Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-21
TO.DAY,s INsTALLMENT..
Thirty fourth chapter-continued.
Ny Honeymoon

now. 1 would be difficult to describe
my sensations. l felt dreadfully hui
inflated. Even my personal pride was
wounded. I remembered what Father
Dan had said about husband and wife
being one flesh, and told myself that
this was what 1 belonged to, what
belonged to me-this! Then l tried
to reproach and reprove myself, but
in order to do so I had to turn my
eyes away.
Our road to Blaci1water lay over
4 the ridge of hill much exposed to
the wind from the southwest. When
we reached this point the clouds
seemed to roll up from the sea like
tempestuous battaIions. Torrential
rain fell onlthe car and came dripping
in from the juncture of the landau
lette roof. Some of 1t fell on the
sleeper, and. he awoke with a start.
-"Damn--
He stopped, as IL caught in guilt,
and began to apologize again.
'TWas 1 asleep?i / really think
must have been. Stupid, isn't IT? Elk
cuse me"
He biinked his, eyes as if to empty
moment or two in silence. and then
said with a smile which made me
shudder:
$50 you and are man and wife,
nv dear!"
made no answer. and, still look
ing at me, he aid:
happened after all-what do you
Still did not answer him, feeling
a certain shame, not to say disgust
Then he began to pay me some com
Ylinents on my appearance.
do you know you're charming
my dear, really charming!
That sturg me, and made me shud-
der. l don't know why, unless 1t was
8 because the words gave me the sense
of having been used before to other
women. l turned my eyes away
again. ao
those big black eyes of yours.
adore black eyes. They always
pierce me like q gimlet.
He reached forward as he spoke
and drew me to him. l felt fright
ened and pushed him off;
4 Whats this?" he sald' as II SUI
prised. ha
laughed. and in the tone of man
who had much to do with women
and thought he knew how to deal
with them, he said:
wants to be coaxed, does she?
They all do, bless them!
Saying this he pulled me closer
to him, putting his arm about my
waist Int once more l drew and
forcibly pushed him for me-
His face darkened for an instant
and then cleared again.
Glad of Storm.
"Oh. 1 see," he said. Offended, Is
she? Paying me out for havlmg PAY
so little court to her? Wen she
right there. too, bless her! But never
mind! You're a decidedly good-look1
ing little woman, my dear, ana II
have neglected you thus far, m
tend to make up for it during the
honeymoon. SO come, little gal, lets
be friends" ,oa
Taking hold of me again, he trleu
to kiss me, putting at the same tlIle
His hand on the bosom of my dress,
but twisted. my face aside and pre-
vented him.
"Oh! OH Hurt her modesty, have
II" he said, laughing like man VINO
was quite sure both of himselt ana
of me. But my little nun VIII &c.
over that by and by. wait a"hie'
Wait awhile!" mn,
Bv this time 1 was trembling with
the shock of terror that was entlreiy
new to me. / could not explain 1t
to myself the nature of 1t, but IL was
there, and l could not escape from II.
Hitherto, when l thought OF my
marriage to Lord Raa I had peen
troubled by the absence OF love pc
tween US; and what / meant 10 my
self by love-the love of husband ana
wife-was the kind of feeling | had
for the Reverend Mother heightened
and deepened and sptr1tuallzed, as
believed, by the fact with all It's
mysterious significance) that the one
was a man and the other a woman:
But this was something quite dif-
ferent. Not having found IN mar
riage what I had expected, was
finding something else, for there
could be no mistakng my husoand
meaning when he looked at me with
his passionate eyes and said, wait
awhile!"
l saw what was before me and in
fear of It found myself wishing that
something might happen to save me;
I was so frightened that If | couid
have escaped form the car l should
have done so. The only thing
could hope for was that we should
arrive at Blackwater too late for the
steamer, or that the storm would pre-.
vent it from sailing What relief
that, beyond the delay of one day,
one night lin which / imagined
might be allowed to return home), i
did not know. But none the less on
that account 1 began to watch the
clouds with a feverish interest.
They were wilder than ever now
rolling up from the southwest in huge
black whorls which enveloped the
mountains and engulfed the valleys
The wind too was bowling at in
tervals like beast being slaughtered
1t was terrible, but not so terrible as
the thing I was thinking Of | was
afraid Of the storm, and yet l was
fearfully, frightfully glad Of It.
My husband, who after my repulse,
had dropped back into his own corner
of the car, was very angry he
talked again of our God forsaken is
land" and the folly of living in 1t,
said our passage would be long one