The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-30
CHAPTER V-Continued

"They told about Bert in the papers
this morning" Agnes suddenly said,
surprising him.
YES" said Cathal.
Because 1 told them. 1 told the
Grand Jury yesterday"
Did your" said Cathal, and watched
her flush up to the roots of her fine,
straw-yellow hair. She had on a SIM
pie blue dress (the same, it was,
which she had worn for Rod; and
in it she delighted this man too,
though she was not thinking of him
now
IF hadn't, wouldn't they have in
dicted herr"
He laughed, reassuring her, and she
sat back. You'd nothing to do with
the indictment; and they knew about
Bert, but they didn't know he'd called
her at the fiat while you were there
with her."
"Did you know that?" asked Agnes.
Certainly; she told me-"
"Ohr'>
Her mother stirred herself How
Familiarity her daughter had been con-
versing with this criminal lawyer!
You have just referred to your eli
ent, presume" she said to Cathal.
yes"
Suddenly curiosity caught her
against her intention. "Does a wom-
an like that tell her attorney all the
truth about herself?"
"Some do" said Cathal.
did she?"
"She told me about Bertrand her
relations with her husband. He knew
it; and he knew about Bert-that Bert
was in love with her, and she was in
love with Bert. She's much like any
other woman; and he was just hus-
band who'd made for himself too
much money.
,, If your daughter had happened to
pass that door in the morning, instead
of the afternoon, she'd have seen
husband and wife like enough to a mil
lion others. Ills the way with a
crime like murder-especially murder,
Mrs. Gleneith. 1t springs from moth
ing unusual. Just from the most usu-
al things in the world, it comes from
the most human impulses pushed
bit further"
what are you talking about?"
"The life all of us are living" Ca
thai replied, without breaking his
calm. "And when one suddenly stops
living 1t, from being shot by his wife,
others can see palmer, perhaps, what
they're up to. Take Charles Lorrie
and his first wife-and his second
who shot him: There's nothing strange
in the three Of them from start to
finish-except the length to which
two Of them went with their i'm
pulses"
(which two?" Agnes heard her
mother ask.
"Lorrie and Myrtle-who, after he'd
cast off her that bore his daughter to
him, then married him. He started
his trouble by what he did; yet he
was following only the commonest i'm
pulses of men in middle life."
"What impulse do you mean?" In
fidelity?" l
'Infidelity is the kindest form it
takes" Cathal said.
"KindestI'
'At least" said Cathal, sometimes
The wife-the real wife-more often
gets him back, if she wants him. But
Lorrie, when he fell under the delu-
sion Of the middle-aged man making
money, didn't become unfaithful. He
divorced his old wife, instead, and
bought him younger one"
"What do you call the delusion of
the middle-aged man making money 2"
Agnes heard her mother press him on.
Their imagination that, marrying
again, they'll have again their youth
and that they can buy both body and
soul of woman. OF course, it's the
money does it to them"
"How does the money do 1t to
them?"
Was her mother aware, Agnes won
dered almost aghast, what she was be-
traying? Or didn't she care, If this
man gave her hint that would help
her?
1T lets the man deny his years, "