Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-22
That Affair Next Door

his own powers is shaken, and that
he hints more often than is agree
able to his superiors, that when a
man has passed his seventy seventh
year it is time for him to give up ac-
tive connection with police matters
do not agree with him. His mis-
takes, if we may call them such. were
not those Of failing faculties, but of
q man made over secure in his own
conclusions by a series of old sue
cesses. Had he listened to me-But
will not pursue this suggestion.
Howard Van Burnam bore his re-
lease, as he had his arrest, with great
outward composure. Mr. Gryce's eX-
planati Of his motives in periuring
himself before the coroner was cor
rect, and while the mass of people
wondered a that instinct of pride
which led him to risk the imputation
of murder sooner than have the world
accuse his wife of an unwomanly ac-
ton, there were others who under
stood his peCuliarities, and thought
his conduct quite in keeping with
what they knew of his warped and
oversentitive nature.
That he has been greatly moved by
the unmerited fate of his weak but
unfortunate " ife. is evident from the
sincerity with which he still mourns
her.
had always understood that
Franklin had never been told of the
peril in which his good name had
stood for a few short hours. But
since certain confidential converse
ton which took place between us one
evening, | have come to the conclu-
sion that the police were not so rett-
cent as they made themselves out to
be. In that conversation he professed
to thank me for certain good offices
l had done him and his and waxing
warm in his gratitude, confessed thai
without my interference he would
have found himself in strait of nc
ordinary seriousness. For" said he
| there has been no overstatement OF
the feelings l cherished toward my
sister-in-l law. nor was there any mis-
| take made in thinking that she ut
! tered some very desperate threats
against me during the visit she paid
me at my office on Monday. But
never thought Of Kidding myself OF
| her in any way. | only thought OF
| keeping her and my brother apart till
| | could escape the country. When
therefore he came into the office on
! Tuesday morning for the keys of our
fathers house, l felt such a dread OF
the two meeting there that l left inn
mediately after my brother for the
/ place where she told me she would
await a final message from me.
| hoped to move her by one final plea
| for l love my brother sincerely, not
| withstanding the wrong I once die
! him. | was therefore, with her in an
other place at the very time I was
/ thought to be with her at the Hote
| D, a fact which greatly hampereC
me- as you can see when l was re-
| quested by the police to give an ac-
count of how l spent that day. Wher
left her it was to seek my brother
| She had told me of her deliberate in
tention of spending the night in the
/ Gramercy Park house; and as l saw
no way Of her doing this without my
| brothers connivance, l started il
| search of him, meaning to stick tc
| him when l found him. and keep hin
away from her till that night wa!
| over | was not successful in my
undertaking. He was locked in hii
rooms, it seems, packing up his eff.
! fects for Might've always had The
same instincts even when boys-anC
| receiving no answer to my knock,
! hasteled away to Gramercy Park L
| keep a watch over the house agains
| my brother coming there. This wa!