Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
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Something in the voice made me
giddy, something in the blue eyes
made me tremble. ! looked at him
but did not speak
Don't you know me, Mally?" he
said
! felt as II a rosy veil were falling
over my face and neck A flood Of
Joy was sweeping through me, At
last l knew who it was
1t was Martin Conrad, grown to he
a man, tall, powerful, manly man.
but with the same face still-an elu-
siYe ghost Of the boys face | used
to look up to and love
A few minutes later we We're out
on the piazza in front Of the church
and with a nervous rush Of joyous
words he was telling me what had
brought him TO Rome
Having just "scraped through his
examinations, and taken his degree
couldn't have done SO If the exam
iners had not been Jolly good to
him he had heard that Lieut.
was going down to the great ice
barrier that bounds the South Pole,
to investigate the sources of winds
and tides. so he had offered himself
as doctor to the expedition and been
accepted.
Sailing from the Thames ten days
ago they had put into Naples that
morning for coal and taking advan-
taEe Of the opportunity he had run
up 20 Rome. remembering that |
was at school here but never eX-
ION,
me by the mercSt accident in the
world something having said to him,
Lets go in here and look at this
queer old church
lie had to leave tomorrow at two,
though, having to sail the same
night bat of cpurse it would be luck
20 60 farther south than Charc1t and
make another attack on the Antarctic
night
! could see that life was fun of
faith and hope and all good things
for him. and remembering some cpl
sodes of the past said;
$50 you are going 'asploring in
earnest at last?"
AT last" he answered, and we
looked into each others eyes and
laughed as we stood together on the
church steps. with little tender waves
of feeling from our childhood sweep
Ing to our feet.
And you2" he said YOU look Just
the same I knew you instantly Yet
you are changed too. So grown and
so SO wonderfully
Going to Marry
] knew what he meant to say. and
being too much of a child to pretend
not to know. and too much OF WON
an Notwithstanding my nunlke i'm
pulsesl not to find joy in it, | said |
was glad.
You've left the Convent. see!
When did that happen?'
! told him three weeks ago-that
my father had come for me and we
We're going back to ELAN.
And then? What are you going to-
do them he asked.
For a moment | felt ashamed t.
answer. but at last | told him that |
was going home 10 be married.
Married? When? To whom"
said die not know when. but Il
was TO be TO the young Lord Raa.
"Raa? Did YOU say Raa? TIL
Good G., But surely You
know >"
He did not finish what he was going
10 say. so ! told him | did not know
anything, not having seen Lord Rna
since / came TO school, and every
thing having been arranged for me
by my father
Not seen him since every
thing arranged by your father"
Yes"
Then he asked me abruptly wherc
] was staying, and when I told him he
said he would walk back with me to
the hotel
His manner had suddenly changed,
and several times as we walked to-
get5er up the Tritoni and along ;he