PXGE TWELVE
MEDFOED' SCSTL' TEIBUNTE, MEDFOED, 'OEEG05T, YRWSY, MiT 26, 1933.
The Wlule Cockatoo
by Migno C. EberharV
SYNOPSIS: tut Tatty hat
broken with Francit Toll!, vho
halt com to meet her and match
with her tht token that will admit
Hut to her vast inheritance. Bht
hat broken with Oretht Lovechiem
alto, who teemt ttrangely tympa
thetio to Francit. Then the ttartt
up tht ttair of tht old French
hotel whtre murder and theft havt
beeet her tor day. Jim Bundtan
tuddtnly puehee ahead of Francur"
detective David Lorn, who had vol
unteered to accompany But. n
ttrint But't room for a hurried talk,
Bundean tee tht uardrobt door
quiver.
Chapter it
SUE "DISAPPEARS"
IFLTJNO across tht room, aj
own ravolrsr la on hand. In
that second th door bad stopped
lta brief motion and wag firm,
though I'd beard no noise.
; ''Coma out!" I aald.
1 Ther waa sot a sound lnild the
wardrobe. I started to fllnr open
the door, and the door resisted.
pulled and exerted all mr force, and
It atlll restated. It waa during that
moment that I waa conscious of
bearing a rolce In the hall, but only
faintly.
The key was not In the lock. Was
It possible that tba thing was locked
from the InsldeT At least, I could
not get It open, and there waa some
one inside the wardrobe.
I glanced about for a chair or
table I could swing at the door. And
In that glanca I aaw that Sue was
gone. I dropped the chair and was
at the door. I was In the corridor.
Baa was not there.
I tried to call to her: Sua Sua.
I believe I did call out, but mj rolce
must have been husky and strained,
tor although aha was rery near
ha aald afterward that she did not
hear me, did not even know that
there was someone In tba ward
robs. I ran down tba ball, past Mrs.
Bjng's door, and Into th intersect
ing corridor. And then, with a po
liceman trying to detain ' me and
I daresay I looked rather mad I
ran back to tba corridor that passed
Sue's room.
And there was Sue In the vary
let of opening the door of Mrs.
Byng'i room and coming from It
Into the hall, talking contentedly
with Mrs. Byng In the room beyond
as she did so.
t stopped abruptly. The relief
was so great to see her there, not
a hair on her head touched, that I
felt actually a little dlzsy and
aueer.
"There yon are," I aald breathe
lassly.
' She looked at me unconcernedly
as I cams nearer.
"Mrs. Byng opened her door and
spoke to me asked ma to step In
her room a moment." She saw, I
suppose, something of my feeling
In my face, for she added quickly
and anxiously: I thought you
, heard her speak. What Is It?"
"There's someone In the ward
robe In your room," I said rapidly,
recovering myself. "Tell tbls po
liceman, will you!"
Her eyes darkened with fright as
aha spoke quickly to the man. Bis
ewn face took on suddenly an acute
ly uneasy look, but he had the grace
to turn rapidly toward her room,
and wa both pressed through the
door. I crossed to the wardrobe and
Bulled at the door.
I A ND It swung readily open.
There waa no shot. There
waa no motion. There waa no sound.
There was only a sort of vacant
pace where Sue's gowns bad been
pushed back on their hangers.
Well, I knew what I'd seen. I
knew the wardrobe door had not
budgod under my band, though I'd
pulled hard and It could sot have
been stuck. But the policeman
didn't believe me or didn't want to
belter me, and In either cass the
Sect would bar been the same.
And by that time I didn't see my
self that there waa much usa start
ing a search for th person who
had beat such a hasty and skilled
retreat during those few moments
when I'd been in the mala corridor.
But I waa Interested to not that
th wardrobe lock actually did go
clear through Into th Inside, and
th key was on the Inside. Certain
ly no place tor a key In a wardrobe.
I aald anally to Sua:
"You and Mrs. Byng go on down
to th lounge to tea. I'll go with
you to the stairway and watch untU
you are safe In the lounge. Promise
m to stay sear the others." It ran
through my mind that It was In the
Tory lounge that little Marcel bad
been killed. But I had been the only
other In the room, then I and the
cockatoo.
' The policeman, rellered, vanish
ed. Mrs. feyng stalked beside us,
looking for all th world Ilk a tall
nd rery untidy bolater. As we
merged into th gallerled spec
I glanced over It down Into tba
lounge. Gretbe and Francis and
Lorn wera still there, with Mari
anne's black hair shining near the
tea table.
Sue followed my glanca and lifted
her eyebrows Inquiringly, and I
shook my head. Yet It didn't seem
possible that It had been Lovechiem
In that wardrobe.
"Later," I said rapidly to Sua, re
ferring to my wish to learn just
what Francis bad said. She un
derstood me, but sba looked trou
bled. Mrs. Byng passed a little
ahead of her at the top of the
stairs, and In tha rustle of that
lady's numerous garmenta Sue
leaned toward me and said quickly:
"Soon. It's Important.' Sba start
ed to follow Mrs. Byng, looked back
at me, hesitated, and then added
with a kind of catch in her breath.
"Be rery careful."
Then aha ran lightly down the
stairs, and I watched her shining
bright hair.
I went down tha service stairs
which led from beyond Marianne's
room, and straight through to the
ground-floor atorerooma of the
north wing.
I knew that these storerooms had
been searched, not once, but sev
eral times, by tha police. I knew
that their only connection with the
floor above them was by way of that
narrow passage and up the service
stairway. 1 knew that tbey were
practically unused and that neither
the police nor Lorn bad connected
them In any way with tha strange
affaire that bad taken place In and
near my own room.
THE rooms wera large, dark, and
silent. I gave the first few rooms.
which were bar and empty, only a
glanca and went farther along to
the room which lay directly under
the White Salon and under ray own
room. One large room stretched
shadowily along what I Judged was
the full length of both the upper
rooms, and here I managed to open
shutter,
Tha ceilings, unfinished and with
rough beams, wera rery low. The
pipes for tba furnace which pre
sumably supplied the upper floor
ot the north wing ran openly
through these rooms, and 1 looked
with some Interest at the apot
where they passed Into the radia
tors of my own room and to the
Whits Salon. '
But It waa among a group o: bar
rels In a corner of the room that I
found what I found; something Lorn
would have Immediately discovered
had he glren my atatemeuts any
weight In bis own mind. In Lorn's
mind I played an entirely different
role than that ot Investigator.
Not that the thing 1 found was
Incriminating to anyone. But it
did go tar to prove a possibility that
was in my mind. For It was an
eiderdown, a new, little-used elder
down covered with red silk, and It
was wadded up and thrust Into the
bottom of on of tha barrels which
was then turned upside down.
For soma tlms I stood there hold
ing th thing In my hands, follow
ing a terse train ot thought. Sue'a
abductor bad been, she thought.
slender lean. Someone had used
an eiderdown In that room rery
rocently. Tbe odor ot tobacco
amok rery late on night had
floated up through the bole In tha
celling where the heating pipes
went through. .
But could that strange sigh we
had beard so clearly that very
morning In th Whit Salon Just
abort have coma from such a dls-
tancaT The tobacco smoka had
been not quite tangible; It might
have been not quite tangible; It
might have been explained by only
a strangely shifting current ot air.
But that sigh had been wholly tan
gible. Someone sear us had sighed,
and there waa no one near.
But I dared not linger too long
In that empty, rapidly darkening
storeroom, I had soon. I thought,
what was to be seen. I didn't Ilka
tba feeling ot tha place, with tha
dusk Increasing in Its corners and
orawllng steadily nearer me; and
with the approach of night th
wind waa beginning to whisper and
murmur and wail around tba old
dark building. And there waa tba
urgent matter ot Sue'a token.
I mads my way back not with
out qualms, for during my short
stay In tha cavernous storerooms
twilight had fallen with tha com
plete suddenness ot winter, and the
whole place waa a hollow, black
stillness with shadows that seemed
to move, and my footsteps echoed
against th old walls.
(Copyright, Jill. Jflpaon 9. Mbtrhart)
Dramatically, timirrew, (lii
tokan IImII Bonus back Inte the
rtakonlno. '
HAUSER GETS NEWLY
MADE STATE POST
SALEM. Ore- May 58 (AP) Pub-
lie Utilities Commissioner Charles M.
Thomas today announced the ap
pointment of Herbert Hauaer as su
pervisor of transportation, twe new
department created by th 1933 legis
lature.
Hauser has been secretary ot the
stat utilities commission slnoe Aplrl.
1M7. .
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W. B. Crause, nurseryman, 538 So.
First.
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GUM
SWEETENS
THE BREATH
TAMA READY
TO SELL POWER
TACOMA, Wsah., May 36. (AP)
If tbe city of Portland decides to
purchase Tacora municipal power,
aa recQjpmendfxl to tbe Portland city
council yesterday by Kenneth O.
Harlan rate expert, It will find tbe
Tacoma light department receptive
to a proposition, It was Indicated by
Commlasloner Ira fl. DavlMon of the
public utilities department today.
"We have the power," Commlaslon
er DaTlsaon declared." He added that
he believed It was highly feasible to
take the power to Portland In such
manner that It could be sold there
at a comparatively low rate.
SALEM, Ore., May 20. (AP) Man
damus proceedings to force a vote
on so-called prohibition sections of
the state constitution at the July 31
special election were filed in the state
supreme court late yesterday.
SELVES BY JAW
MONDOVT, Wis., May 38.
Three bogs disappeared at
(UP)
Selmer
Larson's farm during a wind storm
a month ago. Larson decided tbey
bad been killed and gave up bunt
ing for them.
Two of tbe hogs, still bealtby pork
ers, returned today to Join other bogs
in Larson's barnyard.
It developed tbat the three hogs
bad been burled under a straw stack,
which blew over on tbem. One was
killed. The other two mte their way
out In 29 days.
PORTLAND. Ore., May 38. (API
Mark D. Dc lion, 81, waa fatally In
jured here today when he was struck
down by an automobile after he bad
stepped from a streetcar.
Furniture re-upholstered. rfiniahd
and re-glued. Phone 869-B. Thlbault.
S'MATTER POP
By C. M. PAYNE
r-fcj L (Copyright, iM3. by The Bet! gyndlett., Inel .
TRADERS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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LURE AND PES AND PEHCTU
STfR)R1HE8Ul6ARIAN
stamps, tfte chemical sey
and three cents cash .
EDDIE'S MOTHER WOffrlEjl
HIM TRADE HIM PEN AND
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WE WHOLE DEAL IS OFT..
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TAILSPIN TOMMY-Skeeter The Watch Dog!
By GLENN CUAirai
and HAL rORBEfl
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By SOL HESS
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