The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-07-09
By EDWIN BALMER
Copyright by Edwin Balmer
WNU Service

0ere0 almost dgnaSt, Wn0t she WAS BE-
| traying1 Or didn't she care, II this
man gave her a hint that would help
herr
1T let's the man deny his years, /"
Cathal answered the mother as though
he noticed nothing OF her Intensity
"He makes only more money. though
growing older. It seems a sign OF
strength. greater instead of less with
| his years. His wife, she finds moth
Ing In her doings to deny her years
for her. Spending money doesn't do
1t. You got to make It. It's max
Ing money that gives proof. which
the wife can. match. of his greater
| ability and attractions
Attractions I" Beatrice Gleneith re-
peated. and Cathal caught a witch
like vince. 80 he said quickly:
| "Lorrie knew better-but they all
do. He knew 1t was his money, no,
him. that Myrtle had to have. She
married him for 1t.
| .And she could have got away with
1t, and 80 could he, and been salts
fed, II he hadn't been happy In bis
marriage before. It WAS that which
proved the death Of him-that once
he'd been happyl"
.HowY breathed Beatrice.
Cathal confronted her. .Have you
not known happinessr he said boldly
and waited for no answer. Then how
having bought her with money, could
| he have With her the full OF 1T
'She sold herself body and soul te
him, did Myrtle, whom your daugh
| ter walked In on. Mrs. Gleneith. She
tried to deliver her soul as well Al
her body to him: but the soul wouldn't
deliver. Something sees to that"
He stopped, and Beatrice Gleneitf
remained standing. waiting for him.
But Charles Lorrle would have sou
AZ we'll as body, having paid for 1t
Poor AZ her soul was, he would have
It Once he had wife. body and
soul, you see: so he was spoiled FOL
less. And then there was Bert. 81
he began to beat up his young wifi
Myrtle. A trife before two O'Clock
on that day, when later your daugh
ter had the I'll luck to be looking
about the building with Mr.. Braddon
Charles Lorrle went too far
There were certain bruises and con
tusIons on Myrtle which your daugh
ter, placed as she was with Myrtle
could not have failed to see. So
must make sure of the manner OF he
memory OF them, and some othe
Items OF evidence
Agnes told him. 1.-The morning aft
er the-after we were In that apart
ment, and read the newspapers here
wrote down everything that ! knew
I'd done. The papers printed som
things I didn't see and didn't do. Ant
they didn't agree with each other"
No" said Cathal. Have you wha
you wrote7'
I'm my room" And she arose III
be right back
In her room she bent before he
desk, and pulled out the drawer con
tanning her own intimate. sentlmar
tai miscellany.
She remembered now, when she ha
started to tuck In with this medley tn
, record of her meeting with Myrtl
Lorrie. she had stopped. restrained b
, the feeling that this memorandum wa
utterly allen and communicating to tn
other contents Of the drawer. But sh
had no safer repository: and so sh
had thrust II under the other thing!
She withdrew 1t with no such e,
, aggerated offense at Its utter strange
ness. Myrtle. Into whose life Agne
Gleneith had stumbled, was no woma
apart. This evening. In New Yorl
might her father be seeking son,
counterpart OF Myrtle7
And what OF Jeb twenty years frol
now, or sixteen years or much les
!. II be exhausted bis happiness wilt
her sooner7
How, actually, had Jeb offered bin
self
: He'd give her all; and she'd 81,
!. him all Together, while their cup co
!, tented them, they'd tip It up and dra
!, 1t to the last drop Of mutual emotio
: And then he would turn to some OF
: er woman7 And what would she d.
Il don't know Glen: and neither [
you. And don't care-nor do you
!, II we first have everything from ed,
other"
But she did care.
II She shifted In the drawer one
Jeb's impetuous, exciting letters; al
J, she touched for az instant, and
most with a caress, the envelope Will
:, Rod had addressed to her; and
- mind chung to Its Quieter yet stran5
I ly stirring contents.
She closed the drawer and to
r. downstairs the paper which preserv
her Impressions Of that apartme
n wherein Myrtle had seized upon he
Cathai arose to receive from Ayr
the paper she had brought him; a
- he remained standing In the cen
on OF the room as he read.
=, Agnes had dated the paper, and
IL. the top had written why she was
| onrdIpo AZ that time oyarflv ul