THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929.
Avenging
Parrot
"by Anne Austin
CHAPTER XVIII.
chance. Gel Mrs... Rhodes to save, "Well, Daisy is n dalay, all right," unwashed and otherwise untouched, Strawn commented wearily after a glass or a knife or an egg cup the big girl had gone and Payne that each of those two had reported her room innocent of concealed treasure.
dee?"
usen at They both claim they breakfast. never met. Mrs. Hogarth, and if "How did she strike you, Dun-Carraway has a sample of the fin- ger prints of either one of them in the batch he found in this room "Right on the funny bone," Bon-tonight, we'll at least know he wan nie Dundee chuckled "I gather lying. Well, boy, good night! that she was telling the truth about Watch your chance to sneak to the lee box?"
your room unobserved. See you in the morning about 11, unless you get on a hot trall before then.'
"Here?" Dundee asked,
"Went down and had a look at it "myself," Strawn admitted. "That part was the truth all right, though there is no proof that she pilfered
"Sure. I'll have to go through the ice box when she said she did. Mrs. Rhodes wasn't in the kitchen all the junk in this room, then "herself after 11, when she went to take it down to headquarters for get a drink before being to bed. I safe keeping. I'm leaving Boyle on naked her when I was checking the guard in the room tonight, and a
couple of men on the grounds." contents of the ice box,"
"By the way, chief," Dundee de-
Strawn. "Do tained
you think we're going to be able to keep. It dark that it was the suspiciously interested, new boarder-who dis- covered the murder?”
.
"So you think maybe Daisy for- tified herself with a little lunch of raspberries, ham sandwich and ba- nana before robbing and murdering her old friend? Dundec"grinned.
"Oh, shut up! You know what
try." "We shan't
chucked 1 think! Sevler's our baby"
Strawa.. "Let the other boarders “Bad penny!," Dundee reminded know all about it. You can tell him sortly. A bad penny always them that the old lady asked you turns up.' Do you really, think,bay her something at the drug chief, that Mrs. Hogarth, hating sture while you were out, after; Suvier and fearing him as she did, would greet him with a merry little quip like that? In my opinion, hun ble though it is, the poor old lady would have yelled for help, instead of quoting proverbs."
visiting her, and that, you came to her room to give it to her and found her siend. They may or may not believe you. If they don't, so much the better, if your hunch that the murderer is an inmate of the house Is correct. He or she will think "Oh, you and your blasted par- roi!" Strawn retorted with wry you're a prize suspect, and rest anger. "I guess you'll tip of the easy. Of course, the morning papers defence to put the bird on the wit-will play ap Sevier in a big way.
ness stand, in Sevier's favour!"
"That wouldn't be such a bad idea--if Sevier over came to trial," Dundee answered softly.
but un alternate suspect will help lot to put the murderer of his guard-provided; always, that Se- vier isn't cur man. Which I think he in!"
10
"Oh, he'll come to trial all right when we catch him! Strawn It was neutrly 4 o'clock when Bon- promised. "We've got enough now nie Dundee tested the excellent bod o go to the grand jury with: I'd in his little third-floor room. But bet a month's salary that between despite its softness and the fresh them, Dr. Weeks and the driver coolness of its sheets, Hamilton's of that car that tűrned Ita 'head- newest detective did not succumb lights on the guy running down the to sleep. In the light of the electric, alley will identify Sevier. That lamp suspended over the head of places him, near the scene of the his bed he began at the firet entry crime immediately after if was com- of Mrs. Hogartir's diary and read mitted. Coupled with that, he through it rapidly, pausing now and beats it out of town and disappears then, however, to copy an entry off the train without showing ajupon the cheap little tablet which ticket, when he'd said he was going held his notes on the stories the ta Chiengo... "Those two facts, tö-| inmates of the Rhodes House had gether with the fact that Mrs. Ho- told ta Lieutenant Strawa, garth say -hit in her room ane night and warned the police that;
And as he rend, Daisy Shepherd's
he was planning to mb her, will amazing statement was never out bring him to trial all right."
* Bad penny," Dundee repented, very softly, and Bad penny the parrot whoed sleepily.
of his mind-"I had a pretty strong hunch that Mrs. Hogarth didn't have any money to leave to any body," Before he had finished half of the six months' record of the nife. Bonnie
"For God's sake, shut up!" murdered woman's Strawn, pleaded. I'll be as loony Dundee had reached the same con- "as you are if I don't get some sleep, clusion. Not that there was an Who the devil could she have actual sentence or paragraph spon been talking to?" he added un-which he could put his finger and willingly.
say. "There! She's given herself. But there were frequent "That,# Dundee answered seri-] away!" ously, "is what I'm going to try to cryptic references to her "miser's her several wills, find out, if you'll let me keep this board" and to
and after euch reference Dundee diary of hers until morning."
fancied he could hear a ghostly "All right! Have a good time," chuckle. Was it not entirely pos Strawn conceded sarcastically. "I've sible that the old Indy had perpe got one more job here before I can trated a gigantic hoax-on her fellow turn in. The boys are still holding | boarders?
J
those roughneck pals of Dusty's Two good reasons suggested downstairs. I want to hear them)
hemselves immediately: First, to give him an ironclad alibi→) never heard so many fronelad alibis in insure companionship and atten- my life before! Even Mrs. Rhodes tips from her temporary "favour- has one-answering long distance iles." to alleviate the loneliness of her confinement to her room; sec- for
at two minutes after 12, at the very fond, to gratify her passion moment when the murderer must have been ransacking this room, or meddling dramatically in the lives twisting the scarf around the old others. Undoubtedly, Mrs. Emma lady's throat.”
Hogarth had watched with wicked klee her own machinations and the excitement caused by her "last will and testament" changes.
"Benry Dowd ham't an alibi, Dundee reminded bin "He had lived here only one week, had never met Mrs. Hogarth, had never even come face to face with her-"
Invariably there was a first-of- the month reference to "Letter from
"So you think he's the 'bad S. today," followed by veiled, cryp
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penny that turned up, do you?"tie comments on the news in "5,'6" she could marry again and be and questioned," Dundee told him- me who she is. Faithful S. I'm Strawn interrupted. "Well, good letters. It was when Dundee reached happy, but suppose that is impos- self. If she has written to Mrs. afraid you're in for a terrible shock, luck to you, Sherlock. This plod the entry, of May 1"that his sus-sible Says she line had no word Hogarth once a month all these my dear!" ding old-dick will try to find time picions were startlingly confirmed: or news of any kind from D. all years, aurely Mrs. Rhodes can tell
to visit you in the baghouse-after. Emil Sevier gets fitig with his last) necktie!"
"Wait a minute, chief. What ance policy. Wish she about those samples of food that keep it up. I'm sure to die before the old lady saved to have analyzed she does and never need it. S. also Bonnie Dundee dropped the diary, for poison?" Dundee halted Strawn writes that she saw in home town clasped his hands behind his hend as the lieutenant was leaving the paper that our good friend, J. W., and closed his eyes, the better to is dead. Makes me sadder than I think clearly. Turn up--turn up-
"Letter from S. today. Also the these years, For her sake and his, usual. Says she has paid another hope D. is dead, lut we may
never know it if he is. I've lived! quarterly premium on her inнur-
for five years in the dread that D. wouldn't
would turn up."
room,"
“Oh, Lord! I'd forgot them," have felt for five years. I'll never “A bad penny always turns up, Strawn groaned. "Where are they?" forget how good he was to us in
What dreadful secret had 'old "Here they are," Dundee told our hour of trouble, the last time Mrs. Hogarth kept for five years? him, throwing wider the closet we ever saw him. I often wonder who was S. Certainly someone door. "She showed them to me lust how 8. and I would ever have got of whom the old woman was very night."
He stooped to the floor of the closet, gathering up three medicine bottles filled with liquid food-— cof- Afce, milk and coup,
*
away that day if J. W. hadn't fond. But why not leave her helped us pack. S. saya the paper "miser's hoard" to S., instead of to gave him a fine obituary. He had some temporary favourite in the risen to cashier of the bank. I'm boarding-house? If there was a glad he did so well."
hoard të leave! And who was D., of whom old Mrs. Hogarth lived in dread? Obviously he was the hus His fingers shaking with excite-band of S., whom she had not seen "I'll get them analyzed," Strawn
Dundee hastily promised wearily, as he stowed the ment,
turned for five years, the reason why S. corked bottles in his coat packet. the pages to the entry for, June 1. could not marry again. A deserting "By the way, I wish you'd arrange I caught his breath sharply as husband. But why had the old Indy
he read: ' to get hold of Dowd's and Magnus's fingerprints somehow.
Breakfast
"Letter from S. today. The poor in the morning might be a good girl is lonely and depressed. Wish
lived in dread of Sa húsband's “turning-up?". --
"At all events, S, must be notified
(To be Continued.)
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