The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-27

soA6 gave ILL., g SlAlt A0Vn DutI
obeyed. She said calmly:
you'd as well not make move,
Loyschiem. / think our friend Ia
rather likely to shoot us"
Il was very still in the small
lobby while our eyes met and
locked. Very still except for the
small rustic OF the cockatoo scram-
bling from his perch to the desk.
From the corner Of my eyes could
see him side toward his mistress.
She did not move or SHIFT her
eyes from mine as the bird caught
her green sleeve and pulled him
self clumsily In a curious kind OF
hand-over-hand movement to her
shoulder.
Pucci chuckled hoargeiy and laid
his wide bill alongside his mis-
tress's warm red hair. But there
was something wrong-something
that didn't add-some quantity that
was not right.
Pucci was pushing his bill into
the red hair. He was pushing and
pushing mo! He was pulling. He
was pulling at something that was
thin and white and folded and that
finally came entirely from the mass
OF red hair. It was a thin folded
paper.
Madame Grethe heard suddenly
some small rustic, and she moved
her head and cried. "Pucci!" in q
atrangled voice.
Put down your hands, Low
schiem. Give me that paper. ma
DAME"
She did so. she did not hesitate.
as had known she would not. She
took 1t gently and carefully from
Pucci and put it 10 my hand.
The paper was what thought It
was.
a CONNECTION OF footsteps and
: voices arose outside. and the
door was flung open and Lorn was
there. Even in that hurried instant
] was conscious of the singular
look he gave US: it held surprise
and kind OF disappointment and
at the same time decision.
Lorn pointed at me and said
something very sharp. and the po-
lice fell upon me, and gripped my
arms.
$50" ! said above things to Lorn.
so that IL the reason. You must
supply them with q murderer
There's no use talking like that.
+Sundean." said Lorn. "You can't
defend yOursslf. They win Hnd the
poison in your room. where found
Il and thus was convinced Of your
guilt"
! was dimly conscious that the
man who had called himself Fran
els Tally had appeared IN the door
way Of the lounge.
Madame" ! said to Grethe, task
these policemen to free my arms
for moment. I won't try to escape
~ couldn't
Then, before their eyes brought
out the envelope in which Francis
T'ally's last letter TO his sister had
been sent. And had also q small
irregular piece 0k wax which | had
found on the landing where the
body Of Michael straysky had lain.
There was not q sound while
fitted the broken wax to the half
or the seal which still remained on
the envelope. The two pieces fitted
exactly and made one.
I said to Lorn:
you hare killed and killed for
the Tally millions.
"Take him awayl Arrest himg~
"You killed straysky and y0u
killed Marcel and you killed the
priest And when You killed Straw.
sky because yon had witnessed the
abduction and Sues return and
you thought stravsly had got her
token-when You killed Stravsky
you broke this wax from the seal
Of the iettsr yon were bringing Sue
from her brother. Il fell there. It's
going TO convict you.
"And ron killed Marcel 60 he
couldn't tell what be knew Of you.
And you killed the priest because
ron discovered he was the real
Francis Tally and that he'd seen
the real Sne and thaE spoiled your
plan. You killed him. and that'a
where yon got Sues token. at last.
Her brother had found Il and taken
70 see II IL matched his
own. And yon trapped yourself
when you did that.
-That proved that there was
someone else after the token. Some
one besides the Loyschlems. For il
MAS gone Yet the Loyschiems did
not hare II. And Il was not on ths
priesta body
0rethe said In . still way: -It's
true. u was In his room. found a."
L0rn had ahrnnk into his brown
coat: he was only Swallowed ares
and chalk-yallow faos. and he no
longer screamed at the policemen.
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