Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-22
That Affair Next Door

his own powers is shaken, and that
he hints more often than is agree
able to his superiors that when a
man has passed his seventy seventh
wear 1t is time for him to give up ac-
tive connection with police matters.
| do not agree with him. His mis-
takes, II we may call them such. We're
not those of failing faculties, but Of
man made over-secure in his own
conclusions by series of old sue
cesses. Had he listened to me-But
! will not pursue this suggestion.
Howard Van Burnam bore his re-
lease. as he had his arrest, with great
outward composure. Mir. Gryce's eX-
PLANTATION of his motives in periuring
himself before the coroner was cor
rect. and. while the mass of people
wondered at that instinct of pride
which led him to risk the imputation
OF murder sooner than have the world
accuse his wife of an unwomanly ac-
ton, there were others who under
stood his peCuliarities. and thought
his conduct quite in keeping with
what they knew of his warped and
oversentitlve nature.
That he has been greatly moved by
the unmerlted fate of his weak but
unfortunate " lie. is evident from the
sincerity with which he still mourns
her
had always understood that
Franklin had never been told of the
peril in which his good name had
stood for few short hours. But
since a certain confidential converse
ton which took place between us one
evening, | have come to the eonclu-
sion that the police were not SO reti-
cent as they made themselves out to
be. In that conversation he professed
to thank me for certain good offices
l had done him and his. and waxing
warm in his gratitude. confessed that
without my Interference he would
have found himself in a strait of no
ordinary seriousness. For" said he.
there has been no overstatement of
the feelings | cherished toward my
sister law, nor was there any mis-
take made in thinking that she ut
tered some very desperate threats
against me during the visit she paid
me at my Office on Monday. But l
never thought of Kidding myself Of
her in any way, | only thought of
keeping her and my brother apart till
| could escape the country When.
therefore, he came into the office on
TUESDAY morning for the keys of our
fathers house, | felt such a dread OF
the two meeting there that | left i'm
mediately after my brother for the
place where she told me she would
await a final message from me.
hoped to move her by one final plea.
for | love my brother sincerely. not
withstanding the wrong / once did
him. | was therefore with her in an
other place at the very time / was
thought to be with her at the Hotel
D.. a fact which greatly hampered
me. as you can see. when ! was re-
quested by the police to give an ac-
count of how | spent that day. When
l left her IL was to seek my brother,
She had told me of her deliberate in
tention of spending the night in the
/ Creamery Park house; and as 1 saw
no way OF her doing this without my
brothers connivance started in
search OF him, meaning to stick to
him when found him. and keep him
away from her till that night was
| over. | was not successful in my
| undertaking. He was locked in his
rooms, II seems, packing up his ef-
| fects for lilght--we always had the
same Instincts even when boys--and
receiving no answer to my knock.
| FASTENED away to Gramercy Park tc
keep a watch over the house against
! my brother coming there. This was