Show DRAGONS r i DRIVE YOU 1 t t EDWIN a Ra BAllMER R r Copyright WN by bj II Edwin Bernier CHAPTER VIII-Continued VIII VIII Continued tt 11 11 Mrtle AI was now In the courtroom Stella Mella was as staring at her I And was staring at Stella Melin She t tale take Il her r eyes off orr Melia And beside Stella tella was WitS Charley skid s kid Where was somebody for tor her Somebody that counted and could I do good Where was Agnes Alnes Glen Olen leIth Oh why In bell heU wasn't she here r The damn room was full fall of peo pie staring but bat you couldn't see them ithen except except Stella and Charleys Charley's kid Myrtle Myrtlo did her best to take It IL For two days daya they fought over I the jury jurl It was WIlS Wednesday before Mr Ir Nordell outlined to the 12 men menat menat menat at last select selected and selected and d-and and the news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers repeated to all aU who read read- the read papers the case against Myrtle Lorrie It was bad for tor her very bad as ns wit witness ness after atter witness built It up It was worse than Agnes Acnes bad had ex Agnes road rend It at home bome For th the state had decided not to cull call her herand and Martin 0 OMara Ohara told her that tha the he be could give her at least two tw hours boars warning before he would pot pat pother her on the witness stand She felt shaky and half halt sIck again These were matters about Myrtle Lorrie Lorria which Martin 0 Mara aright not have hae known about his hla hi client Yet now he had heard them he be continued to defend her ber In Indeed Indeed Indeed deed it was as plain he was fighting for tor her only more hotly The TIle newspaper writers spoke especially of how he fought When put a n question that might have a damagIng answer the de defense tense attorney leaped to his feet I object Your Honor I I ob oh obJect tent i 1 Overruled 0 said the judge and told Mr 1 to proceed with the witness I 1 I I take an nn ex ea exception I 1 exception I 0 Mara struck back at nt the Judge again and lignin again Agnes could not completely un an it but she could feel fed the fight In lt It Jeb brought brou ht with him that night the late edition which carried the report of the afternoon session on the trial It Jt was worse for tor Myrtle Myrtli and and for than Agnes Agnes than the morn mornIngs fags s disclosures Some of It it Job Jeb tread to her some be he left to her ber berto herto to read rend to herself ow 1 row Glen what are you going to do I Im m going on Jeb I base haie to to- to baven t IT 17 Not Not as ns a defense witness I have bave to-If to to If lie he calls me lIe l I repeated Job Jeb ne He Hell Ii 11 call Iou you but you can give him a sur on the stand How When Then hen be he questions you see Yo You see yOU now now you must see how now now things were She was as double double cross ing her husband tor for her Bert Kert Wasa t shet she Cathal telephoned to Agnes a at aloe that nIght It looks ho he said as It if f the o state will rest tomorrow morning It If It its a s not too near noon Ill I'll put on my first witnesses at once onte I fig figare tire are ask you to go on In the tho afternoon Say two o'clock les I l os es saId sold Agnes I Ill 11 l be there Will Will you Of Of course I 1 1111 will What had happened to hN her ti r tress and disturbance ne He was fighting he lie had been fighting all allday aday day and nod was spent but with ft Ith the fight still in to him She could feel teel fett It In his bis voice and she aligned aliened her her- herself self again with him 1 How flow Hows s the trial really going going repeated Cathal I mean with you yon You know bow V truthe many of those things are true tru the papers dont don't-do dont don't do they ho o said Mid Cuthal Cathal but some of rr the things are true enough But Dut 11 they've got nothing to do with wll whether hether she did murder That's alL Agnes hung bung up but sat by the telephone without stirring She was vas warm and excited and satisfied as ithe she be had not been aU all day It was eleven next mornin morning when she left the hous hou'S with her h mother and Bee Dee They avol avoided d d the train Simmons drove them hi In the bIg tig car to the city where they B picked up op Jeb Job Today It fe seemed mod almost more the trial of A Agnes nEs nE's than of f picture Myrtle Lorrie Today Agnes pie pic tare ture a n J l her name exceeded Myr Myties Myrties tie ties B in size dze and display Agnes s bad ceased to care what they said even about herself Che the tat sot at t the till restaurant table Jeb and with LeI her mother r opposite anti Bud Bee beside her JIB and d looked down at Jellied consomme in inthe Inthe the tho cup before her She lifted her spoon Into the cup but not to her Ups lips Jeb Job could eat nee Bee could eat eather her mother could a little Agnes sIpped iced tea ten What Myrtle Lorrie had bad done done- done and what Agnes was to support her In having done done livid divided ed any group of people They did not debate whether she had bad shot I her husband that was undisputed It was wile whether she sIlo should have shot him or not or at least whether er r having done so she should now I be punished further Jeb Job was against against her her deb who if f Agnes would marry him would tip tip up rip the cup of sensation with her drain It to the tho last drop willIe while they both were young and then WhY WhY-he Why he thin said now ot of that that tier Her mother half had no pit pity for tor fyrtle her ber mother who had gIven herself completely to her love when young and who now was being neglected for tor another nee lice some some- somewhat somewhat somewhat what less Jess surely aurely wanted Myrtle Myrtte convicted Not electrocuted but im at least until she was wag old until anUl until for tor her the life uto of ot sensa ceased Martin O 0 OMara Mara would justify and free her not because he be voul would make money by it It De Do could have ha made money fixing taxes but he hei i would not Emotionally this sort of case appealed to him he want wanted ed to defend cases like Uke this Ito IIo would get set Myrtle 1 oft off The talk at the table changed nothing Simmons drove them at last to the Criminal Courts building A crowd lined the curb People leople were ere oH In front everywhere in t I II li j 3 r rY Y 4 4 l He Seated Himself Restlessly Upon Another Chair side Windows ot of all the thet court rooms were open Photographers Photographer formed the edge of the lane Inno that was opened Agnes ne er knew until she saw the pictures in the papers the tho to lowing io ing day how sho she got from th the car to the tho doors of the court An elevator lifted them to the th 11 way outside out ide the courtroom where turtle Lorrie was waa being tried and find there they met 0 Mare Mara Ho IIo led led Beatrice and Beatrice into the court court- courtroom court room an then thea returned to AgnEs Agne g and Jeb In the hall ball Ive Ise 1 ve one witness to finish with wit before 3 you sou oU ho slid sId to Agnes Hell 11 be lie on when we 0 start again in a n few v minutes Ho Ito wont won on t tak too take long iong And ho he showed sho Agnes and no Jeb Job together to the defense witness room I It V was R a n plain plaiD stern little chain cham chamI I ber with two t 0 windows s a table and i six chairs It was vacant but the g feel of ot conflict filled It l Not Irot ot strange with Jeb Job and Martin 0 OMara Ohara Marn with her In the little room J I Cathal at nt least outwardly was the cooler of the two Ha tie wore a alight alight light suit of ot dark datI gray and he had bad hi Just changed his linen and the ex- ex excitement ex which he controlled gave o him better bearing C Im Im I'm sorry torry the days day's so hot Miss It Ithe he said I I dont don't mind Don t bother r about me plea please E and dont don't worry 1 n try not to lose my head Cathal HIght caught breath looking a 11 her In 1 J er cr 11 ht simple dress lou II 11 not DOt Ill I Il II ask you sou 3 au only what you know Inow Ill ask What That the 1 10 State will ask you no one cin 10 tell but I 11 be before you to help you c all 1111 11 lean I enn Thank you iOU to i I The door opened for tor the warning to Cathal that the tile Judge was re- re returnIng returning re returning turning to the courtroom Cathal hurried a away way Agnes stood stock still sUIl for a long minute and Jeb merely stared ather nt at ather I her When at nt last she dropped down upon one of at the straight hard chairs chair he seated himself restlessly restlessly another These two had nothIng noth aoth inn Ing left to 10 S say Y Only at ai last last mai when Agnes was summoned to the court courtroom courtroom courtroom room he got up with her but hI he parted with ner at nt the door of the witness room Good girl l i he said and gave her Iler his hand And good luck Glen I And then to save himself he be could not hold hick the gibe as she went to bo ho Martin MarUn 0 Mara s a wit witness witness witness ness Go get your little pal and pal her lawyer theIr Glen Glen their hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the shooting CHAPTER IX she sat down In m the wit witness d ness chair choir A Agnes nes stood for tor a moment facing the courtroom She hall had been sworn sworD facing the Judge who was beside her now at nt her rIght and a little tittle behind her herThe herThe herThe The jury twelve telve men in n two rows were nt at her left A court reporter with pencil and his book open was almost at nt her feet teet to her right Directly in n front of her stood Mar Martin Martin Martin tin 0 Mara Alara and over his left shout shoulder der she saw Myrtle Lorrie seated ata at a n Atnes hardly have nave known Myrtle had not the newspaper newspaper per pictures of recent days prepared her for tor her present appearance Myrtle was In black with not even evena evena a touch of ot color except a piping of white In the neck of at her dress and andon andon andon on the slEe sleeves es Black Dlack became her and made her look even younger and slighter than she was and It made her skin whit whiter er or ere She had on no rouge at all alt and little or no lipstick She looked not In the least like a killer Mr AIr Nordell was a few feet teet from her seated at another table with two younger men with books boos and papers That was the table of the the State Beyond were benches row after row where people sat and leaned forward fOr You could feel feel feel- Agnes felt the felt the clash of ot the con conflict lct which swayed them Some stared at her ber hostilely as asIt asif asIt It if she would cheat them of at the death they desired for tor the girl In black before them some thrust for forward forward forward ward from the same seats sent as na If It thEY would surround and defend the prisoner and and her witness Sudden Suddenly Suddenly ly 11 you saw faces Mothers lother sand and and two who had been in to the tho papers papers his first wIre wife with her daughter beside liar her How did cUd they feel teel a few feet awa away from Myrtle Did they wont want her killed too Here was another face an face an old face a n fine fino face A little old oid worn wom woman won won-an i an who had lived a n lot tot and never let life lIfo beat bent her Winnie she was Agnes never nover had hod seen Jeen so much as asa asa nn a meen IS cs s of her but there was nas as no missing her When she looked Rt at Martin 1 0 O Morn Mora she knew Winnie was his grandmother Brand mother Agnes sank do down don n upon the wit witness witness ness chair and waited alted vi for i v in ate a 8 grandsons grandson 9 first questions They were simple enough WhAt was her none mine V Where here did sUe live How ell ild was she Und had she gone to Chicago on a certain day Did she meet anyone any anyone anyone one In Chicago Then what did they do After Atter she had looked nt at the empty apartment and AIr Mr hid Ind left her what did she shedo shedo do Now tell the jury in to your own words what you did old and what you saw and what you yourself heard after acter the door of the apartment upon which Mr Colver knocked wits as opened I I siw V said Agnes Agnel a a a girl girl young woman woman-I woman I had never neier ne er seen be before tore fore That girl there She ane looked at the prisoner Myrtle 1 I orrie She She e was In negligee over underclothes and stockings She was very ex excited excited cited and disheveled She looted 1001 ed edas as It If a good dell deal had bad just hap bap to her I object Mr Nordell for the State te was as on his feet Sustained 1 l said the judge You Yo You u must confine your statement to t o what you observed ed and heard you yo must roust not give your Inferences hE I said kindly enough to Agnes I 1 know now she said I I forgot t I can say I saw bruises and hurt hurts hurton on her I did I cnn can say any she wi wig Wll shaky She was She was holding holdin 8 to the doorknob with both hands Who Whore re you W ho ho ra ro you eli she asked but didn t watt wait for fol me to t answer She grabbed me and pulled me into tho thin room She Oh God I sit m glad to see Jee you glad to see you 1 I Sho She pulled me dawn do n Into a n big bl soft chair belde bt her Mr Ir Cc Col Colver Colver ver vcr the agent went ent to look for fi smelling salts snits for tor her I heard him call caU from down the hall Mr Ir Lorrie I lie He came hick bick and andI I he could hardly sr eat I lie he 1 saI said l to me lou ion 1 In know what t e ve walked In on A killing I There Ther s 's murder here bere She shot him I J I had Mrs Lorrie In to iny my arms arm then I nas as holding her HIT bhe was wi lying lylE limp across me rae Agnes hid no Idea Idell how V she sl looked as she sho related this She was not thinking of herself o 0 01 t J the tl stand she sho MIS ts seeing her ber herself self seU back In that room rooD rut Put the ll judge the Jury and people cro crowding dins the benches were ere staring at nt her as i she Pit In the big biff witness SS chair young and slight and fair and so and forgetful forget or fi I I ot of herself Indeed and so o bonest- bonest honest oking E looking Cathal standing before her stepped back baek a n little as ns though he dared not trust himself closer to the de de- delight de delight light of ot her ber What a It start she was makIng beyond beyond what he be had ex expected ex- ex expected I 1 I Ho Ito could not possibly have planned this Then did you do anything he asked her ber qUietly eyes on tier Her blue eyes on his shortened their focus from the far tar away room which Agnes had been seeing 10 tor toran Foran an Instant only her retinas were aware of 01 him then she went back agaIn lea les 1 es I tried to rouse her I asked her Did you do It IU She couldn't reply at nt first She didn't seem to understand me I kept shako shak shakIng big Ing her Maybe cl I did she finally said Slay Maibe be I did I said May Maybe be Don Dont t you know Inow She didn t t seem to know I 1 object 1 I l Nordell protested Sustained said the tile judge I m sorry said Agnes But she didn't I object objects I 1 Sustained said the Judge and told Agnes more sternly You must not give your opinions or Infer infer- inferences Inferences es ene-es I 1 wont won't again sold said Agnes Or Or III try not to The phone rang ranI pretty soon then I heard MM Mrs Lor Lot rte rie say Ob Oh God Bert Then l hen I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess he talked ed to her lIer I mean she caught herself Mrs Mrs Lorrie waited and listened as If it some one was talking to her Then she said Bert nert something a happened Charley dIed today 1 l Then Mr 11 Colver used the phone to call the police andI andl and l I Mr OMara called you She stopped aghast at herself and before 0 Mara Ibis was not at all allas allas as she had reviewed and prepared bee ber evidence with him she bad said things she had never dreamed Of uttering tittering and omitted a score or of Items she had promised to repeat But he be had no reproach for tor |