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SERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKED THE RTORTl This la a orr f tba "prrfert erlmr' tha to or der of Col. Wraler Hop Mcrrl wothrr In the library of fcla loa latnnd eatnlr and of the evema Irndlnv np to It. The Colonrl'a dnufthter Crnlhla Baa II nnlf lirarlrd aallur In polo-plarlnr I-'rrd Wrali baahful anllor In ftirtchrll tirnr. tnr Colonrl'a arr rctnrrt a rloaa frlrnd In Ilrnrr Irrn11a. lint Cjrnthla arrma moat Itrnrlrd to Vatifchnn Dunbar a nfrana;rr who appeared at tha Mcrrlrrrlner homo ono nlirht with n meaanee from hla fellow for rlirn correapondrnt and Onthla'a friend, lllll Stewart. A SLIGHT SPAT CHAPTER Vni TT goes without saying that hardly a man of any sort could be so steadily exposed to the presence ot Cynthia Merriwether and not be affected thereby. Mit chell Grace was affected. He knew rjuite clearly, without being too dramatic about it, that he was ir revocably snared. And he thought, though he did not go far enough to admit that he was sure, that he could never do the least thing about it Whether she knew of his pas sion is not to be determined though it is the likely thing that she was so accustomed to devo tion, so honestly and warmly de lighted at her power to invoke it, that she accepted his as a matter of pleasant course. Cynthia was ' not given to profound meditation over the incalculable and amazing and, on the whole, satisfactory ways of life. It was there to be lived, wasn't it? On very rare occasions they quarreled. Explorations into the deep-hidden causes of these quar rels would not, perhaps, be profit able. But it is the fact that Cyn thia generally started them, and started them In all innocence, j As on this day. She came to the swimming pool. In some pale blue snatch of silken cloth and her hair cupped in a pale blue affair to keep it dry. And Mitchell Grace was coming up from a dive. And nobody else was there. She sat down on a stone bench and watched him swim to the edge, and laughed when he slipped a trifle climbing out, and pointed to a place beside her. "I've got news for you," she said, while he wiped water from his face with his hands. "I can tell, it's good news." "It certainly Is. You've got money coming to you." ! "Not cash? Not spending mon ey?" "No other kind, Admiral. But I've got a horrible confession, too. . Look I'll get it off my chest Comes last Tuesday and I bor rows $35 from Mr. Grace, party of the second part Rieht?" i "Putting on the touch, they call -'It" . "So I puts on the touch, then. Know what it was for?" i "Couldn't guess." I 'T WAS gambling my all on the Whirlwinds to beat Hank Prentiss. Hank needed to be dropped back a step or two. Char lie Fleet heard me boasting about Fred's team and was nasty. Nastyl He said, 'How about 500, even odds?'" "I gathered It was millions." "Grace, you're gullible. It was 600 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 1 had to go borrowing. And that's how you got what is it? touched for that 35." "Seems a pretty long story Just to tell me I get my money back." He looked down at his bare hands which were gripping the edge of the bench. You will perceive how the quar rel started. For he said, Tm not having any, thanks." "I must be slow-witted. Any what?" . "Charity." It is to be Judged, alas, that Waxhaw, S. C, spoke then. Up 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-sureness of more prosperous neighbors, but by their fuller bellies. Only the man who has known hunger car ries that bleak word like a splinter in his heart. "Mitchell Gracel You're abso lutely impossible." She said that in a rush, not of anger or annoy ance, but of genuine astonishment. He stared at the still water of the pool. "You're not telling me any particular news," he said. She looked at him steadily. "I wish I could understand why you behave like that," she said. "There are probably a good 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 is 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 phony like our pal Vaughan Dunbar shows himself on the scene . . ." He shrugged his shoulders with such violence that he seemed to be lifting a weight CHE regarded him very quietly. "You seem to have other plans for me." "It's very obvious you haven't any of your own." She retreated behind a frag ment of laughter. "I had at least one, . about 10 minutes ago. To have half an hour of fun swim ming." "I suppose it's my duty, now, to apologize to the boss' daughter." She got up, and pulled down the legs of her bathing trunks and dlved into the water, going across the pool in a long, silvery, rush, COPYRIGHT. t. NEA. SERVICE, INC. and drawing herself up on the opposite side, and sitting there with her legs dangling. A manservant came down the walk and said to Mitchell Grace that Colonel Merriwether wished to see him. He put on his robe and slippers and went into the library and Colonel Merriwether watched him come toward the desk. "Sorry I'm not dressed," said Mitchell Grace. "I can be, quick ly." "Perhaps it is not necessary." "Is there something you wish me to do, sir?" Colonel Merriwether looked at him through those eyes which were perpetually half shut "You seem distressed," he said. It required a marked degree of self-control and of fortitude for Mitchell Grace to restrain the rush of bitter words that fled through his mind, to flush .only slightly, and to say after a definite pause, "It is nothing important sir. Any way, it is my own fault" Colonel Merriwether held a match to a fresh cigar, not taking his eyes from Mitchell Grace, and drew in the first wave of smoke, and allowed it to drift away from his mouth. "It is a sound principle, Grace, to keep the emotions under a strong curb." "I am sure of It sir." "I might say that the only mis take I ever made in my life was to lose control of my emotions for a brief time. Approximately one day out of more than 60 years of living. The experience taught me a lesson. I have not lost con trol of my emotions again, and I have not made a mistake again." This was, by any measure, the longest and the most intimate con versation which Colonel Merri wether had ever bestowed upon NEXT: How to ' THIS CURIOUS WORLD j Ssff F cfgg TRIPLETS ...ALL SERVED WITH THE j V,; sSmm US. NAVY IN THE PACIFIC, SUFFERED iSMBjHU -yljl WOUNDS IN action, were honorably- i jpplN-p DISCHARGED, AND NOW ARWMMS I V, ty 1 ( cof. W3 at kea stavicr. me. ijyw ( f ; &T . T. H. REG. U. S. 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Mitchell Grace was startled. "I'm sorry, sir," he said. Which, by the way, was a rather absurd tiling to observe. And Colonel Merriwether descended calmly upon the absurdity. "Regrets, too, are to be avoided. There is no prosperity in them. However . . ." (To Be Continued) U. S. WOOL INDUSTRY Approximately 500,000 per sons in the United States today are engaged in the wool-growing industry. The industry pro duces about 450,000,000 pounds of "grease" wool annually. 60 ELEMENTS FORM SUN Number of known solar ele ments was brought to 60 with the discovery of sulphur on the sun. The earth has 92 known elements. New Zealand's birth rate rose from 17.4 to 22.8 per 1000 pop ulation between 1935 and 1940. "Yes, this will be our toughest year let's not be complacent!" see In ft blackout, HOLD EVERYTHING! r-3 - 2$"" rem imi ar trtu awwef. pic T. c u a ,w. err. 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