Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-12

~ tend to let our semi flirtation
of last winter become no more than
a memory. She has written me many
times since our return, and all these
letters 1 have shown to my Official
Guide.
She reprOaches me with having run
away that night. Il was looking for
~,ard," she said, ito a happy evening
with the most congenial man ever
knew"
Confess, you dear man." she says
I'm the second letter. that you ran
away because you thought 1 would
run off with you to a preacher and
marry you in spite of your screams.
All. how you have mistudged me, my
dearest friend! 1 would not marry
ANY man."
This caused me to sit up and Won
der. but my Official Guide explained
that it was only part of a clever wom-
ans game. When a woman says she
wouldn't marry ANY man, the man to
vhom she says it wants to find out
+ she means it, so he offers himself to
Grove il. had a momentary desire to
Drove the widow was wrong when
read that letter, but it soon van
ished.
Sam Lane, of San Francisco, who in
tended to stay only two days, but
who had decided to prolong his visit.
Il will not tell you why, you Dear
est Man" she wrote, but there are
men who are not afraid and don't run
away"
That rather nettled me. Il don't
like" ] said to the Spencers, TO have
a woman call me a coward"
The Brave Coward.
But you are one" said Mrs. Jack,
"snd | am proud of you. 1t takes
brave man to be a coward where
woman is concerned
That may be true, but I don't like
10 be compared so unfaVorably with
This Sam Lane 1 looked him up in
Bradstreet and found no mention or
him. so he can't be much of man.
She said so much about sam Lane
in the fourth letter that in my re-
plv [ asked her to send me the story
of his life.
She did not reply for so long that
I began to fear that all danger con-
nected with the widow was past l
use that word fear advlsedly. Ihe
danger of that woman has been the
greatest enjoyment l have had IN
year. ,..,.s
In the fifth letter She pdlu no heCN
TO nv sarcasm. She wrote TO say she
would be passing through here on the
g2d. and would | meet herF She
would have. she said, four hours be-
tween trains. and she would be alone;
Would I meet her? Diary, l would
not miss il. l told this to Mrs.
Jack, and she looked a little worried
March 23-I rather surprised my
self to-day at the state of excitement
/ was in because of the prospect OF
meeting the widow. l don't love her'
Diary; / never would or could love a
woman of ner type, but there is no
DENYING she viii be an agreeaule
change in my domestic monotony.
am happy here, but il is a sort OF
negative happiness. I have perfect
lv ordered home. Manette is a JOY,
and her brown eyed pup is an excite
ment: but loving her and rescuing the
puD from larger dogs. and the eats
from the pups, don't suffice.
I want the eNhilaration of little
personal danger on my own account
and the widow supplies it,
Her train was due al 3. plahheu
TO meet her, take her out 10 dinner
and for a ride till her train lett at g.
I learned that a later train left al y
that train Then I got telegram
saving she had decided to go home
by another route!
I felt Just az a boy feels when he Is
told that if he eXplodes a cannon
cracker it will blow off his fingers
and he lights it and it fails to go of!
Preserve closets and cannon crack
ers are mixed metaphors to use I'D
writing of the widow, but somehow
they fit the case.
March 2S-I am thinking of putting
this advertisement in some matr.-
monial sheet:
"Wanted--A wife. She must have
a mind and heart that contain no
complications of up-to-dateness. she
must be concerned with no problems
of industry or Of sociology. She must
never explore any psychological trails.
She must love me, but not so much II
won't last. / do not require her TO be
sweet and wholesome. l want her TO
enter matrimony with no pre-con-
ceived notions that IL IS TO be platonlc
friendship. l want a human being,