Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 29, 1943, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextSERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY eopvRiaMT. toi. NEA SERVICE, INC. . CAUSE FOB VENGEANCE ! 1 CHAPTER XXII fU the fifth day, when It seemed , likely that the next procedun would be to move calmly down tc the Settlement and begin certain arrangements with the Land Of fice, Norman Tinker had a sugges tion. He had spent many houn off by himself, walking along thi water upstream, and cow be ha3 this to say: "I have an Idea, John, that w had better find out what lies ut the river. We're going to haw the problem of bringing machinery in and maybe we can barge uf the stream. I'd like for you tc take one of the canoes and go ai far as you can, and make somi sketch maps you're so much bet ter at that sort of thing than m." "But I went up there," John Frye said. "The rapids begin about two miles above us." "They extend only a little way," said Norman Tinker. "My point is this. See If you can get through them and see If there Is naviga ble water beyond.'": Martha Frye said, "But John fa sot much of a hand with the ca noe." ' "Tush," said Norman Tinker. "Let him take the boy along. You can paddle, cant you, sonny?" And he looked at the boy for perhaps the first time in his life. "Sure. Til help." , John Frye looked at his wife. "I think it will be all right, my dear." "I think it's ust foolish, and dangerous,, too." ' "Nonsense," Norman Tinker laughed. "Get going early to morrow, will you, John?" "You bet I wffl." - And so John Frye and his son got the canoe into the water with the dawn, and paddled hard up stream. They struck into - the rapids, : and the exertion made John Frye cough furiously. The boy tried his best' But in a little while John Frye was exhausted, and there was blood in his cough ing. The canoe swept against s boulder and began to roll in the wild water, over and over again TN some fashion the boy mad - his way to the bank, and ran along the bank, tearing his clothes and his face and his hands upon the bushes, and at last staggering anto'the little clearing beneath the flr trees. -' ' "Daddy!", he' crled. "My Dad Idy Is up there in the water!" --. I They-got his body out. Nor Iman ; Tinker said, -"This is ter rible, terrible, terrible. . . . Bui (we must bury him here and no! try to take him down to the Set tlement." Martha Frye was too stunned with anguish to protest She helped to dig the grave. Then, early in the afternoon, life and consciousness of life flowed back into her, and she walked to the table where Nor man Tinker was waiting, with bowed head, for her to bring hli food. She said: ; i 'You murdered him." The boy's eyes flew wide, and Norman Tinker looked up slowly "You are upset," he said, "i i decline to be offended because yot idon't know what you're saving." "You tried to murder the boy, too." v ':'. "This is very foolish of you, jMartha." "I am not afraid of you. You have murdered him. And I am going to the Settlement and tell them so." ' ; She started for the door, with pier daughter in her arms and the boy walking beside her. The three of them got to the. water's edge, ;and even into the canoe, before iNorman Tinker came rushing from the house. ' . . ' , . "Wait!" he cried. "Stop! Walt!" In that moment the guilt and Ithe fear were cut deep into his iface. ! . "Walt!" ; The canoe was almost fully water-borne, the boy giving it one last shove, when Norman Tinker came up to it He lunged and Icaught at the gunwhale, and Btumbled, and fell into the water. The canoe swirled out into the stream. The boy fell, too, not far from Norman Tinker, and wal lowed for a moment But he got to his feet and yelled, "I'm com ing, Mother. I'll be there. Go ahead. Go. Go." . iTtTARTHA FRYE plunged the r A paddle into the water and 'the swift current caught hold of the canoe, sending . it down Stream. The boy ran into the woods. ; Norman Tinker hesitated for a moment He almost started after the boy. Then he looked at the canoe, and looked at another canoe, pulled up on the sandy lit tle beach. He rushed toward it and fought it into the water, and Swung the, paddle fiercely until he Itoo was in midstream. The boy truck away through the woods. He reathed the . Settlement three days later. A few men were there, sitting along the jetty with their fishing linos in the water. They told him that a canoe had come in one canoe. It was a long, brown canoe, paddled by a tired-looking man who had, of all absurd things, a baby wrapped in blankets in the bows. No. No woman at all. The man had got hold of the only automobile round about and gone off. Whereupon the boy, from ex haustion and from hunger and ifrom fear, fell into delirious cries. 1a woman took him in and nursed him and listened to his muttered raving. She almost believed him, and said to her dubious husband, i"WelI, tell me what a tike like that is doing, wandering around the big woods, all by himself? There must be some reason for it." The husband shook his head. If he had learned one lesson in his life, he told her, It was to keep hands off other folks' doings, especially if the" other folks seemed to be in trouble. "I never trouble trouble," he Intoned gravely, "till trouble troubles me." But then he said, "I'll tell Sheriff Raven whenever I see him next." But Sheriff Raven did not get around to the Settlement very often. The country was as big as piany a state. There was no tel ephone in the Settlement and no automobile save the one that Nor man Tinker had hired to take him away. People who had horses had work of their own to do. .Then the man who owned the automobile" came back. "He 'came back very drunk, because he had come upon unexpected money. Ha fought with two men, and was hurt quite badly, so that he did not feel like driving for a while. But he did tell the boy, when both he and the boy were some what recovered, that Norman Tinker had taken the baby to Spokane, and had Said something or another about a train down California way. The boy started out to walk to California. (To Bo Continued) CREDIT WITH THE CONVENIENCE OF CASH PURCHASE COUPONS Are Really Buying Power Purchase Coupons, art another convenient typ of credit . . available to you at Sears. You make one call at our Crettlt Office, get a bookfut of Coupon, then pend them Ilka cash when you want to. Thousands ot smart women kwp a book handy so thry never mi's a bargain 1 Small . down payment, small month ly payments, usual carrying charce. 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