Show DRAGONS DRIVE YOU by EDWIN CALMER BALMER Copy copyright rIcht by r edwin dav in calmer balmer service SYNOPSIS jeb braddon young and fantastically successful broker of chicago Is iffat dated with agnes Gle glenette beautiful daughter of 0 a retired manufacturer rodney a doctor in love with agnes his brother job jeb rod nod plans work at rochester jeb suggests that he make it a try tor for agnes before leaving in rod nod there la Is a deeper c obstinate decency than in jeb rod visits visit agnes and tells tier her of his great desire but realizes it can never be fulfilled tuini led agnes another Is attempting to regain her husbands husband love agnes has disturbing doubts as to what hat attracts her father in new york jeb tells agnes he Is going to marry her and together they view an apartment in chicago jeb asks agnes to set an early date but she he tells him film she cannot marry him when the gent agent mr colver otters offers to show how them a furnished apartment jeb asks agnes to see it alone saying he must return to his office agnes consents and jeb leaves A radio Is blaring terrifically from rom one of the apartments colver raps upon the door which Is opened by a scantily clad girl who draws agnus agnes into the room colver finds her husband charles lorrie fatally shot H lie calls the police myrtle corrle I asks agnes to phone cathal omara a lawyer to come com at once agnes does the police take charge omara arrives the officers are antagonistic to him agnes aides with omara agnes Is to be a witness at the coming trial carthals Cat hals grandfather and father had lost their lives in the line of duty as city firemen and his grandmother winnie has built her all around cathal who being ambitious had worked his way through law school thoughts of agnes disturb cathal mr lorrie had cast oft the wife who had bad borne him his daughter to marry Al myrtle yrtle and after two years of wedded life she had killed him the coroners jury holds myrtle to the grand lury jury agnes promises omara to review the case with him when cathal calls mrs Glenel th asks questions regarding marital problems in the hope that she he might get a solution to her own problem CHAPTER V continued to 10 than much that Is done in a city he replied to tier lier where do you live agnes asked bilm with sudden directness what am I 1 you mean besides a criminal lawyer I 1 live now near milwaukee avenue in the city but I 1 was born on archer as was my father your father too cathal smiled 1 I know why you ask you wonder why I 1 speak so when it was my grandfather that canoe came over and he be a lad ad ills his father brought him in the steerage and on another ship at sea at the time was the girl the lad was to meet on archer road and marry your grandmother the same see her at the trial she comes to all im defending does your father too hes gone said cathal ne was a city fireman and his father before him he ele my grandfather was one ot of the twenty that went to the top of the tower of the cold storage building at the worlds fair when it burned he was one of them that died that day as each of them did in line of duty miss Glenel th said cathal proudly and ills his son my father died like him in line of duty for chicago my stake in the city I 1 mentioned who can have more would I 1 sell it out by fixing taxes for clients for my living ill take the defense of myrtle lorrie as ive taken others but its my speech that still surprise you it if you knew winnie winnie Wi nole asked agnes the grandmother I 1 mentioned she might have come over sixty hours in stead of sixty years ago do you know padraic colum the irish poo poet and writer who was over here on tow tou a few years ago 11 1 I abent ent to hear him speak said ag nes wondering what now was coming so did I 1 said cathal for thy they told me hed been going g through ire land having repeated to him the last of the old celtic tales that had neier neer seen print ile he was collecting them to write them all down I 1 told him hed been wasting his bis time traveling lie ile should haie come straight to chi cago and held hed have I beard eard them all from winnie and I 1 found in fact she had one hed neier neer beard from any other the strange thin thing it was always my favorite you knew it knew it I 1 rocked and reared on them and this I 1 could never hear enough the green beir bear nf f Babble tree 11 tie he was holding agnes memorandum of what myrtle lorrie had said and done after having shot her husband and suddenly aware of it he contrasted it to the matter in his mind and smiled the women miss Glenel cleidth th used to ls le much more enduring he said rhey certainly put up with more in those days j what bays of the old tales lales take her that thai loved lorei tin the green vear icar of Babble tree ille 1 lie meen sn cn alear I 1 eair w asis as of course right ly IY A dillrie lill 1111 rie m tier true irue line ime Catli Cat halcon il con 11 ii rin ilia though he was in his horrible guise she must recognize the soul of 0 him and seven long years must she follow him over the fiery mountain though he might never so much as turn to look at her once if she perseveres through the seven years year she breaks the spell hes tier her prince find and she has him does doe 4 she said agnes she does through everything ne he repeated green bear of Babble tree turn thou and look to me seven long years ive followed thee over the fiery mountain ile he had gone agnes was lying wit eyes closed on the chaise longue in her bedroom bedr ooin when she heard tier her sisters voice bee went ent in first to see tier her mother so agnes had a few minutes more of dreamy reverie before her sister pushed her feet more to the side and sat down facing tier her it was six your friend myrtles lawyer said bee seems to have queerly affected other mother what did she say to you your that perhaps wed misunderstood your murderous little friend myrtle Al yrtle lie ile certainly has done something else to mother too yes what is it agnes 1 11 I think she came to see somewhat differently why fathers doing what lies hes probably doing bee the dark head covered by its smart little toque looked away all rl right ht if he helped her the dark one wandered to the window chos that jeb slight might be said agnes sitting up op jeb had had an exceptionally profitable flab le day and on no day within recent memory had bad business been bad the market for stocks ralls rails industrial utilities oils amusements wis was soaring today it had bad been almost a runaway bankers merchants clerks barbers bootblacks shop girls dentists assistants hairdressers hair dressers manicurists elevator boys street sweepers everybody young or old ehll enlightened or I 1 illiterate capable or stupid with millions or with a scraped up dollar or two was playing the market and whatever their state of mind or of body or soul they were all making money jeb was exultant ile had never been so right ne he had had made money not only for himself but every elle client nt for whom he traded and whom he advised ue he had lived in a chorus of acclaim and gain all day lie he ran halfway upstairs to meet agnes coming down G glen len what a day I 1 we can do anything th D g we like anything when dousay you say the word I 1 ile he caught her up on the landing now say it why not lot oh you little fool why not that damned trial well marry and come back tor for it or ill get you out of it you cant jeb was that trish irish shyster here jeb jeba I 1 did you yon see the papers this afternoon ive left them to in the car they were downstairs to together ether sweet scented situation gomaras OM aras trying to profit on lorrie it seems was as insured for two hundred thou sand dollars fifty of which he be had bar left in the name of his first wife as beneficiary but dear little myrtle had seen that he had tier her written in ns as beneficiary for one hundred and fifty thousand the companies paid today the fifty thousand to the first wife whom he divorced but holding up payment of the hundred and fiat fifty to sweet little myrtle it if ashes cleared by omara myrtle gets the lie hundred and fifty thousand insurance as an ad dit ional reward for the sh shooting noting 11 CHAPTER VI davis Ayre forth lay awake in the dark i oth his wife asleep in the bed beside its his tie lie was not happy and lie was trying to figure out what he could do differently in or arr 0 o male make bee admire him she still loved him he believed tor for her let it be a proof of love that his bis wife physically did nothing to in respect to another man to which he could cold take exception and that B continued e d without compi complaint aint indeed only too complaisantly to be his nife ife so dails said to himself she loves me she loves we me but she admires jeb moe mo e she admire me at all its because jeb Is making so much money dails argued with himself money Is all jeb has that I 1 got its not more money she wants for herself lier or for me or for the boys but she wants me to make more money ive got to make more money a lot loi of money as much as jeb braddon I 1 can do it ile he has nothing on me jeb as eiery one knew bad made millions for himself to such a star davis batched bitched the weak wagon or 0 his abilities as he wrestled in the dark with his disappointments bals dals business was canning a good business in chicago sate safe arid and steady though never spectacular and well suited to davis who bo was by nature a safe steady person though he tried not to appear so lie he was thirty two a cheerful healthy stocky man of medium height thoughtful of if others and tireless when lie he set out to do anything yet it all seemed only to amuse its his wife even his excellence in golf which once she mie had admired seemed to amuse tier her now tie he did not cot 1 ft by lona now became the measure oli 0 a man the old slow blow conservative scale of 0 progress was gone salary dogged dependable work was waa nothing A man went out in cheso days and made millions million sl dals bals did not want to do it at all lie was for himself exactly suited but bee his wife the mother of his boys believed jeb the better man job jeb thrilled her her husband though she loved him bored her there sas mas that fellow C allitt who hail had come around to the office the other day ulab ith ken they were forming a company for underwriting new investments real estate developments there was millions in it they said wil millions lioni they wanted him to become a partner and put about a hundred thousand J into it hed fled thanked them and hardly thought of it davia dails turned again with more hopefulness toward the dark head on the pillow of the other bed it was a month later that the resignation Igna of davis Ayre forth as tre treasurer of a canning company took effect and lie he sold back to the officers of the company all his stock day darts s also sold sixty five of his best bonds for it happened that collatt had somewhat underestimated under estimated the new capital required and so davis put up not one hundred hut but a hundred and fifty I 1 thousand dollars but the firm of collitt Ayre Ay forth I 1 and was formed and promptly promoted and marketed their first investment line myrtle lorrie corrle who now for over a month had bad been in jail decided to invite agnes to visit her myrtle was not having much of a time she was confined of course to the quarters of the jail and therefore to the company of other girls and women awaiting trial most of them were nere accused of serious offenses for they had not been admitted to hall agnes on the morning that Il myrtle yrtle i missive arrived had bad risen for breakfast with her father she the light one and bee the dark one always had bad had breakfast with him when they were children lie he was never too hurried to joke with them and he be produced from his pockets surprises on occasion of thimble I 1 i NJ I 1 im not marrying jeb this spring or summer father like things that inflated into bunnies and miraculous buds that needed only to float in a finger bowl to flower it was fun un to ave breakfast with fattier father I 1 tier her mother so invariably had bad risen with him that ames agnes never had bad pictured breakfast v without them i er udell last fall her mother ceased to come down before tier her father left I 1 i the house tills this signalized signalizes some dee decline line in the I 1 re latinas of tier patents which agnes felt but did not let herself define I 1 talked nith your mother about I 1 summer plans light one he sud denly olem demanded one sunny morning no y what are they fattier father you rp to make them 1 I hew largely by what you do theres there a I 1 the trial first of course but i moving that along then eliat list with you light one you mean about jeb it im not marrying jeb this spring or this summer fattier father because of us 1 I dont know why not father oh I 1 dont know why not lie had to turn away agnes saw the lawn and their i shore of the lake that she loved through the file mist of tears what and aho was she that counted with alth him more than tier her mother and her and all his memories here what could she beito be i to him to mean so much tier her father was thinking of that person unknown to his daughter aughter and scarcely more defined to his wife but whom its his wife had called cash ca cash ab I 1 what a 9 name for her it had been fastened upon her by his wife and in this manner on friday of last week which was the first of the month beatrice ulen glen alth had gone to chicago in the forenoon for shopping and she was to remain in the city tor for the afternoon concert of the chicago orchestra for twenty five tive years she had two seats which she had shared on special days throughout the years with her hus band TO BE of INTEREST TO THE ift HOUSEWIFE HOUSt drain all juices from fresh or canned fruits store in ice box and use for fruit cocktails or sher bets 0 0 ha hard 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