THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY DECEMBER
1929.
Avenging Parrot
THIN HAS HAPPENED
Anne Austin
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"Thio was a nice, peaceful Mrs. Emma Hogarth, who is said to keep boarding-house to-night, Strawn her duty in her room on the second or commented sarcastically. Then,
at Mrs Bhod boarding losen, lakes at a knock on the door. "Come. fendiah delight to constantly changing ber will to nahie a new favourite among the Int. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp?
boardere, S
strangled to deali ́ be« (wenn «11145 wnd, 12:15 June 20.
Haturday, sladit Bannie Dundee vang detective, who a the protection she demands in a riter wil
waken a room Incognito to give Mrs. Hogarili
All right, Payne. Get along with your work," he added signi- Scantly, and Payne departed to search the unsuspecting couple's
ten to the počine, namlass Jila chiør, Liens | room. tenant (trawn, in the Brestfration,
Boarders at the Bhodes heue are Mr. and
Mrs Bar, Daisy Shepherd, angwoman Walter Styles, proprietor of a mali haber query; Norma Falze His fianco Neri Mumināletiz malesanrio writer: Cork „Parker, Uratre planist: Henry Dowd, new somer sat of work, 2001 Dusty, Mrs. While worthleen hunbærið.
"I'm glad to meet you, Lieut. Strawn, though I deplore the cir- cumstances," Lawrence Sharp boomed. "The missus and I were great friends of the poor lady who is so tragically dead-"
Burn immediately suspe Call Sexter, "So Lunderstand," Strawn inter former harder. He learns hie eft furupted dryly, though he shook
*falloned behind screen. takes hands punctiliously.
sreal excliment the ane w'clock trah.
Dundee
joten an Kirasen quiries Dowl. He unista "Oh, Lieutenant Strawn, you'll he was in his won, the polite evening radi beard nothing nder 1966 The aquawking ofį
Cap'n, Mr. Hogarthes pokrov).
Strawn at givin Corn in Fontellone altri,
be as brief with me as you can. won't you, sir?" Mrs. Sharp, fully
gren, She tells her Magnus to dressed for travelling, even to hat,
andres, Cara drones,
to catch the 1 o'clock train for the enpital, where our son, Larry, is in the State University—"
Her return he 1200 my heel implored. "You see, I was going pping in his men, and of her fudger En wil ikk alor whe stupul da Sesley, hat alunha di| attention to her. Whng Rires demode Ver know why Mrs. Bogarth ass out her art of Jer will form powers, then let egy bize.
CHAPTER XL
"Now, now, Dolly!" Mr. Sharp admonished her. "I thought we
| Hnd agreed—”
“You won't
put it in the papers, or tell the other boarders, will you. Lieut- ant Strawn? You look like such good, kind man, and, of course. it all has nothing to do with poor Mrs. Hogarth”
"But I know he won't let me gu Again that blaže of anger in 46 Larry, if we don't tell him about Corn Barker's eyes. "'s none about the telegram, and the of your business!" site cholted. Phenderrible trouble my poor boy is in." her shoulder sugged. "I'm-sorry, Mrs. Sharp sobheil. I suppose everything, connected with Mrs. Hogarth is your business now," she conceded wearily, "Mrs. Hogarth made a new will just after Christmas, euiting Daisy Shepherd off, and naming me, for no better reason than that I had given her, as a Christmas gift, a rather nicely bound diary. had no ulterior motive. I was not trying to rut Daisy out. But Daisy didn't give Mrs. Hogarth a present, said sonte- thing about being tired of pamper- ing the old lady. So I was Mr Hogarth's heiress until--some time
"Suppone you let me see the telegram you received about 11 evening," Strawn
elock this suggested."
You already know ?**- Mrs. Sharp gasped. "You see, Law. renee, 1 told you the police know
di
la May, I believe it was, when she everything! Here's the telegram, became very fond of Waiter Styles, Mr. Strawn. Lawrence didn't a new boarder. She was tired of wit to show it to you, but as I me by that ting, and wanted the fold him-" fun of having
Strawn took the yellow sheet. I! | didn't have much excitement in her wan a collect Lelegram, dated from life, and making wills was her chief the state capital. Strawn read it indoor spurt. I didn't mean that to aloud for Dunden's benefit:
heir. Shu new
sound=ugly... } likent Mrs, Hogarth, | even' after
"After
you, quarrelled
"In peck of trouble and slop "2" færrested and jailed on chalge (ef | with driving while luxiented stop
ber?" Strawn suggested, as Coru's not true stop was driving class- .words stopped on, a gasp.
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mald's car and wrecked it stop The yellow-pallor deepened. Vickers threatens charge of steal- did not have a quarrel with Mes car unless I pay him three flogarth."
Menday She brought out the hundred rush words with, dißiculty.
top for God's sake. dad rush Strawn smiled, and Dundee could the cash and also arrange to have! have struck his chief. He was very bailed out stup terribly sorry young and very sympathetic, bat not my fault Larry,”
Larry's a good boy, Mr. Strawn." CABLED, QUOTATIONS FROM ment, raiding Mrs. Sharp sobbed. “And I want you to let me go straight to him! Father cheated, | There's another train at 3:30, a didn't you, when she changed her local, but I won't mind # day will?"
coach"
"But you had come tá regard Mrs. Hogarth's hidden hoard rightfully yours, hadn't you, Miss Barker? Felt
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The following quotations as at the close of the market yesterday have been received from their korrespon- "No! No! I never expected to get Must a minute. Mrs. Sharp," dents Meurs. Hayden, Stone and Co., it. We all know how much she en-Strawn interrupted, almost gently. | of" New York, by Meers. Swan, And I “Suppone, Mr. Sharp, you begin Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon Housʊ, joyed changing her will didn't need her money. 1 make a with the receipt of this telegram stock," Shanghai), who are not res good satury s planist at the Little and tell me all that has happened ponsible for cable mutilations.
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Before her husband could reply. Mrs. Sharp began. again, eagerla: "I signed for the telegram, Mr. "I congratulate you, Miss Bar Strawn. And while I was signing ker" Strawn interrupted blandly, for it Norma Paige and Walter Erie Bly Co. "Just one other thing, Miss Bar-] Styles-the young mun she's just | General Moters ker, before I send you to bud, for got engaged to--came upstairs General Rly Signal a good night's sleep, I hope, &, and knocked' on Mrs. Hogarth's Goodyear Tyre and Cap'n, the parrot, is used to' your door. While I was counting the presence in this room, of course,money out of my purse to pay for Do you think you could conx him the telegram I heard Mrs. Hogarth into a talkative mood?"
ead! Who Is It? Norma said, 'It'a Norma, Mrs. Hogartli,' and in a At, that apparently inuicent re-minute Mrs. Hogarth opened the quest Corn Barker shrank from door. When, she saw that Walter her inquisitor as sharply as if he was with Norma, she seemed to get had struck her. She trembled all awful mad. She raised one of the two canes she always used to walk with-because she was so terribly fat and heavy, you know"
"Did you see her strike Walter Styler? Strawn interrupted.
"Oh, no!" Mrs. Sharp protested. She just brandished the cane ne if she was going to hit him, and she said something like: "I've told you to stay away from me. Walter Styles, and I mean H11 Now git !" "*
over.
"No, no! I—I'm afraid of the -Cap'n - luts, always hated
parrot. me-never would talk for she gasped.
ne-"
When the completely demoralized woman had be dismissed, Strawn stretched his arms high above his head, yawned thien cocked a quiz zical eye toward Dundee behind the
screen,"
"Well, well!". he commented. "And what do you think of Miss) Cora Barker, young sleuth me. lad?"
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the information I wanted and to riserve the berth-i could only get her an upper; E's the Chicago train, you know, and pretty crowd. el. Coming back up the stairs J RAW Norma-Miss Paige-closing Mrs. Hogarth's door: With hand she was dabbing a handker chief against her eyes, as if she 1had been crying-"
"And what did Styles say" * "Oh, he didn't say anything; be just backed away and tried to "I think," Dundte said slowly pull Norma with him, but she "that she has not told all she knows, whispered something, and passed that she belleven Sevier killed Mrs. on into Mrs, Hogarth's room. Hogarth, and is in terror of her didn't pay any
more attention life that she will be wrongfully in-then, beranan I wanted to see what volved-"r
"Wrongfully Strawn snorted. was in the telegram."
"Did you sec where Sivles "I'll bet my badge she was in on it went?" somehow!" He rose and strode to Oh, down the hall toward his the door. "Payne!" he hawled, and room, but as I said, I didn't pay the plainclothesman came. on the rum. "What about the Barker we-anxions to see the telegram, too, much attention. Mr. Sharp was man's room, Payne? Find
any so I closed our door, and we rand thing?"
it-and-and then-" She began
"Suppose you take up the story
one
"What time was this?" Strawn interrupted sharply.
Behind the screen Dundee's pen- cfl faltered in a trembling hand.
"Why, it must have been about half-past 11 by that time, sir." Sharp, answered, hesitatingly. "I hope I haven't?
"Never mind that!" Strawn com. tunded brusquely. This is mur- der. Mr. Sharp.”
The pompous man'a florid checks blanched; then he remembered
at this point, Sharp, Strawn something that brightened his directed.
"Not a thing, chief," Payne an-to sob again. swered regretfully. "But listen air, the Sharps are champing at the bit It seems that the Sharp dame was packing to catch a train when this rumpus was kicked up. She's missed it, but wants to take the next one. Something about her darling baby boy, I gather."
"All right. Bring them both in," Strawn directed, and Payne left the room to obey.
eyes. "But it couldn't have been "The wife and I talked thinge Norma who He hesitated he- over for a while. We were pretty fore the terrible word, "far I heard scarcely knew what to do, but Hogarth,' and then Mrs. Hogarth's badly shocked, you know, and her call out, 'Good night, Mra. Dolly Inaisted she was going to voice answering, Good night?" him this very night and made mo
go down to phone about trains and
Strawn's narrowed eyes glanced
at the still ruffled parrot. "Are
to see if she could get a berth on you sure, Mr. Sharp he asked
"I think I told you that a West- the 1 o'clock train, which would slowly, portentously, "that it was ern Union boy brought a telegram for Sharp as I was leaving to go to get her into the capital at about Mrs. Hogarth's voice that answer-
It took mo| ed 'Good night′7′′d
headquarters." Dundeo reminded about 10 minutes, I think, to get
7 in the morning, his chief, from behind the screen.
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