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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1943)
SERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY, SSTSSSIS&: ' , UNSOLVED MTSTBBT CHAPTER XX . JT leema that we lace very . clear situation," Lieutenant Thatcher aald. "Quite clear," Captain Meehan answered. Cynthia looked at them, at Mit chell Grace and Henry Prentiss. "Please explain it to me," . she askedi ' Lieutenant Thatcher looked at Captain Meehan again, and nodded lightly, and Captain Meehan, staring at the steeple made by his joined fingertips spoke quietly: "The facts are simple. VWe are dealing with a man who appeared, literally, from nowhere, pretend ing to be someone else altogether. Such an assumption could be altered only by a message from your friend Mr. Stewart, saying that this Vaughan Dunbar really was his friend, and really bore a letter of introduction to you. Under the circumstances, I do not expect such a message. "He used great shrewdness to work his way into your house. Re committed his crime in the most ostentatious way possible to full view of doiens of people. What does that tell us? Simply that he intends to vanish into the nowhere from which he emerged. Actually, he told us that much in the note he left behind. ' ; "He knows that we shall never And a hint of the past from which be came or at least he thinks be knows that. And he is equally confident that we shall not find the way Into his future. : ; "And what does that mean to us, who pursue him? Just this: We know nothing of his trail be fore he came into your lives. And that -trail has broken off now, as abruptly as it started, It breaks off at the. automobile he aban doned, after managing with such cleverness to get it clear of the Immediate vicinity of this house. . "Where does it lead from there? Perhaps to another automobile, which he had planted in that self same parking lot. Or .to any of -several bus lines' leading away from the place. Or to half a dozen railroad stations on two different lines, all within easy walking dis tance: Garden City itself, Country Life ' Press, Hempstead, Nassau Boulevard, Mineola of course we have checked them all. 'With no results whatever. ........ ,--"W : ha va notified every city and town .in the country to look for him'.. All airports have been under special observation for days. The only comfort we may find is the fact that disappearing is very difficult business indeed. It does not happen often. And I think ynu know that we never give up." - He looked at Lieutenant Thatch er, who nodded approval. And Lieutenant Thatcher said, "Our taain chance how is to find out more about the early life of your father, Miss Merriwether." -'' (N Friday, a cablegram came V from Bill Stewart He had heard of Vaughan Dunbar some years ago. Had never met him. Understood he had died some where. . . Nor did fortune thereafter at tend the inquiry into the earlier life of Colonel Merriwether. As a matter of plain truth, the first that could really be learned of him was his appearance on the Chicago scene, and subsequently at Denver and in Canada, about five years before the day that he called for Cynthia at the convent, and ' brought her out into the world. ' . The ' knowledge . that could be gained of him moved in the con ventional channels of .business, mining promotions and such kin dred enterprises. But information about him, as a human being, was scRnt indeed.' For there were no relatives that could be found, no old friends, and for .that matter no old enemies. Mitchell Grace produced such files as existed, and told of the matters upon which his time had been occupied. They were, to the astonishment of all concerned, of trilling importance. A small hand ful of shares here and nibbling purchases of interest in mines or corporations. There were huge reserves of shares and bonds and of cash in several New York and Chicago banks. ' ' ' His will could hot be found. And his lawyers, whom he had consulted most infrequently, had never drawn one for him. Which. meant, of course, that in good timel all of his wealth would fall to Cynthia. "The excitement of the news papers cooled and died. - Men of the police visited Stone House less and less frequently. People at the Broken Hill club began to talk of other .things than the. dramatic death - of Colonel Merriwether. And, the trail of Vaughan Dunbar Btill ended where it always had ended, at the door of a Packard roadster in Garden City. .',:; ' JUST after Thanksgiving, Cynthia- went to Honolulu. She closed the house, and carried Fred West's cousin Anne with her. Her apirits had risen, of course: be cause they were of a sort that nothing could keep subdued be yond a certain space of time. . But in .that sotting it. would have been hard for her to recover all of her old verve and gaiety. : Her sense of decency and the fitness of things would have interfered.' , She knew this Instinctively. And she had it explained, gently but categorically, by Henry Prentiss. And it was, as a matter of fact, Henry Prentiss who suggested Hawaii, and Anne. She liked both ideas immensely. The whole no tion of change, of new scenes, seemed to revive her. Henry Prentiss and Mitchell Grace and Fred West drank wine with Cynthia and Anne in the sit ting room of their quarters aboard ship on the night they sailed away. They were taking the long way 'round, through the Canal and touching at Los Angeles and San Francisco. There were no anguished faces nor heavy sighs even if there was no carefree laughter. Henry Prentiss said, "Well, now, it's so long, Miss Pretty, and good traveling." "Goodby, you old shoe." "Send picture postcards. "In all colors." "Saying, 'Wish you were here always saying that" "And, "X is my room.' The gong boomed through the companionways and a piping boy's voice called, "All ashore that's going ashore!" Cynthia said, "You'll let me know quickly if if anything if they find " "Yes, Mlu Pretty." Goodby. , . . Goodby. ... Good by The siren bellowed and drowned all last words. And Prentiss and Grace and West were on the pier standing and waving. And the ship wore out into the river channel. The three men got into a taxi cab, and Henry Prentiss said, "Gentlemen, the occasion seems appropriate for something a little Vheni a man lives on a farm. tic LIVES OfF IT, J?f I lTHFP THflMH. THISIOUS .ORLD DIAMONDS I i WtM TO FIGHT A WAR JM , lyfl U.S. PRODUCTION PLANTS JIm J V ' ASsS" USED MORE THAN A 2TJ JC htmmlHk, TOM OF THEM LAST ff & JffiSf YEAR IN VARIOUS TYPES SG-J Y .g-TT ?ft5? J OF CUTTING, TOOLS. Kg fH aWM?$ A CELEBES V WHEN A MAN LIVES ON FARM A I I r uc i kjcc "tec rr " - -II I 1 ; II mjet? 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