Show g all yo yours urs said the priest agape at aber r z mine father so the priest faced again to the fire and once more he be raised his arms in his petition cathal martin omara OS Iara he called him by name the tears streaming down his face as he be prayed then the great cheer from froin the crowd cut him short for martin omara had bad swung well and well he let go but no good it did him A minute or so more and the tower fell and was down on top of him such was the heritage of cathal martin omara his grandson of the twenty trapped on the tower seventeen were gone cone and three were terri bly injured on such events by such men prepared to face death and torment men generation after generation soon forgotten and obliterated government was built up wrote a historian of soldiers soli seti who perished long ago on a 6 field e I 1 I 1 for rome the fact has a meaning and perhaps many generations hence wiser men than we or they will explain it with a clearness that still eludes us 10 carthals Cat hals fattier father and his fathers brother john became firemen headstrong heedless men the both ot of them Il lartin the son died of 0 pneumonia after fighting a lumber yard fire through one long lomg below zero night john died of another cause but th the gomaras had done their duty through the fire department winnie a Br bramans firemans fi remans emans widow and y V proud forever of him would have no more of it besides this boy was from birth beyond his father anti and yes beyond his grandfather lie ile was strong as had been all the men of his bis family but he was of slighter build and was smaller boned heedless of himself be was like them all but his bis was a sensitiveness strange to them and beyond them all lie took ea to schooling ile he went through high school running errands and delivering goods tor for local stores after hours since his home depended then on a fr fregans firemans fi remans emans widows award ile he worked his way through the university iver sity of illinois at urbana and he ended his long schooling in chicago at northwestern university law ischook which he attended for three years clerking ai n odd hours and in the evenings irom from all WIS this lie he emerged an attorney committed by the forces dominant in ills his nature to the defense of criminal cases it was the i appeal of the desperate the despised despise cause that was irresistible to the grandson of the martin allara who chad iliad followed james fitzpatrick to the tower with the building ablaze below and beyond them all he took to schooling dom doin taking her eyes off him he speaking in to her smiling at her often looking at her but with his thoughts far away winnie was used to this and slie she did not resent it though she wondered what went through his mind that he tell her here lie he was with her and beside tier her it a picture of him in the paper with his bis name huge in the headlines as huge almost as the name of him that was murdered and almost as big as the name of the girl agnes Glenel th who had called him the wife kilt him Catt catchall Ca ial winnie windie asked presently ue ile nodded winnie could not comprehend the people men and women whom be defended however roughly they lived or heroically or rashly they died her own men and women had sinned simply repented confessed and were shriven and sinning or sinless they were bound together by loyalties and sentiments which death only and not always death could dissolve but from her tier her grandson went out into the violent faithless world of wealth of extravagant excesses and bodily indulgences dulgen ces divorce and murder of man by his woman how did a wife calling herself one do it winnie flattened battened on the table the newspaper to display its picture of agnes Gle lie ent forward and suddenly he saw her as he be had not known her it was a reproduction of a photograph of ct agnes tit it the time of her debut three and a halt half years ago when she was nineteen and not even the newspaper press had obliterated the loiell loveliness ness and delightfulness of her A glance told that it was when she was younger it gave her to him too in tier her quiet thoughtful mood her eyes seeming to consider him as they looked out from the page her ber eyes which he be had not seen without horror borror and without fright in them it surprised a pang in him which ne betrayed oh said winnie how she called ye so BO quick she knew ye no said cathal defending her from this imputation ashes as the paper says this say it she jutt just happened in looking for rn an apartment ment nut but she was quick to call ye because the wife asked her to she slie she never had need of me winnie that shame her winnie lit him film up tip having need of yel 11 1 I tell you shed nothing to do with it and she had never heard of me he be repeated so positively that winnie windie abandoned the subject of agnes Glenel th hut but only to watch him mure more keenly ile ie helped tier clean up as be always did ile he bent and kissed her on tier cheek and he went to bed but he could neither sleep nor lie quiet ulet frequently enough when lie he had just taken a case he lily lay half the night planning yet with no disquiet such as this agnes Glenel th had no need of him I 1 lie he was a part of what want was to continue at best an ordeal for her which she would escape but could not no she had no need of him but he and Ws his client myrtle had need of her more than that they had the right to demand and enforce tier her attendance to their needs by the accident of her stepping into that room and by the fact that he be was called to the case cathal martin omara had acquired peculiar and undeniable den lable rights over agnes Glenel th which he be could exercise as tie he pleased and this was a circumstance of sub tie and exciting effects CHAPTER IV jeb on his bis part was feeling the fillip of a new sensation which came from the not dot altogether disagreeable notoriety he suddenly shared with agnes by this morning when he was looking over the newspapers brought to his bedroom all the world as much of it as meant anything to him knew that agnes had discovered the lorrie murder because she had been looking at an apartment with leb jeb braddon strangely and excitingly it intensified his feelings about her to rend read of fit her and a little about himself with her and to know that millions of people this morning were poring over the same descriptions of tier her and the account of what she had done and said UIs ills eagerness to possess this girl in the paper his love for her his desire whatever it was never had matched this mornings lie ile lived to in an apartment by himself with two olal bis val va let and amlo the cook the measure of judson E braill brad dons importance had been augmented rather than otherwise by what he had done with agnes and by the manner mander la in which the newspapers referred to her and to him jeb went late to his office not yet having phoned agnes jie ile hoped that slie she 0 order 1 that when she awoke she would be the better rested and the more completely restored to the impulses which had bad made her respond to his if not he be would give her more time to recover from this shock but meanwhile he knew she was his and all the world knew it ills his impulses for completer possession ot of her gave him no peace agnes did not move from her room during the forenoon she read in bed the papers which were brought to her which gave surprisingly variant reports of what she had discovered and done and even more individual explanations of murder itself and she saw for the first time the likeness of myrtles husband how queer to see your own name in great real black type on the page of the paper and underneath reports of what you had said and done which you could not dot yourself remember so precisely I 1 how queer to find yourself a leading witness but only now to learn from a newspaper picture what he who had been killed looked like the account of him said that he be was forty six a month ago ue he had been married first 20 years ago and been divorced to marry myrtle stiver two years ago ills wife and a daughter and ills his fattier father arid alid mother survived him in stapleton wis ile he was described as rich having been a partner in a very prosperous group of chain stores spreading through illinois and wisconsin he b bad ad made m a de his start in stapleton whence his father and his divorced wife and his daughter were coming to chicago agnes thought lie ile was tw two 0 years younger than father and had bad been married 18 years before he be got a divorce there were large likenesses of myrtle myrtie who had come from macon ind to encounter at a nightclub night club in chicago charles lorrie of stapleton WIS and marry him and live as his bis wife for two years and then kill him below all tills this in the paper was bert her instincts told her she ought to have spoken of bert to the police and to the states attorney or should she have jeb was on the phone job jeb whom as all the world had reason to sup gup pose she soon would marry job jeb s voice was happier this morning jeb exulted that everyone who ac read the papers believed that he and sh she e were to be married and agnes realized as she replied to him that she had given him much of the right to feel as he did you could not revoke a thin thing like looking at an apartment with a man especially after all the world caught you at it TO BE CONTINUED |