Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-07

TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.

tO-DA \ = lNSIAlILM EN-.
This suggestion, OF course appealed
10 Philip Nothing could he more de
lightful lie whispered IN Eyelyn's
car that he would hug her for the idea
at the first available opportuuiDN
one mouniuE "a dsy Of June rain,
letter reached Philip II bore tho print.
ed supersoriptou. THE Han Beltham,
Devon but this was struck out aud
another address substituted IL was
written in a scrawling, waver1ug hand,
The cslisraphy Of a man old and very
ill n read:
NY Dear Philip: I am DYING az the
point Of death, so uss no lsbored
words 10 explain why I address you In
such manner I want 20 tell you how
bitterly ! regret the injustice | showed
TO your dear mother and my sister. n,
o. your charity. you will come 20 my
bedside, and assure feeble old man Of
your forgiveness, can meet the coming
ordeal strong In the certainty that Mary
Arson Will not refuse what you have
piven in her behalf Your sorrowing
uncle, PHILIP MoRLAND."
with this pteous epistle was iuclosed
another:
''Dear Mr. Anscn; Join my earnest
suppllcaticn to my husbands that you
will console his last hours with visit.
He blames himself for what has hap
penea in the past. Yet the fault was
more mine than hts-far more. For his
cake I willingly admit H. And have
been punished for my sin. Ruined In
fortune, with my husband at DEATHS
door, ! am indeed sorrowlng woman.
Yours faithfully,
LOUISA MoRLAND."
The angular Italian handwriting OF
The second letter recalled a faded script
in his safe at that moment The adj
dress I'm each case was a village on the
Yorkshire coast, q remote and nacces-
sible place according to Philips unaided
recollection OF the map, Grange
House" might be a farm or a broken
down manor and Lady Morland's ad'
mission Of reduced circumstances indi-
Gated that they had chosen the locality
for economy's sake,
These appeals brought frown OF in.
decision to Anson's brow, His uncle,
and his uncle's wife had unquestionahly
been tho means Of shortening and en-
differing his mothers life The man
might have acted IN ignorance; the
woman did not.
Yet what could he do? Refuse
dying relatives request! They, or one
of them. refused his mothers pitiful de-
mand for a little peCuniary help at
time when they were rich.
And what dire mischance could have
sunk them into poverty. Little more
than two months had passed since Sir
Philip Morland was inquirtng for his
Phlip's whereabouts through Messrs.
sharpe & smith with view toward
making him his heir.
Was tho inquiry Lady Morland's last
ruse TO save an encumbered estate?
why was all pretense OF doubt as TO
his relationship swept aside so COM
pietely2
He glanced again at the address on
the letter. and asked a servant to
bring him railway guide Then he
ascertained that II he would reach
Scarsdale that day he must leave Lon
don not later than noon, There was
journey of nearly seven hours by rail.
No chance OF returning the Same night.
lie went TO the library and rang up
Sharpe & Smith on the telephone,
A clerk assured him that MIR. sharpe,
who attended to Sir Philip Morla $
affairs, had been summoned TO Devon
shire the previous day.
80 pevonshirer cried Philip 81
have just received letters from Sir
Philip aud Lady Morland from York
shire"
Another Letter.
'AIr. Sharpe himself is puzzled about
the matter. sir Lady Morland wrote
from Yorkshire, but told him TO pro
coed TO Devonshire without delay"
HAS there been some unexpected de-
velopment affecting the estate"
Il am sorry sir, but YOU win see 1
IN hardly answer any further ques-
tions.
Of course the clerk was right. Phil
ip had hardly quilted the telephone
when a note reached him by hand from
Evelyn; Please come AT once. Must
see you
He was at Mount street in three
minutes
Evelyn looked serious and began by
holding cut letter TO him He recog
uized Lady Morland's writing.
"PuiNp those people-who behaved
SD badly 90 Your mother
Have they dared TO trouble YOU
'Uh, 81 lis So sad Your uncle is dy-
ug They are wrotohedly poor; an un-
rorcseeu collapse. see"