The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-09
CHAPTER III

uOOF; out the room and the apart
ment inside il refused to be obliter-
ated. 1t went with her: they all
seemed TO travel with her, though she
only had been released, she alone had
been helped away.
She sat for a few minutes in the
women's waiting-rOOm of the North
western railroad station. where no one
could know that she, this afternoon,
had walked in on a murder. After a
while, she went to a phone-booth and
called her fathers Office. He was not
there, but his secretary grew almost
hysterical when she recognized Az
nes' voice
Where are you, Miss Agnes?"
AT the station; I'm taking a train
home in seven minutes" The police
had communicated with her father,
and he had gone TO find her.
Finally she called Jeb; but he also
was out seeking her. For news OF
the murder of Charles Lorrie was on
the air; the announcer had said that
Miss Agnes GIeneith had discovered
the murder.
The wife Of a man in jobs office
had picked this up at home not ten
minutes ago, and had phOned her hus-
band in the office; and Jeb had set out.
Agnes sat in the train where no.
body knew. Nobody yet. But by
night they would know; by morning
all her world would learn that she had
walked in" on a murder while she
had been looking for an apartment
with Jeb BraddOn.
That meant, Of course, that she was
TO marry Jeb. Marry, marry. marry,
the rails ran again under the car
wheels.
She had selected a seat amid stran-
gers; she leaned her head against the
window and shut her eyes.
See. You opened your eyes, but
that room was there; Myrtle was
there, reaching for her, clinging to
her. forever clinging. IT. was down
the hall, half in the bedroom: the
husband whom Myrtle had shot. four
times. after being his wife for two
years.
Agnes closed her eyes again.
Who was Bert, and where was he?
Myrtle's Bert.
shut up about BertI" Myrtle had
begged. And Agnes had omitted men,
ton Of him. Why?
For the sake of Myrtle? Or of Mar
tin O'Mara?
What did Martin O'Mara mean by
saying you" never do a thing like
that. but your dragons drove you to
it? What were the dragons, which
Myrtle's soft sensuousness might have
known, but which Agnes knew naught
OF. because God had been good to her?
The train was stopped again. and
il was at her station. There were her
mother and Bee, and Simmons behind
them. Her father, it proved, had
phoned to them from the city to meet
this train. They hurried her home.
where her mother, after learning all
that Agnes could tell, offered TO start
her off the next morning for the East
and for Europe.
Your Aunt Esther will take YOU.
III telephone her this evening" Aunt
Esther was her mothers older sister.
a widow living in Hartford. I'D go
with you myself, Agnes: but it is no
time 70 leave your father"
No" said Agnes. But I can't pos
sibly leave, Mother"
why not?"
I'm witness. / must appear be-
fore the coroner's jury tomorrow,
probably; then before the Grand Jury:
and then ar the trial"
Il can't imagine it," her mother
said.
But / have to-"
Jeb arrived before her father; he
had driven again from the city. Ag-
mes had him come to her room. where
she remained.
Jeb crossed the room in long, strong
strides and seized her in his arms.
She said no word but she pushed
away from him.
whats the matter, Glen?' he over
powered her again. Il love you so;
and I left you TO walk into that-when
1 love you sol"
Lover" Agnes repeated as much to
herself as to him, looking up at him.
do we love, Jeb? Or what is il
we feel for each other?'
He held her only tighter. ST know"
he said. You're mixing Us q. with
them. Don'ti Oh, I wish 20 God
I'd stayed there with you"
You didn't, Jeb I'm glad
1t was nearly midnight and after
Jeb was gone. when she had a talk
with her mother and father.