The Wliile Cockatoo
SYNOPSIS: Three murder have
. . shattered the peace of a email hotel
in southern France; three murders,
alt unsolved. They are connected,
at least In the minds of Jim Sun
dean and the detective David Lorn,
with an attempt to secure the token
bu means of which Bus Tally must
identify hereelf to her brother
Francis, and thus secure halt her
father's huge fortune. Then, r
pecttd by no one, Francis Tally ar
rives.
Chapter 36
NEW COMPLICATIONS
WAS on my feet I was barely
conscious of Lorn standing Just
behind me. Sue was atandlng too,
looking white and Incredulous, and
even her llpa looked pale and atlS.
Her eyes were wide and fastened on
the newcomer's face as If In frantic
effort to recall It.
"Francis," aha said In a whisper.
He was fairly tall, moderately
slender, and blond with grayish
eyes. He wasn't altogether band-
some, for his features were a little
too line for a man, and his mouth
was not Arm. He wore gold-rlmmed
spectacles, which gave blm a pe
dantlc look, and be was muffled up
In coats and gloves and a woolen
scarf.
His eyes back of the spectacles
were very sharp as sharp as
Grethe's, who was watching him
with an expression that Indicated
strongly that here was at last the
mouse she'd been waiting for. He
smiled a little uneasily and said, in
a rather uncertain voice:
"Sue, I suppose."
She said nothing, lust looked at
blm, and as no one else spoke be
seemed to feel that bis greeting was
a bit lacking In something, for be
put out his band and smiled more
blandly and said:
"It's difficult to know just how to
greet you, Sister, We are almost
itrangers."
"Quite," said Sue In a frozen small
voice, and laid her band moment
arily in his.
Francis Tally was growing more
it ease. He looked at me and then
Jiscovered Lorn,
"Ah," be said at once. "How do
you do. Lorn?"
"How do yon do," Lorn said in an
nnexclted way, quite as if he'd
known all along that brother Fran
els was abont to turn up.
"Everything going well?" asked
Francis Tally easily.
Lorn's eyebrows lifted a fraction
of an Inch.
"Not exactly well," he said. "Still,
Miss Tally is quite safe."
"This," said Sue, "is Mr. Sun
dean." Francis Tally looked sharply at
me.
"Sundean?" said he.
"He has been very kind," said Sue
stiffly, as it words were extremely
.difficult And exactly then Mari
anne, in the dining room, sounded
the clattering bell which announced
lunch.
u s luncn," said sue in a re
lieved way. "You'll . share my
table Francis?" '
"Good," said Francis, also looking
'relieved. "I had a very early break
fast. What's the trouble here, though
why all the police about the
place?"
For a full moment no one spoke.
Then Sue said In a voice that did
not belong to her:
"I'll tell you after lunch."
He looked puzzled and I think
would have questioned further, but
Orethe sllklly intervened.
"You'll want to wash before
lunch," she Bald, smiling pleasantly
Into his eyes. "I'll show you to a
room. We are er temporarily
without a porter."
I ORN ooughed. I realized that for
tho first time In my knowledge
le seemed to be what in another
man I should have called thoroughly
disconcerted. He said:
"Er Mr. Tally you'd better er
eee tie police flrst"
"Soe the police?" Tally paused In
the act of turning to follow Madame
Orethe.
"Yes," said Lorn. "You see
well, the police are here because
there've been three murders here
in the last few days.
"Three murderer said Francis.
"You don't mean here? Right here
In the hotel?"
"Yes. We are all practically Jailed
here for the time being."
It struck me that Francis Tally
was either an extraordinarily brave
man or he was extraordinarily cal
lous. He said:
"H'mm. Well. What's the reason
for It alir
Lorn's bidden dark eyes went to
Madame Grethe. He said cautiously:
"I don't know. But I doubt If
they'll let you stay here."
Luckily for you, I wanted to add.
RQSEBURG PI ARE
HELD FOR ROBBERY
R08KBTJRO, Ore, May 17. (P)
Vdwsrd Foster, alias Edward Smith, a
local restaurant cook, and George
Greene, ex-seamsn, were arrested here
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by Mlgnon G. Ebtrharfe
Madame Grethe forestalled me. She
said graciously:
"Oh, ' nonsense, Monsieur Lorn.
"Leave It to me. I will see that It is
all settled with the police. Yonr
room, monsieur?"
She turned away with a gesture
that brought Francis Tally after
lier. I suppose we all moved to
watch them cross the lounge.
Grethe led the way up the stairway,
her body undulating gracefully
under the green silk, and her red
hair gleaming. But even cool Ma
dame Gretthe had not wished to use
the tiny elevator that bung there.
Then I turned to Lorn. But be
was suddenly withdrawn, his eyes
veiled, his expression exactly as ani
mated as that of a chair.
"Did you know he was coming?"
I asked quickly.
He did not look offended at my
Implication that he was concealing
that important bit of knowledge
from Sue and from me a knowl
edge that, If he had had, In fairness
he ought to have shared.
"No," he said quietly. "I didn't
know."
"This puts a different complexion
on the affair."
"Yes," agreed Lorn remotely. I
wondored what he was thinking,
but the unwontedly disconcerted
look had entirely left him bad left.
In fact, so completely that I doubted
whether It had ever been there. He
added:
"In the meantime we may as well
go to lunch. After all, one must eat"
IT WAS a strained and dreadful
meal. Not even the food was
good, for Paul's hysterical nerves
had apparently had their outlet In
burning what was burnable and sea
soning too wildly or not at all. The
hors d'oeuvres were flat and taste
less, the fish crisp, and the onlv
thing entirely edible was the cheese.
Marianne came and went, still
sullen and dark and wary.
And the four of us In that still
cold dining room tried to eat and
drink like civilized people when I've
no doubt our combined desire was to
flee from the place. Mrs. Byng did
not arrive at all.
The priest's table was still by
some oversight set with the silver
and glasses of the previous night,
and it was rather dreadful to see It
there, facing me, and remember bow
I'd last seen that flaming red beard.
That thought spoiled even the
cbeese, and I sat there crumbling
bread and not wishing, somehow, to
leave the room until Sue left
It was true that shs ought to be
safe now, it she was ever safe, wltb
nor brother and his detective; at
the same time I was perfectly
aware that Francis Tally's unex
pected arrival might well give s
last horrible impetus to the dread
ful wheel that was rovolying so
ruthlessly, guided by unseeu hands,
there In the black depths of the old
hotel.
Francis Tally himself was ad'stlr
ably cool. He was also stole, for be
ate his lunch, crisp fish and all, with
gusto. The two, Sue and the new
comer, talked very little, and their
every word was plainly audible in
the silent whits room and consisted
of commonplaces.
He told her what boat he'd sailed
on; and when he'd landed three
days previously, It appeared. She
assured him in that stiff voice that
did not belong to her that, yes. It
waa cold. And, yes, the wind was
apt to blow like this for a week at
a time.
It was directly after lunch that
Sue and her brother retired to the
parlor. Lorn, always a bit mysteri
ous, became suddonly more mystoii
ous and. It seemed to me, more ac
tive and even a little agitated under
that mysterlousness. He disap
peared before I could get a word with
him. Not that I really wanted Just
then, to hear his customarily unper
turbed halt-statements.
For I had even then that feeling
of approaching climax; of haste; of
urgency. There were things that
must be done. If the views that I
was beginning vaguely to entertain
proved to be faulty and clumsy and
entirely Incorrect why, then, no
one but myself should ever know It
It was sullen, brooding Marianne
who found me in the dark corridor
near the dead priest's room, waiting
my chance to dodge tbe poUceman
on guard and enter. I wanted to
search for myselt
Marianne indicated that I was to
follow her, and when we reached
the lobby I found the entire estab
lishment gathered there. We were,
it seemed, going to the police.
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Lovschltm'a ttlf Importance In
Croat, Monday.
last night charged with assault and
robbery upon Jack Whlteett, manager
of a Roeeburg hotel. Whltsett, it ts
claimed, was lured into an alley near
the htofll and was robbed of sal.
after be bad been hit In the face
with a heavy rock, resulting In the
loss of several teetb.
Dine and dance, Tues., Thurs., Sat
Sun. nights and Sun. p. m. Bonnie's
drill.
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Eakln and Carl Moser of Portland,
state adjutant, met with local mem
bers. Salem's national championship
drum corps and national champion-
ship American Legion Auxiliary trlo
will perform at the state convention
here.
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