Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith,
Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co }
TODAY s INSTALLMENT.

4ODA1 y iNO L li4M Il MI.
For reply. the other pointed to a small
room quite unoccupied which opened out
Of the one in which they then stood Mr.
Chaloner bowed and in an other moment
the door closed upon them. to the infinite
disappointment of the men about the
hearth
What do you wish to ask" was Mr..
Chanoner's immediate inquiry.
'"This | make no apologies, and expect
in answer nothing more than an unequlv-
ocal yes or no. You tell me that you
have met my brother. Can that be said
of the other members OF your fsmily-of
your deceased daughter IN fact?"
NO"
she was acquainted with OSWALD
Brotherson?"
''She was
Without your knowledge
Entirely so
"Corresponded with him.
Not exactly"
How, not exactly?
HE wrote to her occasionally. She
wrote TO hirn frequently--but she never
sent her letters"
"Ahr
The exclamation was sharp. short and
conveyed little. Yet with its escape, the
whole scaffolding of this mans hold upon
life and his own fate went down IN indis-
tinguishable chaos Mr.. Chaloner real
lied a sense of havoc, though the eyes
bent upon hts countenAnce had not wa
vered. nor the stalwart figure moved.
81 have read some of those letters the
inventor finally acknowledged. THE
police took great pains to place them
under my eye, supposing them to have
been meant for me because of the initials
written on the wrapper. But they were
meant for oswald You believe that
now"
81 know it."
and that is why I found YOU in the
same house with him"
1T is Providence has robbed me OF my
daughter: if this brother of yours
should prove to be the man
am led to expect, I shall ask him to
take that place in my heart and life which
was once hers.
A quick recoil, a smothered exclamation
on the part of the man he addressed. a
barb had been hidden in this simple state
ment which had reached some deeply-hid-
den but vulnerable spot in Brotherson
breast. which had never been pierced De-
fore. His eye which alone seemed alive
still rested piercingly upon that of MI
Challoner, but its light was fast fading
and speeduv became lost in a dimness in
which the other seemed to see eXtinguish-
ed the last unfaring embers OF those IN
ner fires which feed the aspiring soul 1t
WAS a sight no man could see unmixed.
Mr.. Chaloner turned sharply away, in
dread OF the abyss which the next word he
uttered might open between them.
But Orlando Brotherson possessed re-
sources Of strength of which, possibly he
was not aware himself When Mr.. Chai-
Toner, still more affected by the silence
than by the dread i have mentioned,
turned to confront him again IT was to
find his features composed and his glance
clear He had conquered all outward
manifestation Of the mysterious emotion
which for an instant laid his proud spirit
low.
lyon are considerable of my brother"
we're the words with which he re-opened
this painful conversation. You will not
and vo,r confidence misplaced. oswald is
a straightforward fellow, Of few faults
II believe IT, No man can be so uni
yersallv beloved without some very sub
stantial claims to regard I am glad to
see that your opinion, though given
somewhat coldly, comedies with that Of
his friends
II am not given to exaggeration, was
the even reply
The flush which had come into Mr.
ChalIoner's cheek under the effort be had
made TO sustain with unfnching heroism
'ehis interview with the man he looked
upon as his mortal enem& slowly faded
out til he looked the wrath OF himself
even TO the unsympathetic ewes of Or
lando Brotherson A duty lay before him
which would tax 10 its utmost extent his
already weakened sef-control Nothing
which had ye, passed showed that this
man realized the fact tina Oswald had
been kept in ignorance OF Miss Challoner s