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know Dick Berkeley? At college. I
suppose?
Right" Dundee agreed. HE was
q freshman when I was a senior at
Yale. I didn't know him very well,
but naturally we greeted each other
like chums when he bumped into
me on Grand street today"
Did he tell you he got expelled
from Yale for drinking and girl-chas-
ing?" Mrs. Rhodes demanded from
the door. 1.-The papers said he'd left
college On account Of Illness, but it
didn't take long for the true story to
get around"
Dundee grinned, but said nothing
He vas remembering the shame-faced
bravado with which young Dick had
confessed: kicked out In my sopho-
more year. Drunk and ~disorderly.
Particularly disorderly. The girls
name was Clara. It turned out she
wa nice-just as she'd claimed to bel"
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"Well I'll be going, if there's nothing
more I can do for you," Mrs. Rhodes
said. Then she added, her voice
%quivering: Il suppose you think I'm
nothing but a l~oose-tongued old Cos
sip"
You know I think nothing of the
Sort" Dundee protested. Il appre-
ciate your giving me an introduction
to my hostess, and to prove it, I'm
going to ask you to tell me something
more: Have the papers limited at the
real reason for Seymour Crosby'S
visit to the Berkeleys'?"
1.-The society editor said in the
paper this morning: "A little bird
tells me that q very interesting an
nouncement may be expected by those
fortunate enough to be among MI.
and Mrs. Berkeley'S guests on Satur-
day evening. MI. Seymour Crosby,
who was q fellow-passenger of Mrs.
George Berkeley and Miss Clorinda
Berkeley when they returned from
Europe on the Mauritania in August.
is said to have been markedly at
tentive to the beautiful young heir
ess.' +. She might just as well have
come right out and said that Sey-
mour Crosby is marrying Clorinda
Berkeley for her money"
81 WONDER" Dundee said, carefully
casual, "if the well-informed society
editor said anything else particularly
enlightening about Mr.. Seymour
Crosby?"
There! I knew there was a niger
in the w~oodpile!" Mrs. Rhodes cried
triumphantly. "Ill bet you your next
weeks board bill it wasn't till Dick
Berkeley mentioned Seymour Crosby
that you agreed to fritter away q
weekend playing society! Maybe
you'd better put that badge In your
s~uitcase!"
I'm afraid that, as usual, III have
to pay my next weeks board BILL"
Dundee confirmed her suspicious OBJ
liquely, and he took her suggestion
pinning the silver detective badge
securely inside a cretonne pocket Of
the dressing-case.
1.-The society editor didn't dare say
anything about-that!" Mrs. Rhodes
nodded her severely coiffed black
head emphatically, as her eyes r
rowed. Then annoyance chased away
the look of mystery. "Oh, there's that
Tilda! She stands right in the mid
die of the downstairs hall and bawls
when she wants me. -. I do hope
you'll have a nice time, MI. Dundee.
Don't worry about the parrot. III
feed him myself. -. And if Abbie
Berkeley high-hats you, just tell her
you heard a mighty funny story about
her and the h~igh-school janitor. Say
Caroline Rhodes, who used to be Car
cline Baker, told you, and that VIII
put a crimp in her!"
The parrot, Cap'n, who had belong
ed to the murdered woman, Mrs. EN-
ma Hogarth, and who had been OF
very real assistance in bringing her
murderer to justice, stirred on his
perch, tapped his green-and-yellow
wings, and obligingly rewarded Mrs
Rhodes with a hollow cackle OF m1rth
for her exit line.
II hate to leave you, my dear Wat
son. Dundee told the parrot. reach
ing into the cage to scratch the bril-
liant head.
The parrot cooked his head, then
slowly dropped a paperish white lid
"Eh? What's that?" Dundee de-
manded. "You mean to imply that
we shan't be separated long? That ]
may be sending for my dear Watson?
Let's hope not, but I assure you that
If business looks up at Hillcrest. this
particular Sherlock could not gel
along at all without his Watson. .
So long, old top. I've got to rush to
get there in time for dinner. And ]
rather wish I had time to look into 9
newspaper file Of q year and q hall
ago, or-that I had as good q mem
DRY as my astute landlady."
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Feeling rather sorry for Mrs. Berk.
eley that one of her guests should moi
hA able to arrive in a suitably impress.