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SERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY ' fiSrS'Sfife. SEARCH REWARDED CHAPTER XXIV TyjRING ihete year I lived In Cleveland, O. The nature of tny business affairs had taken me there, and I had settled Into mall, obscure apartment I lived In the utmost simplicity, and voided friends. From time to time, I would change to another apartment, equally obscure and at' the same time I would change my name to a new one. Tor, from the very , outset, I knew that the clean execution of my alms must leave my own his tory, my own trail through life, misty and confused one. The boy 1 named Richard Frye was 'slowly erased from existence upon the earth. And in his place there emerged not a single, new Indi vidual, but a doien wholly In conspicuous Individuals. . It was this basic necessity, In deed, which laid the solid ground "work for the method which I was to employ in the final scene, al though I did not realize It at the: Beginning. I fell into the habit of playing roles: at first, from the, simple need to allow John Hunter of No. 12 Cherry avenue to fade out of life in behalf of Charles Mc Graw of No. 67 Albemarle street - But every mortal soul, no mat ter what the steadiness and singu larity of his purpose upon the earth, must needs find some amusement And so I took to the' . amusement of creating brief char . acters when the mood came upon .. me. One evening, I would be a debonair blade in a Chicago caba ret an immaculately turned out fellow of the world, easy to meet at the bar, a ready spender of money, requesting particular num bers from the orchestra and re warding the players lavishly for playing them. Again, I was a snarling dock walloper, or a cold and silent and dangerous figure in some lakefront dive. Once, I spent two days as; a make-believe policeman ac tually giving summonses to sev-j eral unhappy violators of the1 parking and speeding regulations! without being questioned or . suspected. '." This . succession of pretenses' which were, I think, quite harm less in their effect upon other, people, became in short my hobby J Until, at last it dawned upon me, that it was something more than a hobby that it would perhaps-; (play a critical, part in my plan. f? course, I had no real con-p-' ception as to the manner in Iwbich the ultimate scene would jbe played out I had wit enough to realize that the stage-management of that , scene in which my own complete safety would be of major importance must depend exactly upon the setting and the circumstances in which I would : at last find him. . !I knew, with a complete cer- nty, that I would find him. It 1 occurred to me lor a single nt that my search would fail. or that other, and higher justice Would take its retribution before I could take mine. For, you see, I had my own religion and I had faith in it ! 'I was in Chicago, on an errand Iconnected with my sporadic busi ness affairs, when I did, at last, iflnd him. . Which Is not to say that ,1 saw Ihlm, nor recognized at the mo pent that my quest was at an end. I had brought along with me a Ismail accumulation of my trade Journals. And in one of them, on la bitter morning when the wind from the lake fluttered the cur tains even through the closed win dows of my hotel room, I cam upon an item: t Col. Wesley Hope Meri wether has announced his re tirement from all active inter est in his gold and silver enter prises, and resignation from the boards of Twin Valley Smelting Company, Spillway Develop ment Corporation, and other companies with which he haj been associated. He will retire to an estate which he has re ; cently acquired at Gull Point Long Island, I telephoned to the editor of the journal. "This is the Chicago Mirror," I aid. "We noticed your item on Merriwether in the current issue, End we haven't got anything on im in the files. Can you tell us a little about him? Is he a Chicago bum?" , . There was a wait ?Hello. We haven't got much On him either. One of our boys picked up that bit of news, and we ran it That's about all I know. He hasn't been in the news much, t guess. Maybe just some figure head." "Thank you." Telephone calls to the corpora tions listed produced a fact: All) of them were singularly averse to' talking about Wesley Hope Merri-I wether. "Colonel Merriwether has! given instructions that he is to receive no publicity." It was simply a matter of rou tine to complete my business af-' fairs and take the train to New York. ' ... . 1ULL POINT was less than an hour from the city,, and on my second day there I saw CoL Wesley Hope Merriwether, looking dnto his face as he was pointed lout to me, passing in the street iand knowing that I looked into 'the face of Norman Tinker. I felt no surge of elation. Such g mi)niej)t hacj been ordained from - ' the start of time. I spent four days at Gull Point as a salesman of drug sundries, this time, and living in a cheap room meeting the small business people, and listening, and dis covering the nature of this com munity called Gull Point I learned that Colonel Merriwether had a daughter in his household, and I saw that daughter. I saw also my mother In her hair and in the proud fine lift of her face. But again, it must be confessed that my emotions were not profoundly stirred. Those emotions had been burned brittle on a day long ago, in the far dii tant forest During the four days, I learned enough to enable me to go bade to the life of Paul Gray, in Cleve land, and to sit down and think. That thinking occupied the bet ter part of three weeks. From it there emerged the basic pattern of the plan. Not the details, of CMirse. Those must wait upon events, upon the imponderables of chance and of human caprice. But in all of its essentials, the plan was formed. It was a long-term plan, indeed. It' contemplated serious use, upon the grand scale, of that play acting with which I had diverted myself in the past It required the creation of two characters, not one. For the prep aration of them or at least of the most important of them I decided to go to California. The choice was obvious. Nobody knew ma there, nowadays. And California, particularly the neighborhood oil the moving picture studios, was the one conspicuous spot on earth where, a stranger might appear out of ffiior? ahJV5capeeveh the most casual interest in his past I spent a year In the Hollywood country before I returned at last to Gull Point: relumed now as a gay and careless fellow, friend to all the world. And on the day that I took the lease upon a small, carefully chosen cottage, I signed that lease with the name of my new self Henry Prentiss. (To Bo Continued) Dealer snortages put new value on used merchandise. Cash in on your "junk" through a classified ad. 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FAMOUS TRAINER HORIZONTAL ; 1,7 Pictured I late trainer j of athletes. 14 Pact 15 Ireland. 16 American ' ' humorist 17 Sugary. 19 Come in. 21 Infants. 23.Curtsy. - li Singing voice. 27 Short-napped fabric M Heart. (Egypt) Bl Courtesy, title. 52 Elevates. 82 Area measure. SS Consumed 33 Plural (abbr.) liquids. 34 Seed 58 Mineral rock, container. . 60 Prevaricates. 36 Paid (abbr.). 62 Foreigners.,' 37 Color. 65 Deliverers. !' 36 Coalition of 66 Regular , enemy nations customer. --: 40 Speech parts. . Answer to Previous Puzzle ISE R fl ILWJ A I L.', Nil P IT E N D ETR 16MetDMSI APEDB-aO 1-SARISTl fM VIRGINIA l!eI lICHBaN T R iff El lHEfeEATEN T' V Nl C HPi R L eIsIt on A TIP M R A I HE RSpfefe E L ER 5 Y R SmN EfEP Yf E T NA S pIeIsIeIrItIeIdI Ifflobts 42 Tenant MFinish. " 45 Transpose (abbr.). 16 Fish eggs, y 47 Russians. ' ... 49 Girl's name 61 Gentle. . VERTICAL 1 N-ar. 2 Railroad (abbr.). 3 Examinations. 20 Babylonian 4 Turns to near deity . side. 21 lie was 9 Indian. famous 6 New York J athletic village. 7 Myself-. 8 Ship's company. S Alcoholic liquor. 10 Ontario (abbr.). 1 1 Noblemen. 12 Road (abbr.). "57 Alabama 13 Compass point (abbr.). 18 Tuberculosis 58 Either. (abbr.). 22 Boat paddle. 25 Gratuity. 26 Commanded. 28 Bestow blessing. 29 Separately. 30 He was also & well-known 33 Play on words 35 Noise. 37 Crowds together. 39 Hitter. , 41 Individual.' 43 Age. 48 Yes (Sp.).j 49 Employer, 'v 50 Paid notice! 51 Contract into wrinkles. 53 Influenza (colloq.), 54 Bind. 56 Knock. 59 Music note?' 61 Steamship (abbr.). 63 Negative. 64 Symbol for' . stannum. ' 1 I s T"1"- IT IT-nj" : 7s : ; Llli '' 18 H 'J so im r: m : : r- - TO KAE, EOT TO hWE ROOMFUU OF BRILUMT PCTICE TO IMPRESS CRT ICAL, IMTELLl&tN I US-- VNE'CB TH' BOARD OF DIRECIOCS! ALU YOU HKVETO DO VMP'PF IMTELUGEMT.' kio' k0 MAM COULD THINK OF AMY THING fcLSE IP Ml-. 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