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PAGE TEN SfEDFORD JJ5TG TRTBTTSTE-, TMEDTOHD, TSREQOS, WEDNESDAY, MAT 31, 1933. TJsc Wfsslc Cockatoo by ifignon G. Eberhart' Chapter 48 THE COCKATOO AGAIN PfVH, I didn't dream the priest was I v Francis. The beard and all that would hare changed him. He tad been educated In a church School and veil educated. Be mew how to manage the dismiss. row and what to do." Alter a helpless moment I said: rBut what ot your own halt I You'll (be obliged to prove yourself tc hla lawyer there'll be arrangements. I think I'd better eable the lawyer Immediately." I She nodded. - "Then this man calling himself Francis Tally must be actually In conspiracy with the LoTechlems. Also this oharmlng substitute they're kept in waiting." ' "Substitute?" said Sue, roused. PThey bare thu substitute already?" I explained. "And the point Is," I finished, "we're got to hurry." Any plan sow was dangerous for Sue. Ten millions Instead of fire. I said: i "I'm going to call one of the po licemen to stay here with you. Then Xm going to find Lorn" "Lorn should hare known the priest was Frauds!" she cried. : "He didn't He wasn't sure about ithls newcomer for the same reason. And then I want you to ring for Marianne and question her. I hare is faint hope that Marcel told her Iwhat he had seen. I hate letting yon out of my sight, but I're got to mod Lorn." I went to the door which led to the winding stairway and thus to Ithe courtyard. Under the swaying light ot the arch stood one of our guard, and, after making sure I was unobserred, I called and beckoned to him, and once In my room he seemed to understand very sensi bly what was wanted. The corridors were as usual de serted. It was at the rery door of Lorn'a room that I met Grethe. She lid rather than walked out of It, lolosed It silently, and saw me. "Well?" she said, and as 1 did foot reply, she leaned nearer me and ialld one smooth soft arm through mine and said: "Are you looking for me?" I said grimly: "I'm looking for (Lorn! What were you doing In his oom?" Without waiting tor her reply I thrust her aside and flung open the idoor and looked about. The room was empty, although It looked sin gularly untidy. Madame Gretna was smiling a Uttle; her green eyes were shining knowingly. "Well?" she said Lgaln, her voice trolling npward. "Where's Lorn?" "Downstairs, I believe," she said coolly enough. "He was in the lobby with Lorschlam a few moments go." I was nearlng the door to the lobby when I heard his voice, taut and sharp and strar ie: "Sundeanl SundeanI Hurryt" i IRAN the laBt few steps. , They were both In the lobby Lovschlem and Lorn. And Lorn bad a gun In his hand, and It was trained straight at Lorschlem's fat paunch, and Lovschlem was stand ing there Just beside the desk with bis Jewolod hands lifted high In the air. "You've got the revolver?" I had It In my hand. "Yes." "Keep this man here while I get the police. Don't hesitate to shoot Bo's the murderer." "Lovschlem?" "Yes. I've known It for some time, but I've got the proof now. From Marianne." I said: "What is it?" ' "His connection with Stravsky. She, the mold, heard them talking the night Stravsky was killed. They were In the court She heard steady, there, Lorsohleml she beard Stravsky promise to got something for Lovschlem. Lov schlem warned Stravsky to make no mistake this time. The thing was, ot course, Miss Tally's token." "Stravsky said he'd give it to Lovschlom mafiana. I'll call the po lice. Don't let him go, Sundean. Shoot to kill." The door to the court whipped open and Lorschlem's terrified eyea shifted to me. This time the mum ble was half coherent : "I didn't I'm not I dldnt "What's all this?" It was Grethe from the lounge. "They say I murdered them. They ay I Wiled'' Lovschlem's fat barlnged hands were shaking and trembling there In the air. "Stop that," I said sharply Grethe, and she stopped ber steal thy retreat "Com back hers. Stand over there." She gars mo a still look but obeyed. She said calmly: "You'd as well not make a move, Lovschlem. I think our friend la rather likely to shoot us." It was very still In the small lobby while our eyes met and locked. Very still except tor the small rustle of the cockatoo scram bling from his perch to the desk. Prom the corner of my eyes I could see him sidle toward bis mistress. She did not move or shift her eyes from mine as the bird caught her green sleeve and pulled him self clumsily In a curious kind of hand-over-hand movement to ber shoulder. Puccl ebuckled hoarsely and laid hla wide bill alongside bis mis tress's warm red hair. But there was something wrong something that didn't add some quantity that was not right Puccl was pushing bis bill Into the red hair. He was pushing and pushing no! He was pulling. Be was pulling at something that was thin and white and folded and that finally came entirely from the mass of red hair. It was a thin folded paper. Madame Grethe heard suddenly some small rustle, and she mored ber head and cried, "Puccl!" In a strangled voice. "Put down your hands, Lov schlem. Glre me that paper, ma dame." She -did so. Shs did not hesitate, as I had known she would not She took it gently and carefully from Puccl and put It In my hand. The paper was what I thought It was. A COMMOTION of footsteps and " voices arose outside, and tha door was flung opn and Lorn was there. Bren In that hurried Instant I was oonsclous of the singular look he gave ua: It held surprise and a kind of disappointment and at the same time decision. Lorn pointed at me and said something very sharp, and the po lice fell upon me, and gripped my arms. "So," I said above things to Lorn. "So that is the reason. You must supply them with a murderer." "There's no nse talking like that "Sundean," said Lorn. "You can't defend yourself. They will find the poison in your room, where I found It and thus was conrlnced of your guilt" I was dimly conscious that the man who had called himself Fran cis Tally had appeared In the door way of the lounge. Madame," I sold to Grethe, "ask these policemen to free my arms tor a moment I won't try to escape I couldn't" Then, before their eyes I brought out the enrelope in which Francis Tally's lost letter to his sister had been sent And I had also a small Irregular piece of wax which I bad found on the landing where the body ot Michael Stravsky had lain. There was not a sound while I fitted the broken wax to the half of tha seal which still remained on the envelope. The two pieces fitted exactly and made one. I said to Lorn: "Yon have killed and killed for the Tally millions." "Take him awayl Arrest him!" "You killed Stravsky and yon killed Marcel and you killed the priest And when you killed Strav sky bociuee you had witnessed the abduction and Sue's return and you thosght Stravsky had got her tokon when you killed Stravsky you broke this wax from the seal of the letter you were bringlnp Sue from her brother. It tell there. It's going to convict you. "And you killed Maroel so h couldn't toll what he knew of you. And you killed the priest because you discovered be was the real Francis Tally and that he'd seen the real Sue and that spoiled your plan. You killed him, and that's whore you got Suo's tokon, at last Her brother had found it and taken it perhaps to soe it It matched his own. And you trapped yourself when you did that "That proved that there was someone else after the token. Some one besides the Lovschlems. For It was gone. Yet the Lovschlems did not bars It And it was not on the priest's body." Grethe said in a still way: "It's true. It was In his room. I found It" Lorn had shrunk into his brown coat; b was only shadowed eyes and ohalk-yellow face, and he no longer screamed at tha policemen. (OapvrieM, tlit. Ulgnon O. Bbtrkarl) Monday, the ! link of the ohaln fill Into plooo. Dutch TJIrlch, right handed pitch er ot the Seattle Indians of the Coast league, hitch hiked 1200 miles and walked over the Siskiyou mountain through a foot of snow fro six hours In the night to report for a try-out. Pans believe the about clinched the Job. Oarl Boone, new Portland pitcher In the Coast league, had established a record of being with three differ ent clubs In a playing season not yet a week old. He trained with the White Sox. was with Oakland on day and then transferred to the Ore gon club. SWEETENS THE BREATH TO MODIFY VETS' DISABILITY CUTS 61 WASHINGTON, May 31. Senator Byrnes. (D., 8. C.) told the senate today the administration would announce In a tew days an Increase In the compensation to veterans with service connected disabilities. Byrnes' made the statement after several senators had criticised the ad ministration for the cuts already made under the economy act. Senator Stelwer of Oregon, said pension funds for Spanish-American war veterans had been cut from 9134, 000,000 for the expiring fiscal year to $41,000,000 for the coming year, a reduction of approximately $87,000, 000. Byrnes, an administration spokes man, said the veterans' bureau had been working on modification of the regulations at the request of Presi dent Roosevelt. EGG CRATE JEWEL MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 81. (UP) -Mrs. William samueleon asked her husband, a grocer, to hide her 1100 worth of diamond some place where burglars would never find them. Samuelaon decided that the safest place he knew of to pu tthe dia monds was In an empty egg crate In ,hls store. Today police were hunting for the Jewels. A commission company carted away all the empty egg crates at Samuelaon's store, Including the one with diamonds In It. 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