Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
TO-DAY s fNSTALLMENT.

"Monstrous and savage"-that was
what Toby had called his aunts view.
Huntington remembered that Toby had
been almost ludicrously upset at such a
theory. You'll be advocating suttieism
next 1 suppose. Aunt Deb"
Well, It appeared that 1t had not been
theory only. Mrs. Remington was going
10 attempt practice. How long would It
last. Rimington asked himself and, al
most TO his surprise, found himself dread =
ing the answer. This idea of one friend
~ soul near him in this place Of stony
silence and solitude had taken his heart
by storm.
1t kept him company through the wake
full hours Of the night. softening the hor-
ror of the silence. punctuated occasionally
by the sudden anguished cry of some
conscience burdened sleeper the stealthy
pad pad of the patrolling officer-aH those
ugly night sounds that had made the
hours between 8 and 5 an inferno for him
On his first coming to Bilmouth
The Great Darkness
Since that mad, hardly coherent letter
from her sister, in which Mrs. Darlington
Rad accused herself of being instrumental
sn bringing about Jack Rimingtons ar
rest, Betty had heard nothing from or of
her Edith seemed to have disappeared
from the ken OF all who knew her, and
only Betty alone cared or wondered-so
It seemed. Sir George Lumsden was oc-
cupied and absorbed in his own affairs
for the last few months he had spent a
great deal Of his time abroad; and An
thony Darlington gave no sign of caring
whether the woman he had loved so mad
Iy was alive or dead.
He had left London: so much Betty
learned from the housekeeper The beau
lful house in Princes Gate was shut up
and deseEted-left untouched exactly as
Il had bedn on the night he lost both child
RUd wife.
He had retired to a small house he
owned in Sussex that had long stood
empty ard unlet-it was so remote and
lonely. cut off from habitation in a cleft
Ct the downs. five or six miles from a
railway station. He had one servant only.
Nanna, the woman who had been his
CaId's nurse. Through Mamma, Betty
f.8,d Of her brother-in-law from time
TO time 1t was Mamma who first gave
tne girl a hint of the new trouble that
was coming on Anthony harrington, the
Tan whom the world had enved so short
q time before as one on whom the gods
had showered all their good gifts wealth
end talent, and a beautiful wife and hap
pness.
Dear Miss Betty the old woman
wrote isn't it possible for YOU to see
the. master? He's i'll and worrying and
there's worse threatening that | am not
at liberty to say. Only it don't seem
right ne should be left utterly"
In the waiting room there was only
one other fellow prisoner called to the
bar Of fear and waiting for judgment
"a woman this time young and extreme
!y good to look upon She glanced across
the room at Darlington when he was
shown in and something in the look of
the eyes that he saw SO clearly in the
light of the great central three-light
which had been switched on-for it was
dark in this back room of Wimpole street
In the early afternoon light that failed
SO quiCkly-told him their own story. He
turned his back on her rudey and
abruptly. 1t seemed to make things so
much worse that others
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