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SERIAL STORY 1 AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY copvmoHT. it. NCA 6ERVICE, INC. THB CHA8B BEGINS CHAPTER XXIII CO you understand, now, i my reasons. ' You understand the one thing that dominated every moment ot my life from that time on. Something of childish imagina tion must have fixed itself into the pattern of my obsession from the very beginning. because two things were settled forever in my mind from that beginning: I must kill Norman Tinker publicly, not secretly. And I must run no risk whatever of paying any penalty. That would only unbalance the accounts again. From a very early time, too, it wbs established in my mind that tills enterprise must be my own private undertaking. The rebuff ' which my story had received from the people at the Settlement planted the seeds of that convic tion. And later, when I did at last find a man to listen to me, and even to believe me, he made the conviction a certainty. He was a leather-faced Italian in the California wine country, and we sat together at the edge of a bridge over a dry riverbed, and he listened. He nodded his heed, and touched me gently on the arm once or twice a I talked. . . ' At the last, he said, "There would be no evidence against that man. They would not arrest him, no matter how you talk. You go out and attend to that thing your self, like the men have always done in my old country, far back there across the other ocean." Thus was I launched upon my . career. Let me confess, in behalf of complete honesty, that the idea of rescuing my infant sister played scant part in my unceasing dreams. I did not know, and shall never know, why he spared her at all, unless it was the same lash of conscience which led him, afterwards, to take her from the convent and bring her into his own life. Her plight was altogether over shadowed by the drowning cries of my father, the look upon my mother's face as she paddled des perately away downstream and ,3 the mask of evil which was my .memory of Norman Tinker. - TTOW I survived those earliest , yeirs, along the dock fronts of San Francisco and San Pedro, in the hot little villages of the San Bernardino Valley and the ' slum streets ot Los Angeles, Is of no great moment here. People were kind to me. That is enough to say. And I learned the mean- .' big of work. I learned the value tt money. ; As the years moved on, I learned hot only the value of, money, but bow to make it, and I made a considerable amount of it How, and where, are likewise of no great moment. It is enough to say, again, that I found my. for tunes as honestly as most fortunes are found. And while doing it I drove myself with grim patience into the acquisition of an educa-. tion. I read and read, everything . that came into my hands, and I listened. ..";..,; When I grew old enough to pay myfcown way for food and lodg ings and even for transportation, I went back to the Settlement It had changed vastly, for there was a great working mine upstream now our mine and I saw no familiar faces. When I asked, in the office which was built in that far valley, who owned the mine and where that owner might be found, I was told that the owner was a great corporation that a man named Tinker, or something like that had sold the fabulous thing years before. And that if I wanted someone in authority I might call upon the president of the com pany, who had his offices in Se attle. .1 did visit that president He knew nothing of Norman Tinker, and cared nothing. I did not speak of: my own special interests in the circumstances, and I went back to Southern California. ' At that point I settled upon the method of my hunt for Norman Tinker. I assumed that he would change his name, for he knew that I had been left alive, and yet he could not possibly know what course I might follow to bring him to book what men in authority might even listen to me, and themselves start in search of him. , y . Therefore it would be futile to search for Norman Tinker as Nor man Tinker the four syllables of a name. And it would be equally futile to prowl the land hoping for some glimpse of that unfor gettable face on a street corner, or in a cafe or hotel, or on a train or in a shop. Men have wasted their lives and defeated their pur poses before now, chasing the wild goose. . ' . I had one assumption, then, to begin with: Norman Tinker would change his name. ... . And I had other assumptions, equally convincing to me, at any rate: Norman Tinker had, for all his life, a passion for mining and the byways of mining. He was rich, now, from the disposal of the lands which my father, had found. But he was not the man to take his wealth and either run away or undertake new passions in tho business of life. He would, under whatever name he chose for him self, be drawn always to the mag net ot rich ores, or - wondrous metals hidden in the earth. , CO I would search out all the names in the written lore of mining, and watch most particu? Jariy ror new names. And 1 would find, by the grace of the destiny of retribution, where each name sprung from. I ordered, by subscription, every special journal that concerned itself with the mining ot metals, the finding and the digging of metals, the promoting of com panies which developed the treas ures of the earth, and the com panies which smelted away the dross to find the virgin element I catalogued, laboriously, every name that was printed in those journals. I made my own small dossier of every name, and like wise of the names which appeared in a halt dozen daily newspapers which devoted certain of their columns to the business of mining. The dossiers: I went to "Who's Who in America" and the "Direc tory of Directors." I went to the metallurgical societies. And when these failed of enlightenment, I wrote discreet letters directly to the name himself. Sometimes I was inquiring on behalf of "Who's Who" and again on behalf of a trade journal or newspaper1 again, as a long lost relative or an attorney at law who needed information as of birth place, and parentage, and educa tion, in order to settle an estate. When a name appeared which could not be docketed snugly in my catalogue when all inquiries failed to satisfy me I simply paid a visit to that name. Generally in the guise of a newspaper re porter, or a research man for an institute or university. Many a solid success in the busi ness of mining must have won dered a little at the searching, hungry glances he received from his visitor when I was upon such a mission. Presently, all of the fixtures of the mining trade were snugly placed in my files. It had been a prodigious labor, because I nat urally could not delegate even the simplest duties to even the sim plest and most innocent clerk, At last it became necessary only to seize upon the new names that sprung up from time to time, and quickly run them down. (To Be Continued) Always read the classified ads. $ plmos, Imrm m4 clwlr T btp m wia Mm war; Thm boatJs yoa boy will Mp protect Tfct Hlaji we'ra fffhMaf Hr Herald & News Want-Ads Get Results THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson MODERN WAR WEAPON LET EVERY SOLDIER HEW HIM DOWN A BOUGH, AND BEART BEFORE HIM; "THEREBY SHALT WE. SHADOW THE NUMBERS OF OUR HOST AND MAKE DISCOVERY ERR IN REPORT OF US." Acirr Scare J&. COPH 1M) BY KA 6CRVKC V , T. K. MO. U. . fAT. Off. 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