Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-11
TO.DAY'S INSTALLMENT.


Copyright IN Great Britain Copyright
1913 by J Lippincott Company.
/ TO.DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
Seventy seventh chaptsr-continusd.
once it was to bring me some food
and to tell me, with many winks tfor
the good soul herself was trembling
with excitement) that everything was
as right as ninepence should get
away without difficulty in a couple of
hours, and until tomorrow morning
nobody would be penny wiser
Fortunately It was Thursday, when
a combined passenger and cargo
steamer sailed TO Liverpool OF course
the motor. car would not be available
to take me TO the pier. but Tommy the
Mate, who had stiff cart Il which he
took MS surplus products to market
/ would be waiting for me a. II O'Clock
/ by the gate to the high road
/ The people downstairs. meaning my
husband and Alma and her mother,
were going Off to the pavilion (where
hundreds of decorators were to work
late and the orchestra and ballet were
to have a rehearsaD, and they had
been heard to say that they would not
be back until way round about mid
night
But the scrvants?" I asked.
They're going, too. bless them"
said Price. so eat your dinner in
peace. my lady, ad don't worry about
a thing until l come back to fetch
you"
Another hour passed 7 was in
! fever OF apprehension. l felt like
prisoner who was about to escape
from a dungeon.
God Bless You.
A shrin wind was coming up from
the sea and whistling about the
house. l could hear the hammering
OF the workmen In the, pavilion as
wei as the music II the orchestra
practicing their scores.
A few minutes before II Price re-
turned, carrying one of the smaller of
the travelling trunks I had taken TO
Cairo. l noticed that It bore no name
and no initials
ITS all right" she said. They've
gone of, every mothers son and
daughter of them-al EXCEPT the
housekeeper and I've caught her out,
the cat!"
That lynx-eved person lad begun
TO suspect. She had seen Tommy
Harvesting his horse and had not been
satisfied with his explanation-tha he
was taking tomatoes to Blackwater to
be sent off by the Liverpool steamer.
SO to watch events. without seem
ing TO watch them. the housekeeper
(when the other servants had gone of
TO the rehearsaD had stolen upstairs
to her room in the west tower over
looking the back courtyard.
But Price had been more than a
match for her. Creeping Up behind.
she had locked the door OF the ton
lanGing. and now the little cat"
might scream her head off through
the window. and lover the noises OF
the wind and the workmen) It would
be only like tom" shrieking on the
tiles
we must be Quick. though" said
Price, tumbling into nv travelling
trunk as many Of my clothes as II
would ohld.
When 1t was full and locked and
, corded. She said;
Wait" and stepped out on the
landing to listen.
After a moment she returned, say
Ing:
Not a sound! Now for it, my lady"
And then, tying her handkerchief
over her head to keep down her hair
in the wind, she picked up the trunk
in her arms and crept out of the room
on tiptoe.
The moment had come to GO yet.
eager as I had been all evening to
ESCAPE from nv husbands house
could scarcely tear myself away. for
I was feeling a little OF that regret
which comes to us all when we are
doing something for the last time.
Passing through the boudoir. this
feeling took complete possession OF
me. only a few hours before 1t had
been the scene OF nv deepest degra-
dation. but many a time before it had
been the place Of my greatest happi-
ness.
You are my wife am your real
husband No matter where you are
or what they Go with you, you are
mine. and always will be-
Half closing the door took a last
look around-at the piano. the desk.
1.-THE table, the fireplace, all the simple
Things associaed With my dearest
memories So strong was the yearn-
| ing Of my soul that l felt as il the
/ soul Of Martin we're in the room with
me at that moment.
| | believe Il was
Quick, my LADY. or you'll lose your
I steamer, whispered Price, and then
We crossed the landing (Which was
( creakng AGAIN. and crept noiselessly
down a back staircase.
We were near the bottom when
was startled by a loud knocking
which seemed 10 come from a distant
part OF the house, My heart tenn
! porarily stopped It's beating but Price
only laughed and whispered
There she is We've fairly caught
( her out. the cat"
Az the next moment Price opened
an outer door. and after we had
passed through she closed and
| locked II behind us,
/ We were then In the courtyard be-
/ hind the house, stumbling In the
| binding darkness over eobblestones
Keep close to me my lady" said
/ Price.
After few moments We reached
/ the drive. think was more nerv-
| Gus than | had ever been before.
| heard the withered leaves behind me
rustllng along the ground before the
wind from the sea, and thought they
were the footsteps OF people pursuing
us. heard the hammering OF the