Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 06, 1943, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Text-to .',f' v - SERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER' t BY MORRIS MARKEY COPYHlOHT. 104. MEA SERVICE, INC TIIH BTORTi Vkim fa lh mtory "off the "perfect rtmc the mnr. der of Col. WfilC7 Hope Merrt wrther la thfi library of him Lonjr iHtnnd eatc and of th emits left din ai to It. V bare met the wealthy Colonel' ttntetlv danirhtrr Cynlhlm nenry lVrts, Krd WNt and other frlend and nl(on who aro vraltlnv polo ram te bts- ... , CHAPTER II AS tuual, the huge, pals green stands surrounding the Broken Hill Club polo field were empty and a little desolate even in the bright sunshine. That was not a polo year, and even In the best of polo years It required Inter national matches, or at least the East-West games, to bring out the crowds. . Members' games were put to it to attract mothers, fathers who grumbled that the game had gone to pieces since their day, and a thin sprinkling of debutantes. And, of course, a bored press pho tographer or two, hoping against hope for a spill bad enough to make a good picture. - - Henry Prentiss helped Toby Parker and Fred West to unload their gear, and then went off to chat with his teammates. His right arm hung in a white linen sling, and there were bandages around the hand. He gave assurances that no bones were broken, that he had suffered only a bad sprain, and he spoke earnestly with the youthful Mike, who this day would ride In his place. His admonitions were cheerful, but exact which pony to play in each period what moves to make when Parker got on the ball with bis fast mounts what precautions to take against the same Parker's Inherent weakness in the matter of fouling. Then girths were brought up tight. The men began climbing into their saddles. And Henry Prentiss walked with Cynthia Merrlwether .over the soft grass to her box in the clubhouse en closure. "THEN they were in their seats they were surrounded by per haps a hundred other spectators, who nodded at them, or waved and called greetings. The players rode out upon the field. Captain Pugh took his place in front oi them as they lined up. He blew his whistle, and bowled the ball fairly among the legs of the horses. ...Mrs. Porter West, who sat some distance behind and above Cyn thia and Prentiss, gave no very sharp attention to the opening moments of the play. It was true that her Fred was out on the turf and the horses were thundering off in their first long run. But he could -take -care of himself, and probably would win. He had the habit of winning in all concerns saving those pertaining to Cynthia Merrlwether. She stared at Cynthia and Pren tiss, her face without expression, but her eyes were drawn slightly together, and the poisons of frus tration and resentment and anger - brewed within her heart It looked like a match. That was that But this meant that her own thought fully contrived plans were to be ignored, cast whimsically aside, and the family of West profoundly injured thereby. Mrs. Porter West was, as the saying goes, of the old school; the pld Long Island school which had carefully forgot that the family , (fortunes got their primordial start in paper bags or imitation velvet forgot such uncouth affairs omid the sweet smells of the stable, the gentle languor of the beach. In that neatly ordered school, such trifling though neces sary interludes as romance were guided by rules that were splen did in their simplicity. Neither passions of the grand order, the perpetuation of blue blood, nor the sustenance of social prestige were the desiderata. The young were supposed to fall in lovo where it would do the most gocd. In such forthright fashion, 'those sinews which took their first nourishment from paper bags or limitation velvet were nurtured .and renewed. If a Beacham family fell upon troubled times, for example, it iwas the decent and proper thing lor a Crandau family (currently able to increase its string of Irish Hunters and even pay its tailors' bills) to send forth a youth or a maiden, as the case might be, and by the perfectly ordinary process f matrimony bring the situation into a seemly balance. When, betimes, the arrangement grew our in the souls of the youthful individuals involved, there was always Reno, and a reshuffling of the marital cards easily to be ef fected. ... fTHE youths and the maidens had a deplorable word for this state of things. The word was: Icky. But it was difficult for them to be too selfish or stubborn when roast prime ribs for the family and No. 1 crushed oats for the mangers were at stake. Not to put too fine a point upon it Mrs. Porter West had reached the considered conclusion that iCynthia Merrlwether was a suit lablo wife for Frederick Hallibur ton West not merely Yale '37, but captain of Yale's polo team, and by no means neglected in the photographic art of either sport ing page or rotogravure reports oi bunt balls and kindred fetes. That her son, Fred, had turned out to be really an amusing, and friendly, and unpretentious sort of young man did not enter into her calculations at all. Those calcu lations, on the contrary, were based in sound, realistic fashion upon the absurd things which all this excitement silly wars and depressions and such had done to the trust funds left behind when Porter Gordon West sound horseman and furthermore an en viable judge of hounds, bad gone to his ultimate peace. To his eternal praise, let It be said that Fred West was neither deceived nor a deceiver. When he moved dutifully beneath his mother's goad and broached the matter to Cynthia, he was direct if something less than subtle. "To open it out" he said, "I'm nuts about you and want to marry you. To close it off, I suppose, I've got to tell you my family needs dough. You've got it or your old man has. I'm just put ting it straight on the line for you. There's no use my saying take it or leave it because I know damn well you're going to leave it But I've got the right to say that no matter how obvious it is, this money business hasn't any thing to do with the way I go for you. Oh, hell you're already bored with the whole idea. , . ." She had not laughed. Which was something. She bad taken his reluctant hand. "You're sweet," she said. "That's the sweetest nicest thing I ever heard anybody say. Listen, Fred. Just let's see a lot of each other this summer. What say? Wouldn't we be a couple of chumps to go off and quit speaking and having people sorry for us?" "Oh, you mean that kid stuff." "Certainly I do. Men have an awful time making any sense out of it when a girl says, 'I haven't got marriage in the back of my HOLD EVERYTHING! twinnisnwcummm,.,. Nothing today, thank youW Marines Use a New Rubber Stamp PORTLAND, Jan. 8 (A3) The navy s mailmen are bearing down these days on stamp can cellations. The old, familiar can cellation marks are gone from letters arriving here from ma rines overseas, and in their stead are these . rubber-stamped le gends;. "Tojo is a bum, Hitler a heel," and "Praise D' Lord, Pass de Ammu." , If it's a "frozen" article you need, advertise (or a used one in the classified bean.' But they mean it some times. I mean it now, Fred." "You're O. K.," he said. "How about something that comes in a glass with a lot of Ice?" - Which was the extent of the wooing, and Fred got some deep, inner satisfaction out of it be cause she had called him a man. 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