Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-21
The Gates of Silence
By Meta S1mmlns Author of "Hushed Ub"

them talking might suspect. But Rim
lngton' s~thoughts were working quickly.
If this mansioined him in the attempt
two diffused the trail; it would be easy
enough to give him the slip afterward
But first there would be a certain
safety in numbers.
That, apparently, was the other mans
thought also, for presently, as the OPP
portunity occurred he drew near Rim
ington and spoke again and for the hour
that followed he was often near Rim
ington. Then they were separated. and
Rimington's eyes and mind were concen-
trated on two things-the movements of
the warders and the specter of the fog
that w@5 rolling inland from the SEQ. not
reaching them yet, but visible and thick
ening ominously
1t was odd how this other mans mind
working entirely Independently of his
own, had yet devised a plan with so many
points of resemblance. To him also the
lnadVisa bility of attempting escape in
the open country, where every point of
vantage was occupied by a civil guard,
had occurred. His plan was to wait
until they were returning and had al
most reached the tunnel that separated
the stone workings from the actual prison
property, and then for them to make a
left-distracting the attention of the
guards, who would be called on to look
In different directions. Having separated
the dash was to be made for open coun-
try.
Five o'clock, mate" the convict had
given the signal. THE O'Clock bell
and"
Would O'Clock never come?
How far had he walked? How long
had he been walking? Jack Rimngton
had lost all idea of time. For long now
he seemed toNhave forgotten time when
he was not walking, walking on and on
through the white fog, that seemed to
him now no longer the deliverer, but the
destroyer. behind whose white, shroud-
ing curtain nrked a thousand shapes of
fear.
His head ached and reeled. and his body
was soaked through and through: once
he had plunged through the fog knee
deep in a Drawing streams had fallen
and stumbled. soaking himself in the wa
ter, ice cold from its journey down from
the source beyond the shoulders of the
tors His dread was that he might be. for
ali the ceaseiess energy. moving only in a
circle instead OF increasing the distance
between himself and the prison. He was
faint and sick with hunger. and hardly
realized that it was hunger: only now the
white whorls Of the fog were beginning
to take definite shape for him The white
, .l ,'''' NJ ". me L"S ia" "eC"IIe IuII ot
az I'VE y, % ''Iiof' VI
'"','e " nun wa, "iS pun 9uei
-. - ~ IN "" P""SI W n"'' ~
'"9'I upon nm an" pun
''i'' N"N'' I'Ne d pack " nouLoS'
F"sgeo CUT
'i'i'" vi an" "i' VIII. steps ,na /
esq" anu S'e" 'i'"ie l"EE'iiS heh
It wa 1'' ,Ie cur an VI the
,,''' ''', D"' w." ~" ''''"' S''Vr
! "'. H'''1 % ,""!'S VI ~" N"N'h <
ina, a." N'''"''e.9 SUI eL"'! ~
90 ''.'. '"' " '"e ""i""9" 81
~ 'h,eI'Ss Wei d'TSs an" iausue, re
! 'lN''Ipl7" 's' "s"'' '0i'' a." iaH Hea FlN
' ,,9' d" ~ ,'''''. ." ,"c iace u
'''' "usI 'It ''-''E ',o eve, ing mist
W. ~ ''', '"'!s',t we" ne ""oNe
N.i,, ""'I", HN"t "'' '"'
'Fe' me - '"i ,'leu lace u tne moor
'-'''' o ''- W. ,,.'C. 9p,'i, .'"e
-, 80 - -
~ -. I, u, ~ 20 y
.,- ~. ,ItI,5 d" LIS
80 St', 49, i,'u' "a
y, ''i, , Wy, - - 49,
~ ~ a..., s 49,
80
/ hoFa'heS
kimingtcn reused himself with start
and looked about him He was stiff and
cbiire5 VIII cold b,,t bis brain was cIear.
49, 5''' lV'g W.. ,,, - 1oat
Seep ha0 CHASED away the mist Oh laSI
night from his brain az the morning sun
light had sent the fog skulking back out
to eea
observation-disclosures, -, 49,. To-, ,,.,,,,,,,,s
RE FeinehlDereu All thdt hau "dPPeheu'
The plan had gone without hitch
Just as they had arranged they had
wade q holt for freedom big con-
,,tat ia It,+,li ~ mo-, Wrfrcb
NIc', VINO hau stated ms "al.'e was 'i l'lI
to the right, and himself to the left,
Orders to stop had been shouted after
tbep, and those orders disrae, ora rded shots
anu sii0 1,
hao peeh Hreu' pul Ihe Ios hau S"al-
lowed them up, What had happened to
the other man? Was he Stll at large?
IDf Gil