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Show HIS TIME ALL TOO SHORT ! Dying Profiteer Could Not Make Com. ' plete Confession of Iniquity in 1 One Brief Day.' . I, , Armin W. Riley, head of the "flying squadron" that hunts down profiteers 1 for the department of justice, told a profiteer story at a Washington re- ( ceptlon. "A sick profiteer," he said, "was ' told hy his physician that he had only 1 a short time to live. Accordingly, he expressed a desire to confess his sins, and a divine was sent for. "The divine entered the dying profiteer's prof-iteer's chamber and the door was closed. An hour, two hours, three hours passed. Nothing was to be heard ' by the attendant nurses and physicians physi-cians outside in the corridor save the , steady, monotonous flow of the prof- ' itcer's confession, punctured at brief i intervals hy exclamations . of horror , and indignation on the part of the divine. "Lunch was sent into the sickroom, 1 and the confession went on. The af-, , ternoon waned. The sun set. Night fell. The divine's dinner was carried to him. And still the profiteer continued con-tinued to confess. "Haggard and unstrung, the divine at last tottered forth at daybreak. " 'Our unfortunate friend,' he said, 'Is no more. He worked very, very hard ; but at the time he passed away he had only carried his confession confes-sion through the first year of the ' war." ! I |