1929-12-10 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.

Avenging Parrot

by Anne Austin

CHAPTER XIV.

his roum ad awake, for he was make typing nearly all the time. His is. next to Waller's you room know."

Strawn "Nearly all the time?" repeated. "Just how long a time was his machine silent?"

"You have no right to Huel insinuationa against Walter Styles!" Norma amed. "He was only thinking of me of my reputa- tion in a gossipy bourding house. If anyone had discovered I was in Walter's room, so late at night, dressed as I was-"

"You did enter his room then?" Strawn interrupted, his voice gentle and placating again.

"Not nearly, long enough for him to murder poor Mrs. Hogarth and search her room" Norma flushed. He was typing slang steadily, as if "If that's what you're wondering! "Yes, I did! We could hardly were copying something that had Lalk in the hall, with me crying as already been written. He said at I was. But we left the door slight dinner tonight-or rather, last ly ajar, and stood near It. We did night-that he was going to revise. not even sit down the whole time. his story that had just been.. re-

1 told him, because he urged me to, turned by a studio. Then while just what Mra, Hogarth hind said, Mr. Sharp, was taking her bath, about his asking her to lend him and I was just about to slip across to my own room, to be. there in *money for his business, "and--and ·

her wager that he wouldn't want case she came to speak to me, he to marry me after she had cut me stopped, and Walter and I were out of her will-"

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"And your Banci

angry, of course?"

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WAS very

scared to death he had heard us.

me ery-

I had become almost hysterical, because of Mrs. Sharp's looking for: "Of course!" Norma agreed ve-me, and my not being able to get hemently, then gasped as she real-back to my room, old-and every- ized the trend of tile question. "Hething, and we were afraid Bert was certainly justified" in being Mr. Magnus-had heard angry at Mrs. Hogarth's misundering, for he stopped typing for two or three minutes. We heard' him. standing of his motives--**

"And he went to have a little moving about in his room, and for quiet talk with her, to Set her fear he might open his door and straight his motives--Wait,ok out. I stayed in Walter's room Miss Paire! He crawled out of his until he began to type agnin

"One more question, Mies Paige, window and walked along the please. Have you seen or talked stairs porch to Mrs. Hogarth's roon, entering, by her window" with anyone since you returned to "He did to such thing!" the girl your room after taking your bath? ahrst screamed. "He didn't leave tive Payne, when they came to tell

Other than Mrs. Rhodes and Detec me for a single minute! We stood right by the door, talking in whis. you of Mrs. Hogarth's death?"

"No, sir. No one at all." pers. I don't know just how long. we talked, but we both way Mrā. Sharp go to the bathroom. She knocked and called my name, but' : of course I didn't answer, and she opened the door and went in. She must have seen my towel and soap) there, for she went to my room then and knocked. Then she went back to the batinom and took her bath, or I suppose she did, for she was in there long enough to bathe,

The girl dismissed at last, als nVist ran from the room,

her hands groping before her as if she were blind with tears.

"Boyle" Strawn bawled. "Tell Payne I want him." And when you see him leave, bring Styles."

in Walter

When Payne appeared; he shook his head before Strawn could put a

WAH

We heard her turn the water on question. "Nothing in the giri's again, and then she came out and room, chief. Her wardrobe trunk, Snoeked at my door again. We her closet and her desk were all un-

heard her say, 'Your water's run-arked. No money anywhere," ning, Norma? Then she went Info]

“Al, right, Payne. I'm having her room and when her door had Styles in now, Go over his "oom closed, 1 ran across the hall and with a fine tooth comb." Into the bathroom. I took my bath Walter Styles, when he appeared, and bad just got into bed when was wearing a rather handsome I heard Mornéone. knock on Mr. silk dressing, gown over shirt and Hogarth's door, or on some door. 1

POU ACTR His brown hair thought it was Mrs. Hogarth's, but brushed sleekly smooth, and bie I didn't look out tas make

sure light-brown "eyes were, calm, but About 10 or 15 minutes later a man there was a betraying tightness and Mrs. Rhodes came to my door about his mouth. Dundee knew that and told me that Mrs. Hogarth was he was alert and anxious, having dend. And that's absolutely all no idea how much or how little his know!

sweetheart had been forced to tell.

After a few preliminary ques tions, Strawn asked abruptly: Where were you between 11 and say 30 minutes, after 12 tonight. Styles?"

Strawn regarded the quivering, white-faced girl thrauch rawed lids for a long minute, while Bangle Dundee, behind the screen, had tremendous difficulty in sup- pressing an impulse to step out of hiding and tell her that he, at least, believed every word she had said, But of course hot even she must know he was not merely the "new boarder," but a new detective as well, as ignorant of the truth of who killed Mrs, Hogarth as she was herself.

A musele jerked in the young man's cheek, but his voice was stendy: "I was in my room."

"Alone?" Strawn asked, with up- parent casualness,

Again the spasmodic jerking of muscle. Then, calmily, "Yes, alone."

Dundee, behind the screen, felt an unwilling admiration" for the

Miss Paige," Strawn began slow-man he already looked upon with ly, "there is small doubt that Mrs. jealous envy, Hogarth was murdered and rubbed) during those minutes you say you spent with your fiance in his room.

No, wait, please! I am make your financee, has already told me a

ing no accusations: 2 merely want you to try very hard to remember

"Spiken like a gentleman, Mr. Styles," Strawn applauded dryly. "Hut, it happens that Miss Puige,

different story. Now, I'd like your version of that story.""

if you heard or saw anything else Walter Styles took a quick step

while you stood near Mr. Styles door, which wan ajar, you say. I

toward the detective, his elenched fist praised. "If you've been think it is due you to tell you that badgering and insulting Norma-" Mrs. Sharp's story corroborates he began violently.. yours in every way-as far as it

"You have a pretty hot temper, goes. Now think! Did you hear or haven't you, Mr. Styles?" Strawn see anyone besides Mrs. Sharp dur drawled. "You must remember ing those minutes-approximately that murder has been committed half an hour?"

here tonight. Sit down and keep The girl seemed pathetically res lieved at his iniplied faith in her your fist to yourself, young man.

word. She drew a deep breath,

Now tell me exactly what you

dfd between 11 o'clock last night

then knit her brows in an effort and the time you were informed by remember. "No," she said at last. Mrs. Rhodes and Detective Payne

"I saw no one at all. Of course, of Mrs. Hogarth's murder." Walter and I were both afraid, and

Walter Styles obeyed, speaking

kept looking out of the door, but with a sort of furious calm. He

we saw no one,"

"You can vouch for the fact that Mr. Sharp, for instance, did not come out of his room?"

Oh, yes! I'm sure of that." Dundee's quick mind took note of

refusal to admit him to her room, began with Mra. Hogarth's angry

along with Norma Palge; told of going to his own room and there awaiting word from Norma as to the result of her Interview with

the fact that her earnest words had Mrs. Hogarth; of Norma's coming given Lawrence Sharp a perfect into his room, at his request; of alibi. For the Sharps' room did

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