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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Belief in Self DRAGONS DRIVE YOU 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. Rod visits Agnes and tells her of bis great desire, but realizes it can never 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 is going to marry her, and together they view an apartment in Chicago. Jeb asks Agnes to set an early date, but she tells him she cannot 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 is opened by a scantily clad girl, wflo draws Agne? 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. The police take charge. OMara arrives. The officers are antagonistic to him. Agnes sides with OMara, Agnes is to be a witness at the coming trial. Cathals 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 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 holds Myrtle to the grand jury, Agnes promises OMara to review the case with him. When Cathal calls Mrs. Gleneith asks questions regarding marital problems, in the hope that she might get a solution to her own be much more enduring," he said. They certainly put up with more in those days." What days? ' Of the old tales. Take her that loved the Green Bear of Babbletree. The Green Bear was, of course, right ly a prince, her true love, Cathal con tinued, but hideously bewitched. But though he was in his horrible guise, she must recognize the soul ot him. and seven long- years must she follow him over the fiery mountain though he might never so much a3 turn to look at her once. If she persevees through the seven years, she breaks the spell; hes her prince; and she has him." Does she?" said Agnes. He She does, through everything. repeated : - Bear of Babbletree, Turn, thou, and look to me: Seven long years Ive followed thee. Over the fiery mountain. Green He had gone. Agnes was lying with in her eyes closed on the chaise-longu- e bedroom, when she heard her sisters Bee went in first to her voice. se CHAPTER V Continued 10 Than much that is done in a city, he replied to her. Where do you live? Agnes asked him, with sudden directness. What am 1, you mean besides a criminal lawyer? I live now near Milwaukee avenue in the city; but I was born on Archer, as was my father." Your father, too?" I know why you Cathal smiled. ask. You wonder why I speak so, when it was my grandfather that came over, and he a lad. 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. Youll see her at the trial. She comes to all Im defending. Does your father too?" Hes gone, said Cathal. He was a city fireman, and his father before him. He my grandfather was one of the twenty that went to the top of the tower of the Cold Storage build' ing, at the Worlds Fair, when it burned. He was one of them that died that day, as each of them did in line of said Cathal duty, Miss Gleneith, And his son, my father, proudly. died like him, in line of duty for Chicago. Thats my stake in the city, 1 Who can have more? mentioned. Would 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 wouldnt if you knew Winnie. Winnie? asked Agnes. The grandmother 1 mentioned. She might have come over sixty hours inDo you stead of sixty years ago. Irish the Padraic know Colum, poet and writer, who was over here on tour a few years ago? I went to hear him speak,"- said Agnes, wondering what now was coming. For they So did I, said Cathal. told me hed been going through Ireland having repeated to him the last of the old Celtic tales that had never seen print. He was collecting them to write them all down. I told him hed been wasting his time traveling. He should have come straight to Chicago, and hed have heard them all from Winnie. And I found, in fact, she had one hed never heard from any other. The strange thing, it was always my favorite. You knew It? Knew it? Wasnt I rocked and reared on them? And this 1 could never hear enough the Green Bear of Babbletree. 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 Gleneith, used to . v , ... , - - j ! Im Not Marrying Jeb This Spring or Summer, Father.. ': 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 her. It was six , oclock. Your friend Myrtles lawyer, said Bee, seems to have queerly affected Mother. What did she say to you? That perhaps wed misunderstood your murderous little friend Myrtle. He certainly has done something else to Mother, too. Yes. What is it, Agnes?" think she came to see somewhat differently why Fathers doing what hes probably doing, Bee. The dark head, covefed by its smart All right, little toque, looked away. if he helped her. . . . , The . Dark One wandered to the 1 window. Whos that? Might be, Jeb? said Agnes, sitting up. not? Oh, you little fool, why not . . . . That damned trial! Well marry and come back for it Or Ill get you out of it!" You cant, Jeb." Was that Irish shyster here? Jeb ! Did you see the papers this afternoon? Ive left them In the car. . . . They were downstairs together. situation O Maras trying to profit on. Lorrie, It seems, was insured for two hundred thou sand dollars fifty of which he had left in the name of his first wife as beneficiary; but dear little Myrtle had seen that he had her written in as beneficiary for one hundred and fifty thousand. The companies paid today the fifty thousand to the first wife whom he divorced; but theyre holding up payment of the hundred and, fifty to sweet If shes cleared, bv little Myrtle. OMara, Myrtle gets the hundred and fifty thousand Insurance as an ad ditional reward for the shooting. Sweet-scente- d CHAPTER VI Davis Ayreforth lay awake in dark, with his wife asleep in the beside his. He was not happy: he was trying to figure out what he could do differently in order to make Bee admire him. She still loved him, he believed; for her let it be a proof of love that his wife physically did nothing, in respect to another man, to which he could take exception, and that Bee continued without complaint indeed, only too complaisantly to be his wife. She So Davis said to himself: loves me; she loves me. . . . But she admires Jeb more. . . . She doesnt admire me at all. Its because Jeb is making so much Davis argued with himself. money, Money is all Jeb has that I havent got. Its not more money she wants for herself, or for me or for the boys. But she wants me to make more money . . Ive got to make more money a lot of money, as much as Jeb Braddon. 1 can do itl He has nothing on me! Jeb, as every one knew, had made millions for himself. To such a star, Davis hitched the weak wagon of his abilities as he wrestled in the dark with his disappointments. a Davis business was canning good business in Chicago, safe and steady, though never spectacular, and well suited to Davis, who was by nature a safe, steady person, though he tried not to appear so. He was thirty - two, a cheerful, healthy, stocky man of mediu n height thoughtful of others and tireless when he set out to do anything. Yet it all seemed only to amuse his wife. Even his excellence in golf, which once she had admired, seemed almost to amuse her now. He did not understand why. Millions now became the measure of a man. The old slow, conservative scale of progress was gone. Salary dogged, dependable work, was noth ing. A man went out, in these days, and made millions! Davis did not want to do it at all he was, for himself, exactly suited But Bee his wife, the mother of his believed Jeb the better man. boys Jeb thrilled her; her husband, though she loved him, bored her. There was that fellow Collitt, who had come around to the office the oth er day with Ken Remble. They were forming a company for underwriting e new investments, develop ments. There was millions in It, they said; millions I They wanted him to become a part ner and put about a hundred thou real-estat- Jeb had had an exceptionally profitable day; and on no day, within recent memory, had business been bad. The market for stocks rails, industrial, utilities, oils, amusements was soaring. Today it had been almost a runaway. ' Bankers, merchants," clerks, barbers, bootblacks, shopgirls, dentists assistants, manicurists, elevator boys, everybody young or old, enlightened or il literate, capable or stupid, with mil lions or with a scraped-udollar or And two, was playing the market. whatever their state of mind, or of body or soul, they were all making hair-dresser- s, street-sweepe- rs p money. Jeb was exultant He had never right He had made money not only for himself but every client for whom he traded and whom he advised. ' He had lived in a chorus of acclaim and gain all day. He ran halfway upstairs to meet Ag nes coming down. Glen, what a day I We can do anything we like anything, when you say He caught her up on the the word Now landing. youll say It? Why been so 1 Prepares Stamp is no conqueror, being instead a geography professor at the London School of Economics. But five years ago he, too, was taken with a desire to know exactly what sort of country Great Britain was, how it had changed with the years, and, more important, how it should regulate its changes In the future. So he began a Domesday Book of his own. which he called the Land Utilization Survey of Great Britain. It will be. as nearly ns possible, a detailed account of the face of the I sand into It. Hed thanked them and hardly thought of It. Davis turned again with more hopefulness toward the dark head on the pillow of the other bed. No smoke without some fire. It was a month later that the resignation of Davis Ayreforth, as treasurer of a canning company, took effect, and he sold back to the officers The Passing Moment of the company all his stock. Davis also sold sixty-fivof his best bonds; The mill cannot grind with the for it happened that Collitt had some- water that is past. As little can what the new capital it grind with what is to pass required, and so Davis put up, not' through it. We can make no use one hundred, but a hundred and fifty of time past. As little use can thousand dollars. we make of time to come. We can But the firm of Collitt, Ayreforth make use only of the passing moand Remble was formed, and prompt- ment. ly promoted and marketed their first investment line. n. e under-estimate- d Myrtle Lorrie, who now for over a month had 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 womens quarters of the jail, and therefore to the company of other girls and women awaiting trial. Most of them were accused of serious offenses; for they had not been admitted to bail. Now Only a Penny a Tablet for Fast Get Bayer Aspirin Now Without Thought of Price Quick-Dissolvi- Stop Watch In 2 seconds by stop watch a genuine BAYER Aspirin tablet starts to disintegrate and go to work. 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Thats it." Im not marrying Jeb this spring or this summer, Father." Because of us?" I dont know why not, Father; oh, I don't know why not!" He had to turn away. their Agnes saw the lawn and shore of the lake that she loved, through the mist of tears. What and who was she that counted with him more than her mother and her and all his memories here? What could she be to him, to mean so much? Her father was thinking of that person, unknown to his daughter and scarcely more defined to his wife, but whom his wife had called Cash. Cash!" What a 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 Gleneith had gone to Chicago in the forenoon for shopping, and she was to remain in the city for the afternoon concert of the Chicago orchestra. 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