Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
Initials Only" = By Anna katherine Creme
A Thrilling Mystery Story Of Modvu Times

ing, His own was silenced to a gasp
what treasure of girl. How natural
hef indignation. What an instinct she
showed and what comprehension. This
high and mighty handling of a most diff
tcult situation and a most difficult man,
had imposed on Brotherson, had almost
imposed upon himself. Those letters so
peautlful, so Spirituelle, Yet the odds
were that she had never read them. much
less distracted them. The mink! the
ready, resOurCeful, willy daring mink,
But had she imposed on Brotherson?
As the silence continued. Sweetwater
began to doubt He understood quite well
the Importance of his neighbours first
movement. Were he to tear those letters
into shreds! He might be thus tempted
All depended on the strength of his pres
ent mood and the real nature of the secret
which lay buried in his heart
Was that heart as flinty as il seemed
Was there no place for doubt or even for
curiosity in its impenetrab BILE depths?
Seemingly, he had not moved foot or hand
since his unwelcome visitors had left
He was doubtless still staring at the
scattered sheets living before him; posi-
bly, battling with unaccustomed impulses;
possibly weighing deeds and consequences
in those slow moving scales Of his in
which no man could cast weight with
any certainty how far it's even balance
would be disturbed.
There was a sound as of settling coal
Only al night Wonid one expect to hear
so slight sound as thai in tenement
full of noisy children. But the moment
CHANGED to be propijious. and it not only
attracted the attention of Sweetwatei. on
his side of the wall, but it struck the ear
of Brotherson also. With an ejaculation
as bitter as it was impatient. he reused
himself and gathered up the letters.
Sweetwater could hear the successive
rustings as he bundled them up in his
hand. Then came another smence-then
the lifting of Il stove lid.
SWeetwater had not been wrong in his
! secret apprehension. HIS Identification
with his unimpressionab ncfghbor's
mood had shown him what TO expect.
These letteHs-these innocent and pre-
cious outpomings Of rare and womanly
soul-the only conceivable open sesame to
the hard locked nature he found himself
pitted against, would coon he resolved
into Vanishing puff Of smoke
But the lid was thrust back and the
letters remained in hand. Mortal strength
has it's limits. Even Brotherson could
not shut down that lid on words which
might have been meant for him. harshIy
as he had repealed the idea
The pause which followed Told little;
but when Sweetwater heard the man
within move with characteristic energy to
the door turn tie key and step back
again to his place at the table ne knew
that the danger moment Rad passed and
that those letters were ali ~ .o be read
not casually, bui seriously. as indeed
their contents meriled.
This caused SWeetWater to feel serious
| himself Upon what result might he
calculate? What would happen To this
hardy soul, when the fact he so Scorn-
fully repddiated was borne in upon him.
| andt he saw that the dsda in which had
anita gonized him was a mere device-a
cloak 10 hide the secret. heart of love
and eager womanly devotion? Her death
little as Brotherson would believe it up
until noW-had been his personal loss
the greatest which can befall d man
When he came to see this-when the mod
est fervor of her unusual nature began
TO dawn. upon him in these self-rcvela-
lions. would the result be remorse. or lust
the deadening and final extinction OF
whatever tenderness he may have re-
tanned for her memory"
Impossible 10 tell The balance of prob
ability hung even. SweetWater recognized
this, and chung, breathless. to his loop
ilViV. i III Ntult ne ave seen. DIS veil
as heard
| Mr. Brotherson read the first letter
standing AS it soon became public prop
erty, | will give it here. just as it after
wards appeared in the columns of the
greedy journals
Beloved
When l sit as | often do. in perfect
quiet under the stars. and dream ihat
YOU are looking al them too, not for hours
! as do, but for one full moment in
which your thoughts are with me as
wholly as mine are with you, | feel that
the bond between us, unseen by the
world, and possibly not wholly recognized
by ourselves, is instinct with the same
power which links together the eterni-
ties
1T seems to have always been: to
have known no beginning, only bud
ding, an efflorescence. the visible product
of hidden but always present reality A
month ago and ! was ignorant, even. of
your name. Now, you seem the best
known TO me, the best understood, of
Gods creatures. one afternoon of per-
feet companionship-on fash OF strong
| emotion. with its deep, true insight into
each others soul and the miracle was
wrought. We had met and herceforth
parting would mean separation only. and
hand. and one only, could do that now
! will not name hiatt hand. For us there
is nought ahead but life
Thus do ! ease my heart in the 81
Ience which conditions impose upon us
Some day | shall hear your voice again
and then
The paper dropped from the readers
land 1t was several minutes before he
ook up another
This one. as il happCEed, antedated the
/ other. az VIII appear IN reading #:
| My Friend
81 said that | could not write TO you
that we must wait You were willing
but there is much to be accomplished
and the silence may be long. Ny father
is not an easy man to please, but he
desires my happiness and will listen to
my plea when the right hour comes
Wnen YOU have won your place when
,ou have shown Yourself to be The man |
feel YOU 10 be, then my father viii recOg-
lize your worth, and the way will be
cleared. despite the obstacles which now