Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 38

Who Stole the Bride The Night orf By C.N.and 4. Authors of And Why! 1 ,t!‘fi Wedding M. WILLIAMSON. “The Lightnine Conductor' and_other fascinating omances of mystary and love Copyright Imprisoned: in Mystery. HE girl tried to matter out. reason the very tired in he remembered. and te at night, had lain nee then—blankness. 1925, hy Pubic Ledger Company “Don’s new to_herself. The first time she had smélled it was in his laboratory, when he had 3 nents to her and | which his »sed to have over anesthetic!” she said THE EVENING of her surroundings had not pricked her to curiosity. She got up ugain from the low couch and lifted the plece of tapestry on the wall against which the head of the bed was set. Nothing was behind it save solid bricks, and on the opposite wall it was the same. But not so with the hangings on the two walls at_the side. Behind each of these tapestries— which poured out dust as they were lifted—was a door, a low small door of a wood which looked like oak. These two doors were destitute of knobs, but had queer old fron latches. The first was immovable and must— Pan thought—be firmly fastened on the other side, but the second latch lifted and the girl opened the door STAR, WASHINGTON. for hew after last night—even it she were able to escape from this place— Pan did not want 1o hear the call of vouth and life. Still, lience did rise within her to hear her living voic “Where am 17" she asked of the echo. And promptly it replied. Yet- was it an echo—or ‘something more? Was there another voice farther awa behind the echo, a volce that was not an echo at all? ! Dagon had f{ronically told Sergt. Anson that he had “a dozen theorles, | each one entirely different from ever: other.” But something—quite a_small. insignificant something--which had happened banished the lot into the| background of his brain. In their| stead a new theory stepped forward. It was good a certain ebul-|* |in addition a tiny sample of the dried FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925. D. C, The day following his visit to Hid- den Hall Court and Ardry-le-Mare the small volume, which he dubbed |might, hoping for one of his sudden New Theory Noteboa would | inspirations. Indeed, he felt have appeared to any other eve than |was on the way to one, and hoped to | ¢ his a hotchpotch. To Dagon, however, | dccelerate his progress by gazing at it was clear enough, and bade fair|a row of photographs. The h |later to be illuminative. |1ate in the afternoon, and the was “concentrating” with all that he would be disturhed, and ho!\ A.D. his l‘.u.h that he "l\nl“tfi were solc s - was | the da h his | Payntor's footman. A picture of ‘Wells' cousin, | Resign From Arm be had bought at & 41| The President ha fe | resignations of Capt been already In his|Phy., Coast. Artillery Corps He had appropriated it in | Lieut. Paul G. Eell,” Field Artillery, afsguise as Mrs. and First Lieut. ‘Allison Miller, Corps and it had gone ©f Engineers. Magnani, rroll_had sion s of his The detective had returned to Lon- | rooms everlooked a somewhat dismal|with him through the war . | don on the quiet, in order to develop | street off the Strand, Dakon liked the photographs of the smudged | their convenience. finger marks, also those he had dis-| It seemed that nothing could reach covered on the bench in Pandora, him from outside. He wasn't likely 10 Haste's cell. He had brought to town |be disturbed even by the telephone bell, as none of his friends save Ken- and clotted blood found on the wall|nedy Haste had been told of his under the tapestries, and the least|movements, and Haste would not try charred of the bones retrieved from |to communicate with him. the furnace. On.the hig table which supple | | mented 'hix American desk Mrs. Annie Besant is known as grand old lady of India ‘the (Continued Tomorrow.) 1T6d;:y’s Offer to AillVWhVo Have Stomach Distress The Five Portraits. | bexide it were five frame the microscopic | Portraits, four of the fr things merely designed as supports d other varlants these _modern to &l his he had said. | wer datura fig- | hinet Perhaps in its turn this last would mes cheap be dismissed, and a half-abandoned rival beckoned out of ohscurity to |take its: place: but for the present it lured, startled, fascinated the de- without difficulty. Her 1 jumped at first, for it seemed here might be a way of -ape from this green-lit place of forgotten by her un- When she had seen he other side, however, he realized that there was no hope n that direction. The adjoining space 1t much - than an anclent ‘powder close rudely fitted up bath and dressing room. “Anyhow, they want me to live, whoever they ave the girl said to | herself aloud. And this supposition was further confirmed when she no- | ticed several dishes on the table in the sleeping room. There was some cold meat, with bread and cheese; . |also a carafe containing red wine. re laboratory Pan|mhe gight of these things made Pan- ced to have a little | qory *wonder if her faintness were 2 her handkerchief, and | Ui Cauised by hunger. said she had “loved the| ™.rha giuft isn't likely to be pol- was more like a perfume|goneq” she thought. “They would sthetic” Whereupon Don | pave got rid of me more simply with- v & small bottle of the|,;¢ taking the trouble to bring me up with a little crim- | jere, if that was their idea!’ A nted by his seal Ting.| "ghe ate a biscuit or two. and pour- st night—or was it last night=| ea"into a thick, old cryatal tumbler she had had good cause to remember | §3 10 & thick. old cryatal tumblery the daturoform. And now, again, it | i 10 SO SR “I wish 1 knew whether this were || Hheoct Lreakfast, or lunchean, or dinner! take the she remarked again aloud. And the ticed that an echo followed he) an insistent, personal sort o || moxt like a spirit speaking. | . Imprisoned In the sam Try One Bottle of Dare’s Mentha Pepsin for Digestion or Any Stomach Trouble, and if Not Delighted With the Good Results, And now a water' It must be day told herself: for lizht enough to the pl fishes room under deep. green As for the blood, test made showed it to be that of a human being, young, in a state of !0 Keep the photographs in an up Peoples Drug Stores or Any Reliable Druggist Will normal health, a member of u white | Iight position fifth was different |aative. ! Ie® dhted mot lernid el eees | This Dagon had framed in silver, and Gladly Return the Purchase Price. dwell upon it too much. le wished| The bones taken from the furnace|had given it the place of honor in = = to keep in tonch with all sides of the, fire by order of Anson, on the con- | the middle: Pandora Haste's portrait Why not get a hottle of this grand | subject. And though he started a new | trary, brought suspicion up against a| He had obtained it from the house ch medicine today with the| notebook In honor of the new theory, | blank wall. Burnt as they were, al-| Which she called home—the house at undersianding that your he neither starred nor emphasized it | most disintegrated in the furious|Whose door she had bheen left as a 'l noney will be promptly returned if there. No one =ave himself. looking ' flames, was still possible for an|baby. He had asked Haste for the| not stop the most acute | through the joitings. could have expe: pronounce them portions | Picture as a loan, and it had been ch distress quicker than any guessed in which person named Da-|of a man's skeleton. sent {0 him by messenger vou ever used. gon falt the most absorbing profes- This discovery | A portrait of Sir Rawdon Wells he tomach may be so distended slonal Interest Diquknt Tote o Da had obtained in the same way; also | The Canadfan h, knew vet of the mys S{one_of Fanny Gillett dressed as a L TIGE GINGER| . Don was “daturoform. The semi-tro ured she was in by even see this time, here it everything zlints 1d the formula et—except from entists should gland and [ Wwere that atureform sform or the he th- «mall vear over wonderful that town in New .Jerse, 6,000 bottles were s in last ever mind what causes v digestion or gastritis or dyspepsia or | how long vou have had i, or how | many other remedies you hgave tried, | this Is the one medicine that wili | make vour old disabled spomach so strong and healthy that you can digest anyt vou eat without the slightest dis know tha in fine sk ., headaches anc er vou. Every rantees one b ntha Pepsin. 11s dozens of jt furnished, one usly at all event walls were brownish-colored bri the low bed, no higher than the girl could see no doors each of the four walls hung of tapestry, eithel me of might cover a door. These ha looked old. vet they were not Aated, neither we they &uch ‘a place, whe never enter, colors fresh. Pan thought The floor was bare, skin thrown down the couch, and the only furniture, besides consisted o of black rved legs, apparently of the It was neither co room, but the hed roverlet made of r in ]4\ t il effects upon patient could influe W e, on dose, was a piece sie =ingularly Kept I out even : and brief That day had laughin daturoform he minute vet wiih one dessertspoonful of Dare’s Mentha-Pepsin that dreadful feeling of suffocation will vanish in a few minutes With the same speed it stops gas | acidity, belching and heartburn. It It's 'a wonderful formula—this | g combination of Pepsin and Menth and other good ‘Alvun ch invig Hall ng. light - mn\ well | ish, for| planation of the hould be found. the terrible nizht beyond a small self. \lvlllu. at these heing “kept da ALE! | white seemed to force answers “out moment by Dagon's request NONE BETTER of the static,” as he had called it|as Kennedy Haste's earnest A. G. HERRMANN since a short apprenticeship to wire- in case less telegraphy. Sometimes the an Swers wer wrong: but by the time he began to see their wrongness he ! had often dashed the real solution of jthe puzzle on the next page af the book 750 Tenth St. S.E. 2 happenings sme need never be kn than an o n R veritemen: “officially” in the seemed unlikely The detective was country still it DEAL AT nberg's BOTH SIDES OF 7™ AT K ST “THE DEPENDABLE STORE" The Climax of Coat Bargains! A Sensational Sale Tomorrow of 500 F PAYS TO 1d mnot, s Did it pillowcase were of faintness thick and silver smooth of the Sleeping Beauly in the chanted Wood. When the princess waked up after her hundred years of dredms she might herself in some such But she had been waked As clouds lifted from the girl tried sitting up o As & test to see whether 1y awake or not. Liftir m the low pillow, giddiness and nausea; first time she became odor more powerful combination of lavender ness that hung round the ing This second odor was not to her. As she sniffed it in it brought back a vivid memory After reading the news of this Great Coat Sale. turn to opposite page for other special values. she felt mean the police sta- . zol into her Pan tho plan to buy your Winter Coat in this Remarkable - away while she xlept? S ' ¥ hid done th® thing! And Sale tomorrow! Jealously guarded the s anesthetic, it seemed | ¥ to have been he than any ill. why should he have | wished to get her out of prison and iide her. when her testimony could » help him {0 prove his innocence? The fact that there was a bed with scented linen and a coverlet for warmth looked as if her life were not | 10 be threatened: and in any case| Pan did not feel actively afraid. She | cared too little now what happened | to her to he frightened easily. 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