Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

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novelist, presents in his masterpiece,
THE Woman Thou Gavest Me-" now
being published serially in Hearsts Magazine,
the true story of a real woman.
Mr.. Game only claims to have placed in
literary form the revelations contained In
memoranda she herself made.
Who is this woman whose identity the great
author masks under the name Of Mary ONeih
Marie Bashkirtseffs journal, world famous
as a marvellous self revelation OF a girls
heart, sinks into insigniicance before these
revelations of the tender, convent bred girl
who is sold by her ambitious father to pro-
figate nobleman.
In the story of 1.-THE Woman Thou Gavest
Me-" Hall Game is presenting the greatest an
alysis of the modern marriage question ever
written. It may be before the end that the
actual names of those who move with such
intense life through his pages will be known.
Here are given excerpts from the current
lnstalment of THE Woman Thou Gavest Me-"
taken from the June number of HEARSTS
MAGAZINE, in which Mary O'Neill, caught
in the snare Of her great love, flies to London
to hide there her motherhood.
Who is Mary o'Neill?
(From the current instaIment of "The
Woman Thou Gavest Me-" in the June num-
Der of "Hearsfs Magazine.O
A T eight o'clock next morning was in the
"A train leaving Liverpool for London.
had selected a second-class compart-
ment labelled For ladies' and my only trav-
ing companion was tall, fair woman in seal
skin coat and very large black hat. She had
filed the carriage with the warm odor of eau
de-coogne and the racks on both sides with
her luggage, which chiefly consisted Of ladies'
hat boxes of various shapes and Sizes
Hardly had we started when l realized that
she was a very loquacious and expansive
person.
She was fashionable milliner and had a
shop in the West End of London. Occasionally
she made personal visits to the provinces to
take orders from the leading shopkeepers, but
during the season she found it more profitable
to remain in town, where her connection was
large, among people who could pay the highest
prices Z.
(The tOoman Of the train finds Mary O,NeiH
place to 90 to- j..
1t was all very curious and pathetic, yet
should have been safe, for time at all events,
in this little corner Of London into which
chance had so strangely thrown me, but for
one unfortunate happening.
That was the arrival Of the daily news
paper.
Thus It occurred that on the third morning
after my arrival / was startled by the voice Of
the old colonel who, standing back to the fire
with the newspaper in his hand, cried, "Mys-
ferrous disappearance Oh q peerless.
Read IT," said the old clergyman.
The teacup which l was raising to my
mouth trembled in my hand, and when l set
it down it ratified against the saucer. knew
what was coming, and it came.
(The old colonel reads the newspaper story
Of MarJs disGppearGnce)
After the colonel had finished reading had
an almost irresistible impulse to scream,
feeling sure that the moment my house
mates looked into my face they must see that
l was the person indicated.
They did not look, and after a chorus OF
exclamations-"Most mysterious" What
can have become of herr" con the eve Of
her fete. too!"-they began to discuss dis
appearances in general each illustrating his
point by reference to the subject Of his own
study.
It would take long to tell of the feverish
DAYS that followed-how newspaper CORE
spondents were sent from London TO ELAN to
inquire into the circumstances Of my dis
appearance; how the theory Of accident gave
place to the theory of suicide and the theory
of suicide to the theory Of flight; how por-
ter on the pier at Blackwater said he had
carried my trunk to the steamer that sailed
on Thursday midnight, thinking ] was maid
from the great house until / had given him
halfa-crown This proper fee being three
pence); how two female passengers had de-
eIared that person answering to my deseTip-
ton had sailed with them to Liverpool; how