Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-16
THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST NE
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! listening to them. | also found my
| self refreshing my memory of the
| hideous scene in Paris and wonder
! ing why | had conGoned the offense
| by staying an hour longer under my
| husbands protection
| And then there was always another
| force at work within me-my own Sc
cret passion Though sometimes
| felt myself to be a Wretched sinner
| and thought the burden | had to bear
| was heavens punishment for my
guilty love, at other times my whole
! soul rose in revolt and l cried out
| not merely for separation from my
| husband but for absolute sundering.
Twice during the painful period of
a, the house party I heard from Martin.
| His first letter was full of accounts of
| the far reaching work of his eXpedi-
! tion-the engaging of engineers, cleo
| tricians, biologists and masons and
the shipping of great stores of wire
| less apparatus-for his spirits seemed
| to be high. and life was full of good
things for him.
His second letter told me that
everything was finished and he was
to visit the island the next week, 60
| ing first to the old folks" and com
| ing to me for few days Immediately
| before setting sail
That brought matters TO a head,
and compelled me to take action.
1t may have been weak of me, but
not wanting a repetition of the scene
! with Father Dan (knowing well that
| Martin would not bear il with the
| same PATIENCE, L sent the second let
ter to Alma, asking If the arrange
ment would be agreeable. She re-
turned it with the Endorsement
! (scribbled in pencil across the face,
certainly; anything to please you,
| dear"
I submitted even to that, Perhaps
I was a poor spirited thing, wanting
in proper pride, but l had a feeling
that it was not worth while to waste
myself in little skuibs of temper, be-
cause an eruption was coming Il
was sure of thaD in which Martin
would he concerned on my side, and
then everybody and everything would
be swept out of the path of my life
forever
Martin came In due course l read
in hte insular newspapers of his ar
rival on the island-hoW the people
had turned out in crowds to cheer him
at the pier, and how, on reaching our
own village the neighbors q knew the
names of all of them) had met him at
the railway station and taken him to
ihis mothers house, and then lighted
fires on the mountains for his well
come home
II cut me to the hearts core to
think of Martin amid thrilling scenes
Ike those while l was here among de-
grading scenes like these. My love for
| Martin was now like a wound and /
lreSolved that, come what might, be-
fore he reached Castle Raa ! should
liberate myself from the thraldom OF
my false position.
Father Dams counsels had faded
laway by this time Though had
prayed for strength to bear my bur
den, there had been no result, and one
morning, standing before the figure of
the Virgin in my bedroom, felt an
/ impulse to blow out her lamp ana
never to light it again,
The end of it all was that 1 deter
mined to see the Bishop and my
fathers advocate, MI Curphy, and
perhaps my father himself, that !
might know one way or the other
where | was, and what was 10 be-
come Of me.
Fortune-il fortune-favored me.
News came that my father had sud
denly fallen i'll of some ailment that
puzzled the doctors, and, making this
my reason and excuse, ] spoke to my
husband, asking if l might go home
for two or three days.
"Why not?" ne said, in the tone of
one who meant, who's keeping you?'
Then, in my weakness, l spoke to
Alma, who answered:
"Certainly, my sweet girl. We shall
miss you dreadfully, but it's your
Ji.t,r And tbpn N-tl'll that dear