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
ever my face and neck. A flood Of
joy was sweeping through nc At
hast knew who II was
II was Martin Conrad. grown 20 he
man tall, powerful, manly man,
but with the same face still-an elu-
ave ghost Of the boys face used
To look up to and love.
few minutes later We were 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 II the exam
liners had not been "jolly good to
hinn-he had heard that Lieut..
was going down to the great ice
pHIIlFI AiidA JULIUS iHF t1phNIl bi'f
10 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-
taCe OF the opportunity he had run
up To Rome remembering that |
was a school here, but never eN-
Peci.ng o see me, and coming upon
me by The merest accident In the
world eomething having said to him,
LES go IN here and look at this
queer old church.
He had 20 leave tomorrow at two,
though having to sail the same
right but oc course ii would be luck
d. so farther south than Charcot and
iasRe another attack on the Antarctic
g sat.
could see that life was fun OF
{ IA and hope and all good things
f1" him and remembering some cpl
sodes of the past, ! said:
So 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 your" he said you look Just
the same. knew you instantly. Yet
you are changed, too. So grown and
so so wonderfully
Going to Marry
I knew what he meant TO say. and
being too much of child TO pretend
not TO know, and too much of a wom-
an Notwithstanding my nunlike i'm
pu1sesl not to find JOY in II, | 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
were going back to ELAN.
And then? What are you going to
do them" he asked
For moment / felt ashamed to
answer. but at last I told him that |
vas going home TO he married
Married? When? To whom ,"
I said did not know when, but it
was to be TO the young Lord Raa.
"Raa? Did YOU say Raa? That
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 Raa
since l 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 where
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-
gether up the Tritoni and along the