Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27

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fell on him and revealed his firm face
and splenddly proportioned frame.
He cast a critical eye on a sleek horse
In the shafts, and smiled pleasantly at
the driver
Good gracious. Vale ne said. your
cattle are becoming as fat as yourself"
IAN your fault, SIR" was the cheer
ful reply. You don't use EN- arr
enough"
Il can't pass my time in being driven
about town TO reduce the weight Of my
coachman and horses. VALE II yout
don't do something desperate there will
be an n after the w in your mama"
He sprang into the vehicle With
lively kim up" VALE got his stout
steed into remarkably fast trot.
tall man who had been lettering
and smoking beneath the trees across
the road for long time sauntered to
ward a trsdesman's cart which was
| standing near the area gate OF the next
| house, while the man in charge gos-
siped with a kitchenmaid
Beg pardon he said to the couple.
rs that Mr. Philip Anson's place."
with an indicatory jerk OF his thumb.
Yes" said the man
AN was that Mr.. Arson himself who
drove away IN a private cab?"
Yes said the girl.
. Thanks II does one good TO see a
young chap like hiia SO jolly and com
Portable, and provided with everything
he can want in the world. eh?"
II wish 1 'ad a bit OF is little lot"
sighed the green grocers' assistant
with a side glance at the maid.
| The stranger laughed harshly
It's hard to say when yere well
| Off he growled up one day and
down the other. You never know your
luck"
Away he went. southwark His long
vigil on the pavement near the ratings
seemed TO have ended. In Picadilly he
took an omnibus TO the Circus, and
there changed to another for the Ele-
phant and Castle
He walked rapidly through the con-
geries of mean STREETS which lie 10 the
east Of that hustling center. and paus-
ed at last before house which was
occupied by respectable people, judging
by the cleanly curtains and general air
OF tidiness.
He knocked. woman appeared Did
| Mrs. Mason live there? No. She knew
nothing of her. Had only been in the
place eighteen months.
The man evidently appreciated the
migratory habits OF the poor too well
to dream OF prosecuting further in
quiries among the neighbours He
| lad oh
the small shops tho corner public
house. the dressmakers' semi private
| residences
At last he paused hssors q somew hat
grim establishment, an understaker's
office He entered A youth was whis-
rling the latest music-haIl song.
10 you know anything of Mrs Ma
son. who used to live in this locality
about ten years ago." he asked
Mrs Masono There may be forty
Mrs. Masons What was her Christian
name an address,"
Mrs, Hannah Mason, No IA Fred
erick street."
The youth skillfully tilted back his
stool until he reached ledger from
shelf behind him He ran his eve
| Nu"H AT muck iOund a number and
pulled out another book
We buried her on the goth of Novem-
Der, nine years SINCE he said coolly,
rafting both tones back into their
places,
You did Ell? Is there anybody here
, who remembers HERO
. Something In the husky voice OF this
stark. fll-favored man caused the boy
to become less pert
Fathers in" he said I'm ring for
him"
| Father came, He had a vague mem
ory pr the woman, widow with two
chldren-boys he thought. Somebody
helped her in her last DAYS, and maid
tor the tuneral-paid cash. according TO
the ledger. He did not know who the
friend was, nor had he any knowledge
OF the children's fate. Workhouse, most
probably. What workhouse? Parish OF
/ Southwark. Easy to find. Just turn So
anh-so and so-and-so
| with grunt of Acknowledgement.
the inquirer passed into the street He
gave an, eye to the public house. but
resolutely quickened his pace At the
workhouse he succeeded. with some diff
heuity, In interviewing the master. II
was after office hours but as he had
Journeyed long way an exception
would be made in his case.
Books were consulted to ascertain the
| tate of two boys, John and William
| Mason. who would now be aged 20 and
49, respectively. Youthful Masons had
certainly been in the schools-one was
there at the moment, in fact-but none
OF them answered 10 the descriptions
supplied. The workhouse master was
sorry; the records gave no clew.
Again the man sought the dark seclu
| SION or the street, He wandered slowly
toward main thoroughfare, and en-
Tered the first public house he encoun-
| tered He ordered six pennyworth of
brandy, and drank II at a glllp Then
ne III a pipe and went forth again,
II FRst was an ugly lookin' customer. "
| SAID an hahitue To the harman
| Surrey" a. ''e