Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-08
TO-DAY S INSTALLMENT.

She turned on him with an unfortu-
nate hare Of anger n was alone she
said, sharply
He returned her glance with keen
S~,k, and at something he saw in her face
- manner changed and the smiling mask
@sne had grown To fear fell over his face
again
MY dear, / apologize J thought !
reard voices r thought perhaps YOU we're
having a battle ROYAL with that little
white rabbit Of maid Of yours. It's my
belief you bully her horribly
A Womsn's Wit
His new tone frightened Edith Barring
ton-this suave rallHing tone that he had
come 10 use ~ her in the last few
weeks since their return TO England
more than that one sharp sentence 81
accusation and suspicion had done She
strove 10 fan into hts humor
How odious YOU are, Anthony never
bully any one ! have YOU 10 do all the
bullying was busy writing letters
AS she spoke she settled herself before
her writing table making ostentatious
r,sy Of paper and pens in the hope that
he might go away
you reserve an the bullying for me eh
little woman He bent over the back Of
Come, put away that silly writing I
want you to talk 10 me Like Hamlet
my little body IS eweary of this great
world Come along We ought to have
fire that we could look q and see pic
lures in-its as cold MS winter today
Feel that He laid his fingers softly
against her cheek
She drew away with a pettish exclama-
ton Of annoyance
Anthony what brutal thing to do"
Darlington laughed
Poor Edith saint and martyr" He
caught her face IN his hands and turned
II UP TO him What's the NATTER Has
Master Philip been giving trouble? Why.
has nothing gone wrong Then I be
lieve you are developing a temper, my
Edith-s tendency to be sternly npped in
the bud
She rubbed her cheek against his hand.
Il am sorry but you do worry me so.
You take such extraordinarN notions into
your head about hearing voices you'I be
seeing weird things next green eats aud
blue snakes
She spoke softly that her words might
not carry TO the man i'm The next room.
Every sentence Darlington spoke fell on
her heart with hideous sense OF hui
initiation She felt indeed that il Tony
then and there We're TO discover the truth
and Kill her for the deception she had
practiced upon him he would be acting
in the only way possible consistent with
honor
II assure vou ] heard what might be
called language proceeding from this
apartment He had released her face
from his hands and was now standing
upright by her chair What are you
doing-vastins paper Women are like
children-they love to he scrhbling on
ANYTHING white and clean they see Hal
loa What's that"
Edith Darlington started TO her feet.
as white as paper. A crash In the next
room, as Of some heavy falllno object.
drove the blood from her heart. Anthony
Darlington darted a quick look at his
wife then, without a word rushed into
the adjoining bed room Edith followed
instinct to be In at the death--even II Il
were her own death.
The Search
The he'd room Into which Mrs Barring
ton followed her husband was empty and
OF Immaculate tidiness, for Victorine the
little French maid who had come over
from Auteuil with the rest OF me servants
when the Barringtons returned to their
house in Princes Gate. was the soul Of
order and neatness
THE noise can not come from these
rooms" Edith heard herself saving. and
her voice came 10 her own ears as from
an immense distance
Darlington paid not the slightest heed
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