| Show ra yf ab B y E D W I 1 N B A L M ef fr y vict copyright by edwin balmer CHAPTER XIII continued 20 the doorbell door bell rang winnie lifted tile the big bowl to the table and as she was with her apron upon her she went to the front door oh 1 said winnie oh she reached for her apron and crumpled it in her thin hand you for the dread which had seized her when catlin catha came home on the night this girl had bad called him filled winnie again do ye seek me yes said agnes will ye step in agnes stepped into the neat little sitting room where a few old plain chairs and the table told that they were memorable treasured things she looked about and met winnies blue eyes will ye choose a chair none else is home winnie explained seating herself uneasily or id call them you yon are the one said agnes 1 I wanted to see me said winnie over him over him and myself said agnes and she waited not knowing what next nest to say 1 I im m pleased ye are here said winnie trying to help her and why should ye not be hes gone the many many times to ye too many times was it she asked anxiously for she was still puzzled not too many for me then what trouble came to him winnie asked crumpling her apron what trouble this wee week k and more from the night he came home from the murder of that lorrie hes lived for ye for naught else but for ye 11 ile he told you asked agnes he tell me ive me eyes and the blind cud see there was a time be never knew ye and theres been the time since As different to him as night and day fallen between ye fallen said agnes nothings nothing s fall fallen n we mean to be married who 1 cathal your grandson and I 1 VF whist cried winnie whist whis what i hear bear did ye say ye te and he hes a bit of a book with every word of ye and every of ye pasted in I 1 looked sure it was printed for all the world to read re ad but he be pasted them all together at last ye returned from be yant the sea ile he goes to ye then he goes no more and he passes me these days niver diver speaking Is that because hell be married to ye yett it said eaid agnes and no longer could she sit still she arose and winnie arose ue thinks I 1 wont do it so I 1 came here and still ye will said winnie so proud of him and humble for herself that tears came to agnes eyes whist winnie W whispered U again ile he was born abeyant us all far far abeyant most men scarcely thirty he stands now a single score and ten and men twice his bis years the great men of chicago send for him in their need deed and they lay their bles on him well as a lad he was like that lie he see to us all small as he was he see to us all niver fear lie will fall to see to ye oh ob I 1 know him too agnes erle cried d not yet said winnie proudly not yet the half of biall him not no t yet neither how strong nor how tinder he can sit down miss glen ien eith alth sit down lot let me tell ye far away a school bell beat and for the first time it meant nothing to winnie ind and agnes beard nothing else at all so the back gate had swung and the children trooped into the kitchen before winnie remembered them the cakes that day were never baked for winnie had left them in batter but there was the hot fresh bread to cut and butter and hand about with the mugs of cold milk so winnie omara did that this day with agnes gnes Gl eneith helping her at five ave that afternoon the reception clerk at carthals Cat hals office looked across his desk at a slight straight white haired little woman in black silk dress new black bonnet and gray gloves 1 I see she announced steadily mr jur cathal omara me his hia door and ill 1111 tn th rouble ye no DO more faith now I 1 see it and forthwith she strode to it and opened it I 1 i winnie 1 cried cathal rising 1 happened she faced him fair and told him 1 I hai had a caller today Cat cathal lial agnes Gl eneith come to see me over aels ye i cathal could not bring himself back to his desk after his grandmother had gone he tood stood half the rooms width away staring without recognition at the open books and the papers which a few minutes ago had bad absorbed him one ine meaning aning one and none cone other was possible was declared in what agnes glendith Glenel Gl eneith th had bad done this day and which winnie had told him agnes had broken down the last false barrier between them it existed in her no more in him what still held him A lifetime of feeling the inflicted upon a little boy of no fortune no DO birth but which winnie from the first so valiantly and steadfastly had denied for him when winnie had opened his door tie fie had been studying bow he might save from the penitentiary and utter degradation philip linsdale this week another gentleman in desperate straits not a neighbor to the ulen glen cites but certainly known to them had appealed to cathal to save him from prison today cathal omara of no birth and background had to refuse to take a like case for banks in the city and about chicago were failing great companies and corporations could not meet their debts great men great names of the city dropped in dishonor they who had held themselves above and beyond cathal omara were calling to him what had davis Ayre forth all but done now how secure were robert glen clen eltas own fortunes 9 cathal stepped to his bis desk he laid paper markers between the pages and great names of 0 f the city dropped in dishonor closed his law books one last moment he hesitated he pressed his buzzer ask mr parry he said to his secretary it if he can step in here then jim im going away for a couple of weeks 11 wow now said jim on what case no case said cathal dut but its two weeks before I 1 have myself to be in court YOU sou can carry on for me till then cant you you see jim I 1 hope I 1 hope to be married north from the city he be drove and no doubts dragged upon him he drove pilfering his dreams for a practical I 1 plan of that which agnes and he agnes and he be might do lie he never lever gained her door for she awaited him by tile the road just within the gates it was dark clouds floated below the moon clouds not of storm but of concealment but in the dark he saw her white figure before he pointed toward her he switched off his lights and stepped down she said no word wo rd nor did he be he grasped her hands bands speaking then her name but his breath went from tr om him find and she whispered there in th the e dark of the lawn clinging to him youre here youre here I 1 ile he released her so that she con could id lead him toward the lake they descended sc se ended cautioning each other of the steps to the shore and no one else el S e was near no lightning threatened tonight the lake lay calm ripples ran up on the beach which sighed as aa the sud sand I 1 released the wavelets waveless wave lets and let them retreat over tiny shifting shells and stones dare you do it dare you what Wha tb ue be swept her up in his bis arms the one thing left to us to do go on from this moment together theres nothing else she said for me nothing he denied for her theres any one in all the world for you I 1 no she said very simply kiss hiss 11 me they went up tip together to the house where lights betrayed her father figuring at his desk under the antlers anglers and trophies of his bis gun room her mother seemed to be upstairs catlin cathal alone sought her father hello omara at bob Glenel th turned on his chair you came awhile ago yes sir the two men looked tit at each other and cathal knew that her father was well aware of why he was there and it was glendith not he that avoided it youve ormstead now I 1 hear bear omara bob Glenel tb said charged him with fraud fraud and larceny too hes fies taken for his bis private purposes they say to save himself two millions caught him so hes come to you yes sir bob Clenel Gl eneith th somewhat ruefully smiled you seem to be collecting my friends omara cathal said nothing and Gl Glenel eneith th suddenly rose what can you do for them will they spend the rest of their lives in a cell they were good men you know I 1 dont mean good but they had bad a ability they built things and now you stand between them and prison ile he struck at the wall beside him which re sounded at the blow sometimes omara I 1 feel that even the walls we built must be of paper you came to ask me something yes sir I 1 want to marry agnes she will marry me P 1 I supposed so and I 1 suppose whatever I 1 say youre both going to do it well one thin thing youre not paper omara whatever else you are or arent youre not paper when are you planning this thing tomorrow tomorrow you waste no time omara well ive had one big formal wedding in my family announced weeks ahead a thousand guests this is hardly the time for that again and im willing that my other daughter try another sort of thing her mother wont be you know that cut but let me stand up with ray my daughter and give her away even if its before a justice of the peace CHAPTER XIV fools they were for they ate the cattle of the sun were they fools do you think what were the cattle of tile the sun agnes asked days days they devoured the days the cattle of the herder of the heavens without counting them must we count them you dont want to either 1 I cant bear to I 1 cant bear to know when this must come to an end it will never come to an end agnes agdes between us no mo but you must go back to the people that need you so many people that so desperately need you and youre so young so young she caught his hand and kissed it so he caught her to him and for several moments ts both of them forgot about the cattle of the sun then lie he said defiantly we wont count them either cither well throw away the calendar and never mark the days cut but she weakened nn can see that gr great eat gray we there cathal gazed into crag cr the 6 it was noonday and valley they the 0 by side far up 01 on the nl flank re abed al 1 mountain at the very of ta edge of 0 snow line above th them em rose a I 1 snow beside them a single rock sod stout dwarf pine clung in a clefa clefts a bray outpost of the forest below the sun son herding his fals batile cattle th th the pastures of time tim e had roua climbed his highest slope in the V sky to radiance and 4 caught the gray it shone above the mountain mm crag so that shadow agnes gazed at the great mi rock she followed 3 44 cathal Cat bals s feeling hu N that falls into the shadow at let us stay I 1 then we need book count the days conj only y some to day beter B rock will tell k us that we mu st go and so they agreed on it they were far ln the west aest and hi north amid the mighty sa mae mountains and tor for five days they thih he been married and bob Glenel tl stood by his light one in the th lmh se at the house of the minister to be married to take your IK in the procession of life f to 0 o nala at last how you had re calved recel veil your B ich and how if you willed you yon would mi life on that abat was a solemn and 14 i an ecstatically bap happy PY situation in AW there were the mountains I 1 lord thou hast bast been 0 our ur dwelli place in all generations before mountains were brought forth before these mountains were by forth 1 for a thousand years in chyll thy d are but as yesterday when it la is p and as a watch in the night A thousand years ago no DO ott m ever dreamed of chicago and MB C forefathers of the millions li 11 if teeming city were to beget ion sou ier daughters and die and they the ir bear children that would die six hundred years before a ge ga tion grew that would hear bear of 0 america and the stock mark now made or ruined so mm daiy ml a 1 what was it A center of sch through a moment of 0 timp time iff stocks maintained their pricella prices cesla it tub i center of mens schemes andl aal f remained powerful and great 11 lat sull and clever and comfort comfortable ible I 1 jeb they declined and ana log ion 1 disgraced like philip linsdale john ormstead or you musad yourself as arthur linsdale Lins dal and davis had tried to do in ID to leave a few dollars tobi to end boys thou cartiest car riest them OT ale sl 11 ife with a flood they are as a but the mountain would wa 1 the world continue to spin code jl 41 sun each year in the spring e to the alie sunshine for a few W aad valley val W great gray crag in the kit it api again I 1 in ill the e shadow s lo 10 tat burdet ak another twelve twelvemonth ont was sw new reckoned year to add to J at countable ages 0 of eter eternal nal BW little 1 jf agnes shivered a cold he clasped her mad dehall have we been we all insane in the cl cities ties 4 61 seems q 1 said it 1 here he I you and I 1 are going back ot ob y not before we gustl we ever leave here cere i at her 14 down he looked sd life ril 1 11 remember holy bow you y it i usand tho the thousand and a bonade w d what ma magic le youve lays days it neBB se to 11 0 you think I 1 ba haie e merely 10 ip ive 1 done it all youve king doaL boffl your catlin cathal into B mine lie be said r with your words stat made 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