El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-23
By Andrew soutar.)

- HE sergeant in the charge room
glanced up from the desk at
which he was writing and nodded
questioningly to the dissolute fig
ure hat had stumbled IN
BusinessF 2
I want to give myself up"
A pause. The sergeant resumed his
writing.
MURDER
What" A pen rolled off the desk
1T was manslsUgater. but I don {
doubt that the capital charge will be
You're not a tramp"
You deduce that much from my
voice."
And you're not insane2 A number
Of insane persons come in here to wOr-
~ US with their imagination"
4 came here because my magma
ton Is billing me. But I'm not insane"
Would to God Ehat were insane"
Where have you come FROM
''Sydney-after three months in
Samoa and Is months in the north OF
Manila. You would never have found
me, but I couldn't escape my con-
science and my Imagination"
You look as If you'd rOughed It."
The sergeant had moved round from
the desk and locked the door.
I've Travelled something like $4,000
miles-mostly steerage."
NO money!
Plenty; but my conscience was
easier among the herd that travel
steerage Besides they were not likely
to know Of 1.-THE murder; 1t was real
" manslaughter.'
Where did it happen? In Manila2'
No; three miles from herein
Chartreuse hall two years ago this
very night at IA minutes past IL The
shot smashed the face Of the hall clock
after passing his head"
Whose head?'
Sir Godfrey Blaim's."
And Won p
His cousin. He was my cousin"
s'WheW! remember the business
now. was sent for, but you had
7 hid in the copse all night and got
away the to the continent the next
morning"
we searched that copse, and watch
ed the midday mail boat leave New
haven for Dieppe."
There is, or was, a hammock in an
old beech tree there. I rode motor
cycle To Newhaven and threw IL over
the cliffs a mile out of the town"
1T was picked up and identified a
week later. Guessed you were dead
Il gathered that from the French pa
pers."
when and where?"
'NIarseilles-twO days after the at
fair happened. I haven't read another
newspaper since the sight of one sets
every nerve IN my BODY ungnng ana
the sweat breaks out all over me. It's
a living death, this waiting for the
blow that never falls That's why I've
Travelled $4,000 miles to have done with
II at once and for all Real death can
not be half so terrible as the imagin-
ary The first would mean sleep;
haven't slept more than 90 minutes at
a stretch during the last two years.
Always starting up to listen for the
footsteps of the law You're not listen
ing. You think that I'm a fraud-mad."
why did you run away If it wasn't
MURDER"
TT wasn't murder He accused me Of
mething-sOmerhing base. I threat
ened to strike him. He had a revolver
in his hand at the moment and leveled
II 7 caught his wrist He pulled the
trigger at the very moment that
turned his hand When I saw him ly-
ing there in the hail my first thought
was Of escape. 1 acted on that i'm
pulse"
"Cowardly, wasn't it, if your story
Of the struggle is true2"
ct is true. Before God, swear It IS
Your wife was in the house. I be-
yes. God help her"
And you left hero
ct confess that I didn't think of her
till I was on the boat at New Haven.
I thought of returning, and then"
I'm listening"
Il realized that I couldn't clear my
self It was known that Blaim and I
were unfriendly. And 7 reasoned that
# would be less terrible to my Wife if
1 disappeared than If were-if the