Avenging Parrot
by Anne Austin
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
the train, you know. How far is Bonnie Dundee, "rob" detective. under it from the Rhodes House to the Lieutenant Strawn of the homicide squad of Union Station?" Hamilton, renta room at Mrs. Rhoden boarding hours to be near Mrs. Emma Ho-
Strawn scowled. "As a matter garth, who has appealed to the police for of fact, it's only about 10 blocks.
that docan't prove Mr. and Mr. Sharp. Dalay Shepherd, sales. But woman Waler Styles, proprietas of small thing. Dundee. Sevier haberdashery : Norma Paler, his Fance Dee have known we'd Munim, an amaipur acenario writer: Cora Barker, theatre planiet: Tenry Dawd, newlifs "trail, because of the
protection, Dendre meeta ther "boarders:|
worthisna knakand of Mrs. Rhodes.
vourite. Norma, the
her-choked to death,
Intent Helzeen, Intro-
train, that he ran to extch his train and was
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comer col of work, and Thisty Rhodes lady's complaints against him. He Dundes karna that Mrs. Howarth constant wouldn't bourd a train with the ly changes her, will to nathe * new swag on him. My iden is that he dures Dundee to Mr. Hogarth after dinner. met a fence somewhere, who un- but be gets only a few minutes', chat with dertook to take care of the stuff her alone. He leaves at 11, promising to for him until the police were tired turn later. He comes back, at 12.20.80 nd of watching him, or released him Strawn taken charge of the Investbation on tuxufficient evidence. Either Dundee. Uoned behind! ■ werven in, the murder room, taken noten na Strawn quire that, or he hid it somewhere, and Howl. A delective reports that Bevier, forme then barely had time to make the ́er bogrder, left town on, the cone o'clock train he had advertised he was hatless. A Dr. Werks reports having seen going to take. No flies on Sevier,"
• man tunning down the alleys he went ho added admiringly. "As a matter for his ear about 12:10 to make a call.
of cold fact, unless we get more on him thun we now have, we shan't be able to get a conviction. If we "Yes, I watched him until he could find that car-whoever swung disappeared,” Dr. Weeks answer- his lights full on a running man ed.... "As soon as the car had back-in an, alley is going to have a ed out of the alley, the mun pretty good pleture of that may straightened up, and ran faster fixed in his mind. Guess I'd better than ever out of the alley into get the papers to help me. Mr. Rhodes holding some reporters Tenth street."
"In the direction the car had at bay downstairs now." taken ?" Strawn asked. Perhaps that ear. Turning briefly into the fore Lieutenant Strawn returned alley and Bashine headlights, from his ression with the repor had been a pre-arranged signal-ters. Dundee had begun to feel "No. The pposite direction-rry for his fellow boarders, all toward Maple avinue, the street of whom, with the exception of Just north of Chestunt, you know. Henry Dowd, were still being held The car turned toward Chestnut." in their rocus to awalt question
"Could you distinguish the makeling.
of the car or its occupants 7
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London, Dec. 3. The Admiralty announces that Mr. A. W. John, Deputy Director of Naval Construction, has been appointed Director of Naval Con "Well, that's that!" Strawn com.struction in succession to Sir Wil "No--neither. In fact, I puidmented with satisfaction. "I gave liam Berry, on the retirement-of no attention to the car. I was the newspaper bäys the low-down that officer.-British Wireless. watching the man. If I had had on our suspicions of Bevler, but my wits about, me
and had not told them to soft-pedal it; just to been in such a hurry to make my say that Sevier was wanted for enll-a pretty sick patient, by the questioning. They ate up the doc wag-1 suppose 1 should have tor's story of the running man and challenged the, mun, or reported the rar, and, are going to ask the the matter to the police. Or if I driver of the car to come forward, to Mrs. Hogarth's window, enter had known the man to be a form-like good citizen, and tell any-noiselessly, since the windows are thing, he knows... Say, young er boarder, an evicted one, shoukl, of course, have notified feller, me lad, what are you grin Mrs. Rhodes of his atrange being about he broke off to de-
mand half angrily. haviour. I have a high regard for Mrs. Rhodea—”
1
"I'm "sure you have, doctor," Strawn interrupted. "And thank you very much, You've helped us case," a great deal. You'll be needed for the inquest, of course,
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11 10011
of
floor have windows opening direct- ly upon the upstairs porch. With- out screens on those windows, any boarder on this floor could step out
of a window, creep along the porch
low, and steal up on the old lady
from behind,
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"Once the screens were in, how- of the "I was just thinking," Dundee ever, the raining of one
screens might have attracted atten- { corfe ged, his eyes twinkling, "how tion.... By the way, I said all a my ignorance and inexperience the roomers on this floor, because 1. should have gone about this these having rooms on the west The careful wording did not de-side of the house, which has no By ceire Stawn. He flushed, then porch, could gain access to the roof Che way, doctor, you any you at-shrugged. "All right! Spill it! which la T-shaped, you know, with merely by walking across the hall, tended Mrs. Hogarth occasionally] How would you have gone 'about
a widow opening directly upon the during the last three or four this case?"
"I'm afraid I should have made third floor could have crept down porch, Naturally a roomer on the years. In your opinion, was abuj -well, mentally normal?”
an awful lot of work for myself the stairs to this hall, stepped over The doctor chuckled, then and the police department," Dun the hall window sill, sneaked past membered he was in
dec admited, ruefully. “Fshould'
"Which is exactly what Emil Se Copa Barker's room and on to Mrs. where murder had been committed have begun on the supposition that Hogarth's on the front porch. In vier did," Strawn caught him up a very short time before, and look-anyone who lived in, this house, or ed embarrassed. "One
the who had ever lived in it, or had fact, this house, without screens, is stubbornly. "But don't think I'm I've ever met even taken a meal in it, and had an ideally constructed place, from going to let that preconceived idea' shrewdest women
a robber'a viewpoht. If he doesn't of mine, as the lawyers put it, keep Lieutenant Struwa. And the most heard the story of a miser with a
care to board here, he can climb theme from catching a new one if it closemouthed. She never referr. hidden hoard in her room, was a
roa trellis on the west end of the comes along. The papers used to possible suspect, Greed, you know,
that call me "Third Degree Strawn ed in any way to her past life, even is such a universal passion. I be front porch, saunter along "refused to give me the name of lieve it is responsible for more
porch and enter any room that not that I deserved such a harsh, any doctor who had previously at crimes than any other motive, isn't strikes his fancy."
{title, of course," he grinned, tended her. She had had a suri-17" oua major operation-abdominal-"Well?" Strawn snorted. and I wanted to write her surgeon | "Of course, I realize that things and ask him a few questions as to look bad for Sevier-provided any what condition he had found, to one eumes forward to identify him guide me in trenting the old lady, as the man running down the But she absolutely refused to give falley Dundee went on, with his me any information whatever. A disarmingemile. “But I can't help -
Heutenant, queer woman, but not a crazy woremembering.
that man. I'm sure of that Lleuten-everyone in this house knew Emil unt Strawn."
Sevier had been evicted on Mrs. Hogarth's complaints, that Sevier. had just been red and therefore When the doctor left the raam, would be leaving town to look else. Strawn spoke briefly to Caraway, where for work, and that the police the fingerprint expert, who was would think of him first as the packing his paraphernalia pre-murderer!" paratory to leaving.
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room
~Very, Jampish
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Strawn looked a little sturtled at "Afraid this bunch of the quiet intensity of his new sub- I've picked up won't help you ordinate's last sentence, but here. much, Strawn." Caraway aniwer-covered himself quickly and re- ed. "The murderer was a wiretorted with amused conde:cension: guy-used gloves, or a handker- "You didn't think I was through chief. No prints at all on the with my Investigation, did you, window frame; wiped clean. And son? But I take things as they none on the trunk lock or the ceme, and Sevier happened to come denk drawers, The chamber-maid first. I'll have that Barker woman must have dusted in here with an in now, since she has the olled rag some time Saturday, for next door-" the desk was clean even of the "And I also can't help remember- old lady's
ing." Dundee went on, with that fingerprints-extejp! the top of it. I took her inrer-same quiet emphasis, "that every- prints first thing, and thee autel one in this house knew that Mra. with those found on
|Hogarth's reinforced window screen the desk. would be installed Monday, making No prints on the keys, either. access to her room from the porch Found a number of prints on the impossible, Uniess Cora Barlier or door, inside and out, but since the someone else has been keeping him old lady had a flock of vleitors informed, Sevier could not have earlier in the evening, 1 don't known that the screen was not-al- think they'll help you much. If ready in place, Mrs. Hogarth told the murderor came in by that door, me she had given Dusty Rhodes I'll wager he had his wits about the money to buy materials for it him and didn't leave his culling nearly a month ago. Also, I heard card, since he was so careful Mrs. Rhodes auy, in the presence of everywhere else. But I'll develop all the boarders and “mealers," thát the lunch and let you have them all screens, including Mrs. Ho- for what they're worth."
garth's, wold be installed Monday: When Carraway had left, They are the kind that push up and Strawn joined Dundee behind the down, like windows. I noticed the grooves for them in my own win- dow.".
"Well Strawn barked, na Dun
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"Well, boy, I'm afraid this ense
is going to be too simple for your dee paused. tastes," the older delective com-
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miserated, a gleam of triumphant The young man shrugged slight- mirth in his eyes.
Iy. "It just occurred to me that Dandes grinned amiably, the if the murderer was an inmate of remarked, very casually: "I wont-the house, he or she would want der why it took Sevier-if it was to do his little job of robbing and Sevier the doctor saw-so long to murdering before those run from here to the station? He were installed. All the rooms on was still running when he caught the front and the east side of this
screang
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· A minute later, Corn Barker, ca- earled by the patrolman, appeared in the doorway. Through the screen Dundee could see her face, and he | Pald-Up Captial almost betrayed his presence by exclaiming in plly.
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