Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-11
Initials Only By Anna katherine Creme
A Thrilling Mystery Story Of JNoae,m Times

But 0WeetWdteT was lmDerNlOUS TO all
| hint With eager eyes straining into the
shadowy depths just visible over her
| shoulder, he listened eagerly for the dis
jointed words now plainly to he heard in
some nearby but unseen chamber
THE second O. B." he inwardly de-
clared. And he's a BrothersOn also. and
sick, Miss Scott ne whisperingly en-
treated as her hand fell in manifest de-
SPAR from the door, don't send me away
yet I've a question of the greatest i'm
portance to put you, and one minute more
can not make any difference to him.
Listen! those cries are the cries of de-
lirium; he can not miss you: he's not even
conscious"
Hes calling out IN his sleep He's
calling her, just as he has called for the
last two weeks But he will wake con
scious-or he will not wake at all
The anguish trembling in that latter
phrase would have attracted Sweetwa-
ter's earnest, if not pitiful, attention at
any other time, but now he had ears only
for the cry which at that moment came
ringing shrilly from within
Edith, Edith"
The living shouting for the dead, \
heart still warm sending forth its longing
to the pierced and puIseless one, hidden in
seen Miss Challoner buried this sum
mons Of distracted love came with wierd
force
Then the present reEained It's sway He
heard her name again, and this time it
sounded less like a call and more like the
welcoming cry Of meeting spirits. Was
death to end this separation? Had he
found the true O. B. only to behold an
other ana mai seal fill upon this closely
lolded mystery In his fear Of this pos
sIpIitE' ne caught at Doris hand as she
was ABOUT TO bound away, and eagerly
asked.
When was Mr. Brotherson taken in2
zen me, 1 entreat YOU, the exact day and,
YOU can. the exact hour. More de-
pehuS upon TINS than YOU can readily
realize.
She Wrenched her hand from his, pant
ing with impatlence and vgaue alarm.
But she answered him distinctly:
On the 10Th Of last month, just an
hour after he was made manager, He
fell IN a faint at the WORKS.
The day-the very day OF Miss ChaI-
Toner death!
Had he heard ~did YOU tell him then
or afterwards what happened in New
York on that very date"
no, no, we have not told him II
would have killed him and may vet"
Edith, Edith" came again through
the hush hush so deem that sweet
water received the impreesicn that the
house was empty save for patiert and
nurse
This discovery had ifs erfe.t ,,,,,,, ,,i,,,
Why should ne subiect mis- vo',no and
loving girl to further nairo Ito bad OIL
ready learned more than ne had aynocted
ia. The rest youId come win tin,o Pnt
at the first intimafion he eavo ~ Iaa,,ipo
she lost her distracted air and h,,neI
with absolute earerress toward hin,
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