Show L LQ Q DRAGONS A t r DRIVE s YOU i bit EDWIN BALMER R RIg Ig a 1 r rr Copyright ht tI by Balmer h W N u rI SYNOPSIS Jeb Jab young and ana cally fantastically fantastically cally successful bloker b ol r o of Chicago s Is Infatuated with Agnes Acne Gl beautiful daughter of ot a retired man man- manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer Rodney Hodney n a doctor In love with Agnes Aeries vl lt hi his brother Jeb Rod plan plans work worle at Rochester Job Jab suggests that ho he make male a try for far Agnes before leaving in Rod there Is a d deeper per obstinate decency thanIn than thanIn thanIn In In Jeb Agnes believes to b be happy a girl must bind herself herrIC entirely to Aman a aman man and have hav adorable dorable babies Hod visits Agnes and tells tella her hr of his great desire but realizes It can never be fulfilled Agnes Acnes mother Is at- at attempting at tempting to regain her ber husband hu band s a alove love lov Agnes has ha disturbing doubts liS as to what attracts her father Cather In InH New w York Jeb Job tells telli Agnes Acnes he h going to marry her and together they view an apartment In Chicago Jeb asks Agnes Aeries to set an early date but she ho tells him she h cannot marry him When the tir agent Ur Mr Colver offers to show shaw how them a turn furnished Ish cd apartment Jeb Job asks aik Agnes Acne to see It alone saYing ho he must mu t return to his once Agnes consents and Jeb Job leaves leaveA A radio is blaring terrifically t from fromon one ano of at the tho th apartments apartment Colver raps upon the tho th door which Is s opened by bya bya bya a scantily clad girl cirl who draws draw 1 raws Agnes Into the tho room Colver finds ands find her hus- hus husband husband hu bind band Charles Lorrie fatally shot hot He H calls the th police pollee Myrtle Myrti Lorrie asks Agnes to phone phon Cathal 0 Mara Mars a lawyer to come at once Agnes Asne does daes The Tho pollee take talc charge chare 0 O Mara nr- nr ar arrive rives rive dyes s The officers officer are antagonistic to him Agnes nes sides with Ohara 0 Mara Agnes Is to be b a w VI witness lines at the th com com- comIng comIng com Ing Ing trial Cathal a grandfather and father had lost their livEs livE's live In the theline line lne of duty as city firemen and his grandmother Vinnie has ha built her herall herall all around Cathal who being am ambitious biti us had worked his hili hi way through law Jaw school and heeding heeding the th appeal of Jf the th desperate and the tha th despised cause has committed himself to the defense of at criminal cases caiet Thoughts of Jf Agnes disturb Cathal Mr Lorrie had ca cast l oft off th the wife who had borne him hi his daughter to marry Myrtle and after two years year of wedded lit life I she h had killed him CHAPTER IV Continued IV-Continued Continued 5 ne He had left his car on Dearborn street on the side across from the jail and as they ai 91 i preached it Agnes saw a man standing beside it whom she Bhe recognized suddenly as Martin OMara 0 Mara She started a little and when the next nest Instant she felt Jeb s fingers fin fingers fingers gers tighten on her arm she knew tha that t he suspected who this was That s the lawyer you called he be said Agnes ies nodded and before the themen themen themen men spoke to each other she felt felt- felt almost as when 0 Mara had come comelate late the apartment confronted by bythe bythe bythe the the police police the flash of ot opposition to him Jeb could not like him Agnes realized Jeb Job could not possibly like him even It if she had not Dot had her name coupled to his In the papers from the fact that she bad had sum aura summoned moved him for AI Myrtle rUe Under o OMara's Iaras Iara's picture one paper had lied so described Martin him him Martin 0 Mara Mars the crImInal lawyer called to the T r or orrie rie apartment by Miss Agnes Aenes Glen Glen- eith eith That infuriated Jeb and Agnes could feel It rising In him as asther they ther approached 0 Mara Marn Cathal 0 Mara lara Mar stood bareheaded having taken off oT his hat and hold holdIng holdIng lug Ing It after Agnes spoke to him Cathal was excited seeing her tier but hut he be did not show It How Bow do you do Mr Braddon he said What do you want I Of or you yon OD said Cathal suddenly hot Inside and because of that only cool cooler cooler cooler er without little little I was In the jail he e explained to Agnes as though he had not retorted to her compan companion companIon ion inn at all and nothing had bad passed between them sod and and coming out I saw Mr Braddon s car And I knew you were both before the be Grand Jury They 11 Indict your client cHent by night said Jeb Teb Yes saId Bald Cathal I I told her so And he be glanced toward the grIm blick barred walls nails connected to the Courts building by the coy cov Bred cred passage age known most molt mo t aptly as ns the the Bridge of ot Sighs Over Oser 0 er It to and fro trudged the accused to theIr trIals and ond acquittals or o Araras Arara's thought was S 'S as returned for tor the moment within the Jail and Agnes wondered at what within those gray walls his mind caught with what miseries and he dealt with with Ith what shat hat hopes and andI despairs She wished she could fol follow tollow I low his thought In Its flight She looked up at nt Jeb Job Often Orten his mind momentarily fled away but she never had wished swished to follow Its 0 o Mara Iara recollected her After the Indictment Is found as It will willbe willbe willbe be Miss MIsa he said looking do down don n at her shall I see you Jeb Job liy hy objected I 11 be preparing the cone ca e In do doIng doIng lag Ing It It I must go over the evidence ot of my witnesses 1 lour said Jeb You Ton Imply lint eve nc s 8 yours 1 ou on ye va the hell of or a nerve Mies Ml fIs s Is a for the state I Cathal felt the pleasant furies dancing within him Oh he liked a tight fight and this man would gho giro gh 0 him one He lie met Jeb s contempt straight without anger The The state may call MI Miss s but so gO shall the tha de defense de- de defense defense and whether or not the state calls her tier Cath ci 1 said So So It Ismy Is Ismy Ismy my right and duty to review with my witnesses the testimony they will For or tint t Miss I II 11 go wherever you say Some witnesses wit witnesses witnesses nesses come to my office I neither ask nor suggest that of ot you With other witnesses I go to them to their offices You ln ha ha hasing none It ItI would be at nt your father fathers s office per perhaps perhaps haps we best may My Iy voice said Job Jeb If you must confer conCer with her Her tier father fathers s away I My mother s not saId Agnes Asnes so so come to the house Tomorrow Tomorrow- In the afternoon Now Agnes was breathless at this defiance of ot Jeb Job thank you Tomorrow It will be CHAPTER V 0 MAltA MAItA set out from from from- the city at three the following day Ue lie had been en In court on n I another another other case and when the hearing was adjourned he took his bis car and drove north alone It was a sunny warm Indolent March afternoon with gutters run running running ning off oft the melt of the thawIng snow and the still air cent from the rising moisture People appeared everywhere and they seemed unusually pleasant and pa patient Far ar north along the lake lahe shore were great Georgian homesteads manors French rench chateaux eha and Florentine ne palazzos which men who made money In Chicago gave to their wives to en hence and occupy them while they separately followed their own oc and Interests and their own transgressions each after his lils own way say The separateness of ot the women struck Cathal with particular force as he ha compared the fact that whereas he knew no DO few of ot themen the themen themen men who nho lived JIved along these shores he had never so much as spoken to one of the women until Agnes had called him bIm over the phone to come to the aid ot or Myrtle Lorrie In him beside the eminently practical practical and realistic attitudes which went Into the preparation of ot hIs cases and won them for tor him ran an Incurable which romanticism romanticism which probably also had Its value In court He could uncover the most sordid details about one person and turn turnabout turnabout turnabout about and Idealize the next neat In this best damn lawyer In town abode a little boy who had been reared by I WInnie on ancient fairy and folk tolk tales never to aught by tongue never ne learned or taught from a page but recited with all mystic phrase phrae and credence of or oral tradition SQ So Cathal became steeped to in the lore tore of ot heroes and had bad hadnot hadnot not his bla grandfather proved himself elf one and of or dragons dragoons and of fair fairand fairand fairand and utterly loyal ladles ladies who would alt stait for their true love In what whatever whatever whatever ever guise he be came and through whatever ordeal until lifes life's end Of course long Song ago these had thinned to symbols but they had endured within him and their dp de relics led him to constant emotional contradictions to the rev revelations revelations of his own experiences So now Cathal drove drone denying I himself Illusions as to the greater ter I nature of the men who dwelt In these splendid places he knew that save tor for their possessions they were as all nil men yet as to the ladles held so aloof from him he was letting his fancies run One he had met and she was as none other out o of all aU his encounters with cornea omen When he be reached the house Cathal discerned that Instructions had been left concerning him lie asked for tor Miss but theman Uw the man man-It manItas It was as Cravath Cravath replied replied that he would tell Mrs Irs that he lie 1 was here Two Tao 1 0 girls as Cathal first sup supposed supposed supposed posed appeared on the stairs the light haired one was Agnes Glen and the dark one he took for her sister until they were almost downstairs and be saw that she was older lIe He was familiar In his profession slon sion with aith women who kept Into middle age and through It slender and anil youthful looking figures an and 1 faces which denied more or less successfully the last decade ot of their years women years women once greatly do de desIred desired sIred who aho ho now taly flora r 1 holding their men or striving Ing to tot toI t I old mold them t v s ini i uti I ii I n ci Cathal Martin 0 tiara Mara attorney at law taw knew such um-n um well sal an I Ibe he be lied had learned to read the signs of ff success or of failure 11 their i gle Ie Here Dere he ho knew at least one was vas going on on You You are the lawyer the mother asked him coldly Yep Y Ye fI said C Cathal that She Sho did not Immediately proceed and he be was WIlS snare aw are bow how she ahe regard regarded regarded ed him ills nta visit and ond himself composed for tor her an unavoidable disagreeable Incident Her ller daugh laugh daughter daughter ter for tor a moment had bad stepped out ot of the affairs of her ber own life and Intruded upon a tragic event In an another's others other's which had bad nothing whatever r to do with her ber Since they ere acre unable to escape some further par par- participation participation In the tha consequences ot of the Intrusion she ebe must make mak It as format formal and Impersonal as possible That was the mothers mother a 8 feeling tee ling It was not even ren here the laugh daugh daughter laughter ter s a Cathal warmed gratefully ashe as ashe he glanced at her and she gave him tier her hand which firmly pressed his for tor the tho Instant but her mother did not relax her bel feeling of offense at him You approve of ot what your client did she demanded Approve Cathal repeated repented and this charge he had met before 10 represent an accused person Is la notto not notto notto to approve of her ber he ho replied Then what Is IU It Mother I said Agnes I I asked him what Is It She turned again to Cathal You are trying to prevent that woman from being punished are you not not And you are here bere because you yon ImagIne my daughter will help belp you youl I Y Yes S 'S said Cathal he be knew there was no arguing with her now I understand Beatrice I said leas les hostilely at nt his lack ot of opposition you have bave certain rights to question her I Agnes stepped forward from be- be be beside side her mother and she took his hat hat bat Cravath she called before her mother could Interfere take Mr l 0 Maras Mara's coat A minute later she led him and her mother into the drawing room roomI I Cathal looked about Ue Ile had never been received In to such a n house I i 1 r s I 1 Was In the Jail He H Explained to Agnes before and he made no attempt to his Interest In nor his un unfamiliarity unfamiliarity unfamiliarity familiarity with stith th such a big room His eyes went back to Mrs Glen eith and he better understood her With no more effort of her ber own than was was Involved In marriage ar la e to a man who had nau money she had Imd come cometo cometo cometo to this but though she had It she must starve herself herselt slender and elender she had bad done and so-and so and and she must I keep herself hersel over young And that I she was IS endeavoring to do Sit down vow now won t you please said Agnes the warmth within her spreading to her skin tie Ie waited until they both were seated separately and a little op op- opposite opposite each other as they had some Iome to be In their feelings tie de dropped Into a soft stuffed chair facing them They told about Bert In to the pa papers papers papers pers this morning Agnes suddenly saId surprising himes him Ies es es said Cathal Catha Because I told them I told the Grand Jury ty lY Did Did you said Cathal and watched her flush up tip to the roots of her fine One straw yellow hair She had on a simple blue dress the the same It was which she had worn for tor Rod nod and In It she delighted this min man too though she was not thinking of ot him now v If It I hadn t wouldn t t they have Indicted her He laughed reassuring her and she sat back loud lou d nothing to do with the Indictment and they knew about Bert but they didn dida t know he d called her at the flat fial a title bile you were there with her ber Did Did you know that asked Ag Agnes Agnes nes she told Certainly me ml Oh Ob Her IIer mother stirred herself now flow familiarly her ber daughter had been conversing with this criminal law You You have lust just referred to your I client I presume she said to Cathal I lea I Suddenly curiosity caught her ber a her Intention Does Does a n worn n in like Ike tint tell her attorney all Ih the truth about herself Some me do slid s Cathal Did she 4 She She told me about and Bert and her relation rel with Ill hir husband lie knew It r an and ani J be lie v about Birl that Bert was taus In love Jove with her and she ahe was wag In love IOTO with Bert nert Sho She's much like liko any other woman and anc ho he was Just a husband who d made for himself too much money I It If If your daughter r bad happened to pass pasa that door In the morning Instead ot of the afternoon shed she'd hale hae ha e seen a bus husband band earl and wife like enough n to a million others othera the WilY way with a 8 crime like murder murder-es murder murder Mrs It sprIngs from nothing unusual Just from the most usual things In la the world It comes the from from the most hu ho human homan human man Impulses pushed a bit fur tur- further ther What are you talking about abC ut The The life Ute all of ua us are livIng Cathal replied without breaking his I calm And when one suddenly stops tops living If It it from being shot by his wife others can see plaIner perhaps what they re ra up to lo Take Charles Lorrie and his first wife wife wife- and his bis second who shot him Theres There's nothing strange In the three of them from skirt to finish finish-ex the length to which bleb two ot of them Vent with their |