Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-19
Copyright, 1911, Street e. Smith.)
Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead q Coz
TODAY s INSTALLMENT.

when | lost my daughter | lost every
thing" he declared as they walked slowly
up the road. Nothing excites my inter
est, save that which once excited hers.
am told that the deepest interest of her
life lay here. ! am also told that it was
an interest quite worthy of her l expect
to find it so. | hope with all my heart to
this town and expect to linger till Mr..
Brotherson has recovered sufficiently to
see me. l hope that this will be agree
able to him. ! hope that | am not pre-
Stunning too much in cherlshing these ex
pectations.
Doris turned her candid eyes upon him.
81 can not tell; | do not know said she.
Nobody knows, not even the DOCTOR what
effect the news we so dread to give him
will have upon Mr.. Brotherson You will
have to wait--we all shall have to wait
the results of that revelation. 1t can not
be kept from him much longer. When
return, | shall shrink from his first look,
in the fear of seeing it betray this dread
full knowledge. Yet l have a faithful
woman there to keep every one out of his
room"
You have had much to carry for one
so young, was MI. CndlOHeT > SSiHpd-
thetic remark. you must let me help
you when that awful moment comes. l
am at the hotel and shall stay there till
Mr. Brotherson is pronounced quite well.
have no other duty now in life but to
sustain him through his trouble and then,
with what aid he can give, search out and
find the cause of my daughters death
which | will never admit without the full
est proof to have been one of suicide"
Doris trembled.
at was not suicide" she declared, We
hemently. IL have always felt sure that
it was not; but today | know
Her hand fell clenched on her breast
and her eyes cleaned strangely. MI
Challoner was himself greatly startled.
What had happened-what could have
happened since yesterday that she should
emphasize that now?
I've not told any one she went on,
as he stopped short in the road, in his
anxiety to understand her But [ will
tell you Only not here, not with all
these people driving past; most of whom
know me- Come to the house later-this
evening after Mr.. Brothersons room is
closed for the night. l have a little sit
ting room on the other side of the hall
where we can talk without being heard.
Would you object TO doing that? Am
asking too much of you?'
NO not at ALL" he assured her. "EX-
pect me a eight, viii that he too early 90
mo, no. Oh. how those people stared!
Let us hasten back or they may connect
your name with what we want kept
secret"
He smiled at her fears, but gave in TO
her humor; he would see her soon again
and possibly learn something which would
amply repay him, both for his trouble and
his patience.
But when evening came and she turned
to face him in that little sitting room
where he had quietly followed her, he
was conscious of a change in her manner
which forbade these high hopes. The
CLEAN was gone from her eyes; the trem-
ulous eagerness from her mobile and SEN
sitve mouth, She had been thinking in
the hours which had passed. and had lost
the confidence of that one impetuous mo-
ment. Her greeting betrayed embarrass-
ment and she hesitated painfully before
she spoke.
II don't know what you will think of
me-. she ventured a last motioning to
chair but not sitting herself "You
have had time to think over what l said
and probably expect something real
something you could tell people. But IT