Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-22
" Hall Game in "The
oman Thou Gavest Me,
lis Important Novel on
he Problem of the Mod
In Marriage Relation,
Now Being Published in
EEARST'S MAGAZINE,
|bOws the Tragedy of the
Weakening of a Wife
Eho Is No Wife.

Eho Is No Wife.
X Hall Gaines newest and most i'm
Fl nortant novel, 1.-The Woman Thou Cav
est Me" now being published in
.,sts Magazine, the figure of The
ber Man" in the life of his loveless
zinc berins to take the centre of the
TIo distinguished English novelist, in
IN remarkably frank and yet wholly rev.
e,t exposition of the problem of the
j 4, Iern marriage relation, has taken as his
&r1ine Mary O'Neill. a gentle, convent.
H. girl whose Ideals of marriage are the
chest In her ignorance, she is sold as
IN BY an ambitious father to Lord Raa,
Snr3aigate nobleman, whose marital ideals
X If tie lowest type. On their marriage
lain the wife Rwakens to the knowledge
m what she has done and repulses her
+sbaGd. After an extraordinary scene
"a two agree to live together on the sur
Ace as man and wife, but in reality as
re Lord Raa. chatting under what he
lis the farce" Of their relations, be.
hmes infatuated with his wife's old friend
s Ana
While Mary Is smarting under the hu.
{ limitations her husband heaps upon her.
&Hartir Conrad, "the other man" whom she
s Rally loves but whom she does not vet
# n low she loves, comes upon the scene.
What will happen to the loveless wife
LOW?
b In the following excerpts from the cur.
g nnt and preceding instruments of "Tha
Woman Thou Gavest Me" the character Of
Rbnrad is plainly shown. The problem is
s. be most interesting and unusual that has
appeared IN any great novel for years.
from The Woman Thou Gavest Me-" by
Hall CaIne, now being published In
HekRST's MAGAZINE Reprinted nv
permission Of HEARsT's MAGAzINE,]
REMEMBERED what my mother had
said Of her little Mary being always
little lady, and felt crushed at the
bought that l was about to be whipped
Rtore all the village children.
At home had been protected IL only by
mothers tears, but here was alone
% felt myself to be so little and HELPLESS
~ Just as my lip was beginning to drop
me thought Of what my mother would
fufer II she saw me in this position Of In.
R1ny, and l was about to cry out to the
&hoolmistress, Don't beat me! OH
s happened, which turned my shame into
Rrprise and triumph.
through the mist which had gathered
pore my eyes | saw a boy coming out Of
g ooys class at the end of the long room.
was Martin Conrad, and l remember
EaI ne rolled as he walked like old
Cnmy' the gardener. Everybody saw
4Im' and the schoolmistress said in her
I 5harp voice:
Martin Conrad, what right have you
Leaye your place without permission?
~ oack, sir, this very moment"
INSTEAD OF going back Martin came on.
as ne did so he dragged his big soft
out OF the belt of his Norfolk Jacket
"a his head.
10 back, SIR" cried the schoolmistress,
/ saw her step toward him with the
ne poised and switching in the air, as if
out to strike
Lue BOY said nothing, but just shaking
l1Ss en-. IKE big dog he dropped his head
ouIled at the schoolmistress as she
tproached him, struck her somewhere in
waist and sent her staggering and
&Fgrplhg against the wall
uen without a word he took my hand,
something that belonged to him, and
o[e me schoolmistress could recover
ISL breath, or the scholars awake from
,,t a.S,lonlShment, he marched me. as if
II. . luz stocky figure had been sixteen
- eaIl IN stately silence out of the school.
", vas never sent back to school, and
'Q Ina, ,aat Martin, by order of the butcher
r publicly expelled.
was 10 marry the young Lord Raa!
was stunned. 1t was lust as If the
ei VI thought had been smitten ont of
h. .ight and during the greater
In ,,i. me following day I felt, with
aoye knowing why, as If | were liv-
\ 1,5 5"uer the dark cloud of a gathering
Nv storm Hence 1t was not altogether
fb,r oNhd leading Of fate that half an
~ tba lure Ave Maria entered the church
& hsd civ, invent which the Reverend Mother
M sven me the name of.
boki,, aWoEe as from a dream. and
& Nov ,,l o,usIngIy back at the dark corridor
r. guloh the nuns had dsappeared |
Il at a"Ag 10 go when ! became aware
rd Young man was standing beside me
81 ,TH.Ilng into my face.
# his hand '0'''' anu ''o "''O
E.fmetb,raI IN the voice made me glddy.
IN IiIs IN the blue eyes made me trem-
b "Dor,.' ohed at him but did not speak.
feI, you know me Nary" he said.
IN FAC a II a rosy veil we're falling over
&kNeart,. ana neck. A flood Of joy was
ia wa, through me At last knew who
H. Martin Conrad grown to be a
Dr. rG, .aIi, powerful, manly man. but
Ell t5a same face still-an elusive ghost
WY lace | used to look up to and
III ava "'Au'es later we we're out on the
81 NON. loht OF the church. and with
hi. "sn OF Joyous words he was tell.
h.. ', mad brought him to Rome
Ed ar he said You look Iust
IA .... knew Won instantly. Yet YOU
81 lu......a TOO So grown and 500