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

The Broken Barrier.
there no likelihood Of any change
..rtrg tha next FIVE or six hours. Should
49, hs-cal me up. You're on the tele-
,bone arent you2'
7,a vo,lne doctor who, for the last two
.onre had been waging war with the
rr;n visitor That, eluding all Samuel Jex
stgaarce had crept into those hot rooms
above me shop where the creaking, swing
nc sian of The Toby Jug made melan-
hal, music q nights. took up his coat
md prepared tc go downstairs.
me shaded light standing on the basin
.tard threw 4 long, wavering shadow OF
lin across The wall over against the bed
snd on the ceiling above IT, where it
seemed tn hover menacinglY over the
Inn figure hat lay below Samuel JeX.
rotfoing this. laid his hand on the doctors
arm and drew him a little aside. The
movement brought the young man within
sight Of The couch at the foot of the bed,
where the red-haired little girl lay
sseep
Even in sleep her face had lost nothing
e rs pert unchfdlike look. 1t was
5irty and tears had made long, fantastic
channels through its CRIME but these evi.
derees Of grief did not make for pathos.
She looked Ike some gnome that had
stumbled ON the capacity for tears and
bad been making experiments with It,
Something uncommonly like aversion
crossed the doctors face as he glanced
a. The child He turned to lex.
us there no other room where this child
Ian Sleep he asked "A sick room is
I bet the place for a child.
Je1 shook his head In the half light
he looked very old and wan There was
somethmg witchlike In his profile the
. doctor thought glancng at him, and shiv-
cred family at the thought of this trio
; the grim old man. the elflike child and
\ The woman on the bed, who. motionless
now had for these awful hours been
Struggling with the dumbness of her par
alyzed throat as with some giant hand
that compressed it.
A ehoullsh Child.
She Won't rest like away from he7
nam, lex said She's fatthful-like
dog
The DOCTORS shoulders elevated them
selves Morbid little beast" he said to
himself not a spark Of affection in thS
ghoulish little wretch" He had looked
W once and encountered the childs eyes
as she watched him across the bed, and
thf look he had caught in them had been
= yerT ugly one
She mustn't he allowed to disturb her
mother he said CURLY, as he left the
room
For moment Jex stood looking at
The child
'lennv7 child he murmured to him
SELF Ave but it's hard to believe her
Isnngs child
He gave no definite form to the thought
uat vas in his mind; yet he was CON
sclels not by any means for the first.
utne despite his fondness for his daugh-
Fi enid By strange feeling that she
vas something less than human. lust
pf moment as he stood there, he
seemed 70 see In her the materializa ton
q re lsly spirit hat Inhabited the body
,ns man he world knew as Paul SAKE.
taa a lha thought a light that was
fihes hatred shene in the old mans
es lhen as quickly passed He drew
pt rue HAT covered the sleeping child
Hole closely over her with tender
ashl and wen softly back to his watch
s ne stood there looking down at the
li.Aa So noW he stood looking down at
The woman lay motionless,
~ n9d atm since the doctor had
'as' injection OF morphia save
neaNN breathing. broken now and
Tn " sound half moan, half sigh
Hishi have seemed that the enemy at