Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-28
To-DAY'S NSTALLMENT.


] felt like torn bird that is strug-
CLING in the lime, but contrived to
say that If our love was guilty love it
was our duty to destroy
\ rs that possible?" he said.
I'VE must ask God to help us"
answered, and then, while his head
was down and / was looking out into
TIE darkness, | tried to say that
though he was suffering now he would
soon get over this disappointment.
do you wish me to get over it?'' he
asked.
This confused me terribly, for In
spite Of all was saying l knew at the
bottom of my heart that in the sense
he intended l did not and could not
wish It.
we have known and cared for
each other all our lives, Mary-isnt
that so? It seems as If there never
was a time when we didn't know and
care for each other. Are we to pray
to God, as you say, that time may
come when we shall feel as If we had
never known and cared for each other
ut all?"
Throat Fluttered.
My throat was fiuttering--I could
not answer him.
II can't" he said. Il never shall
never as long as / live. No prayers
wiz ever help me to forget YOU"
could not speak. dared not look
at him. After moment he said In
thicker voice:
and you will you be able
to forget me? BY praying to God
will you be able to wipe me out OF
your mind?"
felt as II something were strang-
ling me.
doesn't she?" he said. Love is every
thing to her everything ex-
cept her religion. Will it be possible
This reilnication will 1t be
possible for you either?'
/ felt as II all the blood in my body
were running away from me.
ut will not You know 1t will not,
You will never be able to renounce
your love. Neither of US will be abe
to rehounce it. It isn't possible. u
isn't human. Wen, Wn]l
then? II we continue to love each
other-you here and down there's
we shall be Just as guiltylin the eyes
of the church, shan't WEI"
I did not answer him, and after q
moment he came closer to me on the
seat, and said. almost in whisper:
''Then think again, Mary. Only
give one glance to the horrible. lie
that is before you when l am gone.
You nave been married year
and YOU have suffered terribly. But
there is worse to come. Your hus-
hands coarse inf1delity has been
shocking, but there will be something
more shocking than his infdelity-
his affection. Have you never thought
Of that?"
started and shuddered, feeling as
IL somebody must have told him the
most intimate secret of my life Com
ing still closer he said:
Forgive me, dear I'm bound to
sneak plainly now. If didn't should
never forgive myself in the future
Listen! Your husband will get
over his fancy for this this
woman. He'll throw her off, as he
has thrown off women of the same
kind before. What will happen then?
He'll remember that you belong to
him . that he has rights in you
that the Internal law which de-
MES you the position of an equal hu-
man being gives him right-a legal
right--to compel your obedience
Have you never thought of that|
t0r one ILlOlHSIl wv iODNCo 4ASS
each others eyes; then he took hold
az INV hand and, speaking very rap
idly, said:
CHATS the life that is before you
when am gone-to live with this
man whom you loathe -" year after
wear. as long as life lasts occu-
nying the same house, the same room,
the same
Stammered Out Story.
uttered an involuntary cry and
Martin" I said. there is some
thing you don't know"
And then told hint was forced
out of me-my modesty went down IN
tine fierce battle with a higher pain,
and do not know whether It was my
oride or my shame or my love that
Compelled me to tell him, but did
tell him-God knows how-that !
could not run the risk he referred 70
because I was not in that sense my
husbands wife, and never had been.
"And that compact has been kept?"
"Tben it's all right! Don't be
afraid You shall be free. Come in
and let me tell you how! Come In
come I'M"
He took me back into the Douuolr'
had no power to resist him. HIS
face was as pale as death, but his
ewes were shining. He made me slt
down. and then sat on the table IN
front of me.
sTdsten!" he said when I bought
nv ship from the lieutenant we
signed a deed, contract, as a wit
ness before all men that he would
give me his ship and / would give MIN
Some money But If after all ne
hadn't given me his ship, what would
our deed have been? Only so much
waste paper"
n was the same with my marriage.
n II had been an honest contract, the
marriage service would have been a
uitness before God that we meant
TO live together as man and Wife But
I never had; therefore, what was the
marriage service? Only an empty
ceremony
THAT'S the plain sense Of the mat
ter isn't it?" he cried. Il defy any
priest in the world to prove the con-
"Well?"
'eWeli, don't you see what 1t comes
toq You are free-morally free, at all
events You can come TO me. You
must. too. / daren't leavesyou in TINS
house any longer. I shall take you 70
London and fix you UP there, and
then when come back from the Ant