| Show D r 9 n da 9 V 7 you Y by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin balmer service Ser viCt CHAPTER XIV continued 21 between their interludes of delight she watched him film for sign of restless ness for she knew that never since he was a little boy had bid lie thrown off aft the burden of care cast upon him but now lie he had re he climbed with her gayly stron sly tv singing shouting where an echo a an ushered jaw ered and camp sometimes i high on the mountain together I 1 by their camp tire talk she zas as never before to any one even to her sister and he with a freedom that surprised himself as he told tier her of bs life before lie he met tier her his igles his hopes and liis his dreams which the he had kept even from winnie do you yon know one thin thing love Is lt jf its nothing not liing else he sald said to tier her jonce once just before they fell asleep what its the end of the loneliness youre aborn born to and live in and not knowing till youve her in your arms 1 they returned to a chicago of accented cen ted madness with more banks and businesses failing 11 they went to a hotel where they took temporary quarters but where ethey remained for nearly a year ag ates said to her friends its my fault at dont look anywhere else As a matter of facts fact she care to was working day and night leor weeks on end as his cases came tap in court and the hotel was as as any place could be to abbe criminal courts to his boffl office ice an and ato the homes of his bis clients Of g agnes put nothing in these days tLe feedore fore his convenience and the ch chance ance 0 be with him wherle whenever ver he dror dropped ped jials work their interludes between nr le ie excitement of his appear appearances inces in exceeded L yen even their happi nesses dian fa the mountain the excitements excite ments lid ad strain ings by which illich he lied y ere exhausting to her so site she rested good deal by day when ile he was A away way dibi ieli ashe she dwelt indeed in a very ruael mael 10 arom rom of madness no other city sur eissed eissed chicago in display of tile the in aninies gitles of civilization there it stood e grain gi ain market of the world on the a age ajie of a prairie afflicted with no DO te tigue ague but that of plenty or surplus 5 ae e indeed of all crops and cattle POd men would have starved by the usand but for the bread lines one ithem given by a gangster ni lid enoki teachers worked unpaid and ommittee well financed by separate f proceeded to gather proud esa ittel ts of f a century of progress and aek after day the bulletin boards of gallons 1 I 1 cites best clubs posted another another black bordered card bear ter clithe name came of a member who nho had bad leht 0 o ln in perfect health yesterday 30 g te jiley went by their own hands and not choose death to escape the sequences of their failures many hese se fraud embezzlement and be CO al of trust the bulletin boards cd heir clubs took no cognizance of fj choice when they made it but ra i names blackened tile pages of 0 newspapers and crowded the court I 1 I 1 indars and some bowe of them sent I 1 esy lad ad philip linsdale Lins daie and ormstead ts ns cathal M martin artin 0 ailara Oi lara 0 S gnes es a always 1 ways kept awake ti till 11 he re fact ea i ed to her after he responded to deih la call sometimes it would be 40 V lai eor e or four our in tile the morning lie he returned wide awake ex es as sf P d intent thoughtful ir her and held her and she llla 46 tolie lie in ill his arms whether or not oaf git it like going over nith tier her just athe the new case ho he had just ff jv 9 still awake sometimes after a babl gihad told tier her of his case and ed to sleep agnes re regarded added Us ls poignant viewpoint lit tier her own jand and tier her own old life jua ey hunger was the driving drag mb thin these men the hunger for bers the ahe root of evil from the oldest ed time they roust must have money iho tuen en and especially having had orld they must regain their losses ave ve more and more and more bep what I 1 d 6 j thought of her mother and fa chell d of the woman in new york I 1 sought ought of uee bee and dails aud and 3 was at work again in still an hew w association with ken aen item ilem d 1 bees third baby another 8 born and growing up 0 went home a good deal ba too mother had forgiven tier her vat beatrice had found alto ito overlook than she had ex for her friends had been sury mild in their criticisms and aes it jy i interested s were very very bad in dress 1 cago they were ns as bad as could be people said they could get no worse hut but they dirt did ret get worse much much worse insull instill crashed insult insull the strongest man of the city instill the emperor of power and transit insull the mighty man of millions who ho almost alone had stood through nearly taree years of the P panic anic insull crashed and the crash sll all but carried down alilen 0 not millions hundreds of millions in money was lost the fortunes 0 of f the great and the little jeb was utterly wiped out and so was hjal ojai 11 hobert Gl GIc neith eneith was ruined his loans it at the banks which let eb had bid helped to arrange were secured by stocks in holding companies which had dropped from froin a high of hundreds of dollars a share to three eighths of a dollar him out fast enough lie owned noth ing but the idle and now worthless buildings of his plant and he owed three hundred thou thousand tholand and dollars ile he offered his home for sale and received no do bid as great ns as tile the mortgage he be would hae tinned out his family and davis but the bank preferred to have the house occupied so they camped they called it in the house without servants except ro kog I 1 11 ay her little daughter a light one like herself na who asked to stay without wages for her ber food and shelter one item went to the credit side of tile the ledger bob sent no more checks to cash and he ceased to frequent new york city lie ile had given up cash and he be ID informed formed liis his wife of the fact hob bob was able to supply liis his family with funds enough to keep going for in spite of his debts or because of them he succeeded in negotiating further loans joins jeb owed plenty of money to several banks but none of them deemed him film worth tile the further risk of a penny came to his help belp with his massachusetts and andover bonds lie he had never sold at debs urgings it was the week leek after the complete and ignominious collapse of debs affairs following the fall of insull that davis paid cathal an unannounced visit at his office jeb knew his stuff lie he was just a damn fool just be a ninny a nitwit 1 I davis burst out frantically think you know everything but you dont know a damn tiling thing take away the last dollar of everybody you know bust em ruin em rob pin cm what are you talking about cathal inquired studying his brother inlaw in law job jeb the recently great and wise J I 1 E braddon lies iles just lost his friends and customers millions millions but was such a complete ninny knowing absolutely nothing when hen lie fie posed to know it all that nobody even thinks of getting after him whereas 1 I 1 I cathal 11 all right said cathal what are you in for it probed to be more serious than cathal had suspected though he never had trusted ken kemble ken anil and dalls had sold certain stocks wak mak trig ing some representations that were not accurate the point was that ken knew better he fie deliberately had misrepresented and davis desperate again had gone along with nen ken it would be extremely hard to prove that davis had not known as much us its ken and they both tied had used the malls mails for selling cathal heard hear davis out and then said there Is only one tt i to 66 A youe pot got to buy buck back every blikre or stock at once the tottie it proved to be over a hundred thousand dollars and how can I 1 possibly get that davis demanded cathal wasted no time ue lie went to agnes at once davis cathal told her lias has to have about a hundred and thirty thou sand dollars or go to jail and tie he told tier why it left agnes white and shaky now what can we do for him 1 I 1 want you to let me do something of the sort I 1 should tell you about but wont tills this time years ago I 1 got a certain big man out of a big jim jam he never paid me for it he a able ill e to then and later I 1 take it but now he can pay roe me twice a hundred thousand and never feel it if I 1 werely merely suggest it hell do it I 1 ask you to take my iny word that its all right we can put up tip thirty thoU thousand I 1 c can in get a hundred thousand from that man it be wholly tor for services rendered involving no new obligation all right A agnes ades des fought with herself for yourself cathal for us no do he replied never ask it for davis and bee and the boys 1 I guess so and so cathal got the money and cleared davis to the gomaras 0 a child was born the fol following lowin 9 spring upon one of those days marked in memory by the closing of every bank in the un united I 1 ted stites states tile the tiny girl some day to find herself standing in tile the stream of time came at the end of one phase of adjustment of human affairs which we call an all epoch of course an end of one epoch must mark the beginning of another tills be began an from the bottom men said improvement appeared values in general became higher prices have not yet risen sufficiently to bring kobert holdings into the clear cobs bobs books do not set iet balance but he is operating his plants and making a little money and hes living again in the same little house on easter lane to which he brought tricie as a bride and where for many years they were happy they are tender again together are they happy well what is hip happiness tricie his has not forgiven him she was never to make that mistake she has succeeded in never referring to her husbands association with cash jeb his has a job lies iles a customers man selling stock and people are believing him again davis has a job in a creamery company hes district superintendent at lifty fifty dollars a afeei week lee bee has a job life insurance and ashes good at it she means to keep at it she has declared tier her childbearing child bearing days at an end davis and she rented a very small house near easter lane bee keeps a middle aged maid who weirs wears spectacles and who is only a plain cook but who Is completely reliable with the little boys at noon ree bee often drops in n on her sister at agnes ilia apartment rement on tile the north side it is almost dowl do fi town yet it overlooks the take lake and the wind sweeps oft off the water clean and clear agnes adores the place cee bee lilies likes to linger there its fun to fight for business and to get some said bee you feel good about it at least until your husband gets home its certainly bell on the husband to have his wife ife good at anything practical but what can I 1 do flop 1101 of course you cant flop said agnes arld and I 1 wont im going to make some money for my boys and a nd im going to pay you back some da day Y agnes you ard cathal 11 no no agnes begged her 1 11 I dont want it and lie either 1 I know you dont but its our debt and jou cant deny it agnes alone after cee bee had gone agnes went in to her baby her little daughter a light one like herself at ten months she has soft flaxen hair and eyes of deep blue she has skin like pale petals of wild rose an adorable little mouth and tiny formed chin and most perfect little hands her hair is like agnes in texture and hue flue tier her name is winifred agnes and the kingdom of the happiness of her ber father and mother encloses her will that kingdom fall in a few years agnes does not believe it for tier her love and carthals Cat Catli hals als differs from that which once held her father and mother and bee and davis never knew anything thin like this they tried to improvise a kingdom on material possessions and even those were taken from them standing and gazing down at her baby agnes iN wonders onders suddenly what she shall tell this child some time of the glory of the that is gone onea should she relate how they had a little money and were happy but had to have more and more so they made it and her father became unfaithful and daus dails tried to kill himself and failing at that ile he went crooked what out of all the past should agnes agdes preserve and pass on to her child what out of all her family who so highly prospered for years what really memorable and inspiring act or occasion on tier her side agnes realized standing there over her sleeping child on the side of the nothing nothing to compare with that which entered so largely into the making of tile the man who is this babas fat father her nothing to compare in its effect when winnie will pass it on agnes prays to tier her own children how cathal martin ailara 0 went up with fitzpatrick his chief of battalion to the tower with the building ablaze below and how he fie died there and his wife ife stood and watched him THE END |
