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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 1929

Avenging Parrot

by Anne Austin

CHAPTER XV

"If you really believe that, I.eu. tenant Strawn, you're a foolf if I

In the moment of pulsing suelad murdered Mrs. Hogarth, do Walter you think I'd been crazy enough to followed pense that Styles' defiant, laconic admission, tell you everything damaging to Bonnie Dundee felt sure that his myself that I've admitted so freely? busy pencil would soon be called scorned to lie to you, and now upon to record a confession of mur- you're proving to me that it does not pay to tell a dumb policeman the truth!"

der.

"As soon as Norma--Miss Paige --was safely in the bathroom," Styles went on, before the astop-i Oddly, Strawn chuckled. lle ished Lieutenant Strawn could rose, stretched his powerful arms, a question, "I stepped and yawned. "We'll have another formulate out of my window to the porch. session to-morrow, Stylen. Go to Norma and 1 were both afraid that bed now-and sleep, If you can." Bert Magnus who has the room When Styles had plunged angrily next to mine, had heard her cry-from the room, Strawn chuckled ing, for he had stopped dyping for again.

a minute or two-possibly three. "What do you think of Norma's Not until he was at his machine sweetle, Dundee?"

J

again had the poor girl dured run Dundee rose, too, came from be- across the hall to the bathroom.hind the screen, flexing the cramped Knowing how seriously a boarding Singers of his right hand. "I house scandal would upset, Norma, rather think he was telling the I determined to find out, if poa-truth, chief.”

sible, whether Magnus had beard "Lord. 1 tli, too," Straw anything. I was fairly sure I could laughed. "But business is business, judge by his manner, even if he Come in!" asked no questions,”

“You?” Strawn prompted, as the young man paused, 11

" stepped to Bert's window and called out something to him," Styles went on. *1 Bbak 1 sald," Beastly hot, isn't it? qe, something like that. He was still typing, and startled him.' But he rose am

Ene

Detective Payne entered, "Noth- ing in Styles' room, chlef,. But a telephone call las just come from headquarters." They've received a Wire from the Chiengo train, filed at Greenville: Sevier isn't on it."

**What !** Strawn exclaimed: Given us the slip, has be? Well, runs that settles, it, Dundee..

to the window, remarked the wire say whether he had about. the heat, and offered

bern seen on The train at all, eigarette. I felt convinced by his Payne

mea

It now.

manner that he had not heard any-Yes. The day couch conductor thing, and after wishing him lack neticed him soon after the train with the story he was working on, pulled out of Hamilton, but when I went back into my room, by way he went to collert his ticket Sevier. of the window, of course. He went bad disappeared. The train Buck to his typing again, hut work-been searched thoroughly, and it's ed for, only a short time longer, a sure thing he's not mi believe, but I didn't pay rauch That's all the wire saya,"chlef,”"" attention. 1 undressed and went "Then he's still in the State iu bed then, but was not asleep somewhere, and we'll pick him up!" when Mrs. Rhodes and the, detec-Strawn prophesied grimly, and Live came to tell me that Mrs. 11. burried downstairs to telephone further instructions to police head- garth, was dead."

quarters.

"Mr. Styles, your business is on the verge of bankruptey, isn't it?" Strawn asked abruptly.

"It Is," Styles answered, with the astounding funkness

"Bring that Magnus chap; in, Boyle!" Dundee heard him instruct the patralman from the doorway, a few minutes later. Coming into that had the room, he growled to Dundee, characterized him since the inqui- who had again taken his place" be sition and started. "And 1' adhind the screen: "We're wasting mit, sir, without your asking, that time here, boy, hot I suppose I've I tried to borrow $2000 from Mrs got to see the rest of these people, Hogarth, after she had shown her on the off-chance they saw or heard interest in me by naming me, in her

something." will. I will further admit that she

"Good night! Good night!" accused me of being a fortune bourse voice croaked steepfly: hunter, of caring nothing for her

Strawn whirled, then remembered except for her money; that we the parrot and chuckled. "Yon quarrelled, and that she refused to sleepy, too, Cap'a? Well, it won't ree me, even to permit me to apolo be long now, old top!"... Come gize for some hasty things I said in! You're Magnus

to her

Bert Magnus, clad in a cheap Terry-cloth bathrobe over collon pyjamas, stort linking in the blaze of light, as if he had been aroused from sleep.

"Just what had you said to her, Mr. Styles?"

"I told her, she was a foolish old wonun, who was storing up trouble,

"Herbert S. Magnus," even death for herself," Styles anid grimly. "She had complained towered the detective,

he an-

"You board here? Where is your

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me about the greed of her fellow-room?" Strawn asked abruptly. baarders, naming Sevier in particu-

lar, and during "my quarrel with

"Across the ball, on the east side, i

her I told her it would not surprise next to Mr. Styles' room," Magnus

me if she tempted someone to rob-{

bery and even murder." 1 begged

answer melleuiously.

"How did you spend the evening. her to put her money in the bank, Magnus, from dinner time until

but she told me to mind my own}

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there as at any other Embassy, transacted. to the Little Queen Theatre, where Paige Mrs. Hogarth's new:

re-that he had seen more Congress-state that he would not sign per- she plays the piano," Magnus an-have complex and important heiress?" Strawn suggested.

"I asked Norma to marry me beswered. "I left the theatre about | actions," is evidenced in the bank-men drunk, in one week than townsmits for the importation of quor cause I love her, not because of any ie o'clock, and returned to my rapley of the Bankers Capital Cor- people lu seven years. mones Mrs. Hogarth might leave root. I read over the manuscript

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Underneath change her will, that you had again lected to keep an appointment with Is your chance at her money" Miss Barker to meet her after the subsidiaries because "the financial stockbroker. Strawn began.

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tioned Norma as a look-out in my ment, so kept on with my work."

working capital through collateral Senators who had abstained, and) "How late did you work?"

porters in. Congress. room after hearing the result of

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Mr. Bubnoy declares that be that the others drank. He was, Sir Esme Howard's action and Calet Saturday night I obtained permis- Karth--"

a Mr. the decussion to which it gave al sion from Mrs. Rhodes to type until yond immediate troubles "there he said, sitting between Strawn grinned crookedly, "You | put it very well, Styles, I state 12 o'clock, though on other nights as a vast amount of financial Otto Kahn and Mr. E... Lomas, rize led to a public statement be

with Morgan's, ing made by Mr. Stimson, the onekong not insinuate that you heard Miss he has asked me not to type after Wreckare." He says that the con- both connected

to Secretary of Stale, that the Hoover Paige's story, became violently, for fear of disturbing others. ditions which caused the pane who tried to influence him

time adopt the railway policy they fight of the Entbassies to drink administration acknowledged the I had intended to quit "prompt-will be apparent for some angry, as well as crazy with disyat 12, as she had request and "while the true, crash on voured, but without success, appointment; that you asked Miss! Palge to wait in your room while ed, but when I looked at my watch, Wall Street found business con-

The method by which, he alleged, you went, by way of the window, to a few minutes after Mr. Styles hadditions fairly sound,, it may not

Mr. leave them so."

Lomas prepared himself see Mrs. Hogarth→

spoken to me, I found it was a

Addressing bla remarks to whisky and water was minutely "Let me finish, plense!" he com-quarter past 12.. finished the page

had in the machine, and stopped, credit men he warns "any credit described by Mr. Brookhurt, manded sharply, as the young man was just getting into bed when department

which chokes off sprang to his feet, his hands and was told the tragic nows."

"Only after little Men.”.... credit blindly and applies col- lips working convulsively. "I'm

"Did, you hear or see anyone, or Election screws in à panicky way Prohibition agents appeared not accusing Misa Paige of know anything out of the ordinary, dur-that it is acting like a green driver afraid to bring the big men to ing your intentions. I believe you ing all that time, Mr. Magnus?" who clumsily jams on his brakes justice, he complained, and only told her you merely wanted to take "Why, nu. I was pretty much ub- | in 'on emergency, locking the went after the little men.

Mrs. Hogarth to task for her accusorbed in my writing. As I said, wheels and overturning the car." sations against you. The cold fact, Walter Styles, the young man who Styles, is that Mrs. Hogarth washus the room next to mine, spoke murdered and robbed during the to me from the porch. But other-with the Acme Paper Company. I time Miss Paige was in your room.wise I saw and spoke to no one, am originally from Riverside, Cali-

· put it to you now that you went

nor was 1 conscious of hearing her, and returned to your room, how boarder, a Mr. Dundee, inter-and Detective Green, who had A knock on the door interrupted, heard from Miss Palge the full rupted me earlier in the evening-carlier brought in Dr. Weeks, story of Mrs. Sharp's trips to the probably about 11, though I did not plunged into the room. bathroom and of Magnus' typing notice the time, or realize then that during the whole tiuje, and

to Mrs. Hogarth, killed her, robbed anything unul Oh, yen! A fornia"

"A real clue, chief! ·A hot one!"

were it was so late, or I should have he exulted, offering a disreputable

gone to keep my appointment with old tweed cap...

thus able to corroborate her and Mrs. Sharp in, every particular.

Dundee could not bring bla self, to look at the face of the ac cused young man, But his pencil

Miss Barker."

-Strawn stretched out a hard for "How long have you boarded here, the cap, but Green warned him ex Mr. Maghua?"

citedly: "Careful, chief! Or the "I came to Hamilton on June 6, mechanically took down Walter from Philadelphia. I was employ green feather will fall out!"

Styles" reply:

ed there for a year as a bookkeeper,

(To be Continued.)“

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