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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.
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