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

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won't fail you"
! Kayton turned abruptly to Manning.
Joe, bring Mrs. Martin in Have you
, plenty Of money with you?" he asked, in a
| low voice
YES" returned the girl in the same
| tone. Then suddenly with a little SILVER:
| "Oh-I dread to meet her"
| Kayton looked at her in curious wise
| for moment or two.
81 must ask YOU" he said coldly. "to
! show no feeling Of repulsion for this
woman"
Il 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 a chair by which
she was landing and waited, rigid and
erect. The woman entered almost re-
luctantly, stopped and gazed at the girl
with a mixture Of dread. curiosity and
something else
Mrs. Martin" said Kayton in cusuaI,
matter of-fact tones, this is Miss Ma
zuret"
He resumed his seat at his desk and
bent over his papers. The girl looked At
| 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
como with me-"
The neighborhood of Washington
square, like one or two other older sec
tions Of New York, is essentially mediae-
val lndividualism is its most salient
characteristics. Even the many who live
there to think thoughts of social brother
hood insist on adhering to their own par
tlcular thoughts. And thus, as in the
middle ages, when a man enters his
, luFn1IiUv ba I,, l.. l., e
all danger that his neighbors may intrude
on his privacy.
This petrifed 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 their thoughts. newt
ably draws TO the region a number of men
and women who are at odds In a greater
or lesser degree with the rules of society
as a. present constituted
Mrs. Martin recognized that this com
munity was the ideal one for her room
ing house" No one would or could in
quire as TO the character or occupations
of her roomers No one cared Beyond
a little printed sign above the bell-pull
that protruded from the dingy brick wall
by the door she made no effort to secure
dodgers The few who came were told
'''''' 'i'' ii'h9N was luii. CDe ndu three
lodgers-all men. These three came when
she took the house and remained always
NO new dodgers were adde to their mum
bers and these never left her house
TIL Contradictory Plant.
They occupied rooms on the second
floor. II was two-story and attic house
with a dining room and kitchen in the
| basement. They were not often in each
others rooms, but they met frequently
| in the garrett which was scantiy 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 lodger, She had 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 swftness. 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 10 Mrs. Martins was rented by a
couple of inventors who wanted to work
secretly on new electrical appliance that
| would make a stir in the world This
| new appliance was the photograph. the
greatest Of caves troopers which has al
ready made a considerable stir in various
quarters of the United States
This photograph is a fearsome device.
/ 1t is so small and unpretentious that it
| can be concealed in the barest of rooms.
| II Is telephone produced to the ultimate
| power of sensitiveness. Placed in a cor
ner on the floor behind the dresser of A
great chamber 1t will transmit over little
wires to listeners miles away every svl-
liable OF a whispered conversation in the
] opposite corner.
I All of these changes in the ncighbor-
| 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
! few of these things were noted with
some disquiet by the three old dodgers in
the house and they demanded explana-
! tons 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 well do
otherwise in the circumstances.
The Unusual Visitors.
Tie next day there were other callers
/ ON Miss Mazuret and finally. early in the
/ afternoon, the four-AIrs. Martin and her
/ three lodgers-left the house in a body.
/ Thereafter there was no caller until
/ nearly o'clock in the evening, when
! night had fallen These were unusual
/ visitors. There were two of them and
| though they had never entered the house
! before they produced a bunch of KEYS
and htted one into the front door. The
/ younger of the two men carried a WON
| an S 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 irrepressble assistant
The girl piloted them upstairs through
the empty house 10 the attic. where KAY.
/ ton unlocked the door with a key off the
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