The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-16
The
Missing Bride

blue eye pushed in past her.
DIR. FurniYall, pardon mel" he said
hastily. ut is a matter of more than
life or death. Name your own price,
but l must have your assistance AT
once"
The maid laid the visitors card on the
table before DR.. FurnivaII, but he had
no need to read it. He knew the man
by sight as one of the multi-million-
aires of the city, George b. English of
banking fame. Mr.. English took the
seat pointed out by DR.. Furnivall and
rushed on:
My daughter was kidnapped last
night on the eve of her marriage, and
l have reason to believe that she is in
is-not money!
He paused, his red face growing al
most purple with anger and excitement.
queerly mingled with fright. and looked
into the colored spectacles of the doc
tor as If expecting some demonstration
on his Part. But he said merely:
Go on"
He braeed himself and, with an evil
dent effort of calmness. in which he did
not succeed too we'll, continued:
Everything was ready last evening
for the wedding ceremony, which was
to be celebrate this noon. The whole
household retired early-by 10 or little
later-and not a suspicious sound was
heard, not namable thing out of the
common happened that anybody nc
ticed, during the night. There were no
guests-only my two daughters, one of
them a child of 10 years; my sister,
who is a maiden lady: myself and the
servants, fourteen of them. This morn
ing the first thing we discovered was
that the house had been robbed of all
the smaller and more valuable wedding
presents; and then we learned that
Evelyn was missing. Her bed had not
been occupied, and the only clothes of
hers that the women couldn't find were
those she wore last evening. Her ward
robe was intact she did not even take
a hat-disappeared bareheaded. And
there isn't a trace of her. The police
and detectives have been securing the
city since early morning, but without
avail. The loot the miscreants got is
nothing; 1 don't care for that, and
would say nothing about it. They are
welcome to it if only they would bring
back my daughter. The idea of her
being in the power of that"
He stopped. overcome by his feelings.
You spoke of suspecting some
body?"
Yes. yes; that is why I am here
They told me at the police station that
you, by your hypnOtism. could Eeake
the iAdn tdih ne lfOuDlG Is tifdl there
are no grounds on which to make an
arrest; and even if there were, how
could he be induced to confess his guilt
and give her back to me?"
He could be shadowed-"
"Oh, yes, And that is what is being
done. Three men are watching his
every move. But in the meantime what
will happen to Evelyn? And they won't
catch him. He is sharp as a fiend. He
init A L.
laid long ago, of course, and, knowing
very well that he would be suspected,
he has provided for everything"
we are getting a little ahead of the
story. Who is the man? What does he
do? And what are your grounds for
thinking him guilty? And then the rob
bery-do you lay that to him also?"
The robbery ! don't UNDERSTANDING
less il was a blind The police gave me
that notion when I told them whom 1
accused. But to begin right-the man
is Baron Won Castle. He once courted
my daughter"
What. ne who has just inherited so
many millions?"
Yes, the same. He is a rascaI-the
degenerate son of an old German house,
cast off long ago as a good for nothing
spendthrift, but now made rich through
the neglect of his late uncle to leave a
will behind him at his death. He asked
me for Evelyn two years ago, but had
looked him up and | seized the oppor-
tunity 10 tell him what l thought of
him. He has the unparalleled impu-
dence to laugh i'm my face. Afterward
heard that he had sworn that he would
have her at all costs, and to tell the
truth, being somewhat shaky-er-I-l
somewhat-abOutE Evelyn"
He paused, gnawing his mustache.
Il suppose I must go into ali the de-
tails, however distasteful," he went on,
after moment. Evelyn liked the fell
low and took his part-said that he had
been grossly misTepTesented TO me. and
all that-the way girls always talk in
such cases? / sent her abroad to sepa-
rate Their? from each other as widely as
possible. But what did he do but Dor
row money-frOm my own bank, too
and follow bert Under an assumed
name he courted her in the very face
and eyes of the chaDeron to whom
was paying high wages to keep her
away from him. What do you think of
that? 1t was four months before I
found out what was going on. Then
one day in a hot temper 1 dropped in
on them suddenly-it was in Paris, in
hotel parlor. But was he disconnected?
Not in the very least. He laughed at
me again-in my face The man is
Satan himself Nothing disturbs him
He seems to enjoy being put in difficult
positions. i'm which other men would
cTinge with modification and shame
He walks out of them with the air of
a conqueror. as a victor who diSdains
to profit by the advantages he has
gained, holding the vanquished in too
much contempt to notice him. When
ordered him from the room this time he
threw himself down on the sofa, smil-
ing. without giving me the least notice, |
and began talking gayly with two or
three women here, and when l led my
daughter out he hurried to open the |
door for her, begging her not to forget |
her engagement tor the evening.
Those are a few among many details |
could give you of the mans conduct. |
He stops at nothing. And he has pur-
sued her ever since in spite of every |
precaution / can take. But he is care |
full net to overstep the law. He is too |
shrewd for that. He has sworn that |
he will have the girl, and now, since she |
has been stolen away on the very night |
before her wedding day. what can be /
thought? He has got her, of course. |
There is no other possible explanation /
of her sudden disappearance"
This man whom she was to marry