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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1929.

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"Avenging Parrot

by Anne Austin

CHAPTER XXI

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"Yes, Miss Barker," Strawn au- swered sternly. "I know that you were in this room last night after you returned from the theatre. I know that you tore s page from Mra, Hogarth's diary-the entry for May 19. I know further that that diary entry told the true story of why you were disinherited by Mra. Hogarth. I know that, before you burned your hand, It had been noveraly bitten by this parrot here, that"

"Oh, stop Corn, moaned. " tell! I was crazy to think I could keep you from knowing!"

"Knowing that you helped Emil Sevier roh Mrs. Hogarth after he had killed her?" Strawn inter- rupted grimly.

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shoulders. "He would have told Mrs. Rhodes enough to discredit me. He would have told her that Mrs. Hogarth herself had seen him coming out of my room at 2 o'clock in the morning, and that I was just sore at him for not wanting. to marry me." "

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"I see. Goor"

"Well, I was about two weeks 4go that Mrs. Hogarth woke up Auddenly in the night-toward morning and saw a man in her room.. He had a flashlight turned on and it made just enough light for her to see that it was Emil She turned over in bed to reach the light switch near the head of the bed, and when the light went on Emil was gone. She didn't know how he got out, because het didn't leave by either the door or

"No, no! That's not true!" Corn cried despairingly. “I know you must think that, but it's not true—the window not true!"

"All right. Spill your story," Strawn ordered sternly, glancing toward the screen where Bonnie Dundee was waiting to take down every word "of Corn Barker's re-

"But you know how he managed it, don't you?" Strawn pounced.

"Yes," Cora admitted unhesitat- ingly. "It was part of his plan. I'll show you," and she rose from her chair and stepped to the

vised story of the murder night. Telothes closet.

"It was just as I told you—4]! the beginning,” Cora said wearily.

Strawn followed; watching curi-

"I did wait at the theatre until 12ualy as the woman untered the o'clock for Bert-Mr. Magnus.loset, kaeft, and pointed to a wide When I got home about 10 minutes board which formed part of the after 12 I saw" no one on the back wall of the closet,

"Not Emil Sevier, with whom you'd been whispering earlier in the evening at the theatre?" Strifwn reminded her implacably.

grounds or on the porch—either "The nails have been pulled out the upstairs porch or the down-of that board from the other side. ataire porch. Not that I looked Mrs. Hogarth's closet has the same closely, I wasn't expecting to see back as Envil's-or rather, Mr. Dowd's. But Emil had that room anyone

then, and fixed this hoard so be could push it inward into Mrs. Ho- garth's closet and erawi through. All he had do do to be in Mrs. Ho- "No I didn't think he'd have the garth's room when was to turn the nerve to do rob her, I mean inside knob of the door. He van- after I'd told him for the third time that I'd see him in hell be-ished that night by stepping into ́fore I'd help him do it.”

"You admit, then, that Sevier did try to get your help in robbing Mrs. Hogarth?"

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"Oh, I'm not trying to lie to you

the closet, whose door he had left jar. Not that he told me, but, of course, since knew about the closet, I knew how he had worked his disappearance.'

She emerged from the closet, and quelly took her seat again beside

now." Cora assured him with Mrs. Hogarth's desk. tragle hopelessness. "But please

"It was soon after.this informal

let me tell it in my own way-just visit, then, that Mrs, Rhodes ericted as it happened.. Emil gald he was Sevier? Strawn asked.

going to make another try at it fo

"Yes. I was glad when he left.

night, before he left for Chicago, never wanted to see him again, He was dead broke and deeply in debt. The first time he talked to but 1: had to every day, for he me about the--the job, as he called played the violin beside me at the theatre. Mr. Hartman, the man- ft, was on the night of May 18, or rather it was after midnight that cer fired him last Friday, and Saturday night, ns. 1 told you, he Saturday night. About 1 o'clock, I think it was, when he sneaked into made one more attempt to get me my room from his, by way of the help him roh Mrs. Hogarth. I porch and the windows. I hadn't refused, and I was sure he wouldn't dreamed he was that kind of man, have the nerve to go through with and at first I thought he was jok-1 alone. He wasn't a regular crook, ing. He'd been making love to me, you know, but Mrs, Hogarth's and we we had talked some about money had tempted him terribly. Well, I came home and as I passed getting married, but we weren't actually engaged. never was by Mrs. Hogarth's door on the way really in love with him, but when to my mom, I saw that her light

was still on. I'd noticed it as a girl gets to be-nearly 30-Oh, I won't lie about that eltlier! I'm came up the front walk, too. I—

I was terribly worried-" 39 years old, but I'll—I'll-oh, I don't know what. I'll do if you tell The reporters"

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"About Sevier? You Intended to warn her?" Strawn asked sarcas- tically.

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"The secret of your age is safe

Corn flushed darkly. "No. 1 was with me," Strawn assured her, the worried sick over Bert's not having slight emphasis on the last word met me at the theatre as he'd pro- indicating, that her secret would mised to do. All the way home I'd undoubtedy come out before the been almost crazy for fear Bert had grand jury.

called on Mys. Hogarth, as he'd auld "Well, I managed to make him he had a good nation to do, and leave my room at last. It was that she's told him that story about "nearly 2 o'clock," Cora went on, Emil-about his crawling out of my with the quietness of despair. "We window at 2 o'clock in the morning. thought Mrs. Hogarth would sure- It would have been just like Mr. ly be asleep and not hear or see him Hogarth to think it was her duty when he crawled past her window, to waru Bert against me. She must but she did see him-was stand- have heard the gossip about Bert ing in the dark at her window, i me- Everyone teamed us-" She said something sarcastic to Her voice broke, but soon she mus-

tered her emotion and went on: Emil. She thought, of that Emil and I were-lovers, but

"I suddenly decided that, since weren't! Please believe -we

she was awake, I'd simply ask that!"

And If "All right!" Strawn grinned in her if she had told on me.

she hadn't, was going to plead a way that made Dundee clench with her not to--for the sake of the his fiat. He wanted to about to affection she had once had for me. his chief: "For God's sake, ense

... Well, I knacked. There wasn't up on her! She's telling you the any answer. I knocked again, very truth now! Be decent to her!"

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turned the pages of the diary to May 19, tore the page out, and as

against the parrot's enge. He pecked

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I thought the door would diary I myself gave her. She be locked, as it always was, but it changed her will, and named Wal- wasn't. The light was on. At first ter Styles as her new heir, and I thought she had fallen asleep, Emli stopped pretending to be in writing at her desk, then-then-I love with me. I hated him saw she was dead." then,"

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Cora hid her face in her trem- Strawn nodded understandingly. the room pulsed with suspense. bling hands for a moment, while "And when was the second time Then she dropped them heavily, he asked you to help him rob Mra.

and went on: Hogarth?"

"I started to run out and call' "I can't remember exactly. It Mra. Ithodea, but I've read so must have been around the first of many stories about the person dis June," Cora went on dully. "I recovering the thie body being sus fused again, and threatened to tell pected of the crime that I-I didn't Mrs. Rhodes if he didn't give up have the courage. And then it came the idea."

over me in a flash that she was "Why

didn't you?" Strawn dead, that she could never tell on stapped.

e, but that it was all written down.. "Lon't that obvious?" . Cora in her diary-about Emil and me. "asked, with a"ahrug of her thin'I don't know now how I did it, bút.

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