Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
TODAY'S INsTALLMENT.

..,,5 because a lot of yokels give man
49, odfous nickname, he said tersely, you
-, him unheard What do you know
Of him.
..,-o+bing. thanks" said Lady Diana.
Isn't il q bit rough on him to believe
NH mere hearsay?" asked the artist
,.r 5op't, but my grandfather, who has
Kind word for every one, says that his
,-sndftther was a soldier, his father a
soldier and a gentleman, but ne hopes the
~, will never darken his doors. And all
-he world says he fritters away ms NE
5 ainefng away his fortune"
7,ba stranger smiled with sense Of
,.in reflected in his face.
oyK-bat the world says is often malice,
,... said going to the rescue of Lord Bran
= INIT I'm sorry to hear what Lord
t,a,,erIav said. Nobodys all bad, Perhaps
80 because Lord Beverley doesn't know
LIN, that he thinks so ill of him. Per-
ans If Won knew him, you might find
some little food
.T.m sure hope so, said Lady Diana.
Rut the stranger continued
An Interruption.
,.I,n sure he'd hope so. If he has played
havoc with his life, mayn't he repent his
tu,q Perhaps in a sense he never had
g., chance-perhaps he never had father
ar mother in his youth to direct him
md rerhaus he'll turn out all right now
perhaps no good woman ---
A softly insidious voice thrust itself into
The intimacy that seemed about to begin
between these two young people.
"3h. there you are" it said
Roth the girl and the man looked up
and saw in the road a motor car with a
chauffeur and a woman stepping out from
If For the briefest space the two women
measured glances. Lady Diana saw tall,
rather dark and foreign appearing young
woman Of an uncertain age, whose black
hair and sharp features gave her, in the
estimation of any one seeing her for the
drst time. a certain aspect of power
A moment later she was walking toward
them
The artist was not pleased at this In
trusion, and Diana saw that upon his
face was that tragic mask she had noted
when they saw one another for the first
time not so many minutes ago.
80 this is where you come TO sketch
so often" went on the woman from the
motor car Delightful place! Pray in
troduce me.
Dintculf SITUATION
The artist interposed himself between
the two women, almost as though he
feared harm to the younger of the two.
I'm only a stranger here he said,
while Lady Diana. with perfect and cold
breeding, ignored a situation that to one
OF another nationality might have been
2 trifle embarrassing
The intruder again swept Lady Diana
with her eyes.
Indeed" she said, q subtle menace in
her tones We'll, It's lucky found you.
II we are going for our usual spin to-
gether, Francois wants to tell you some
hing about the car-the brake doesn'
act properly"
Lady Diana was not pleased with her
scrutiny of the other woman. She was
100 young to have esteemed the other
fast, but there was a certain something
about the tall and dark intruder that re
pelled this young Englishwoman. so she
continued, though the other talked at her,
10 seclude herself in her British reserve.
The situation appeared to the artist to
need relieving very much. So to create
a diversion, he walked toward the road
where the car and chauffeur were wait
ing
We'll take it down to the village and
look for a blacksmith he volunteered.
But the woman who had come for him
n the motor did not move. She was still
in hopet nat Lady Diana would recognize
her existence
Cant it be done here?' she asked,
still cycling the young English noblewom
an and anxious for some offer of aid that
would enable her to make Lady Diana S
scQuaintance.
Her Chilly Responses.
Certainly not returned the artist,
almost roughly, and, besides, here are
The horses. The car may brighten them
If We leave it in this neighborhood
The woman of the motor car looked
Town the road and saw the Beverley
String being led and ridden from the ex-
Fcisng on the Downs
Dear things she said for Lady Di-
ana benefit How splenddly they look,
lace horses, too. I should have loved to
lave seen them. I'd no notion that there
were any so near TO us, To whom do
hey belong?"