The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-17

slipped into my human carcass. 1t
seemed to me that none with whom
II came in contact was built on, or
near, my own pattern, for I had only
met one person as yet-my mother
who did not suffer from the malady
of bad conscience. N.Y. father and
his friends wallowed in this com
plant.
At Is years of age I killed a man,
and found, in a murder undertaken
for very definite reasons, thrill be-
yond expectation. That incident is
unknown; the death of my father s
foreman, Job Trevose, has not been
understood till now. He lived at Paul,
a village upon the heights nigh Pen
zance. Among the fish-curing sheds
one day, unseen, 1 chanced to hear
Trevose speak of my mother to an
other man and declare that she did
evil and dishonored my father.
From that moment I doomed Ire
vose to death and, some weeks later.
after many failures to win the right
conditions, caught him alone in a
sea fog. I walked beside him for
fifty PAGES, then fell behind, leaped at
his neck and hurled him over the cliff
in an instant.
Ny life proceeded orderly; I chose
the profession Of dentist, as being
likely to introduce ne to people of a
more interesting type than my IA
theirs acquaintance; and 1 kept an
open mind for myself, but shut mind
for others.
The brainless Robert Redmayne
brought his niece to spend her school
holiday with him and I discovered In
the 17-year-old schoolgirl magnif1-
cent and pagan simplicity Of mind,
combined with a. Greek loveliness OF
body that created in me a convulsion.
We loved one another devotedly
from the first understanding.
Her grandfather still lived, when 1
first met her, and the extent or dis
position of his wealth seldom entered
our calculations.
But a year passed; Jenny was
ready to wed me and begin life as
my twin star; while 1 longed for her
with a great longing. The, situation
cleared; her grandfather died; she
would presently be the possessor OF
ample means and I already enjoyed
an income from the business Of Pen
dean and Trecarrow.
Then came the war and the SEN
tence of death incidsntlly pronounced
by that event upon the brothers Red
mayne. Their own folly and lack OF
vision were alone responsible. I did
not argue with them; it was enough
that Jenny swiftly awakened to even
bitterer hatred and a deeper fury
of resentment than myself. They
had reused the sleeping tempest and
our lightning now became only ques-
ton Of time.
1 evaded actice service with heart
drug, as did some thousands Of other
intelligent men. I kept a whole skin,
stopped at home and received for my
share the Order OF the British Empire
instead Of nameIess grave. It was
easy enough.
Meantime we volunteered and our
record of service at Princetown Moss
Depot is not to be assailed.
Already my future intention was
coloring my life. I grew a beard, We
glasses and pretended delicacy of con-
stitution; for after the war was done
I intended numbering three men. and
I proposed to do so in such a manner
that society would find it impossible
to associate me with the crimes.
We pretended an affection for Dart
moor. AS an example of our far
reaching methods I may relate how
we returned to the wilderness after
the war was done and actually began
to build bungalow upon it, which,
needless to say, we never had the
least intention of occupying.
had designed first to destroy Ben
digo and Albert Redmayne, who had
never seen me, and finally deal with
my old friend, Robert; but it was he
who came at the critical moment as
a lamb to the slaughter and so in
spired the superb conception now
familiar to the civilized world.
The time was ripe to pluck these
men who had insulted and outraged
me: and when Bendigo Redmayne
advertised for a motor boatman. the
challenge was accepted. forged GER
tain foreign letters of commentator.
He liked Italians, from experience OF
them aboard ship, and he appreciated
my letter and my imaginary war
record.
What was the next step? An en-.
treaty from Jenny that I should shave
my beard! She begged again and
again and appealed to Robert, who
supported her. 1 withstood them
until the day of his destruction.
Upon that morning I appeared with
out 1t and they congratulated me.
Other tr1fling preliminaries there
were. On one occasion, when my
wife rode down to Plymouth with
her uncle on his motor bicycle, she
left him to do some shopping and.
visiting Burnell's the theatrical cos
tuner, she purchased a red wig for
a woman. At home again she trans
ferred it into a red wig for a man.
Meantime had made a pair of large
mustaches, helping myself when
Mrs. Gerry, our landlady, was out
cf the way TO hair from the brush of
cne Of her stuffed foxes. wAose color
exactly resembled the rufous adorn-
ments of Robert Redmayne.
When we started on his motor
cycle, after tea, to do some work at
the bungalow, 1 took a handbag con-
tanning my costume as Giuseppe
Doria-a plain, blue serge suit, coat,
waistcoat and trousers and yacht
mans cap. I also carried tool-the
little instrument with which I muir
cered the three Redmaynes. 1t re-
sembled the head of a butchers pole
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