Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-14

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TITS a wonder too. Our editor is
/ cranky sort of fellow. / was afraid he'd
/ say a lot of mean things about you. But
papa says you swallowed him whole"
did you wish him to say kind things
| about me2'
"Of course" she said, and then the
/ look of mischief came back in her eye.
| Were you not our guest? 1 should have
felt like whipping him If he hadn't said
nice things"
Then I'll tell you what think about
your playing. You gave those strings
soul for the first time for me, beautiful,
living, throbbing. that spoke message of
| its own. The piece you improvised, shall
never forget. Such music seems to me the
] grasping of the infinite by hands that
touch the impalpable and bringing it for
1 a moment within the sphere of matter
! that a kindred soul may hear and see and
= feel"
| She started to make some reply but her
] lips quivered and she looked away across
! the valley at the river and made no ans
\ wer.
| At dinner the general was in his most
/ genial mood. laughing and Joking, and
drawing out CASTOR on politics and cotton
mill developments, and trying with all his
! might to tease his daughter.
/ AS he took his departure for the mills,
he said. Young man, I'd ask you to go
with me and look at the machinery, but
| 4 see IL no use. nedTQ her lWlSbiB
you around her fingers with that piano
I while ago."
Papa, don't be so silly!' cried Sallie,
| slipping her arm around him. putting
one hand over his mouth, and kissing
him.
"Go on to your work. I'll entertain Mr..
/, CASTOR
Indeed you willr' he shouted throwing
| her another kiss as he left.
He's the dearest father any girl ever
had n this world. know you loved yours.
didn't you, Mr.. Gaston?"
Mine was killed in battle. Miss Sallie.
I never knew him. But had the most
beautiful mother that ever lived. I lost
her when a mere boy. And the world has
never been the same since. l envy you"
II forgot. Forgive me-" she softly said,
looking up into his face with tenderness.
| eff I had only had sister, How my
heart used to ache when I'd see other boys
playing with a sister! My poor little
starved soul was so hungry, I would go
off in the woods sometimes and cry for
hours"
IT wish I had known you when you
| were a little boy-I can't conceive of a
dignified orator swaying thousands run
! ming around as q barefooted boy. But
you must have gone barefooted for think
papa said so. didn't her.
Indeed I did. and sometimes I am
afraid for the very good reason didn't
have any shoes"
well you wouldn't have worn them
II you had. I always wanted to be a
I boy just to go barefooted. / think girls
lose so much of child's life by having
to wear Shoes"
But you never knew what II meant to
want shoes and not be able to have them"
he said, looking at the shining tips of her
slippers peeping from the edge of her
! dress.
| ssN-o y,,,t ,,a,,a- +bo,,ab+ +hasa tbtnos
made great difference in our lives after
/ ALI believe II is what we are, not what
we have. that gives life meaning"
He looked at her intently.
II must get ready now for our drive.
The horse will be here in ten minutes.
Enjoy the view on the porch until I am
ready" and she bounded up the stairs to
her room.
In a few minutes she was by his side
again dressed in spotless white as he had
seen her first. She lifted the lines over
the sleek horse, and dashed swiftly down
the drive.
Oh! the peace and bliss of that drive
along the lonely river road by its green
| banks.
How he poured out to her his Utmost
thoughts-things he had not dared to
whiser alone with. himself and God! And
then he wondered why he had thus laid
| bare his secret dreams to this girl he had
known but twenty-four hours. Nonsense,
down in his soul he knew he had known
| her forever! Before the world was made,
| ages and ages ago in eternity he had
| known her! He turned to her now drawn
by resistless force as q plant turns to-
| ward the sunlight for its lifey How he
could talk that day! All he had ever
known of art and beauty, all he knew of
| the deep truths of life, were on his lips
| leaping forth in simple but impassioned
words. For hours he lay, at her feet
where she sat on a rock, high up on the
cliffs overlooking the river and poured out
his heart like a child And she listened
with dreamy look as though to the music
of a master.
At last she sprang to her feet and looked
| at her watch.
ooh! mamma will be furious. 1t will
be after shutdown before we can get home.
We must hurry"
I'm make It all right with your man.
ma" he replied as though he were skilled
| in meeting such emergencies.
Don't you speak to her. TIN be all I
can do TO manage her."
The twilight was gathering when they
| reached the house. and an angry anxious
mother was waiting high up on the stoop.
Watch me smooth every wrinkle out
of her brow nowi" she whispered as she
few up the steps.
Before her mother could say a word,
a white hand was on her mouth and pref
|
ears she had never heard before. There
was the sound of a kiss and he heard
Sallie say, mot a word"
And the mother greeted him with a
smile and a curiously searching look. She
chatted pleasantly until her daughter re-
turned from her room, and then left her.
Again II was nearly II o'clock before he
reached the hotel.
The next morning Bob st. Clare broke in
on him before he was out of bed.
Look here, you sly dog, what are you
doing slipping and sliding around here
YETI"
Bob. you're the man want to see. Tell
me all you know about the Worths."
1.-THE Worths? Which one?"
There's only one so far as 1 can see -
well, you may find out there's two if
you should happen to collide with the
general"
Does he cut up at times?"
Hes all right till he turns on you, and
then you want-to find shelter"
did you ever run up against him?"
mo, 1 never got that far. He's hail
fellow-well-met with every youngster in
town. He win laugh and joke about his
daughter until he thinks she is in earnest
about a fellow, and then he swoops down
on him like a hawk. I'll bet a hundred
dollars he's playing you now for all you're
worth against the latest favorite. But
Miss Sallie-she's an angel!'
Look here, Bob you're not in love with