The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-07-18

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| *teWar'ieSS applied few rcStofatlNeS WIN
! the skill of long experience. and the y"l'I5
girl opened her eyes. they turned va
! cantly from the stewarCess to JaGN WIN i
! look of half recognition and half 1l&htoneI
| inquiry. Yes said Jack. addressing lic
! eyes. although ostentatiouSly speaking I"
| Mrs. Johnson, shed only just come by
! steamer to Frisco and wasn't expecting TO
! see me and we dropped right onto Fach
/ other here on the boat. And haven't seen
| her since she WAS hiGh. Sister Mary
| ought to have warned me by letter. i}ut
she was always Il Si9uch ut letlor-"riiulhE,
| Thcre-that'H do, Mrs. Johnson. She 5
! coming round: ] reckon can manage ihe
| rest But you go now and tell the purser
| / want one of those inside statcroonS LOT
my niece-my niece, YOU hear: SO chat you
| can be- near her and look after her.
As the StcWardcSS turned ObcdlGEty away
I the young girl attempted 10 rise. but Jack
checked her. NO" he said almost bru%Gu"E,
you and have some talking to do before
| she gets back, and we've no time tor foo!ll
| You heard what told her just now? Well,
! it's got TO be as ! said-you Sabc! AS long
| as you're on this boat you re my niece and
my sister MaryS child. As | haven't cot
| any sister Mary y0u don't run any risk OF
falling foul of her, and YOU amt taking
any ones place. That settles that. Now,
| do you, or DO you not, want 10 see that man
| again: SaE yes and if he's anywhere above
! ground I'll yank him over 10 you us soon
we touch shore He had no idea of in
tcrforing with his colleagues amourS, but
| he had determined TO make Stratton pay
| for the bother their Soycnly sequence had
caused him. Yet he was relieved and aS-
tonishcd by her frantic gesture of iioii@na-
uOl. and abhorrcnce. NO he repeated
! grmlN, well, that settles that. Now, look
mere quick before she comes-do you want
to 90 back Monochrome to your frcndS:'
But here occurred what he had dreaded
most and probably Thought he had escaped.
She had stared at him, at the sjcwardesS.
at the walls. with abStIac"d vacant and
bewidcred, but always undimmcd and un-
moistcncd. eyes \ sudden CONFUSION shook
her whole frame. Her blank expression
broke lik" Il Swallowed mirror, she threw
her hands over her eyes and fell forward
! with her face 10 the back of her chair
in an outhurSt of tears.
Alas for Jack. With Il breaking up of
those fountain came her speech also ut
r,frst. disconnected and incoherent and thcn
-, i1r:a a-. M NJ. 65 5G@ 5 h3' s mo
SGfaced them. She had ds@raccd her
! self. There was no homo for her but the
grave. WHY had Jack Snatchcd her from
La Then, hit By bit. She yielded mp her
story-a story drcarilY commonplace TO
Jack. nnintcreSing and even irritating to
/ his fastidiouSpsS. She WAS school giro
not oven convent girl the inmate
of 4 Presbyterian female alchemy ut Napa.
! Jack shuddcT"d a. h" remembered to have
once seen certain Of the pUpila walking with
Il teacher, and she he'd lived with her
/ ,,;,rr;rJ sister Sho had soon Str,tto, ,.hiIn
going to ' and Fl" on the San Erancsco
boat; she had exchanged notes win him,
! had met him secretly and had finally CON
/ snntnd to clone with him 10 e;acramnnto onI,-
10 discover when the boat had left the Wharf
tbr ro,l natnrn Of Ills intnntion4 JanIz
listorca with infinitn wn,r;mo.s an1 ;nm.,rG
ch.fing. lie had read all iris before in
! IN tbo d,iI,- roTcrt put avon, hove, Ioai,
| failoi fo rccngnizc Stratton as y sinnor,
or. indeed. ANYTHING bat 4 bIunderipc cheat
| and clown. who had left his dirty prentice
work on his Hack's) hands. But the girl
was helpless and, it seemed. homeless all
! which. IN spite of her tears. he could moi
/ hut rrsncct That momrnt1rv shadow uf
! Ir,th hoI cxboultol hrr ITr Strnl,nl Iii.
| rust3rhc nulIrd down his white, ,yoistcolt