: SERIAL STORY
1 AM A MURDERER'
. ; BY. MORRIS MARKEY
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' CHAPTER XXVI
jS.I have (aid, the essence ef
and behavior was fixed by the ap
pearance and behavior of Henry
Prentiss. ,
j ' My actual weight Is 180 pounds.
Ey the proper use of clothing; of
loose-fitting, tweedy, shrewdly
padded garments in checks and
light colors of large-sUed, heavy
soled shoes and flopping woolen
socks 1 looked to weigh at least
180 pounds.
Clothe that same frame In fash
ioned suits of dark cloth and
faultlessly tailored: put trim, black
shoes over black silk aocks wear
starched collars and carefully ar
ranged cravats, elegant small
jewelry In the way of watch chain
and links In stiffened cuffs and
the man would seem to weigh
hardly more than 170 pounds.
Next, the personality, the tem
perament of my new creation: I
must contrast the happy-go-lucky
way of Henry Prentiss to the
stiffly formal; change carelessness
and a suggestion of fatuity into
grave concern over the affairs of
the world; change merriment to
dignity. .
The voice would be quite easy.
My own experience and my care
ful observation of professional
players had taught me several
..valuable lessons about the voice.
One was that actual intonation,
the use of marked accents or the
like, is not nearly so important as
words themselves: the choice and
use of words in the expression of
ideas. .
..Henry Prentiss had a lazy,
slangy manner of speech, and he
was rather quick on the uptake
in i conversation. My executioner
would speak in phrases so precise
as to be pedantic and he would
give the impression of thinking
carefully before uttering the sim
plest remark. .
There remained the face..
' Now it Is plainly true that there
Jive thousands of men who could
never possibly succeed with such
air. undertaking as I had assumed.
The strongly marked face, distin
guished by unusual bony struc
ture, by teeth either remarkably
handsome or unhandsome, by
.blemishes or scars or congenital
departures from the normal can
not easily be disguised,
a My own appearance could best
' be described as commonplace ex-
cept . for two things: my light
colored hair' and my very blue
eyes. The hair was a simple mat
ter. ' The eyes were not. '
V . . .
JVR the eyes are the absolute
. key to the face. All else may
be it altered, and the eyes left un
changed, and the result is no dis
guise whatever. .
"Conversely, we all know how
even the most familiar faces of all,
those belonging to the celebrities
of motion picture actors and ac
tresses, may be disguised for a
brief while anyway by the simple
use of darkened glasses. Of
course, such a deception would
not survive prolonged observation.
But the lesson is there.
' Here, then, was my chief prob
lem. . T. tried many experiments
the use of various types of spec
tacles,' of eye-shadow cosmetics,
and even staining the eyes with
such chemicals as argyroL None
of these things was in the least
satisfying.' But, again, I was in
no haste.
'. And my patience was rewarded,
is that virtue is almost invariably
rewarded.
-I came upon my answer in a
most frivolous item in a most friv
olous column of news of the mo
tion picture colony.
.'Walter Huston, the actor, had
been cast in the role of an American-Indian
for a new picture.
His eyes were blue, and so not
wholly appropriate for a black
haired savage. The incredible in
genuity of Hollywood had solved!
the problem, as It solves more
technical problems every day than
the world could hear about, or,
hearing, care.
' Mr. Huston would be provided
with those devices called contact
tenses: magnificently contrived
thin shells of crystal glass which
Bt- immediately over the eyeball
and . which many people wear to
btde their need of spectacles.
In normal use, they are quite
Invisible. For Mr. Huston, the pu
pils - of these lenses would be
tinted a deep brown.
Such lenses were easy to pro
cure in New York.
. Along with them, I bought an.
ordinary pair of rimless spec-'
tides. The wearing of them would
account for the dullness of vision
which the darkened pupils of the
contact lenses would obviously en
tail. VOR the rest, I fashioned my
own dyes . and stains -from
chemicals bought In a dozen
places, so that my hair could ba
turned to black very swiftly, and,
ilnce the chemicals were soluble in
water, turned again to its natural
color In handful of minute;
Likewise.-my clear, (kin could, fet
made swarthy fh as Brief a llrrie,
and cleared again by a moment
or two under the faucet
On that first afternoon, when I
walked to stand before my mirror
in the make-up of the executioner,
of Vaughan Dunbar, I tell you in
all honesty that I had difficulty
recognizing myself. I spent all that
rest of that afternoon, and mora
than half of that night before that
mirror, being Vaughan Dunbar.
When at last I went to bed, I
knew.
The cue might now be colled, at
the pleasure of Honry Prentiss, i
So I settled to the preparation
of details, the making of a pro
gram and time schedule which,
in a less urgent enterprise, would
have been tedious work.
After laying all the advantages
and disadvantages side by side, I
determined upon the afternoon of
the finals at polo for the climax.
And I prepared, down to the dots
upon the i's, every single move
ment, every single minute of time,
that would lead up to the one
critical instant
First I made the opening ap
pearance of Vaughan Dunbar in
New York. I timed it of course,
as of the arrival of a Clipper
Ship, and actually took a taxicab
from LaGuardia Field half an hour
after such a ship had landed.
Vaughan Dunbar registered at
a hotel where Henry Prentiss was
not known, but thereafter he
visited numerous restaurants and
cafes where Henry Prentiss was
known, watching carefully for the
one lifted eyebrow, the one short
ened breath which would tell that
the deception was a failure.
Vaughan Dunbar stood at divers
bars with warm friends of Henry
Prentiss not Gull Point friends,
but members of the cherished
brotherhood who meet in the
public places lina areoftentlines
associated even more closely, one
with another, than men who meet
each other in their own homes.
Nobody paid much attention to
the man who was, so obviously, a
visitor from Britain, shy and re
served and most properly worried.
Vaughan Dunbar had met the
first test
(To Ba Continued)
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12 12 months..
14 Residence.
15 Savor.
17 Prevaricates.
19 Snake.
20 Limb.
21 Unit.
23 Fold over.
24 That thing
25 Age.
26 Negative.
28 Father.
29 Army vehicle.
30 Arid.
32 Area measure
33 From.
35 Heed.
38 Obtain.
40 Laughter
sound.
42 Auricle.
43 Either.
144 Bismuth
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54 Goddesses of
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56 Equal.
57 Debts.
59 Spoil.
60 Solid food.
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1 Leap.
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3 Him.
4 Ray
5 Legal point.
6 Within.
7 Kentucky
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8 Long fish.
9 Bird.
10 Fence support
13 Harvest.
14 Greet.
15 Snare.
18 Half an em.
18 Pair of horses
20 Exist. S
22 Finish.
25 Weird.
27 Command.'
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31 Still. -1
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51 Beverages.
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56 Writing tool.
58 Spain (abbr.),
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