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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!"
(Copyright, tut, Ulonon O. tbtrhart)
Father Robart makes a eurlous
atatemtnt, tomorrow.
U. 0. MOTHERS TO
Day celebration to bo held on toe
campus of th University of Oregon
May 13, IS and 14. Beginning with
the campus luncheon Friday noon
events for students, mothers and vis
itors will fill nearly every hour of
each day from morning to midnight.
The campus luncheon, to bo held
Friday from noon to 3:30, will be
Plans havs been completed for the I enlivened with several features.
continued Junior Wee Is-End-Mother's Friars, senior honor society for men.
and Mortar Board, senior women's so
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gowns, "tapping" those seniors select
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The- university b&nd will play and
other entertainment will be offered.
Queen' Margaret I, Miss Margaret
Wagner of Salem, will also be crown
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time.
Sunday morning the newly elected
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Mothers wiu meet and at 11 o'clock
all churches will hold special Moth
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