Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

Copyright 1918, by Hearst Magazine.
DOWNRIGHT in Great Britain. Copyright,
1914 by ]. B. Lippincott Company.
TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
Twenty second Chapter-Continued.
Something in the voice made me
viddv something in the blue eyes
made me tremble. I looked at him
but did not speak
Don't you know me, Mally?" he
said.
felt as if a rosy veil were falling
oyer my face and neck. A flood of
low was sweeping through me. AT
last knew who it was.
II was Martin Conrad. grown to be
man. tall, powerful, manly man,
bur with the same face still-an elu-
s.ye ghost of the boys face | used
TO look up to and love.
few minutes later we were out
on the piazza in front of the church,
and with a nervous rush of joyous
words he was telling me what had
brought him to Rome.
| HAVING just SCI eipCu liiiOu6li ms
examinations, and taken his degree
couldn't have done so if the exam
iners had not been Jolly good to
bin-he had heard that Lieut..
was going down to the great ice
barrier that bounds the South Pole,
To Investigate the sources of winds
| and tides so he had offered himself
as doctor to the expedition and been
accepted.
Sailing from the Thames ten days
! AGO they had put into Naples that
morning for coal, and taking advan-
age of the opportunity he had run
up to Rome, remembering that |
| was at school here, but never ex-
pecting to see me, and coming upon
me by the merest accident in the
/ world-something having said to him,
Let's go in here and look at this
uueer old church"
He had to leave tomorrow at two,
though. having to sail the Same
night, but Of course it would be luck
| to go farther south than Charcot and
/ make another attack on the Antarctic
night
could see that life was full of
/ faith and hope and all good things
for him. and remembering some cpl
sodes of the past, l said:
so you are, going 'asploring' in
earnest at last?"
4 AT last" he answered, and we
4 looked into each others eyes and
| laughed as we stood together on the
| church steps, with little tender waves
| Of feeling from our childhood sweep
| ing to our feet.
And you?" he said. ".You look just
the same i kney you instantly. Yet
| You are changed, too. So grown and
so SO wonderfully e. r"
Going to Marry
l knew what he meant to say, and
being too much of a child to pretend
not to know, and too much of a wom-
an notwithstanding my nunlike i'm
pulses) not to find joy in it, | said /
was glad.
You've left the Convent, 1 see!
When did that happen?"
| told him three weeks ago-tha t
my father had come for me and we
We're going back to ELAN.
And then? What are you going to
do then?" he asked.
For a moment I felt ashamed to
answer, but at last told him that l
was going home to be married.
Married? When? To whom?"
odlu ulu NOT KNOW wien, Dut IL
was to be to the young Lord Raa.
"Raa? Did YOU say Raa? That
Good G.! But surely you
know ="
He did not finish what he was going
TO say, so I told him l did not know
anything, not having seen Lord Raa
since | came to school, and every
Thing having been arranged for me
by my father.
Not seen him since every
hing arranged by your father?"
Yes"
Then he asked me abruptly where
was staying, and when l told him he
sald he would walk back with me to
The hotel.
His manner had suddenly changed,
ana several times as we walked to-
sether up the Tritoni and along the