Avenging Parrot
CHAPTER XIII.
Anne Austin
"Well, Mios Paige, 1nce you're already in mourning for Mrs. Ho-
arth." Lieutenant Strawn grect-] ed the girl who advanced timidly toward the desk where one of the dend woman's last acts had been to record in her diary her inten tion of disinherting her latest favourite.
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"Because you half believed she was right?" Strawn prodded mere. lessly.
A quick flush tinged the pullard she made me cry, too, by making a wager that Walter would of the lovely face. Teara welled in would jilt me when I told him her eyes, which looked as if they that she had disinherited me." bad shed many that night,
"I hardly realized what was putting on, after-after I was told about poor Mrs. Hogarth," Normal slammered, smoothing, the sheen-} less black of her dress with ner yous hands. "But 1am-in mour ing for her in my heart."
What was your feeling toward Mrs. Hugarth?" Strawn asked,1. after he had placed the trembling sir a chair beside him.
"I loved her very much," Norma answered simply. "My inother and father nie both dead, and Mrs, o garth seemed more like a mother to me than anyone has since Pince-"
"Did you, still love her after your interview with her the even- Ing
The flush deepened painfully, "I--yes! 1 knew she was wrong about-about Walter, but I knew "she thought she was acting for my own good. Things she said about Walter had me ferribly, but I
didn't quarrel with her or become really angry with her."
...
"No, no! I know he loved me for myself, not for what Mrs. Hagarth might leave me!"
"But your
Look engagement are after Mrs. Hogarth had made the wild in your favour?"
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The Husk deepened to scarlet. "Please don't be so--so nasty to me!" she begged piteously. "How cold Walter and I have become engaged much sooner than we did? had never seen" rim before. I tobongd here on June CARY frst."
Then it took Mrs, Hogarth less time to choose an heiress than for Mr. Styles to fall in love?" Strawn
miled.
"Oh?" She dung out her hands a hopeless gesture.
"Very well, Miss Paige. " 1 apo- logize. Now tell me what happen-
from half-past eleven on. You
cried.
,"
left this room in tears"
"Mrs. Hogarth
too," "Suppose you begin at the begin- ning. Mas Palge-or rather, at Norma told him. "I bent and about 11 o'clock, and tell me every-kissed her she was sitting where thing you know about this bad you are now, at her desk" business."
“I know nöthing about Mrs. Ho garth's death!" Norma flashed, "She was as well as usual when I www her last"
"She didn't get up to unlock the floor and fock it after you, as wits her custom?" Strawn interrupted quickly,
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I was in the bathroom, and-and for the first time and it is reported expected to render possible Ima to meet Mrs. Hogarth-left the then I called out good night "And she answered you?"
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"I went to my own room, then I 100% a bath und avent to bed--" the girl began tremulously.
"Did Mr. Styles, your bunce, share this noble sentiment?"
"Miss Paige, time is precious,' Strawn asked, and Dunder could
Strawn interrupted grimly. "Mrs. have choked his superior officer.
"Of course, he did!" Röring Sharp has already told me that you not in the bathroom more cried, her voice shaking with were anger. "He came up with me, than a minute or two of that bime but Mrs. Hagarth wouldn't let him just long enough to turn on your bath water, In fact, I want you in."
to tell me frankly and truthfully just what you were doing from
"Brandinbed her cane at him and told him never to try to speak to her again, in fret?" Strawn rug- 11:40 to 12:10, when Mrs. Sharp peated:
saw you re-enter the bathroom."
The little head flung itself up}: Dundee wanted to knock down gallantly. "She said something the screen and rush to the girl. like that, but I wasn't awfully sur-take her in his arms and comfort prised, for I knew she and Walter her. For as the detective spoke, hud quarrelled, though I didn't she sank lawer and lower into her know then what it was about. chair, a white-faced, huddled Nttle
heap of terror. "And Mrs. Hogarth told you?" "Yes, but don't have to tell you that, do I?" the girl pleaded,
"think you'd better. Miss
"Miss T” Stawn began slowly, porezaconsly, "I believe
you spent part or all of that time
Paige," Strawn answered geatly. in Mrs. Hogarth's room, and that
"If you don't, I may think it much you know who killed her!"
worse than it really is, you know.”
"It wasn't really bad at all." she |
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The kiri pang to her feet.
protested, tumbling headlong into "No, no! I never saw hen again, 1
the trap. suppose you've already tell you! know nothing whatever
heard that Mrs. Hogarth changed of her, death)----"
you, Miss
Then where were her will pretty frequently. When Walter came to board hers enily Cu Paige? I think you see the neces- May she took a violent fangy tosity for telling the whole trath," him. He'dully nice, you Strawn arged gently.
Norma sank back into her chair. know," she added naively, not
giving-you-won't tell on me, will you, dreaming that she was pain to a now admirer concealed Lieutenant Strawn? It was so- behind Mrs. Hogarth's screen. Innocent, really, but you know how "It wasn't long before she made a boarding house is
"What you tell me here is in cou- a new will, disinheriting Cora Barker and nämning Walter as her fidence, Miss Paige," Strawn is- new heir. Walter has little ured her. Unless it concerns the harberdashery on 'Grand street, death of Mrs. Hogarth,"
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but-it isn't doing so very well.] "It doeẩn't! Oh, please believe I He had been head buyer in the know nothing, and that Walter haberdashery department of Mar-doesn't other!" the Legged, the cus-Crane's and he thought he tears spilling out of her eyes upon could make a success of a little her white checks. "I went straight shop of his own. And he will,to my room after 1 had told Mrs. top," she added loyally, "if he can Hogarth good night. 1— erfed pull through the dull summer sen- for awhile, then I decided to take a cool bath. undressed, and put son,"
"And he asked Mrs. Hogarth on pyjamus and a kimono, and for a loan?" Strawn suggested. Look my things to the bathroom- "Yes, but how did you know?" my lowel and soup, you know. I and then the water, Norma puzzled. "But it wasn't a turned on terrible thing at all for him to do, started back to my room to get my He thought that if Mrs. Hogarth toothbrush. Walter had been wat- Eked him enough and believed inching for me. His room is junt him enough to will him her money, across the hall from mine, you' she would be glad to help him-nów, you know, and as I started back when he needs it so much. But she to my room he called to me in u I knew he was awfully angry, and called him whisper. Of course, a fortune-hunter, and said he wanted to know what Mrs. Ho- had tared nothing for her, had been nice Kurth had said to me. I
to her only for the sake of her promised to call him out into the money, and-and things like that. hall when the Interview was over, She told me herself, tonight, when to tell him all about it, but-but she said she'd disinherit me if I
didn't break my engagement to Walter--"
"And what was your answer Strawn Interrupted.
"You didn't want him to know how badly Mrs, Hogarth's 'charges against him had upset you ?" Strawn suggested,
not in his room."
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