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1 fi it SERIAL STORY 1 AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY COPYRIGHT. 1C4S. NEA SERVICE. INC. TIIB RTOnVl TMa la 4ke alorr f tho "prfcrt crini" (lie mur der of Cot aley Hope IHrrri p,hrr In (he llUrnrr of hla Lona; lalnuil calale -and of the event lenUloHT up to II. Tho Colonol err nineti nllrr at the moment la nt dinner with hla daughter CrnHila, l-'red Weat and hla cousin Anne, find Vanfthan Donhnr. Bun. bar la a forelmt eorreapondent Itnd a nevr neqanlntane. of irhom Crnlhla. aeenia pnrllculnelr fond. She hna turned dnwn dntea Trith Wcat nnd with llrnrr Prentlaa. another nftentlve friend, to net a koafeaa for tlita dinner nnrty and fjo deroto her time to Dnnbar ! TFP. RTYiRV " fft CHAPTER fHERE are caprices of human behavior which do not readily give themselves to capture within a neat, explanatory phrase. OI . such was Cynthia Merriwether's perfectly obvious concern, on that evening, with the comfort and en tertainment of Vaughan Dunbar. Her attcntiveness, her eager de termination to set him at his ease and to soothe his humors were, as the saying goes, quite unlike her usual merry-go-lucky self. To uch an extent, indeed, that Fred West became unhappy. And when 11 o'clock struck, Fred West arose from his chair and inquired rather abruptly whether anybody in tended going to the dance at the club. Vaughan Dunbar, naturally, re mained silent And Cynthia glanced at him. Cynthia said, "Go on with Anne, Fred. We might come over after a while. Anyway, I'll telephone the steward In an hour, so you will know whether to expect us." Then she said, "Colonel, you'll not be needing Mitchell, will you? He wants to go too." Whereupon, Fred West and his cousin Anne and a frowning Mit chell Grace trooped out of the s room and got themselves Into a i motor car and went off to the aancing. colonel merriweiner mi Ished his cigar, watching the two who sat in the room with him and talking very little. He seemed uncommonly preoccupied. But now he lingered at his desk, looking at them in the dull light as it he might have something more to say, but could not quite make up his mind to say it Which unusual behavior made Cynthia elance sharply at him and say. , "You're feeling all right, aren't you. Colonel?" "What? Oh, yes. Of course." Then he said, "Good night Good night" And he went slowly out of the room. Cynthia said to Vaughan Dun bar, "Let's walk down by ths pool." WITH his customary delibera- tion, he arose and followed her out through the French doors and across the terrace, and sat down with her on the bench be side the dark rectangle of water. The scent of the roses was every where, and the air was so still, that they could catch fragments of music from the orchestra at the club, a mile away. Vaughan Dun bar waited for Cynthia to speak. She frowned a little. "The (Colonel seems a mite bothered about something tonight" I Dunbar waited a moment and then said, "You are very fond of him, aren't you?" "The Colonel? Why, what a perfectly ridiculous question." ; "It only struck me of course, Wm being frightfully rude that be is always the Colonel to you. A trifle formal. . . ." She did not answer for a mo ment Then she looked at him in the darkness. "It's queer for you to say that," she murmured. "Oh, sorry I " "No, no. I mean well, it was sort of queer." "I'll try not to be stupid." "You see well I never put eyes on the Colonel until the gurgle days were long past And hadn't thought about that in years, until tonight" "Is it a very private story?" "I suppose not No, of course it isn't It was this way." Her words now came in a sudden rush, her hands clasped in her lap and her face looking out across the water toward the gardens. "I was born at San Luis Obispo, In California, on a big ranch there, and my mother died before I knew her. At least I know this is a strange thing to say at least, thnt'3 what they told me. Isn't It curious that you have to depend upon somebody's account of it in a terribly important thing like that? Anyway, the first things 1 can remember were about the ranch, and a grand old darling of a nurse, having that kind of wonderful time only a little child can have. "Then, when I was 10, just be fore Christmas, a lawyer and some other people came and said I must go off to school, to a convent in the foothills of the High Sierras. So that's what I did. Cried my eyes out poor me" CHE laughed, but not quite gaily. -' "It wasn't bad, though, when I got used to it Then, when I was about 15, the Mother Superior called me to the reception room, and there, of all the people In the world, was the Colonel The Mother Superior said, 'My child, this is your father, Colonel Merri wether.' And so I naturally start ed calling him Colonel Merrl wether, and then just Colonel." 'Did he take you away then?" Vaughan Dunbar asked. His voice was quiet indeed. "Two months later. We went ito San Francisco and then to Ha waii, and I had the most mar velous time you ever heard of in your life. And then we went to New Orleans, and New York, and then we moved out here and it Dias all been like Cinderella ever aince." " "Cinderella? Yes. But you iwlll forgive me, Cynthia it is a little sad, too." "Great heavens! You haven't got the idea I'm sorry for myself?" "Impossible!" He chuckled soft Pjr, and touched her hand for a moment "But toll me, where was the Colonel all those years? Say, now! That's not the least bit of my business, is it?" "None whatever." She laughed. "But I began the story, didn't I? The thrilling story of a maiden's life, in five reels and no inter mission. "The truth is, Mr. Vaughan Dunbar, that I was never curious enough to ask the Colonel and he never bothered to tell me. Oh, yes he did, too. He said he had been traveling, with a great deal of important work to do, and he was sorry that his affairs had made him neglect me in such a shameful way. None ot that mat tered to me, of course. I was started off in a new world and I could have everything I wanted. A spoiled brat that's what I was, and what I am now. Mr. Dunbar, you're looking smack into the face of a spoiled brat Deplorable, isn't it?" ' "The face? I should use quite another word than deplorable." "You do go on so, don't you?" He patted her hand again. "But tell me you see, you have stirred my interest a great deal did you never hear anything more of your mother? Who she was and where she came from and what she looked like?" Cynthia said, very quietly, "I never heard anything of her. By tle time I was old enough to ask the nurse questions, the nurse was gone. Nobody else seemed to know anything." "You never made inquiries of the Colonel?" She shook her head. And then her tone changed sharply. 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