Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-28
Who Stole the Bride? And Why?
The Niqht of the Wedding
By G.. N. and A. NJ. WILLIAMSON
Authors of 1.-The Lightning CONDUCTOR and other tasc
mating romances of mystery and toue
Copyright 1924 Public Ledger Company

, no moro luck than others. He likes
to prowl at night. 1t makes him
feel his importance, poor wretch.
Need you have disturbed me for
that? | get little enough rest"
Il am sorry" faltered Mrs. Gillett.
II hardly knew whether to wake you
or not. ONLY think Fanny Is
there. Did you give her key?"
mo" said the voice. But there's
no key to the room she's interested
in. There are two bolts. She has
no right to go there without me.
Why should she go? The girls
| nurse. And there's no other ex-
cuse for her."
II told you I was frightened" Mrs.
Gillett repeated. And Dagon look
ed different tonight. I saw him. He
didn't see me. l BELIEVED feel--he
thinks that he has found out some
thing"
He may think so. do not" the
| voice replied. But your daughter
should not be there. 1 am angry
| with her"
What can you do?"
II will go down.
Buff you meet Dagon?"
II shall have an excuse. will
get him away. You can trust me to
do that. When he's got rid of, I'll
deal with your daughter. Get back
TO your own room now. must
make myself ready to be seen."
The woman fitted along the hall
like shadow. The door shut.
Fanny Gillett had the same fear.
or presentiment. that chilled her
mother. She felt that the man from
Scotland Yard was on the brink of
discovery. She had seen him re-
ceive kilograms and she guessed
that he suspected some one in the
house--herself or another-because
he lurked about out of doors and
! took the yellow envelopes himself.
Twice or three times this had hap
pened In day and half He
must, therefore, have expected tele-
grams and not have cared to waste
time by having them safely address,
ed to the nearest postoffice and go
ing there himself to get them. Prob
ably, too, there was something in
the kilograms which Dagon desired
should not be seen by any one at
Hidden Hall Court. Fanny had
mentioned this, and her own anxiety.
10 one person at the Court. and
mad been laughed at. This person
had such sublime faith in his star
and his plans that he would not be-
iieve In the trouble she gloomily
predicted. Miss Gillett was silently
resentful. She was not serving the
man for his own sake alone. She
mad run risks because she was ready
10 DO anything, no matter what If
Eve Carroll might go forever out of
the life of Kennedy Haste. What
happened to others-Rawdon Wells
or Pandora Haste-was of little i'm
portance. As a v. A. D. nursing at
the front she had seen too many
horrors to blench easily, and her
nature was capable of tenderness
only for one man.
That little beast of a detective
has got something up his sleeve. /"
she thought. II know he has: only
don't know what. It NAV be
what we're hiding here. Or-it NAV
be Skye. Or it may be both. for
he's the devil.
But IL he thinks he's going to
hand back the bride to,< Kennedv
Haste to the sound of Joyous music
why, he's mistaken"
Miss Gillett was afraid of the man
Tor whom she worked, but there was
another emotion in her heart
stronger than fear. He had no Sec
rets from her. because her services
as nurse had to be called in for an
inmate OF the hidden hall: and he
had watched her like a lynx, know
ing that she would laugh for joy at
seeing her patient dead. Twice she
had descended with him, and now
she was going alone. Because she