Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-22

, when r-yelled the person there yelled
back. Then the Masquer made a
noise coming down. and everything
had to stop"
Masouer might have gone to pay
/ visit TO that opposite room. but Pan
Thought not. Her ears were sharp,
md she would have heard his key
In the other lock.
Perhaps he was lurking outside.
to listen in case she cried for mercy
-bessed to be taken out at any
price rather than be left alone for
two whole days without food! Well
she wasn't going to cry for mercy.
| She would wait for q few minutes
| until-if he were out there-he'd
lose patience and depart. Then she
would try for the echo again. But,
meanwhile, who was Masquer? The
| girl racked her brain in a desperate
| effort to guess the mystery of the
| man.
| The disguised voice was so we'll
disguised that, if she'd heard it be-
| fore, she could associate it with no
| one she had ever met. The figure
| with its queer stoop, was rendered
unrecognizable by that and the
cloak. What with the big. soft hat
and the melodramatic mask of crepe,
partition without face or head.
Though Pan had no idea of time
save for the faint daylight, her eyes
| were by now we'll accustomed to the
green glimmer, and she peered anXi-
ously through the dusk which. it
seemed to her, was deepening
I toward night.
rs it five or ten minutes since the
brute wehl out and locked the
| when I've counted sixty Ill pound on
the wall and call out again"
But she had not got to thirty-fve
when the silence broke. There came
muffled knocking, which sounded
far way. But there was no mistake
A knocking it was,
Pandora ran to the locked door he
hind the tapestry, and somehow her
hand. grasping the curtain, brushed
against small protuberance on the
wall which she had missed before
She forgot her counting. For an
instant she forgot even the knocks.
AN electric light SWITCH" she
gasped, and pressed the tiny knob.
Instantly the room was not food
ed, but bathed with a brighter light
than that of the fading day. 1t
was green also, and therefore must
filter through green glass, since it
was not colored by the water. At
first she could not see whence this
light came. but looking up she spied
four small green globes, one in each
corner where wall and thick glass
ceiling met. At best it was not
much brighter than forest twilight.
with sunset drifting through an
emerald roof of leaves. No doubt
| Masquer made this Improvement for
| his own sake, but had feared
| bright light. lest it should shine vp
through the pool in the Persian
Garden. He would have calculated
Just the safe amount when he had
the work done by that zone work.
man whom he would trust" Wen,
it would spare her the horror Of
black darkness through the long
nights,
Who are you?" she called.
The voice behind the echo ans
, wersdS but Pan could catch no
| Good gracious, If it's Eve Car
I roll the girl gasped, half aloud.
| On 1t must, 1t must be Eve, Raw
don Wells had not killed her. At
worst ne had shut her up. But.
| surely, he had not done even that,
lie had done nothing to Eve. He
was wholly innocent. The MasoIer
| Mas the guilty on.
Fan had not liked Eve. The rirI
was frankly aware that she'd beon
Jealous. She had never tried 70 ey-
cuse herself. 1t had~ almost broken
ner heart when Don fell in love
WIN MISS Carroll. In her despair
sne thought it quite broken, and
tnaC NE was over! But she hadn't
sad. 1t was when Eve threw awav
me love for which she-Pan-would
nave given half her youth that the
girl mad felt actual hatred.
IN tnose days-the days when Eve
ana Kennedy Haste were first on
gaged-Pandora would have been
snad mad she heard that Eve Carroll
vas oead. Yet she had not been
qti.e SO desperately miserable as
Swmen Don had been Ewes lover.
t n,n OF the old ''palship" be-
Deen saved from the WRECK of HE
happiness. At first he had said
hothlng about the blow that had faI.
zen on MIN. He had seemed Glad 10
lave ran with him, though he had
iiorgotten her while the sunshine Of
Eves favor had sfone upon him.
sn. one day--not long before the
s or9t anguish had burst
n,,, III IN torrent of words. He had
hon .fe e"eHl, OF course, and Pan
r,;r "ieu 10 put them out of her
r.h but there had come a time
Eel n sle couldn't help remembering.
Evs en IL was Eve she blamed
go WHO would be responsible for
ed ''n,ng. no matter what happen
eu. Now, however. when she
,i,ought That Eve was a prisoner
dns herself In this secret place un-
! fain,i the pool Pans heart warmed
"E,y toward the other girl
upon the door. "'H Oe"'
=, Ihere was an answer but ,c.in
the voice was rauffled by disto "e"'"
- wonder IL she undorstands
geography" Pandor. tbo,'uSt e'' SSs
herself had learned # dmrin. tbs
war, When she had wished m nnalify
as an air. woman. she 6od nnt
EEacticed much, for Ken had wr;+ten
rom France and begged her to S,vn
Up the plan; but she remenobered
| Morse code. 'p"doet IN inc
now she snatchcd off ber uttIe
Drown suede shoe. and hoon I'M ron
Ca Win Its heel the name of give
SarroH To that she added do
you understand" 0eu' Nv
mere was silence az she Tanned
ir me instant she stoned knock.
nns began again. But II was not in
su 1t had no meaning she was
sSrs and regfetfully the hone of
exchanging messages had "t ~ he
Continued Tomorrow,