The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-10-16
By EDWIN BALMER
CHAPTER XIV-Continued
Copyright by Edwin Balmer
WNU Service

she watched him for sign of restless
ness; for she knew that never, since
he was little boy. had he thrown
off the burden of care cast upon him;
but now he hadl
He climbed with her gayly, strongly,
singing; shouting where an echo an
swered; and they'd camp, sometimes,
high on the mountain together.
By their campfire they'd talk-she
as never before to any one, even to
her sister; and he with freedom that
surprised himself as he told her Of
his life before he met her, his strug-
giles, his hopes and his dreams, which
he had kept even from Winnie.
They returned to a Chicago Of &C.
cented madness, with more banks and
businesses failing.
They went to a hotel where they
took temporary" quarters, but where
they remained for nearly a year. Ag-
mes said to her friends: "It's my fault.
I don't look anywhere else" AS a
matter Of fact, she didn't care to.
Cathal was working day and night
for weeks on end, as his cases came
up in court; and the hotel was as
convenient as any place could be to
the criminal courts, to his Office and
to the homes of his clients.
Agnes put nothing, in these days,
before his convenience and the chance
to be with him whenever he dropped
his work. Their interludes, between
the excitement of his appearances in
court, exceeded even their happinesses
on the mountain.
She dwelt, indeed, in very mael-
strom Of madness. No other city sur
passed Chicago in display Of the in
sanities Of civilization. There it stood,
the grain-market Of the world, on the
edge Of prairie afflicted with no
plague but that of plenty-or surplus
age, indeed, Of all crops and cattle;
and men would have starved by the
thousand but for the bread-lines, one
Of them given by a gangster.
School-teachers worked unpaid; and
a committee, well financed by separate
funds, proceeded to gather proud ex-
hibits of Century of Progress-and
day after day the bulletin-boards of
the city's best clubs posted another
and another black-bordered card bear
ing the name of a member who had
been in perfect health yesterday.
They went by their own hands; and
all did not choose death to escape the
consequences of their failures; many
chose fraud, embezzlement and be.
trayal Of trust.
Money-hunger was the driving drag
on within these men-the hunger for
money, the root Of evil from the oldest
reported time. They must have money,
these men; and especially, having had
money, they must regain their losses
and have more and more and more.
For what?
Agnes thought Of her mother and IA
Their, and Of the woman in New York
She thought Of Bee and Davis-and
Jeb.
Davis was at work again in still an
other new association with Ken Rem
BILE; and Bees third baby, another
boy. was born and growing up.
Agnes went home" a good deal !;
for her mother had forgiven" her
Indeed, Beatrice Gleneith had found
far less to overlook than she had ex-
pected; for her friends had been sur
prisingly mild in their criticisms, and
decidedly interested.
Things were very, very bad In Chi
cago. They were as bad as could be,
people said; they could get no worse
But they did get worse-much, much
worse. insult crashed.
insult, the strongest man Of the
city! insult. the emperor of power
and transit; insult, the mighty man
Of millions, who almost alone had
stood through nearly three years Of
the panic-Insull crashed. And the
crash all but carried down-Chicago.
Not millions; hundreds OF millions
In money was lost-the fortunes Of
the great and the little.
Jeb was utterly wiped out; and so
was Ojai. Robert Gleneith was ruined.
His loans at the banks. which Jeb had
helped to arrange, were secured by
stocks in holding which
had dropped from high" Of hun
dreds Of dollars a share to three
eighths of a dollar.
He offered his home for sale, and
received no bid as great as the mort
gage; he would have moved out his
family - and Davis - but the bank
preferred to have the house occupied;
so they camped (they called it) in the
house, without servants, except Rog-
ma. who asked to stay without wages,
for her food and shelter.
One item went to the credit side Of
the ledger. Bob sent no more checks
to Cash" and he ceased to frequent
New. York city. He had given up
"Cash" and he informed his wife Of
the fact.
Bob was able to supply his family
with funds enough to keep going; for.
in spite Of his debts-or because Of
them-he succeeded In negotiating
further loans.
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