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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Recompense IN the strength of the endeavor, In the temper of the giver, In the loving of the lover. Lies the hidden recompense. In the sowing of the sower. In the fleeting of the flower, In the fading of each hour, Lurks eternal recompense. Time WHERES SYNOPSIS Jeb Braddon, young and fantastically successful broker of Chicago, is Infatuated with Agnes Gleneith, beautiful daughter of a retired manufacturer Rodney, a doctor, In love with Agnes visits his brother, Jeb. Rod plans work at Rochester. Jeb suggests that he make a try for Agnes before leaving In Rod there is a deeper, obstinate decency, than in. Jeb. Agnes believes to be happy, a gir) must bind herself entirely to a man and have adorable babies. Rod visits Agnes and tells her of his great desire, but realizes it can never be fulfilled. Agnes' mother is to regain her husband's love Agnes has disturbing doubts as to what attracts her father in New York. Jet tells Agnes be is going to marry her. end together they view an apartment ' in Chicago. Jeb asks Agnes to set an early date, but she tells him she can- not marry him. When the agent, Mr Colver, offers to show 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 one of the apartments. Colver raps upon the door, which ia opened by a scantily rlad girl, who draws Agnes into the room. Colver finds her husband, Charles Lorrie, fatally shot. He calls the police Myrtle Lorrie asks Agnes to phone Cathal OMara, a lawyer,, to come at once. Agnes does. CHAPTER II 5 OMaras got to get me out .of this! He can get me out," Mrs Lor rle assured herself, if he wants to! . . . You stand by me! Im Myrtle-My- rtle Stiver Lorrie. You call me Myrtle I Youre Agnes. Agnes did not answer; she continued to step back away from the hands seeking her. She stared at the hands, white and soft and sensuous, and with scarlet stain on the nails; and she thought of one of those hands the right one holding a pistol, and that weak forefinger, with its scarlet stain, pulling the trigger once, twice three times? Some one rapped a demand for admittance upon the door; and Colver opened it. Three men had come, none of them in uniform; but they were the police. They stepped in, instantly the door was opened. The nearest man was the shortest of the three, but he was tall enough; he was straight and and He was and there wiry. was gray in his hair. Agnes bad no need to be told that he was in command of the other two men, both big ger than he, and younger. The last man in had quickly closed the door behind him, and be posted himself with his back against it; the other man advanced with his leader. Agnes found that she bad retreat ed, as they came in, or she had let Myrtle Lorrie pull her back to the center of the room ; for she was standing there with Myrtle Lorries arms clasped tight about her. These police In ordinary clothes .were looking at her at her and Myrtle Lorrie. You live here? the gray man said to Myrtle. Youre the wife? not answer; sn . But the wife did Yes, she lives here; shes Agnes did. the wife. Who are you?I I dont live here, said Agnes. to come in. Just happened You mean youre a friend of hers? alert-lookin- gray-eye- and said to ner: Mr. Nordeil is an ly what Myrtle Lorries soft, sensuous assistant states attorney. Miss Gleneith this is Miss Agnes hand had done. How many times had she shot her husband? Gleneith, Mr. Nordeil is a daughter That petty, particular curiosity of Robert C. Gleneith. She says, and How Dolega jerked toward ColAgnes. strangely plagued long he says they had been married. How long ver that he was showing her a flat; and they just happened to come in had it been? here. It looks as if it might be so. to had ask she it, Agnes though It is so, said Agnes; but fear for How spoke in that awful silence. had reached her at last. herself were came married? It long you Ready to look at it? Dolega asked . out in a whisper. the attorney. Two years, Myrtle Lorrie whis Agnes eyes followed Dolegas gray two back. My God, pered years! From the bedroom there came no head and Mr. Nordells round, bald at the crown of his head as they word nor voice of any sort merely a spot went to the bedroom. It was at this succession of slight, rasping, mechan moment that she realized that they leal sounds. were not going to that room merely Myrtle Lorrie could stand this no to see what was there, but that their She dragged herself up until longer. was to collect proof that Myrshe supported herself on her own feet; purpose tle Lorrie had killed her husband, so and she screamed. She convulsed her that could have her killed have arms tighter, but her scream gave her they in her turn, taken from her life, Agnes strength to throw her off. AgHer warm, soft, sensuous life that nes was free, and she staggered off she loved sol Agnes gazed at her, from her, shivering. huddled in her big chair, her sensaO. K., Ulrich? calmly inquired a tions sweeping over her ; she was voice from the bedroom. frightened as she had not been before. Go right ahead, replied Ulrich; Whens he goin to come? she but footsteps, which proved to be Do Oh, God, whens gasped at Agnes. legas, approached. At sight of him he goin to come? Myrtle Lorrie stumbled backward and Who? said Agnes. Bert? For dropped into her big soft chair. suddenly she remembered Myrtle's cry Some change glowed in Lieutenant into the phone: Oh, God, Bert! Dolegas eyes; and his lips, when he Who was Bert, and what was he to His her? spoke, moved less than before eyes noticed none of the others; from Myrtle pinked from one of the hot the moment he reappeared, he cen flushes that swept her, and then went tered on Myrtle. Shut up about Bert! she pale. Well, he said, I saw whats done. gasped, barely audibly. Wheres that Who did it? damn lawyer of mine? 1 dont knowl I dont know! So it was not horror that swept her Were you here? horror at what she had done. That 1 tell No ; I came in you 1 came must have been in It, but chiefly it I came In! she was shrieking now. was fear, and her longing for life, for her own sensations to continue in her soft, warm body, no matter what she had done. There was a new knock at the door. It was not loud; the man was not striking with his knuckles. He tapped with a finger-tiwhich said: Take your choice: admit me or take the consequences. Ulrich opened the door. "I'm coming in, Ulrich. Ulrich let him in; and his presence was like an alarm, calling Nordeil and Dolega from the bedroom; and the fourth man (some one called him Jensen) followed them. So the three s and the assistpolice in ant states attorney confronted the young man who had come In. He was tall but not quite so tall as Jeb and Rod. Why did Agnes mind suddenly flee to them? Her thought caught them only in a flash of com parison; for this man was of their age, with some quality like Rod or like Jeb; which was it? She was confused, responding to the new emotional tension. The feeling of conflict filled the room. These men were antagonists one against the four. The one by himself stood easily, but on watch. He was not on guard; for to feel one on guard, you feel him thrown back into an attitude of deShut Up About Bert!" She Gasped, fense. It was the four who confrontBarely Audibly. ed him who, you felt, were on guard; would, he was alone, but it was was! Oh, my God, in; and there he strike. at the opportunity, there he was Agnes did not begin to comprehend So what did you do? how her presence Influenced everyWhat? thing that followed. It was her Intru What did you do! You took off slon and the consequent Involvement on the radio your clothes and turned of Agnes Gleneith in the murder of and sat here, Dolega supplied. He Charles Lorrie that the case would spoke, almost casually, to Colver. flirn upon. OMara had had nearly The pistol back there; did you pick twenty minutes in which to appreciate it up? that fact; and he had required not Yes, sir; I saw there were four one he had felt it Immediately. chambers discharged;, then I put it You're quick on a case, OMara back right where it was. If incautiously Nordeil cut at him. Now 1 Dolega turned to Agnes. need your name. Agnes gave it If it meant anything to him, he did not betray the fact. Where do you live? ' She told him. Thought waves will be the means of Who was you with when you persons thousands of miles enabling came? to communicate with one anapart would shook her she head; Agnes not tell She was in this, but she other, according to Professor an Italian mental specialist. would keep Jeb out. She was In no condition to appreciate that this was He says there are three communicating disks in the human body one impossible. on the right side of the neck, one bea outer was noise in the There hall. Some one knocked in a sharp, tween the calf and the ankle, one behind the index finger of the right hand commanding manner. Professor Callegaris describes one of in heard the Hello, Ulrich, Agnes silence which , ensued when the door his recent experiments as follows: Two nurses were blindfolded and was opened. Ulrich repeated a name which Ag- seated ten feet apart, facing each othnes did not catch; and he admitted er. A small capsule of aluminium was with some deference, a man of me- placed on each nurses neck at the and half spot where the human receiving and dium height, bald. He was altogether different from transmitting apparatus is supposed to the first three. He was whiter, and be situated. One of the nurses was softer of flesh and. wore the marks asked to transmit her thoughts on a of education along with his authority. subject in which both were interested, Mr. Nordeil, Dolega called 'him, and the other to try to receive the mes were stooping, probably, to see exact- g d, - No. How did you happen to come in? Ill tell you, Colver now hurried to help her. "Ill tell you. Lieutenant Dolega. I was showing her, and the gentleman with her, some apartments! I had them upstairs; then the gentleman had to go; but she stayed. We heard the radio going in here; we knocked Colvers quick, incoherent words ran over each other, and Lieutenant Dolega let .him go on. At the end, he asked one question: Where is it? said Colver; and Down there, Lieutenant Dolega and the other man moved away. The man at the door had a notebook in his hand, and his pencil kept writing. Lieutenant Dolega and his man, who had accompanied him, were walking very slowly. Would they never get there? Agnes pulsed with Impatience. The calmness, the deliberation of these police in ordinary clothes, tantalized her. She watched them slowly pro . ceed, studying the walls and the floor of the passage; when they were out of sight, she listened for some outcry such as Mr. Colver had made. But there was none. They must have reached it this girl's husband, shot and dead upon the floor. They had stopped and . 1 p plain-clothe- he-wh- 1 you were a surgeon, they couldnt call you an ambulance chaser. You leave it behind. Did you start from your oilice after or before the shootiug? The tension In Agnes feeling tightened. So these men not only were antagonists, but they had fought before, bitterly and without forgiveness on one side, at least. She took sides; she could not help it. The man whom she had asked to come stood before the four and a little Whatever else away from the wall. he was, he was incomporable to any of them; his was the mold of another order of man. It had shaped his head so that your eyes lingered looking at him lingered on the line of his good Ups that he kept shut lest he speak too soon, on the cleft of his clean-cu- t chin, on his fine broad brow and his bold black hair. He held his head with a little lift that you liked He stepped unhindered past the police and to the center of the room, where Myrtle Lorrie clung to her refuge in her soft chair. Im OMara, he said to her. Did you ask for me? She caught bis band but he disen- gaged it Did you ask Miss Gleneith to send for me? Yes. For Gods sake, save me, save me ! I must find how. things are. MeanHe spoke in a lower while, you tone, swiftly, his voice continuing in But now definite, curt admonitions. Nordeil and Dolega were beside him; there was a clash of words from which emerged a sudden truce Im taking you out of this, Martin OMara said to Agnes Gleneith, Not all the looking down at her. way out, Im sorry to say; well be long before being through with you. But weve no need to keep you here, distressing you, when so many more must soon be coming. Many more? repeated Agnes, looking up at him. Faith, he said, faith, theyve barely begun to come. How gentle he could be, this best damn lawyer In town who could face off four men and lay down his own conditions of truce with them! The very way of his words was altered, when he spoke to her. No accent crept in; he spoke as before, but he let you feel, through the phrases that came to him unbidden, his closeness and accustom to plain people of ready emotion and sentiment, and simple speaking. One thing well be needing, he added. Its him who came with you. Youve not named him, I hear; but its got to be. Who was he? Jeb Mr. Braddon, said Agnes. Judson E. Braddon. You and he came here, 1 took it, not knowing these people. No. You came to look over these apartments, because you were marrying. Yes, said Agnes, because we were marrying. And this brought her back to that; she had come here considering the idea of marrying Jeb; that meant becoming his wife in rooms like these upstairs. . . . She could never, never move into such rooms now. She looked at the girl in the big How could she do it? soft chair. she whispered her horror to OMara. When such a He shook his head. thing is done, you dont do it. No; Its your you never do it, he said. dragons you have in you that drive you to it. Your dragons? What do you mean? You know naught of them? , . . God has been good to you. (TO BE CONTINUED) the use of Sorrow as you may, Time is always flying Flying! and defying Men to say him nay. Wheres the use of sighing? Henley. 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