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(PSGE TWELVE fcr SffEDFOHD ITAIL TRTBTHTE. HEDFOTtD, DBEGR52T, THUESDXr, 3EY IT, 1939. TfieWKile Cockatoo ,4jf Higno C. Ebethart) SYHOPSTSt Wo unrir sofu- flon o tha two murders that have occurred in their email French hotel, and the two attempts on his cwn life, Jim Bundean confer iclth Xtavid Lorn, a detective. They agree the events are part of an at tempt to eeoure the token by means iaf which Bus Tally must claim her share of her father's huge fortune. iOrn and Bundean separate, and after making euro no Quests are abroad in ths houes Bundean ieoranee it carefully. Suddenly he ellscovere that he is being stealthily followed. Chapter St EYES IN THE DARK f T WAS as It soma ghost had taken faner to haunt mj footsteps Disturbed possibly by mj Intrusion Into his rightful domain, (or It ever place looked haunted U iras that rambling old hotel. I And then I felt s presence more Bellnitely. And I'd no sooner real bed It than, out of the tall of mr byes, I caught a sort of morement bn the lower gallery. ! It iraa only a flicker, and It iras kone, though I leaned far put to look, I Yet, Madam Orethe, Mrs. Byng, and Sue were still In the parlor, and I took the pains to walk to the ele vator abaft whence I had a Tlow of B. part of the lobby and could see LoTachlem still bending orer his leek. I could not, however, see be jrond the door to the bar, so tbe pnly alternative was the suspicion that Father Robart was my ghostly companion. I had become, by that time, very elrcumspect In my actions, and I took greater caution about opening fdoors into suDDOBedlr emotr rooms Isnil was careful not to outline my jeelt against any windows, thus pro- rrldlng a target. Had I needed warning, which I Hid not, the silent, dark little elera- tor hanging there at tbs ground roor would hare supplied It. But. as I say, I was little wiser, and the one definite clue which I hras not, as a matter of fact, at all certain was actually a clue was as hmpalpabla and ghostly as was the Heeling of a menacing presence stalking the dim-stretching corri dors with me, Just out of my sight bud reach. I I found It whan I Tlslted the two (rooms, thirty-four and thirty-Are; from the window of one of the two I had caught that wild glimpse of a haggard and terrible face. The face which I refused to believe was Sue, which she herself unwittingly de nied, and which still was so like to terribly like ber face, with the square-cut hair framing It, page Hko. 1 Neither of the rooms appeared to have been occupied for some time. Tbny were both cold and unalred and musty. It waa only accident that I took my way across the heavy carpet of the latter, and go ing to the window, pulled back Its curtain and squinted In an effort to ee through the slits In the shutters In order to discover Just how much of the second-floor corridor, direct ly opposite and across the court, the watcher's gaze could bare en compassed. I I rtallred at once that I couldn't kee through the shutters satisfac torily and waa reaching out my hand to pull back the doors of the window and properly unlatch the shutter when my hand arrested it self in the very act I The shining glass was cold; the shutters behind It dark. My breath against tbe glass bad misted a mall patch, and In that little patch uddenly I saw very clearly the jwhorled Imprint of fingertips. Four of them and a thumb, j They were very clear, sharply definite. They were spread as If the hand had pressed heavily against the glass. And they were small and lender. No man's hand had made them, ! .... J7TVB small fingerprints. The ques r tlon was. When had they been madeT And, more urgently, Who had made thorn? ! The possible significance of tha little prints prints that with a breath and a touch of my cuff 1 jeould everlastingly destroy drew mj attontton from my surround ings. Fortunately the door creaked. rve often ivondered what might jhave happened if It bad not creaked. Things might have been very differ ent. But it was old and badn't been opened and closed much In its last years, and the hinge creaked. I'm sure I saw the door more. I'm sure I caught the glint of a mov ing high-light In that darkish room. Then I flung toward It, pulled It open, and was In the corridor. . There was, however, nothing but (dimness and mnstlness and increas ingly shadowy walls and dark car pet winding past blank doors. Noth Ing. ' ' And, as It proved, those ghostly little fingerprints bad never .-. need to be photographed and ticketed and carefully documented. They served their purpose wholly In their own ghostly fashion and added their ffwtf small link to tha gradually accumulating sequence of the chain that was so strangely woven and waa In the end so dread fully like a noose. Tbe Incident ot the door had final ly eonvlnced me ot ths folly of lin gering unarmed about those dark stretches ot halls and untenanted rooms, and I returned speedily to the second floor and to. my own room. Once there, la the welcome light, with the shutters open to their full est, I convinced myself once and for all that the clumsy, enormous ward rob was merely an enormous, clumsy wardrobe and nothing else, and that there was no secret or hid den entrance to my room. With an aching shoulder I emerged Into the corridor. It wss dusk by tbat time, and I had an Im pression ot lights In the court he- low. I knew, now, the general plan ot the hotel; I knew the locations ot tbe various tenanted rooms; all on the second floor. I had not, It Is true, penetrated the storerooms In tho wing below my own room; the time had been too short I knew that the switch box was exactly where Mrs. Byng had told me It m, and that she could scarcely, hare failed to recognize Sue. I knew that the priest's room was off an intersecting corridor not far from the angle where I'd caught a disturbing glimpse of a moving shadow on the previous night And I knew about the fingerprints which I bad not destroyed. DESIDB me waa the door Into the White Salon. I had qpened the door, I remembered. In the dark ness of the night when the odor ot tobacco smoke had roused me. I opened It again and stepped Inside. The shutters were closed, and In tha dusk I could see little. I found and pressed the switch, but there was no bulb In the high, ornate crystal chandelier. As my eyes adjusted themselves to the gray gloom, however, I could make out objects carved arm chairs and sofas, and a heavy gilt mirror above a large Sroplace, and In one corner a great piano that loomed up darkly, so- large that there waa a . sort of cavern ot shadow under It The Pope's piano, undoubtedly. Its dark unwleldlness and the look ot waiting that an old piano al ways has as If it were patiently waiting for the hands that had once touched It gar the last touch of morose somberness to tbe room. I went out hurriedly, closing the door sharply behind me to shut In that waiting piano and those wait ing chairs, and I wished the dimly carernoua White Salon with Us musty air and Its silence were at a happier distance from my own room. ' Momentarily I paused In the long narrow corridor with Its closed doors on one side and ts glass wsll on the other to look, aa somehow I always did pause to look, down Into the court and orer the whole aweep ot surrounding windows and encircling walls. Lights were on In the lobby. The light was already swaying under tbe entrance arcb, and thus above the gate that waa not yet closed. Two policemen were In the court huddled under their capes and lean ing against the inner wall, which sheltered them to some degree from the wind. Lovschlem and Orethe were in the lobby. I could see Into the par lor, since the light was shining there and the window facing the court yet unshuttered; Mrs. Byng and Sue were still there. I turned and walked along the north corridor, turned Into thejsmaln -section of the hotel, end started again toward the corridor running to the elevator. The whole upstairs was silent and deserted and unbelievably empty. My footsteps made no sound on the carpeted corridor. Thua It was, I suppose, that as I passed the closed door to Sue's room I distinct ly heard someone moving about be yond It And it could not be Rue, because I had Just seen her sitting there in tbe parlor. (Copyright, till, ttlimon 9. tbsrhurt) undtin makes a aUrtflnQ dlt eovcry, tomorrow. PRINCE DUCKS WHEN YOUTH HURLS STONE MANCHESTER, Knf.. May It. A larg tona was thrown it Prtnc Ooorge at Ecclei today aa ha waa on bla way In an automobile to tha Man chaster airport. Tha itone, thrown by a toy, hit ona ef tha mudguards. Tha prince saw It coming and ducked. Canned Milk In Demand, HILLSBORO, Ore.. May 11 .(AP) A rush of bu&lneM haa put tha Car nation milk condciuary here threa weeka behind In Ita orders, aocordlng to O. T. Richardson, manager ot tha plant. IT p WRIGUY'S EA'BMllMT NOW EVEN BETTER BOTTLE MESSAGE GOLD BEACH. Ore., May 11. (AP) -A bottled mewage, purporting to hats been cast In tha sea by a cou ple stranded on an Island Sn tha Hawaiian group, waa picked up on tha beach near here today by Ralph Hooker. An attempt was being made to establish Its authenticity. Tha message said; "On an Island situated approximately 60 m 1 1 a a south-southwest of the largest Island of the Hawaiian group will be found Ortrude Atkinson and George Har- veystone, who left Honolulu August 10, 1831, in a 10-fcot canot, and got out of sight of land. It la now ex actly two weeks sine wa left Hono lulu and we have seen no ships. As this Is our only bottle. If found, please give to the proper authorities. With cheerful hopes, Gertrude and George." . Broken windows glazed by Trow bridge Cabinet Works, 4 FOREST CAMPS MARSHHELD Ore, May 1!(AP) A new payroll of anout S30.000 a month for Coos county wa believed probable, sj the result of the an nouncement here todsy by forest of ficials tbat tour, and possibly fire, conservation camps will be estab lished on federal, state snd private forests In this county. Twt camps already have been def initely announced for the state lands of northern Coos county, end two or three others are expected to be set up In other sections ot the county. Bach camp will have a superintend ent, an auletant, 20 foremen and 304 workers. In addition to engineers, clerks and road locators. WASHINGTON, May 10 (API The Interstate commerce commission to day approved reconstruction loans to taling $23,300,000 to the Southern Pacific company. S'MATTER POP;- By C. M. PAYNE ( J UKe. C-rfocourvra. CaKh.) V J (Souwsi UK. 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