Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-28
WHO'S WHO IN TIE STORY


EVELYN HASTE beautiful and rich
girl. who sits down at the piano on
her wedding highland mysseriously
disappears.
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
ing the couple Hidden Hall Court.
his gloomy and mystery ridden es-
tate, for their honeymoon, and who
Is found after the disappearance In
II secret chamber.
PANDORA, a gipsy-like. girl, adopted
sister of Kennedy and secretly In
love with Wells.
MISS. GILLETT. an ex-war nurse. who
fell In love with Haste In a hospi-
tai. and who Is an intense person.
DAGON. youthful Scotland Yard de-
tectiye, who has done glorihed spy
work" I'm the war. He Is of vivid
Latin temperament, though CANADIAN
in training,
Presentiments
What Is he doing at this hour
opening the secret doOr?" she
wondered. uneasily. The detective
had n business like air. as II he
We're making for some definite goal.
She had not seen him like that be-
fore, in any search ne made. when
she had quietly watched, not ap-
pearing to watch
What can he have found out? 2"
she asked herself. Nothing, surely.
1t Is not possible" And yet. she
knew that Fanny feared his getting
upon the right track. As for her,
what did II matter? Nothing mat
tered in this world. But Fanny
Fanny was so mad about Kennedy
Haste. She would do anything to
Ia, Ii ~x,tf 80 he
detective should get on the right
carried out, Mrs. Gillett actually
feared her daughter.
The whole affair was CHASTITY.
Heaven knew how she loathed it..
how she would have kept out Of It
&c she could. But she had been
forced into the tangle for Fannys
sake.
She had hoped at first when she
heard Fanny's door creak lightly
that tho girl had gone to look again
for those letters which obsessed her.
Several times she had sought them
in different places. by day, In Raw
don Wells own room, when she was
sure he was not there, and her
mother was on guard. BY night,
after he'd gone TO bed, In his study.
But she was not in the study to-
night Mrs. Gillett had looked. She
had not dared try to follow to that
ether, place she suspected. Now.
even IL she had dared. 1t was too
late. The detective was on his way
to the cellar, with that air OF mean
ing to do something definite!
II he should accomplish a, miracle,
hnd-@if Fanny should be caught.
What can, l do?" Mrs. Gillett
wondered miserably. Shall / tell
himT'
Presently, after some nervous fut-
terinE and INDIGESTION, she answered
her own question by returning up
stairs. and knocking at a certain
door. It was not quite an ordinary
knock that she gave. There were
three taps: an interval: and again
three, as if a preconcerted warning
were intended. 1T is the one you
know; don't be alarmed" the dis
erect signal seemed to say.
soon the door was opened a few
snches. No one looked out. and the
only light was that OF the moon
streaming through large un-
curtained window at the end OF the
corridor. But Mrs. Gillett had no
doubt as to who 1t was silently
awaiting her words:
I'm frightened" she whispered.
'Th@ detective has gone down to the
cellar
what Of thate" a voice answered
with n note of irritation. He has
been there many times. He'll have