Evening star., 1925-09-26

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second thoughts" in his new
notebook with stylographic pen.
Under the heading of "Sir r. W."
he had already scrawled several para
graphs; but he knew his notes by
heart, and there was no need to re-
fresh his mind by reading them over.
Whether or no r. w. had any
| hand in the disappearance Of Eve
Carroll, the man has a strange secret
Of some sort concerning his visit to
the court on her wedding night" Da-
! gon now wrote. "R. w. says he had
| forgotten some important papers
which he needed to take with him
to America. This I don't believe. Too
obvious an excuse: Says also that
being on the spot he thought 1t well
! to burn a 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 furnace
| fire himself, and he wouldn't have
taken that trouble for nothing. The
burning is immensely important in
! this business. If I can find out which
things he really burned, and which
| somebody else burned. if there was
somebody else, / shall have gone a
long way on the right road.
"Apropos of the burning. That
Sketelo0 III lne furnace was n cute
trick if K. W. has an enemy who
would go any length to injure him
But il wasn't quite cute enough
Either the person who planned 1t
couldn't get the skeleton of a woman
or didn't suppose that II would be
possible to detect the difference in a
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 r. w.
himself may have done ii for some
unknown reasont-one, to make 1t APP
pear that Eve had been murdered:
the other, to make it appear that
r. w. was the murderer.
Now what would happen to r. w.
If it 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 in a
furnace?
''He would, of course, be hanged
Was enough evidence built up
against r. w. 10 convict him?
IF the skeleton hadn't turned out
to be that of a man. thus suggesting
a trick, there might have been enough
provided that the girl Pandora 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 intimates that
she has done?
Possibly she might kill In moment
of rage. Any hot-headed person might
do that. She could do nothing of the
sort in cold blood. kidnapping must
be carried cut in cold blood, therefore
p. H. did not kidnap Eve.
If p. II. lied. why did she?
Dashed if L can see any motive eX-
cept love for r. w, and a wish to
save him at any cost to herself.
Would a girl make such a sacrifice
for a man known to be in love with
another woman? If she would, she'd
be an unusual kind of girl. Most
women will do anything for the men
who love them, and jolly little for
those who don't. Still less for those
head over ears in love with some one
else
Even if p. II. was willing to damn
herself for the sake of r. w, doesn't
that mean she knew the proof against
him was overwhelming, and that with
out help from outside he was surely
lost? That's the way the thing ap-
well means she must have been
acquainted with other facts that would
look black against r. W.-facts that
haven't yet come out in evidence.
The disappearance Of Pandora
Haste. TO escape would be to con-
tradict herself. She had herself ar
rested. let's say, because she wished
for one reason or another to be
thought guilty of doing away with
Eve Carroll, as she put it. Why, then.
vanish before she'd had time to estab-
lish her own guilt in the mind Of any
one?
WAS she kidnapped?
IF she was, the man or woman re-
sponsible for Ewes disappearance or
death did the trick. He-or She
wanted r. w. to be convicted, and
feared the scheme would fail because
of p. H. If she stuck to her guns.
The Unknown. Who is this person
who wants r. w. convicted, and If
possible, hanged? Is there such
person at all?
rs it likely that motive would be a
desire for revenge for some injury, or