Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1925, Page 61

Who Stole the Bride? And Why! - The Night of the Wedding By C. N.and A. M. WILLIAMSON, Autliors of “The Lightning, Conductor” and other fascinating romances of mystery and love Copyright, 1925, Uy Public Ledger Company. The “Hidden” Hall | the first Wellses. 1t was the Hiddens LLY, I must beg vour | who made the hall under the water— € ardon for answerlng You [in the sixteenth century. In the like tha she almost | gjgnteenth century the Wellses came sobbed when she had 5ot | 1o the Court, and soon knowledge was back her breath. "It ISn't {155t of the play upon the old family hysterics. It's only—oh, it you Knew | name which revealed, yet guarde how quaint you look in those clothes [ ipa"caret: ‘Hidden Hall' Every and with that bla YOUr{one had heard an old legend—but face! Exactly ; | proof of the truth vanished. It has rearecrow {n N cr heen found again—till 1 found never have any C you know, and | v dent."" they always wear flappy hats and | 2 echoed the girl, so deeply dug-out coats lke yours. | interested that she forgot her ioad of “But there! I won't laugh any|irouble. *“Are you an architect? I more. I'll listen to what you've got | iy Sir Rawden has had architects to say, and if you don't mind, I'll {Gown to look for secret rooms and listen ~sitting down.” (Her Knees|,scages. They did come on a con trembled a little, though her Voice | cegled door and a stalrway leading to was steady.) the cellar, but nothing else I ever Her impudence took the enemy by | hearq of—— surprise. At the word “scarcrow” he | " “f am not an architect,” the man made a quick movement of anger,|proke in. “And, if I had been, I and Pan thought he wouwid strike evi | should not have discovered the ‘hid- but after an instant's hesitution heden hall’ Because this place where @hanged his mina T canimuke Yo || we' arefinow 5 not in : thel honse vegret your impertinence if 1 choos There are no mysterious spaces to be he exclaimed, still in French. Yet the [accounted for by an architect, not girl guessed it was all he could do 10 even under the house, though the voice. | entrance is from that cellar you she said in a different | gnoke of.” fou're master here. You can Oh_ then T know where it must do whatever you cho €Xcept Col- | he! Pan cut him short. “Under the trol what I'm to do.” pool in the Perstan Garden. That's “I have not told you yet what I|cloge to the house. One looks Into wish you to do the Masquer re- minded the girl, so amazed by her | ==—————————— — manner that mechanicaily he altered | his own You told me in your letter” satd |\ Nogy Bequty Cream | Pan, seating herself in the more com Tortable of the two old chalrs. Om'ckly Remakes “You disregarded my 4 advice—expressed in that letter. Your | Y our Coml)lexion @gnswer consisted of the one word, | { { 2 & | Gives it the texture and appear- "It aa. And 1t will consist of the [Hance of a wild rose petal! You same old word again 1 your wishes [[ can't help but notice a striking @re the same: e 1|l difference the moment you put it Perhaps not—when 1 _explain to [|iC/\€F0iE G0 OTLTE You B Tt wou what the consequences will be if hi i 5 #ou are obstinate.” —whitens, cleanses. Should be 1 uppose yowll threaten to feed || left on all night. Also makes won- me to those beastly fishes with their | [l derful powder base. Not sti bulgy eves and nasty, receding pro- || greasy. Get this new wonderful fles! You can't do worse than that, | || beauty cream called Mello-glo and anyhow. And you may your ||| /¢34 S llo-gl threat, hefore 1 consent to ruin Raw- “"’l ‘(')',DPWF‘}"P Drug Stores, Inc. don Wells! I'll try hard to disagree |[/3n¢ onRe with the disgusting creatures.” = — “I make no ‘threats,’ " the man re- torted. “I shall simply tell you what will happen.” “Do* ald Pan. “But while you're FURNITURE telling me things, won't you tell how | you ot me out of my cell and hronght RENTING me here? Oh, and by the way, I|l| FOR should rather like to know where . “here’ is.” {|l Household Parties “You shall have both those explana. Receptions Piives : ou decid be sensibl i Yons, 1f ouitediaest R Conventions Office You seem to want everything for | [i Weddings nothing?” exclaimed Pan. “Suppos- 5,080 Folding | Chaice ing, even, that I gave you a written Always In Stock statement of all 1 know about—my || brother Capt. Haste's wife -what H. BAUM & SON uaranfee would I have that vou ||| Souid set me free, unharmed? The |l 464 Pa. Ave. N.W, way you are got up you look capable Main 9136 of tearing out my tongue and cutting T off my fingers so I could neither speak nor write, once you'd finished | - e —— with me—the way people kept their — promises and freed their prisoners {n the Middle Ages. You'd better be | more diplomatic. Make a concession or two, to begin with, If you want to win my confidence. Teli me about the prison—and tell me where I am!” | B lLDl Jery well, why not” said the | man. “After all, to tell you what' you ask can do no harm to me or| &any one—whatever becomes of you, | mademolselle. “The affair of—rescuing you from our cell was easy for me. I had s e policeman hus. | Pays 6 Per Cent band in my pocket. That made the | n shares maturi: i letter bustness easy, too. And as for | Of 88 83 tuhrlngllfl 45 this place—can you not gues: | or 83 months. It “It's at Hidden Hall Court!” Pan. | dora gasped, on a_sudden inspiration. Pays 4 Per Cent Where else should it | . e In the ‘hidden hall’ it- ||| on shares withdrawn be- fore maturing. “But,” she stammered. “Don—Sir | Rawdon—told me once, when I asked | if there were a hidden hall, that there | Assets Over was nothing hidden at all. It was | $10,000,000 only one of the family names in oid | days—'Hidden.' Surely, he ought to Surpll.ls $950,000 ) know. But, if he had known_ he | wouldn't have fibbed to me.” il Sie Rawdon ought to_know, but | Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. he fact 1s that he doesn’t,” sald the ¢ Masquer. “The secret was lost to| ‘}32’,‘,"3,"{’#"{‘ i the family for many years—ever| bl kince the dayvs of the last Hidde: Street N.W. Exclusively in Washington Visualizing the necessity for handling the best to be had in Children’s Footwear—WE ARRANGED FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BUS. TER BROWN AGENCY IN WASHINGTO. Mothers will be relieved of shoe worries if they buy— BusTer BRowN BHOES tor BOYS e GIRLS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1925. 61 it from the music room and—the tap- boudoir. Good graclous, how |sort. It's just a small room. I thought when I gazed out of | “The original hall under the pool has had pertitions put into it, and o see the old carp they say lives | several rooms made.” estry little the w ing t vindow Into that green pool, try- in it, that some day I should be| “Ah! uj down under the water trying to look | her of - to know “And was that done in the hat is where you are” the|old days Masquer informed her. “It {s only N through carelessness and lack of m-| “And you never told Don—Sir Raw- agination that no one found the secret o through this last century and more,| ‘“‘Cert since the Hidden famlly died out and| “Then who made the bathroom the f that ing 1 befor found this room where you are.” “But' the girl persisted, encour. first Rawdon Wells came. People | next d i had only to ask themselves why was | dred concealed irway made, lead- | primitive at it looks!” Ing to the west cellars, if there were | “I ordered the bathroom made not some secret reason for descend-|sald the Masquer. “It is primitive. nto the cellar? Once, when Hid- | becaus: o, I asked | workman, whom T trusted to keep et mvself | the secret, and because it had to he to find_the It was not long | done quickly, while the house was | re T did find it. And in so doing I|inine.” W Its o strange story!” sald Pan. | aged And it's strange they should call this ' “what room a ‘hall’ It's nothing of the " cried Pan. (This informed something she had been keen doubt. I found it as it ia.” tainly not.” i oor to this? That's not a hun s old or anything like it, e 1 could employ only oné by his readiness to’ answer, interest was it of you make a bathroom leading off a secret | fast. Though Eve's disappearance was | for his best friend—that is, the best | ing again for our family, here in Eng room in another man’s house?’ to be kept a secret for the pres The Masquer laughed, as he had |news had been broken to Mrs. ent, the | after his cousin—may have turned |land—trying to ny n'ece.” his brain.” “It seems stranger than it is,” the ughed before. “It was of the great- | by Kennedy Haste. She was Eve's| Had Dagon not been informed on | detective said. “I took up the ecase est Interest to make this place habit- [ only near relative; she had cha able, with a bath, and decent furnish- | the girl since poarding schoo peroned | the way to town that this Interview | partly because it concerned Miss Cai ol _days, | between Ken and Aunt Jean was to | roll; partly too, becau ing. I do not need to pay rent or |and Ken felt that, hard though the | take place, he would not have dared |to know that Sir Rawdon Wells w ask Rawdon Wells for an invitation | blow would be, she must at onc when I want to have bachelor quar- | all of the truth that was to be ters jn his hous To his surprise the pretty, ce know | present himself at the Ritz. As it| half I n. I'm supposed to be known. | was, he telephoned there, and, remind- | Italian. delicate | ing Mrs. Payntor of their acquaint-| “Oh, indeed!” e med .\ You are more and more mysterl- | little woman had taken it well. She |ance in the past, told her that he was | tor, and Dagon. whose ous! Pandora breathed. “I do not | encouraged Ken, who had dreaded his| “on the Hidden Hall Court case for | never missed anything, o v hat ; £ vou at all, I'Visit to the Ritz with a s thing horrible had happened have a confederate | “NO one would have the heart the court as well as in the police | her.” she said. “Eve's too pretty and | phone, and e willing permission. charming. Even if a man mean n at Ardry-le-M the child as some hideous “You are a little too clever, mademot- ckening ' Scotland Yard.” Might he call, and she colored deep! dread. She would not belleve that any- ask her a few questions? though quite ar to Eve.| The pleasant Southern drawl, which | and powde: to hurt | he remembered, answered through the | t to kill | Ten minutes later Dagon was spring- | no on whose sort of [ ing out of a taxi at the door of the | cover stood m. sellet” ho Q nfter il that | vengeance, when the minute came I'm | Ritz. graphs. Ther TEG ARGl of Now I have told | Sure he couldn't. It certainly looks as | “The Pearl Man!" exclaimed Mrs.|of Kennedy Has you what you bargained to know, we | ff Rawdon Wells must be responsible | Payntor, greeting him in her private | English, Americ wiil go back to our business together.” | {07 the thing, whatever the t | But it will turn out to be a at Mrs. Payntor Had o Tell | o binge o ing at the Ritz, where | cared—had a right to think wedding | And the shock of bein, Many valuable preminums offered to “National’s” patrons with purchases of $25 and % over. For instance— I $2 3-plece Console Set or T«z plece Opalescent Water Set. 9 ¢ §Q Wrousht Iron Bridee Lamp or Bplece Decorated Can- int olychrome Mirror or @ umbla Electric Iron, # ¥ guaranteed. b iece Decorated Dinner Set_or 2G-piece Set Kogers Tableware. 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