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'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)
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