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6 PJQE EIGHT SfEPTOTtP IfilE TRTTBTOE, HED7QRD. OREGON", SUSDSY, MAY 7, 1933 i TJieWIiile Cockatoo by Mipto C. Ebtrharti SrXOPMB: Two murdert hnva heen contmltt4 and (wo atfumple have been made on Jim Hundean'e We, the laet of which wounded him painfully. Ait are connected, Bun dean and the detective David Lorn believe, with an attemot to eteal the token bu meant of which Sue Tally, their 'elloto aueet in a little French hotel, muet claim her halt ef her father's vast fortune. Bun etean. although suspected of ths murders bu the French police, is mhiellv concerned about the eafetv nt Suo TaTtv. Be i awakened in the middle of the nlaht, and emelle tobacco smoke nearbv. Chapter 2T .WHENCE THE SMOKEt JT ni Tory cold, and tbs glow from the red ashes 11111 lighted the loom sufficiently tor me to eee that Ithere was no one about and the (table before the door was undis turbed. ; Sly shoulder throbbed as I pulled s dressing gown around me aad (went to the window. One casement fwas already a little open, and I pulled It wider and opened the shat ters and looked down Into tht street. There was no one about, and closed the shutters and, partially. jthe window again. 1 There was the courtyard. Cautlonsly I moved the table ftway and opened the door. : No one was In the long, bait-dark (corridor. Across the shadowy court It be window and glass-paned door ot the lobby made bright rectangles ot ulght, and I could sea two pollce fcnen; they sat at a small table di rectly under the light and were placidly playing some kind ot card ajame. ' The men were not smoking, al though. It they had been, the odor would nerer hare reached my room. But , behind me tbe whole north twlng was doserted and silent. J walked carefully along Ita length. I even opened, very cautiously, a jdoor or two near my own room. JBat the rooms were black cavities. land the air that rushed to meet me was cold and stale and bad that pe Uullarly musty, dank smell of rooms (that are very old and hare been Ismpty for a long time. ' Moreover, the smell ot tobacco bmoke was much fainter here was Hndeed ao faint that I was not sure nt waa there at all. It wss only (when I returned to my room that It was definite and atrong again. I lelosed the door, puztled, and (snapped on the light. ' It pussled me so muoh that I ex amined the room and adjoining (bathroom. There was no one there, ot course, and no evidence that anyone had been there. I even looked for hidden entrances to my room, feeling a little silly and melo dramatic about It, but thinking still that there might be some such thing in that old place, built In the days when seoret doors were the most matter-of-fact of arrange sments. Bnt there was nothlnn fndmwl. shore was no place tor anything ex- )eept behind the enormous ward robe, and It I moved that I should (rouse the whole hotel In the proc ess, for It was very heavy and large. ; However, I did drift Into uneasy jdreams again, and by morning the lodor ot tobacco smoke a silly and trivial thing at Its clearest had knerged Into those dreams and no longer aeemed lmnortanL althoueh told Lorn about It when I saw blm. i That was when w met In the ponnge after breakfast. disconcerting to see a policeman's bead and blue cap pop out from around the wall by the entrance arch, survey me unwlnklngly an leisurely and then pop back again In a way that left no donbt In tb world that I bad actually the closest. of company. Suspiciously I sniffed at the to bacco the priest waa smoking, could no', trace In It the fragrance of the tobacco smoke that had Inexplica bly drifted Into my room during tb night and fell to speculating regard ing that enigmatical figure. Why had he taken so much trouble about an alibi T Ths fact that be had so carefully arranged a needless alibi was In It self suspicious. Highly suspicious, I told myself, looking at his long black legs and American shoes. He'd explained the shoes when he'd said casually that he'd spent two years In America. But It auddonly struck me that his heard Itself was a suspicious point As a rule, only missionary priests or Russian priests wear beards, and he had the appearance ot being neltber. And yet. If as sumed for purposes ot disguise, It would have entailed a long and pa tient process, for It was a real beard. He had not only taken pains to arrange a false alibi, but he had lied himself, and which was still less what one might expect In a man of God he had practically forced lit tle Marcel to lie In order to support nis story. Fuccl crosked, scratched and flut tered clumsily down from the chair. The bird had been In the lounge with me Just before Marcel had en tered It the previous afternoon, wondered what he had seen. wished tuere were some way to wrest from him the knowledge that might be back ot those brlcbt. shoe- button eyes eyes thst looked ss knowing and secretive as his mis tress eyes. , mffARIANNB, redeye! and dark and somehow sullen, had brought In the breakfast tray and (bounced out again. All her giggles were gone, poor child. I wondered (what little Marcel had been to her. 1 Lorn listened politely, but with out much Interest, to my story of the tobacco smoke which did, In (fact, sound extremely trivial and fanciful by the light of day said In k listless wsy thst It wsa probably a policeman somewhere, but,that he iwouia try to make sure; asked bow tn shoulder was and ssld he was off to try to discover what the po lice were doing. The matter of Father Robert's alibi would. I thought, cwslt more amportant Investigations, though 1 (felt that the sooner we came to a ieoncluslon about the Information ;ilttle Marcel had given me the bet iter. . I followed Lorn through the small lobby and into the court. No one ,was in the lobby, but Father Robart .'was sitting outside In the court; he rwaa smoking and hastily put up a Dewspaper as he saw me and began tto read assiduously. I Pucd was sitting disconsolately ion a chair back near the priest, and I took another chair. It was rather I yHIS time Pucol croaked as dls- consolately as hs had scratched, sidled over to the priest and pulled himself up on bis knee, whence he scrutinised the beard closely. mere was suddenly an Impatient rustle ot the newspaper, and behind It the priest's red beard and angry eyes appeared. I did not realise that I must bsve been looking, as 1 reit, faintly amused at tbe cocks- toos cynical expression nntll Fa- tner Robart snspped: well, have you stared at me enought And Is It so amusing an occupation r As a matter of fact, I was watch ing the cockatoo," I ssld, "and think ing of what Marcel told me." I Was looking directly into his oyes, and It was with Interest thnt noted the singular way they bo- came fixed and rigid like a cat's. his face, too, looked suddenly rath er yellow back ot that flaminr thin beard. Presently he said, his yel- iow-gray eyes never wavering in that rigid secret stare Into mine: "Marcelt And what was that, since you've Introduced the sub ject?" I hesitated, resolved In a frac tion, of a second that I was doing no harm, and replied: "He told me the truth about the story you gave the police concern ing your whereabouts the night the unknown men wss murdered. He said you were not ill and .that be was not In your room with you." It occurred to me thst he hsd braced himself for It; had perhaps known what was coming. He said coldly: "Welir I shrugged, and promptly re solved not to Indulge In that gesture again until my shoulder had healed. Well?" I said, with his own In- flection. His eyes remained still. and yet It seemed to me there was an angry flash back of them. Clear ly he resented the Implication that it waa not my place to speak. He remained stubbornly silent for a moment, but he was not ot ths temperament to keep his feel ings In leash tor long. Fully con scious of the seething rage back of those still yellow oyes, I took out my cigarettes. In a leisurely fash Ion I leaned forward, extonded the package toward him, and said pleas antly: "Do have a cigarette." He made an angry notion with his hands and sprsng to bis feet. "Oh, you are Insulting!" Father Robart orled. "You are lnsultingl" "Oh. come now," I said mildly. "H Is scarcely an Insult to offer a man a cigarette. Hoy don't stop on tha bird!" 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