Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-05

| totlSs IucI SQuuGIiN WIN a little SnlNefs
| OH dread to meet her!'
Kayton looked at her in curious wise
| for moment or two.
Il must ask you." he said coldly. ito
show no feeling of repulsion for this
woman"
i WON'T won't" Miss Mazuret as
sured him, under her breath, as Mrs. Mar
| TIN slowly walked into the office
Mary ripped the top of chair by which
she was landing and waited, rigid and
| erect. The woman entered almost re-
luctantly. stopped and gazed at the girl
| with mixture of dread curiosity and
| something else
| Mrs. Martini said kayton in cusual,
| matter of-fact tones, this is Miss Ma
zuret''
He resumed his seat at his desk and
| oent over his papers. The girl looked a
| the woman and smiled slightly. The
woman looked at the girl and moved
| slowly over to her and held out her hand.
My dear" she said, gently will you
come with me?"
| The reighborhood of WASHINGTON
| square, like one or two other older sec
| tons of New York, is essentially mediae-
| val. IndfVidualism is it's most salient
| characteristic. Even the many who live
there to think thoughts of social brother
hood insist on adhering to their own par
! ticular thoughts. And thus as in the
middle ages, when a man enters his
! dwelling and bars the door he Is free of
! all danger that his neighbors may intrude
| on his privacy
! This petrifled survival of the time when
every man was for himself in thought and
| deed and even the great philosophers
| wrote their treatises in secret cells lest
| the world discover hpi
ably draws to the region number of men
and women who are at odds in greater
or lesser degree with the rules of society
as at present constituted
Mrs. Martin recognized that this com
! mun1ty was the Ideal one for her room
| ing house No one would or could in
| qulre as to the character or occupations
| of her roomerS. No one cared Beyond
little printed sign above the be1l-pull
| that protruded from the dingy brick wall
| by the door, she made no effort to secure
| dodgers. The few who came We're told
| That the house was full. She had three
lodgers-all men. These three came when
she took the house and remained always
No new dodgers were adde to their num-
bers and these never left her house
| TIL Counterfeiters' Plant.
They occupied rooms on the second
floor. 1t was two-story and attic house,
With dining room and kitchen in the
| basement. They were not often in each
| others rooms, but they met frequently
| IN the garnet, which was ScantiIy but in
nocently furnished But by the manipula-
! ton of certain boards in the floor and
! sliding panels at the back of closets and
| cupboards these men could instantly avail
| themselves of the tools for a printing trade
! industry that is most severely frowned
| upon by the treasurer Of the United
States
But that there was no possible occasion
| for her to appear in the upper rooms of
| the house, Mrs Martin would never have
consented that Miss Mazuret should be-
| come a ledger. She had a back parlor
| bedroom on the first floor, in which she
| lodged the girl and felt that she was as
much out of the way as if she had been
in a Broadway hotel.
Immediately thereafter events moved
with great sWiftness. An organ grinder
| began haunting the block at all hours of
| the day and night. There was a new man
| at the newsstand on the corner across
/ the street. The saloons at either end of
| the block began to do a surprisingly good
| business and the attic of the house next
| door to Mrs Martins was rented by a
couple of inventors who wanted to work
| secretly on a new electrical appliance that
| would make a stir in the world This
new appliance was the photograph, the
greatest of eaves-droppers, which has al
ready made considerable stir in various
quarters of the United Sta tes
! This photograph is a fearsome device.
| 1t is 50 small and unpretentious that it
can be concealed in the barest of rooms
! 1t is a telephone produced to the ultimate
| power of constituencies Placed in a cor
| ner on the floor behind the dresser of a
| great chamber it will transmit over little
| wires to listeners miles away every syl-
! liable of a whispered conversation in the
opposite corner.
All of these changes in the neighbour
| hood occurred within a few hours after
Miss Mazuret had entered the house in
| Greenwich Village. Also, one or two men
dropped in to call on her in the course
| of the afternoon and evening.
| 4 few of these things were noted with
some disquiet by the three old dodgers in
the house and they demanded explana-
| lions of Mrs. Martin. She told them the
simple truth. They were increasingly
alarmed, at least two of them, but they
understood that she could not we'll do
otherwise in the circumstances
The Unusual Visitors
! The next day there were other callers
! on Miss Mazuret and finally, early in the
| afternoon the four-Mrs Martin and her
| three lodgers-left the house in a body
! Thereafter there was no caller until
| nearly 7 o'clock in the evening, when
night had fallen These We're unusual
! visitors There were two of them and
! though they had never entered the house
| before they produced a bunch of keys
! and fitted one into the front door The
! younger of the two men carried d WON
| ans handbag partially concealed under
| his coat Miss Mazuret met them in the
| han and greeted them with nervous and
eager relief. They were Mr. Kayton and
| his irrepressibe assistant
! The girl plotted them upstairs through
| the empty house to the attic where Kay
! ton unlocked the door with a key off the
same bunch that had enabled them to
enter the house
You're sure this is the ROOM asked
the detective In low voice as he pushed
in followed by the others.
yes" replied the girl. - heard them