The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

Two o'clock. The damn clock was
striking when come out here"
Two! Now. by the ticking, gold
faced clock on the mantel, it was
quarter past three.
You sat here all the timer"
Sure | sat here" And this recol-
lection now reused her TO pity for
herself. "All alone All alone!"
Suddenly, startlingly, a phone bell
rang
The arms about Agnes clenched
tighter and then let go. The girl
pushed back and leaped up and sour
ried to the instrument on the stand
in the corner. Hello! Hello!" Then
she heard a voice, and she dropped
TO Ons knee as she made. response,
whispering; but in the stiffness of the
room her voice came clear. ''Oh, God.
Bertr' she said; and she listened
again.
She wanted TO speak, but she stared
at them and did not.
Bert" she repeated the name,
AdDDCACu- "
Charley! He died today" And she
slammed down the phone on its rest
Now Colver seized the phone.
OPERATOR" he clamored. "Oper-
ator? Give me the police!'
Halfway from the phone, the girl,
Mrs. Lorrie, had stopped and turned,
but she made no interference at all !;
she merely listened to him call the
police.
Agnes had risen from the great soft
Now you help me-" Mrs. Lorrie de-
manded. Get me a lawyer. I've a
right TO a lawyer, the best damn law
yer in this town. You don't know
what happened here - or anything |!
Get me that lawyer"
what lawyer" said Agnes.
"O'Mara. Martin O'Mara; that's
his name Oh. do that for me, won't
you? Just get him on the wire; and
I'll talk TO him"
She was back at the telephone and
fumbling at the pages of the direc-
tory so pitifully that Agnes took the
book from her hand and found the
name Martin O'Mara; and then she
made the call.
First a woman's voice answered /;
then a mans said: "O'Mara."
Here he is" said Agnes, but the
girl had slumped to the floor.
Il am calling" said Agnes into the
phone, Il am calling from an apart
ment where a man has been killed"
"AlI right" said the voice O'Mara.
go on. What apartment? Where is
it,"
Agnes told him. 81 do not know
the people," she proceeded. "Only
their name. It's Lorrie. 1 just hap
pened in. I am here with Mrs. Lor-
RE now"
"All right. Go on. Who's killed"
Her husband"
How was he killed?"
"She shot him"
-All right. Go on. Who are your
I'm Agnes Gleneith."
Related to Robert c. Gleneith?"
Hes my father"
Did you say you didn't know the
Lorries?"
'I didn't"
"All right. Go on. Then how did
you happen inf"
81 was with the agent I was look
ing at another apartment in the build
ing"
"All right Have the police been
called?"
"Just now, they were"
"AIl right. Now try to remember
this: Tell Mrs Lorrie I am coming
at once. Tell her to talk TO no one,
I'll I get there. Especially and abso-
1uteIy she is not to talk to the police.
Tell her they cannot make her talk.
No one can: no one has a right to,
Tell her to stay there and not to try
to go away. and not TO let any one
take her away.
And you must stay there too; and
you had better not talk till I get
there. You are going to be a wit
ness in this case; you cannot possibly
escape ii. I am very sorry for you,
but there is now nothing that l or any
one can do about it 1 will be there
as soon as can"
Agnes put down the phone. No
man had ever sought, by his voice, to
rule her so. She felt, as she faced
about, that she ought to resent it; but
she did not. She felt herself, instead,
| depending upon ii = upon the assur-
ance and domination Of that man "a
voice and a name O'Mara) who was
on his way TO her.
The girl on the floor had sat up
You got him for me?'
"Yes." said Agnes, q got him. He's
coming now"
Little Mr.. Colver was at win
dow. Here's the police" he said. "A
"a homicide squad, I suppose"
You're not to talk TO them" Ag.
mes said to Mrs. Lorrie. You're not
to say word to any one. They have
no right to make you. You're not to
say a word about anything till Mr.
| O'Mara gets here"
ITO BE CONTINUED
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