Show dragons aragons drive D rl ve you 0 by R EDWIN BALMER service copyright by edwin balmer SYNOPSIS jeb braddon Er addon young and fantastically successful broker ot of chicago is iffat bated with agnes Glenel th 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 be mala analo a try for agnes before leaving in rod there Is a deeper obstinate decency than in jeb agnes aenes believes to be happy a girl must bind herself entirely to a man and have ad adorable babies rod visits agnes and tells her of his great desire but realizes it can never naver be fulfilled agnes mother Is attempting to regain her husbands love agnes has disturbing doubts as to what attracts her father in new york jeb tells agnes he be Is going to marry her and together they view an apartment in chicago jeb asks agnes to set an early date data but she tells him she cannot marry him when the agent mr colver offers to show them a furnished apartment jeb asks agnes aenes to see it alone saying he be must return to his bis office agnes consents and jeb leaves A radio Is blaring terrifically from one of the apartments colver raps upon the door which Is opened by a scantily clad girl who draws agnes into the room colver finds her bar husband charles lorrie fatally shot he calls the police myrtle lorrie asks ask s agnes to phone cathal omara a lawyer to come at once agnes does the pollee police take c harge charge omara arrives the officers are antagonistic to him agnes sides with omara agnes Is to be a witness at the coming trial carthals Cat hals grandfather and father had bad lost their lives in the line of duty as city firemen bremen and his grandmother winnie has built her all around cathal who being ambitious had worked his way through law school and heeding the appeal of the desperate and the despised cause has committed himself to the defense of criminal cases thoughts of agnes disturb cathal mr lorrie had cast off the wife who had borne him his daughter to marry myrtle and after two years of wedded life she had killed him the coroners jury myrtle to the grand jury agnes promises omara to review the case with him CHAPTER V continued 9 they told about bert ift 10 the papers this morning agnes suddenly said surprising him yes res said cathal because I 1 told them I 1 told the grand jury yesterday did you said cathal and watched her flush up to the roots of her fine straw yellow hair she had bad on a simple blue dress the same it was which she had wolfer worn for rod grid and in it she delighted this man too though she was not thinking of him now if I 1 they have indicted her ile he laughed reassuring her and she sat back nothing to do with the indictment and they knew about bert but they know hed called calle her at the flat while you T iacre ere there with her did you yon know that asked agnes certainly she told me oh her mother stirred herself how familiarly her daughter had been conversing with this criminal lawyer 1 you have just referred to your ellent client I 1 presume she said to cathal yes suddenly curiosity caught her against her intention does a woman like that tell her attorney all the truth about herself some do said cathal did she she told me about bert and her relations with her husband he knew it and he knew about bert that bert was in love with her and she was in love with bert ashes much like any other woman and he was just a husband made for himself too much money it if your daughter had happened to pass that door in the morning instead of the afternoon shed have seen a husband and wife like enough to a million others the way with a crime like murder especially murder mrs clenenth Glenel th it springs from nothing unusual just from the most usual things in the world it comes from the most human impulses pushed a bit further what are you yon talking about the life all of us are livin living 11 cathal replied without breakly bre breaking aklu g his calm and when one suddenly stops living it from being shot by his hia wife others can see plainer perhaps what up to take charles lorrie and his first wife and hla his second who shot him theres nothing strange in the three of them from start to finish capt exempt the length to which two ot of them went with their im pulses which two arnes agnes heard her mother ask lorrie and myrtle who after heo cast orr off her that bore his daughter da ulner to him then married him he started his trouble by what he be did yet he was following only the commonest impulses of men in middle life what impulse do you mean in fidelity infidelity Is the kindest form it takes cathal said lUn kindest dest 1 at least said Cat cathal lial sometimes the wife the real wife more often gets him back if she wants him bim but lorrie when he be fell under the delusion of the middle a aged led man making money become unfaithful he divorced his old wife instead and bought him a younger one 91 what do you call the delusion of the middle aged man making money agnes heard her mother press him on their imagination that marrying again have again their youth and that they can buy both body and soul of a woman of course its the money does it to them how flow does the money do it to them was her mother aware agnes wondered almost aghast what she was betraying tra ying or she care it if this man gave her a hint bint that would help her it lets the man deny his years cathal answered the mother as though he be noticed nothing of her intensity ile he makes only more money though growing older it seems a sign of strength greater instead of less with his years his wife she finds nothing in her doings to deny her years for her spending money do you will make a good witness said cathal it you got to make it its making money that gives proof which the wife cant match of his greater ability and attractions attractions 1 11 beatrice Glenel th repeated and cathal caught a twitch like wince so he said quickly lorrie knew better but they all do ile he knew it was his money not him that myrtle had bad to have she married him for it and she could have got of away with it and so 90 could he and ai ad been satisfied if he been happy in his marriage before it was that which proved the death of him that once hed been happy how breathed beatrice cathal confronted her have you not known happiness he said boldly and waited for no answer then how having bought her with money could he have with her the full of it she sold herself body bod and soul to him did myrtle whom your dau daughter h walked in on mrs glene Glenel I 1 th she tried to deliver her soul as well as her body to him but tile the soul deliver something sees to that tie he stopped and beatrice Glenel th remained standing waiting for him but charles corrle would have soul as well as body i having paid for it poor as her soul was he would have it once he had bad a wife body and soul you see so he be was spoiled polled tor for less and then there was bert so he began to beat up his young wife Al myrtle yrtle A trifle before two on that day lien hen later your daughter had the ill luck to be looking about tire the building with mr braddon th niles lorrie nent ent too far there afre certain cerr aln lind con fusions tu lIns n which your daugh ter placed as she was with myrtle could not have failed to see so I 1 must make sure of the manner of her memory of them and some other items of evl evidence dence agnes told him the morn morning ing after the after we were in that apartment and I 1 read the newspapers he here I 1 wrote down everything that I 1 knew id done the papers printed some things I 1 see and do and they agree with each other do no said cathal nave have you what you wrote in my room and she arose ill be right back in her room she bent before her desk and pulled out the drawer containing her own antl intimate mate sentimental miscellany she remembered now when she had started to tuck in with this medley the record of her meeting with myrtle lorrie she had bad stopped restrained by the feeling that this memorandum was utterly alien and contaminating toabe to the other contents of the drawer but she had no safer repository and so she had thrust it under the other things she withdrew it with no such exaggerated a ag offense at its utter stran strangeness ge myrtle into whose life agnes agne Glenel th had stumbled was no woman apart this evening in new york might her father be seeking some counterpart of myrtle and what of jeb twenty years from now or sixteen years or much less if he exhausted his happiness with her sooner ilow how actually had jeb offered himself hed give her all and shed give him all together while their cup contented them tip it up and drain it last drop of mutual emotion and then he would turn to some other woman and what would she do 1 I dont know glen and neither do you and I 1 dont care nor do you if we first have everything from each other but she did care she shifted in the drawer one of debs impetuous exciting letters and she touched for an instant and a almost with a caress the envelope which rod bad addressed to her and her mind clung to its quieter yet strangely stirring contents she closed the drawer and tool took downstairs the paper which preserved her impressions of that apartment wherein myrtle had bad seized upon her cathal arosa to receive from agnes the paper she had brought him and he remained sl standing andIng in fir tire the center of the room as he read agnes had dated the paper and at the top had written why she was recording at that time exactly what she had bad seen and heard and done and why she had done what she had cambal could catch its importance to his client elleria and at the same time look through this writing deep into the revelation of the nature of the girl who was watching him read how impossible to dissemble when one writes upon a page I 1 cathal had not seen agnes writing before and he looked up from this page she had bad written and realized as be had not her it multiplied in alin the most powerful a mans instincts most powerful in some men to protect a woman in her innocence to protect to possess her that was god help you cathal winnie would have cried with dread and fear for him could she have seen him look up from agnes memorandum to agnes agnes mother did see him but in her mind there lay between her daughter and this lawyer an able chasm chasin which she could not im noted french educator and author finds cultural trend in U S rising the cultural trend in america Is rising rapidly according to abble ernest well known french priest educator and author after an extensive lecture tour in america universities are making their requirements quire ments much more difficult thus forcing schools to raise their educational level said abbe princeton Is dropping 22 per cent of its students every year he continued be carse they could not make scholastic grade at the university of chicago students find that their courses demand so much attention that th at they have little left for the social occasions which formerly absorbed so much or their time dine abbe demmet 01 Is one of the lie few frenchmen who have attained distine dist lue agine him even in fancy attempting to cross indeed she left them alone a few minutes after cathal began to review in his clear competent way the items of evidence the fellow beatrice Glenel th decided was not offensive on the contrary he had a knack of dealing with most delicate subjects impersonally you will make a good witness cathal said for her said agnes or for or whom else asked cathal get her oil off agnes realized aloud as she looked at hl him she liked him she had liked him from the instant she saw him enter myrtles apartment where the police already were the people in the courtroom would like him the jury would like him the tall clock in tire the hall ball surprised agnes with its deep booming stroke of five the sun had cut its dimming radiance halt half across the room it caught carthals Cat hals head and agnes observed that his hair was not as she bad thoughts thought black but auburn of so deep a hue that only the direct sun brought out the red in it he had very nice hair and he had better hands in strength and shape than any other man she knew except rod his eyes were as blue as agnes knew her own to be this lawyer had eyes that could be cool competent practical and then you could catch him looking away like a dreamer a poet ill copy this then all ill need of you now he said how did you get into your business agnes suddenly asked him the law 1 I mean defending women like myrtle myrtie lorrie finally he said 1 I was offered what you would call a good start in a law firm after I 1 was admitted to the bar miss glendith Gl eneith he said it was with a firm highly approve knowing nothing but the name of the partners and the clients they serve you know some of them the clients daughters and sons som some live along this lakeshore lake shore making their money the men in the city your eatherd fat herd know many of them id done well enough in law school and made an acquaintance that got me the offer of the job but it entirely me they wanted it was more my connections connections said agnes INI mine lne such as they were which made me friends with some who had influence in fixing what others must pay to the support of the state and the city in taxes I 1 could be useful I 1 found in seeing real estate assessments sess ments adjusted and taxes reduced to make properties more profitable for those owning them I 1 was to be used in the tax cheating that was cutting the heart out of chicago 1 I dont understand said agnes watching him how would you dont think me putting myself above them that were asked to do what I 1 you see I 1 was stopped by a stake of my own which I 1 have in the city you mean property asked agnes wondering at PIS his feeling lle he shook sho ok his head no not property nothing I 1 own merely a a memory at least it made me thank them that offered tile me that job ani and turned me to criminal law taking the case of the myrtle lorries shootings ID S cleaner than what ile he was striking back agnes felt fell but not at her it was at others whom he felt in some way associate I 1 with her ber and how closely she wondered TO BE CONTINUED tion in english writing lie ile w was a s born in brelon and studied under the famous poet angelliea Ang An ellier pIller at the university of lille fie ue has made 19 trips to america where he gives lectures on different subjects when interviewed in the little library of his seventeenth century home borne near notre dame cathedral abbe spoke about tile the new book b 0 0 k tie he Is writing 1 I 1 am now corli working n g on the second volume of my autobiography said the abbe this volume Is entitled sly aly new world and concerns my activities in america abbe lauds americas recovery from the recent economic crisis declaring that the recovery seeing t to have coin sr se naturally natu nilly and slowly and therefore should be a lasting thin tiling |