Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-24
Continuation of Chapter Nv.

He stepped back and stood I'm a sort
| of dreary daze, while. with one final
wonderful smile at parting, the girl as
sumed control OF the machine and swuns
Il out from the curb. Maitland watched 1t
forge slowly up the avenue and van
ish round the Thirty-sixth street corner;
then turned his face southwark. signing
with WEAKNESS and discomfort.
At Thirty-fourth street q policeman,
lounging beneath the corrugated iron
awning of a corner saloon, faced about
with a low whistle, to start after him.
Maitland experienced a chill sense OF
criminal guilt; he was painfully conscious
of those two shrewd eyes. boring gimlet-
like into his back, overlooking no detail
of the wreck of his evening clothes. In
voluntarily he glanced down at his legs
and they moved mechanically beneath tho
edge of his overcoat, like twin animated
columns Of mud and dust, openly adver-
Using his misadventures. He felt in his
soul that they shrieked aloud, that they
would presently succeed in DINING all the
town awake, so that the startled popu-
lace would come to the windows to stare
in wonder as he passed by And inwardly
he groaned and quaked.
AS for the policeman, after some re-
mctant hesitation, he overcame the inner
ent indisposition to exertion that affects
his kind, and, swinging his stick, stalk
ed after Maitland.
Happily (and with heartfelt thanksgiv-
ing the young man CHANGED upon a SON.
nolent and bedraggIed hack at rest in tho
tenciled shadows of the Third avenue ele-
waited structure. It's pilot was snoring
Justify the sleep of the belated. on the
box With some difficulty he was awak-
ened, and Maitland lodged into
the musty, dusty body of the
vehicle, grateful to escape the un-
prejudiced stare Of the guardian Of the
peace, who in another moment would
have overtaken him and doubtless. SUBJ
jected him to embarrassing inquisition.
AS the ancient four-wheeler ratified
noisily over the cobbles, some of the
shops were taking down their shutters.
the surface cars were beginning to run
with increasing frequency, and the side
walks were becoming sparsely populated
Familiar as the sights were, they were
yet somehow strangely unreal TO the
young man. In a night the face OF the
world had changed for him; its features
doomed weirdly blurred and contorteo
through the mystical grey-gold atmos'
phere of the land of Romance. wherein
he really lived and moved and had his
being. The blatant day was altogether
nreposterous: today was a dream, some
thing nightmarish; last night he had beel
awake last night for the first time III
twenty-odd years of existence he mao
lived
He slipped unthinkingly one hand into
his coat pocket, seeking instinctlvely ms
cigarette case; and his myers prusneo
the coarse-grained surface OF canvas
hoo He Jumped as IL electrified. He
had managed altogether to forget them
vet in his keeping were the jewels, Malt
lard beirlooms-the swag and booty, the
loot and plumber of the nights adventure re,
And he smiled happily to think that his
interest in them was 80 per cent depre-
ciated in "a hours; now he owned only
half. - ,,, a,,as
Suddenly he sat up, with hapPg 80.
and a glowing face. She had lruS'eU nm