Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-28
TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
sixty seventh chaptsr-contInued.

I'VE must ask God 20 help u.s. /
answered. and then. while his head
was down and was looking out into
tie darkness I tried to say tnas
though he was suffering now he would
soon get over this disappointment.
DO you wish me 70 get over y ne
asked.
eplte OF all I was saying ] knew al the
bottom Of my heart that in the sense
ne intended did not and could not
wish Il.
eve have known and cared for
each other all our lives, Mary-isn
that so? II seems as II there never
was 4 time when we didn't SNOW ana
care for each other Are we to pray
r. cod as YOU say. that a time may
come when we shall feel as II We had
never known and cared for each other
at all?
Throat Fluttered.
nv throat was huttering--I could
not answer him.
Il can't" Ne said. II never shall
never as long as 1 live. No prayers
we ever help me 10 forget you
| could not speak. dared not iook
At him. After a moment he SAID IN
AND Won will you be able
10 forget me? BY praying to God
viii you be able TO wipe me out OF
your mind"
felt Is II something we're strang-
"a woman lives in her heart,
doesn't she?" he said, Love is every
thing TO her everything ~
cent her religion. VIII Il be possible
q
possible for you ether"
j felt Is II all the blood in my body
were running away from me.
1T will not. You know il viii not
You wifi never be able to renounce
your love. Neither OF us win be abe
10 renonnce f. II isn't possible. y
isn't human. Well, what
them If we continue to love each
other--you heqe and ] down there
we shall n just as guilty In the eyes
Of the church. shant WEI
did not answer him, and after
moment ne came closer to me on the
seat. ard said. almost In a whisper;
Then think again, Mary. Only
rive one glance to the horrible lie
that il before you when / am gone.
Won have been married a year
and YOU have suffered terribly But
there IS worse TO come. Your hus-
bands coarse inildelity has been
shocklng, but there WIN be something
more shocking than his inhdelity-..
his Affection Have you never thought
Of that2"
started and shuddered. feeling as
n somebody must have told him the
most intimate secret OF my lie. COM
ing still closer he said;
Forgive me, dear I'm bound 70
speak plainly now. II I didn't | should
never forgive myself In the future
50 Idstenl Your husband will get
over his fancy for this this
woman He'll throw her Off as he
has thrown on women Of the same
kind before. What will happen then2
He'll remember that you belong to
him -. that he has rights In you
that the internal law which de-
mics you the position Of an equal hu.
man being gives him right--a legal
riaht--to compel your obedience,
Have YOU never thought OF that2F
For one moment we looked into
each others eyes: then he took hold
Of my hand and. speaking very rap
IDLY said:
That's the life that is before you
whom | am gone--to live with this
man whom you loathe year after
wear. as long ais life lasts oecu-
pying the same house, the same room,
the same >"
Stammered Out Story.
uttered an involuntary cry, and
he stopped.
MARTIN" | said. there Is some-
thing you don't know"
And then / told him--it was forced
out Of me-my modesty went down in
the fierce battle with a higher pain
and do not know whether 1t was my
pride or my shame or my love that
compelled me to tell him, but I did
tell him-God knows how-that
could not run the risk he referred "a
because / was not In that sense my
husbands wife and never had been.
And that compact has been keptg
Yes
eThen 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 boudoir
had no power TO resist him. Hi:
face was as pale as death, but his
ewes we're shining. He made me SIT
down, and then sat on the table IL
front OF me.
aIisteni. he said. when l bought
my ship from the lieutenant we
signed a deed, a contract, as Wit
ness before an men that he would
give me his ship and ] would give him
some money. But II after all he
hadn't given me his ship. what would
our deed have been? Only so much
waste paper"
& II was the same with my marriage
IL Il had been an honest contract, the
marriage service would have been a
witness before God that We meant
10 live together as man and wife. But
never had; therefore. what was the
marriage servieeg Only an empty
ceremony
That's the plain sense OF the mat
ter. isn't IT." he cried. Il defy ans
priest IN the world TO prove the con
trary"
'WeneeN
well don't you see what II come:
\ to? You are free-moraily free, at al
events You can come 10 me. Yot
must. too. l darent'leaye you In thl'
house any longer / shall take you {,
London and fix you up there. anC
then. when / come back from the Ant.
arctic >"