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PATTE SET tnypFQTin matt; trtbttntp:, mtdfortv Oregon", Tuesday, may is, 1933. The Wliile Codkafoo by Hignon G. Eberharf SYNOPSIS: A third murder At the gloomy little French hotel hae at last crumbled Sue Tally'! reeolu tlon to etlck by the ehip. They are connected with an attempt to fl our the token which entitlee her to thare a huce fortune. She agree to leave Armene, But, wonder Jim Bundean and Dnvtd Lorn, the de tective, what could a vriett tike Father Kobart have known that would have led the kiUer to murder htmt Chapter 85 6UE'S PREDICAMENT "nTElrh," said Lorn slowly, "there " are two hypotheses. Either he was an honest priest who acclden tally knew too much about one ot the other murders and his knowl edge was so dangerous and so in criminating that he had to he si lenced at once; or he was, as Mr. Bundean thinks, no priest at all." "If not a priest, then what?" Lorn shrugged. "It not a priest, then certainly a lonsplrator." "Remember his searching Miss Tally's room." Lorn looked at me soberly. "Yon are sure that he carried nothing In his hands when you saw him come from her room?" "I saw nothing." Lorn turned to Sue. "And you are sure nothing was gone?" "Yes," said Sue at once. Her eyes met Lorn's stoadlly, and her expres sion did not change, although It seemed to me that Lorn's gate be came sharper. "It be bad come upon the object token whatever It Is that Is to prove your Identity," ventured Lorn specu latively and rather guardedly, li Is eyes still searching Sue's (ace, "then that would provide a motive tor bis murder." "Of course," said Sue briefly. "Al though that would presuppose sev eral different people trying to obtain tho token." ' Two, at least," said Lorn. "Not counting your eventual substitute." Sue shivered. "I think now yon are both right." she said. "I will go to the police this afternoon." - There was a short silence. The lounge was empty except for -us, and bare and chilly. Above us were those blank gallery railings, and all around us the secretive dark old hotel. The Lovschlems were In the lob ' -by. I had watched them carefully -during the morning's Inquiry and excitement, but they were guarded, both ot them guarded and wary and Inscrutable, although Marcus looked frightened under his mask and glistened more than usual. . But Qrethe was cool and calm, her face set In properly and Innocently shocked lines, and her green eyes shining and cool and unfathomable. Mrs. Byng had promptly or as promptly as the police would permit retired with her shawls and her jtemperament to her own room. from Miss Tally's room we might come nearer to understanding the affair." SUE said nothing. Presently he continued: "But since Miss Tally assures us that he found nothing" He shrug ged again and left the obvious con clusion unspoken. "In the meantime," I reiterated, "the thing to do Is to go to the po lice and tell them all that we know and beg them to permit Miss Tally to leave." "Unless," said Sue rather tremu lously, "It would only be to take my self also away from protection." "I'll go with you," said Lorn. "Oh, I'm not changing my mind again." said Sue at once. "Surely .whore she was, I had no doubt, well barrlcadod. Marianne, no longer hysterical but Idark and sullen and remote, was In Isome nether region with, I supposed, 'the chattering oook. "VNLY the cockatoo remained dla bollcally unperturbed. As I watched he flopped awkwardly to ;tbe floor from Orethe's graceful shoulder, waddled along It to the door to the courtyard, and paused to examine with handsomely flared crest and a knowing and speculative eye the boot beel of a policeman who stood there. He opened his curved leak dubiously, paused to scratch with vigor under one wing, and I aid thoughtfully: "If we only knew exactly where me danger lies." "When we discover that, we will have the murderer," said Lorn. "It may not be as oomplete a mystery as you seem to think. Things have a way of breaking suddenly." "Perhaps. But yesterday I felt sure the man pretending to be a priest" "You dont know yet that he wasn't," said Lorn softly. "Do you want to bet that the po lice won't discover bis papers to be forged?" "Oh no," said Lorn temperately. "He probably was no priest. But It's better to be quite sure of these things before resting a case on them." "Well, In any case, I felt he was the murderer. Now I don't know lomeone certainly killed him. And there's the nicotine again, to link It with the murder of the man called Btravsky." "Yes," said Lorn alowly. "It the rlost had taken anything yesterday kn-M hl At.feMft.wA y Qrethe was cool and calm. you can lntorvene for me, Mr. Lorn, with Francis, It he disapproves." "I can try," said Lorn rather dubi ously. "But It's the only thing for you to do. Miss Tally. You are In a position ot great danger. I'm afraid I made a grave mistake In backing yon up In the first place. It hasn't been fair to the police, and your safety lies In their discovering the criminal. And they should have every facility to do so. "That is," he corrected himself somewhat hastily, as the meaning of the expression In Sue's little white face reached blm, "at least to some extent your safety lies In their discovering the criminal. Our only hope Is to try It, though I fear the police will make you stay, even after they know the story." There were voices In the lobby: someone had Just entered from the outsldo. Wo could hoar Orethe's flu ent French, then some scattered English phrases In a strange voice. It was a man's voice. I followed Lorn's blank gaia into the lobby: a man stood there. A stranger; the light from the window was full on bis face. He seemed to be explaining something In English to Orethe and Marcus, for we caught a brief English word or two. Then, with all the effect of a our taln In a theater, Orethe appeared suddenly In the door of the lounge. She sold to Sue: Your brother has come. He" she turned toward the man who somewhat hesitatingly had followed her "this Is Miss Tally, monsieur." (Copyright, HIS, Mlgnon 0. Bberhart) ""rands' arrival, tomorrow, pre elpitatai a strained situation. BALANCED DIET FOR BTAYTON, May 10. (AP) A bal anoed diet will be provided frogs which B. R. Olds plana to ralae here. He has constructed a concrete pond. 18x34 feet and two feet deep, with an Island In the center. Cattails, lilies and other water plants needed to give the froga a balanced diet will be planted. He plana to place In his pond a variety ot frog which will grow to an average length of 18 Inches for males and 18 Inches for females. He said the lege will sell for S2.7S a pound. AS SPRikif YOUTH CONFESSES SHOOTING FATHER COLFAX Wash., May 16. (API- Ernest Klrkland, 16, accused of killing hla father because he resented parental discipline, faced a murder charge here today. County Prosecutor John D. Evans, who aald that Ernest had admitted ahootlng his father, W. A. Klrkland and hiding hts body In a smokehouae on a farm near Pine City, said be would file either a first or second degree murder charge today. Troy. 13, Ernest's younger brother, who wit nessed the tragedy, wss held as a ma terial witness. WASHINGTON, May 10. (AP) The Southern raclfic railroad haa asked the Inters tat commerce com mission for permission to abandon a portion of Its Monmouth branch line between Monmouth and Dallas In Oregon, a distance of seven miles. BAKER. May 16 (AP) Jim Willie. 37, shot and killed his brother-in-law, Claude Stover. 51, In what was de scribed as a drunken quarrel on the Mario aide of the Snake river four miles below Huntington Sunday evening. After warning his slater, Mrs. Stover, to take her five children, ranging In age from eight yeara to alx montha across the river In a boat to the power plant at Gypsum on the Oregon side, Willie killed himself with a revolver shot through the head. Both bodies were found when olfl cera arrived from Welter two hours after the first shooting. SALEM, May 16. (AP) Dr. Rich ard Cartwrlght. head of Willamette i sanitarium of Salem for the past 32 ' years, is dead at his nome here at the age of 83 years. S'MATTER POP- By C. M. PAYNE fcT IT&oo&t-a c a, -y-t To'r j I Wr v 5 tfalPk ,( CRUMB.-?, rr iw -fj I I vww-l Si-K., JgJr2N C-4J-T-"nC".--R-T! r- , I "HAT aBM6Au.-y TJP yY Peut8 -wSp I SA"'rrPO ) s c)tpg-o.A-iip -jy jf'jIi C Vg l jcS?l y (Copyright, 1C33, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) flj DIFFICULT DECISIONS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Pud fesOTMiwx ' S-( PREDICAMENT OT A MAN WHO . DOESN'T PARE SET )MT0 HIS CIR WrTri AN OFFICER SfftNDINS BY FOR FEAR. 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