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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.
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