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PIGE SIX MEDFORD .MATL TRTBTTNT5, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, XPRTL 30, 1933 TEie WIftile Cocltaf oo by Mignon G. Ebcrhart SYNOPSIS: Oan It be that the man who murdered the Uuseian in the hotel corridor, the man who 4hot live Ximee at Jim oundtun, and the man mho tried to abduot Sue Tally are the eamet Sue. Bnn ' dean and David Lorn, a detective, puxelo over the problem. Then agree that behind it all it a plot to obtain the token by meane of which Sue ie to prove her identity to her trother, whom ehe hae not eeen for peart, and thus to ehare with him an immense fortune. In any oaee. Sue ie in danger and Bundean achet to help her, Chapter Jl STUBBORN SUB ' STARTED toward Sue: It was a ghastly auggeetlon ahe'd pot Into words. But Lorn Intercepted me. "Oh, don't think of danger. Miss Tally." he aald easily. "The token protect! yon ao long as they don't discover It," ' She looked faintly less rigid under the easy assurance of his words. But I was thinking: ab duction, search, threat, unspeak able torture, even. And she was like a rock In her determination not to go to her brother. ; "Cant you cable something to ;Francl to bring blm here sooner?" I suggested. "No," cried Sue spiritedly. "I Jron't beg" "Nonsense," I aald. "This Is too , erlons for petty prldo " "Petty pride!" She was on her feet again, her eyes flashing danger ously. "Come, come. Miss Tally," mur mured Lorn quietly. "We under stand your position. But I'll cable .to Mr. Tally." "I won't have It" "Then I'll do It myself," I said grimly, and meant It, though I Save the average man's dislike for meddling In someone else's affairs. "You won't," said Sue, sitting down again. "Then yonH tell the police about It and get their permission to leave " "I won't," said Sue Quite sweetly. "Tho question of cabling your brother can wait," Lorn said quiet ly. "It wouldn't help us now, any ' way. It would take Mr. Tally some time to get here, and this business will he, probably, cleared up and done with long before he can ay rlve. And there Is no use talking of leaving now. The police will not let any of us leave. Not under any circumstances. It Is ont of the ques tion. You can call that settled," He looked thoughtfully from Sue to me and back. "Have you any reason at all to (uspe'ct that the Lovscbtems are at the bottom of this, Miss Tally? There's a very obvious Implication of a sort of conspiracy of at least two people possibly more. One person alone could not possibly awing it, any way you look at It" "Tho Lovschlemst No," cried Sue stubbornly. "I told 'you I'd boen nervous about it But nothing definite except that abduction, ;And nothing at all to Involve the ilrovschlema." "But there's no one else In the hotel," said Lorn. "No," agreed Sue at once. "Ex cept the servants, and they couldn't ho the offenders Marcel Is too loyal, Marianne too honest, and the cook has no brains at all and besldeB Is a shocking coward." "Well," said Lorn, "there's the priest and Mrs. Byng." "And do you seriously suspect either of them?" asked Sue scorn fully. "No If there actually Is a conspiracy, as you call It against me. It comes from outside the hotel." "But ways and moans?" hinted Lorn dryly. "Poufl There are plenty of ways and means. People could easily get In and out of the place, and with out being seen. It stands open all day. It's practically deserted In the winter. And It's a great ram bling affair with a hundred hiding places." "Do you know any of them?" asked Lorn sharply. SHE looked at him In a perplexed way. "Oh, I see." she said after a mo ment "You mean really secret hiding places. Isn't that a little ab surd. Mr. Lorn?" "PerbapB," he said. "Still it's a Tery old place, you know." "You are euro it was a man who shot at you in the courtyard, Mr. Sundean?" asked the detective. "Why, yes, of course. That la, well no, I didn't actually see him, and I suppose a woman can Ore a revolver as easily as a man. But 1 felt that It was a man." Sue said quickly: "You'vo for gotten, Mr. Sundean. I told you there Is a way Into the hotel after the doors and gates hare been locked for the night I know It, Lot- schlem and his wife know It Marcel knows it But otherwise It Is sup posed to be kept a secret." I remembered her words at once. "And you said the man who fol lowed you last night knew the way Into the hotel? That limits It further, then. If the way Is supposed to be kept a secret If we can dis cover just who knows of that way providing of course it has actually been kept a secret" Sue nodded vigorously, though I thought It un likely "then among those people must be " I checked myself, as I saw I was getting nowhere, and Lorn said a little maliciously: "Must be whom, Mr. Sundean? The murderer or the murdered man?" "That depends on the Identity of the murdered man," I said rather glumly. "At any rate. It proves that the man who tried to abduct Miss Tally had some connection with the hotel or with the Lovschiems. The fact that after driving about for so long a time, he finally brought her back to the Immediate vicinity of the hotel Indicates that too." Lorn nodded. "Possibly," he said. "Then," I said, "there's the car she was carried off In. It the mur dered man was her abductor, then the car must be standing about near the hotel." "True," said Lorn, giving me a faintly respectful look. 'Tit see what I can find out about that Fortunately, as I said, the police here are Inclined to be friendly to me. I wonder how soon we'll know the oxact poison: we can't consider Its hypothetical relation to the few facts we have.until we know what the poison was, how It might be admlnlstored, and when. However, the abductor may have had ac complices." iTTWERB was only, one man," 1 said Sus with a small shudder. I glanced at her white face and said quickly: "Well, there seem to be several things that will bear investigation. I want to know, first, a.out this business of the dagger; wbo took It oft the dead man and washed It and then put it back on the clock? "Then I want to know why the lights wont out Just as they did while I was in the court It was a most opportune accident if acci dent It was for the man In the court with me; otherwise I should certainly have caught a glimpse of him. "My only surmise about that Is that, If It was Lovschlem In the court then Madame Lovschlem could easily have pulled the main switch. She might have been watch ing tho affair and have come to her husband's assistance, In that way. Where were you, Miss Tally, when the lights in the hotel went out?'' "I was still In my room," she said at once. "That was," I asked, hating my self but remembering too vividly the face In the third-floor window, "your own room nineteen? On this floor?" "Why, yes, of course," she said. "Do you mind If I ask how you knew of the murder?" "Not at all. I was opening my window; I could not see through the shutters, and I unlatched one In order to glance out Into the court I saw light streaming from your room and several figures yours, 1 thought and Marcel's and I could see Father Robart bending as It be were kneeling. "It was clear, of courBO, that something unusual had happened, and I was curious, I suppose. I felt apprehensive and alarmed and couldn't possibly have gone to sloep without knowing. Finally I closed the shutter and started to dress again. While I was dressing the light in my room wont out "That has happened before, so I Just waited till It came on again and thought nothing of It As Boon as I got my coat on I came out into the corridor and hurried along it and Into the north corridor and saw Marcel. You and the priest weren't there any more. Marcel told me what had happened, and then you come." "You met no one In the cor ridors?" "No," she said promptly. "No ono." I couldn't say: But I saw you looking from a third-floor window and you looked white and terrible I couldn't say: Why was your story about the koy so strangely apt? I couldn't say: Why did you replace the dagger? I couldn't say: Why, oh. why didn't you tell me the truth about tho time when you loft my room? (CoryHiht, IMJ, mono O. Bberhart) The terrible tangle takes a new form, tomorrow. 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