Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-18
Initials Only . By Anna Katherine Creme
4 Thrilling Mystery Story Of Modyu Times

calm, always calm. | will take nv desk
away. l will write the rest in the other
room, while YOU look at the magazines. p"
But bring your letter back for me to
seal. want to see it in its envelope. Oh.
Doris. you are a good little girl"
She shook her head. and FASTENED to
hide herself from him in the other room
and 1t was long time before she came
back with the letter folded and in it's en-
Velope When she did her face was COM
posed and her manner natural. She had
quite made up her mind what her duty
was and how she was going to perform il
Here Is the letter" said she. LAYING il
IN his outstretched hand. Then she turn
her back She knew with a woman's un-
erflng instinct why he wished to handle
II peIore 1t Went She felt that kiss he
toided away in Il. in every fibre of her
aroused and sympathetic heart. but the
hardest part of The ordeal was over and
her eyes beamed softly when she turned
TO take it from his hand and afIy the
stamp
You Will NAH it YOURSELF" he asked.
should like to have you put it into the
box with your own hand.
l viii put it in tonight. after supper. -
she promised him
His smile of contentment assured her
that this trial of her courage and self
control was not without one blessed re-
suit He would rest for several davs in
IN the pleasure of what he had done or
thought he had done. She need not crince
before that image of Dread for two. three
DAYS al least Meanwhile he would grow
strong IN body. and she perhaps in spirit
Only one percaUtion she must take. No
mint OF MIR. Challoners presense in town
must reach him. He must be guarded
from knowledge of that fact as certainly
as from the more serious one which Law
behind it,
- Hope Never To See That Man"
Ihat this would be a difficult thing to do.
Doris was soon to realize Mr.. Challoner
continued to pass the house twice a dav
and the time finally came when he ven
tured up the walk
DORIS was in the window and saw him
coming She shppedesoftly out and inter-
copied MIN before he had stepped upon the
porch She had caught up her hat as she
passed through the hall, and was fitting
II TO her head as he looked up and saw
her
Miss Scott?" he asked.
Yes. Mr.. Challoner."
GU know me- he went on, one foot
on me step and one still on the walk
Before replying she closed the door be-
hInd her. Then as she noted his surprise
she carefully eXplaned
Mr. Brotherson, our boarder isl inst
recovering from typhoid He is still weak
and acutely susceptible to the least noise
was afraid that our voices might dis
turb him. DO you mind walking a little
way up the road? That is, if your visit
was intended for me-"
Her flush the beauty which must have
struck even him but more than all else
her youth, seemed to reconcile HIM TO this
unconventional request Bowling. he took
his foot from the step, saving. as she
Joined him:
Yes, YOU are the one | wanted TO see
that is, today. Later hope to have the
privilege of a conversation with Mr.
Brotherson"
She gave him one quick look, tremb-
ling so that he offered her his arm with
a fatherly air.
II see that YOU understand my errand
here he proceeded. with grave smile
meant as she knew for her encourage
ment II am glad, because we can go at
once to the point Miss Scott" he con-
tinued in a voice from which he no longer
strove to keen back the evidences of deep
feeling. II have the strongest interest
in your patient that one man can have in
another, where there is no personal ac-
quaintanceship. You who have every
reason to understood my reasons for this,
will accept the statement I hope as
frankly as it is made
She nodded. Her eyes were full of
tears, but she did not hesitate to raise
them. She had the grea test desire to see
the face of the man who could speak like
this today, and yet of whose pride and
sense of superiority his daughter had
stood in such awe, that she had laid
seal upon the impulses of her heart, and
imposed such tasks and weary waiting
upon her lover Doris forgot, in meeting
his softened glance and tender almost
wistful expression, the changes which
can be made by great grief and only
wondered why her sweet benefactress had
not taken him into her confidence and
thus, possibly. averted the doom which
Doris felt. had in some way grown out
of this secrecy.
"Why should she have feared the dis
approval of this man." she inwardly
oueried as she cast him confidpg look
which pleased him greatly, as his tone
now showed
To Be Continued in Next Issue