Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
-.,;lIiro story of "The Great White
Way"
BY BERTRAND RAecooK'
rOD.v,S TNSTALLMENT.

roDAY'S INSTALLMENT
,,.,.r svapiste tenderness, the girl laid
.s mon his arm, as though she
.,,,r5 azsuage the hurt she was about TO
give. arc aa-a
LIT. she said at last, with splen-
..,r,ca her brave eyes facing him
p,,ebIv. Broadway jerked out;
-much-I am not
ql,era was pity in the girls race now
a. ~ ~ in your blood. You will never
.,..l,iDg else. Just now you THINK
w b,,r in two years from now youH De
n S.,a,rr what the plant has earned over
- eypenses on your wonderful
proadway. It's in your blood ana /
Nu @st,fs and nonsense" broke in Broad
..-,l-are's nothing in my blood eX-
r+ the decent qualities you have seen
1r,;-e, m the surface lately. ! am not a
,aI u-as once-but | see things as they
are now. ,,,, ,,.,,,+ -, tho
u;rr in q low moaning way, ITS in your
5lood-vour grandfather
cRANDFATHER'S FLING.
7-,aTa.av's belief in himself received a
.,ar,artary setback His grandfather!
W-bat could the girl mean? Why, his
-..u5sorrar had been the most staid of
nan II he had had q fault it had been
+bat he had remained in his home TOO
oIosa,v and had paid too much attention
IN the dictates Of his wife.
"V-hat do YOU mean about my grand
.,,,aro" he asked. HE was in bed
every night at 10 o'clock.
II s,7y. other persons had been involved,
Broadway would have had hilarious mo-
rant at the strange course this woolng
was taking ,...x. ;,
..yopr grandfather was spendthrlft,
went On the determined girl. Il have
bosn told The story and l know that it
trne. Your grandfather, after he mad
been married just two years, went to
New York and Broadway
How long did he stay?' demanded
Jackson.
Two weeks.
We'll, there, YOU see.
He didn't come back" went on the
Girl until your grandmother went to
%ew York herself and got him out of the
Aston house where he had room at Sc
day"
There. you see" repeated Broadway
two weeks at Sc day isn't much.
"eUT HE CAME BACK"
But it was the attitude he took, said
Josie land for a man in his position
then. and the times he lived in, it was
almost as much as spending a small for
tune would be now"
But, YOU see" said Jackson, "he real
ly came back. after all
He came back because his wife took
MIN" explained Josie, and he stayed
at home after that only because for the
rest of their lives she henpecked him
into staying
She was smiling through tears now.
You really wouldn't want to be hem
pecked and made a man of in that way"
she said, with another of her moments
Of exquisite drollery. "A henpecked-
mademan always bears the marks of the
pecks"
While the to him absurd quality of
what the girl was saying had not been
lost upon Jackson in the earlier moments
Of their talk, yet the real basis Of her
truly feminine words had its effect upon
him. There was some truth in # all.
While he. as Of later and more sophis-
ucated generation, might smile at that
long ago eXtrava gance of the Astor house
ana the s. day, he reflected that his
grandfather probably had not smiled at it.
II had been in a sense deadly serious
with him. It had represented TO his
grandfather the top of the Imagination.
me utmost crest of wave Of wilfuI
folly, dovilish and daring thing for a
man Of his grandfather's period, and born
ana bred in that elemental countryside
Of long ago.
ITS IN THE BLOOD"
Perhaps Josie was right Looking back
upon ms own monumental folly-whch
nad never doomed larger than today
orosdWay saw that heredity could ac-
count for it very easily
linen into his mood, his warning mental
impulses, came the words that Josie had
spoken on the night of their first meet
ing, when she had given him the little
paGmage OF waters made in his own plant:
hshd 1t down to your children, and to
Eour chiIdren's children, and so on-and
50 on" va anu
dren? " MS CHI
-, Sne right he thought; cts in my
D.ooa Hand down to my children? I'll
never hand them a lemon"
a"u III an agony of spirit his head sank.
u' even in that bitterness, he knew
a AZ Josie had come very close TO him
81 mat her hands lay almost upon his
Part X.