Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23
Initials Onl y y By Anna katherine Creme
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modeyu Times


Let the faculties thou hast dazed act
"saIh. There is more than Fate's caprice
j" NHaHoners interest in a man he rever
saw Ghosts of old memories rise and de-
Hiahu hearing. Facts trivial and
CoI''hohplace enough to have been
lost in Oblivion with the dav
Whlch gave them birth. throng again from
me past, proving that nought dies with
out possibility of resurrection. THEW
power over this broodins man is shown
oN The force with which his fingers crush
AGAINST his bowed forehead Oswald and
Chalioner! Had he found the connecting
ilhk rad II been-could it have been
E"Ilh The preposterous is sometimes
rue could 1t be true in this case"
tie recalled the letters read to him as
iefs IN that room Of his in Brooklyn. lie
mad hardly noted them then. he was so
sure OF thelr being forgeries gotten III
nY the police TO misead him. Could they
nave been real, the effusions of her mind.
the breathings of her heart. directed to
an actual O. B., and that O. b. hia
brother: They had not been meant for
him. He had read enough of the mawIlish
mes to be sure of that. None of the al
lusions htted in with the facts of their
mutual intercourse. BUT they might with
lhoSe OF another man; they might with
the possible. acts and affections of Oswald
whose temperament was wholly different
Iront ms and who might have loved her,
should 1t ever be shown that they had
met and known each other And this
was not an impossibiity Oswald had
oeeh East, oswald had even been in the
Berkshires before himself. Oswald
Why ii was Oswald. who had suggested
that he should go there-go where she
sun was Why this second coincidence.
II there were no tie-if the Challoners and
oswald were as far apart as they seemed
and as conventiunalities would naturally
place them. Oswald was a sentimental
list. but very reserved about his senti-
menlalites. If these Suppostion were
true. he had had sentimentalist mo-
i've tor what he did. AS Orlando realized,
TINS, he rose from his seat, aghast at the
possibilities confronting him from this
line of thought Should he contemplate
them" Risk his reason by dwelling on a
supposition which might have no founda-
tlon IN fact? No His brain was too fun
his purposes too important for any un-
necessary strain TO be put upon his facul-
ties. No thinking, investigation first
Mr.. Chaloner should be able to settle this
question He would see him. Even at
this late hour he ought to be able to hud
him IN one of the rooms below; and by
! the force of an irresistible demand learn
IN moment whether he mad to do with
a mere chimera OF his own overWrought
| fancy, or with d fact which would cali
| INTO play all the resources Of an hitherto
unconqGered and undaunted nat,rr.
There was wood-ire burning in the
sitting room that night, and around it was
grouped number of men with their
papers and pipes. Mr.. Brutherson. enter
| ing. naturally looked that Way for the
man he was in search Of, and WAS d.sap-
pointed not 70 find him there; hut on
casting his glaHcea elsewhere. he vas re
lieved to see him standing in ore Of the
windows overlooking the street His back
was to the room aud he seemed to he lost
in tit OF abstraction
AS Orlando crossed TO him, he had time
TO observe how mucn winter was this
mans head than in the last interview he
had held with him in the coroney's officA
in New York. hut this evidence OF grief
in one with whom he had little if any
thing. in common, neither touched his
feelings nor deferred his step. the awak-
ening of his heart to new and profound
emotions had not softened him toward the
sufferings of others if those others stood
without the pale he had previously raised
as the legitimate boundary of a just mans
sympathies.
He was. as have said. an eXtraordi
mary specimen of manly vigor in bCOy and
ln mind ana his presence in any com
pany always attracted attention and
reused, if it never satisfied. curiOus!Y.
Converse ton accordingly ceased as he
suooc up 10 Nr chaloner's side, so that