Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15


colorless, as though a veil had descend
ed between them and the world
Jenny-Jenny lass. do YOU know me-"
There was movement of the evelids.
and the heavy hands, lying on the coun-
| terpane beat feebly together. a sound
that was scarcely human. like some
| words spoken by an animal suddenly en-
lowed with speech, issued from the swell
len lips The old man fell on his knees
to bring his head more nearly ia the level
of the head sunk SO deep in the pillow
| Quick as his movement was. the word
born into sound out of so much effort and
anguish escaped him. and look Of angry
disappointment crept into the duh ewes
giving them semblance Of life for a mo-
ment. Then the weighted lids fell. and
the lethargy that was SO like death de-
scended once more
But though he had not heard with his
ears, instinct told him what this word.
born out Of pain. was. 1t rang in the
desolate heart with a jealous ring Paul.
Paul. The name of the man who had
married this woman married and mar
RED her
Jenny He bent over the bed again.
wilfully misunderstanding her. 1t was no
part Of his scheme that. should the worst
| come should death beat down this bar
rier which stood between PAM Save and
his desire he should lot the man know
that it had fallen Was it Bess you we're
asking for-litte Bess? She's here.
sleeping near you Jenny do you hear
me?"
No sign from the woman in the bed
The old man Strengthened himself and
rose slowly from his knees To send for
Paul SAKE He could not bring himself
to do 1t. He looked at the woman in the
bed with a sort of desperation She must
not die she must not Why should she
The doctors who had been called in at
her first seizure, little more than year
ago, had spoken pitvingly Of the long
| scroll Of useless life that lay before her
Why should she die w-to set the man
who hated her free? 1t was the one
thought that had upheld him through
months of bitterness. the one thought
that had sealed his tongue given servil-
ity to word and look under Paul SAKE
insolence-thts thought that while Jenny
lived she was Paul Saxe's wife. and he
man tied and bound All this year he
had thought nothing of himself, of his
own life that was bounded now by the
four walls of a sick room. all the ener-
gies Of his mind and body had been con
centrated on this one supreme desire
that this woman might live-that Paul
sake might be held in bondage
He leaned forward. his elbows on his
knees, his chin resting on the palm of
his hand, watching the still form. think
ing his own thoughts weaving his own
web and once or twice as he sat there
/ thinklng, an ugly, shriveled little spider,
with death a his elbow, the death he
dreaded he smiled, and as he smiled the
aquiline nose came down a little too far
over the cooriess lips, and the thick eye
brows went up little too high, and the
shadowed profile cast on the wall was
sinister TO degree.
"Grandad- Grandad,"
He must have dozed as he sat there
watching and brooding; sleep had stolen
on him out of the ambush of his utter
WEAKNESS and fatigue. The child's voice.
shrill and frightened, reused him with
start There was daylight in the room.
the cold daylight Of early morning that
/ gave a cruel distinctness to every object
/ In the Swallowed room. and turned the
flckering light of the diving lamp to an
lneffectua blur Of yellow
Grandad, mammy's awake. She cried
out-somethlns awful PauI-Paul That's
is name, Amt itY'
Jex made so savage a gesture with his
appraised hand that it silenced even her
for the moment 1t had required no sec
ond glance to show him that while he
slept the battle had been fought out and
decided, and that death had won
"Paulr' There was no nistakine If
now tho name cried ont in tbst ou,f,,1
voice which was like no voica tba+ he
had ever heard before Ana again
~Paul," followed nv a ba bh1e ~ words
that instinct rather than reason told
him smoke of terror Of a dread Of that
yelled death that even her duIled eyes
nerceived now nrl<ine beside tho he'd
He sItnned on Mis- knees
"rennT vo,,,ra assinp for paul no vo,,
uisb mo ~ se,d for bt,, o.
If was tho o,as tbot arsu.arod an
euered and anneaIed 7,bo Nod rnoyod
60 a." 7Pi,0'''Su' NJ i'e'u e"'
and slight as the movement was It also
was eloquent of desire lex touched her
hand with his own. tenderlv.
eNuEEr MEMOPlEc
Jenny after the way he treated YOU
You can't want to see this man Lass,
II sound cruel it's to save YOU worse
SUFFERING What ran the rigb+ If hin,