1930-01-16 — Page 9

Avenging Parrot

Anne dustin

CHAPTER XLUI,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930.

FINDLATER'S

brutally commuinded them to re-

main as guests of the house, on Bonnie Dundee's sudden. exit pain of arrest is material wit- from Lieutenant Strawn's office nesses if they dared fee to less on the heels of his promise to pro- sinister quarters. duce the "bad penny" by Monday

night was due not so much to a "Have you heard the news, Mr. boyish love of a dramatic exit as Dundec?" Lawrence Sharp broke

to an almost panicky desire to the heavy silence at last.,

ovade questioning by his astute

chief.

"No I hope it's good news this

For Strawn would inevitably time," Dundee answered quietly, have domanded: "If you bellevej

Dan Griffin is boarder at the

"Poor Cora's mother arrived

Rhodes House, who else could be from Quincy, Illinois, just be- be but Henry Dowd? He is the fore dinner," Mr. Sharp answered, only member of the household who pleased in spite of his depression has given a false name and false at having news to impart. "She's address. Better let me put him on having a tray in het room, poor the grill. I'll soon find out if he's old sout... Cora's room, that is, She asked to be permitted to stay Dan Gran!"

Dundee did not want there until her train leaves after Strawn or anyone else to "grill" midnight. Getting Cora's things Henry Dowd just yet. For he sin-together, I understand."

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If Henry Dowd was indeed Dan Dundee asked innocently.

Griffin, murderer of three women, he was

elever

"believe so. Mrs. Barker has

Strawn is

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consummately villain. For five years Dan Grifin just telephoned police headquar "had lived under Home allas or other, in perhaps a score of cities.coming over shortly to be here And if Henry Dowd was Griffin, he while she packs. Rut 1 ander- hnd undoubtedly covered his tracks stand that nothing has been found well, had built up a story of his in the poor girl's room to aid the "past" which would necessitate Police in any way. It was the endless police investigations bo. tad privilege of the wife and me fore its falsity could be proved, to have a short talk with Mrs. and his real identity pinned upon Barker, and to tell her how much. him. Not tamely would a manfult of us had loved her dangthier ?** who had the brains and the cold- blooded courage ta kill three| women confess that he was not only

"wish I hadn't come buck last night," Mrs. Sharp broke in tear

a bank absconder hat a murderer.

Moreover, Dan Griffin, whoever fully, "I wish I'd stayed out the he was, had been amply assured week with Larry. He wanted me by the newspapers both in Hamil- 10." ton and New York that he had, not

W4

"presume Mrs. Barker will

left a single che upon the actual take Cora liome with her for for scope of any of his three crimes, burial?". Dunder asked with a With this assurance, Henry Dowd, eeting glance of sympathy for if he was really Dan Griffin, couldBert Magnus, who was not eating simply deny all knowledge of the】int whose eyes had not left his three crines, as, 'before the cor- untouched food since Dundee hudh oner's jury and upon first being entered the room. questioned, he had denied n}} knowledge of or complicity in the Hogarth and Barker murders, As for his alias, if it was challenges, he could stick to his story or pre- sent the police with an intricate new one which would keep them busy for days of weeks before they could prave' ita falsity.

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"On the one o'clock train,” Mr. Sharp replied heavily. "Will you pass me the catsup, please, Mr. Dowd?..... Not that I have the slightest appetite, but we must all try to keep up our strength-”

As Henry Dowd complied silent- And even if Its falsity way with the request, Dundee stu- I proved, where would the police he died him covertly but Reenly. then? In five years Dan Grilia With Lieutenant. Strawn's meagre had had ample opportunity to description of the Day Grithia of ebange his appearance and person-five years ago in mind, the young ality so that an identification by a detective noted and catalogued Belton acquaintance would every feature and charna.teristic practically an impossibility. But of the man stated opposite hini. granted that Henry Dowd could be

"I finally doped it out that Dan proved to be Dan Griffin, jușt, how

Grini must have been no ordinary near a conviction would the police coking a young man that his face. be then? The district attorney could prove opportunity and motive, made as deep impression on any- hut of netsal evidence.connecting "Sawn had said. And that Henry Dowd with the crimes there characterization could aptly be ap- was none. The fact that Dowd plied to Henry Dowd. If-before had left New York the very evening this moment-Dundee had been of the day that Sally Graves or called upon to describe Henry Griffin had been murdered would Dowd for a police dossier, he be strong circumstantial evidence, would have been hard put to it but it alone could not secure a con. to achieve even a fair degree of Herurney. Per Dowd's was one of viction of murder agnhist him,

those faers you simply cannot re- call vividly to mind.

*

As for the two murders at the Rhodes House, a clever defence

"What colour are his eyes muy- attorney could convince any jury way?" Dundee puzzled. would that, no matter if Dar Grillin wasdave sworn they were blue-grey an inate of the house when the and now, in this light, and-behing two crimes were committed, others those riasses of his, they look Hair-thin, light- besides Grillin had both motive and grey-green.

grey. Fore- opportunity to kill Mrs. Hogarth-brown mixed with

head very high, but that may be the motive being greed,

No, his cuan was not complete because, he's growing hald. Age? by any means, would not be col-4-Say 4 to 38, and I'd defy any plete even if he proved that Henry one to hit it closer than that. Grifin would be about 35, so Dowd was Dan

that checks. A gold eye- tooth (II the right side, But his arat at the dinner table. But that dental job could have been he liked a hard job.....

done any time during the last five He was late. The soup plates had been removed and Tilda, red-Years, as a tiny item toward creat But I'll ing a subtle disguise.

Griin, Bunder told himself ruefully as he took

eyed and nervous, wits serving the be eternally confounded If Henry well-filled plates of roast and Dowd or whoever he is locka sub- vegetables.

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with "mealers"-many of them No, there was nothing in Henry the sensation-seekers who had Dowd's face or manner to suggest filled to overflowing the inquest cleverness or subiely. The only room at the morgue These tran- two words which adequately de sients shuddered delightedly over scribed him were "meck" and dif- But of Dan Griffin hie their daring in actually coming ferent." to the "Murder Mansión" for acquaintances in Belton had said, meal, exchanged theories in thrill-"You'd never have guessed to look ed whispers, and quite openly at him, that he'd rob a bank." studied the group of regular Mentally, Dundee ticked off the boarders with speculative oyen. other items of Strawn's description But upon that large table in of Dun Griffin: "Neither tall nor the centre of the room a blight short-between five feet seven and had fallen. Mra. Rhodes had five feet ten. Average weight, in- considerately rearranged the clined to be slender rather than chairs and romoved one so that heavy. Regular features nothing the horror of gazing upon Cora odd about them; neither handsome Barker's empty chair was spared nor Homely." So far so good! The the remaining boarders. There mock little man across the tablo was almost no conversation. On fitted those qualifications exactly. every face were the marks of "But Dan Griffin did not wear strain and terror. As clearly as glasses," he "reminded himself. if it were spoken aloud a dread "Glasses are, however, the first question made itself heard above thought of the amateur criminal the faint tinkle of silver and trying to disguise himself. Effec-other obvious methods of disguising his fingerprints in existence. Trust and I rather think my next step glass and ching-"Who next?" tive, too, for glasses have been his looks-dyeing his hair or wear him to know that the Belton police is to obtain a specimen of the real Dundee, taking his place with known not only to change the facial ing a wig, growing a beard, affect-tation, with all its records, burned handwriting of Mr. Henry Dowd, only a nod to his fellow guests, appearance of a man but his per- ing a limp, scarring his cheek to the ground! But there is a sam not that clumsy "printing" with know that that table would have sonality as well. But if Henry For two years. Dan Griffin has ple of your handwriting in my which he signed the register"

(To de Continued.)?? been deserted that evening if Dowd is Dan Griffin, he was clever known that there are no records of pocket, Mr. Daniel Thomas Griffin, Lieutenant Strawn had not enough not to adopt any of the

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