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V SERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER1 BY MORRIS MARKEY OTc. CHAPTER XXI JHUS you have bn a witness, good people one and all, to the accomplishment of my Ufe'a pur pose. You have seen the manner of It Perhaps you would care to hear the method of it Perhaps, too, to understand the reasons for . its undertaking. And go to a day not long after the ending of. the First World' War to a snug cabin In the soar ing forests of the Cascade Moun tains in the State" of Washington., It wbs a beautiful cabin, set be-' side a rushing river. And there, were five people living In it Ons et these was John I"rye. : Three others were John Frye's wife, and his growing boy, and his infant; daughter. The fifth and last was Norman Tinker. John Frye and Norman Tinker were equal part ners In a lustrous enterprise. Norman Tinker was the man whom you have met in my writ ing, and seen die therein, under the name of Wesley Hope Merrl wether called Colonel. John Frye and Norman Tinker were different sorts of men, al together. Their partnership had come about in a manner which was, at least to John Frye, sur prising. Frye had come . back from the wars in France to hi; wife and his son and his very new daugh ter, 'and he had brought with him certain disabilities of the .body which would not be helped by the resumption of his Job in the ana lytical' laboratories of a Northern smelting company.. His doctors told him to look out of doors for health and a long. life. , Peoples told him one man here and an-" other there that Norman Tinker was the fellow for him to see. : Tinker was a college man like himself, they said, but with a crazy passion for prospecting in new flejdsr-gold, silver, platinum; anything. He had found some success, here and there, too. - At least - he was not working on a shoestring. He was the very man for' John Frye to look up. . , CO John Frye did look him up, and found him in Chicago found a keen-eyed, quiet-voiced man somewhat older than himself, a man ' who was cool, and distant and a little difficult to know. Their first talk together was not greatly productive. Norman .Tinker said that he had no new projects at the moment He might if he found one, find it useful to engage as sistance. And in the meantime he would examine John Frye's rec ord and attainments, in his own way, and privately. Within a month, John Frye was summoned ;to ; another meeting. Norman ; -.Tinker wastefl neither time nor words arriving at the point: ; -' " ' "I have learned It doesnt mat ter how of certain lands in the State of Washington which may Field valuable deposits. I have convinced myself that you can be of help to me. But it is necessary for me to conduct my examina tions with the greatest possible discretion. Again, the reason does not matter. And so I make you a proposal: "You and I will go to this coun try I speak of, and explore its possibilities. And you will be written in for one-third of any thing we may find." Which was a generous thing to do, indeed. "John Frye was immensely pleased. He was not a man of force and he had never been sea soned to many of the stem reali ties. Life had accommodated him to a philosophy of acquiescence, and to a slight shock of surprise when any fortune fell his way. If Norman Tinker had offered him a decent weekly wage, he would have been satisfied. How wonder ful to become a partner! It would not perhaps, be exag geration to say that John Frye was a weak man. Not morally, of course, but temperamentally. He was easily led by stronger men. But, like all people who are called weak, he had a perverse alloy of the thing which is known as stub bornness. And now this stubborn ness took fire in a condition which he offered to Norman Tinker. He was overjoyed at the oppor tunity. But he would not think of going on the expedition unless he could take his family with him. This was not in Norman Tlnker'a book, and he scoffed at the notion. It-was absurd, and furthermore it was dangerous, he said. John Frye said, in reply, that his wife) and children were absolutely! in the wars. 60 the strong man and the stubborn man wrestled the mat ter, and the strong man surren dered because he, also possessed of stubbornness though of a dif ferent weave, was determined that John Frye was his man. T REMEMBER that cabin as If a precisely detailed painting of It were upon the wall before my eyes at this moment It Was like paradise. The Douglas firs that reached their magnificent spires toward the sky, the swift cold wa ter, the beasts that came down to stare at us, the trout and the salmon that smelled so fine against the smell of coffee in the evening. And I remember as vividly that night John Frye came in, very tired, with a sack full of new samples. They . were, he said, from a rather curious outcropping In the next valley. He and Nor man Tinker went to the . work bench which they had built in the end of the room, and got down vessels and tools and bottled chemicals, while at the other end of the same room Martha Frye hummed to her bsby girl and the hissing of the frying pan was loud in the air. The next thing, two men were storing at each other and saying, "Good Lord, man that can't bo true!" The new and curious outcrop ping which John Frye had found was a thing of inestimable worth. Early next morning the two men were gone, and they came back changed altogether from the two men of yesterday. For they were rich indeed, and the excitement of that knowledge was a grave thing to bear lightly. Martha Frye joined eagerly In their excitement opening a bot tle of red wine which she had saved against an illness and shar ing the toasts to fortune which were lifted in loud voices. Even the boy which boy was I caught more than a touch of the fever and grew red with avarice. with the sudden, fabulous assur- ! ance that here were white ponies hitched to basket carts, and soda pop beyond all dreaming, and buckets of candy, and a tolerant generosity toward the lesser men of the school back home. It was a night of hurly-burly, with the lad trying to understand when these mysterious creatures, the grown-ups, urged each other to be calm urged that there might yet be a flaw in the great discovery. There was no flaw. The next day's- explorations, -and the next day's, fortified every hope. (To Be Continued) THIS CURIOUS WORLD Iff k ViW Ivy 1 f iwivl fMssJ ni 11 i with pak nes. ' CONTAIN MORE VITAMIN A THAN TROUT WITH V735 FLESH. ANSWER: Beating a drum. NEXT: Geology teachers from other worlds. 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