The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-02

One solution ends the mystery Of
the strange disappearance of Dorca'
Remalie. This dashing and beautiful
daughter Of a family Of wealth
equally we'll known in New York
Newport. White Sulphur Springs and
Palm Beach, an undisputed leader OF
the activities of the fashionable
younger set. has been found immured
ip q castle OF hate In remote lumber
town in northern New England.
GIRL IN, CONSTANT DANGER
Thither she was sent by the
strangely exacting terms of her late
fathers will to sacrifice two of the
best years of her life. She was forced
to abandon the luxurious ease to
which she had always been ac-
customed, and though she possesses a
large fortune, she has been compelled
to live for nearly two years on the
coarsest fare in the most uninviting
surroundings, and to be exposed con-
stantly to dangers which at times
have 30 alarmed her as to threaten
her health IL not her reason. Rarely
in the history of peculiar wills has
one, meant to be bspsnciaL been 80
productive of misery.
Dorcas Remalie, 1t is now revealed,
WAS required upon the death of her
father, by the terms Of his singular
will. to forsake society for two years
and spend that time with his little
known but outwardly devout brother,
q rich owner Of timber lands. who ,ex-
ercAses the power of a baron over
his region. This uncle Of Dorcas,
John Remalte, bachelor. is described
as a grim woodsman. . rnxMpR the
harshest cruelty secretly exercised
and capable Of any act to enforce
his will.
AROUsEs DANGEROUS ENMITY.
1t 10 now learned that Dorcas Re-
MALE took up her new life In strange
surroundings with q spirit Of resig-
nation, but that she soon unwittingly
made an enemy Of John Remalis's
housekesper. a forbidding spinster
and confessed mother. To her
attempt on the life Of Dorcas Re-
MALE, planned with heinous cunning.
10 due in part the disclosure OF the
Whereabouts of the long missing
young woman
Some phases OF this mystery remain
TO be cleared They involve. in a
perfectly honorable way. 4 handsome
young wood named Jevons.
whose history, carefully concealed, is
in some way wrapped up with that of
John Rsma1is and the housekeeper,
whose name 10 Labo. Jevons appoint
81 himself Dorcas Remalie's proteo-
tor early in her stay in the Pine coun-
Try. and his int crest in her has pro-
voksd Q situation already dangerous
to hsr safety. Further light can be
thrown upon this mystery only after
tho narration Of some Of the details
q the other two mysteries.
onH BRANCHES SOUTH PAOI1IC.
On a steamer beating out from suva
- varioess South Pacific islands BY
vsy Of Nauis we're two prospsctors
and q little woman IN . dull blue
dress, They were bound for Remora
Island, . palm fringed atoli. other
were travelling to Fiji and
various points on various errsnds.
The two prospect Kirwyn and
Shaw, made no secret Of their mis-
zion, They w4s simply to examine
the island for possible riches before
It's transfer from a cepra company to
q nov company interested in its psss-
poets,
But there was a mystery concerning
the little woman in blue. Her name
was Lucy Pirsni. It might be Lucy
Shaw, to leap ahead Of the story. Ar
irving at Rsmora Island she led Kir-
wyn and Shaw to a hut built long be-
fore Of coral blocks, and told them
that she and ls~s husband, Piraai, an
uarisa scientist, had erected It.
Twenty years before the three landed
% the ivory beach, Pirsni had dis
appeared. His wife, long lost to civil
isstion, had passed from the minds of
those who had once known her. She
had spent these twenty years cruising
the South Pacific, searching island
sftes island for some trace OF the
man
PTRAHI THE FIRST FLYER
~ Klrwyp and Shaw she told a
story which TO them was at frst in
ereAfeiA FiranL she said. had been
the nrst TO neoq.sr the air. Long b.
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