Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1925, Page 18

Who Stole the Bride? And Why! The Night of By C. N. and A. M Authors of “The Lightning C mystery and I Copright. 19%5, bv Public Ledger Company. WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. EVELTY RASTE, besutiful and sich girl ho aitadown ‘st the Diana on her wed: ing highioand. mysteHousty dlasppears. XENNEDY WASTE, her husbapd, who & bects. compilcity on' the Dart of his G e WDON JELLS. an smatour eclep: who haa nding the coupls hen Hall Coterhia S1o0Ry Ahd mys targ-riddon entate.” for thelr, honeymoon, who is found after the disappearance e becre) PANDOQ] ypay-lik . adopted aister o ooy mnd ' i Jove “with Wells. MISS GILLETT, an ex-war nurse, who fell in love with Haste in & hospital. and who Scotland Yard_detective, ified “apy work” in the ivid Latln temperament raining. On the Bast Terrace. DU told me there were four &4 definite finger marks and a thumb, with the outer cush- fon of the palm,” Dagon rv minded them. “S0 there were! And . everything | was loc here before we left last night; also the way up from the cellar was fastened, so the sprin work one could You'd think it was the gh g “Was this room left unguarded at all after the marks were discovered, | and before you went away night?"” Dagon inquired Anson tried to think back. that I can remember,” he said, m ably. “This is a_misfortune. don't see where I've been to blame | " for carelessness, honestly, Mr. Dagon.” “I don't say you have,” the Cana- dian soothed him. “But five seconds would have been time enough for this work with some one who knew just where the marks were, and what she | wanted to do to them.” “She?" “Well, that's the supposition that | presents itself, doesn’t it, if that girl | was determined to shield some one else at no matter what cost to herself?” Anson stared at Dagon. “So that's| the way you judge Miss llaste's char- acter—and her confession?" he asked. | “Anyhow, that's one way of judging | them. So far it looks at least as| good as any other. DId Miss Haste | 50 down to the laboratory with you, | Dy this secret way, and burst in upon | Sir Rawdon? 1 forgot it you told me | about that.” “‘No, she didn’t follow us down. Wi dldn’t let any of the women com Anson sald Then while you were In the cellar she could have got a chance to spoil | the marks.” *'She might, though there were sev- eral people about. And she'd risk in criminating herself by leaving her own marks in smudging the others out be- fore the blood had dried.” “She seemed last night to want to do that?" “Incriminate herself? Well, yes, she | t'ink it i8 'im ‘00 put zese t'ings in ze the Wedding . WILLIAMSON, ductor” and other fascinating wiz you alone In some-ozzer place. 1 | do no 'arm in zis room, I 'ope?" % vou do no harm,” Dagon re- ‘Only you rather startled us moment, you came so quietly. there something you wanted to ask me?” “Somet'ing I want to tell you, sares,” the Italian amended. “Some t'Ing w'ich I fear is very terrible. “You have discovered something more—something which we didn’t dis- cover last night?” exclaimed Anson. “Yes, sare. But it was not fault you not discover it zen, be 1t du not exist las’ night.” “Out_with it!" the sergeant encour- aged tie old man. Yes, sare, I am golng to out wix Marianti sald meekly. *Zis morn- arrive a letter from London which is registars and express for Sare Raw- don. I recognize ze 'andwriting on ze envelope. It i= ze 'and of Signor \lllz— | nani, ze cousin of Sare Rawdon, '0o ‘t-mpln\ me one time, and recommend | me ‘ere, w'en ze iast butler Davis has been suddenly {ll a short time ago. It is me ‘0o receive ze letters and divide | zem out. W'en I see zis envelope I say to myself, ‘I will take it wiz my own 'and to Sare Rawdon.’ I go to 'ls bedroom. I knock. I t'ink I ‘ear 'im call ‘Come in’ T open ze door. | Zere is nobody in ze room! I would |go to look for Sare Rawdon some | ozzer place, but I smell a strong smell of fire. I t'ink Sare Rawdon must 'ave left a pipe or a clgarette w'ich s commenced to burn some table- |cloth or maybe ze beautiful rug of Persia on e floor. I search and I find much smoke come from .ze grate, be- ‘Ind & big screen w'ich 'ides it unleas one look on purpose. Zis It'ink strange! In Summer we do not 'ave ze fire in ze grates. I poke wiz a poker at a mass of w'ite stuff and 1 find two toweis much covered wiz blood.” The police sergeant and the detec tive glanced at each other, but it w. Anson who spoke. “Well, What then Have you spoken to Sir Rawdon about what you found?” “No, sare—not yet," replied Mari- antl. “I do_ not know w'ere Sare Rawdon s, Besides, I do not like .to tell "im myself. Sare Rawdon might not understand zat I do not, of course, grate. No, it must be a person ‘oo ‘ates Sare Rawdon and wish to do ‘'im ‘arm. I say to myself, ‘Zare is a plot.’ And T run quick out of ze room to speak wiz ze constable of police zat | = In ze 'ouse all night. Zen a serv- nt informs me ze fllustrious signor ave arrive, and I come 'ere instead.” ““Oh, this affair in the bedroom hap- pened only a few minutes ago, then?" sald Anson. “Not ten minutes ago, sare. Would it please you to visit ze room of Sare Rawdon, both gentlemen, for your- dld seem so." “And to save Sir Rawdon?" { ‘Yes—that, too.” | “I must try to get some finger prints of Miss Haste's in the o said Dagon. “There are sure to be plent on the bench whera she sat and lay down to sleep. If T take prints here | and they match with those, we shall be able to deduce that they're hers, all right. But as for the prints which | have been purposely obliterated by | Miss Haste, or by some one unknown, | they are almost certainly useless. Look with what care they've been | wiped out of existence, just leaving a | t'ink to do zat. blur of red.” The two men bent thelr heads closer over the marks on the wu using & pocket electric torch u deep shadow of the tapestry suddenly the Canadian stuck his head | out from under the raised awning. Tiis sense of hearing was almost ani. mal in its quickness, and he thought that he had caught the sound of a | light step. *“What do you want here?” he asked sharply, and was answered by a slight nervous cough. Then there was some one! Anson looked out, too. The butler, Marianti, had coms into the room. selves? T do mot t'ink 'e ‘as return vet."” “TWhere {8 he—do you know?" Da- gon asked with apparent carelessness. ‘On ze east terrace, sare.” “Could you see him there, from one of the windows of his room, when you were there just now?" Mariant! ‘looked surprised at this qu ion, and as if he were not quite sure how to take it—whether or no to be hurt. “I might 'ave seen ‘'im, perhaps, are, if I /ad looked out for 'im,” the old man admitted. “But I did not A servant 'ave told me Sare Rawdon was below on ze terrace."” “Well, T suppose we'd better go up at once with the butler and take a squint at what's in that grate?” An- son suggested, his face troubled, He was depressed at the prospect of ‘more evidence against Wells and, judging from appearances, a very bad piece of Bacillus Acidophilus Milk For Intestinal disorders Ask your physician about I8 Prepared by the “I beg pardon, sares,” he said cour- | teously, I ‘ope you will both forgive | 30 liberty zat I 'ave folloy you 'ere. | But I do not find ze chance to speak | NEW SHOES OU’REb gtothink about thcenil:gldnyou’ll do well to get acquainted with our line of famous sho:es, by Selz You'll be surprised how per- fectly we can fit youshow the new Fal please you All the new colors~tints of brown sall the new leathers, calfskin, Scotch grain, patent colt are ready *6 «*10 NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE 1515 U St. N.W. 1 models will for you THE EVENING' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. t you don’t mind, I'll have a look around for Sir Rawdon and fn- troduce myself “Certainly, do as you prefer, Mr. Dagon,” the sergeant responded. Ie ever, for the news brought by the but- ler seemed to him as important as jt certainly was unpleasant. _ Anson Qidn’t know whether to be flattered that the Scotland Yard man should trust such a matter entirely to him or to wonder whether the detective re- garded it lightly,* Surely that couldn't be, however. It was important—it must be 80 from any point of view. The butler alfo had the air of being taken aback by Dagon’s indifference. Perhaps Marlantl feared that his ideas about a “plot” of which Rawdon was astonished -at the decision, how- | smile after a tragedy in his house like that of last night?) but his voice had charm. As the detective answersd me- chanfcally, he was questioning him- self, “Which of the two should I pte- fer if T were a woman, Capt. Haste or Sir Rawdon Wells? It wes oddly diffioult to answer, for each was a nalrl)' perfect specimen of his own type, and Dagon could imag- ine a girl like Eve Carroll loving both at the same time In a different wa “It might be just a toss-up which she’'d choose in the end,” he thought. Having learned that the newcomer was Dagon of Scotland Yard, the next lis asked was about Pan- “Have you seen Miss Haste?’ he Inquired eagerly, yet with an alr of noticed that a sheet of the open letter Wells held in his hand had dropped out from among the rest to flutter down on the stone flagging. ‘Wells caught moment. They retrieved the sheet and saw written at d of it, “My dear Cousin Don.” learned by practice to observ things quickly, so he noted also ye: terday's date and an address of a London club much frequented by the beat class of theatrical men, and all this in the second of time between picking up the paper and handing it to Wells. In stooping for the lost sheet the owner of the letter had dropped & second. This had no writing upon it. but was used as a wrapper for several C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1925, brownish red stain w'ich I t'ink is Wells had been made the victim were | weariness, as it he carried a heavy |photographs, apparently proofs. In laughed nt by the London man. Any- | burden. falling they scattered, and, being u how, there it was. Dagon would not| Dagon watched him as he replied, | mounted, would have blown away had 20 to Sir Rawdon's hedroom. He was | “Miss 1faste has escaped from the |not Dagon snatched at the set on meeting Sir Rawdon himself— | police station at Ardry-le-Mare.” De. Continusd Tomeer, at last, liberately he refrained from giving his Youveturnedto The detective took himself to the |opinion that she had not gone of her east terrace and there saw & man|own fres will. That was for later on, (whom he suppused to be Sir Rawdon) | If at all, seated on the stone balustrade, read- | The man looked dumfounded. Then ing a letter. Dugon pyused at & dis- | his face lit up. ‘“Thank God!” he sald. tance and studied the picture for a | “The ohild ought never to have been moment, the word “plcture’ distinctly | there.’ suggesting itself to his mind. “This chap Wells ia either sincers He was just-near enough to do|or elss he's some h ’ hadefnvumfln doy ! rather more than guess at Rawdon | told himsel Wells' good looks —Italfan in their ro- ntic darkness, the black sweep of w and bent lashes, yet somehow Snglish, too—English in the shining neatness of the dead black hair brushed straight back from the square forehead; in the set of the shoulders and the way of wearing those well cut tweed clothes. The man was alim and graceful as‘he half sat, half leaned against the balustrade, with a strut- ing white peacock in the foreground, a background of gauzy blue like a stage drop and immense Lebanon ce. dara that stretched out dark, warning arms against the Summer brightness of the sky. 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