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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. Company, offi
cials believed the crate had been re
turned to a farmer.
Pat Tracey, a nephew of the fa
mous Roscommon giant, Jim Coffey,
will make his American fstlc debut
Aplrl 31 at New York. He la a heavy
weight well over six feet and weigh
ing 300 pounds.
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