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)
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