No matter how the cat Jumps on the repeal
question, Anti-Saloon League salaries will continue
to be paid by a gullible public. Those are things
that go on forever.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.)
That was a lovely picture Mr. Morgan painted
of the private banker. You could almost hear
the rustle of the wings.—(St. Louis Post-Dispatch.>
These are days when one sees many a rumble
seat full of passive resistance.—(Ohio State Journal. >
TheWhile Cockatoo
by Mignon G. Eberhart'
SYNOPSIS: Sun Tatty. Jim Bun
dean and *he dectective David
Lorn have decided that the murder
of the Russian, the attempt on Sun
dean’s life, and the attempted ab
duction of Sue all are part of a
plot to secure the token by means
of which Sue must prove title to
her share of her father’s millions.
But they are unable to find a clue
to the identity of the murderer.
ISarcel. porter in the little French
hotel which is the scene of the
tragedy, suddenly volunteers to
tell Sundean what he knows.
Chapter 2f
THE 8H0S
"pIRST" Marcel said—he would
* not be hurried, and I thought
he had rehearsed the whole telling
o( his tale, and his bright eyes were
sparkling—"first, the towels.
“There were used towels In an
unused room the morning after the
murder. There was also a round—”
he described It with his lively little
hands—“hollow on the eiderdown as
if someone had sat there for a mo
ment. I ask you—who was that?” I
started to speak and checked my
self for fear he would stop If 1 In
terrupted.
"Then,” he held up two fingers.
