Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-22

| dress Of disgrace, the chains Of punish
ment, and punishment fare of bread and
water perhaps worse. He could not go
back For the first time since the blight
! had descended on his life, Rimington
| faced the fact that there was one alter
native to going back So far his life was
his own-to take up aagin or fling away
as burden too heavy to be borne.
| lie knew what was happening how
every available man was out securing the
gulleys aud plantations, guarding the
road and the bridges and the stations.
| He knew how every able-bodied inhab-
liant of the district was converted into
police spy by hope of the reward, the
price that is set on the convicts head
| 81 must have been mad he told him
self mad to have put my head into such
moose" Yet in his heart he knew that
| 1t was madness which, given the same
chance and the same odds tomorrow, he
would have been powerless to resist,
He watched the sun-it was his only
means of checking time. had it ever
moved so slowly westward Would the
afternoon never come? And after the
afternoon the long hours Of semi-twilight.
! He fell to grubbing up the frozen grass
and chewing it, but it was dry hay be-
meath the rhine of the frost
Sleep came over him resistessly. sleep,
( it was an enemy TO he dreaded and
fought against madly as snow drowsi-
ness sleep, that became a temptation,
that assumed the guise OF a hundred de-
sired things that, when in sheer weak
/ ness he suCcumbed to It., head noddins
TO his hunched-up knees stripped Of its
shining veil and showed him a masque
/ Of demons dancing a dance of death,
/ plunged him as a central figure into a
/ phautasma gora of horror from which nc
| would start awake, shivering stiu with
the dews terror beating his brow.
/ So crouching and doing and starting
awake in blind fear he past the year-lone
( hours till night fell-night. when the sur
tive creatures of the earth steal forth and
move, hunt and prey.
! And what could he expect OF help OF
solace from the darkness?
Slowly with aching limbs. whose move.
ment was a torment Rimington rose ant
! limped on. lnstnctively he turned in tn,
opposite direction from the shoulder OF
/ the land that as he imagined, hid the
/ prison from him. He had no sense OF
destination now. no formulated plan
nothing but blind hope of stumbnus
/ against a place where he might shelter
/ from the intense cold and find food
/ Warmth and food these We're now the
imperative necessities for him. not safety
The Abomination Of a Lie,
IL had danced before him for miles
/ il seemed. a tautalEug VIII o. the wis.,
Of red light. now cleaning across the
/ darkness like a watchrW eye, now dis
/ appearing utterly gradually however
. h had been drawing nearer Y burst on
/ him suddenly seen at surprising near
/ ness now that he had mounted the ris
ing ground at the top OF which he saw
/ the white glimmer OF a gate, the uncur.
/ faIued window Of q cottage. red lighted 10y
/ the lamp and play OF flames within
TD, sight stirred RimnEtou's blood
/ set his feeble pulses q dgtter His steps
.Hu..aguet into a ~tc8lrhy run He had
. 1880 .GeV what the hour was 'ut re imar
Euyd b. early evening and 10 seemed ID
/ possible chance Chat the cottage nigh
I hr ,wnr. .I- tenant mott NeI rerarnc,
rr.m la, village ur The field As ht