Show DRAGONS RIVE DRIVE D YOU by y EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin balmer WT U service j SYNOPSIS jtb Br adilon young and successful droker of chicago Is iffat toted with fill agnes Glenel till beautiful daughter kaugh ter of h k retired manufacturer aney a doctor in love lov with acnes ag nes belt its his brother leb jeb rod plans work 1 vol I rochester jeb sug nuggets gets th that at he janake ignact a try tor for agnes acnes before leaving tin ian there Is a deeper de liper obstinate decency than in jeb agnes believes bel levell to be happy a girl must bind herself entirety entirely to it a man and have adorable babies rod visits agnes acnes and n tills tier her of er his great creat desire but realizes it can cali never be fulfilled agnes mother la Is at tempting to regain tier her bus bandis to love alvi 1 4 JAL agnes gries has big disturbing doubts ns as to clial attracts her father in new york jeb tells agnes lie he 14 1 going tr tn morry marry her and nd together they view an apartment in chicago jeb asks aggei to lo set et ni arn early arly date but bilt bhe tells allm phe cannot marry him when lien the agent mr hir colaer offers to show them the tn a apartment jeli jeb asks acnes to see it 11 lone alone saying he must return to his omee agnes consents and jeh jeb leaves A radio Is blai flig from oae of t the apartments colver raps raiq upon the tie floor door which Is s opened by a scantily clad girl who draws daws agres into the file room colver finds find her husband Charl charles pit lorrie fatally shot ile he calls the pollee police 7 myrtle lorrie Lorr le inks aglea to phone cathay cathal omara a lawyer to tb corne come at it t once agnes enes the police take charge charce amara yara arrles the oli feers are antagonistic to him film agnes sides ith omara agnes As acs Is tobe to be a witness at the coming trial carthals grandfather erand father and lather father had lost thear lives in the line of duty as city firemen and lits hla grandmother Wilin winnie le has built her nil all around 1 cathal who belne being ambitious had worked his way through law school and nd heeding the appeal of the desperate and the dep depland laed cause nas has committed himself to the defense defence of criminal eases cases thoughts of agnes disturb cathal mr lorrie had bad cast off the wife who had bad borne him his fils daughter to marry myrtle and after two years of wedded life she ehe had killed him CHAPTER IV continued 4 agnes acnes mother tried to keep keel tier her I 1 in n bed all day if we had pone gond to arlor ida as we should lieve her mother re peaked this alive happened not to me sali said agnos agnes and won dered who instead would first have hae stepped into that room and beed seized by wirtle il yrtle and am who ho would haye summoned for or Sl sly yrtle rile she could not wish that it was notari not slie florida had been the winter ilby ground for her father and mattive in their years of happiness and while held the romantic illusion that by returning together they could re capture what they had bad had fattier father lately at ely had become more of tk realist lie he knew it would ie be dancing on I 1 the grave of their ecstasy agnes lay looking at her mother but thinking of her hei father who though turned tamed real realist toward ills wife remained romantic romant Jc with whom some one younger er much younger ond and perhaps like Sl myrtle yrtle she imagine it hut but she pulled the newspaper to her again and looked at charles lorrie yon think a mall inao alke alk that aou would d marry myrtle he looked as it if hed have more sense sen e bilut sense enter ln in one day hed wanted myrtle ills his dra dragons ans of desire haij had driven him and hed married her who was lo in new york for rather father agnes arose to ta tie b e a witness at the inquest and the coroners jury decreed that ther ewas cause causi to bold myrtle stiver silver corrle to the grand jury which took up the case early next week eek jeb was to be a wit witness ness too so agnes and lie he went log together ct liei and nd they called her in before h him im so in she glie went alone and stood before the 23 men and swore to tell the ibe truth and all of it mr colver bad just come out of the room white and very nervous and agnes trembling as she faced focee I 1 the 23 solemn men bedi wondered what sir I 1 C colver iver lust just had bad told them especially espella I 1 b hail 1 I he told thim them of bert agnes repeated what she hart had related before now you ahne told us m at all 1 that you saw or heard beard happen la in your youra pres encel abe foreman challenged tier ber yes you art are surf there norel 1 nothing IM but ber face you haven hare remembered something else yes yea I 1 have anil and then there was no retreat she lad bad to tell them and tt it that word of isert bert was new liew to of them that it was ahat thy they had needed e tf and that tt was of grea damage to Nl myrtle yrtle alic outside the hie grand jury furk room while jell jeb was gling bt ills mony corroll corroborate oratIng her account as to how flow she h to come to theler rie apartment agues agnes sat bat on in fie lencki len tich cli avoiding others all and unable to tier trembling it at what she haa jeb came out straight bt lind g and at ease for lie he had i maae a good appe ninner land had lin d g co 0 o liliu him i lie helped agirs up arom hei bet st iii nod mid brought bronchi tier down to the h fill news nit at iia ag jilich left led llie Cil minal cubria lie ile had left his car on dearborn street on file side across from tle the jail and as they approached it agnes saw a roan ninn standing beside it whom she recognized suddenly ns as marun oN antara tara she started a little lind and when lien the nt next instant she ile ml lets lingers fingers tighten on tier lier arm slie she knew that thai lie suspected win tills fill uns nas the file cawyer la inai ni called lie said agnes nodded and before themen the men merl spoke to each cacti uther other slie she felt almost ns as when omara had come into the apartment confronted hy by file police the hash flash of opposition to him jeb could not like him agnes realized jeb could ni not possibly illi ham even eren it if she hid had not had ber namo name coupled to ills his in the papers from the flici that slie wall lind filin for Sl myrtle yrtle under 0 s picture nire one paper hail had so described him martin fartin 0 omara iara the cri minni lawyer called to the lome apartment fly by agnes Glenel th ahat infuriated jeb and agnes could feet feel it rising to lo win tilia us aa they approached ed omara cathal omara tood having taken off off ills flat and nn jis wiling alding it after agnes kein t win him cashill wi excited seeing her hut hill tie he did pot lot law show it alavi 10 to lo you 10 lo do mr lie said what to do oil want fantl of luu sald lathat suddenly hot hoi If inside iside and because lit if llma imly rooer wIt without hoist I 1 win wall in the flip joll jail be explains a if ti agnes gnes ns lis tip tie hild not lint retorted toMeil re lo in IW companion at nil all ind and nothing hall based aej beltren them aad nil ta aping iping olif I 1 siw saw mr liend lorli car and I 1 knew you yeii vre alyth tie be fo fore re t the h e G gra ra n iid d j jury ii ri texi flie ll adit bour or cleir by itlie it lit calil aid yes sald said cawal Cai ial 1 I 1 told her so and lie he glanced toward oward hie file vim gilm laak barred nalls alls co connected to the copits building div hv hie fill coerced passage knon most aptly lis as the I 1 etridge aldge 0 t ilgis q over itlo it lo on onil 41 fro brud ed the to their finals and fl illan ow nr run kun 0 oll irn was w is for the moment moni and agnes wondered ul at ant alint those pray walls ills nind caught cau slit will wal wl ia lt t nils mij erles elles tie lie dealt fill ith it 1101 liopas i ies I 1 and I 1 ahe b e wished dished sloe slie could folios lift his ib its it s diali t ahe lixi ked d jb often ills his lbino adly felt aj aay lly hut bill she never dever had to fa follow its abstraction str action kosiara recollected tier lier after ader the indictment Is found as it ita will be miss ilon elUi tl he said looking down at her shall I 1 styli see rod why object objected ed jeb ill be prep preparing prepared arlD the case in doing it it I 1 must boover the ali evidence of my witnesses yours sald said jeb you ou imply sties yours file lie hell or of 1 3 none dere miss Glenel th lit a bitnes i for the staak ciali al a l hitt furios one in fag 0 ob b he liked a andthil and this nan man would give him one lie he met je detill celts till contempt eon tempt straight n without 4 X 1 I wat was inthe jail he explained to agnes aaget ari Keri ille state way may cull aliss alea lea kith but so shall the defense lef ense and whether r or not nor the calli call tier cathal said so it Is my doiy find and duty to deviow jill my coy witnesses we th e testimony ony they will give for that ilass alenel it ill go beret er yuu you say some witnesses come to toy boy ollace I 1 neither ask aik nor tant of yeu with other witnesses I 1 go to to their offices you lia lay none it would be it at your fathers edica ye we epst ulm I 1 sly clif office fice said jell jeb if you must confer bonfer oon fer I 1 etli tier lier her fathers away I 1 ily ay iy not sale said so chioti I 1 tie fa to the house tomorrow la in the afternoon taid said agnes breathless at tills this defiance IL of jeb rit atil you Tou tomorrow orrow it III be t CHAPTER V y cachat 0 marn set iut from the city nt fit three on the following dibi lle he had been in court on ly nother another case and i when hie file li aling a lie took ills Is car ind and aroe north alone it ivar was ii sunny harui wo nil indolent march gultry ul erg g olt off the flipi anoll of the itie thawing snow null anil abe nir clr mant froen alic be ri alti people c pr ft 1 pre and diw y sv m d par libik lii iK and 1 1 var ninth ill I 1 altti lont allor hi cita alpaio lin wre ere grew evoi mil hm grilj lri lj an minors french chateaux arol florentine patriz pal it tos os uhla leilh men who nho made money in chicago gate to their wives tio t c enhance anil and occupy them while they separately followed their own occupations and interests and their own ench act alter after hla his own way the separateness of the women struck clethal fill particular force e as he compared file lie net fact that ulie whereas reas lie he knew no rew few of the hie men who lived along these shores lie had never go BO much na spoken to one of the women until agnes Glenel th kind called him alier ocr the file phone to come to the he aid of myrtle corrle in him beside the eminently practical and ren realistic listic attitudes which went into the preparation of his hill cases and won thern hem for him ran an incurable romant leis ru w which aich probably also had bad its lalue alue in court lle ile could uncover tb hie anost sordid demills details about one person and turn about and filp idealize alize the next in filla best damn lawyer in town own abode it a little boy who had been reared by winnie on ancient fairy and folk tales never ner ne r In trusted to aught by tongue never learned or from a i page hut but recited with nil all the mystic mystle phra ahrne ze and credence it oral tradition so anili fi thal healime liec nnie steeped in the lore of heroes tind and had find noi not his grandfather praed himself one aind of dragons and of fair and utterly loyal ladles who donld w all for their true love in whatever P guise glase lie caroe came and through r conlen until lifes end of course long ion ngo ago imd bad thinned to lint they clr v bad ia endured within ailin aind their delightful relies relics tell led hini him in ili vo doritan ritan lions lo in tin the if f III ahli own ex perI ence SO s now illius illi ul til alone deny denying flig himself t us to the grealer nature gf cit file nien men will aliu bwll places lie knew abat save for their possessions lons they cereas wo arvas all ruen nion yet as to file indies lilae 4 field ro io aloof from him he wn ans fetting h jos his rancle run one onea lie he hid had mcl lobl alfil sri owis as none other biber out of of rs with clel fe rearmed ibe file haure carbaj that bad been lert ailed for ills Glen glendith jiul LUJI abe man lt it was caraffi th replica flat bial lie apt n imad ild tell mrs mr M rs s gln glen elili hew ay as hen hel p two gails girls as cai lliel first arsi supposed appeared nn in ali c file light one ans agnes Venel th ona nod lie darko f ib ic lic be took ook for her sister until kitcy hwy warr almost downstairs and that ible was older lie ile was frk familiar nillia r in ills his profession slon with women xii inen alio N kept into inlo middle nee age and through 1 it slender and youthful looking figures and faces denied more or less successfully the last decade of their years women once greald ly desired who now nov desperately were holding their menor alenor striving to hold ailet yeomen athal cathal 0 mara lara ott orney av al law knew such women nomen well ivell and he liar had learned lear nei nef to read the sighs of success or or of fal failure lure in their struggle here we he ki reir at least one on you tm are the lawyer the mother asked him coldly yes said cathal Cal lial she did not nol immediately ly proceed and lie he was aware flow slie regarded him ills his visit and ami himself composed for tier her in an unavoidable disagreeable incident lier her daughter for it a moment had bad stepped out of the altagra alT alra of tier her own lire life and intruded upon a tragic event in an others atch which had bad nothing whatever ablit ever to do with her since they were vere lenab le to escape eka e some further participation la in the lie ot of the ibe intrusion the she must male make it as ag for nialand maland impersonal ns as possible that wa llie ni vi ot liers others it 11 w was s out qi airn en li re thed cathar warmed gratefully as be gla glanced pt tier her ami site she daxe gave him her hand balad which i bach firmly lii n essed ills for the instant rier her tp mother other did not relax tier feeling of at blin you approve of nf bullat your client did slie demanded 1 approve App roro cathal Cat lial repeated and and this charge lie had bad me t before to rc represent present un an accused pe astin Is not to ampro approve ap e of tier lier lie in replied then ullian w hat ls 10 lt 11 Mo lother dier sid aties 1 joshed allm mitat ts i it I 1 she turned again to Cal callian lial you are try ins ina to prevent that woman from being beina punk liell are yuu you not and you are here be c ji u se you 11 imagine magine ny my daughter daug liter lal hell 30 jou yes said cathal Cat lial lie knew there them was no bu arguing with tier lier now 11 1 I understand Fl eatrice Gl glendith eneith said less at hla his jack af pf 0 o opposition P you have certain rights eights to quenion quo que lion tion her agnes stepped steppe ii forward from beside her mother slid slie she took ills his hat Cravat li she called cabled before her mother could interfere take mr 0 hinr alaras Nl aras iaco chilt ht A later slie led lian nil and lor lo r iti mother olber anto the file drawing roam cathal looked about lie ile hall had never been rece heil hell cli a house batore be tore and he made no do attempt t to 0 eon conceal ills interest in nor ills vJ th s such u c ll 11 a kil big g room ills his ves went back to mrs glen ettli and lie he better understood her with no more moe e effort fr of her own than tamn was ln involved voled in marriage marr lace to at man ijo made money she lind had chiric q this ibis but blit though eliad sli it she must stare liec lier self slender and ille aie had done ho 0 o and she must thep herself oyer and tant efin t slie vvhs as endear 0 oran ring to do I 1 sit down now bow wont yu please sam the warmth within tier her spread hig 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