Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-28
To-DAY's INsTALLMENT.
sixty- Seventh chapter-continued.

AHdl cut me 10 the QUICK, TOO anu
felt like a torn bird that is strug-
Cling in the lime, but l contrived to
say that Il our love was guilty love it
was our duty to destroy
is that possible?" he said.
we must ask God to help US
answered, and then, while his head
was down and / was looking out into
tie. darkness, l 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 ofsall was saying knew at the
bottom of my heart that in the sense
he intended ! did not and could not
wish It.
I'VE have known and cared for
each other all our lives, Mary-isn't
that so2 1t seems as if there never
was a time when we didn't know and
care for each otter 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
at all ?"
Throat Fluttered.
Ny throat was huttering-I could
not answer him,
Il can't he said. Il never shall
never as long as live. No prayers
ws,l ever help me to forget you"
| could not speak. l dared not look
at him. After a moment he said in
a 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 if something were strans-
ling me.
"a woman lives in her heart,
doesn't she?' he said Love is every
thing to her everything ex-
cept her religion. Will it be possible
this reunication will 1t be
possible for you either?"
l felt is If all the blood in my body
were running away from me.
ut will not You know it will not.
You will never be able to renounee
your love. Neither of us will be abe
to renounce it. 1t isn't possible. It
isn't human. Wen, what
then? If we continue to love each
other-vou here and / down there
we shall be just as guilty in the eyes
Of the church, shan't WEI"
did not answer him, and after
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 lire
that is before you when | am gone.
You have been married a year
and you have suffered terribly. But
there is worse to come. Your hus-
bands coarse infidelity has been
shocking, but there will be something
more shocking than his infidelity-
hon q hi
of thar"
i started and shuddered, feeling as
if 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
speak plainly now If l 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
s%% that the internal law which de-
MES you the position of an equal hui
man being gives him right-a Legal
right-to compel your ooedlence'
Have YOU never thought of that?
each others eyes; then he took hold
of my hand and, speaking very rap
idly. said:
That's the life that is before you
when / am gone-to live with this
man whom YOU loathe year after
year. as long as 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 hint 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
nride or my shame or my love that
compelled me to tell him, but ! did
tell him-God knows how-that i
could not run the risk he referred TO
because / was not in that sense my
husbands wife. and never had been.
"And that compact has been keptT
Yes"
"Then it's all right! Don't be
afraid. You shall be free. Come IN
ari let me tell you how! Come ln'
c@ne in!"
He took me Dack lnlO tHS pOuuOti-
had no power to resist him. His
face was as pale as death. but his
ewes were shining. He made me sit
down. and then sat on the table IN
front of me-
.IIsten!" he said. when | bought
NV ship from the lieutenant we
signed a deed, contract, as a wit
ness before all men that he would
rive me his ship and | would give MIN
some money. But If 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
witness before God that we meant
to live together as man and wife. But
never had; therefore, what was the
marriage service? Only an empty
ceremony!
AThat's the plain sense of the mat
ter. isn't it?" he cried. Il defy any
priest in the world to prove the con-
trary."
"Wel?"
well, don't you see what it comes
to? You are free-morally free. at all
events You can come to me. You
must, too. / daren't leave you In this
house any longer. shall take you -
London and FIX you up there, and
IL he