SERIAL STORY
1 AM A MURDERER'
BY MORRIS MARKEY, SlTSSXb.
THIS STORYl Tata la taa aorr
,ef thm 0trtrct crime" lae mar.
T of Col. Wler Hono Merrl
WMfcer In tke llbrnrr of fcla Lonir
lalnnd cafnle and of ibe CTfnla
leadlnjr np to II. A freqocnc vla
llor at tao Merrfvretacra a few
dara before the crime haa been
VatuEhnn Duiibnr, m foreign eor
rranondrnt who appeared tinber
aided one. nlabt wllh a mramiira
io CTjwthla, tbo Colonel's dnujfhter,
- from one of her frlenda. Ilia moat
. recent appearance at the home
vrna at a dinner naen Crntlila
told him the atorr of her life.
Waea he left ahe Joined Fred
WeKt and llenrT PrenllnM. tvro de
voted admirers, nt n clnb dance.
A FURIOUS GAME
CHAPTER XIV
'y(JS approach now that critical
Sunday afternoon in Septem
ber. In the lew days which pre
ceded it, the activities of every
body concerned had been conven
tional, and therefore unexciting,
and therefore casting no shadow
of the harsh event that was to
come.
Cynthia had dined at the Rain
; bow Room with Vaughan Dunbar,
who had been reticent and
a trifle uneasy. It had been
. brief evening. When he returned
her to Stone House, Captain Push
was sitting with Colonel Merri
wether. The Colonel urged them to par
take of something cool and re
freshing, but it seemed to Cynthia
that Vaughan Dunbar positively
hurried through his Planter's
punch. Likewise, it seemed to her,
it was with actual relief that he
rose quickly and bade them all
good night
Even Colonel Mcrriwether re
marked upon the circumstance,
after Vaughan Dunbar was gone.
"Our guest seemed a trifle per
turbed," he said. And Captain
Pugh observed that Europeans
were likely to have a rough time
of it with our lata summer
weather.
During those days, also, Henry
Prentiss had dropped around with
his customary informality, to chat
by the swimming pool or sip long
drinks on the lawn, or loaf about
- the stables. Mrs. Porter West had
entertained at cocktail time at the
club, though, as Fred West rue
fully confessed to Cynthia, "She
had a hell of a time persuading
the chairman of the House Com
mittee to put it on the cuff."
At this affair, as a matter of
Unimportant incident, the wager
ing upon the polo game was re
duced to decently modest sums,
and good humors were thoroughly
restored.
Mitchell Grace had been ab
sorbed in one of the Colonel's
letters and telegrams and cables.
fXR that Sunday, Vaughan Dun
bar arrived at Stone House at
half after noon. He had been in
vited for luncheon, and the polo
igame, and the party which Cyn
(thia was giving to celebrate the
Victors and console the van
quished. He came rather earlier than had
been expected, for it was Colonel
Merriwether's habit to make his
first appearance of the day at
luncheon time, and luncheon time
was invariably 1 o'clock. Cynthia,
too, was above stairs, and Vaughan
Dunbar had, in fact, to cool his
heels in the darkened study for
the better part of a quarter hour,
j Then Cynthia appeared, and
.ang for cocktails, and began a
ctory about Bill Stewart which
she had neglected to tell before.
But she did not have the oppor
tunity to finish it For Mitchell
jGrace entered, bearing a telegram
addressed to Vaughan Dunbar in
Ithe care of Colonel Merriwether.
The telegram seemed to annoy
him. .
"Why the devil such a hurry?"
be murmured to himself. And
then, to Cynthia, "I shall have to
run back to the city. It's a plucky
bulsance."
, Oh, dear me," she said.
He idly handed her the yellow
Sheet "Urgent thJlt you confer
with me immediately. Every mo
ment of delay costly. Important
pew developments. Robert"
"But this is just simply hor
rible," Cynthia said. "Can't you
Bet him on the phone?"
Vaughan Dunbar shook his
head. "Can't," he said. "I'll just
have to go. But I shall return.
Sometime in the afternoon, tthe
game is not over, IH find my way
to the field. Otherwise, I'll come
back to the house here if I may."
His hat was still on the table.
He picked it up, touched her hand
tor an instant, bowed and simply
Was gone. He walked out of the
door and down the steps and got
into his car and left with a swift
ness that was actually precipitate,
Cynthia Merriwether and Mitchell
Grace were altogether startled.
They stared at each other with
half-open mouths.
"Holy smoke," said Mitchell
Grace. "The guy didn't even
crouch for his leap, did he?"
Cynthia was breathless. "It must
have been must have been ter
ribly Important," she said.
"I'll bet his royal highness turns
Out to be a spy. He moved like
the Gestapo was behind the
piano."
"Take a cocktnil," said Cynthia
t herself picking one up from the
tray on the table.
And Colonel Merriwether came
In to receive the news that his
guest had been called back on
matters of great moment, which
the Colonel regretted in his mild
fashion.
. .
'THEY finished their cocktails and
were moving In toward the
luncheon table when Henry Pren
tiss called and promptly got him
self invited to share the meal.
But he could not come. Horse
trouble. A pony he needed for
the game had cast a shoe and cut
a pastern, and another pony had
coughed twice, and Henry Prentiss
was up to his elbows in veteri
narians. He had called to ask whether
Cyn'.hla would come by his cot
tage in the station wagon, to haul
him and his gear to the field.
Which she would do, certainly,
and how was the hurt hand? Much
improved. Practically well. No
basis for an alibi, at any rate.
And he was mortal glad she wasn't
betting against him or was she,
on the sly?
"Oh, no. Too much afraid youH
win."
"Afraid?"
"In bookmakers' lingo, I mean."
"Farewell, my Pretty."
"I'll pick you up in plenty of
time."
"Thanks. You're long suffer
ing." Luncheon was not quite satis
factory. Cynthia continued, de
spite her best efforts, to remem
ber the curiously swift flight of
her missing guest And Mitchell
Grace knew that she was remem
bering, and glanced at her now
and again with a slyness wLlch
she considered quite contemptible.
The game besan promptly at 4
o'clock. The crowd was really
quite considerable and the weather
fine, and the pace launched in the
first period was fast enough to
have even the old stagers breath
ing a little faster and muttering
things about suicide.
Henry Prentiss was setting most
of that pace. He was playing a
measurable notch above his game,
and gaining the bitter profanity
of his opponents by way of re
proach therefor. Even Captain
Pugh admonished him twice in
that first period yelling that he
HOLD EVERYTHING!
I I
I -nt 71 ir
,,wrmmi i
"You might as well give upr
I've been trying to get space for
two weeks!"
Dirty fighters. There's no
other name for it when a pilot
bailing out of a plane in a para
chute is riddled full of holes.
Lynn Hurst, former Flying
Tiger. . .
This launches the sniper as If
he were a clay pigeon. And as
he soars through the air with
the greatest dunease, the boys
shoot him on the wing.
was close to very SaJfcerous foul
ing. By way of retort, Henry Pren
tiss let out yet another wrap for
the second period. He was scoring
rather frequently, leaving all the
defense work to his mates, and
yelling like a madman when he
was on the ball. Which w. s often.
His cries of "Leave it!" and of
"Get out of the way, damn you!"
echoed to the far trees.
(To Be Continued
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William
Ferguson
IN THE SOUTH SEA?
THERE ARE ABOUT
30O ISLANDS,
COMPRISING MORE THAN
20.000 SOU4RE MILES
COPS. 1M1 T MA SUVKL IK 1. UO. -
BEESWAX
BEGINS AS A
ECRETION IN GiAAtDS
IN THE BEE'i BODY
THEN, WITH ITS
HIND LEGS', THE.
INSECT REMOVES' THE
SUBSTANCE, BRINSS
IT UP TO THB MOtsW,
WHERE IT IS MIXED
WITH SAiLM
AND CHEWED INTO
A CONSISTENCY
SUITABLE FOR BUILD-
IN ffOMzrvofineti .
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"In ARIZONA, LAST summer!
DEFENSE WORKERS WERE FROZEN
ON THE JOB WHEN IT WAS Ufa" )
IN THE
MRS. J.
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SCREEN STAR
HORIZONTAL
1,5 Pictured
movie actress.
11 Iniquity.
14 Above.
15 Convince.
16 Age.
17-Greek letter.
18 Music note.
19 Hebrew tribe.
20 Myself.
21 Halt an era.
22 Biography
(aor.).
24 Physostigmine
27 Hard-shelled
fruit.
29 Unit.
30 Stitched.
31 Iridium
(symbol).
32 Opine
34 Frozen water.
35 Assist.
37 Varnish
ingre'dient.
39 Beverage.
41 Provided.
43 Grave.
46 We.
47 Mineral rock.
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sun god.
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62 Likely.
63 Seesaw.
65 Affirmative
votes.
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fixedly.
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2 Thoroughfare.
3 Seine.
4 Arabian.
5 Eagle's claws.
6 Treatment.
7 Rupees (abbr.)
8 Undraped
figures. .
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10 Renovation.
11 Half (prefix).
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13 Sodium.
(symbol).
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23 Type of moth.
25 Royal Navy
(abbr.).
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28 Pair of horses.
33 Mills (abbr.).
34 Image.
36 Conducts.
38 Near.
39 Hasten. .
40 Arrogates.
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known in
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(abbr.).
47 Oboe (abbr.).
48 Toward.
51 Entangles.
53 She is a film
57 Truly.
58 Born. 1
59 Order (abbr.).
61 Cereal grain.
62 Rough lava.'
64 Transpose
(abbr.).
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