'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.
An aadltlonal order issued moauiea
ttie more marked reductions in rat
itim Mverini gunshot wounds, ar
rested tuberculosis, .and severe forms
of disability.
Be prepared to take advantage of
the bargains at the coming Land
Auction Sale.
S'MATTER POP-
Pioneer Newport
Woman Succumbs
NEWPORT, Ore.. May 24. (AP)
lira. Mary Oaae, 88, one ot tht found
ers ot the town ot Newport, died here
today.
She and her husband. Captain Sam
uel Case, homeeteaded here In I860.
In 1867 they established Ocean House,
the first hotel here and widely known
as a pioneer hostelry.
Phone Ma. Well Haul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Servloe.
By C. M. PAYNE
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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A MOWH, OBSERVES THE RESULT OF HIS TOIL NEW MORNING
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