Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-23
Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith,
fconyriaht 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Coz
TODAY s INSTALLMENT.


you will pardon me if l press this mat
.,r have been given to understand
that Notwithstanding your break with
,,fse Cballoner, you have kept up your
,.isits to the CIermont. and were even on
~. spot at the time of her death"
ION the spot?'
ON the hotel, / mean"
There YOU are right; was in the ho-
tel
"At the time of her DEATH
Very near the time. l remember
hearing some disturbance in the lobby
behind me, just as | was passing out at
tho Broadway entrance
You did-and did not return"
"Nhv should / return? l am not a man
of much curiosity. There was no rea-
.on why | should connect a sudden alarm
IN the lobby of the Clermont with any
cause of special interest to myself
This was so true and the look which
accompanied the words was so frank that
the coroner hesitated moment before
he said
certainly not unless-well to be di
rect unless you had just seen Miss Chal-
Ionar and knew her state of mind and
what was likely to follow your abrupt
departure"
90 had no interview with Miss Cha-
Toner"
"Rut YOU saw her? Saw her that even
ing and lust before the accldent?''
SUeetwaters papers ratified; il was the
only sound to be heard in that moment
of silence. Then
What do you mean by those Words
manfred Mr. Brotherson, with studied
romposure II have said that l had no
interview with Miss Challoner Why do
Won ask me then if l saw herr"
Because l believe that you did. From
q distance possibly. but yet directly and
with no possibility of mistake,
DO you put that as a question:
81 do. Did you see her figure or face
that night?'
81 did
Nothing-not even the rafting of
sveetwater's papers-disturbed the ST
Ience which followed this admission.
From where?" DIR. Heath asked at last
From a point far enough away to
possibe | do not think you will re-
ouire me to recall the exact spot"
eff it were one which made it posi-
bic for her to see you as clearly as you
could see her, l think it would be very
advisable for you to say So
1T was-such-a spot"
Then think can locate II for you, or
do you prefer TO locate it YOURSELF
81 will locate 1t myself. l had hoped
not to be called upon to mention what
can not but consider a most unfortu
nate coincidence. AS gentleman, you
will understand my reticence and also
why il is a matter of regret to me that
with an acumen worthy of your position
You should have discovered a fact which,
while it can not explain Miss Challoners
death, will drag our little affair before the
public, and possibly give it a prominence
in some minds which | am sure does not
belong to 1t. I,met Miss Challoners eye
for one instant from the top of the little
staircase running up to the mezzanfne. l
had yielded thus far to an impulse | had
frequently combated, to seek by another
Interview to retrieve the bad effect which
must have been made upon her by my
angry note. knew that she frequently
wrote letters in the mezzanine at this
staircase in my effort to join her But
got no further. When / saw her on her
feet. with her face turned my way, re-
membered the scorn with which she had
received my former heartfelt proposals,
and without taking another step for
ward, turned away from her and fled
down the steps and so out Of the build
ing by the main entrance. She saw me,
ror her hand flew up with a startled ges-
tuSe but | can not think that my pres
enne on the same floor with her could
nave caused her to strike the blow which
terminated her life. Why should |? No
woman sacrifices her life out of mere re-
sFeI fDr the disdain she has shown a man
she has taken no pains to understand"
HIS tone and his attitude seemed to
h"lte the concurrence of Dr. Heath in
'os statement. But the richness of the
one and the grace of the other showed
me handsome speaker off to such advan-
age that the coroner was rather in
H'heo TO consider how woman, even OF