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7 THE REGISTER. GUARD, EUGENE, ' OREGON. cfrIAL STORY . 'I AM A MURDERER' - RRISMARKEY . - conmnKT. ttaa, MIA tdVICC IMC Lit rro' k. mix i ,a f n.i.r UoM llarH- faal If. 1 SI) J..ful (ill lor ! Sir-" "2li...r. Sri -f!ikl. hu matt Sta r.aYaaa Doabar, . (LIGHT SPAT that rakPTtR VIII r ether sne smw " . "T A tt U tot uw lbonestlT and warmly de- ti it her power w '"" ' '1 accepted hii as a matter worse. Cynthia was in to profound meditation the incalculable and amazing ,1 Hefartnrv a, UK) WUluc, -- I of life. It wa there to be K WIBl l UT L rue occasions they Lw. Explorations Into the r .hidden au oi unw would not, perhaps, be proflt--..i i( I. h art that (Tvn- renenlly started them, and Id them in all Innocence. . i on this day. ame to the swimming pool, as pile blue snatch of silken i ud her . hair cupped in a blue affair to keep it dry. Mitchell Grace was coming Ma a dive. And nobody else there. She sat down on L .1 I i .1 I Um C to the edge, and laughed k he slipped a trifle climbing fmA ntlntMl ift a nlara haKlHe Ki got news for you," she I wiule he wiped water xrom face with his hands. tu tell, its good news." It certainly is. You've got key tomtag to you." tot cash? Not spending mon- l'o other kind, Admiral. But got a horrible confession, too. -Ill get it off my chest. (a list Tuesday and I bor (35 from Mr. Grace, party he second part. Right?", ii "Putting on the touch, they eall it" "So I puts on the touch, then. Know wnat It was lor? "Couldn't guess." e e e T WAS gambling my all on the - Whirlwinds to beat Hank Prentiss. Hank needed to be dropped back step or two. Char lie Fleet heard me boasting about frea a team ana waa nasty. Nasty He Mid, 'How about BOO, even odds? "I gathered tt wis millions." "Grace, you're gullible. It wu 500 of the prettiest little dollars and I didn't have them. So I raked and scraped among some old tired, worn-out bank accounts and I found nearly all of it But I had to go borrowing. And that's how you got wnat is lt7 touched lor that 33." "Seems a pretty long story just to ten roe i get my money back.'' He looked down at his bare hands which were gripping the edge of toe oencn You will perceive) bow the Quar rel started. For he said, Tm not bavin any, thanks." "I must be slow-witted. Any wnair ' "Charity." . It is to be Judged, alas, that Waxhaw. S. C. anoke then. Un out of that lonely, desolate word sprouted pale shoots of envy and pride and frustration,'' of old wounds to the soul caused, not by the laughter and self-sureneaa of more prosperoua neighbors, but by their fuller bellies. Onlv the man wno nas Known Hunger car ries that bleak word like a splinter in nil neart. "Mitchell Grace You're abso lutely impossible." She said that in a rush, not of anger or annoy ance, but of genuine astonishment. tie stared at the still water of the pool. "You're not telling me any particular news, he said. She looked-vat him steadily. "I wish I could understand why you oenave line mat," arte said. "There are probably a eood many things you ought to under stand." . 'And some that I would like to understand. You waste your time on a rounder and playboy who ia a little frayed at the edges, like Henry Prentiss. You keep a sim pleton like Fred West hanging around with a look like a lost calf. And when a Dhonv like our ral Vaughan Dunbar ahowa himself on the scene . . ." ' He shrugged his shoulders with such violence that he seemed to be lifting a weight. - SHE regarded him very quietly. Vai. V . v giu tv iia v uuiex plans I forme." "Irs very obvious you havent any of your own." She retreated behind a frag ment of laughter. "I had at least one, about to minutes ago. To ; have half an hour nf mt ming." . .. ' I suppose It's my 'duty, now, to apologize to the boas' daughter." She got up, and pulled down the legs of her bathing trunks and dived into the water, going across -the pool in a long, silvery rush, and drawing herself up on the ' opposite aide, and sitting there -with her legs dangling. . A manservant nm, Jmm 4t- walk and said to Mitchell Grace umi uuonei Memwether wished to see him. He put on his robe . and ilirtnur anrf want h- - library and Colonel Merrl wether watched him come toward the desk. 'Sorrv T'm viae J, J IA Mitchell Grace. "I can be.'qulck- "Perhaps It la not necessary." ( "Is there aamethlnv mi wlv me to do, sir?" colonel Merriwether looked at him throueh thou were perpetually half shut. "You . wem uaaurcBBea, ne Mia. It required a marked degree of Mitchell Grace to restrain the rush ' of bitter words that fled through his mine", to flush only alightly, . and to sav after riflnit nn '' "It is nothing important, sir. Any-. rrjr, it u my own lauu, -Colonel Merriwether held a match to a freak H War tin 4flVHna. his eyes from Mitchell Grace, and drew in the first wave of smoke, and allowed it to drift away from his mouth. . v . "It ia a sound rjrinefnla ftra to keep the emotions under a strong curb." I ra sure of it, sir." "I miffht sav that tha nnlv mt, take I ever made in. my life was to lose control nt mv amnllAn. a brief time. Approximately one lmw L .a .1 viaj. ou, vt muja uian ou years of living. The experience taught me a lesson. I hava not loat trol of my emotions again, and I nave not maae a mistake again." - This was. bv anv mmn iha. longest and tha most tnrlmat . versation which Colonel Merrl-'.. wether had ever bestowed upon his secretary. Mitchell Grace was . startled. ' 'I'm sorrv. Rir ha uln WttiVh by the way, was a rather absurd thing to observe. And Colonel Merriwether descended calmly . upon the absurdity. "Reffrets. ton., ara in V.a stmiilat There is no prosperity in them. 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