Avenging Parrot
by Anne Austin
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CHAPTER XLI.
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where the "Do you know Rhodes House is in relation to tho the corner, Eighth and Main?" in Dr. Price asked.
"Sure I do. It's four blocks, but I wasn't any nearer to the Rhodes House than that," Sevier retorted, with weak violence,
The creaking of chairs, of sharply Bound Rusty drawn breaths, awed exclamations, tmarked the entrance of Emil Sevier, suspected slayer of two wo men. The handcuffs had been moved, but two huge policemen who was guarded the
only booked IN. Tot material witness. He had yet retained a lawyer, and he slumped wearily into the witness chair his hunted eyes glared about an audience containing not one) friendly face,
And a dozen more questions elicited not another atom of in- not formation from Emil Sevier.
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to one, the phone rang and It was Emil, calling me from Hamilton. It was lucky answered the phono and that. Daddy didn't: wake up my mother is dead, and there's nobody but Daddy and me and the cook. Emil said he'
The circle of persons privileged | A narrow escape from what might was in trouble, but that he hadn't
annety nocident was done anything wrong. He asked to bear and enjoy Ramon Novarro'a have been me to drive to Greenpoint and tenor voice will be increased" n{doscribed" to "the Kowloon · Magia wait for him there a piece, down the road from the station. He thousandfold 'with "The Pagan," trate (Mr. Whyto Smith) yesterday said, he would drop off the train new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film alternoon by Major G. F." Charles there when it slowed up. It coming to the Queen's Theatre o negligent driving and with not diare Pond
who charged a bus driver with, doesn't stop at Greenpoint, you know, but it slows up to go through Thursday, in which Novarro sings playing his number badgo. the village. So I did, and nobody for the general public for the first Tho saw me, and Emil told me just ex-time. actly what the trouble was.
"Kindly tell the jury what Mr. Savier told you that night," Dr. Price directed.
Rapidly the girl told the same atory that Sevier had repeated so many times to the police and, that afternoon, to the coroner's jury.
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Major Charles, in evidence, said that he was proceeding towards the Star Forry in a ricksha at 8.30 pm. on December 37 and on nearing Paking Road the defendant's bun pulled in front of his ricksha, fore Ing the puller, who happened to be running slowly, to stop middenly. otherwise the bus would have
Witness mentioned that ho tried
Finnily Dr. Price asked: "Just
Close friends of the young, Mex! what was your relationship with
"He said he was terribly sorry can actor, who is one of the most the dead woman, Corn Barker?"
"I refuse to answer." Sevier re- he'd ever planned to get money reticent of the players on the knocked it over.
in that awful way," the girl West Coast, know that he spends plied sullenly.
"Is it not true that you were sobbed, "but I knew he was tell a large share of his evenings of grilling and The hours Dundee now knew that that was once engaged to be married, that ing the truth when he said he either at the opera or in his home to get the defendant's number from
old lady, or theatre. The latter, while its ex-jhis badge but it was not visible. her fre- didn't kill the poor n sensational news-you not merely
rob her either. So I anid I'd take tremely intimate auditorium seats paper term had reduced Emilquently 7"
him home with me and hide him only 66 persons, is as completely In registering a conviction, his Sevier, erstwhile violinist for the "I refuse to, answer."
In the rooms over the garage, be equipped in proportion to ite size Worship remarked that bus drivers Little Queen theatre, to a cower "Is it not true that you wero
cause the cook lives in the house as a big amusement house. Re-seemed to imagine that they were ing, quivering knew he had neither slept nor so incensed against Corn Barker since since my mother died and sembling the other parts of his allowed to swerve in front of caten since he had been arrested for having informed the police of Daddy is away from home so much. home in its Spanish type of ar-rickshas, which, his Worship said,
your previous plans to rob Mrs.
"Daddy was nearly crazy when chitecture, the theatre was con-had as much right to the road an that morning. at two o'clock Nearly 15 hours of torture! The Hogarth that you came back here, he read the papers and saw that structed, about two years ago un-the bus drivom. It was very in- Emil was wanted by the police, der the personal supervision of the considerate of the bus drivers and a sharp at the risk of arrest, to kill her?" detective felt
ufter recalling that he himself had Ewinge of pity, then, remembering "No, I tell you! No! I never but it wasn't till last night that im star.
seen, such incidenta, imposed a ino Cora Bar-saw Cora Barker last night he caught me taking, food to the the kiss with which
touched ker's lips had been gagged as her never spoke to her or
1 thought he'd kill Emil, ut own braids were
pretty soon he got out the c-rrent promise. Ife has pursued having his badge in a conspletious about her throat, his heart hard-third-degree cops can-"
and made Emil get into it and his vocal studies during recent position.
years under some of the foremost as hoн- ened and his eyes were
young
Seviar.
wreck.
Dundee
It is a well-known fact that of sis on the first charge; the do-
drawn tighther, and you and your damned Karuge for Emil. He was so mad Novarro has a rich tenor voice of fendant being cautioned for not
please!" "Order, order,
Dr tile as any that gazed upon Emil Price rapped sharply on the table with his gavel. "What is the mat Norma Page covered her lovely, ter there, officer?” pale little face with her trem- bling hands and Dundee envied
her shoulders.
"Emil Sevier-Emil Sylvester Sevier," the prisoner answered dully, without rising his eyes.
"You were acquainted with Mra. Emma Hogarth and Miss Cora Barker?"
"Yes,"
turned and Dundee
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und
said he was going to take him to teachers in the country, and now Court Interpreter Knocked Down. Hamilton to the police station. 1
Mr. D.. 8. Dan, Indian Interprater made him let me go, too, and has plans for a concert tour in ad- dition to grand opera. In hie courac with me along, Daly private theatre, however, he con- at the Kowloon Magistracy, brought couldn't drive right up to the staines himself to a rendition of bal charge of negligent driving tion with Emil, because he didn't lads and songs for a small, select against a bus driver, who, on con Walter Styles the privilege of young girl struggling with the want my name mixed up in slipping a comforting arm bo uniformed p:liceman who guard- Emil's trial. Emil promised himirele of friends, and to occasional viction, was fined $10.
perform. co-operative dramatic he'd cut his tongue out before ances or film previews.
The defendant was alleged to have knocked Mr. Das down while "What is your name?" askeded the entrance to the room.
"A lady says she's got some-he'd tell where he'd been hiding. Dr. Price briskly.
"Over the little latticed door that was standing in Nathan Road
Publio admits the frivileged visitor to opposite thing to tell," the officer panted.and he wouldn't have told! I
Square Street "Then bring her forward," Dr. know he wouldn't!" Price commanded sternly.
In the deep silence from the this inner sanctum appears the watching some children playing In the deep hush, a girl, fol-audience the sols of the girl were sign, in luminous white script football Mr. Das stated that the man of cut across by two groans, one from letters, "Novarro's Teatro Intime." defendant's bus swerved to such an lowed by a grim-faced middle age, run down the aisle be-the gift's father, the other from Simply and tastefully decorated extent that it would have mounted of seats, the man she still loved and believed within, the eight rows of seats are the pavement if there had been one tween the two sections
arranged on a gradual slope lead-at that particular spot. The wit WIN very young," and hern-in spite of everything. The examination was on. Dun-She
swoollen Wis
The coroner cleared his throat, ng down to a velvet-curtained ness mentioned that a man had dee, suddenly almost as weary as pretty face the prisoner himself, leaned back blotched from crying. Before she then asked gently: "Where, and stage. The stage itself has every boon speaking to the driver at the
chair and renched the coroner's table, Emilat just what time, did your father modern device for proper lighting time.
and for scenic effects, so that, ex- in his uncomfortable
His Worship pointed out to the cept for its limited area, any typeł closed his eyes. Question and an- Sevier half rose in his sent, cried put Sevier out of the car?"
"It wus ubout
a quarter of production might easily be defondant that, in observing the familiar out something inarticulate, then swer--all nauseatingly
turning his head one," the girl answered. "on the
traffic regulation requiring drivers Kiven here. to him now-followed each other sunk back,
to pull up ne near to the side of the in swift auccession, until Dr. sharply away and shielding it corner of First and Chestnut, but
with his eruoked elbow.
he didn't kill Com Barker! That's Ordinarily the piano in No- rond n possible when, stopping, Price demanded:
"That is all for the moment, why I came here to-day. I told varro's orchestra,. He plays him- they should use their discretion. Sevier," Dr. Price snapped. "Take Daddy, I'd kill myself if he self and he has a special accom- They were not to pull into the side wouldn't come with me to help panist who is always present when of the road regardless, of whether him away, officers--"
"Please let him stay. I wante prove Emil didn't kill her. the film star is to give a programme there was any person or ricksha
Emil of songs. In the "Teatro Intime," there. to know-to hear the Daddy would like to see
banged, he's so mad ut him, but however, there is a concealed cock- Sevier, who had too frankly ad-giri panted, her hands stretched
he'll have to tell the truth!pit, where an orchestra of six or A lorry driver, who was charged mitted as much to Dundee early toward the corner.
Beesuse he known as well as i difeight pieces may be lustalled in with driving along Nathan Hand at that morning, now stirred "and "Who are you,
young lady?**
that Emit didn't kill Cora Barker?" connexion with cinema showings 25 miles an hour, waa fined $25 by alraightened in his chair. He Dr. Price naked sternly...
(To be Continued.)
or orchestral concerts.
bin Worship. frowned, closed his eyes mo-
The middle-aged man stepped ment, then blared hem defiantel
forward before the girl could an- at the coroner.
"I refuse to answer, on-on the swer. "This is my daughter, Miss grounds that it-It might tend to Myra Cannon. I am George H. incriminate or degrade me," he Cannon of Mercyville—”·
"I will ask you, Sevier, if it is not true that you planned to rob Mrs. Hogarth of the money she was reputed to have hidden in her room?"
jerked out.
him
"Please let me talk first, siri" "So Sevier has had time to the girl appealed to the coroner. think, during these 15 hours," "Father is so angry with me for Dundee reflected, "and he is not coming here; he didn't want me
mixed up in it--" the fool I thought him."
a minute, Miss Cannon.
"Give an account of your move- "Just ments on Saturday evening, June.... Officers, guard your prisoner. 29, from approximately 11 o'clock He may remain here unt 1 in- on," Dr. Price directed sternly.. struet you to remove him.
Now, Miss Cannon-
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Haltingly, conselous that every A minute or two later, "the girl, word he said would wind a loop of duly sworn in, was pouring out her the hangman's rope about his neck, story in a flood of words and tears, Sevier told the story which he knew only occasionally interrupted by a Dundee could prove against him. question from Dr. Price: Again he told of going to the Rhodes: "I first met Emil-Mr. Sevier House grounds, of waiting in the last winter when I was study. greenhouse until Cora Barker re-ing music in Hamilton. I thought turned home, of climbing up the he was a wonderful violinist. I rose trellis to the upstairs porch, met him at my teacher's studio,
Hogarth's where he sometimes book a les-. of looking into Mra. room from her window, of seeing son. He used to come to see me the dead woman in her chair and at my boarding place, and we'd Cora Barker searching for some-practice together for hours. We thing at the desk; of scuttling we got engaged to each other away down the rose trellis, of
sprinting down the alley, his
crushed straw hat in his hand.
"When?"
I
com-
But as before, Sevier refused to "In April-April 12, it was. tell anything else after that mo- remember so well and the ment when Dr. Wecks had seen girl's voice broke down him, raising his hat to shield his pletely for a minute. Then dai face from the glare of the head-bing fiercely at her eyes, she went lights of the
which had on: "I told Daddy the very next home for turned at the entrance lo the Sunday, when I went
the week-end, und he wouldn't alley.
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"I ask you again, Sevier, where let me come back. The next Fri you kept yourself from that night day Emil came out to see me until this morning nt two Friday was his day off at the o'clock," Dr. Price reiterated theatre, and he and Daddy quar sternly.
relled terribly, Daddy made me
Emil "I refuse to answer," Sevier re-promise I wouldn't see torted wearily, for the third time. again, but but we wrote to each "Is it not true, Sevier, that you other. 1 sent his letters to the returned by Hamilton last night, theatre and Emil sent his letters climbed to the upstairs porch of to me to a girl friend of mine." the Rhodes House, called Cora We were planning all the time to Barker to the window, and stran- get married, and go far away. But Emil didn't have any money, and gled her?"
"No, no! That's a lie" Sevier neither did I, except my allow- from Daddy. And-and I screamed, "I tell you, I never ance laid eyes on Cora Barker after 1nover dreamed Emil would plan saw her in Mra. Hogarth's room such an awful way to get it as last Saturday.night! I never went that-that woman says he did." near the Rhodes House last night"
"Where and at what time were
Dundee flinched at the way
you apprehended by the police this she designated poor" dead Cora.
morning, Sevler?" Dr. Price inter- rupted
"You didn't know anything of
his plans then?" Dr. Price Inter-
"About two o'clock, at Eighth rupted. and Main. I was going to police "Of course not! He told me he headquarters to give, myself up was going to come into some for questioning. I saw by the pa-money when his father's estate pers that I was wanted," Sevier was eettiod, but I know now. answered mullenly, aubelding into Anyway, last Saturday night, at his chair after his outbreak. about half-past 12 or a quarter
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