1929-12-17 — Page 13

Avenging Parrot

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by Anne Austin

CHAPTER XX.

garth's room.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929.

camo slouching into the room, fol-

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lowed by his anxious wife.

"If you females wouldn't break the rules and wash your hair in

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happen," Dusty complained dis gustedly as he knelt to ply his wrench.

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Washington, Dec. 16. The following quotations as at the A minute lätër, na Dusty pulled Commenting on the White Paper close of the market yesterday have out the upper section of the drain issued in London on Friday de- been received from their correspon pipe, its little eroes bars matted with

signature of dents Messrs, Hayden, Stone and long black hair, Dundee risked ex-fonding Britain's that Mrs. Hogarth had somethingposure of his connexion with the the Optional Clause, Senator Co. of New, York, by Messrs. Swan, clse that he wanted, and which she police by staying the hand of the Borah emphatically dissents with Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon' House, Shanghai, (cable" address: "Swan- landindy's husband. news, chief?" Dundee refused to give himt Remember,

"Let me see that before you clean the British view that under the stock," Shanghai), who asked. Strawn when the two

Kellogg Pact there could not arise responsible for cable mutilations, detectives were again in Mr. Hochief, Mrs. Hogarth was a mighty it," he ordered quickly.

mysterious character herself. She

Previous Latest And over Dusty's protest he took any issue of the rights off· was in hiding from something in

Anaconda Copper". "Nothing new," Strawn admitttd her past. In all the five years she the short section of drain.pipe, and wearily. Then, tq, Boyle, the uni-jived here she never referred to her walked to the window with it neutrals. He asks why, if the Baltimore and Ohio.. 120

Strawn followed, bending curlously

Bethlehem Steel formed policeman who had kept previous place of residence, or to over his subordinate as Dundee'

Chrysler Corp (Com watch in the room and who looked any person in her past. And she fingers began to untangle the musa sadly in need of sleep, "Anything wrote to and received letters from of hair. happen after we left, Boyle?"

only one person-S.-guarding the "Look!" he urged in a whisper, "Quiet as the grave," Boyle an-address e expertly that not even though the others had not drawn owered callously. "The parrot Mrs. Rhodes knows it. Even if you squawked once or twice, but 1 shut aren't interested, I'll watch for that ear. "Pellets of paper caught in jamong the hairs, Paper stained his trap by covering up his cage postman tomorrow more eagerly with green ink!" with one of the old dame's skirts." than any girl ever waylaid him for

"Well?" Strawn puzzled. AB Strawn dismissed the policen letter from her sweetle, and-" man, Dundee stepped to the enge and removed the smothering skirt. "Poor Cap'n" he sympathized. "Nearly dead, old top? I'll fill your water dish."

"And he did, reaching fearlessly into the cage while Strawn looked on in amazement, for the drooping. dispirited bird made no attempt to

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and

Kellogg Pact eliminated all ques- tions of the rights of neutrals at sea. are vast navies still kept

mon) Erie The British view is that "as[

Rly. Co. between members of the League Goodyear Tyre

General Motors there can be no neutral rights Rubber because there can be no neutrals." Granby Consolidated 60 the argument being that if we are International Cement " at war with a Stato which has (Common) broken Its pledges, other members Liggett and Myers "B" 98 “A page was torn from Mrs, Ilo- of the League ard bound by the Missouri Pacific (Com- warth'a diary Iust night-the entry Covenant to act against the

mon} "What's that?" Strawn inter- of May 19," Dundee answered in so aggressor. Therefore, there is nol

Nevada Consolidated rupted him. He

Copper to low a voice that it could not carry jchallenge to

our soapower by the door, flung it open.

to the group around the basin. trading with the enemy and there- Norma Paige was at the head of "Here it is or what is left of it1 fore we do not remain neutral the stairs, calling frantically: And last night the parrot nipped Reuter's American Service.

"Dusty! Oh. Dusty! Quick! la piece of flesh from Cora Barker's Mrs. Rhodes! Dusty!"

hand

hurried

"What's wrang, Miss Puige Strawn called from Mrs. Hogarth's door.

nip his fingers. Dundee filled the little dish from the tup of the basin behind the green burlap sereen, re-

'Oh!" She was startled, then turned it to the cage, and. with tha door still open, stroked the bird's smiled uncertainly. "It's just Cora's feathers with a gentle hand. Sud-wash basin, Sir. It's stopped up and the water's running out on the denly he uttered a startled ex-

door. I was helping her wash her clamation.

"What is

it?" Strawn naked air, on account of her burned

hand, you know, and-Oh, Dusty sharply, atriding to the enge.

Please hurry and get your tools to "Look!" And Dundee drew out something between thumb and fore-unlop Cora's basin!" finger and offered it for his chief's "Maybe 1 can help," Strawn sug- Inspection. "What would you stygested, and by a jerk of the head invited Bonnie Pundes to accom- this is, Strawn?"

Lieutenant Strawn took the thing,pany him rolled it on his palm. “Looks like They found Cora Barker in her a bit of skin, doesn't it? Now how room, rubbing her long wet hair did that get into the parrot's cage7" with a bath towel. At the unwar

"Cora Barker burned her hand antable instrusion of the lieutenant Inst night, chief." Dundee reminded of detectives, and of the young man him softly. "Rather an odd time she knew only as the new hoarder, quarter past 12-for a tired, hot the woman's haggard face Blushed working woman to decide to press

an angry scarlet. a dress she would not wear Sunday, wasn't it?"

Pl

Strawn grunted Incredulously, but quickly removed all the tiny pellets of water-soaked paper from the tangled mass of hair.

it's a crime to wash your hair on Sunday"..

"For the moment, I'm not inter- ested in the blue laws, Strawn said with terrible humour. "I'm "Go and take your place behind merely interested in the law relat the screen in Mrs. Hogarth's ing to robbery and-murder." room," Strawn directed, his lips "Oh!" Cora gasped, and swayed

carcely moving. Then, turning as if she were. about to faint, toward the group about the basin,

"Say, can I go on with this here job?" Dusty whined. "I got other work to do."

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Hamburg "Here! Take this chair, Mips) · POLA NEGRI DECIDES TO he said in a normal voice: "That'll Barker. And don't faint. I'll sim

FOREGO DIVORCE. be all now, Dundee. Don't leave ply have to use valuable time to the house. I may avant to ques revive you, and you'll be ques

Paris, Dec. 16. tion you again.”

tioned anyway. Now-suppose you After being on the brink of a tell me the truth about last night, divorce, the film star Pola Negri not the nice,little fairy story you and Prince Mdivani have decided fed me at 2 o'clock this morning, to live happily ever after." "Here you are, Rhodes," Strawn. . No, wait a minutel I know According to the Paris edition of conceded cheerfully, as Dundee, you didn't get home until about 10 the Chicago Tribune the two hurried out of the room, striving minutes after 12. I checked your parties, when they appeared in the to give a perfect imitation of n alibi-hat far! Now suppose you Judge's Chambers on December 13 man incensed by the unjust aus- begin at the moment you turned for a classic attempt at recen plcisions of the police.

into the Rhodes House grounds. I ciliation, which under the French Two or three minutes later, Dun- want to know everything-includ- law must precede a decree niat, "Give me an extra inth towel. dee from behind the screen aawing just why and when you enter admitted in response to the Judge's I'll try keep any more water Strawn eater the room, followed ed Mrs. Hogarth's room, and what enquiries that they still loved each from spilling," Strawn directed, by a terrified woman, her head you did here!"

other, Pola Negri adding "only he ignoring her anger.

wrapped in the damp bath towel,

wants me to lead a social life which interferes with my career.” The couple thereafter proceeded to the Prince's chatenu'neat Paria. -Router.

"You think she burned her hand to cover up the evidence that she'd been bitten by the parrot?" Strawn Dundee and Strawn were mop demanded, in amazement. "Well, ifping at the pool of water on the that's so, I guess we've got her floor when Dusty Rhodes, much the dead to rights un Sevier's accom-worse for his last night's debauch, plice! I have a look at that hand-"

“Just a minute, chief,” Dundee begged. found two or three rather important items in Mrs, Ho- iarth's diary, and this morning in talking with Mrs. Rhodes before the others came down, 1 learned a Tew other things that seem pretty important to me."

In spite of the chief's impatience, Dundee quietly rend the bot- worthy excerpts from the diary, then told in detail his conversation. with Mrs. Rhodes.

"Don't you agree with me, lieu- tenant,” bé concluded eagerly, "that there may be another motive for} the crime that we haven't discov ered yet? It seems absolutely cleari to me that the old lady had no hid- den miser's hoard in this room-*

"Makes no difference, if Sevier and Cora Barker thought she did," Strawn interrupted almost angrily. Bad penny," Dtimiee reminded him stubbornly.

"Bosh!" Strawn dismissed the idden contemptously.

"I'm afraid it isn't bosh," Dundee j Insisted quietly. "For five years, by her own written admission, Mrs,

·Hogarth lived in 'dead'—not fear, mind you, but dread-that D., S.'s husband, would turn up.". It seems pretty clear to me that S. and Mrs. Hogarth fled from their home town. I don't know whether they deserted D. or whether he had already de- serted them, but the two women, Mrs. Hogarth here, and S. in some other city, dreaded his turning up.".

"Suppose he did 'turn up' in Hai- ilton with the express purpose of seeing Mrs. Hogarth. She dreaded his turning up,' but she has re- corded no fear of consequences; to herself if he did appear. What if D. enne through that window, la, ti night, and Mrs. Hogarth enw him? She would not cry out to alarm the house, if she recognized him, but she might very well greet him with the old proverb, sarcastically: 'So the bad penny, has turned up at Inst." I can imagine, chief, that those words 'bad penny' were re- pented two or even three times be tween Mrs. Hogarth and D.-"

"You can imagine a lot of torumiy- rat," Strawn interrupted irritably, "This isn't a detective story, Dun-i dee. It's an every lay police case in the ordinary Hittle old town of Hamilton, in these prosaic old United States. ... No, hoy, you're having a swelf time, and I hate to ruin your day, but Mrs. Howarth was murdered for the money she either had or was supposed to have hidden in this room, and when we find 'Sevier-Why, lank, boy! your own story is full of holes! If this mysterious D., whoever he is, ac- tually did come here to see the old lady, he would have known that. she had no money and that 5, was supporting her. And if Mrs. Ho garth 'dreaded' him but did not fear him, why did he kill her and ransack this room?"

"I'm not n clairvoyant," Dundee grinned, "but isn't there a chance

Cora cowered In her chair. The her bandaged hand Instinctively bandaged hand fluttered to her hidden in the folds of her kimono. heart. "You-you know-I was-

"I don't know what you want of in here?" she gasped. me" Cora protested angrily, "If (To be Continued.)

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