| Show jr DRAGONS DRIVE YOU by EDWIN CALMER BALMER copyright by edwin balmer service SYNOPSIS job li young and fantastically access tul ful broker of chicago Is iffat rated with agnes acnes beautiful daughter of a retired manufacturer I 1 rodney a doctor in love with agnes visits his ats brother jeb nod plans work lit at rochester job jeb suggests that he make R try for or agnes acnes before leaving in rod there Is a deeper obstinate decency thin than in jeb rod visits agnes band nd tells her of 0 his great desire but realizes re alles it can never be fulfilled agnes mother Is attempting to regain her husbands love agnes has disturbing doubts as to what attracts her father new york job jeb tells agnes ho he Is zoina olne to marry her and together they mew law an apartment in chicago jeb asks agnes to set an early date but she tells pim she cannot marry him when the gents gent mr colver offers to show them i a furnished apartment jeb asks asnes agnes to see it alone saying lie he must return to his office agnes consents and jeb leaves A radio Is blaring terrifically ctorn from one of the apartments colver I 1 raps upon the door which Is opened baja ty scantily clad girl who draws A agnes a in into to the room colver find finds her agn has husband bond charles lorrie fatally shot hot he calls the police myrtle lorria asks agnes to phone cathal omara a law yer ayer to acome come at once agnes does the police take charge omara arrives the officers are antagonistic to him agnes ldes aldes with omara agnes to Is to be a witness at the coming trial carthals Cat hals grandfather crand father and father had lost their lives in the he line of duty as city bremen ard and his grandmother winnie has built her all around cathal who being ambitious had worked his way through law school thoughts ot of agnes disturb dastur b cathal mr lorrie had cast oft th the e wife who had borne him his daughter to marry myrtle and after two years of wedded life she had bad killed him the coroners jury holds myrtle to the irand grand lury jurk agnes promises omara to review the case with him when cathal calls mrs questions regarding marital problems s in the hope that tha 1 she might get acet jl u solution to her own problem CHAPTER V continued 10 20 f than much that Is done in a city lip he replied to her where ido do you live agnes asked him with sudden directness 1 whit what am I 1 you mean besides a criminal lawyer I 1 live now near mil waukee walkee avenue in the city but I 1 was is a orn as was my father your father too cathal smiled 1 I know why you ask you wonder why I 1 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 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 bis father before t bilm im he my grandfather was one lot of the twenty that went to the top of the tower of the cold storage building at the worlds fair when it burned j he was one of them that died that clay as each of them did in line of Adu tys i miss Gl eneith said cathal proudly and his son my father idled died liki like him in line of duty for chi lc ago thang my state stake in iii the city I 1 mentioned who can have I 1 more would Vo uld I 1 sell bell it out by fixing taxes for clients tor for toy ray living rif ill take the de binse finse of myrtle lorrie as ive taken others ot hirs but its my speech that stall surprise you it woul dot it if you kyou knew winnie asked agnes the grandmother I 1 mentioned slip might have io come m e over sixty hours iti iri stead of sixty years ago do you know khow padraic colum the irish pot poet and writer who was over here on tou too a few years ago 1 I went to hear him speak said ag aes wondering what now aas as coming so go didi did I 11 said cathal for they told me hed been going through ire land baring repeated to him the last of the old celtic tales that bad neier seen been f print lie he was collecting them to write them hit all down I 1 told him allied beena wasting his time traveling 1 I he should have come straight to chi cago and hed have leard them all roni and I 1 found in fact the ei had badone one wit hd never heard from ay thel the strange thing it was always alay fj my mi favorite yo you u knew ill it knew itt it I 1 rocked and them and this I 1 could never bear enough the green bear of if Babble tree t he 11 was holding agnes demoran dum duca of myrtle lorrie had said and done defter after having shot her husband and suddenly aware of it he be ceat aisted tisted aitto the matter in his bis mind slid smiled the aomen women miss Glenel th used to ae vt much more enduring lie he said they 1 hey certainly put up m alth ith more in sose close days 1 what flat days of the old tales take her that loved f e th egr c el bear of Babble tree 1 lie green bear was of course right ity ly apran e her true love cn klinl jun con lloyed tit but hideously but though he was in his horrible guise slie she must recognize the soul of him film and seven long years must she follow ow him over the fiery I 1 though lie he might never so much as turn to look at her once if she perseveres through the seven years she breaks the spell hes her prince and she has him does she said agnes she does docs through everything ile he repeated green rear bear of Babble tree turn thou and look to me seven long years ive f follow oil oed oil thee over the fiery mountain ile he tind bad gone agnes was lying will eyes closed clo icil on the chaase longue in her bedroom droom lie whan she heard tier her sisters voice iee bee went in first to se s e her mother so agnes agne 4 had a few minute more of dreamy beerle before her sister pushed tier her feet more to the side and sat down facing her it was six your friend myrtles lawyer said tee see seems to have queerly affected mother what vital did slie site say to you that perhaps wed our murderous little friend myrtle lie ile certainly has done something else els to mother too yes tes what wha Is it agnes 1 I she came to see sonke somewhat what differently why rathers fathers doing what lies probably doing bee the dark head covered by its smart little toque looked away all right if he helped tier her the dark one sundered wun dered to the window ehos that jele jeb might be said agnes sitting up op 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 amu soaring today it had been almost a runaway bankers merchants clerks barbers bootblacks shop girls dentists assistants bair dressers manicurists elevator boys street sweepers everybody young or old enlightened or illiterate capable or stupid with millions or with a scraped up dollar or two was playing the market and whatever their state of mind or of body or soul they were all making money jeb was exultant lie he had never been so right he had bad made money not only for himself but every client for whom he traded and whom he advised ue he had lived in a chorus of acclaim and gain all day ue he ran halfway upstairs to meet agnes agdes coming down glen what a day we can do anything we like anything when you say the word ile he caught her up on the landing now say it why not oh joh you I 1 little fool why not that tha t damned will trial 1 well marry and come back for it IL or ill get you out of it you sou cant jeb was that irish shyster here jeb I 1 did you yon see the papers this afternoon ive left them in the car they were downstairs together sweet scented situation OM aras 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 a as beneficiary but dear little myrtle had had seen that he bad tier 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 holding up payment of the hundred and fifty to sweet little myrtle it if sties cleared bv omara ara myrtle gets the hundred ani and fifty thousand insurance as an ad dit lorial reward for the shoot shooting log CHAPTER VI davis Ayre forth lay awake in the dark with his wife asleep in the bed beside his lie was not happy and he was trying to figure fl ure out what he could do differently in la 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 lie he could take exception and that bee B continued linthout lift tt hOut complaint indeed ony only too complaisantly to be his wife ife so davis said to himself she loves me she loves me but she admires jeb more slie site admire me at all its because jeb Is making so much money davis argued with himself money Is all jeb has that I 1 got its not more money site she wants for herself or for we me or tor for the boys boya but she wants me to make more money ive got to make more money a lot of money as much as jeb braddon I 1 can do it lie ile has nothing on me del I 1 jab as every one knew had made millions for himself to such a star davis dails hitched the weak wagon of his bis abilities as he wrestled in the dark with his bis disappointments davis business was nas canning a good business to in chicago sate 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 medium height thoughtful of others and tireless when he set out to do anything yet it all seemed only to amuse his ha wire wife even Ms his excellence in golf which once she had admired seemed to amuse her now ue lie did rut out J aby hy millions now became ot 0 a man inan the old slow conservative scale of progress was gone cone salary dogged dependable work was nothing A roan man went out la in these addys and mude made millions davis did not want to do it at all he was for or himself exactly suited stilted but bee hla bis wife the mother of his boys believed jeb the better man jeb thrilled tier her her husband th though she loved him hlen bored her there was that fellow collitt who had come around to the office the other day with ken ll emble they were forming a company for underwriting new investments real estate developments there was millions in it they said millions nsf they wanted him to become a partner and put about a hundred thousand 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 it was a month later that the resignation of dails Ayre forth its as treasurer of a canning company to took ok effect and he sold back to the officers of the company all his stock davis also sold sixty live five of his best bonds for it happened that collitt had somewhat underestimated under estimated the new capital required and so davis put up not one hundred but a hundred and fifty thousand dollars but the firm of collitt Ayre forth a and nd was formed and p promptly promoted and marketed their first investment line 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 quarters ot of the jail and therefore to the company of other girls and women awaiting trial most of them were accused ot of serious offenses for they had bad not been admitted to ball agnes on the morning that Myrt myrtle lea ii missive arrived had risen for breakfast with her father she the light one and bee the dark one always had had breakfast with him when they were children he was never too hurried to joke with them and he be produced from his pock pie surprises ps on occasion of thimble J im not marrying jeb this spring or summer father like things that inflated into bunnies and miraculous buds that needed only to float in a finger bowl to flower it w was as run to aae e breakfast with father her mother so invariably had bad risen with him that agnes never had pictured breakfast without them together until last fall fail her mother ceased to come down before her father left the house this signalized signalizes some decline in the relations of her parents which agnes felt but did not let herself define I 1 talked with your mother about i summer plans light one be suddenly demanded one sunny morning ye what tire are they father you yol re to make them 1 I IT llew largely by what you do there a the trial first of course but moling g that along then what with you light one you mean about jeb it im not marrying jeb this spring or this summer father because of us 1 I dont know why not father oh all I 1 dont know why not I 1 he had to turn away I 1 agnes saw the lawn and their shore of the lake that she loved through the mist of tears what and who ho was she that counted with till 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 1 unknown to his daughter and scarcely more defined to his wife but whom his wife had called cash cash I 1 what a name tor for her herl I 1 it had been fastened upon her by his wife and in this manner on friday of last week which was the first of the ul month nth beatrice glen aien alth had gone to chicago in the forenoon for shopping and she was to remain to in the city for the afternoon concert of the chicago orchestra for twenty five years she had two seats which she had shared on special days day throughout the years with her bus baud band TO BE CONTINUED |
