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Avenging Parrot
by Anne dustin
CHAPTER XVII
"Mrs. Rhodes, did you ever hear Cap'n say those words before 'Bad penny Bonnie asked eager ly.
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to great depths in search of the elusive mussels, and as a re and chests made sore and tender by Peps soothe and relieve throata 50sult are dying out rapidly from the frequent colds. They end the chest- tremendous pressure. Lloyd finds racking cough, loosen choking phlegm, in his own maimed heart a great allay inflammation and stop that pity for these almple Islanders. tickling irritation in the windpipe. This pity earns him the enmity of the renegade whites on the island and be in shanghaied aboard a pentship. After all others except himself have died,, the ship is wrecked on a lonely uncharted 05stoll and Lloyd is cast ashore.
case, but Have you gone su the exultant triumph in Bonnie this case that you're talking to Dundoo's blue eyes was not so easi-yourself?" Strawn asked, returning ly dampened.
at that moment. "Well, boy, you're right-hot that I think it amounts to a hill of beans. The Paige girl says she is positive the words "Bad penny' didn't come up in her con- "No. You could have knocked versation with the old lady, and me down, with one of Cap'n's lit that the parrot had never spoken. tlest feathers, the landlady anthem before, or Mrs. Hogarth swored."That bird does bent all! would have told her. But you've I never saw a parrot pick up new gone nuts from the heat if you words like he does-but he never think that bird-Come in!". would repent anything but what he heard poor old Mrs. Hogurth say.”
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beside Mrs. Hogarth's desk. Her Copper "Of course I'm sure!" Mr. big, healthy body was cind in night-Radio Corporation of Rhodes snapped. "I've sat with gown and kimonu. Mrs. Hogarth every evening of the five years she's been here, and she'd have bragged to me about Cup'n picking up those words if he'd ever said them before. Of course I wasn't the last one to see her alive this evening. Norma paid her visit after I left, you know, and it may be that Mrs. Hogarth made some remark with Bad Penny in it while she was talking to Norma
"Well, I'll soon find out," Strawn said abruptly, starting for the door. "By the way, Mra, Rhodes, when first came this evening, you said you weren't sure as to whether "Daisy"Shepherd was hit her room
or not,"
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"Excuse me," she smiled at the! chief of detectives, "I went to sleep waiting for you to call for me."
"Sorry to disturb you," Strawn apologized braquely. "Where were you at 12 o'clock this evening, Miss, Shepherd? To save time, I may na well tell you that there was a long distance call for you ut two min utes after 12, and that Mrs. Rhodies was not able to find you to answer
"A long distance call?" Daisy Shepherd was startled wide awake. "Where was it from? Rhodes say 7"
DIA Mrs.
"No. Were you expecting such a call?"
"I was not! I haven't the least idea who could be calling me long distance."
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future shall be able to land in the Dyke the story moves rapidly to a for work, unable to speak above a "found she was, when we went up
heart of the city instead of at dramatie conclusion. to tell her that Mrs. Hogarth was
Lakehurst landing ground, seventy- dead. But she wasn't fh it at fivui
"Where were you at 12 o'clock five miles away, an eighty-five
Fortunately the court room minutes after 12, or if she was, she and a few minutes afterward 2 storey skycraper is to be erected
sequence in which more than a was an sound asleep she didn't hear Strawn pressed.
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Branch and Agencias at to know, Lieutenant Strawn, I was ship terminus-Reuters American
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ber of players on the payroll Alaxandria Kal Turn Balgon "Reckon you haven't give me down in the kitchen ralding the ice Service.
The possibility of an actor longer. Misa Sidney, 100, did not Baya Karachi much chance, Mrs. Rhodes remind-box. My appetite is something
suffering a "voice collapse" during near in the following sequence, Dar ATM London
Жоре ed him grimly. "About two min Gerce, and I'd been lying in bed
a production was brought to the so it was possible to give her (Temporarily Low Anawise utes after 12, after I'd gone to bed, since hall past 10 reading a book that I liked her any the less for officials when Sylvia Sidney, who voice without delaying production, Colon
Lyon attention of Fox
<lowed) Movictone several days' rest to recover her Calcotla
Manila the telephone rang. It was a long that was simply full of descrip- having her fun with us."
Nogtankl distance for Daisy, and went up tions of swell dinners in Paris.
plays a featured part in "Thru Officiale learned from this Daire (Dalar) Newchwang She looked interestedly about Diferent Eyes," next week's all-incident, however, how easily pro-Parten to her room on the third Boor, by I've been boarding here on the disordered room, with its ut talking feature at the Queen's duction costs might reach prohibi- the buck stairs, to call
She rough 10
make myself pretty didn't answer and I went down and much at home, and I knew 3rd tronk, closet and desk. "You Theatre, lost her power of speech tive limits if actors voices are Hambur told long distance she was gut.
know, Lieutenant Strawn, I'd be temporarily. In a trial sequence, subjected to unusual strain, and Harbin Rhodes wouldn't begrudge me a willing to def whoever pulled this Miss Sidney don't know where she was and midnight upper,
was required to are preparing to protect them onolula HO Isnenhed didn't see her gome in, because I down the back
job gut stung." stairs
Peream at the top of her voice as selves by investing. In "voice to the went back to bed,”
kitch
(To be Continued.j
the man on trial is found guilty. Jinkarance." Pardon me, Miss Shepherd,"" Strawn interrupted. He stinde to the doay, elo-ed it behind him, was
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that so far no hidden sum of money hut been found in any of the rooms, himself. and instructed him to bring in
Daisy Shepherd for questioning.
"All right, Mies Shepherd. Please go un. What did you fad
"Back in a minute, Dundee," tes eat? Strawn called, as he himself was "You've been down checking the about to leave the rooni. "I'm go-ice box, I guess," Daisy laughed, ing to ask the Paige girl If she without raneour." "Well, I helped know anything about this 'Bad myself to a few raspberries out of Penny' business-ant that I think a big bowl on the top shelf, took a it's worth wasting a minute's time slice of boiled ham from an offed- on."
paper package of it on the bottom
Dunder grinned, then again seat-shelf, and made a safidwich by ed himself behind the screen, Mrs. splitting a. roll I got out of the Hogarth's diary in his hands. Be-bread box. Oh, yes, 1 took 1 fore beginning to read it from the banana, too. There was a dozen first entry he rifled the leaves, to in the top of the box, against the dislodge any mento, letter or card ice."
that might have been thrust into "And, after you'd enjoyed your the book. In doing so he made a stoleh. fruits?"Strawn "suggested. discovery which caused him to "Oh, I only ate the raspberries purse his lips in a low whistle of down there. I brought the sund- surprise. A page from the diary wich and the banana to my room. had been torn out-the entry for The Banana skin's in my waste- May 19. May-May-He frowned basket now. I came up the back mightily in an effort to remember. stairs, straight to my room, and I Oh, yes! Cora Barker had said- didn't see or hear anything elther He turned swiftly to his notes, trip-up or down," she added posi- found Cora Barker's story, located tively, but good-humouredly. the sentence he was trying to re- mumber: "So I was Mrs. Hogarlli's helress until-sometime in May, I
"I see.
. Miss Shepherd, you
belleve it was, when she became were at one time named in Mrs.
very fond of Walter Styles, a new boarder."
Hogarth's will, were you not?"
"Sure! guess I held the jab He was glad now that he had longer than anyone else before or
taken such fall antes, even to the her heiress for six months-until since," Daisy chuckled. "I was extent of indicating hesitation bethe day after Christmas this year. tween words by dustCA, Cora Cora Barker got the job, but I wan Barker had been disinhe: ited "sume glad to loan it time in May." Could the date haye
Strawn frowned. "Suppose you heen May 19% Dundee very eare explain, Miss Shepherd. Did you fully examined the fuzzy edge of quarrel with Mrs. Hogarth?" the remainder of the torn-out
"If you knew me better, you'd
shwet. There was no doubt that the know I never quarrel. I'm one of teur was a recent ong, Hnd the those good-natured fat people you shet been removed that very night read about and seldom meet up And had the entry been auch that with." Daisy grinned. " mean It incriminated the one whom it just what I said: It was a hard concerned?
Sevler and Corn Barker! After ite. She wanted you to devote job being Mrs. Hogarth's favour- all, why look further for the old most of your time to her, and she woman's murderer, when she her expected all Borts of presents. I self had believed those two to be practically clothed her while I in a conspiracy to rab her? But was on the job. I work at Marcus- Cora Barker had not returned to Crane's, in the ladies'-rendy-to- the house until 10 minutes after 12 wear, you know. Been there three Or go she anfd. And it was scarcely years, and have boarded here for likely that she would have named nearly two years. I liked the old the theatre manager as a corrobo-Indy a lot, and we kept on being rator of her alibi if she had not good friends even after I told her been sure that he would uphold her he ought to pick someone else to story,
leave her money to."
But Sevier and Corn Barker had "You told her that?" Strawn was talked together at the theatre that frankly amazed. "Then I gather evening. Had the final details of that you don't care for money" the plot been agreed upon then? But if so, how had Cora Barker the next one," Daisy retorted. But "Sure, I like money as well as helped Emil Sevier, without being I make plenty for myself, without on the scene of the crime while it having to lick anybody's boots. I was being committed?
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"Bad penny," the parrot croaked that Mrs. Hagarth didn't have any "sleeplly.
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