Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
TO-DAY'S NSTALLMENT.
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There now" she said you've got
to thank me for this. Didn't / give
YOU good advice when ! told YOU 10 be
little blind? It's the only way win
husbands When Conrad came home
with the news / said, Betsy, ! must
get away TO the poor girl straight I"
be sure, / had enough on my hands
already. but ] couldn't leave you 10
strangers, could ?"
Hearing no response to this ques-
lion Aunt Bridget went on to say
that what was coming would be a
bond between me and my husband.
ut always IL. II was IN my case,
anyway. The old colonel dion't be-
have very well after our marriage,
and times and times ! was telling my
self / had made a rue bargain, but
when Betsy came ] thought, i might
have done better, but / might have
done worse We have bond In our
offspring, anyway
Hearing no response to this either
Aunt Bridget went to to talk OF Alma
and her mother Was not this the
woman / suspected with my husband
the Young one with the big eyes
and "the quality toss with herr Then
why did ! have a person Ike that
about the house?
III you need bright and cheerful
company. what's amiss with your
aunt and your first cousin? Some peo-
ple are selfish. but / thank the saints
I don't know what selfiShness u.s. I'm
willing to do for you what ! did for
your poor mother, and ] can't say
more than that, can ~
! must have made some kind OF re-
Spouse. for Aunt Bridget went on 70
say II might be a sacrifice but then
she wouldn't be sorry to leave the
Big House, either.
I'm twenty years there, and now
I'm TO be a servant to my own step
child Dear heart knows II can bear
it much longer The way that Messy
is carrying on with your father Is
something shocking. ] do beiieNe
she'll marry the man some day
TO escape from a painful topic,
asked after my fathers health.
Worse and worse, but Conrad's
news was like laughing gas to the
man. He would have come with me
to-day, but the doctor wouldn't hear
Of it. He'll come soon, though, and
meantime he's talking and talking
about a great entertainment"
Entertainment
ITO celebrate the forthcoming
event, OF course, though nobody Is TO
know that except ourselves, 1t seams.
Just house warming IN honor OF
your coming home after your mar
riage-thats all It's TO be on the out
side. anyway
made some cry OF pain, and Aunt
Bridget said
Shocked at Change.
"Oh, I know what you're going TO
say why doesn't he wait? I'll tell
YOU why il youll promise not TO whis-
per a word TO anyone. Your father Is
a sick man, my dear. Let him say
what he likes when Conrad talks
about cancer, he knows Deaths hand
is over him. And thinking il may
fall before your time has come. he
wants TO take time by the forelock
and see a sort OF fulfillment OF the
hope OF his llfe-and you know what
that is"
It was terrible. The position in
which / stood toward my father was
now so tragic that (wicked as it isl
/ prayed with all my heart that
might never look upon his face again.
I was compelled TO do SO. Three
days after Aunt Bridgets visit my ta-
Their came TO see me. The day Was
fine and ! was walking on the lawn
when his big car came rolling up this
drive
was shocked to see the change IN
HIM His face was ghastly white, MS
lips were blue, his massive and pow
erful head seemed to have sunk into
bis shoulders, and his limbs We're so
thin that his clothes seemed to hang
on them but the stern mouth was
there still, and so was the masterful
lift OF the eyebrows.
Coming over to meet me with IN
uncertain step. he said.
"Oid Conrad was for keeping me m
bed. but l couldn't take rest without
putting a sight on you
After that, and some plain speech
out OF the primitive man he always
was and will be (about It's being good
for a woman 10 have children because
Il saved her from Tossing her stom 10
ach" over imaginary grievances, ne
led me. with the same halt-contempt-
uous tenderness which he used TO
show 10 my mother, back TO the house
and into the drawing room.
Alma and her mother were there,
The one writing a "a desk the other
knitting on the sofa. and they rose as
my father entered. but he waved them
back 30 their places
"Set down. ma am Take your seat
mother. I'm only here for a minute
to talk 20 my gel about her great re-
ception."
Reception? said Alma
Hasn't she told YOU about IT," ht
said. and being answered that ] had
not. he gave "a rough outline OF his
project, Whereupon Alma, WHOSE
former attitude toward my father
had changed to one OF fattery anc
subservience, lifted her hands and
cried
'How splendid. such an insplra-
ton, only think. my love YOU were
10 be kept rTSt and cheerful. anc
what could be better for that pur.
pose o.
In the Torment OF my soul I urged
one Objection after anothor-it would
De expensive, we could not afford IL
who asks YOU 10 afford IL? IT,,
my affair. isn't it2" said my father
was unweu and therefore AN.
able 10 undertake the hard work o.
such an entertainment but that wa,
the worst OF excuses, for Alma
jumped I'm with an offer Of assistance
MY dearest child" she said "yol
know how happy 4 shall pc 10 he'll
YOU. In fact, IN do all the wori
and you shall have all the glory"
There you are. then" cried mn
father. shaping me on the shoulder
and then turning TO Alma. he tol,
ner TO set TO work without day
delay.
Let everything he done correc