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Avenging Parrot

by Anne Custin wwwwww

CHAPTER XXII,

clothes about 10 times too big for her."

It was 2 o'clock-just after the Dundee flushed at that "your lit- big Sunday dinner for which the Miss Paige," but said nothing, few of the Rhodes House boarders "You can stick around here, if had any appetite when Lieuten-you like, Bonnie," Strawn went on, ant Strawn sought out Bonnie Dut-addressing the boy affectionately by dee in his little third-floor room.

bis nickname, for the first time.

"Well, boy, he greeted his newest "Keep your eye peeled and your associate cheerfully. "She's locked ears open, but personally I think up. She'll get a hearing in the the case is about closed.” morning, and I suppose they'll "Well-I don't," Dundee grant her bail. I'll make a plea intorted, but the words were spoken her behalf myself, if it's necessary, to himself alone, after the door had but I've already had talk with closed behind his complacent chief.

Sherwood, the district attorney, and I think I'll be all right, if she can get anyone to go on her buil." "It seems ghastly unjust to me." Bonnic Dundee began violently, "that a woman who has done every thing in her power to speed justice should be clapped into jail as a ma- terial witness!."

•

Suddenly he remembered some- thing, and

the..door, sprang to in time to hail Strawn before he reached the stairway. When the de tective Heutenant was back in the room Dundee asked:

"Sorry, chief, but did you check long distance call?" up on Daisy Shepherd's midnight

"Well, Daisy insisted on leaving today. Said he'd go nuls if she stayed on here. I thought that was

"Oh," she'll get out on ball. When I left the jail, she was having the "Oh, sure! Matter of routine. The warden telephone to Hartman, man-call came from a drug store coin ager of the Litle Queen," Strawn box in Chicago, so we don't know assured him ensfly. "So you think who was calling our Daisy. Why?" she was telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, Joy 7"

certainly do!" Dundee an- swered vehemently. "Any woman who would tell her right age, when It hurt as badly as it hurt Cora Barker, would not stick at telling the whole truth about anything else under the sun.... "By the way, chief, have you heard any- thing on those food analyses ?"

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little queer, in view of the fact that she claimed she'd fallen asleep while waiting to be questioned thin morning." Durice answered,

"Where did she go? I'll have u dick trail her for a couple of days, until the inquest is over-not that there's any real need," Straw on- swered good-humouredly.

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"No polkon in 'eni," «Struwn

"She said she was going to the gruhted, as he sat down heavily on Curtis Hotel "until she could find Bonnie's bed. "Didn't think there another good boarding house.... would be. And Carraway says ɔne By the way, when will the inquest of the fingerprints he found in the be held?"

up with Dowd's or "I talked with Sherwood about see the trail that to-day. He's in favour of hold- keeps leading right back to Sevier."ing it of tin Wednesday, unless we "Or whom we have no finger-can catch Sevier before then. Other- prints Dundee remainded him wire-that is, if we drag him in softly. "Oh, maybe you're right, today or tomorrow, the inquest will chief, and Sevier is dut man, but be held Tuesday. I'm depending.on you to keep this bunch in the coral here until after the inquest, any- way."

•

"If you croak 'Bad penny' at me

With a grin, Dundee told him again, brain you," Strawn!

grin "By the of the successful speech he hud threatened with way, in my car going down to head- made at the breakfast table that quarters, Cora told me how she got morning-successful in holding

boarders out of the room. She didn't leave all

except Daisy by the door-crawled out of Mrs. Shepherd. Hogarth's window, then through "Which makes you the fair- her own window. But before she haired bay with Mr. Rhodes 1 Jeft, abe took in handkerchief and guess," Strawn chuckled. "She'll wiped off any fingerprints she be offering you board free If you might have made on the window | don't" watch out. Well, ao long sill. Quick thinker, that dame! Of again! You're a good boy, course she destroyed Sevier's finger Bonnte, even if you have not prints at the same time, if he left fancy ideas."

any. Carraway is sure, though,. When, he felt sure that Strawn that he used gloves. She told me had finished his work in Mrs.

that, Hogarth's room and had depart something else, too. Snid

while she was on the porch going ed

with her trunk, Dundee

to her rom, she heard, a slight wandered down to the second noise at the west, end of the porch. floor, rather aimlessly. What he by the rose trellis."

"I'm not surprised," Dundee ad-really wanted to do was to take mitted, with queer reluctance, long, cooling drive with Norma had a look at the rose trellis while Paige, but he had no car, and no claims at all upon another man's you were gone, and someone has

sweetheart'a time. been climbing it, all right. One of the little green slate was freshly broken, and a branch of the climb ing roses was torn off the trellis,"

"Good work!" Strawn commend-/ ed. him heartily. "I guess all we need now to convict little Emil is Emil himself! Wonder where the devil he's hiding? Looks like he

"Hello, Dundre! Feel like pay- ing a culi?" 11 cheerful voice hailed him as he turned toward

the stairs.

It was Walter Styles, standing in the door of his own room near the end of the hall.

Thanks. 1 am feeling rather

at loose ends" Dundee replied gratefully, as he joined Styles. And he wondered what Styles could want with him,

simply melted away in last night's confounded heut."

checked Dusty's "Have you alibi" Dundee remembered to ask. "Oh, yes. Of course that whole

Nothing, apparently, for the lousy outfit could be lying, but they've given him an ironclad alibi young haberdashery proprietor all right. He was playing pool there, seemed to have no deeper designs! behind the speakeasy bar, until upon the new boarder than to 11:30. Then he started in to drink engage him in conversation. They in a serious way, and never left talked about the murder, "of the joint till my men found him course, and of Corn Barker's and brought him in-dead to the arrest as a material "witness, world... And what did you find Dundee guarding his own speech out about Tilda Brown, the cham-carefully so as not to betray his bermaid 7"

official connexion with the "She came in at 2 o'clock this case. And as they talked Styles morning, in a filvver, with three went on with the work on which other whoopee-makers," Dundee he had been engaged before he answered. "Wilkens, who's on duty hailed Dundee. again, told me he talked with the

"I'm afraid I'm worse than any whole bunch, then let Tilda go to girl in the house--about breaking her room. They'd been together all the rule which says 'Poslively no evening at a dance at some cheap washing in rooms or bathrooms,*** little roadhouse 20 miles out in the Styles laughed, as he soused a pair of grey allk aock in his "Well, guess that clears us up," stationary basin. "But I have the Strawn yawned. "Sorry, for your Bame excuse 18 the girls. I sake, boy, that there's not a 'D' among the whole lot. Maybe he'll actually haven't the money turn up yet, and make a claim for spare to get all my laundry done"

outside. Belleve me, Dundee, the old lady's estate. Fat lot of good it will do him, eh?" he I've become an expert on clean- chuckled. "She sure put it over ing, pressing, and light laundry. this bunch, didn't she? Leading the About the only things I can't boarders a dance for three or four manage myself are my shirte and

pyjamas," years "

"What do you use "But for once it was the piper

for taking who paid," Dundee reminded him out spots?" Dundee asked, with gravely. "She has certainly paid idle intercet, his eyes roving for her fun... And now what, about the pleasant little bedroom.. chief?"

On a chairback, protected by a "I'm going to chuck everything towell, hung three pairs of socks."

the belonging to the old lady into her On a line strung between trunk, lock it, and take it down to dresser and the bed post-hung headquarters for safe keeping. other garments-washable tice, Down there, I can take my time handkerchiefs, even a pair of looking over her papers and things white duck trousers, and, at the for any clues to her past-relatives very end, a pair of grey sudde

country."

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who ought to be notified, and so gloves,

to

on. Her will must be among them "This!" Styles held up a bottla somewhere, and your little Miss of cleaning fluid triumphantly. Paige will inherit-a bunch of old "It really works!. Well, If

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you'll excuse me I'll dress, now that my womunish work is aver for the day. I'm going to take Norma for a walk, and to movie, too, if she'll consent to go. Poor girl! This terrible business has hit Her harder than any of us. She was really crazy about that queer old woman. I liked her myself, in spite of well, a lot of things," he added evasively, not having the slightest suspicion that Dundee had over heard both hin and Norma Paige's story to Strawn.

As Dundee closed Styles door behind him, he became aware of the slow tapping of Bert Magnus typewriter.

"Well," he grinned as he knock el, he can't do more than kick- me out. . Gloves Gloves! In this kind of weather!" he added to himself very thought- fully, but the words 'did not refer, to Bert Magnus, who was open- ing the door to him grudgingly.

(To be Continued.)

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