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SERIAL STORY ; ' , 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY . 'SSnZSS!&S&. CHAPTER XIX JYNTHIA laid tha cablegram on the tablo standing at the arm' of her chair. ......... "I see,"; she said. But It was plain that she did not see at all. VOf course you do," said Lieu tenant Thatcher. "Vou see that we are dealing with an Impostor, a pretender o the boldest sort. And we haven't a single clew as to who ho really was, or where he really came from, Except one. '. . ." "That Is the extraordinary note this man left on the desk. It may bo . the ravings of a crazy man, cf course. But you see, we can't depend on that. He may really have known your father years ago. And so it Is important for us to hear everything you can tell us about Colonel Merrl wether's past life." She hesitated. She hesitated Jong enough for the others in the room Fred West, first, and then the rest immediately after him to get to their feet and move s toward the door. But Cynthia called them back. . ' "There is not much" she be gan. And then, in a very tired, small voice, she told all of them tha same story which she had told Vaughan Dunbar on that night be side the pool. When she was done, there was complete silence for a little time. Even Lieutenant Thatcher seemed unable to pick up the thread of his talk, and Captain Meehan was lost in a study. It was such a pathetic and such a little story. And told so few things . about Cojonel Merri wether. Henry Prentiss had sat with his chin on his fists, looking at the floor, while she told it, and he did not lift his head now. Mitchell Grace was flushed with embar rassment, as if he had been forced against his will to witness the unveiling of privacies. Anna started to cry, and Fred West. took her arm in a hard grip, and she stopped. Lieutenant Thatcher coughed! and stood up, and went to the window. Then he sat down again. 'Thank you, Miss Merriwether," he said. "You have helped us a treat deaL" Which was certainly not quite the truth. Captain Mee han nodded. , J JE. spoke for the first time, fa , his cold, methodical voice. "Is there anything at" all, any. small or 'apparently unimportant thing. which you have not told us? Did this man Dunbar ever let slip any thing which, mighthave indicated what was in his mind all the time? It .was there from the first, you must remember." Mitchell Grace shifted his body, and started To speak, and looked at Cynthia. "What is it, Mitchell?" she asked. . , . . '"I was only remembering oh. K was nothing. Let it drop." . Lieutenant Thatcher was quick to say, "Please. We must have It' "I was only thinking of the day of the game, when he came to lunch and almost immediately got a wire calling him back to town." He explained what had happened. and then he said, "I thought, and I believe Cynthia did, too, that he left in a frightful hurry. Just well, all of a sudden he was eone." Lieutenant Thatcher pondered mis, and looked at Captain Mee han, and Captain Meehan said, "Thank you. It may give a little ugnt later on." Cynthia said, in her ' steadiest voice, "It would be possible, wouldn't it, that if he were a let's say a spy the people he knows would deny knowing him, ana tne records in Washington would be kept secret Maybe you know what -I mean they jus wouldn't tell you even what they do know about him. ..." "We shall consider the point," Lieutenant Thatcher said. "I am glad you brought it up, Miss Mer riwether." And the telephone rang. They eouia near it sharp and loud from the hall. The butler came to say 11 was lor .Lieutenant Thatcher. And Lieutenant Thatcher heard through the receiver that Vaughan Dunbar's Packard roadster had been found. "WHEN they got to the place ' where it had been found after a rushing drive they mut tered to themselves, Thatcher and Meehan and Henry Prentiss and Mitchell Grace, and the burden of their muttering was that Vaughan Dunbar was a' very clever devil indeed. The car was in a municipal parking lot In Garden City about 10 miles from Stone House and directly southward across the island a lot that was very large, situated behind a huge apartment building, and without regular at tendants. Sandwiched in its nicha of space among more than a hun dred other automobiles was tha automobile of Vaughan Dunbar. But it was not easy to recognize. For, lashed to either side from hood to rear bumper, there were canvas signs held in rigid wooden frames. The signs 'were white. And upon them the lettering, was crimson: ASSOCIATED WILLKIE CLUBS .OF LONG ISLAND We The People Want WENDELL L. WILLKIE FOR PRESIDENT The profile, the color, even the make of thefcar were almost com pletely concealed. The Hcefisa plate itself was half hidden by a flap of carefully torn cunvns which fluttered down from the end of one of the signs. But it was Vaughan Dunbar's license plate, VR-2121-Y. An alert mem ber of the Garden City Police De partment had noticed it as he cruised through the grounds. They got a squad of these same local policemen, and began a sys tematic examination of the build ing. It had more than a hundred apartments, and each of them had its bell rung, and the occupants of each were asked questions. With no results. And the man ager gave assurance that no body even remotely resembling Vaughan Dunbar had ever set foot in the building. Lieutenant Thatcher hurried to the station of the Long Island Railroad, which was close at hand. But urgent questioning of the newsman and the ticket sellci brought only blank faces and shaking heads. They took the automobile to tne sheriff's office at Mineola, and went through the tedious business of discovering that its wheel, doors and driving apparatus bore, amply. the fingerprints of Vaughan Dun bar1 and of nobody else. For the first time, Lieutenant Thatcher seemed discouraged. 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