Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-11
TO.DAY'S INSTALLMENT.

1915 BY J e Lipplncott Company.
TO.DAY'S INSTALLAlENT.
Seventy SEVENTH Chapter--continusd
once It was 10 bring nc some food
md 20 tell me, with many winks (fol
the good soul herself was trembling
with excitemenO that everything vas
as right az mnepence." should gel
away without difficulty IN couple OF
hours. and until TO- morrow morning
nobody would be 2 penny wiser.
Fortunately IL was THURSDAY when
? combined passenger and cargo
steamer sailed 70 Liverpool. OF course
The motor car would not bs available
TO take me to the pier. but Tommy the
Mate, who had a stiff cart in which he
took his surplus products to market
would be waiting for me al Il o'eloeb
by the gate TO the high road
Tho people downstairs, meaning my
husband and Alma and her mother
were going CT to the pavilion (where
hundreds Of decorators were TO work
late and the orchestra and Bale were
TO have rehearsaD, and they had
been heard TO say tina they would not
be bsca until way round about mid
night"
But the servants?7 / asked.
They're going. too, bless them,
said Price SO eat your dinner in
peace. my lady. sd don't worry about
3 thing until come back TO fetch
YOU"
Another hour passed, / was in a
fever OF apprehension feit like q
prisoner who was about 90 escape
from a dungeon.
God Bless You"
4 shril wind was coming 40 from
the sea and whistliug about the
or he workmen in the pavilion as
well as the music # the orchestra
practtcink tteir scores.
A few minutes before Price re-
turned, carrying one Of The smaller nf
the travelling trunks had taken ia
Cairo ! noticed that It bore no name
and no initials.
ITS all right" she said They've
gone off, every mothers son and
daughter Of then-all except the
hOusekeeper, and I've caught her out,
the cat"
That lynx-eyed person Tad begun
TO suspect She had seen Tommy
Harvesting his horse and had not been
satisfied with his eXpiaHation-tha he
was taking tomatoes TO Blackwater to
be sent off by the Liverpool stea mer.
So to watch events. without seem
ing to watch them. the housekeepeI
when the other servants had gone off
TO the rehearsaD had stolen upsta rs
10 her room in the west tower over
looking the back courtyard.
But Price had been more than a
match for her Creeping I'D behind,
she had locked the door o. the ton
might scream her head Off through
the window, and lover the noises OF
the wind and the workmenl 1t would
be only like tom shrleking on the
tiles.
We must be quick. though" sad
Price, tumbliug into my travelling
trunk az many OF my clothes as It
would ohld
When It was fun and locked and
corded, she said
Wait and stepped out on the
landing 10 listen
After a moment she returned, say
ine:
Not a sound Now for &C. my lady"
And then. tying her handk erchi et
over her head TO keep down her hair
in the wind, sire picked UP the trunk
in her arms and crept out Of the room
on ttptOe
The moment had come to go, yet
eager as | had been all evening &c
ESCAPE from my husbands house.
could scarcely tear myself away. fol-
was feeling a little of that regret
which comes to us all when we are
doing something FOR the last time
Passing through tine boudoir, this
feeling took complete possession OF
me. only few hours before " had
been the scene or INV deepest degTa-
dalton. but many time before IL has
been the place OF my greatest happt-
ness.
"You are my wife am your rea
/ husband No matter where YOU ara
| or what they do with you, you ar'
mine. and always Will be
Half closing the door I took a las
Hook around-at the plano the desk
| the table. TIE fireplace, all the simple
things associaed with my deares
memories. SO strong was the yearn
ling OF my soul that I felt as u tn
soul OF Martin were In the room Will
me ~ that moment
! | believe Il was.
| Quick, my lady. or you'll lose you
I steamer. whispered Price. and thsi
we crossed the landing (which wa
/ crealsing again) and crept noiselessll
down back staircase.
We were near the bottom when
was startled bv loud knocking
whlca seemed to come from a distan
part OF the house My heart tenn
porarily stopped its beating 0ut Prlc
only laughed and whispered:
There she IS We've fairly caCgh
her out, the cat"
AZ the next moment Price opene'
an outer door, and after we hs'
passed through she closed ant
locked K behind us.
We were then in the courtyard be
hind the house, stumbling In III
binding darkness over cobblestones.
Keep close 20 me, my lady sail
/ Price