Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-15
WHO'S WHO I'M TIE STORY

WHO'S WHO IN IKE STORY
EVELYN HASTE, beautiful and rich
girl, who sits down at the piano on
her wedding highland mysterious
KENNEDY HASTE. her husband. who
suspects completely on the part oil
his old war comrade.
SIR RAWDON WELLS, an amateur
scientist, who mas Insisted ON lend
ing the couple Hidden Hall Court.
his gloomy and mystery ridden es-
tate, for their honeymoon. ana VINO
Is found after the disappearance IN
a secret chamber.
PANDORA, gipsy-lile girl adopted
sister OF Kennedy and secretly IN
love with Wells.
MISS GILLErT. an c&-war nurse, VINO
fell in love with Haste in hospi-
tai, and who Is an intense person;
DAGON, youthful Scotland fard~ de-
tective, who has done glorlred spy
work" in the war. lie is OF vivid
Latin temperament, though Cana
dian in training.
The New House
"Who | am doesn't matter. And
YOU Won t be able to find out, be-
cause I'm using a public telephone.
Though. of course, you can try, II
YOU like to waste time. 1t isn't my
name that's important. It's my
message. AS an admirer OF your
talent who doesn't wish you to fail
lidiculously after all your success, L
warn YOU so.emnly, as you value
Your reputation. to keep off the
Haste Carroll case. Make any
excuse you choose. But keep off.
Otherwise ruln-perhaps death for
you"
Thanks for the advice Dagon
rotorted, extremely puzzled, but
speaking with airy indifference of
tone. please add to your goodness
by stating why | should keep off the
graSs-I mean the case
No answer was vouchsafed to this
question. Dagon repeated it several
times, in varied forms, but silence
answered. with tue odd, impish echo
oe the telephone. At last softly
whistling, the detective hung UP the
receiver.
He believed that the voice had in
all probability called him from a
public telephone. The speaker
would have been fool to run an
unnecessary risk, especially when
dealing with u detective Now
which of my lot, II any OF them,
wanted. to frigitCn me-" Dagon
asked himself. casting his eyes over
each of the photographs in turn.
Whoever it was might have saved
himself on herself the trouble. for
instead of being frightened the de-
tective felt doubly keen. But, of
course, the person who had called
him UP wouldn't stop there! Some
thing else would happen. Dagon
would have given a good deal TO
know what.
His new theory, however. was not
shaken. In fact, if anything. it was
strengthened. But it was very
Of hn
shell and covered with yellow down,
rs he expressed it himself. There
We're almost rs many ways of test
ing the, theory as there were
notifications of the strange case on
which he was engaged, and Dagon
didn't mean to miss enc of either.
The odd thing was that. so far as
he was aware. Captain Haste was
the one person who knew he was
paying this short visit to London.
And Captain Haste was the one per-
son of the hot, Gas he. put it,
whom Dagon did not suspect, at
least of Interior motives or hiding
some secret knowledge. Also he
lad an appointment with Haste
later on. Therefore. Haste was
also the one person who could not
now have, called him up.
Ken had loathed the necessity of
remaining at Hidden Hall Court,
and had well-nigh been driven in
sane by It. Yet his conviction that
Eve was living and in the neighbour
hood remained as obstinate rs ever
IL had been since his first black
mood OF despair had passed. Some
one--if not Rawdon Wells. then an
f, other--had shut Eve up in a secret
place. and wished him-kennedy
Haste--to believe her dead. But he
would not be fooled. And he would
stop In the house until he or Dagon
TO whom he had taken an almost
pathetic fancy--should hit upon the
truth. IL was particularly disagree
able for Haste having Wells about
the place. suspecting him as he did.
But Ken realized the police point of
view. that Wells must remain on the
spot. And after all. he argued.
Wells presence made his own more
than ever essentials a watcher.
II was not necessary that they
should meet and the Court was big
enough for them to keep apart
Dagon. however. had asked Haste
X he would object to showing him
just before her marriage, as some
to the mind Of q detective. Ken had q
being told that Dagon had to 60 to
Londen for a day, offered to 20 also
and get the parcel.
Can Haste have mentioned my
being here?' he wondered. II told
him I didn't want It known, as r
wished to be free ana undisturbed,