The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-23
CHAPTER IV-Continued

Agnes mother tried to keep her in
bed all day. IF we had gone to Flor
ida. as we should have" her mother re-
peated, this wouldn't have happened"
Not to me-" said Agnes, and won
dered who, instead, would first have
stepped into that room, and been seized
by Myrtle, and who would have sum-
mOned, for Myrtle, Martin O'Mara. She
could not wish that it was not she.
Florida had been the winter play
ground for her father and mother in
their years of happiness; and while
Mother held the romantic illusion that,
by returning together, they could re-
capture what they had had, Father
lately had become more of a realist.
He knew it would be dancing on the
grave of their ecstasy.
Agnes lay looking at her mother but
thinking of her father, who, though
turned realist toward his wife, re-
manned romantic-with whom? Some
one younger, much younger, and per-
haps like Myrtle? She couldn't imag-
inc it; but
again, and looked at Charles Lorrie.
You wouldn't think a man like that
would marry Myrtle; he looked as if
he'd have more sense. But sense didn't
enter in. One day he'd wanted Myrtle
his dragons of desire had driven him,
and he'd married her. Who was In
New York for Father?
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inquest. and the cOroner's jury decreed
that there was cause to "hold" Myrtle
Silver Lorrie to the Grand jury, which
took up the case early next week.
Jeb was to be a witness too, so
Agnes and he went together; and they
called her in, before him. So in she
went alone, and stood before the %
men. and swore to tell the truth and
all of it.
Mr.. Colver had just come out Of the
room, white and very nervous; and
Agnes, trembling as she faced the %
solemn men, wondered what Mr.. Colyer
Just had told them. Especially, had he
told them of Bert?
Agnes repeated what she had related
before.
Now you have told US all that you
saw or heard happen in your pres
ence?" the foreman challenged her.
"Yes."
"You are sure there is nothing
more?"
Nothing" But her face was burning.
you have remembered something
else?''
Yes; have"
And then there was no retreat; she
had to tell them. And it was plain
that word of Bert was new to all of
them. that 1t was what they had need
ed-and that it was of great damage
to Myrtle.
She waited outside the grand-jury
room, while Jeb was giving his testi-
mony, corrobOrating her account as to
how she happened to come to the Lor-
RE apartment. Agnes sat on bench,
avoiding others, and unable to control
her trembling at what she had done.
Jeb came out, straight and strong
and at ease; for he had made good
appearance and had nothing to tell that
disturbed him.
He helped Agnes up from her seat
and brought her down to the street,
with news-cameras clicking at them as
they left the Criminal Courts building.
He had left his ,car on Dearborn
street on the side across from the Jail,
and as they approached it, Agnes saw
a man standing beside it whom she
recognized suddenly as Martin O'Mara.
She started a little: and when, the
next instant, she felt Jeb's fingers
tighten on her arm. she knew that he
suspected who this was.
"Thst's the lawyer you called?" he
said.
Agnes nodded; and before the men
spoke to each other, she felt-almost
as when O'Mara had come into the
apartment confronted by the police
the flash Of opposition to him.
Jeb could not like him, Agnes real
lied; Jeb could not possibly like him,
even if she had not had her name
coupled to his in the papers from the
fact that she had summoned him for
Myrtle. Under O'Mara's picture. one
paper had so described him-"Martin
O'Mara, the criminal lawyer, called to