Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1925, Page 17

The Nigh_tflqf Pandora at Bay. OW stupid Capt. Haste and Sir | Rawdon Wells and Anson | had all been. not to realize at | once the likeness between him and the girl known as Pandra Haste! Both Hastg and An- son lad imed, “Who is it vou look [ike?” and Rawdon Wells had staret at him in a puzzled way, the samens a spoken question. It seemed incredbla that the answer had not sprurg into their heads. But, Dagon id v himself now, perhaps it had. | anvhav, into the heads of Haste and Well§ who knew the girl so inti- matel, wheraa Anson had seen her only snce or twiel When these two recomized the fact that Pandora Hast; and the voung detective from { Canala were singularly alike possibly | - had not cared to mention their to the person most con- But he, Dagon, had been rthd by the resemblance the mo- | ment he saw Pandora’s picture. | Evin then his instinct had spoken, | tellig a story to which his reason woul not listen. He had not. how- ever. associated the dream with the distubing likeness, It was only when | he sav the Italian silk bianket, and then th= little red cloak with the hlackspotted white lininz, that the plctue of the three fizures in the lost garden flashed bhack Now he knew that Pandora Haste had lren the haby in the red cloak, he the litle boy in the red waistcoat and | the Tautiful woman who wept her| “Addp” to the pink house their mothir. Dagn did not feel that he was neg- Tectirg his duty as a detective engaged to sove the mystery of Hidden Hall Court in turning his whole attention upon his own affairs where they touched those of Pandora Haste. Ther were not, something told him. entirdy separate from the Eve Car. roll afair, and his soul was bent upon seekirg the link. Thagarden with the pink house and climbhg flowdrs and tall dark trees had bien somewhere in Italy. He was sure d that, because he had been able 10 tall only Ttalian as a child of about four. vhen he had baen picked up in W ho Stole the Bride? i lvf{ | knowing ‘what came bacl fantastic to be real? And And W ter! Above all, that she was caught in a dream. It sounded no nearer now that her ear was at the wall than when she had stood in the middle of the room. Her heart hammering, tha girl went from wall to wall and listened behind the screens of tapestry. There was | very little difference betwaen one side | of the room or another for the sound, | but she imagined th * voica came more distinctly from beyvond the wall| ' 4 Whers was the locked door RS meip ey “If there's some one (h"’ wait lonz | the struggle would be too unequal! enough after I've spoken for the echo | woyld be sure ]’dl\(lnld called out, loudly | per. *Then answer, and 1| and taking 1t out again, having oste tatiously grated i. in a rusty Pan thought that if only | he stooped and steal the key had tacked the enemy with a ch she thought, “this will be |, pented: And if there is some one, v it must be a prisoner like r » Otherwise, whoever it is would | have kept still or else tried to scare me and stop my making a noise.” surveving her a’large key in his hand quietly ape mask ch as the | understand i obe might | gwer. < and forth| Pan gazed intently | the key, trying to recognize i was a had hiways utiously shut. a iding_door of a biz make in being pushed ba in its groove. The thought shot through the girl's brain that the mystery of her kidnap. ing would now be revcaled, for better, | for worse! The door was locked. She heard the noise bf a slid- ing bolt, and, with a quick inspiration, | this man's hands pushed her body close against the!They were very brown wall, s that, even if she could not | escape, she might hope for a glimpse of what lay beyond the door. Suddenly it opened. and, har she did, Pan _spi boldly forward, striving to dodge a thrust-out arm. But the arm was strong and pushed her back so vio- lently that she might have fallen had she not caught at the tapestry. It was so dim behind this curtain, and so black was the space bevond the door. | she and hoasted that she could identify thought. hidden and the figure concealed. told her models for statues, girl that if she see more clearly through that queer. very tightfitting tions. ‘ou do not know me,"” eves until she had been forcibly de- tached from her hold on the hanginzs | and thrust into the room. Then. in| the greenish light. Pan saw a tall stoop-shouldered man wearinz a queer | to make fresh and mew. For Slfflyh Sake -demand A stret m Halifax. But it was not | likely that he had come stralght to| that jort from an Ttalian one. No| ships tailed divectly between the two. | Tt wa: probable, therefore, that he| and tie haby had heen taken from Traly ‘o Enzland. There something | must lave happened to her, or else he | had leen stolen: otherwise there! would be more dreams of the past| with he f a beautiful dark womai in them oul_the big whom Dagon v jan on the ship. ely recalled. have heen ather to him and the bhaby in| the r«i cloak? No. he thought not.| The nan had not hehaved like a fa- ther. He must have been a stranger hired (o play the part ‘He hrouzht me to Halifax on that #hip @ purpose to lose me.” the d- tectivi told himself, aloud. “And somebpdy lost the baby. too. But I bezin to see it wasn't chance which took tiat somebody to the door of the Hastey’ house on Eaton place. There a reason. Somebody knew the rooding mind ved fran the house where the baby had bem left 1o Hidden Hall Court, wher at that time an Italian woman Ravdon Wells' mother—had rei nd so his stres | Two small children thrown upon the | wold. brother and er: one in Lon- Aor. one in Halifax. What could con nea them and their fate with that stringe old house in Essex? And whv Aldthe detective feel so strongzly thar Exi Carroll would not have disappear. ed f those two chifldren had not ex- fetel? All he knew was t he felt cup it was sn. and that Hidden Hall Cowrt had a rragic secret for him as wel as for Kennady Haste. Dagon was wild now to unravel hoth “Vho there? Wha callin ora Haste cried. her ear azainst the wall, as the echo-—which had =eened to her more than an echo— fiecaway. Amin came the muffied answer—if ansver it was. But it was very far! = Fuel _zMake — Plus A old-fashioned cape overcoat and soft, wide-brimmed hat. His face wa hidden with a black mask which ap- UNBSRMADLS peared to.be made of one or two, Cleaning Fluid thicknesses of crape. Even his eves| REMOVES GREASE SPOTS were covered, but the girl caught a ‘Without injury to Relaric or Color faint sparkle from them like that of| hlack | a star filmed cloud. 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He was sticking a ey into the door— lock. she had a hammer she would try to stun him as | But she | weapon at all——unless she at- huwe\'ar' and, besides, T to end In failure for “Have vou come here to kill me?” The man wheeled round and stood through the should not have taken the trouble to bring von to this place if I wished Again ‘the-echo) followed her Wordss| ol oo cacaPt Under great provo but before there was time for the | ““\What makes ryou think I under- voice test something moved behind Pan flung back in the locked door. There was a sound : s of another door beins opened and irls of vour class do came the confident an- at the hand with There eat dea! of character in hands had those being un-|of any friend, though his face wera) But | nothing. and curiously lika the hands of clay It occurred to the vere nearer and could the green ng | dimness of the room she would find dead look was given by rubber gloves such as surgeons wear to perform opera- the man an that she could see nothing on the| A They other side. Even the owner of the | usand-aad-One Daily Uses arm was but a dark shadow to her| Read the booklet—it's undar the label es | every bottle of Carkena. Tells you hew iled and unsightly things losh BONA' for wasn't this figure too there couldn’t in any real world be such a . with glass for a roof and fish the Wedding awimiming over It in deep green wa- nounced. hands. who T am.” “It you were willing for out who you are you wearing a mask and—rubber gloves.” he persisted. come here not to kill you, in_the cen!" Pan broke in, Rawdon Wells what will ruin him. “Te is alreac doos thinks onlv “That makes no difference to m-~." said Pandora. that he must he guilty—no, I don’t mean that. people might believe it—the evidence is so strong longer. hapnv. even here in this| hin a figure of fun ghastly place. and T shall g0 on heinx | “He's perhaps blufing me.” she en. | happy If I never zet out into God's|Couraged herself. “Well, I'll trv hiuf sunshine azain! Tl be happy because | fine him—and see what happens.” | I know now who has done every.| Her first move in this mame was to thing—worked the whole plot in this| Purst info a fit of gigzling like a| dreadful business. It is you—Mon. | Schoolgirl. \ | sienr Masquer?” Soutinued Waaor e e s (Continued Tomorraw.) asa, why should I trouble to danv it | " s | to you? Is there a roa | More than 18.000 Wcycles. six times | Tt is useless to stara at my It would be simpler to ask proverb about the one who laughs last laughing best? I'm trying—fearfully hard—to_remember your voice—your hagds. 1 hglieve I do know anvhow, that I've met vou hefore, somewhere. If 1 hadn't. why should vou wear a mask and disguise vour volce by talking throuzh your and speaking French- “I will tell you why.” brok= in the ut to give| “Masquer.” “I do these things bhe- It ‘will be for the[cauge, in case you take my advice and u A letter—" | leave this place to go back into the letter 1 found | world again you m v meet me ‘and remember this . That | You're an enemy of | would be inconvenient you You want me to do|understand. Now let no & more time in personalities. but de » cide whether you do go back to the | world—or stay heve." | tell Pan said. me to find would not be You wouldn't me,"” evertheless, there ix a name b h you can call m2, if you choose. “It is ‘Masquer.’ 1 have her for . you I won't believe tha 'And he does nc vou for Pan’s heart was not bheating so fast ping him at vour own expense, He|now. 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