PXOE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON', THTJRSD'AT, MAT A, 1933.
T2ae Wli.'Be Cockatoo
by Mignou G. Eberhart'
SYNOPSIS! d peaceful hotel ft,
Southern France euddenly hat be
come a madhouae-a atranger ia
murdered, Jim Bundean la ahot at
in the dark, an abductor altnoet
tnaket aieajj uith Bue Tally. Sue.
Bundean, and the detective. David
Lorn, believe it all ie part of a plot
to ateal the token by meant of
which Sue must claim her share of
her father's milllone. Then ae Mar
eel, the porter, ie about to tell Bun
dean why he thinke Sue ie in
danger. Marcet ie murdered. The
murderer eecanee in the elevator,
and the police euapeet Bundean, al
though the murderer alio winged
him Kith a bullet.
Chapter 25
COOPED UP AGAIN
STUCK, throughout the Question'
lug, to the main (acts. I had been
talking to Marcel. He knew some
thing about the murder ot the un
known man. He bad been about to
tell me when be was shot
Once during the proceedings the
police searching the hotel returned,
dragging a tat and volubly protest
ing man with a long egg-like head
and a tiny black mustache who
turned out to be the cook, PauL
Otherwise they found no one.
And once the commlssalro ques
tioned Mrs. Byng at tomfi length,
since It developed that she was the
first on the scene.
, Mrs. Byng Insisted even at that
moment In replying In French
which seemed to be almost unin
telligible to them; at length they
threaten that fat cook Into serving
Father Kobarts dinner, I'll bring
yon a tray, because you're halt sick,
but I won't serve tables In the din
ing room, and that's fiat"
"Make Lovschlem do It."
"Lovschiem!" Bhe bad given me
a glance that held a kind of derisive
scorn and shrugged her shoulders
and repeated: "Lovschlem! Here,
1 11 cut the meat for you.1
She did, and was gone. But It oc
curred to me that Madame Orethe
herself was quite capable ot under-
taxing and executing Just such a
cold-blooded mnrder as I had wit
nsssed. she had plenty of cold
nerve and was, I suspected, funda
mentally an actress. Added to that,
she had more brains In her little
linger than Lovschlem bad In bis
whole great hulking body.
But there was no clue leading to
her. And as to that, there was only
Lovschlem's presence and the fact
that I suspected blm of knowing
the unidentified murdered man that
led to him. .
It was Just then that Lorn ar
rived. I was glad to see him. My
head cleared, and things were bet
ter.
He was very quiet The flery.
quick-spoken, glltterlng-eyed man
of the excited moments following
the murder had again lapsed Into
this ncobtrusive, toneless nonentity
of a man.
OW then," said Lorn. "Let's
hear the whole story. Had
Marcel managed to tell you any
thing?" "Yes, But not enough. He only
told me that some towels had been
found the morning after the mur
der, and that the towels had been
used, but were In a supposedly
empty room. That Father Robert's
alibi was as false as his red beard
looks. And at the last that Sue Tally
Father Robart's alibi was as false
as his beard looked.
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got her into English, and the up
shot of the thing was that she had
seen no one. Bhe had heard the
hots, and the ulse had wakened
ber from her after-lunch nap.
She had put on a shawl and hur
tled out into the corridor and to
ward the gallery running along the
well of the lounge. She bad come,
In other words, directly along the
path which the escaping murderer
must have taken. And she had seen
nothing.
At the last I began to think they
were going to drag us all to the
police court; and I felt so dizzy
that I didn't much care. But they
did Anally leave without taking me
along, which was Incredible.
It was true, ot course, that they
left a guard ot several policemen
and warned us all against trying to
escape in a mannor that was, as
Eue remarked later, almost as con
clusive as arrest And It was true,
too, that I was their principal sus
pect; was, Indeed, their only sus
pect hut the doctor told them flat
ly that there was no need ot taking
me to Jail Just then.
ATER that night In my room,
" with a Are going, and the re
mains of a scrambled meal which
had been prepared by the hysteri
cal cook, whom Madame Orethe
scolded and threatened and brow
beat Into submission (It seemed,
Lorn said, that he'd wanted to
leave Immediately and never come
back. "I don't blamo him," I inter
jected with foellng) later, I say,
I agreed with him. At the time
things were rather hazy.
Madame Orethe had brought me
dinner trny, which surprised mo
s little, set It down beside my
chair, and hurried away.
"Mrs. Byng wants her dinner In
her room, too," she had said brief
ly. 'She has chills and won't un
lock her door until she looks
through the keyhole. Miss Tally Is
with Marianne, who's nearly out of
her wits. I've got to go down and
was in danger. I think It was her
danger that made him talk at all.
It was Just then that he was shot"
"Do you mean to say It was be
fore he'd managed to tell yon what
the danger was?"
4'Yes."
"Look here," said Lorn, looking
curiously at me. "Maybe I'd better
not stay now. You look feverish
maybe that wound la worse than
they think."
"I'm all right But we've got to
do something about Sue. She's
wandering about the hotel any place
she's with the maid now. We've
got to watch her. We've got to
plan
"Did yon have a chance to tell
her what Marosl had said?"
"Oh. yes, I warned her. But she's
got too much courage for her own
good."
"Yon don't do oredlt to Miss Tal
ly's intelligence," said Lorn dryly.
He was still watching me rather
curiously, and I remembered that
I'd called her flue and had probably
shown a degree ot anxiety about her
which he considered out of propor
tion. But It didn't matter.
"Get her," I Insisted. "Or I will.
I've been sitting here thinking hor
rors, and I don't like her to go about
the place alone."
"A road is never safer than after
an accident has occurred," said Lorn
sententlously. "However, If yon In
sist "
Talking ot It made it mors defi
nite. 1 got up and went with him; I
was still a little weak, but the hot
dinner made me feel more like a
man.
We found her in Marianne's room,
whither Lorn led me at once. He
smiled t little as I exclaimed over
his knowledge of the topography of
me rambling old place.
"That's my business, Sundean.
he said.
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MISSING TOT VICTIM
OF AUTO iS BELIEF
OeSIPEE, K. H., May 4. (AP)
Belief that two-yftr-old Sarah Wal
ker, mlaslng alnc Monday was dead
was felt by many persons as hun
dreds of residents searched for the
child today.
Sheriff James Welsh said he be
tiered an automobile had accidental
ly run down the ohlld and the oc
cupants of the car had hidden the
body through fear of prosecution for
the accident.
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PORTLAND, May 4. (AP) A spe
cial dispatch to the Journal today
from Washington, D. C, stated tbat
Dr. George W. Calver, capital physi
cian has "denied emphatically" re
ports that the Illness of Representa
tive Walter M. Pierce of Oregon Is
more serious than heretofore stated
In the announcement of physicians.
Pierce suffered an attack of Indi
gestion last Thursday In the house
office. Dr. Calver has been attending
him.
SEWAGE PLANT VOTED -BY
BAKER RESIDENTS
BAKER. May 4. (AP) Baker vot
ers yesterday authorized construction
of a sewage disposal plant at an es
timated cost of 104. 133.60 and the
relaying of water mains on Broad
way at a coat of tl3.676.S3 in a
special election.
Fbone Ma. Wen haul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Service.
PERMANENTS 1.50, 13.80. 4, ISM.
bowman's. Phone 67.
DEDICATE MOTHER DAY
TO WELFARE EFFORTS
WASHINGTON. May 4. (AP)
President Roosevelt by proclamation
today calleld for observance of moth
er's day May I, urging that every
thing be done this year "for relief
and welfare of mothers and children
who may be In need of the necessi
ties of llfe."v
Dont extend credit to Mr. New
Customer until you find out from
the Southern Oregon Credit Bureau
bow be paid the other fellows.
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