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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MTTDFOHD WAIL TRTBTTyE, MTTDK)RD, OREGON. MOXDXY, HAY 22, 1933. The Wliile Cockatoo by Mignon C. EberhaTf SYNOPSIS: Sue Tally had In he possession a token wtth which she must identify herself to hei brother Francis, whom she hoe not seen since childhood, in order to in herit her half ot her father's enor mous fortune. There have been three murders in the little French hotel in which she lives, connected with attempts to steal the token. Francis arrivesand the token dis appears. Jim Hundean advises Sue to "bluff" her brother and his de tective. David Lorn, while he tries to find the token, funded ques tions Sue, Chapter 40 STRANGE QUESTIONS "THIS Is your handkerchief isn't It?" I asked Bus. She looked at the delicate wisp ol white that I drew from my pocket. She had been, 1 think, about to ques tion me further, tor she looked faint ly Impatient at the Interruption. The Impatient look, however, was suc ceeded by .t puzzled little frown. "Why, yes," she said. "I believe It Is. At least, It looks like some 1 have, and it has a scent that I nse. I couldn't be sure, though. It's a quite ordinary handkerchief you can get dozens ot them In any store In France. WhyJ" I did not explain. I said: "I found it on the floor. Will you come with me a moment I know your broth' er's waiting and you mustn't be long, but It will only take a moment." She looked further puzzled, but went with me toward the north cor ridor. At the end of the corridor I asked her to stand for a moment before my door. I marked her height against the window. I did not need even to go to the lobby whence J had seen that flying silhouette. Even allowing largely for the angle of my perspective from the lobby, Sue was at least a foot shorter than that brief silhouette had been. I ought to have known It at once. There was still neither time nor need to explain then to Sue. I said: "Do you see that room up there on the third story the fifth shutter from the corner of the middle sec tion? About number thirty-four jt thirty-five: Were you up there at all the night of the first murder?' I don't know what she was think ing of me just then. She looked per plexed, but Sue was never dull. "No," she said directly. "Another thing." I said. "And for give me for all this painlessness." I hesitated here; the thing I was about to ask was not entirely point less. I plunged on, however: "Mrs. Byng says she saw you turn ing out the hotel lights the night of the first murder. She says" Sue's eyai were widening. "She says," I went on mlsorably as I saw that my very inquiry must suggest to her that I'd believed Mrs. Byng, "that she saw you at the switch box, there In the corridor near her door. That she saw you pull the main switch, and that tho lights went out at once." "And you believed her?" said Sue rather sadly. "No." I had her hands and almost had her, suddenly, In my arms. "Not I didn't believe her. Not when you told me where you'd been at that time." She pulled back away from me. "I don't know what Mrs. Byng saw or thought she saw," said Sue. "But I told yon the exact truth. About everything." "I know. I know. Toll me, Is Mrs. Byng friendly with you?" "WHY no," ,aid Bue. But not " unfriendly, either. We've had very little to do with one another. Scarcely talked at all." "You wouldn't say, then, that she'd ever been particularly Interested In you?" "Heavens, no," said Sue, seeing what I meant and forgiving me si multaneously. "If you mean Mrs. Byng may be suspect that's ab surd. She's exactly what she seems." "I'm beginning to think I don't mean anything. You'd best go along to your brother. He'll grow suspi cious. I'll go with you to the lounge." "It's not going to be easy," said Sue. "Facial him, knowing all along that It he suddenly produces his own token I cannot produce mine .o match it, 1 was almost roady this morning to give up the whole thing. Alter all why do I want live million dollars ?" She said It thoughtfully, as It she really did wonder why. "Five millions," I said rather bit terly, "Is not to be regarded with dis respect. And in this case, It yon ure In for a penny you're In for a pound." We were walking back along the north corridor. In two or three days at the most she would go completely out of my life. It was then that I knew what a devastating thing It would be never again to see her advancing toward me. Never a; aln to catch the gay lit tle challenge ot her mouth that was a smile. Never again to watch the gallant lift ot her chin, the light In gold gleams on her hair, the delicacy ot her hands and her beautiful body. Yes, It was devastating. It was like being caught in the vortex ot a cyclone thit you hadn't seen coming. But evon In that destructive mo ment and It Isn't easy to know sud denly that your only moments of high and maglo living are counted and are few Li count, and that they'll go swiftly and Irretrievably and finally even In that moment I knew I could not tell her. I could not tell this girl with the golden millions. I wished she'd gone that morning before her brother camel I wished she'd given up her claim as she said she was about to do I wished all manner of Insane things. And something said: Yon won't feel this tearing at you for long; it would be nnedurable If you did but you won't, for even the memory ot your love will grow dim and faint. AND that, of course, was worse, and It Sue had turned just then, If she'd faltered or hesitated or looked to me for help, the whole thing would have come out. But she didn't turn. And by the time we reached the stairway I had walked througl. heaven and hell and emerged. I loved her, and I was go ing to give her np. I was even with my own hands helping erect that hateful, glittering path along which her little feet would walk away from me. Well I emerged. It Is by no means a unique experience. And after all, I'd rather have had It than not So there was no good making a fuss about It. It was almost a relief to wrench myself back to the business at hand. The business of helping Sue acquire those damnable millions which not only severed her from me but which threatened her threatened her threatened her. And time was pressing. Francis was still In the parlor. As we walked down the last steps Into the lounge, Lorn came suddenly from the parlor. "Your brother Is waiting for you," he said, and paused, his clouded dark eyes meeting Sue's gaze, H looked peculiarly uncertain and ill at ease. The effect he gave of not having concluded his sentence, and thus ot having still something h must say to her, was so strong thai both Sue and I paused too, motion less, waiting tor what was to coma But It he'd Intended to say some thing further he thought better ol It; he made a rather strange little gesture with his hands, shrugged and walked away. She looked aftei blm perplexedly, then turned toward me with a question In her face. But I, of course, could tell her nothing; 1 only felt that the detective's look savored, somehow, of warning. - Sue took a long breath, gave me quick little nod, and walked swiftly toward the stuffy old parlor and the waiting man. There was a fine tern-' perlng of steel In Sue; she never lacked courage In a crisis. I sat In the lounge in full view of the door and waited. After a few sec onds I found It Impossible to sit, and rose, walktnj back and forth, watch ing the parlor door, the lift, the gal leries. After all, I'd seen little Mar cel shot before my very eyes, and I bad been powerless to prevent It. - And there was no denying the fact that with Francis' arrival Sue's dan ger was great. His arrival had forced the climax; now, It ever, the plot would need be carried to Its swift conclusion, for once he was con vinced ot Sue's ldontlty that plot muot automatically collapse. And blind and groping about In the dark as we were not knowing from what quartor trouble might come there was every reason to fear that that conclusion might have an unthink able, ghastly outcome. With the token stolen, even the small measure ot protection Us pos session had given Sue was gone; with that in the possession ot the murderer the next step was inevita bly to produce the substitute for Sue and to silence Sue. And It must he done at once, If ever. (Copyright. 1933, lonon Q, Bbarhart) Another tarrlbta tomorrow, snarls Sua'a tangle atl mora. eompttoatlon. in OORVALUS, Ore, May S3. (AP) With the season's peak In egg produc tion apparently passed, market firmed along the Paclflo coast this past week with prices showing a two cent rise In Portland and a cent gain in San Francisco, It was etnted In a review Issued today by the USDA Bureau of Agricultural Economics, co operating with the OSC Extension service. Farther eaas the market waa less firm through Paclflo coast eggs remained unchanged at New York. PORTLAND, Ore., May 32. (API Clara Williams pleaded guilty In fed eral court here today to a oharge of conspiring to violate the postal laws through a subscription campaign he conducted for a Bearerton, Ore., news paper. He was sentenced to serve 6 months In a federal road camp. Pete Donlon. atroke of Callfornla'a 19 3 8 Olympic Games champion etght-oare4 shell, has become rowing conch of the South End Rowing club of San Francisco. ASHLAND, May 21, (Spl.) Mrs. Ellen Pate at 62 Roeo atreet la threatened with loss of the eight of one oye &o a result of waahlng her right eye laat Monday with Iysol In stead of an eye wash which she thought she waa using. She la con fined to her bed because of the ac cident and although under a doctor's care, the extent of the painful and serloua Injury will be be known for perhapa two or three weeks. The doctor was not called on the case until some time after the accident aa Mrs. Pate attempted to take care of the trouble herself. Carl Hubbell, the Qlanta great southpaw, once was advised by Ty Cobb to give up the "screw ball," the delivery that has stood National league batters on their beada thla spring. VERSAILLES TREATY BLAMED BY BORAH WASHINGTON, May 32. (AP) Likening Europe to a "smouldering volcano," Senator Borah, in an ad dress tonight, said the Versailles treaty was the "real obstacle" stand ing in the way of auocew at the forth coming disarmament and economic conferences. Speaking before th Women's In ternational league for peace and free dom, the former chairman of the senate foreign relations committee said disarmament, and not debts, waa the "supreme problem" facing the world. Twins, B. and W. Rldeout of Tus cola, HI., high school, finished one two in a mile run at a prep school relays meet, and both were under the track record. S'MATTER POP-, By C. M. PAYNE Hkv " rpr v-tx- w -JS TijA OMTSRBUU V.Wou WAV I ( e. weS M U NE.Y-T IP ilf JB. JV6L, N( tl'foo'K.rPopJl L 1 ' amd lio-Rle.ovje'D rr IA in A "futiuvTolZ 4Vfo CAWA18M6 IM Tie- VJFTZOf CAME. f&4) eG I ' 'Ls '. LcSa ; r-j lpyright, 1933, by Th Bell Syndicate, Inc.) RECEPTION COMMITTEE OPENS FRONT POOR IN RESPONSE TO RIN& By liLUYAS WILLIAMS STARR AT LADY VISITOR WHO 6UR6LES S0METrlW6 ABOOr WHAT A PEAR WOE 61RL AND IS HER. MOTHER IN? lHMArlS LADY VISITOR walks in MURMURIN6 WILL THE DEAR UTILE 6IRJ.TELL. HER MOTHER THAT MRS. LEflUS IN LMN6-ROOM DOORWAY, PKKIN6 SHVlY AT HER DRESS AND 6AZ- lr6 AT LrW VSlTOFU fiMATER IS HERE TO OUL WHO BEflMS TO 6Ef REStifd AFTER A LONG WHILE PI5APPEARS SlLEKTiY DOWM HAU RETURNS PRESENTLY CARRYING CAT WHICH SHE PLANTS IH LAW VISITOR'S LAP 8 LEANS IN POORWaY.SUCK- iN6 Thumb aw silently WATCHIN6 LADY VISITOR Who happens not ib iJKE CATS a u5h6 while latere breaks silence to re mark that mother is out: vVatches lady visi tor WALK RAPIDLY POWM STREET. . 5-3.1 (Copyright, 1933; by The Ball BTtnitTtna) TAILSPIN TOMMY The Golden Shower! By GLENN CHAFFIX ad UAL FOUBESX OO! THAT MU&T HAI OCCN A BREAK- AWAY Roc m nuM" UP LIKE THIS. 2MA?r&. . 'fel.fL S W0L, "AT f?.y AOHAT iagMwHAT DO J'lT'a A WE'VE RUElJ yift; cave behind r mv uAtin! smft v '0T& xtu ,2r,sr..k r7";,., XKEETER'S IDS4 eWOF USAJS DYSMMITtT TO BtASr 4u)AY We- BOtU4 "rRc-jsixc' ctvtr ro es erFtTCTsvcT. 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