SERIAL STORY
'I AM A MURDERER'
BY MORRIS MARKEY
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! 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)
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