Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-28
To-DAY's MsTALLMENT.
sixty-aeventh chaptsr-contInued.

IO-DA1 y 1NSTALLMENT.
sixty-seventh chapter-contInued.
That cut me to the quick. too, and
I felt like a torn bird that is strug-
Cling in the lime. but 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
tue darkness, / 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 Of all was saying knew at the
bottom of my heart that in the sense
he intended 1 did not and could not
wish It.
1--WE have known and cared for
each other all our lives. Mary-isn' I
that SO? 1t seems as if there never
was a time when we didn't know and
care for each other. Are we to pray
to God, as you say, that a time may
come when we shall feel as If we had
never known and cared for each other
at ALP
Throat Fluttered.
MY throat was auttering--I could
not answer him.
II can't" he said. II never shall
never as long as live. No prayers
W.T. ever help me to forget you.
could not speak. dared not look
1T him. After moment he said in
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 we're strang-
hing me.
ga woman lives in her heart,
doesn't she?" he said. Love is every
thing to her - everything ex-
cept her religion. VIII 1t be possible
this reunication will it be
possible for you either?"
felt as If all the blood in my body
were running away from me.
ut will not You know 1t win not
You will never be able to renounce
your love. Neither of us will be abe
to renounce it. 1t isn't possible. j.
isn't human, Well what
Kheng If we continue to love each
other-you here and I down there
we shall be just as guilty In the eyes
of the church, shan't WEI?
I did not answer him, and after
moment he came closer to me on the
seat and said, almost in a whisper;
"Then think again, Mary. Only
give one glance to the horrible life
that is before you when am gone.
You have been married 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-
his affection. Have you never thought
of that?"
| 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 70
speak plainly now. If I didn't l should
never forgive myself in the future
ss~ 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
that the Internal law which de-
mics YOU the position of an equal hui
man being gives him a right--a legal
right-to compel your obedience
Have you never thought of that"
For one moment we looked into
each others eyes; then he took hold
of my hand and, speaking very rap
idly, said:
when am gone--to live with this
man whom you loathe ." year after
wear. as long as life lasts occu-
pying the same house. the same room,
the same
Stammered Out Story.
1 uttered an involuntary cry, and
MARTIN" / said, there is some
xhing you don't know"
And then I told hint was forced
out Of me-my modesty went down In
the fierce battle with higher pain
and do not know whether 1t was my
pride or my shame or my love tnas
compelled me to tell him, but DID
tell him--God knows how-that l
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 kept"
"Then it's all right! Don't be
afraid. You shall be free. Come In
and let me tell you how! Come In
c4lme I'M"
He took me back into the boudoir.
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.
sTisten!" he said when I bought
nv shin from the lieutenant we
signed q deed, contract, as a wit
ness. before all men that he would
give me his ship and I would give him
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
II II had been an honest contract, the
marriage service would have been
witness before God that we meant
10 live together as man and wife. But
/ never had; therefore, what was the
marriage service? Only an empty
ceremony
"That's the plain sense Of the mat
fer isn't it?" he cried. Il defy any
priest in the world to prove the con-
trary"
'Well?"
"Weli. don't you see what it comes
to9 You are free-morally free, at all