Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1925, Page 36

Who Stole the Bride? And Why! The Night of the Weddtng By C. N. m-d A4 Authors of “The Lig! by Publi “I Couldn’t Have Taken Revenge.” LLOW me!” he said politely, 6« and glinced from the snap. Shots of beautiful, smiling e Carroll in her weddin Rawdon'’s face. Wells' dark skin had flushed and, seeing the detective's eyeson him, he appeared ') hesitate’ whether he should let the little incident pass in silepce or make some explanation. Afier an instan: ne decided on the latter course. “These photographs were taken yes terday at Capt. and Mrs. Haste by my cousin, Paolo Magnani,” he said —that is “-I'd mentioned to him 1 was coming down here last evening, and I suppose, as he addressed this letter to me the court, he must have forgotten t I didn't expect to stop the night all had been well, T should have been on my way to New York by this time. But actor-folk never remember other people’s engagements and seldom their own!” “Now, why is Wells annoyed with himself for telling me about his cousin sending the letter here, and why did he stumble about so, trying to get out of the scrape the best way he could?” pondered Dagon. “I've often seen your cousin on the screen,” the detective said aloud. * have heard him called the handsomest man as well as one of the hest romantic actors, in the moving pictur world. " He might have added, know till now that you two were cousins.” Instead. however, he said “I see he's a zood phot well as good to photograph ves, he's a keen amateur photog: the other agreed, apparently surprised that the detective should pursue a subject which seemed to hold no interest for him. 1010 asked permission to do these yester- day. That smile on the bride's face looks tragic now—as things are. Suppose you've seem many portraits of—Miss " Carroll? She was much photographed for newspapers. “I knew her slightly,” Dagon sald. Wells turned an astonished glance upon him, and the detective quietly repeated the information he had given Anson—how, while trying to “'spot” a as a footman in ¢ York house. E in't have remem bered me, or recognized me If she had.” Dagon finished. “But, of course, no one who'd ever seen her could forget what she was like.” “I'm glad you've seen her!” Wells broke out. ““Tell me, do you think any human being. man or woma could have the heart to hurt such lovely creature? Could you—no mat- ter what the provocation?” “I don't know,” Dagon answered, his manner changing, so that he spoke, not as an official spy, but as one man to another. “I don't know. I am supposed to have Italian blood in my veins, and whether it's that or not, anyhow I've had black moods when I could imagine myself doing hiny I have Italian blood in my veins And I've had those moods, too.” said Rawdon Wells. “I don’t conceal from You that my mood wasn’t far from black when I knew that I was to be thrown over for my best friend. No use to conceal it! Every one knows or guesses. But I couldn't have taken revenge on the girl. “I couldn’t have hurt Miss Car- roll, and if T wouldn't murder her, I certalnly wouldn't have stooped to kidnaping, espectally after she'd married another man. Still—if the circumstances were only a little dif- ferent, I'd take the gullt on myself in- stead of letting Pandora Haste be suspected for a single hour.” “What do you mean: if the stances were a little different Dagon. *But, of course, do that question unless you wi “I do wish,” said Wells. 8 detective sent here by Scotland Yard to find cut what's become of Mrs. Haste, and suspicion points my way in_spite of what that poor child said. You have a right to suspect me, and perhaps you do. But I can't help feeling if we'd met in a happler way, we should have been friends. The reason is, vou look very much like some one T cared for a good deal, and the wedding reception of | “But 1 didn't apher as | L(du" Compans, | invited them hoth. It would be too ning! Even if Pan—Miss Haste re still in prison protesting her I couldn’t do that, I'm afraid. he’ll be cleared in any case— “I'm not so dead sure of that!" Dagon cut in “You must clear her—while she {keeps out of harm's way,” Wells flung at him, with a sudden challenge. 1'd like to clear her—mighty well. jut—I told you Miss Haste had ‘es- caped. That wasn't quite accurate, acording to my view. I lelieve she as drugged, and kidnaped.” the other stared at him. vou think that?” her cell smelled as she w 3 last night have had none with her. It anesthetic. The smeil ame as that on a handker- chief of Mrs. Haste's which the youns lady handed to Anson. She said she'd had the stuff from you, as a sample of an invention of yours, some time ago, and kept it ever since.” y anesthetic in Pan’s celll Do vou suspect me of abducting her as well as Mrs. Haste?” “I suspect you—at present—of neither, Sir Rawdon,” sald the detec tive. “But as for what Miss Haste said about the handkerchief, if she's merely sacriflcing It to save you | that was rather clev nd thoughtful for voung girl, wasn't it?—to pre | tend he'd had some of the stuff ¥ vou, und had Kept it by 1 Jeart-breakingly clever!" groaned Wells, with a visible shudder. “But what are you leading up to?” “To asking you some other imperti nent questions, if you'll let me,” Dagon, “for your good and for h For instance, why did you regret tel ing me that vour cousin knew You were coming down to this house last night?" Wells caught his lip between his teeth. He did not speak for a few sec onds, and the Canadian saw him sharply draw in his breath. Then he said, “No doubt there'll be many ques- tions I shall gratefully answer, Mr. But that—isn't one of them. nothing to do with the affair.” “Instantly Dagon w onvinced—he cotld abE v Holnl why-fhatifila small, insignificant circumstance had everything to do with the affair. Pandora had a long and intricate dream about & thousand things. Some of these things were vaguely horrible. At last she thought that Fanny Gil- lett was determined she should not tell a secret which it was most neces- ‘o tell in order to save some- \'g life. To prevent her cryving . Fanny sat heavily down on’ her face. ‘Struggling, gasping, the girl woke up. The dream of Fanny Gillett slipped slowly away into dimness. But in its ace a recollection that Eve Carroll— ce Haste—was dead, tragically dead, writhed in the girl’s brain like a liv- ing monster. Eve dead, and Rawdon —no, she, Pandora—accused of mur- der! “on, dream! but that's only part of the Pan heard and stared What cefl- home in She opened her dly up at a cellin Where was she, at It was a low ceiling, and the room —wherever it was—seemed dark with a curlous green darkness like what it must be under the sea. Pandora re- membered an aquarium where she'd been taken by Ken, as a treat, when she was a child. The same greenness had been there. It had seemed very mysterious to her, and she had ingisted upon talking in whispers, because the aquarium had “felt like a place of silence.” This also felt like a place of silence. Maybe she was dreaming, too. Most likely she wasn't really awake yet. But, oh, what a comfort that the awful dream about Eve and Don and herself wasn't true! It couldn't— couldn't be true. Yet was {t? Detalls trooped back so vividly now, a hideous swarm of them, like poison bees try- ing to sting her to death. And that call in the police station—why, it was real, at least, and she had gone to sleep there! With this thought Pan sat up sud- denly and stared round her. and, T 'HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY under the sea, with a glass roof! Registered U. S. Patent Office. R rreR HE FiRST VAR of| | B GREAT BRITAIN DOUBLED THE STRENGTH OF HER. BLOCKADING SQUADRONS AND OUR FEW SHIPS - OF - WAR WERE OBLIGED TO REMAIN IN PORT TO AVOID CAPTURE BY SUPERIOR- NUMBERS OF THE ENEMY. N THIS EMERGENCY HUNDREDS OF LICENSED ) AMERICAN PRIVATEER'S ELUDED THE BLOCKADE AND CAPTURED OR s— PESTROVED ENGLISH MERCHANTMEN ON THE SEVEM SEAS. —= American Privateers, RENDERED VALUABLE: SERVICES . Y WAS EASY TO FIND /| CREWS IO MAN THESE VESSELS FOR THERE WERE MANY SAILORS IDLE WHO WERE ATTRACTED BY THE PROMISE OF ACTION ADVENTURE AND A HESE SWIFT HAWKS OF THE SEA” PAID l1 FIGHTIMNG INTHE WAR OF1512| | THEIR OWNERS ENORMOUS PROFITS AND. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1925. BY J. CARROLL MANSFIEL](? MOST OF THEM SAILED FROM THE PORTS OF MASSACHUSETTS , MARYLAND Bunmefiue WAR, AMERICAN PRIVATEER'S CAPTURED MORE "(NAN 2,500 BRITISH VESSELS, A TERRIBLE BLOW 70 THE ENEMY'S COMMERCE, ——e EVEN ATTACKED SMALL ENEMY| WARSHIPS AND THEIR DARING DBEDS FORM A THRILLING lbj"‘é_ PAGE OF OUR NAVAL HISTORY), But there it was—just that! A glass | alarm. roof. Pan slid off a very queer old- fashioned bed, such as she had never seen before. Then, tottering a little, she stood on a stone floor with green reflections floating over its grayness, reaching ‘up on touched the glas: Or isn't it earth? this the next world?" bed and lay very still tiptoes, she kedof books s i they arge fixh with a sil hin. Tt hen flash, Move Sport $2.50 to $3.95 or fancy legs. Good colors Tan or cordovan. shopworn. Sizes inches Runners Marquisette Marquisette 0il Opaque Pillows White Muslin number of smaller ones following it in “How on earth have I come here? Am 1 dead, and is Pan asked her- self, as she dropped back upon_the \ he war she ha Sales and Short Lots, too. morning. Imported all-wool hose, Sizes 5495 to $8.50 Cases Brief cases of genuine cowhide. 4, 15 Swmall Lots of Housefurnishings Velour and Tapestry Sash Curtains, 2 indow Shades, Velour-and-Tapestry Extra Large Size Turkish Towels, 2 White or Ecru Scarfs, 2 for $1 Heavy Turkish Bath Mats, Slightly Irregular Extra Size Sheets called “dead,” came and told you assed over.” tell me!"’ | voice sounded o natural, d read several J like that of a spoiled and ahout existence | that she thought she mu all t er all. But then the p s had thought that, te n't It was easier to imagine how Short Lots in the Shop Golf Hose..$1.45 with plain 10 to 1132 flannels Simply a bit and 10 (Sport Shop. 624 F St.) < Men's -1 Whitman's pairs orchid, Rufled Curtains.......... $1 1. Small Lot of $1.50 and $1.65 Onyx and Phoenix Hose 2 for.....$1 for Pure silk range. brands, < Pillowcases, 5 for until some who had been much longer on the “other side” that you had 1 wish some one would come and the girl said aloud. 152 Men’s Suits--Formerly $35 to $45 Broken sizes from our recent sale of suits. all-year- another—with a sprinkling of stouts and shorts. Union regularly $1.75 pink and light blue. (Main Floor, Broken sizes and a broken color A good assortment in both however. ' (Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) a roof might be what Roman Catho- lics called “Limbo,” where you lived on and on for dim years, and were neither happy nor unhappy. More fish were swimming back. Many had poised themselves to look at her, but If she moved they darted away with a flick of the tail. Yes, supposing that! Who could have brought her to this weird room, and why should she have been brought? (Continued Tomorrow.) i Mrs. Sarah Kni;m a school teache: ¢'Supposing, though, I'm not dead?"” P11 and her daughter, Pan went on questioning herself, | Rusth, lent, have written might now be de: when she had sharply x»lm hed her | daily to eac more than d of people dying like | own arm and f ad all | years, estal t is believ vith the sea for might have come to such a strange place after death than before. Be- cause she was beginning to realize with gnawings of anguish that the dreams were not dreams. They were all true. The things had happened— except the part about Fanny Gillett! She had been %o desperately unhappy {in prison that her heart might simply ed beating in sheer grief, Her so pettish, tired chi she 1 B.W.M. Sales---and Small Lots There will be other Short-Lot Days come and go—but there will never be another Friday with T'hat is why every woman in Washington should be here at 9 o’clock tomorrow Before We New Lingerie Specially Priced 88¢c ('lu m $22 .50 Gowns, Suits for round wear, tailored of fine wearing cassimeres, and worsteds. Sizes from 34 to 44 in one style or £ med with lace. astel shades (Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) ofipssctnade A Small Lot of English Broadcloth Union Suits Athletic Suits Worth $245 and S2.9 nrem colorfast ginghams in sizes 530 Corduroy Robes Warm, wide-wale corduroy with two big pockets and tie sash Four colors $2.45 Jersey Pantalettes. _pantale 95¢ soisette union suits 5. Sizes 34 to 46 in Perfect quality, imported lish broadcloth suits, splendid reinforced throughout. Sizes and 36 only {Main Floor. The Hecht Co.) Men's $1.50 Moire Silk Ties 85¢ Moire silk four-in-hands in bril- liant striped effects so much in vogue. The broken range of pat- terns explains the price. The Hecht Co.) $2.50 to $5 Corsets American Lady and C-B models. Corsets and arounds, too. Sizes 23 to J $1 Brassieres .. Long-line br: makes. Hooking at ©5¢C 4 Women's Burson Hose ... with silk h Silk-and-rayon hose v backs and me I-all colorings. Silk-and-Rayon Hose Made with ce: d Also some ribbed sports hose. Slightly irregufar Silk-and-Rayon Hose . hose clox. -59¢ erized tops. --39¢ R < S tops. (Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) I can’'t get the resemblance out of my head. So I frankly to you— as I can, and I'll gladly tell you what was. It T my meaning can't, even for [ that T was such lain as to harm t est pal, in my own house, where I'd do wish to that talk is, as frankly was th! to be! Pandora’s sake It an abominable vil- | were fish in it, he bride of my old- | was in a room. a dream! Salt! was water—green water. swimming. Yet—she Oh, certainly it was There couldn’t be a room The Echo. 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