Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-08
By C. N. and A. NJ. WILLIAM


EVELYN HASTE, beautiful and rich
girl, who sits down at the piano on
her wedding highland mysterious.
ly disappears.
suspects completely on the part OF
his old war comrade.
| SIR RAWDON WELLS, an amateur
scientist. who has insisted ON lend
ing the couple Hidden Hall Court,
his gloomy and mystery-ridden es-
tate, for their honeymoon, and who
is found after the disappearance in
secret chamber.
PANDORA, u gipsy-like girl. adopted
sister OF Kennedy ny and secretly in
MISS GILLETT, an ex-war nurse, who
fell in love with Haste in hospi-
tai, and who is an intense person.
The Brain Image
Beg pardon. / don't quite catch
Your meaning stammered Arson
1T has all been done for her."
said the other. smiling daintily.
Don't YOU smell 1t? An anesthetic
has been used here"
Arson had not a keen sense of
! smell; neither was it detective. He
considered himself normal in that
regard. and he had smelled nothing
at all in cell No. 5. Neither had his
colleagues, he believed. Ii they had.
| they would, of course, have mention
ed it, especially the wardress, who
was temperamental, sensitive
Welshw oman married to a man OF
Ardry- le- Mare-in fact, to a con-
| stable.
Having been told of it. however,
and put upon his mettle. Anson's
experimental shifts served him u
| better turn.
Since YOU speak of il, | believe
there is queer SMELL" he agreed,
though it's very faint"
1t Is now. FrsW what YOU say.
hours-We don't Yet know how many
have passed since the girl Was
taken aay. I'm certain it's the odor
of an anesthetic, though it's not
common or garden chlorform or
| ether. Must be one of those newly
invented things that chemists are
! always Gussing at"
Instantly Pandora Haste's words
! OF last night flashed back into An
sons brain. She had spoken of "A
new anesthetic invented by Sir
Rawdon Wells. She had stolen-so
she saba sample bottle" and she
| Gefiantly asserted that the odor
minglins with the perfume on a
! certain handkerchief was the
| characteristic odor of Wells ancs-
| thetic.
Arson knew that the Sample
! bottle had not been found on the
! girl. The wardress, Nlrs. Jones,
! who had searched her last night,
mad mad shown him everything taken
from Miss Haste. There had been
a purse, with nearly twelve pounds
IN II, locket containing two
miniature photograp hs-one OF Can
tam Kennedy Haste and one of Sir
RaWdon Wells; a wrist watch with
! 10 Pan from Don" inscribed in
J SIDE; also a pearl ring and a quaint
| brooch. The brooch was a profile
| representation in gold OF an open
! DoX from which a winged figure of
Hope, with jeweled wings. was look
ing out. On the back OF this was
engraved "Pandoras Box. May
Hope never fly away"
AS the sergeant duly displayed
these objects to Dason (having al
ready shown the monogrammed
handkerchief. still holding it's odorl
ne noticed that the Canadian OK
anlned the trinkets with more in
| terest than they seemed to deserve
! suppose you don't make any
| tnlng special out of them, do YOU 90
ne asked almost jealousy. Not that
ne was jealous. But if this kid
detective could deduce valuable
| evidence from these trifles, he could
| bring water from Il stone, it would
seem, and was worthy to be envicd
py the mere average man.
NO. l don't make anything special
out OF the things themselves" said
| lagoon, slowly. with an odd
retrospective look in his big, dark
But there's something ouce,
about me. You may think I'm a
1901. Several people have thought
SO. But i believe most Of them have
changed their minds. | have-or
imagine l have (maybe it's much
the same thing in the end-tht
faculty of calling UP before my
minds eye the appearance of a per-
son owning any object | hold in m,
hands. That comes maybe from
trying to cultivate and wake IN,
plheai gland. Probably you've
never heard of it-but If it interest.
you look 1t up in the encyclopedia
iater. Now, nobody has ever told
me what this girl Pandora Haste 1.
Ike, but listen while | describe what
| seem to see, and tell me IL the de.
scription fits. Small. slim figure
hair, dark-brown with red lights
Elg eyes, black-no. yellow brown
very thick lashes and straight blact
brows. Pert nose; pretty, smiling
red mouth; determined chin: dim.
pie. What about it?"
BY George, you must have seen
a photograph" broke out Arson.
Il swear / haven't. And IL | had
shouldn't have seen the colorinc
I've described the image that come,
up before me, that's all. Evidentl,
I've hit it,
You must be what they call 8
clairvoyant," said Arson, uncom
fortably.
Il don't know what I am. know
only what l can do" returned the
other.
i've heard of those crystal-gazer.
IN London" Anson went on. "TheS
look IN glass ball and see what
happens somewhere else. You're
like that, only you don't need Il
have the crystal"
| Unfortunately I can't see what
happens amended Dagon. II see
! just an image-when / hold a per-
sons things In my hand. Then II
goes away. Already that picture OF
Miss Haste Is going. But I shan't
forget IT. l wish to goodness / could
see what happens. In that case
we'd know who kidnapped her, and
where she is now"
| You think she as kidnapped %
Arson asked doubtfully.
| Well. she couldn't anesthet tie
| herself"