Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08

| a real big thinE, ma am, suCh nv
| nobody has ever seen before.
Yes, indeed, sir"
Ask all the big people ON the
Messy Macleod shall send you
a list Of them"
u will. sir"
"Thatll do for the present guess
] must be going now. or old Conrad
will he agate Of me. SO long, gel, 50
] long"
was silenced J was helpless. was
ashamed.
did not know then what now !
| know, that. besides tho desire OF
celebrating the forthcoming birth OF
an heir, my father had another and
still more secret object that OF
throwing dust in the eyes Of his ad T.
vocates, bankers and insular coun-
cilors. who (having expected him 10
make money for them by magiC)
were beginning to whisper that all
was not well with his financial
schemes.
| did not know then, what now /
know, that my father was at that
moment the most tragic figure in
ELAN except myself, and that shat
tered in health and shaken in for
tune, he was INDUCING In this wild
extravaganza equally to assert his
solvency and 10 crafty his lifelong
passion under the very wing Of
death.
Frantic Prayers.
But oh, my Wild woe. my frantic
prayers II was almost as If Satan
himself were torturinE me-
The one terror OF the next few days
was that my husband might return
home, for ! knew that at the first
moment of his arrival the whole
world of make believe which my
father and Alma were setting up
around me would tumble about my
head like pack OF cards
He did not come. but he wrote
After saying that his political duties
would keep him in London a little
longer, he said.
Il hear that your father is getting
you to give a great reception in
honor Of our home coming But why
now instead Of three months ago?
Do you know the reason?"
AS ] read these last words ! felt an
ICY numbness creeping UP from my
teet TO my heart My position was
becoming intolerable. The conviction
was being forced upon me that I had
So -0fAN "a my AAMnhdlin 3 mousse
Ii made no difference that my hus-
bands house was mine also. in the
sense that It could not exist without
mel had no right to be there.
II made no difference that nv mar
rlage had been no MARRIAGE had no
right 10 be there
Il made no difference that the man
J had married was an utterly bad
husband had no right to be there
II made no difference that I was
not really an adulterous Wife-I had
no right 10 be there.
Meanwhile Price. my maid. but my
only real friend In Castle Raa, with
the liberty | allowed her was uncon-
sciously increasing my torture. Every
might as she combed out my hair she
gave me her opinion of my attitude
toward Alma, and one night she said.
Didn't ] tell you she was only
watching YOU. my lady? The nasty
minded thing IL making mischief with
his lordship. She's writing to him
every day. How do ! know
oh I don't keep my eyes and ears
open downstairs for nothing Youu
have no peace OF your life. my lady.
until YOU turn that woman out of the
house"
Then, in a At OF despair. hardly
knowing what | was doing, | covered
my face with my hands and said
81 had better turn myself out. per
hans
The combins OF my hair suddenly
stopped, and at the next moment
heard Price Saying In a voice which
seemed to come from a long way OFT
Good gracious me, Is II like that,
my LADY,"