| Show DRAGONS DRIVE YOU YO SYNOPSIS jtb job braddon Bra ildon young and fantastically success successful ru I 1 broker of chicago la Is iffat bated wit with h agnes aeno Glenel th beautiful daughter ot 0 a retired manufacturer rodney a doctor in love with agnes visits visit his brother job rod plans plain work at rochester job jeb suggests that h he make a try for agnes before leaving in rod there la Is a deeper obstinate decency than in jeb agnes believes believe to b be happy a girl must bind herself entirely to a wan man and have adorable babies rod visits agnes and tells her of t his great desire but realizes it can never bever be fulfilled tuini led agnes mother Is attempting to regain her husbands love agnes has disturbing doubts as to what attracts tract her father in new york job jeb tells agnes he Is going to marry her and together they view an apartment in chicago jeb asks agnes to set get an early date but she tells him she cannot marry him when tho the agent nir mr colver offers to show them a furnished furn dished apartment job jeb asks agnes to see it lone alone saying he must return to his office agnes consents and leb jeb leaves A radio Is 14 blaring terrifically from fr om one ot of the apartments colver raps upon ad the door which Is opened by a scantily clad girl who draws agnes into the room colver finds her husband charles lorrie fatally shot lie he calls the police myrtle lorrie asks agnes to phone cathal omara a lawyer to come at once agnes does the police I 1 take ke 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 lost their lives in the line ot of duty as city firemen and his grandmother winnie has ha built her all around cathal who being ambitious had worked his way law school chool and nd heeding the appeal of the desperate and the despised cause has committed himself to the defense of cri criminal minai eases thoughts of agnes disturb cathal mr lorria had cast oft off the wife who had bad borne him his daughter to marry myrtle and after two years of wedded life the she had killed him the co coroners m jury holds myrtle to the grand jury agnes promises omara to review the ease with him CHAPTER V continued contin ed 9 they told about bert in the papers this morning agnes suddenly suld said surprising him yes 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 tier her fine straw yellow hair she had on a simple blue dress the same it was which the she had worn for rod and in it she delighted this roan man too though she was not thinking of him now DOW if I 1 they hae indicted her lie ile laughed reassuring tier her and she mat eat back nothing to do with the indictment and they knew about bert but they know hed called her at the flat while you were there with tier lier did you know that asbeil agnes certainly site she told mf me oil 1 her mother stirred herselt heiselt her now familiarly tier her daughter had been conversing with this criminal lawyer you have just referred to your client I 1 presume she ehe said to cathal yes suddenly curiosity caught her against her intention does a woman worna woma a like that tell her attorney ill 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 lust just a husband made for himself too much money if your daughter had happened to pass that door in the morning instead ot of the afternoon shed have seen it husband and wife like enough to a million others the way with a crime like murder mu ader espell especially ally murder mrs Glenel th it springs from n nothing unusual just from the most usual bilings s in the world orld it comes from the most human impulses lui puls pushed a bit fint ber what are you talking about the life all of us ug are arc living ca that thal replied without breake breaking ng his calm and when one suddenly stops ahing hi ing it from being shot by its ills nelre others can see plainer perhaps what up to take tahe charles lorde and lila his first wife and his second who shot him theres nothing strange in the three of them from start to except the length to which two of then them went with their impulses which two agnes heard her soother mother ask lorrie and myrtle bl yrtle who after hed cast oft off tier her that bore his daughter to him film then married him rie he started his trouble by what lie he did I 1 yet lie he was following only the commonest im pulses of men in middle life what impulse do you mean infidelity infidelity is 1 the kindest torn form it takes cathal said kindest I 1 at least said cathal sometimes the wife the real wife more often zeta sets him back it if nhe wants him but lorrie when he fell under the delusion of the middle aged man making money become unfaithful he divorced his old wife instead and bought him a younger one what do you call the delusion of the middle a aged ed man making money agnes heard her mother press him on their imagination that marrying again have bare again their youth and that they can buy both body and soul of a woman of course its it s the money does docs it to them how does doe the money do it to theral them by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin balmer service was lier her mother aware agnes won dered almost aghast what she was be fraying baying ra ying or she care it if this till man g gave aye her a hint that would help hell her it lets the man deny his bis years henrs cathal answered the mother as though he noticed nothing of 0 her intensity ile he makes only more money though growing older it seems a sign of 0 strength greater instead of less with his years ills his wife she finds noth ing in her doings to deny her years for her spending money do dc it you got to make it its making I 1 ng money that gives proof which the wife cant match of its greater nobility and attractions attractions beatrice glendith re rc heated and cathal caught a twitch like wince so lie he said quickly lorrie knew better but they all do 10 ile he knew it was his money not him that N myrtle had to have she married him for it and she could have got away with it and so could lie he and been satisfied if lie ticen happy in his marriage before it was that which proved the death of him that once lied led been liap happy how breathed beatrice cathal confronted tier her have you not known happiness he said boldly and waited for no not answer then how bow having bought her with money could he have with tier her the full of it she sold herself lf body and soul to him hlex did myrtle whom your daughter walked in on mrs Glenel th she tried to deliver tier her soul as well as her body to him but the soul deliver something sees to that ue he stopped and beatrice Glenel th remained standing waiting for him but charles lorrie would have bave soul as well as body having paid for it poor as her soul was he be would have it once he had a wife body and soul you see ape so lie he was spoiled for less and then there was bert so he be began to heat beat up his young wife myrtle A trifle before two on that day when later your daughter had the III luck lack to be look looking ng about the building with mr braddon charles lorrie went too far there were certain bruises and contusions on myrtle which your daughter placed as she was with myrtle could not have failed to see so I 1 must make sure of the manner of tier her memory of them and some other items of evidence agnes told him the morning after abe after we were in that apartment and I 1 read the newspapers here 1 I wrote down everything that I 1 knew id done the pipers printed some things I 1 see and do and they agree with each other no said cathal have you what you wrote in my room and she arose ill be right back in tier her room she berit bent before her desk and pulled out the drawer containing her own intimate sentimental miscellany she remembered now when she had started to tuck in with this medley the record of tier her meeting with myrtle lorrie she had stopped restrained by the feeling that this memorandum was utterly alter alien and contaminating 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 ft with no such exaggerated ag offense at its utter strangeness myrtle into whose lire life agnes Glenel tb th had stumbled was no woman apart this evening in new york might her ber father be seeking some counterpart of Aly myrtle rile and what of job jeb twenty years from now or sixteen years or much less if lie exhausted his bis happiness with her sooner how actually hot had jeb offered himself hed give her nil all and shed give him all together while their cup contented thorn them tip ill it up and drain it to the last drop of mutual emotion anil and then he would turn to some other woman oman 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 jobs impetuous exciting letters and she touched for an instant and almost with a caress the envelope which rod had addressed to her and her mind clung to its quieter yet strangely stirring contents she closed the drawer and took downstairs the paper which preserved tier her impressions of that apartment wherein myrtle fyrtle had seized upon her cathal arose to receive from agnes the paper she had brought him and he be remained standing in the center of the room as ag he read agnes had dated the paper and at the top had written why she was recording cord lne at that time exactly what she bad seen and heard beard and done and why she had done what she had cathal could catch its importance to his client and at tile he 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 pagel page cathal had bad not seen agnes aril ing before and he looked up iii from this page she had bad written anol real lied as le be bad not tier her kalele ia La lele irv it multiplied in him 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 cambal anthal Cn Cat thal bal winnie would have cried with dread and fear for hlin him could she have seen him look up from agnes memorandum to agnes agnes mother did see sec him but in tier her mind there lay between her daughter and this lawyer an able chasm which she could not imagine him even in fancy attempting to choss 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 nc itryce glendith Glenel th decided was not offensive fens lve on the contrary lie he had a knack of dealing with most delicate subjects impersonally you will make a good vit fitness ness cathal said for tier her said agnes for whom else asked cathal get tier her oft off agnos agnes realized aloud as she looked at him she liked him she had liked him from the instant she saw him enter myrtles apartment where the pollee police already were the people in the court room would like ilke him the jury would like him the tall clock in ID the hall surprise agnes with its deep booming stroke of live five the sun bad 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 had thought black but bill auburn of so deep a hue that only tho direct sun brought out the red in it lie had bad very nice hair and he be had bad better hands bands in strength and shape than any other man she knew except rod ills his eyes bere iere 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 thata all ill need of you now he said now how did you get into your bu business agnes suddenly asked him the law 1 I mean defending women like adyr myrtle lorrie finally he be said 1 I was offered what you would call a good start in a law firm after I 1 was k you will make a good witness said cathal admitted to the bar miss Glenel th 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 some live along this lake shore making their money the men in the city your eatherd fat lierd herd know many of the them in id done well enough in law school and ande an acquaintance that got me the offer of the job but it entirely me they wanted it was more my connections connections sold said agnes mine 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 ton see I 1 wits was stopped by a stake of my own which I 1 have in the city you mean property asked agnes wondering at his feeling he shook his bead no not property nothing I 1 own merely aa a a memory at least it made me thank them that offered me that job anti and turned me to criminal law taking the case of the lorries shoot ings cleaner than what hat ile he was striking back anes agnes felt but no at tier her it was it at others othere whom he be felt in some wa 1 1 1111 ber aej liow how closely sli slie e 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