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PAGE TEN MEDTORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, 'APRIL 1933. TlseWliile Cockatoo by Mtgnon C. Eberhart ttYHurtUd: Jim Bundean la ao eused ot murdei by the manager of the French rummer hotel in which Bundean ia apendino a winter week, lie detests the oily manager Lov achiem. ilia three fellow gueata he knowt nothing of excepting Sue Tally. And Sue hoe, only a few minutes beore, wakened htm from a does by demanding entrance to hia room, and told him a harrow ing tale of eecape from an abduo .tor. Bhe has sent him to the hotel lobby tor her key, which ia not there. On hla way back he aeee 8ue' ahadow in the upper corri dor, and then he etumblea over a body, but Madame Uovachlem be natea her husband. Chapter 8 PERHAPS A TRAP? "VOU'RB a fool I" Madame Lot- flcblem repeated, and the glance the gave her deflated bos- band was not pleasant. "Of course Mr. Sundean bad nothing to do with the murder. That clock sword there are a dozen explanations. But the police won't believe thorn. Give It to me." Tbo man made a protestant ges- , ture, but nevertheless handed her the sword, and she took it coolly. "I'll just wash this off and re place It and nobody need know any thing about it. Lovschlem looked blank. "That won't do at all," he said, "I don't know what you " "Lovschlem," she said sharply, Her eyes quelled his. Yet there was no reason that I could see for Madame Lorschlem'i suddenly 'Championing me. Moreover, 1 didn't know that J nranted her championship. ! In the first place, if I let her do ,as she proposed there was no dan .ger of tbe girl, or me being accused of murder. At the same time, if the ;truth evontu&lly came out, as It ireadlly might, things would look much blacker for us. And 1 should ,glve tbe Lovschlems most detest- able hold over me. 1 "No," I said. "We'll call the po lice and let them know the whole (thing, dagger and alL I didn't kill him. I'm not afraid." Sbe stopped and looked at me In credulously. 1 saw then that ber ieyes wore green, limpid, and clear, and yet with t'-at look of secret (reflection that a cat's have. i "Not afraid?" she said rather . ioftly. "American, aren't you? Not bad-looking, either.' Accustomed to having your own way, I suppose, with men and women?" "You are too kind, madame. You'll leave the dngger exactly as It 1b, please, and your husband and I will wait together while you phone jot the police." "I'll do nothing ot tbe kind," she said and turned to the bathroom, but 1 caught her wrist and led her back to the dead man. Sbe did not protest or oven pull back when 1 told her to place the dagger on the dead man's chest, but I did not re lease her wrist until she had done so, and her ovos shone like a cat's when the light strikes them. Sbe said nothing to me. bowever. She gave hor husband a glance of scorn and fury b,it said In a smooth rolce that was under perfect con trol that, since Mr. Sundean so wished, they might as well call the police. -"Very well," said Lovschlem slug gishly, as If his thoughts were sunk is some dark mire. "Call them. Sbe looked at him again in a kind ot impatient "corn, shrugged light ly, and then glanced all about. "Father Robartl? she said sud denly. "Of oturee. Father Robert I'll get blm at once. This this dead man must have prayers Ira ;medlatcly. A vlolont death, with out absolution. Besides, It ia not . bad to give a more pious atmos phere, eh?" THE fringes of her yellow ecarf awirlpri Al.ll Vnnlahiut In h gloom of the long corridor. Shadows followed her, and thi wind whis pered, and the whisper rose to a gust, and the whole place rattled like a dead man's dry bones. 1 said to myself: It's a nightmare- I'll shut my eyes and then open them and look directly at the mantol clock. Tbe sword will still be there, end It will all have been a dream. The clock sword was, of course. not on the mantol; It was lying bloodstained there below me, and the dead man's face was real enough. Lovschlem was standing quiet be side me, his gate too upon tbe dead man, and his fat face only vaguely frightened now, for ho was "till sunk deep in his thoughts and looked more troubled and per plexed than be looked frlgbtoned. I thought ot Sue as I waited, of the story she ad told of ber abduc tion and the fact that she had not told enough about the event. She bad not wanted rue to look for her atxluclor, or to leu uiiuei iuu police or the Lovschlems. It was all full ot holes, and yet I believed It 1 was thinking bow pleasant it had been having her by my fireside when I remembered that she had sent me for a key that was not where sbe had said It would he. While I was gone a murder had been done, and the sword from the big clock, which phe had had in her hand a tew minutes before, was in the breast of the murdered man. It seemed ridiculous bnt I still be lieved ber. Perhaps this lumpish, grotesque thing at our feet had been pursuing ber, and she had snatched the sword and struck at him, and then run away. I was about to say something to Lovschlem, anything to break the silence in that narrow passage, when we heard a sound down tbe corridor and Madame Lovschlem's yellow shawl emerged, followed by the black jklrts of the priest Madame Lovschlem led the priest directly to the man at our feet We both moved back a little When the priest's red beard boomed up Into tbe light He bent over, as we all bad, and stared at the dead man. But be looked puzzled and clumsy and did not icem to know exactly what Madame Lovschlem-expeated of him. He got down, however, on bis knees and got out bis crucifix and rosary and began passing bis Angers over the beads. I COULDN'T ree his face, only hla hent head nnA rnthnr thin nnil narrow shoulders In their tightly buttoned soutane, and his feet which projected from the black folds of the skirt of the garment he wore and looked very large. He was younger than he had soemed on my first glimpse of him; there was an unwrlnkled look about the back ot his neck, there seemed to be no gray la bis mouse-colored hair, and his figure was rather lean. It was strange, I thought that he was wearing American-made shoes. It was so strange that 1 looked closoly at the soles and heels and stitching. They bad undoubt edly been made In America. He was mumbling then, and Lov schlem was staring blankly across the shadow-swept court and Ma dame was looking very devout ex cept for her eyes, which were shin ing and were looking at me with an expression that came very close to a kind ot wicked amusement Tbe priest kept on muttering. To my approval he had asked no ques tions about the murder, which was self-evident to be sure; and be ottered no churchly admonitions oi advice. It occurred to me that hi might be, In his youth, a little un certain In what was likely an un precedented experience with blm Lovschlem drew back a little, and Madame and I moved also. I was tired and would have done with the thing; l.eaid: "And now, madame, the police." "You go, Orethe," said Lovschlem stupidly. "Toll them what you think best" This time she consented, and after giving one Quick glance about which lingered with a certain satis faction on the kneeling figure of the priest she went I was suddenly frightfully weary. And I knew that I must have my story ready. My story in which there must be no bolee, for I should bsve to stick to It and tell it at the later and formal Inquiry which would undoubtedly take place. Tre weakest point woe my trip to the lobby. . How could I explain that without telling about Sue? Through the gloss windows 1 looked out over the shadows ot the court It the wind would stop, per- naps things would be better. But Instead of stopping or even lulling a bit there was a terrlflo onslaught wnicn feu upon tbe court and the old house with cold and raging fury. ine snadowa flew, and the small light above the great Iron gate waved madly. It made such a wide arc that suddenly Its flickering rays feu upon a window a aota the court and above. The shutters of that window were thrown back, and a face was watching ns. The room beyond was black, so the watcher must have been able to see us all quite cleasly against the light behind us. The face looked . white In that flash ot light upon It and dreadfully haggard. You felt at once that whatever watched had some strong and dreadful Interest in the scene It looked upon. But the thing was, It was girl's face and It was like Sue Tally's face. (Copyright. 1HS, tllgntm O. St, er hart) Wis the face at tha window ' ua'ar Sundaan asks, tomorrow Work Started On Municipal Market PORTLAND, Ore, April 14. (AP) The tint work on Portland's $3,000, 000 municipal market started yester day as workmen began the erection .of building board fences around the property on front street, The market will cover three blocks and will face a loo-foot thoroughfare. Several hundred men will be employed on tbe project Phone 043. Well haul away your refute. City 8utary Service. Broken windows glazed by rrowbrldge Cabinet Works. GUM LOOK FOR THE REDTAPE OPENER NOT THE PAID LOS ANGELES. April H. (AP) Final settlement of the prolonged controvert over toe 1 10,000 which too city oi Loa Angeles offered u a re ward for the arrest of William 'Ed ward Hickman, alayer of Marlon Par wer, waa reached late yesterday when the city council ordered the money returned to the city treasury. Many claimants to the reward ap peared, and Tom Ourdane and Buck Lleueallen, Pendleton, Ore., officers who arrested Hickman, sued for their share. The city attorney reported to the council that the suits of the Pen dleton men bad been denied by the federal court. Slated1 for Job. WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP) Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming, Is expected In authorita tive circles to become a member of the civil service commission. SAN FRANCISCO, Aprl 14 (AP) -The California Oregon Power com pany reported net earnings of $3, 339,097 for the 13 months ended Jan uary 31, 1833, In a statement filed with the California railroad commis sion here. 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