Show DRAGONS DRIVE YOU CHAPTER XIII continued 20 the doot doorbell bell rang winnie lifted the big bowl to the table and as she was with her apron upon her she went to the front door ohl said winnie oh ob she reached for her apron and crumpled crummi ed it la in her thin hand atis you F for 0 r the dread which had seized her when carbal came home on the night this girl had called him filled winnie do ye seek me yes said agnes will ye step in agnes stepped into the neat little sitting fitting room where a few old plain chairs and the table told that they were memorable treasured things she looked about and met winnies winnie s blue eyes will ye choose a chair None else ils home winnie explained seating I 1 lher herself self uneasily or id call them you are the one said agues agnes 1 I aw iwanter anted to see sec mel me said winnie over him over him and myself said agnes and she waited not knowing what next to say bay rin im pleased ye are here said trying to help her and why should bould ye not be bet lies hes gone the many abany times to ye too many times iwas it she asked anxiously for she was still puzzled not too many for me then what trouble came to him gwinnie asked crumpling her apron what trouble this week and more from the night he came home from the murder of that lorrie hes lived for ye for naught else but for ye he told you asked agnes wild he tell me met ive we me eyes and the blind cud see seel I 1 there was a time he never knew ye and theres b been een the time since As different to him as night and dayi day fallen between ye fallen said agnes nothings fallen we mean to be married who I 1 cathal your grandson and V L Wh whist Istl 1 cried winnie whist what I 1 hear did ye say ye te and hel bet hes a bit of i a book with every word of ye and every pitcher of ye pasted in I 1 looked sure it was printed for all the world to read but he pasted them all together at last ye returned from be yant the sea he goes to ye then he goes no more and he passes me these days niver speaking Is that because hell be married to ye it said agnes and no longer could she sit still she arose and winnie winnic arose ne ile thinks I 1 wont do it so I 1 came here and still yc ve win will said winnie so proud of him and humble for herself that tears came to agnes eyes 1 whist 1 winnie whispered again lie he was born abeyant us all far far abeyant most men scarcely thirty he stands now a single score and ten land and men twice his years the great a men of chicago send for him in their need and they lay their bles on him well as a lad he was like that he wild see to us all small as he was he be wild see to us all niver fear lie will fail to see to ye e oh I 1 know him too tool I 1 agnes cried not yet said eald winnie proudly not yet the halt half of him I 1 not yet neither how strong nor how tinder he can bet be once sit down miss bliss glen alth sit down let me tell yep ye P far away a school bell beat and for the first time it meant nothing to winnie and agnes heard nothing else lit at all so the back gate had bad 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 Glenel th helping her at five that afternoon the reception clerk at carthals Cat hals office looked across his desk at a slight straight white haired little woman in 1 black silk dress new black bonnet and gray gloves 1 I wild see she announced stead i lly aly mr cathal omara point me his door and rii ill tb th rouble ye no more faith now dow I 1 see it if and forthwith she strode to it and opened it winnie I 1 cried cathal Cat lial rising happened she faced him fair and told him 1 I had a caller today cathal agnes Glenel th come to see me over ye yel P cathal could not bring himself back to his desk after his grandmother had gone he tood halt half the rooms width away staring without recognition at the open books and the papers which a few minutes ago had absorbed him one meaning one and none other was waa possible was declared in what agnes Glenel th had bad done this day and which winnie had told him agnes had bad 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 indicted upon a little boy of no fortune and no birth but which winnie from the first so valiantly and steadfastly had denied for him when winnie had opened his bis door lie had been studying how he might mi bt ae from the penitentiary and utter degradation philip linsdale this meek another gentleman in desperate straits not a neighbor to the glen ephs ri hs bu certainly known to them bad appealed to cambal to save him by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin I 1 B timer service from prison today cathal omara or of no birth and background had to refuse to take a like case for banks in the city and about chicago were falling 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 bad davis Ayre forth all but done how secure were robert glen eltas own fortunes cathal stepped to his desk he laid paper markers between the pages and closed his law books one last moment he hesitated he pressed his buzzer ask mr parry he said to hla his secretary if he can step in here then jim im going away tor for a couple of weeks now said jim on what case no case said cathal but its two weeks before I 1 have myself to be in court you 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 drove and no doubts dragged upon him he drove pilfering his dreams for a practical plan of that which agnes and be agnes and he be might do he never gained her door for she awaited him by 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 nor did he he grasped her hands speaking then her name but his breath went from him and she whis 12 great names of the city dropped in dishonor there in the dark of the lawn alln clinging ing to him youre here youre herel here I 1 lie ile released her so that she could lead him toward the lake they descended sc cautioning each other of the steps to the shore and no one else was near no lightning threatened tonight the lake lay calm ripples nipples ran up on the beach which sighed as the sand released the wavelets waveless wave lets and let them retreat over tiny shifting shells and stones dare you do it dare you what he swept her up in his arms the one thing left to us to do go on from this moment together theres nothing else she said for me nothing 7 he denied tor for her theres any one in all the world for you I 1 no she said very slin simply ply kiss iss me they went up together to the house bouse I 1 where II 11 lights lits betrayed her father figuring aring at his desk under the antlers anglers and trophies of his gun room her mother seemed to be upstairs cathal alone sought her father hello OB omara lara bob Glenel th turned on his chair you came awhile agor ago yes sir the two men looked at each other and cathal knew that her father was well aware of why he was there and it was Glenel th not he be that avoided it youve ormstead now I 1 hear omara OS Iara bob Glenel th said charged him with fraud fraud and larceny too lies iles taken for his arl private purposes they say to save himself two millions caught caugh t him so hes come to you yes sir bob Glenel th somewhat ruefully stalled smiled you seem to be collecting my friends omara cathal said nothing and Glenel 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 ability they built things lings ti and now you stand between them and prison ile he struck at the wull wall beside him bleh re sounded at the blow some times omara I 1 feet feel that even the walls we built must be of paper you came to ask aak me something yes sir I 1 want to marry agnes she will marry me 1 I supposed so and I 1 suppose aup pose whatever I 1 say youre both going to do it it well one thing youre not paper omara whatever else you are L or arent youre not paper when are you planning this thinie thing tomorrow tomorrow T you waste no time omara well ive had one big formal wedding in my fa family mily 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 but let we me stand up with my daughter and give her away even it if its before a justice of the pea peace CHAPTER XIV fools they were for they ate the cattle of the sun were they fools do you yon think what were the cattle of the san conf 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 boar bear to I 1 cant bear to know when this must come to an end it will never come to an end agnes between us no but you must go back to the people that need you so many people that so desperately need youl you I 1 and youre so young so young 1 she caught his hand and kissed it so be caught her to him and for several moments both of them forgot about the cattle of the sun then hebald he sald defiantly we wont count them either well throw away the calendar and never marathe mark the days cut but s she he weakened can we see that great gray crag down dowd there cathal gazed into the valley it was noonday and they rested side by side bide far up on the flank of their mountain at the very edge of the snow line above them rose rock and snow beside them a single stout little dwarf pine clung in a cleft a brave outpost of the forest below the sun herding his cattle through the pastures of time had climbed to his highest slope in the sky and his radiance caught the gray crag so that it shone above the mountains shadow agnes gazed at the great rock and s she e followed Cat carthals Cath alSi hals feell feeling ng I 1 i that falls into the shadow ladow at noon let us stay I 1 then we need never count the days only some day that rock will tell us that we must go and so they agreed on it they were far in the west and the north amid the mighty majestic mountains and for five days they had been married and bob Glenel th had stood by his light one in the service at the house of the minister to be married to take your place in the procession of life to realize at last how you had received your life and how if you willed you would pass life on that wits was a solemn and also an ecstatically happy situation and there were the mountains lord thou hast bast been our dwelling place in at all I 1 generations before the mountains were brought forth bea before ore these mountains were brought forth for a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it Is past and as a watch in the night A thousand years ago no one had ever dreamed of chicago and the forefathers of the millions la in the teeming city were to beget sons and daughters and die and they would bear children that would die through six hundred years before a generation grew that would hear of this america and the stock market that now made or ruined so iso many men what was it A center of scheming through a moment of time your stocks maintained their prices in this center of mens schemes and you remained powerful and great like insull and clever and comfortable like jeb they decIl declined Ded and you were dis disgraced raced like philip linsdale and ja john n ormstead or you must destroy yourself as arthur lansdale had bad done and davis lind had tried to do in order to leave a few dollars to dee bee and the boys thou cartiest carr car lost riest them away as with a hood flood they are as a sleep but the mountain would remain the world continue to spin under the sun each year in the spring exposing to the sunshine for a few days that great gray crag in the valley and immersing in it again in the shadow until another twelvemonth was turned one new reckoned year to add to the uncountable a ages of eternal time agnes shivered a little cold he clasped her closer have we been mad cathal are we all insane in the cities here he said it seems so but you and I 1 are going back not before we roust 1 oil oh why do we ever leave here ue lie looked down at her all my life ill remember how you said that and a thousand thousand other what magic youve made of my days you think I 1 have it seems to me youve done it all ive merely moved cathal into your kingdom mine he said mine with your words that night you made 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