Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 23, 1943, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text! I ! ! I IS fS SI fi I i SERIAL STORY ... ' ' ( . . 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY . "AVE ATQCB VALE"; i , ' CHAPTER XVII (QYMTHIA had not become hys- tericaL " Sha had not fainted. fba seemed stunned, ai from be ting struck, rather than frightened or terribly distressed. . CerUIn women had kept their wits, and led her to her own room. Mrs.' Malcolm Fleming, who was Dr. Fleming's wife, had been among those women, and she was capable creature. Dr. Fleming himself, having rushed to the side of Colonel Merri wether and dls covering at once that he could be tot Ho avail in that place, searched out Cynthia's room on the second Boor, and sat on the edge of her bed. '. She looked at him. He said, "He is gone, my dear." Bhe closed her eyes, from which tM tears came, and the last touch of color washed out of her face. She shivered, as with bitter cold, and . coverlets were drawn over her. Dr. Fleming mixed something in a glass, and she drank It He took one of her hands, and mas caged It gently, and nodded to his wife, who did the same with her other hand. ' Anne West was there, sitting tn. st low chair and staring at Cyn thia with eyes very wide and her lips parted a little. Dr. Fleming lowered the lights, and when he went quietly' to the door his wife followed him. "I don"t believe shell blow up," he said lh a solemn whisper when they had' reached the halt Til have to go downstairs. If yon need me, send Anne. 111 be back tn a- little while anyway." .,'' There was almost breathless silence., in ' Cynthia's room for a considerable . while. Then she spoke, to Anne, without looking tAtote''Will you go find Hank?" she said. :' V : Anne said eagerly, "Of course, darling." It lay within the nature of her loyalty that she felt no disappointment because Cynthia had not wanted Fred West in stead. ....... She found Henry Prentiss in tho. bar, talking in low tones with the! butler, and beckoned to him. - He followed her toward the stairs. 'Isn't it; just perfectly awful!" she whispered to him. i' c. JJE did not answer. They moved ' down the corridor on tiptoe, and he ; was standing beside Cyn thia's '.bed, looking down at'her. It was curious to see sadness in . the face of Henry Prentiss. ".. . He took her hand, and touched her cold forehead with his other hand. -.'Tell' Anne anything you want me to do," he said. 1 Her pressure on his hand tight ened for a moment, and-then re laxed. Tll'be around," he said. 1 She nodded. . , ... Hp stood motionless beside her for a little while, and then .touched her ". forehead 'again, and went silently out 'of the room. ' Mitchell Grace came out of the library on an errand, and through the doorway as it opened Lieu tenant Thatcher saw Henry Pren tiss. He beckoned, . and '. shook hands when Prentiss went in, but did not speak. The photographers, done with their job, were packing their equipment The fingerprint people were dealing with their last tall-end of duties. The body of Colonel Merri wether had not been moved. He was calm and precise, even in his final scene. His hair was still carefully brushed, and his eyes were closed. His white, delicate hands reposed on the table, and the left one was only an inch or two from the pistol which had killed . him. That weapon had been worked upon by the fingerprint men, and then re placed exactly as It had been be fore. It was new, and shiny, and of an ordinary American manu facture. , ."The guy left a perfect set on the gun,", one of the fingerprint men said. "No gloves, not a blur, and no wiping." Lieutenant Thatcher nodded. He leaned forward and picked up the sheet of paper which Vaughan Dunbar had placed so ostenta tiously before his victim. It was a plain, white rectangle, and in Its center there was neat typing: AVE ATQUE VALE ., Do hot grieve for the destruc tion of this monster. Cynthia ' has least cause of all for grief, though by the nature of things I cannot tell her why for that might do her an injury. I have stalked him, year by year, waiting for this one mo ment. There is no need to say here, now, why I have done this. He cruelly killed two people who were of great importance -to me. When he did that, his end was written. Though I know it is useless,' I beg you not to spend public money and the tame of valuable men in the hunt for me., It will be completely futile." - . VAUGHAN DUNBAR. . .- HENRY PRENTISS said, ,"H-m-m-m. So that's it." 'Lieutenant Thatcher said, "At (east Ave don't have to hunt around for motive. But we'll pick him tip. He hasn't got a chance." L Xbt).. telesljtme. rsMfc Jt . yn COtVBIOHT. Itil. NEA SERVICE, INC . city detective at Vaughan Dun bar's hotel. . "He left in the forenoon," the detective said, "and he hasn't been back. A suitcase full of things is in his room, all packed, and some j coats in a closet. Everything seems orderly." j Take prints, if you please." j Lieutenant Thatcher said. "And ; if it's all right with you people, . I would like to come in Inter and j go over the stuff. Of course, I'm out of my jurisdiction there but ' if you people don't mind " .j Nobody would mind, nnturally. "And you'll keep men there, in case he does show up? Good. And check on his garage, and nil his telephone calls. Can you do that?" ; "We'll give it the whole rou- i tine." "Thank you." I By midnight, the fact was dls- j eoncertingly apparent that Vaugh- j an Dunbar was eluding the chase, j He had slipped through the net- ' work of hundreds of men in uni- , form and out of it, or he had j hidden himself somewhere within 1 the 1200 square miles of Long I Island somewhere between the i S4th street cross town tunnel and j Montauk Point. By midnlKht, likewise, the men who sat in the bar at Stone House ; were weary of talk, of specula- j tion and conjecture. They finished j the- sandwiches which had been brought to them. Dr. Fleming said that his wire 1 would stay the night, and that he would like for Anne West to re- j main, too. Himself, he had one j or two hospital calls to make, and : THIS "CURIOUS WORLD -A'VANY OP THE FAMOU' BELLS THAT HANfe IN THE OLD CALIFORNIA AMSSIONS ' WERE MADE IN StrKA, ALASKA, IN THE DAV3 WHEN 5ITKA COPR. BT HI SEWCS. be. new U.S. NICKEL. . CONTAINS AO VSOrtF. 56 Ptlt CENT COPPES, 35 PER ' CENT SILVER, 9 PER CE" MANGANESE. WAS GUEEN CITY OP THE T A T. . LgK tf ANSWER: Rikki-Tikkl, the mongoose In Kipling stories; TaTls, . President Roosevelt's dog; Su Lin, the first oanda bear to Teach I .American shores, just a few ytars ago; NEXT: Hanaicapped heavyweights. I - ARMY AIR INSIGNE HORIZONTAL '. 1,5,8 Depicted insigne of the U. 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