Show ij D DRIVE X III V jp YOU Y ki U T CHAPTER VIII continued 14 what made j Iti cation for the taking of the life of another of a man you had married martin omara bad said to her when last lie was here on saturday when a wife kills a husband no one else ever finds out why to save tier her life shell neier fell even tier her attorney more than a part she shot eliot him and the fact speaks tor for itself the fullness of ler her I 1 reason you were the first to see tier her afterward emard aft yes sold said agnes then aben ou oil can best judge for yourself rio m one who was not there can tell you as well uell what you should do agnes arose long ions before breakfast time though she knew she would not bo be summoned to court today both I 1 oth sir mr nordell and martin omara had told tier her that they would nwe moie for tile the exclusion of witnesses except when testifying and in a trial for murder ruurd er the judge would so order the morning paper came and there again was agnes ages Glenel th oil tile lie page beside myrtle yrtle lorrie and martin omara ari she gayed once more at the placid confident countenance of charles lor ale who had cast oft the wife who had married him film when nhen they both were young and who ubo had borne him film his daughter here flore was that wife stella 1 lorrie ord e ns now she was lind and here was their daughter janet she was seventeen and she had been graduated from a high school in wisconsin last week nod and had accompanied her mother yesterday to chicago to be beside her mother today when stella the first wife sat nt at the trial of myrtle the second wife wife I 1 did any other word in all the language describe or fall to describe as many different relations both of these had bad been wives and of the same ruan man and one ba had borne him a baby and the other had killed him here was bert myrtles bert oh ob god bert I 1 I 1 what part had bad he placed ed in the killing some said and jeb was one of them that the existence of cert bert and tile the insurance on tile the life of charles lorrie completely explained the tt hole occurrence myrtle had shot her husband to go olt oil with bert and the insurance agnes shut her eyes and she saw herself again in that room and she knew as she was returned to the feeling of tile the moment when myrtle lorrie first clung to her that slie she had not come in upon a wife who had just killed her husband because of another man and to collect his big insurance it was i nery cry warm at ohp jail and sultry and sticky myrtle perspired even when she sat still after she had dressed tor for the courtroom she wore tier her platinum wedding ring and her engagement ring sapphires sapp hires and diamond set in platinum and sue turned them nervously on her damp finger she had figured when she held up her tor for him to slip them on it that elio could got get away with mor ariage with him wily why not dot marriage just living with a man that really all there was to it ailed ghe her a lot of money more than shed eer seriously drea dreamed d of having and shed give him film loving but hers do they wore were coming coining for her to take her to court to bo be tried for or the murder der of charley damn it she never meant to kill him just to make him leave her alone sonic sometimes times stella would be in the court courtroom stella whom hed given the gat gate but ill who yet had showed owed up I 1 myrtle myrtl as a wife and loer well stellaa Ste llad had DD an advantage shed loved the fathead a lc shed not had bad to try to lu love ave him thinking of somebody else cant you keep tier her out slie ole had asked cathal not it if she wants to come stella aint so frightful for forty some men might like her ber let et arent you going to have the jury men yes said cathal catha then the ones I 1 cant get from stella agnes can ill tell iou theres one type of 0 man that never dever liked me hats the type likes ignes agnes ill bet I 1 you so hae agnes there for fo me agnes cambal objected bow bov I 1 think of tier her you say sudden terror took its turn agnes aint gong going to throw me Is she slie she aint no said cathal hut bill she wont be there when ahen you first com in myrtle lorrie would have given much this morning if slie could have conzi counted ted on agnes Glenell hs presence in the flip courtroom where she was to lie be tried for her life she was not in the old jail but in the new one on the west side of thi city for together with all other prisoners awaiting trial she bad been moved into the line fine modern kudern structure of stone slid and steel directly in the rear of the new imposing criminal courts building of cook county myrtle was as now to in the courtroom stella was waa staring at herl and she was staring at stella she take her eyes ot off stella and beside stella was charleys ud md where was somebody for heri her somebody that counted and could do good where was agnes Cleric ith oil oh wily why in hell she here the damn room was full of people storing staring but you see them except stella and charleys kid myrtle did her best to take it por for two days they fought over th lury jury it waa wednesday beffie mr by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin balmer service nordell outlined to the 12 men at last selected and the newspaper repeated to all who read the case against myrtle myrtie lorrie it was bad tor for her very bad as witness after witness built it up it was much worse norse than alian agnes had expected agnes read it at home borne for the state had decided not to call tier her and martin omara told her that he could give her at least two hours warning before he would put tier her on the witness stand she felt shaky and half sick again these were matters about myrtle lor ale which martin omara might not have known about his client yet now BOW he had heard them and lie he continued to defend tier indeed it was plain lie wils was fig fighting biting for her only more hotly the newspaper spoke especially of how lie fought when mr nordell put a question that might have a damaging answer the defense attorney leaped to its his feet 1 I object your honor I 1 object overruled said tile the judge and told jold mr nordell to proceed with ith the witness exception I 1 I 1 tale lake an exception I 1 exception omara struck back at tile the judge again and again agnes could not completely understand it but she could feel tile the fight in it jeb brought with him that night the late edil editions lons which blell carried the report of the afternoon session of tile the trial it was worse tor for myrtle and for agnes than the mornings disclosures some ome of it job jeb read to tier her some he be left to her to read to herself now glen what are you going to do im going on job jeb I 1 have to I 1 not os as a n defense witness 1 11 I have to if lie he calls me I 1 ue ile repented repeated job jeb blell hell call you but you can give him a surprise on tile the stand bow when he questions you you see now you must see now how things were she was double crossing her husband for tier her bert she cathal telephoned to agns agn s at nine that it looks be said as if the state will rest tomorrow morning it if its not iri he seated himself restlessly upon another chair too near noun noon ill put on my fi hasl rs awit witnesses at oner once I 1 figure ill ask you to go on in tile say two yes said agnes ill be there will you of course I 1 will what had happened to her distress and disturbance ue he was fighting he had been 1101 fighting ting all day and was spent but with the fight still la in him she could feel it in ills his voice and she aligned herself again with him hows the trial going really Re really 1 repeated cathal 1 I mean with ith you you know how many of those things s are true the papers dont do they no said cathal cambal but some of the things are true enough nut bill got nothing to do with whether hether she did murder all agnes hung bung up but sat by the telephone without stirring she was isvarin and excited and satisfied as she had not been all day it was eleven next morning when she left tile the house with her mother and bee they avoided the train simmons droe them in the big car to the city where they picked up jeb then they stopped at a quiet little restaurant where they could be alone and where job jeb had had luncheon une beon ordered in advance the noonday was very hot the heat beat indeed supplied the third topic to the people of the city the others were tile the further advance in stocks and the trial today it ft seemed almost more the trial of 0 agnes Glenel Clenel th than of myrtle lorrie today agness pictures and tier lier name naine exe exceeded ceded myrtles in size and display agnes had ceased to care what they said even about herself she tat at tin the restaurant table be bc side job and with her mother opposite ant anil bee beside her and looked down at jellied consomme in the cut cup before her site she her spoon into the cup but bill not to tier her lips job could eat bee could cat it her mother could a little agnes dipped sipped iced tea what myrtle lorrie had bad done anil and nhat agnes Gl eneith was to support her in having done divided any group of people they did not debate whether she had shot her husband t that hat wan undisputed it was whether she should have shot him or n not ot or nt at least whether having done so she che should now be punished further job was against her ber job jeb who iio if I 1 f agnes would marry him would tip P up tile the cup of sensation with tier her drain it to the last drop while alle they both were young and then why he be sald said think now of that iler her mother had no pity for myrtle her ber mother who had bad glen herself completely to lier love when young and who now was being neglected for another bee somewhat less surely wanted myrtle convicted not electrocuted but imprisoned at least until she was old until for her the life of sensation ceased martin omara would justify and free her ber and not because he be would ronke male money by it it lie ile could have made money fixing taxes but lie ho would not emotionally this sort of case appealed to him he wanted to defend cases like this ile he would get myrtle I 1 off the talk nt at the table changed nothing simmons Si nimons drove them at last to the criminal courts building A crowd lined the curb people were everywhere W h or e in front everywhere inside windows ot of all the courtrooms were open photographers formed the edge of the lane that was opened agnes ne neer er know knew until she saw the pictures in the papers the following day how she got from the car to the doors of the court an elevator lifted them to the hallway outside the courtroom where myrtle lorrie was being tried and there abere they met omara ile he led beatrice Glenel th and beatrice Ayre forth into the courtroom ant and then returned to agnes and jeb in the hall vie one witness to finish with before you he said to agnes hell be on when we start again in a few minutes lie ile wont take long iong and he showed agnes and jeb together to the defense witness room it was a plain stern little chamber with two windows a table and six chairs it was vacant but the feel of conflict filled it not strange with job jeb and mirton omara with her in the little room I 1 cathal at least outwardly was wag the cooler of the two lie ile wore a light suit of dark gray and he had just changed his linen and the excitement which he controlled gave him better bearing im sorry the days so hot miss glendah Glend th he said 1 I dont mind dont bother abou me please and dont worry ill try not to lose my head cathal caught breath looking at her in tier her light simple dress not ill ask asic you only what you yon know ill ask what the state will ask you no one can tell but ill be before you to help you all I 1 can thank you the door opened for the warning to cathal that the judge was returning to the courtroom catlin cathal hurried away agnes stood stock still tor for a long minute and job merely stared at her when at last she dropped down upon one of the straight hard chairs he be seated himself restlessly upon another these two had nothing left to say only at last when agnes was summoned to the courtroom he got up with her but lie parted with her at the door of the witness room good girl I 1 lie he said and gave her his big hand ban and good luck glen I 1 and then to save himself he could not hold back the gibe as she went to be martla martin gomaras OM aras witness go get your little pal and her lawyer glen their hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the shooting CHAPTER IX before she sat down in the witness chair agnes stood for a moment facing the courtroom she had been sworn facing the judge who was beside her now nt at tier her right and a little behind her tile the jury twelve men in two rows were at her left A court reporter with pencil and his big book open was almost at her feet to her right directly in front of her stood martin omara and over his left shoulder she saw myrtle corrle seated at a table agnes would hardly have known myrtle had not the lie newspaper pictures of recent days prepared her for her present appearance myrtle was in black with alth not een a touch of color except a piping of white in the neck of her dress and on the sleeves black became tier her and made her look even younger and slighter than she was and it made her skin whiter she had on no rouge at all and little or nu lipstick she looked not in the least like a killer mr nordell w as a few feet from her seated at another table with two younger men with books and papers that was the table of the state beyond nere ben benches clies row after row where people sat and leaned forward you could feel agnes agne 9 felt the clash of tile the conflict which swayed them TO ISE BE CONTINUED |