PA'GE EIGHT
MEPFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAT 12, 1933.
Tle Wliile Cockatoo
by Mignon C. Eberhart'
SYNOPSIS: Jim Sundean and
the detective, David Lorn, have
convinced themselves that an at
temitt to secure the token bv meant
of which Sue Tally muet prove her
right to a share of her father's mil'
Hons lies at the bottom of the two
murders and two attemote on Sun
dean's lite that have ehattered the
peace of a s mall French hotel, uit
dean eearchee the hotel and finds
only five finger prints on a window.
But as he passes Sue's room he
hears movement Inside and he
can see Sue in the lobbyl
Chapter II
BLAOK 8HAD0W
T WAS perhaps the maid, on a
T legitimate errand. It could only
be Marianne or the priest or Lorn;
all others were accounted for. But
J must know who was moving about
in that room.
' A little back toward the north
corridor again was the email nlcbe
(where I'd seen Lorn and Sue talk
ing that first day of his arrival. 1
Quietly retraced my steps toward It.
I The place was silent and de
serted; the red carpet looked dim
end faded. In the bait light; the
jheavy curtain near me smelled of
flwt
' I scarcely shifted my eyes from
the spot where. If the door opened,
it must swing outward. It opened
only a little at first, as If to permit
reconnolterlng glance along the
.corridor, then more fully. Some
thing slid out and obscured my view
of the closing door. I bad no time to
make sure I was concealed by the
curtain, for the swift black shadow
bore swiftly down upon mt and In
another secund It had glided silently
past me.
It was Father Robart, of course.
He did not see me, and I remem
bered what Lorn had said and did
not Intercept him as I longed to do.
He was walking swiftly, Bllontly,
his head bent and his red beard
flaming. Afterwards I tried to think
whether he'd carried anything
The priest's coat and hat were
gone from his room, but nothing
else. The obvious lntorence was that
he hod managed to escape exactly
how, no one knew, for the police
said no one had paszed that way,
and Paul, In the kitchen, with
another policeman, was equally sore
he'd not gone that way.
He had glided past me In the cor
ridor and turned the corner and
vanished from the haunts of men.
pOE I was the last one to have
seen him or at least the last
who admitted seeing him which
fact did not Improve my standing
with the police. But with his escape,
naturally, the tide of suspicion
turned strongly his way, and It was
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VETERANS SPLIT
WASHINGTON, May , 13 (AP)
The ranlu of the bonua-aeeldng army
of 1033 were swelled rapidly today,
but they were split Into two antag
onistic camps, one shelterless and the
other boused by the government.
A motely band of veterans, follow
ers of Harold Houlkrod, bad tempor
ary headquarters on a vacant lot
within a stone's throw of the capltol
dome. The shadows of their camp
fire last night danced against the
windows of the house office building.
Today they were ordered by police to
evacuate before sundown.
Ten miles away, at Fort Hunt, Vir
ginia, scores of army tents housed
about 300 other former soldiers who
were given a piping hot breakfast
and cigarettes by their boat, the
Roosevelt administration.
Real estate or in urance Leave tt
to Jones. Pbona 760.
WABHINGTOIf. May 13. (AP)
Attorney General Cummin gs said to
day that In response to charges made
by Representative McFadden (R., Pa.)
the income tax returns of Andrew
Mellon, former secretary of the treas
ury and ambassador to Great Britain,
were being Investigated by the de
partment of justice.
Leather Purees or Soclete Candy for
Mother's day. May 14 Bast lde
Pharmacy.
Seize Narcotics
PORTLAND, Ore., May 12. (AP)
Police detectives and federal agents
announced today they confiscated
narcotics valued at between $13,000
and $15,000 when they "moved In" on
Portland's Chinatown last night la
a surprise maneuver. Six Chinese
were arrested.
S'MATTER POP
By C. M. PAYNE
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My notes fell Into brown flakes.
, his hands, but I could not be sure.
Then he slipped around the cor
ridor of the Intersecting passage
which led to his own room, and I
emergen.
There had been something ter
ribly furtive about him. I wished
Lorn had been with me and realized
suddenly that here was what
amounted to convincing evidence
against the priest. .
Lorn arrived perhaps two hours
later, and I told him of the con
vincing evidence against the priest
His dark eyes brightened a little,
but otherwise he was not much af
fected. "TOU think Tm slow and too
' ' cautious," he finally said. "Woll,
that's true; but I'm Inclined to
think my mistakes would hurt you
more than anyone else."
"I'm not worrying about myself,
but I don't want that dovll to get
his hands on Miss Tally I"
Lorn's eyebrows went up a little.
"Ho won't," he said qulotly. "im
mediately after dinner wo'U have
Miss Tally go to her room, lock the
door, and one of us can guard her
door while the othor goes to the
police. Does that suit you?"
"Tea," I said, not liking tho Im
pression he gave of Indulging a
chlldlBh notion of my own, "I'll
watch her door," I added stub
bornly. "That's good," said Lorn dryly.
"Then I'd better Inform the police.
Let me soe Just what shall I tell
thorn? That Father Robart arrnnRcd
a false alibi; that you saw him leav
ing Silas Tally's room surrepti
tiously and that you are con
vinced, in spite of bis papers and
claims being nnder investigation by
the police, that he Is not what he
eeoms, being. In fact, no priest at
all."
Thus It was something of a shock
when the priest did not appear at
dinner. Whoa we discovered that he
was not In tho lounge, not in his own
room, not anywhere about the hotol.
With Sue sate In her room and
promising to remain there we went
together to the courtyard and told
the police stationed there.
not even necessary to tell the po
lice of the reasons for my own sus
picions regarding the man.
Altogether It was near midnight
before things settled down. Lorn
and I finished talking a talk that
was eager enough but that went
In circles of baffled surmise- and
could come to no out-and-out con
clusionsand finally went upstairs
again. We stopped at Sue's door and
told her simply that the priest had
escaped, and I thought from the
look on her face that perhans she
had not believed In the man after
all and was relieved to know he was
gone.
'I'll take the revolver you prom
ised to lend me now," I said to Lorn.
'Very well." He looked and I
think was reluctant. "But don't do
anything rash with It I've got It
here In my pockot."
But if with the revolver making
a comfortable little sag In my.
pooket and the knowledge that the
gliding black presence of the priest
was no longer haunting tho dim cor
ridors of the place I had thought
things would be better, I was novor
moro mistaken in my life.
With the knowledge I now have I
understand why that night was tho
worst night I spent In Armene, bar
none. Then I only knew that It was
cold and uneasy and torrlbly long.
Sleeplessness was until that night
almost unknown to me. That night
sleep was out of the question.
I smoked, I read an old magatlne
that turned up In the tablo drawer,
I paced the floor. I spent a long
time making notes of the ugly busi
ness and trying to draw some con
clusion from them but rose finally,
stiff and cold and cramped, and
crumpled up the laborious notes and
threw tbom into tho ashes whero
thoy smoldered and smoldered,
while I stood watching them, and at
last foil Into brown flakes without
once bursting into honest flame.
res. It was a long and cold and
strangoly horrible sort of night
Morning, however, brought news.
(Oopuriaht, tHI, Jflimim O. Xberhart
undtin Uarn, more about that
niurd.r.d Russian, tomorrow.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
V0MDER1N6, JU'Sf AS THE ElEVATOR COMES.
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TAILSPIN TOMMY Evidence Of Pirate Treasure!
By OLKNN UHAFFEN
and BAL rO&BESX
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By EDWIN ALGER
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Rainbow Oibeon of Wruku Inn, on
Rogue river, telegraphed the Mall
Tribune today that 37 salmon were
taken at Savage Raplda dam Wednes
day afternoon, the river having clear
ed enough Co the salmon fishing.
The second largest flan of the sea
son was landed by William Adler of
Burbank, Cel., and welched 43 pounds
The catch waa taken from a pier on
a brass spinner, according to Olbson.
SALEM, May 11. (AP) Ths Maupln
Stat bank was opened today for 10
per cent withdrawals, after being
closed since the banking moratorium.
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