Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-17

EVELYN HASTE. beautiful and rich
girl, who sits down at the piano on
her wedding night-and mysterious
Kennedy HASTE, her husband. who
suspects completely on the part OF
his old war comrade.
SIR RAWDON WELLS, an amateur
scientist. who has insisted on lend
his gloomy and mystery-ridden ss-
tate, for their honeymoon, and VINO
is found after the disappearance IN
secret chamber.
PANDORA, a gipsy-like girl, adopted
sister of Kennedy and secretly in
love with Wells.
MISS GILLETT, an ek-war nurse, VINO
fell in love with Haste in u hospi-
tai. and who is an intense person;
tective, who has done glorihed spy
work" in the war. He Is of vivid
Latin temperament though Cana
dian in training, ,-
How stupid Captain Haste ana SIT
Rawdon Wells and Arson had all
been, not to realize at once the ike,
ness between him and the girl
known as Pandora Haste. Both
Haste and Arson had exclaimed,
who is it you look like?" and Raw
don Wells had stared at him in a
puzzled way, the same as spoken
question. 1t seemed incredible that
the answer had not sprung into
their heads. But Dagon said to
himself now, perhaps 1t had, any
how, into the heads of Haste and
Wells, who knew the girl so init
mately, whereas AnsoH had seen her
only once or twice. When those two
recognized tn fact that Pandora
Haste and the young detective from
Canada were singuiarly alike, pos
sibly they had not cared to mention
their discovery to the person most
concerned. But he, Dagon, had been
startled by the resemblance the mo-
ment he saw Pandera's picture.
Even then his instinct had spoken,
telling a story to which his reason
would not listen. He had not, how
ever, associated the dream with the
when he saw the Italian silk blanket,
and then the little red cloak with
the black spotted white lining, that
the picture of the three figures in
the lost garden flashed back,
Now he knew that Pandora Haste
had been the baby in the red cloak,
he the little boy in the red waist
coat, and the~beautiful woman who
wept her "Addio" TO the pink house
their mother.
Dagon did not feel that he was
negleeting his duty as a detective
engaged to solve the mystery of
Hidden Hall Court in turning his
whole attention upon his own affairs
where ethey touched those of Pan
dora Haste.
They were not. something told
him, entirely separate from the Eve
Carroll affair and his soul was
bent upon seeking the link.
The garden with the pink house
and climbing flowers and tall dark
trees had been somewhere in Italy
He was sure of that, because he had
been able to talk only Italian as a
child of about four, when he had
been picked up in street in Halifax
But it was not likely that he had
come straight to that port from an
Italian one. No ships sailed directly
between the two. 1t was probable
therefore, that he and the baby had
been taken from Italy to England
There. something must have hap
pened to her-or else he had been
stolen, otherwise there would be
more dreams of the past with the
face of u beautiful, dark woman In
them. 4. .., ..,.-.
Could the big man on the ship
whom Dagon vaguely, recalled. have
been father to him and the baby in
the red cloak? No, he thought not
The man had not behaved like a
father. He must have been a
stranger hired to play the part.
He brought me to Halifax on that
ship on purpose to lose me-" the
detective told himself, aloud. "And
somebody lost the baby, too. But
begin to see it wasn't chance which
took that Somebody to the door OF
the Hastes' house in Eaton Place
There was a reason. Somebody
knew the Hastes"
And so his brooding mind strayed
from the house where the baby had
been left to Hidden Hall Court
where at that time an Italian woman
Sir Rawdon Wells mother-had
reigned as mistress.
Two small children thrown upon
the world; brother and sister; one
in London, one in Halifax. What
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