Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23
.-,nvright, 1911. Street & Smith.)
C,,g,iP'e1t1 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Coz
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

,,-,.., has come to me? Undone in an
Doubly undone! First by a face
/" .h.r nv this thought which surely
5o,,fIs have whispered to me. Mr..
,,.,or and oswald! What is the link
,.r them Great God what is the
<ot myself! Who then, or WHAT
lri,grng himself into a chair, he buried
f.ra in his hands. There were two
ne In fght-the first in the guise Of
seal Doris! Unknown Yesterday
',.roFr an hour ago; but now! Had
ever been a day-an hOur-when
t,s not been as the very throb of
hsarr the light of his eyes, and the
~, of all imaginable blisses?
=. MS startled at his own emotion as
a,rtamplated her image in his fancy
J. listened for the lost echo of the few
l. she had spoken-words so full of
sic when they referred to his brother,
4 lard and cold when she simply ad
sessed himself.
r. was no passing admiration of
i IN for captivatin woman This was
Il s,an the love he had given to Edith
4 ouorer This was something springing
Il, horn ont of nothing a force which.
4 he FIRST time in his life, made him
,nIaisant to the natural weakness of
IN dream and yet reality strong
IN h 10 blot out the past, remske the
Msar+ change the aspect Of all hopes,
Il ouf,ine a new fate. He did not know
II ser There was nothing in his whole
,orY 10 give him an understanding of
IN feelings as these.
= man be seized as il were by the
and swung up on the slopes of para
n mr. down the sleeps of hell-without a
Z. evrarring. without the chance even 10
Il whether he wished such a cataClYsm
Las life or no?
h. Orland Brotherson. had never
a gbt much Of love. Science had been
Il mistress: ambition his lodestar. Such
hing as he had acknowledged to had
n for men-struggling men. men who
10 doVntrodden and gasping in the mar
j., bounds of poverty and helplessness.
4iEs Challoner had rOused-well, his
Ia He could see that now. The might
III mis- new emotion made plain many
lin gs he had passed by as useless, puer-
III unworthy Of a man Of mental caliber
III might He had never loved Edith
SaHoner at any moment of their ac-
id intanceship, though he had been sin
III in thinking that he did. Doris
il uty, the hour he had just passed with
u had undeceived him.
spid he hail the experience? II was not
'safy to bring him JOY. This young girl
.zose image foated in light before his
So would never love him. She loved his
us5ther He had heard their names men
me- together before he had been in town
81 hour Oswald, the cleverest man
so1s. the most beautiful girl, in western
RMnsyfvsnia
De had accepted the gossip then; he had
1N seen her and it all seemed very nat
Ill hardly worth a moment : thought.
9M no4
4nd here the other demon sprane erect
III grappled with him before the first
Mi had let go his hold, Oswald and Chal-
HRr! The secret, unknown something
ss3ich had softened that hard mans eye
zen his brothers name was mentioned,
M had noted 1t and realized the mys-
M q mystery before which sleep and
s% must fly; a mystery TO which he must
lpB give his thought, whatever the cost
RB tever the loss to those heavenly
'fsh MS the magic Of which was so new it
's8ned to envelOp him in the balm OF