Show DRAGONS DRIVE YOU by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin nalmer balmer service CHAPTER XII continued 19 yes yea said agnes losing breath can you do something she caught his sleeve 1 I dont know whom to turn to father can do no more just now and jeb sir braddon davis would be frantic it he helped him but you cant put up money for him 1 I cant admitted cathal not to any amount such as lie he will need but not all there Is to do lie ile got his capital by borrowing on his life insurance I 1 dont know how one does that do you yes his birthday october 29 why it was just something I 1 wanted to know said cathal and held out his hand band hers was in his he held it and then he let go cathal callian drove away with a calendar superimposed over the other excite ments in his mind today was the twenty fifth of na slay so davis ayre borths birthday was four days and five months month away that meant that in all probability he must make his heavy payments of life insurance premiums within tour r days for life lasura nce practice fixes the date upon which a mans age changes an even half year six months before lils birthday davis age changed thele therefore on the twenty ninth of april and on that date uh undoubtedly most of liti his insurance policies were written and V 1 he got his capital by borrowing on his life insurance the premiums each year were due but the companies by common practice extended datlof date of payment by a months grace so the final day for payment would be may 29 just four days off cathal drove to the city that night lost only lit at times in the delights of his dreams of her with these lie he was haunted by desperate eyes and mens bitten lips and cathal did not forget darts ne ile received on the twenty eighth the full special reports which lie he had ordered from the commercial agencies and further a verbal report from froin lila his own investigator and on the forenoon of the twenty ninth cathal went to dais office davis after a time sent out word he could not see mr omara Oi lara cathal standing stared past the bed secretary who nho brought this message lie he strode past her then and tried to turn the knob of sir door it did not turn it was locked perhaps Ier haps during his wait cathal unconsciously had prepared the plan which immediately be adopted ile he had not expected exactly this situation but he did not delay an instant ue he went to the window of the outer office adjoined the partition N wall all it was open and he be stepped out upon the sill A twin window also open WILS was QU on the other side of the partition a step between thelt their ca thal caught the sash and made the step and he was la in davis office only after lie he had bad entered did davis seem to have heard him davis was sitting bitting at hla his desk with pen lien lif in his hand oer paper ue he had bad been trying to write something ue he jerked about dropping drop pine his pen lien lie he saw ailara Oi lara ara and started to rise but lie he did not ills his hand darted to an open drawer beside him and came up with a pistol which tie he lifted not toward cathal but toward his big own head cathal caught him and they fought for the pistol it was like ilke grappling a madman cathal blocked his arm so that the hand band with the pistol pointed off but carlial could not get the pistol away then suddenly the pistol dropped it wash was on the floor and for the mo in ii cathal was outwitted ue lie thought he had won and he let darts go davis fell back from him and cathal stooped for the pistol and he had bad it safe and had snapped the cartridges out when he realized davis was at the window I 1 12 9 floors above the street there must be for a man still sane mostly a seconds halt before self de st ruction and so again I 1 cathal caught him lie ile clutched him film with both arms from behind and bracing his bis feet below the window lie he pulled davis back into the room and then cathal took no more chances ne ile let go CO and regained his feet first and as davis stood up cathal swung with all his weight in the blow upon davis chin davis dropped to the floor on his face the office people were pounding at the locked door and shouting for admittance mit tance Is sir alfr bamble there cathal called through and when the partner answered you come in keep everybody else out lie he unlocked the door swung it enough to let in and bolted it once more ken stood gaping his bis partner at his feet the cartridges which cathal had find ejected were scattered on the floor no shot himself 11 ken whispered no said cathal 1 I took the gun away from him lies hes knocked out all who are you OS Iara lara im a lawyer lawyer 1 I came here as his friend oh our mare now yours said cathal Is to quiet your people tell them aneti anything ng you please i and tell me later ill III stay with him lie bile was alone with davis dails again behind the locked door dails sat up dizzily what time Is it TIme gald cathal and before be brought the desk clock into davis sight he turned the hands its after twelve Ayre forth he said its two minutes after noon your insurance has expired 1 I do he be broke down utterly 1 I do it for her cathal remained with him in the office until two oc lck when he was able to communicate with robert glen eith in his office and Glenel th came for the dark ones husband and took him home that evening when ben he arrived at the Llos dales caprial received rec elved a message to call miss clenenth Glenel th she would wait for him agnes told him no na matter how late it might be before he could come to the house thedoor and they were alone in fit the hall she spoke tf cathal so that he asked hes all right agnes glanced toward the silent stairs cees bees trying to get him to sleep lie he wanted to do it for her she caught cau lit his hand what can I 1 say to you nothing Not bing said cathal lils his hand band burning from tier her touch ue ile wanted to turn tits his hand and clasp hers he wanted how lie he wanted to draw her to him buebe but he did not but for you she whispered but for you site she closed her eyes and could not finish then she looked up at him i aln weve shared some terrible things you and 1 I callian cahhal 0 omara she sald said may we share more chorel I 1 the burning that had been la in tits hand was throughout his body not more troubles I 1 amean P he said yet may I 1 have my part in putting thim them from you if they ar are to come her liand hand was gone from him but she was leading him out onto the terrace where the lights from the house dimly shone do you remember the lightning timidly lie asked 1 I remember everything were done together she replied with her that excited mm him through ki lie ile was keeping himself irom from her carefully he kept to himself and she wanted him closer when he did not move she did the times weve met she heard him film sly say could be packed in a day do you know it ihnow it what a adayr day do you live lit in it ever ever again anil and again oer and over do you do IT I 1 lie he could speak no further to her ile he stood keeping himself off as he had se searching archin g hir her eyes in the dim but flonly slowly his hands went to her she saw them and waited for them but they stopped and she seized his suddenly and she clasped her fingers through his and so as lie held to 6 her she held to him and they felt each other oilier quivering so its come to you tool ile he whispered yes cathal omara Oi lara its come to me too their fingers angers twisted together to in glorious agony but what can we do with it do what do you want to dol live in our kingdom can we our kingdom where lou will be alth me if you belleve believe it believe what cathal that its not lot the world of others that lovers loers live five in its the kingdom of themselves ies alone it may be a marvelous mo able kingdom for its wherever rever one finds the other in the city to have it aou need but together to shut the hie door or it may surprise you from no more than a meeting unexpected amid the carowil of the street there ive told you hut but I 1 know no I 1 know its lo in my fancy ancy aly etli elili till all the differences us u can it 1 eier eer be CHAPTER XIII bee not yet undressed lay jay on the tha bed beside her husband husban il ue he had worn himself out and the bromide which she had brought him had made him sleepy at last but she could not ale sleep ep A car drove away and bee cr crept ept from the room closed c 1 os e the e door il 0 0 carefully c are behind her a and n d w waited dalche d a at t t the rit top of the stairs agnes did not appear and there was no sound below agnes deal 1 agnes 1 bee called cautiously and for a moment site she had the fear that her sister had driven away with duara ouara OU itra agnes Ague sill 1 agnes turned from the door wit where ere she had stood since lie he left her she heard bee at last and looked up and saw her she went slowly almost as it if with difficulty and indeed difficulties dIfficult les assailed her but she did not feel the them as her own for herself she felt no doubt at all she was defiantly exultingly ul sure of herself and of him agnes what have you done done bald agnes acnes breathlessly what ill never never undo whatever anybody says bee ive told cathal balara ill marry him her sister seized her what agnes acnes I 1 yes whispered agnes 1 I told him what I 1 did but he fears I 1 dont know what I 1 mean why hes gone away what are you yon talking about C come 0 1 b e into int ii my room begged bee before she remembered davis just beyond her door no yours said said to tier her sister and agnes followed her into her own room N now ow tell roe me the dark one commanded for two weeks said agnes confusedly fu sedly he means to stay away were not to see each other he be wont come here ue he wont even call roe me why so ill have the time to myself to be surer do you need to be surer bee asked look at me agnes oh damn it youve got it I 1 youve youre got it and I 1 never had I 1 and ive my third child within me ive got him yet im glad of that you know dont you he knows knos ive made him knowl know I 1 ile he tried to kill himself for me cut but you agnes you go ahead to hell with everything elsel re pe happy happy happy I 1 tell you I 1 daylight laid upon A agnes ades des no dismay through hours after bee had returned to davis agnes lay awake but slie she had slept at last to rouse to objects that showed again their sharp edges to glares and to shadows her eyes again and curled to relive the enjoyment of his hia arms about her for the moment before he bad put her away from him bim when though he held her and she clung to him his own faith had failed him for he knew that it must be it was inas in some degree at least the world of others that they must live in ID and no desperate denials of his own even though she joined in them could screen that world away jeb called up and it was strange strang go to talk to jilin him and never to cathal stranger still that lie he and never cathal came to the house cut but she kept k ep t herself from debs hands her father was involved again in darts daris affairs and jel jeb again and unknown to davis agnes hoped was helping him salvage something every other day it seemed carthals Cat hals name was in the papers and always accorded the new respect for he be spoke of men accused or about to be put on trial who too recently had ruled queerly and pleasantly on I 1 occasions through these ion long g i listless days she recollected everything eiery e cry thing 1 he had said to her from the very first and with a clarity and completeness as i if at the time she had bad memorized it S so on one day it was the ninth of the ordeal of the fourteen she recalled how he had told lier her that liis his g grandfather had died in th the e cold storage fire in the fair of 93 it had meant nothing to her but now she inquired of it and the next afternoon she was in the tribune tower asking to see the files of the paper for july 1893 so there upon the th brittle and yellowed page she read his name cathal martin allara Ol lara and she read what that cathal allara Ol OI lara aral nearly forty years ago had dared and done and how he be had died and his wife who had been young then had bad had to look on Win winnie tile that was winnie le who had been at the trial agnes went ent out to a taxi Wh winnie itile on tills this afternoon was home alone aishe often was and especially especially on the afternoons of tuesday and friday for then she baked dread bread first and next cales cakes she timed this baking to the school bells which at halt half past three would ring their release to the little girls and bys she stirred a great bowl of smooth golden batter did winnie nud and she poured a scant halt of it into tile the big round tin on for the family coke cake the bigger halt half by far winnie turned into her titis tins of dozens of little cu cupcakes peakes for the bys and girls girla and for them when they came site she had plenty of 0 milk in the icebox she had quarts of it today quarts beyond the family need for cheso were bitter times for them about liere here as well weil as for the rich or thern thein that had been rich so winnie sut sat ich will tier her huge bowl in her lap stirring the batter sin with mth her 14 big Ht iolen slown spi iiii tit I 1 be wady once igme for the childer clil lder bys unit and girls abid was its it II strange it was the hie little jirld amid 1 li ia s ir path vil A will I mitts mit ani ln ts i nr ir callita callI tl ill her li literl tIrl 11 ilo 4 10 PIE HE f |