his d: The said Haste, “this is the 1i | | brary. I'm_here now hecause of th | telephone. The “den’ is next doc | “May I go Into the den for a mo-| Dagon asked. | Haste looked surprised, but consent-! ed at once. Anson took the detective! to the door of the next room and then returned, guessing that Capt. Hast would wish to ask questions about hi: with Police Sergt. Anson |adopted sister. By Dagon's suggestion he had not! vet mentloned the new addition to last | night’s mysterv—Pandora Haste's dis. | appearance from a locked cell. Dagon | | had thought that the issues might be | somewhat confused if this news was sprung suddenly upon Capt. Haste and | preferred that all the necessary ques- tions to be put by him should be an. | swered before the blow fell. In Da.| | Bon’s absence, therefore, the sergeant | |told. as tactfully as he could, what| had hape:ned at Ardry-le-Mare. i | The man from Scotland Yard had no | sooner shut the door of the “den” than | he walked to the desk. Thera was just | one photograph displaved upon it, a| large one in a silver frame. It repre- | sented a girl with thick. bobbed hnlr‘ and big eves that looked straight out | of the picture into the eves of any one ! who gave back the look. Dagon gave it back as he took up the frame and | held it for a long time in his hand. | While he 8o held it he had the air of | A man in a dream, and his eyes were | fixed on the pictured face as if he were | magnetized. Yet no one had ever call. | ed Pandora Haste a great beauty. | In the short khaki dress of some mnf n.( war worker. which she wo NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS To avoid omission in receiv- ing The Star when changing address give at least two days’ advance notice. Always give old address as well as the new address. 1”7 YouveturnedTa sembled Dagon's | Haste was willing to he catechized. | He told the detective how anxious Miss Carroll—as she then was—had been to accept Sir Rawdon Wells' pressin: invitation to pass the honevmoon H n Hall Court. She had, he said admired the place immensaly and hac seemed very curious to know If it hid secrets, as the name suggested. As fo: him. he would have preferrod to z abroad. Not that he had any real sus picion of Wells' motive in lending the house. But, as many people knew th story, there was no harm in mentio inz ‘that Sir Rawdon Walls had pr posed to Miss Carroll and had heen re. fused. That wa 1. There'd never heen a definite engazement betw them: but in the circumstances Capt Haste wasn't happy in accepting his rst night, just the dinner table the music room.” Ken' hefore she got up fror and went int BEFORE the eyes of ous linen—everything ment. Franklin when driving Tolmanize for Table Linen Loveliness your dining table spreads its appetizing appearance in gladdening welcome. stantly your housekeeping is proclaimed! When the tablecloth is TOLMANIZED— a spotless span of radiantly white, luxuri- to new realms of perfection. ir perhaps silent but nevertheless genuine admiration, pays homage to each dish with added enjoy- To have your linens TOLMANIZED washed and dried and ironed thoroughly, perfectly—Phone Note—3t s convenlent—and permissible—to step at our Dupont Circle offics to leave your bundle THE TOLMAN L AUNDRY P. W. MacKenzie, Mgr. 6th and C Ste. N.W. Studebaker . fia_t!tfurnnzin dil Free Health Lecture o “OPTIMISM AND HEALTH” By Dr. D. H. Kress from Washington Sanitarium Tuesday, Sept. 22—8 P.M. Capital Memorial Church 5th and F N.W. f your dinner guest In- on the table is lifted The guest, weekly — 71. downtown. | that THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. photograph, the girl was rather like a charming boy, a very young boy, not more than 15. “Well! So that's the girl!” he said to himself, half aloud. “If she needs ny saving I'm on the job to save her, for all I'm worth.” He determnied to find out what le could about Pandora Haste. So far he knew only what Anson had hastily told him—that sho was an adopted sister of Capt. Haste and had confessed to be- ing “frightfully jealous™ of her sister- in-law, the vanished bride. But there must be a lot more to learn about her ast and present. Dagon looked at nothing else in the ‘den.”” He had gone there solely to see the photograph of Pandora Haste, and he had wished to be alone, with no curious eyes upon him, while he gazed at it as long as he liked. The room held no other interest for him, and| after five minutes’ lingering he re- turned to Haste and Anson. All the interviewing of members of the household had to be gon> through over again—the picturesque old butlel the housekecper, Mrs. Gillett, and hei V. A. D. daughter; Josephine, Eve Car roll's maid. and several servants of the Court, including Tate, the chauf- feur. This duty Dagon performed be- fore seeing Sir Rawdon, although to Anson’s idea the program should have been carried out the other way round. “I don’t want to form an opinion ol Sir Rawdon till I'm primed ready to| combat it, if necessary,” he explained. ou know. I'm inclined to like peo. ple with Ttalian blood In their veins. I don't care to begin by ilking him. though I may end by doing it.” ven the blood marks in the music room he saw hefore asking for an in terview with the master of the house who was also its prisoner. And these marks interested him Immensely. The footprint was clear, and heslda | it stood the hoot which Rawdon Wells had directed Anson to fit into the red- dish outlines. “Very strange it should be so clear. and vet the only track xists,” the detective thought. “There isn't another trace of blood on the floor—not one! Then the queer thought jumped fnto his head: “Looks as if there hadn’t been any blpod to waste, and what there was had to be used to make the best possible show.:" Dagon kept these ideas to himself for he time, however, without a word to Anson, who was at his side waiting to press the spring which ralsed the tap estry. ““This is where the secret door I sold you about is hidden,” the ser- geant explained, “and here are the fin- ger prints that you—but, by all that's holy, what's happened to them?” He had caused the tapestry to lift |Peoples Drug Stores Offer | To All Who Suffer Stomach - | Agony, Gas and Indigestion Money Back If One Bottle of Dare’s Mentha-Pepsin Doesn’t Do You! More Good Than Anything You Ever Used. You can be so distressed with gas | and fullness and bloating that think vour heart is going to beating. rou Your stomach may be so distended !that your breathing Is short and gaspy. | You | eating. 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