Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-14

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EVELYN HASTE, beautiful and fich
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KENS S1EIye HASTE. her husband, who
suspects completely on the part Of
bis oid y Tsf So WrTss ....n,
scientist, who has insisted on lend.
/ ing the couple Hidden Hall Court.
| his gloomy and mystery-ridden es-
! tate, for their honeymoon. and who
10 found after the disappearance in
PANDORA. a gipsy-liks girl. adopted
sister Of Kennedy and secretly in
love with Wells.
MISS cILLTT ;.s an :..wa =, nurse s: mo
tai. and who 10 an intense person:
DAGON. youthful Scotland Yard de-.
tective, who has done glorified Spy
work. in the war. He II OF vivid
Latin temperament, though Cana
dian In training.
sIsuthine "ths Unknown"
There they all stood. side by side
on his desk. and Dagon apostro-
phized them in the intervals be-
tween Jotting down second
thoughts in his new notebook with
q stylographic pen.
Under the heading Of "Sir r. W."
he had already scrawled several
paragraphs; but he knew his notes
: by heart, and there was no need to
refresh his mind by reading them
over.
Whether or no r. w. had any
hand In the disappearance OF Eve
Carroll. the man has o strange Sec
ret OF some sort concerning his visit
10 the Court on her wedding night"
noOnn ar !" hA
had forgotten some important
papers which he needed to take with
. him to America. This 1 don't be-
lieve. Too obvious an excuse! Says
also that being on the spot he
thought It well to burn q lot Of
things which were no longer Of any
use. do believe he burnt the
things, but not because they weren t
OF use.
'He must have made up the fur
mace fire himself, and he wouldn't
have eaken that trouble for nothing.
The burning Is immensely important
in this. business. If l can find out
which things he really burned, and
which somebody else burned, IL
there was somebody else, I shall
have got long way on the right
road.
ApAoPoS VA LILO 4Hdk
skeleton in the furnace was a cute
trick IL X. w. has an enemy who
would go any length to inJure him.
But 1t wasn't quite cute enough.
Either the person who planned 1t
couldn't get tho skeleton of a wo-
man. or didn't suppose that 1t would
lie possible to detect the difference
In few bones after they'd been
nearly burnt to cinders. There
could be two objects only in burning
that skeleton Quitting aside the idea
that Il. w. himself may have done It
for some unknown reason); one, to
make 1t appear that Eve had been
murdered; the other, to make 1t ap-
pear that X. w. was the murderer.
Now what would happen to X.
w. IL 1t could be clearly proved that
he had lured Mrs. Haste into some
secret trap in his own house, killed
her. and attempted to cremate her
body III furnace?
he would. OF course, be hanged.
WAS enough evidence built up
against K. w. to convict him?
III the skeleton hadn't turned out
to be that of n man. thus suggesting
trick, there might have been
enough provided that the girl Pan
dora Haste had not taken, the guilt
upon herself by bringing forward
several proofs.
Pandora Haste. Is she capable
Of killing or kidnapping the wife of
her adopted brother, as she init
mates that she has done?
Possibly she might kill in a mo-
ment OF rage. Any hot-headed per-
son might do that. She could do
nothing Of the sort in cold blood.
Kidnapping must be carried out in
cold blood. therefore +. II. did not
kldnap Eve.
''If p. III. lied, why did she?
Dashed IL l can see any motive
except love for r. W.. and a wish to
save him at any cost to herself.
would a girl make such a sacri-
nee for a man known to be in love