Show Z T T ta DRIVE I 1 CHAPTER VIII continued 14 for the taking what made laade of the lire life of another of a man you had married martin omara had said to tier when lost last he was hereon here on saturday when a wife kills a husband no one else ever finds out why to save her life shell ner tell even en tier her at torney more than a part she abot sl him and the fact speaks for or itself hp you were ere tile the fullness of tier reason first to see tier her afterward yes tes said agnos agnes then you vou can best judge for yourself no one who was not there can call tell you as well what you should to do anes agnes A nes arose and dressed ion long before breakfast time though site she knew she s lic would not be summoned ODed to court today coth both mr nordell and martin 0 had told tier her that they would move moie for the exclusion of witnesses except when and in a trial tor for murder the judge would so order the in morning orning paper came and there again was agnes glendith on the page ge beside martle lorrie and martin comara UMi ira sir slie guyed once more at the placid confident countenance of charles lor fie who hid had cast off the wife who nho had mar man led ed him when they both were young and who hu lint had borne hin him ills his daughter here was that aliat wife ilfe stella corrle as now she was nas and here was their daughter janet she was seventeen and she had been graduated from a high school in wisconsin last week and had accompanied her mother yesterday to chicago to be beside tier mother ollier oi today when stella the first wife if sat eat at the trial of mrtle mirtle the lie second wife wifel did any other word in all the language langua gt describe or fall to describe as many different relations both of these had been wives and of the same man and one had borne lilio jilin a baby and the other had killed him here was bert myrtles bert oh god bert what part had he be played in tile the killin hilling 0 some sald said and jeb was one of them that the existence of bert and the ile insurance on the lie life of charles lorrie completely explained tile lie I 1 w liole hole occurrence myrtle had find shot her husband to go 90 olt oil with will bert and nd 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 the moment when myrtle lorrie first clung to her that she had not come in uvon upon a wife who alio find biad just killed her husband because of another man mail and to collect his insurance it was very warm at the jail and sultry and sticky myrtle perspired even when she sat still after slie she had dressed tor for the courtroom she wore her platinum wedding ring and her eap engagement gement ring sapphires sapp hires and diamond set la in platinum and she turned them nervously on tier her lamp damp finger she had bad figured 11 ared when she held up of tier finger for him film to slip them on it that slie she could get away with marriage with him why not marriage just living ja 9 with a man that really all there was to it hed give her a lot of money more than shed ever eier seriously dreamed of having nod and shed give him loving but hers do they were coming for her to take her to court to be tried for the mu murder r of Cli charley arley damn it she never meant to kill blin alm just to make mahe him leave her alone sometimes stella would be tn in the courtroom stella whom hed given tile the gate gale but who yet had showed up tip myrtle as a wife and lover well stellah Ste Stell llad nd had an advantage shed loved the fathead shed not had to try to to loe P him think log ing of somebody else cant you keep her out the blie bad asked cathal Catt ial not if she wants to come 11 stella aint so frightful for forty some men might like tier her yet A arent rent you going to have the jury men toan yes said cathal Cat lial then tile lie ones I 1 cant get from stella 11 agnes can ill tell you theres one type of man that never liked me the type ill lukca es agnes ill bet you so hae agnes there for me mc Agn agnes esil cathal carlial objected how bow I 1 think of her you say sudden terror took its turn agnes aint going to throw mp DIP Is she she aint no tte said bald cathal hut bill aishe wont be there r e when hen you first come in myrtle lorrie would have given in much ucb this morning if she could have counted on agnes aenes presence in the courtroom where she was to be tried for her life she was not in the theold id jail but in the new one on the west side of ohp city for together with all other prisoners awaiting trial she he had bad been moved anto the fine fillet modern modem structure of stone and steel directly la in the rear of the new imposing criminal courts building of cook county myrtle almyrtle was now in the courtroom stella was staring at herl and she was staring at stella she take her eyes oft off stella and beside stella was charleys kid h where T was 8 somebody ody for her some body that counted bud and could do where v was agal T Is Genel Glenel th oh good why S in h hell bell she here the damn 1 roeln roots was full of 0 people staring but you see thew them ex capt stella and charleys kid myrtle did her best to take lake lt it for two days the they Y fought over the lury jurl it was waa before mr u by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin calmer balmer service nordell ont outlined lined to lo the to 12 wen men ot at last selected and the newspaper repeated to nil all who read the case against myrtle hirtle lorrie it ns as bail bad tor for tier ie very had bad ns as witness illness lifter witness It ness built it up it was much oise than agnes lind had expected agnes lead it nt at hoille amine tor por the suite blate had decided nt not to call tier lier and a martin omari omara told tier thit that h he e could give ber nt at leat two hours warning lefoie bettit e lie ni would put ul tier on the witness stand she felt shaky anil and half lik slik s again these were matters about lr ile aich which martin omara 0 mira might not have bale known about liis ills client yet now lie had heard them find and lie continued to defend tier her Ind Inde reil eiT it was plain lie was A lighting for tier only more hotly the miters spoke especially of how lie fought when mr air nordell put a question that might have bae a dima gln ing an answer tile the defense attorney leaped to ills his foot feet 1 I object your honor I 1 I 1 object overruled 11 said the judge and told mr nordell to proceed aith the hie witness I 1 I 1 take nn an exception I 1 inception I 1 omara 0 mara struck back nt at tile the judge a agnan nin and again agnes could not curn y understand it wit but she could frel feel the fight in it jeb brought ought with him that night the late editions which ent carried ried the report of tile the afternoon session of th the e trial it was vas worse for myrtle and for agnes lhnn tile the mornings morning s disclosures some of it job road read to tier her some he left to her to read to herself now I 1 glen what are aou ou going to do im going on jeb I 1 have to I 1 not as a defense witness 11 1 I have to ir if lie he calls me ile 11 repeated jet jeb hell call you but sou can give ghe him ill n asui on the stand ilow how when lie questions you you see now you must see now how things were slie she was double crossing her husband for her cert bert shu elie cathal telephoned to agnes at nine that night it looks he said as if the state will rest tomorrow morning marnin if its not IJ 7 I 1 j he seated himself restlessly upon another chair too noar dear noon ill put on my first witnesses ut at one I 1 figure ill ask you to go 90 on oil in HIP afternoon say two tuo clock yes said agues agnes TI ill I 1 lie be there will you of course I 1 will what had happened to tier her distress bistre ss and disturbance lie he was lighting fighting be had been lighting fighting all ail day and was spent but bill with the fight still in him slie she could feel it in his voice anti and she aligned herself again with will him flows the trial going r really enily It eally repeated cuthal cathal 1 mean with you you know ho bow w many of those things are true the papers pers dont do they no said cathal Cat lial but some of the things are true enough hut but got nothing not liing to do with whether bother she did murder ril all agnes hung up but sat by the telephone without stirring she was warm and excited and satisfied us 08 she had not been all day i it was eleven next morning when she left the house with will her mother and itee bee they avoided tile the train simmons drove them in the lie big car to the city where I 1 they hey picked up jeb then they stopped lit at a quiet little restaurant where they could be alone and where job jeb had had luncheon ordered lo in advance the noonday was very hot the heat indeed supplied the third topic to the people of tile the city the others were the further advance in stocks and tile the trin rial today it seemed almost more the trial ot of agnes Glenel th than ut ot myrtle lorile today agness pictures and tier her name exceeded myrtles in size and display A agnes goes had ceased to care what they said even about herself she sat at the restaurant table be side jeb and alth lift lier her mother opposite and lice bee beside nor her and looked down at jellied con consomme simme in the oil cup before tier she tier lier spoon into tile the cup but not to her lips job jeb could eat hee bee could eat tier lier mother could a little agnes sipped leed tea what myrtle jorrge had done and mint agnes Glenel Gle th was to support tier lier in having bavin done clone divided any group of people they did not debate whether she blie had shot her husband that was wa undisputed it was whether slie site should have shot him or not or at least Nili whether ether haling lone done so site she should now be punished further furl lier jet was against lier her jeb alio to if agnes would marry him would tip up ili the lie cup of sensation with nith her drain drahn it to the last drop while mille they both ii were ere loung boung and then alien why he said think now of that iler her mother had no pity for myrtle her mother who ho had given aven hersal hers tiers cl if to tier her love aben when youns young and who now nos nas being neglected for fo another bee somewhat bat lesi les surely wa wanted 11 I 1 cd myrtle convicted not electrocuted but imprisoned at least until she was wag old until for tier her the life of sensation ceased martin omara would justify and free her anil and not because he would make money hy by it ile he could have made money fixing taxes but ha be would not emotionally this sot ot of case ni appealed pealed to him film lie he wanted to defend cases like this lie ife would get myrtle olt off the talk at the table changed nothing simmons drove them at last to the criminal courts building A crowd itney the curb people were everywhere in front everywhere inside windows of all ail the courtrooms were open photographers formed the edge of the he lane that was opened agnes never knew until she elie saw the pictures in the papers the fol following lowin day how she got from the car to the doors of the court an elevator lifted them to tile the hallway outside the courtroom where lorrie was being tried and there they met 0 omara mara ile he led beatrice glendith and beatrice Ayre forth into the courtroom anti and then returned to agnes and job jeb in the hall tie one witness to finish with before you he said to agnes hell be on when we start again in a few minutes ile he wont take long and he showed agnes and job 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 0 conflict filled died it not strange with jeb and martin omara with her in the little room I 1 cathal at least outwardly was the cooler of the two ile he wore a light suit of dark gray and he had bad just changed ills his linen and tile the excitement which he controlled gave cave him better bearing im illa sorry the days so hot I 1 miss Gl glendith Glenel eneith th tie he said 1 I dont mind dont bother about me please and dont worry ill try not to lose my head bead cathal caught breath looking at her in tier her light simple dress not ill ask you only what you 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 re returning turg to to the courtroom catlin cathal hurried away agnes stood stock still for a ion long minute and jeb merely stared at her her when at last she dropped down upon one of the straight hard chairs he seated himself restlessly upon another these two had nothing left to E say ely ly only at last when agnes was summoned to the courtroom lie he got up with tier her but lie he parted with her at the door of the witness roo room in good girl V he be said so id and gave her ills his hand and good luck glen and then to save himself he could not hol hold d back the gibe as she went to be 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 stood for a moment facing tile the courtroom she had been sworn facing the judge who ho was beside her now flow at tier her right and a little behind tier her tile the jury twelve men in two rows were at her left lefi A court reporter with pencil and ills his book op 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 lorrie seated at a table agnes would hardly have known myrtle had not the newspaper pictures of recent days prepared her le 1 r for her present appearance myrtle was in black with not e even V en a touch of color except a piping of white will te in tile the neck ot of her dress and on the sleeves sleeve black became tier her and made her lo 10 look ok even younger and slighter than she sha was and it made 11 her er skin whiter she had on no rouge at all and little or no lipstick she looked not in the least like a killer mr nordell was a few feet from her seated at another table with two younger men with books and papers that was as the table of the state B beyond were benches row after row where people sat and leaned foiw forward ard YOU ou could feel agnes felt the clash of the c conflict which swayed them TO BE CONTINUED |