The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-24
By EDWIN BALMER
Copyright by Edwin Balmer
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Cray1ngT Or didn't she care, II TINS
man gave her q hint that would help
her?
ut let's the man deny his years, y
Cathal answered the mother as though
he noticed nothing of her intensity.
"He makes only more money, though
growing older. It seems 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't match, Of his greater
ability and attractions"
Attractions !" Beatrice Gleneith re-
peated, and Cathal caught a witch
like vince, so he said quickly:
"Lorrie knew better-but they all
do. He knew it was his money, not
him, that Myrtle had to have. She
married him for it.
And she could have got away with
it, and so could he, and been salts
fed, If he hadn't been happy in his
marriage before. 1t was that which
proved the death Of him-that once
he'd been happy!"
"How?" breathed Beatrice.
Cathal confronted her. Have you
not known happiness?" he said boldly,
and waited for no answer. "Then how,
having bought her with money, could
he have with her the full of it?
"She sold herself body and soul to
him, did Myrtle. whom your daugh-
ter walked in on, Mrs. Gleneith. She
tried to deliver her soul as we'll as
her body to him; but the soul wouldn't
deliver. Something sees to that"
he stopped, and Beatrice Gleneith
remained standing, waiting for him.
But Charles Lorrie would have soul
as well as body, having paid for It
Poor as her soul was, he would have
1t. Once he had a wife, body and
soul, you see; so he was spoiled for
less. And then there was Bert. Sc
he began to beat up his young wife
Myrtle. A trifle before two O'Clock
on that day, when later your daugh'
ter had the Ill luck to be looking
about the building with Mr.. Braddon
Charles Lorrie went too far. e.
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 her
memory Of them, and some other
items of evidence
Agnes told him: "The morning aft.
er the-after we we're in that apart
ment, and l read the newspapers here
I wrote down everything that / knew
I'd done. The papers printed some
things I didn't see and didn't do. And
they didn't agree with each other"
"No," said Cathal. slave you what
you wrote?"
"In my ROOM" And she arose. "Ill
be right back"
In her room she bent before hel
desk, and pulled out the drawer con
tanning her own intimate, sentimen
tai miscellany.
She remembered now, when she had
started to tuck in with this medley the
record of her meeting with Myrtle
Lorrie, she had stopped. restrained by
the feeling that this memorandum was
utterly alien and communicating to the
other contents of the drawer. But she
had no safer repository; and so she
had thrust it under the other things
aggerated offense at its utter strange
ness. Myrtle. into whose life Agnes
Gleneith had stumbled. was no woman
apart. This evening. in New York
might her father be seeking some
counterpart of Myrtle?
And what Of Jeb twenty years from
now. or sixteen years or much less
If he exhausted his happiness with
her sooner?
How. actually, had Jeb offered him
self?
He'd give her all; and she'd give
him all. Together, while their cup con
tented them, they'd tip it up and drain
it to the last drop of mutual emotion
And then he would turn to some 9th
er woman? And what would she do
81 don't know Glen; and neither dc
you. And 1 don't care-nor do you
If we first have everything from each
other"
But she did care.
She shifted In the drawer one OF
jobs impetuous, exciting letters; and
she touched for an instant, and al
most with caress, the envelope which
Rod had addressed to her; and hel
mind chung to its quieter yet strange
ly stirring contents.
She closed the drawer and tool
downstairs the paper which preserved
her impressions Of that apartment
wherein Myrtle had seized upon her.
Cathal arose to receive from Agnes
the paper she had brought him; and
he remained standing in the center
| of the room as he read.
Agnes had dated the paper, and al
the top had written why she was re
cording. at that time. exactly what
she had seen and heard and done and