The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10
CHAPTER Nv

Jeb, on his part, was feeling the Al
lip of new sensation which came
from the not altogether disagreeable
notoriety he suddenly shared with
Agnes.
By this morning, when he was look
ing over the newspapers brought to
his bedroom, all the world-as much of
1t as meant anything to hlm-knew
that Agnes had discovered the Lorrie
murder because she had been look
ing at an apartment with Jeb Brad
don.
Strangely and excitingly, 1t intensi-
fled his feelings about her to read Of
her,-and little about himself with
her, and to know that millions Of
people this morning were porting over
the same descriptions of her, and the
account of what she had done and
said.
His eagerness to possess this girl
in the paper-his love for her, his de-
sire, whatever 1t was never had
matched this mornings.
He lived in an apartment by him.
self, with two Filipinos-Ojai his va
let, and Imio the cook.
The measure of Judson e. Brad
don's Importance had been augmented,
rather than otherwise, by what he
had done with Agnes, and by the
manner in which the newspapers re-
ferred to her and to him.
Jeb went late to his Office, not yet
having phoned Agnes. He hoped that
she slept in order that, when she
awoke, she would be the better rested
and the more completely restored to
the impulses which had made her re-
spond to his. If not, he would give her
more time to recover from this shock |;
but meanwhile, he knew she was his.
And all the world knew 1t. His i'm
pulses for completer possession Of her
gave him no peace.
Agnes did not move from her room
during the forenoon. She read in bed
the papers which were brought to her,
which gave surprisingly variant reports
Of what she had discovered" and done,
and even more individual explanations
of murder ITSELF And she saw, for the
first time, the likeness of Myrtle's hus-
band.
How queer to see your own name In
great black type on the page of the
paper. and underneath, reports of what
you had said and done which you could
not yourself remember, so precisely !
How queer to find yourself a leading
witness. but only now to learn, from
newspaper picture, what he, who had
been killed, looked like.
The account of him said that he was
forty-six month ago. He had been
married. first, 20 years ago. and been
divorced to marry Myrtle Silver two
years ago. His wife and daughter,
and his father and mother, survived
him in Stapleton. Wis.
He was described as ''rich," having
been partner in very prosperous
group of chain-stores spreading through
Illinois and Wisconsin. He had made
his start In Stapleton. whence his IA
Their and his divorced wife and his
daughter were coming to Chicago.
Agnes thought: "He was two years
younger than Father, and had been
married IS years before he got a d.
vorce."
There were large likenesses of Myr-
tie, who had come from Macon, Ind, to
encounter, at night-club In Chicago,
Charles Lorrie Of Stapleton. WIS.,, and
marry him; and live as his wife for
two years; and then kill him.
Below all this in the paper was Bert,
her instincts told her. She ought to
have spoken Of Bert to the police and
to the states attorney. ). Or, should
she have?
Jeb was on the phone-Jeb, whom
Gas all the world had reason to sup
pose) she soon would marry.
jobs voice was happier this morn
ing; Jeb exulted that everyone who read
the papers believed that he and she
| were to be married. And Agnes real
lied, as she replied to him, that she
had given him much of the right to
feel as he did. You could not revoke
thing like looking at an apartment
with a man, especially after all the
world caught you at it.
ITO BE CONTINUED)