Show D DRAGONS DRIVE YOU by E edwin D W I 1 N copyright by edwin balmer service L I 1 CHAPTER IX continued 16 you what more do you want mr allara Ol larn lara and at this time in III tile eveni evening fig it had to be tonight said cathal Cit lial what had to be tonight ti Is she lias has slie she retired mrs glen ettli yos yes then lie heard beard tier lier voice from above tie not Bl mother other tell him im in coming down mother sat said and to cathal please please go away 1 I want to speak to him mother ind she vent ent past her mother and out jve ive asked hint him to go awny away 1 I 1 ask ash him film not to 1 I cant have him fth you in my louse house tier her mother said we go in id rather not its cooler out hore here agnes said 1 I need to tall talk to liim him then ill conic in both of you come in her mother invited unwillingly agnes turned well go through the house slie she yielded and out tin the other side cathal followed tier lier thus through the house and there was the water before them they went to the edge of tue tile sand and were alone with the lake hike and over the water I 1 heat I 1 eat lightning was lashing flashing almost incessantly and giving them strange gar ish glimpses of each other and abe shore rahe distant thunder became constant why did you come tonight agnes asked cathal Cat lial now said cathal Cat lial 1 I dont know awhile ago I 1 thought I 1 did I 1 deceived myself I 1 might do something for you of course it ani was for myself solely I 1 came and go away im glad you came there was no one here I 1 could talk to ills pulses leaped at that im leaving tomorrow with sloth er agnes said where to new york fathers getting us the first sailing for france its true im all through in the court true cathal said cant you believe it and shell be cleared cleared said cathal by tomorrow night I 1 think I 1 put lie her r on tomorrow jornd morning we ought to our arguments by noon by night be over shell be cleared agnes cau caught bt her breath lie heard it by me she gasped in her breaths expiration by you said cathal you turned the case she tomorrow and I 1 we got to win it we simply have not to lose it now well do that 1 I know you will and now he s said ald you yon di dont ant us to its not that quite agnes gazed up at him and the lightning lit their faces 1 I want her tree free im sure I 1 want tier her not killed not electrocuted or even jailed for life put hut I 1 dont want her paid payment of the insurance to tier her Is not to be avoided when ashes cleared cathal said their faces in the dark hut but the images remained on their retinas and out of it comes my fee how flow much have you beard half said agnes and thinking that said cathal Cat lial you went on for lier her and for me half im to have im told the opinion lias has even been put in print well its not half balf nor near it but be a big fee it if sites cleared for shell have the money ill take a good part of it front from her ind and some of that ill keep but more ill pass over to the wife that first married him and ills his daughter nobody knows it but you thank chante you slie she said for telling me in e will it make tile the night easier fur for you youve dune done no wrong let no one tell you that youve done wrong wron 11 the darkness was between them again ll myrtle yrtle lorrie shot in self defense and hardly knotting knain oIn 1 for the indignity shed endured that she did it for weeks hed tormented and ll 11 beaten aten her because site she could dot bear him love as lied hed knon love before lie cast olt oft her that loved jilin and thought lie could buy it from un another other tt that day lied hed found out about bert and lie was worse than ever before so his wife grabbed his gun to scare him but lie he came at her and slie she pulled and pulled the trigger shell tell it on oil the stand tomorrow by night shell be free twelve men having heard beard her S and nd you will say she shall be bull punished no further they take the ria rb not you 1 I take it too I 1 came tonight to say that to jou I 1 plan to tell you about my fee but I 1 did im glad you did the 1 a brighter I 1 suppose that thai means its nearer yes theres the tb thunder under lie ile waited for it to rumble way away 1 I thought today ld id bee you forever as buu wore were on lie hie wit ness stand anil and then I 1 thought it it boull lie be as you were when I 1 halil you for a n moment did you know for a mo I 1 held you yes no do ion suppose lifter after tills this when it II 11 I 1 can see your face all my lire life when it my iny lost time to see aou I 1 came tonight while title it was as still somewhere within within althin my right god cod bless that lightning youre still looking up tip nt at me ill always see you sol haic aou ou isaid what ive said through the thunder ive heard beard tie fe blied flied in this world near to thirty years and nothing eer happened to mp me like that when I 1 lifted my clione anil and heard jour voice and oil asked me to come where you were ironi irom then ive been counting the limes I 1 might lie near aou id KO go to you to review your eil cadence dence mice I 1 could do that and then the lie trial twice more id be you and now my times tire are spent theres nothing ol 01 of you left for tile me in all the future thirty years more or lo 10 longer iger 1 I 1 may ilip in this fills world orld answering my phone going to cheni that call tile me but ill never never find again the like of you well be in the world both of us but I 1 may never ag again aln speak to you or see sec bour our face abat be true do you mean that yes oil oft god let tile me see ou wheres tile lightning N no 0 said agnes and lowered tier her head 1 I must go lit in no lie forbade and seized her wrist how allow much did you mean how flow firmly yet gently lie he held lier berl not like jeb not like rod kod not like any other ins ma a who vilio eier eer had touched her she 41 in the lie first cool gust of tat lit Ure breaking aking storm ive got to go in ill indeed for moments they had been calling tier tier her mother and the servants A agnes nest 1 A agnes nest 1 bliss agnes 1 miss hiss clenenth Clenel th let them call said cathal fiercely reely do you care no ive taken your word on right and wrong against jell jeb ind and my father ind and mother maybe ill be thirty ity years i V I 1 over the water heat lightning was flashing almost incessantly in the world too can you never come to any one sir balara OS OA lara unless she calls you oh god sold said cathal and let her go gi ames agnes agnes Agne sill tier her mother was calling and tile the rain was coming down in great drenching drops it struck cathal whipped oft ills coat to cover tier her but they were wet through before they gained the shelter of 0 the house are you mad agnes mad demanded her mother 1 I guess so agnes told her never neer as upon this night had agnes needed tier room for sanctuary after lie ind gone discussion of him w with itil any one or the presence of any one eten cen of tier lier mother was as on oun bearable she shut herself in ill tier her room anil and strangely for tier lier she locked tier her door slie she lay jay upon tier her bed she fiad stripped off tier her wet dress widell which its his coat had bad covered but site she had made no move beyond that she thought how little alien upon tier her his coat had felt you ou could noc doc hear bear upon you any garment of a person attlio iio offended you how flow far from offense had been the boier of his coat which the lie rala rain lud had ninde made to cling epou her berl cathal Cathi il when slie site gae liis ills coat back had put it on oil and lie wore it wet us as lie drove through the storm to tile the city the elie lightning continued to crash its as the hear libat from the prairies broke in the blinding sheets of rain which made cascades of 0 the streets hut but cathal got through and scarcely considered how winnie was uns waiting for him throughout that day as from the first of the he trial slie she had sat in court and tonight she had no doubt of the great trouble that dwelt within him ills mother mot lier assailed by the heat beat of the day lay in tile the grateful dark of tier lier room and ills his sister too when midnight once more had made remote the thunder had dropped to sleep cathal Ca 1 she called when at last he entered where were ye north north seeking tier her cathal yes its wet ye brei are I 1 IvIn winnies nies hand had bad found his coat sleeve and moved up lip to ills his shoulder did she gle ghe ye no shelter shelter Sti elter said cathal lie ile seized winnies band gently and put tier her olt oft and for once she misunderstood der stood him she have ye ini thank god for that cathan any ADY other any other cathal atwould have been the cruel of ye CHAPTER X agnes and her mother and left chicago for new york on the century the next nest day it was saturday and throughout the morning Il Yrtle corrle was on tile the witness stand the noon papers were full of 0 her defense of herself ilee bee and davis vent ment to the railroad station but jeb did not appear the ignominious testimony in regard to him which tell agnes had given on the tha previous day had been printed fully not only in fridays late editions but was prominent clit in the morning impels you got complete coverage darling bee assured agnes bee was the only one able to assume any levity over it not only in the news cows but in the chatty little social columns some one has commented that it if there Is an absolute zero in ways to announce a broken eng ager nent possibly you lilt hit on it at albany next nest morning agnes read at last that tile the jury lute late in the benin evening lind had acquitted myrtle lorrie on the fourth ballot they sailed agnes and tier her mother beatrice glendith and rogna their mald maid on wednesday cob bob and several friends seeing them oft tile three days in new york with her husband had proved even more difficult for than she had anticipated they stayed at the same hotel of course served outwardly all appearances mentioned cash but once and then not even by the name of 0 cash asked and this was not until tuesday nob bob Is she in town no hob bob told ills his wife not since before you came for he be had bad sent her away on saturday cash had bai not wanted to go without biln but he had told her sho she must no he like it he be assured her but they both must do it thus thug he would keep ills hla conscience clear such temporary abstinence was enough for virtue in these days prosperity power and impurities Imp unities 1 they strutted on the ship with ther wires vires or the women nomen whom they preferred to their wives these men of 0 america new to the millions which they believed and they boasted they had made imade there was no escape on the ship from those people and none mir summer lit in paris for americans as never before possessed the city beatrice Glenel th had never intended to linger in paris she fled to a little ittle quiet village of the flauter pyre nees and she and agnes settled at list in a tiny inn a fey few kilometers from the border of spain where no man dian was in the least like bob and ad the noon sunlight shone sharp and warm but always there was a breeze down clown from Mala Bl aladetta detta or the snowy summits of sit lit perdu there week after week mother and daughter waited waited for what flat for human nature to change for years to themselves for the world orld to fit its dayi ways again as aa once happily it had to the complete fulfillment fill ment of an individuals decent desires bricle did not deal with such matera through tier her mind her emotions nawa always ys controlled her she wanted what she had had her husbands de sire and devotion which she had bad done nothing to lose if slie she had bad done clone anything which deservedly would have alienated him site she might have seen the justice of what had occurred but she had bad not day and night bricle relived relieved her married life in review A letter arrived once a week raga regularly from the husband and always on the day one came bricle answered it eee Pee wrote her mother and her sister once a week but alternately and she always assumed that they shared her letters as indeed they did she had moved her br household to mackinac island for july and august davis dails had been with her most of july but in august he came up only for weekends week ends jeb had appeared severn several 1 tittles times in ills his big boat and allays had bad stopped she and dails had gone up with job jell and several more people into superior for a week agnes lowered the letter and lay back in tier lier gayly painted chair gazing toward Mala ila ladelta detta but regarding really tier lier onn on life on the 1111 illinois shore four thousand miles away plainly she saw herself and them all in perspective tier lier home and the city below it and the long iong level sweep of the like kack back and forth upon it jeb journeyed in ills his splendid luxurious ship picking up people dining them winning winding them setting them at little tables for bridge or to dancing on the deck while the ship sailed when it stopped swimming and diving jeb paying for it all never tired of it until lie he returned to chicago to make more money and more and more she might be with him but she had no wish to be here was as no one but her mother whom slie she well nell knew here were hours hour with the sun and the wind from the mountain passes with the tinkle 0 of bells of cattle on the hillsides hill sides the gerders herders her lier ders whistle and sometimes his song nut but agnes did not dream of debs hl hi new boat TO BE CONTINUED 1 |