1930-01-13 — Page 9

Avenging Parrot

Ay Anne Austin

CHAPTER XL.

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Corener Price's first half dozen questions brought out, Bert Magnus story of Saturday night. As Dun- dee latened to the famiilor tale he averted his eyes from the sight of Bert's suddenly old and. ravaged;

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ƒnight of May 18, Corá, as she toll me, tore the page from "the diary before leaving the room. Fear of being implicated caused her not to give the alarm, she said and I quite understood and sympathized

with her decision."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1930.

THE MEERUT CASE,

ALL ACCUSED COMMITTED WITH ONE EXCEPTION.

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Meerut, Jan, 11.

All of the accused in 'the Mecrat conspiracy caso were committed to the hensions with the exception of Dharamvir Singh, a member of the Legislative Council, who was six- charged.

A special magistrate charged the

31 accused persons with conspuing "to deprive the King of Sovereigu ty over British Indin." The accur od answered the charge with cries of "Down' with the clans justice of

even to a man like Sevier," Bert

answered huskelly.

"Did Miss Barker tell you, in Imperialism.** face. The amateur scenario writer confidence, anything to implicate looked as if he had passed through Sevier or anyone else, beyond the some terrible and blighting illness during the few hours since he had fact that Sevier had asked her help "stood beside Cora Barker, singing in robbing Mrs. Hogarth?"

"No, except that he again asked In his surprisingly good 'Drink to me only with thine eyes!" her that Saturday night, and she. Occasionally, as he answered the gain refused."

She did not tell you that coroner's questions, his voice waver- ed, and he pressed the fingers of his aw Sevier in the room or at uncrippled left hand into his tem-window on the porch

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After a few questions concerning Magnas' movements after the break. ing up of the impromptu party the night before, Dr. Price said:

"I understand then, Mr. Magnus, that you heard nothing, saw noth- ing until you opened your door about half past four this morning ried out of Miss Barker's room?

"That is correct," Magnus an swered..

"She did not. I feel sure she ples as if trying desperately to redid not know any more than she member things which had now, in told me." Magpus answered, with and saw the stretcher being car comparison with the terrible tragedy of the night before, lost note of pride and faith in his shak, much of their meaning and im portance.

jen voice.

"Now. Mr. Magnus, you were in private conversation with Miss When he told how he had be- Barker again on Tuseday evening," come so absorbed in the revision of Dr. Price continued, and the audi- his scenario, "More to Be Pitled,"ence held His breath. Will you that he had neglected to keep his tell the jury the gist of that con- appointment with Core Barker, his

versation?" voice brake, and tremblingly he took off his glasses to wipe them, holding them awkwardly in his right hand, between the withered fingers and the thumb which had escaped injury.

"it was of an extremely pri- vaté naturg," Magnus prolested.

"I am afraid It can be private no longer, and I must nak you to newer the question fully and frankly." Dr. Price replied with firm but kindly emphasis,

"I realize," he said unsteadily, "that if I had kept my appoint- ment to meet Miss Barker at thef

Dundee, who had been an thentre hist Saturday night, to take eavesdropping and unsuspected her to supper after the last show, witness to part of that conversation, she would not have had occasion leaned forward and listened intent to go into Mra, Hogarth's room and jy as Magnus answered, unhesi- would not have become Involved in tatingly the case as a material witness,"

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"Coru played the piano-we were There was a rising murmur of all in the Rhodes House partour- excitement,, punctuated by sharp and I sung, and--and then exclamations from reporters, wit-talked, Corn and 1. She told me nesses, and the audience of mor- she had been very unhappy-" hidly curlous. For this was the He was foundering hopelessly, first news the public had had, that and Bundes sympathized with his Cörn Barker had been in the mur dilemma. How could any man be dered woman's roum after the expected to repent the tender in crime was committed,

Limacies which he had overheard Dr. Price looked somewhat non-between Corn and Bert-the shy plussed at the unsolicited revela-half promises, made more by eyes tion, but asked his next question than by lips? quietly:

The coroner cleared his thront'

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"Did Miss Burker confide in you hurshly, and took off his own spec- concerning her visit to Mrs. Ho-tacles to wipe the moisture frim garth's room after the murder?" the lenses, "I will ask you, Mr. "She did as we were walking Magnus, if you and Miss Barker together to the Little Queen then became engaged to be married, tre on Monday night," Magnus an- during that conversation yesterday swered, huskily, "I believe she evening?" told me the whole truth about her A dull red spread over Bert Mag- connexion with Emil Sevier. It nu chubby, plulu face, but his was a relationship of which I be eyes were steady and his voice un- lieve she

unnecessarily faltering as he answeréd ;. ashamed."

"Not exactly, in so

many words, **Please tell the jury as nearly but I intimated very pininly to as you can remember just what Cera that when this bad business Miss Barker told you," Dr. Price meaning the Hogarth case, of directed, after pounding with his egirse-wis cleared up, and gavel for order in the excited nudi-was free to go where she pleased, I would have something to auk of her. As a matter of fact, I believe Bert Magnus restored his pince I did not even complete the sen- nez to his nose, touched his little tence, but Cora understood, and-- reddish moustache with trembling and we were very happy, looking Angers, then answered in a low forward to a 'future of which we voice that was frequently shaken could not even talk until-until-" with emotion:

"I understand the coroner cut

ence.

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"Core-Miss Barker-fold me she in hastily. "Now, Mr. Magnus, dið wanted me to know exactly why Miss Barker tell you why, she had she had been held as a material con so unhappy?".. witness. She said she had been Dundee leaned forward tensely. engaged, in May, to Emil Sevier, Was Magnus going to introduce He remem- and thus she had broken the en-Jewel Briggs' 'namic? Kagement when Sevier had impor-bered very clearly that Cora had tuned her to help.him rob Mrs. cried: "Then you didn't mean what Hogarth. She had once been a you said to Jewel?" trained nurse and Sevier wanted Then he settled back in his chair,

be disap her to administer a small dose of undecided whether to chlorform to Mrs. Hogarth, to in-pointed that the small mystery con- sure her being deeply asleep while cerning Jewel was not to be cleared) the two of them searched her room up, or to admire Bert's chivalry in for the hidden money. As I said.leaving the girl's name out of the Corn refused, and broke the en-record. For Bert was saying, gagement, but, she admitted frank-haltingly:

ly, Mrs. Hogarth had seen Sevier "I think it was-well, obvious leaving Corn's room by the window that Corn was sad and humiliated on the night of May 18-or rather over her arrest is a material wvit- at two o'clock in the morning of neas, and over the gossip connect- May 19. When I failed to meet her ing her with Emil Sevier."

"Did she mention Sevler's nume. last Saturday sight, she became obsessed with the fear that I had that evening?" the coroner prod- met Mrs. Hogarth and that she ded.

had told me this bit of scandal "Yes" and Bert's voice rang against Corn.”

"And had you mot Mrs. garth?" Dr. Price interrupted.

with sorrowing ruge. "She said Ho-she would sleep more easily if the knew Emil Sevier was safe behind

"I have already bold you, that bars-that her dreams were haunt- never met or spoke to Mrs. Ho-ed by fears of his coming to avenge garth in my life," Bert answered himself upon her for the little she 'with quiet emphasis.

had told the police against him."

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"Very well, Mr. Magnus. Now, why was Miss Barker so concern- The close-packed audience was ed over the possibility of your hav-suddenly as still as if the__wings. ing heard this scandal from Mrs. of death had swept over it. Dundee, Hogarth?"

sitting between Norma Palge and Magnus flushed, but rained his Daisy Shepherd, saw both girls head proudly. “She-valued my shiver and huddle lower into their good opinion of her.".

scats.

"Go on!" Price, directed curtly, · “Did she definitely say that she but not unkindly..

had cause to believe Sovier would "As I said, it was fear that Mrs. kill her?" Dr. Price asked at last. Hogarth had gossiped against her

"Not in so many words. I have

to me which made Cora decide to repeated what she said as nearly question Mrs. Hogarth when she as I can remember," Bert answered, returned from the theatro at 10 hla voice breaking. Then, "I begged minutes after 12 Saturday night.her to tell her fears to the police, She told me that sho knocked on to ask for protection until Sevier Mrs. Hogarth's door, after having was caught. But he refused. She seen that the light was still on, said the police might think she had and that when she received no an- good cause to fear Sevier-believe ewer she tried the knob and found that she had helped him kill and the door unlocked.. She entered rab Mrs. Hogarth." and found Mrs. Hogarth dead.: "Did Miss Barker tell you that Knowing that Mrs. Hogarth kept she believed 'Sevier to be guilty?” a diary and feeling sure the diary "She did not express such a be would contain an account of Belief, but I know she was afraid it vier's visit to her room. on the was true. She was a-loyal friend,

"Will you tell the jury what you said then the words you addressed to the dead wontan when you know

I was her body on the stretcher?"

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"I" Magnus began, then bowed would stand 'guard over her. She conversation of the officers. But his head in his hands, his alroul-refused, said there must be no I can now recall no definite miso ders heaving.

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"That is all, Mr. Magnus and poor darling! If you had only let "No--- really have no ides," may. I extend to you the sympathy nie watch outside your windows, as Bert stammered, "I dislike the of myself and this jury?

word 'premonition.. but I woke, Bring in Emil Sevi" Dr. Price I wanted to~'”

that something (directed, turning brusquely to a London Bankers-National Provincial Bank, "Yes, that is what I said," Mag-terrified, sure nus spoke from behind his shield-dreadful had happened. It is pos- patrolman stationed at a dvor lend- ing hands. "I had told Corn, as rible, of course, that I was sub- ing into another room of the we came upstairs together, that if consciously aware of the entry of morgue,

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