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Avenging Parrot
by Anne austion.
Firat came Daley Shepherd-jolly, fat girl, who looks a sylph beside Mrs Hogarth. Then before Daisy. had left, Mrs. Rhodes, our land- to Indy, called
.asure Mra Hogarth that her worthless husband, who goes by the up propriate name of Dusty Rhodes, would surely get her reinforced. screen in on Monday. And before she left, in came Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, who insisted on showing Wants to tell me the story of me snapshot of their adored son, Beanie bundes, young student if crimin her life and get me to put it into Larry, who is working off a con..
a movie, I suppose," Magnus retort this summer, so he can play on dition or two in State University rounlto al Mre, hodes boarding fuse ined, grinning wryly. urder, to be near a Mrs. Emma Howarth wha "I don't think 80," Dundee the sophomore football team this has written the police for protection, yox said. 1 gathered, from her fall." her life and money are in danger,
the third Boir wear Frather cryptic remarks, that she, Dundee's room in on that "of Jewel Briggs, rathers Day has a very personal communien-all? Strawn naked.
THIS HAS HAPPENED. "..
logy, secures a job with the hondleida aqund af Hamilinn. an immediately taken N room in-
Shepherd, saliewoman, ahé Tijds, houersală.
At dinner Dundee meeta Mrɛ shủ Márs, sharp. tion to make to you." Corn Darker, pianist at a load theatre; Wal- ter Blyten, podprietor et a smakt Imberúnalety, an amateur · scenario writer, and
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"Talk to the old dame alone at
"Only about five minutes. You Magnus looked annoyed. “God see; I knew there was a young. Hener knows I've tried to keep from get-couple waiting downstairs Norms Paige, his pretty hanese Be Magnus ting mixed up in boarding house break some unpleasant news 'to her and I-didn't want to keep them on the anxious soat) any longer."
an
amateur Bernaria writer, and Hvary
Marinian
| Dawd, "a", newcomer ost of work.
friendly group when the cry of "Murder rings out. Dusty, Mr. Rharlest worthless
husband, amaures trens the cry cane from
Cap'n, Mr: Hogarth's "parrot. Hundee, then
hers of Mrs. Hogarth's miserliness, bow the ja room-bound on account of illness, and of
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scandals. see me to-night?"
"Or to-morrow, I believe," Dun- dee answered. "Suft yourself, of course, or don't gp at all, if you'd
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er coulant chaing of her will in name rather not; but I remembered you new favourile. Nurma, her latest dress, said you would like to meet her.". agree to intruder Dundee that night, Bowd He also remembered, suddenly and Mhehun' any they have never met Mrs. Hogarth, and when Maputi expresses a desire that Cora Barker had been in a
meet her that night, Cern, whai in in lave fever of anxiety to prevent the. with Maunur, begins to well and R another the. She is strangely eulated. meeting. Why? "Pardon me for interrupling. Magnus, Good luck, and goodnight.”
-Before he roached the stairhead, It was nearly half-past that Dundee heard the typewriter "go- fateful Saturday evening when ing again, very lowly. Poor de- Dundee, escorted by Norma Paige, vil! Pecking away with one finger arrived at the closed door of Mrs. [at stories "that would Emma Hogarth's room on the sec-Jany néürer the screen than they and floor of the Rhodes House, were now. Just as Norma lifted a"hand to Inouk, a throaty voice with a peculiar trill in it could be heard distinefly:
"Enima, you're an old fool!", The words were followed by a loud, hair-raising laugh.
"That's Cap'n again-tke parrot,
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And then he told Strawn in detail about
old the
lady's numerous wills. He also gave a rapid sketch of the various boarders, including the evicted one, Emil Sevier.
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***She hinted dire things about a plot to rob and even murder her," Dundee concluded. "She accma to think Cora Barker, Emil Sevier and Dusty Rhodes are all mixed- up in it. Says she woke up one night and anw Sevier in her room, but that he vanished mysteriously, by
Bombay nover get nother door nor window. Sho told me to come back to her room about midnight, or a little, after, when the house was quiet-lute Dundee rau Nghtly down the hours on Saturday night, you stairs, found the big front hall de-know-and we could talk un- [serted, took his straw hat from disturbed. Wants me to take the hall tree, and stepped out away some samples of food she's upon the porel. He was just in saved. Says she's sure they're time to bump into a messenger poisoned by Dusty, who brings boy.
her trays."
You know." Norma. whispered, "Say, Mister. Got a guy named smiling. She knocked, and two voices answered her, almost simul-harp livin' here? Telegram, col
leet." taneously: "Who la it?" It was hard for Dundee to listinguish between the two speakers, woman and bird......
"It's. Norma, Mra. Hogarth," the girl called. -
"Lawrence Sharp?... Yes. think he's in his room. Up the stairs, first room to your left, sonny."
eame
The boy entered and Dundee There was the sound of a vast strolled down the walk, whistling grunt or-groan, as if a tremendous "Annie Laurie" very loudly. The body was lifting itself slowly, lawn swing, which held two ahad Then came thudding taps of cones owy figures very close together, upon the thin summer rugE.
"She always keeps her door signal, previously agreed upon be to an abrupt stop. Hin locked, and asks who it is before tween him and Norma Paige, had she will admit anyone," Normaleen recognized. He waved as the whispered. Pour dear! It must two figures man and a slim girl be terrible to be old and nearly descended from the swing and helpless and to be suspicious of everyone, because you have a little started toward the house, Norma slightly in advance, her hand money-hidden away."
dragging at Walter Styles' she were eager to get it over with and her sweetheart were reluctant.
A key turned in the lock, and Normin Paige and Bonnie Dundee entered the room,
"Nut!" Strawn dismissed her wearily. "Let's amble down the street and surround a flock of ice cream sodus.' I'll go nuta ayself if this heat wavo don't break."
Over the nodan Strawn became almost flatteringly reminiscent of his 25 years on the force, and it was nearly 20 minutes after 12 when Dundee entered the still un- locked front door of the Rhodes House and tiptoed up the stairs, woman's door indicated she was A pencil of light under the old still awake. He knocked softly. Fhere was no answer.
He knock-
again, and listened intently. The second floor was very quiet. The only sound at the moment was the slow, "steady tapping of Bert Magnus's typewriter.
Dundee knocked again, more loudly, a sweat, not caused by the heat broke out on his face. Tentatively he tried the knob, sure,
however, that the door was lock- ed. To his surprise it yielded. He entered the room.
It was about 10 minutes to 11 If he's marrying her for the when Dundee emerged from that money-" Dundee muttered under room, alone. He hesitated outside his branth. Then he laughed at the closed door for a moment, in himself, and swung off toward the indecision, and was aware that the | business district. key was being turned after him. The old brick building which A peruliar old woman, but not housed police headquarters was "queer;" he
of that only was sure
eight or 10 short blocks But he had a mussage to deliver away, and it was just a Mrs. Hogarth had told him the lo- minutes after 11 when Honnie the stairs like a drunken man.
few
of
cation of all his fellow-boarders' Dundee entered the hot bare PODms. Hers was the centre front eubicle which Lieutenant Strawn room with a single large window called his office. looking-out
the upstairs upon
Strawn was Jolling in a creak-" porch. On the cast, in a cornering swivel chair, drinking from a room, lived Cora Barker. On the straw plunged into à bottle west, also in a corner room, with|sedn water, one window opening upon the "Hotter'n fades, aln't it?" he front upstairs porch and another growled, by way of greeting. looking down on the driveway, "Want a bottle of pop? Fil.send ived Henry Dowd, who had, ofat-foat out for one" upled the room only one week, taking it when Emil Sevier had seen Mrs. Hogarth,
"No, thanks... Well, I've been evicted,
mighty little chance to get her Down the west sale of the hall, | story."
100m.
but I had
in the order named, lived Mr. and "Because she didn't have any Mrs. Lawrence Sharp, and Norma thing to tell, more'n likely." Paige, the women's hath being at Strawn growled. the end of the hall next to Norind's "I think she has." Dundee in- On the east side of thesisted cheerfully, fanning his face hall, with windows opening upon with his hat. The trouble was, the side upstairs porch, dived no sooner had been left alone Bert Magnus and Walter Styles with her and before I could state the men's bath. being next to my official connexion-grin, darn | Styles' room;
yout-than people began to drift in to pay the old lady a call.
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The floor was very quiet, except for the steady, slow tupping of a 1ypewriter. Hia message in mind," Bonnie Dundee stepped quietly to Bert Magnus's door and knocked. "Who is 17" The answer was decidedly irritable.
"Dundee, Magnus, I have a mes. sage for you."
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There was the sound of a chair scraping, Ahen 'footsteps, followed by the turning of a key in a lock. Dundee grinned. A nice, trust- ful house, this!
As If swering the unspoken thought, Bert Magnus, appearing in the doorway in shirt sleaves,, explained, with an obvious effort at cordiality:
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"Have to keep my door locked or I'd never get any work done, You know what a boarding-house is kepo privacy. Won't come in?"
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Dundee glanced about the small: room un Magnus retreated to per- mit him to enter. A large, -old- fashioned roll-top desk, with an ancient typewriter, beside which lay sheets of yellow paper, testi, flod to the fact that Magnus was Indeed busy.
"Thanks, no, I see you're busy. Hope the story-da-going all right,' Dundee answered cheerfully. shouldn't have interrupted, but Mrs. Hogarth asked me to tell you. that she'd like to meet you. She seems to be very much interested in your work,"
Two or three minutes later a out of that room, lurched down white-faced young man atoggered
"And they sent me to protect her. Me!" he groaned.
(To Be Continued.)
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