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'WETTFOTiD STATE TRTBTJXTE. TSfEDFOKD, OREGON1, TEDNESDAY, SfST 2?, 1933. TlieWIiite Cockatoo bj Hignou JjtEberhiTt) - BYNOPB1B: The drama that ha Ailed the old French hotel suddenly comes to a locus when Francis Tally demands that hie sitter Bus product tht token that it to tdentlly her to him tor they have not met elnot childhood, and Bus's inherit ance hangs by that thread. Bue't token hat been etolen : the "bluff t" Franott superblv, however. In the background are three murders, and a tangle ot purposes ttlll o mys tery. Bue't ttaunch eupporter. Jim Rundenn, euddenly te warned bu Francis' detective, David Lorn, that danger also thrtatent him. Chapter it 8URPR18E FOR LORN ORN did not even look at m to " see what I thought of hla warn ing, If warning It was. He continued at once: "Mr. Tall; doean't aeem to waul mo. I'll Just go take a look at this Tory opportunely robbed safe." "Walt," I said Quickly, Tt got the link between Stravsky and Lot achlem." "What!" This time I did uc eeed In getting his full attention. "One that will hold water with the police!" "Well perhaps not," I aald, thereby losing at least three fourths of his Interest. "What thenT" he Inquired with an effect ot languor. he heaped coa'n on my head. He said slowly: "I'm afraid I must warn you. Sun dean, to be most circumspect In your behavior." I was struck by the undercurrent ot meaning In his voice. I had the feeling you bare when, walking in deep woods, you see the brush near you waver silently with the passage ot a stealthy and unseen body. It Is a strangely sinister and primitive kind of chill that It gives you, and I felt It then, looking at Lorn and hearing his slow words. "Well." I said, "what do you mean V "I hadn't Intended to tell yon. Don't try to leave the hotel tonight, Sundean, and above all things, make no suspicious movement, for It will be as much as your life Is worth.' "What on earth are you driving at?" "The police found your finger prints on the electric switch In the White Salon. They argue that be cause you tried to turn on the light It must have been night when you touched It. Ergo " One ot his slight baffling shrugs finished It THINGS about me were suddenly rather dim. It was true: I had touched it and tried to turn on the light late the previous afternoon. "We both know that Sue's wilful." "The night of my arrival some- one came to this hotel, registered below my name, and, was shown to a room. Then he vanished. Even his name was removed from the register. Who was that man If It wasn't Stravsky?" 1 " ' " ?'How do you know that?" "I don't know it," I said, "if you mean by that can I prove it on strength of the evidence we now have. Dut it's the logical conclu sion." "Indeed," he aald dryly. "And from what do you draw your logi cal conclusion?" I told him briefly, watching the parlor door and keeping halt an ear for any untoward sound. He did look faintly mora Impressed when I'd finished, although he pointed out at once that I was building up sup position on strength merely of a missing Ink blot and Marcel's few scattered words anent the soiled towels in a supposedly vacant room. "It fits," I said stubbornly. ' "No," he denied me rather sadly. "It doesn't flL It isn't in the least conclusive. It does, however, pro vide a line of Investigation." "IITELL, it ought to be of some value to you, then," I said. "I hope yon don't mind my saying that it seems to me you need a few more linos of investigation. And also " I ground out my olgarette with a quick motion and got to my feet, whore I stood looking down at blm "Miss Tally is not out of danger. We both know that she's wilful; she may refuse to show her brother her token until he shows his own. They may both be afraid ot traps, and the thing may be deadlocked for a little time. "And Miss Tally, until she ts ac cepted completely by her brother, is In greater danger than she ever was. The arrival of her brother has forced the climax. I hope you'll remember that" Lorn rose too. He gave me a sin gularly long and strange look. "Don't worry, 8undean," he said. "I'll remember that" And that was all the satisfaction I had. It was lust then, however, that Just before my last glimpse of the priest I remembered it all too per fectly. Lorn was watching me, not ing, I felt, every shade that flickered over my face. I said as nonchalant ly as I could oontrlve: "I suppose they are preserving the clue for tho Paris dotectlvos?" ' ' "Why, yos naturally. I don't wish to alarm you, Sundoan, but It is nothing to regard lightly." "I'm not regarding it lightly," J said. "I'm looking to you to get me out of It" 'Well I'll do my beat, of course,"- he replied a bit gloomily. "But I do wish you wouldn't go out ot your way to leave clues." "Look here. Lorn who's the murderer? You must know by this time. Or you must have some no tion. You've had daya to do It And It's a shocking situation." "One can't hurry about such things," warned Lorn pessimistical ly. "One must be very sure ot every fact Must prove as one goes. One can't safely leap to conclusions in your own startling fashion. But there's one thing I must tell you, Sundean. I'd prefer telling Miss Tally directly. But I can't quite do that under the circumstances. So I'll tell you.1 "Well?" He paused, arranging his 'words: there was no shadow of feeling or expression In those cloudy dark oyos. He said finally: "I think it might be as well for Miss Tally to dolay concluding the negotiations for perhaps a day or two." "What do you mean?' "What I say. No more, no lees." I did not say that at the moment Sue had no lntontlon ot concluding negotiations, no matter how much she longed to do so. "Tally's your omployer," I said mu- singly. "You don't qulto trust him. Your reason for distrust Isn't strong enough to permit your going openly against your employer and warning .Miss Tally not to trust him. Yet you warn me, knowing I shall tell her. "You've said too much. Lorn, not to say more." (Copyright, lilt, illonon O. Bberhart) But snd Princlt quarrel, Monday evir thtlr Inheritance. RELIEF AND CURE FOR INSANE NEED PORTLAND, May 4 (AP) Con tructton through public works funds of a (260,000 state psychopathic hos pital on a slt to be donated by the University of Oregon medical school at Portland, U proposed by Dr. Rich ard B. Dlllehunt, dean of the medi cal school In urging the matter In a commu nication to reconstruction finance corporation committees. Dr. Dlllehunt explained that "in the light of mod ern conceptions and new knowledge concerning disorders of the mind, we should discontinue the addition of custodial places to house our ever-increasing numbers of so-called Insane, and begin at the other end that of prevention, relief and cure at least of those with reasonable probability of improvement." Fender and body repairing. Prices right. Brill Sheet Metal Works. WASHINGTON, May 24. (AP) All honorably discharged war veterans who have received disabilities result ing ' directly from war time service are to be continued as service con nected cases "unless clearly unwar ranted." This means, Veteran Administrator Hinea said today, that an honorably discharged veteran with the requisite war time service who is suffering from a disability of 10 per cent de gree incurred during such service, not the result of misconduct, may be as sured of a pension. 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