Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
FOURTH INsTALLMENr.
NM. LAMAR cried June. her
N sweet voice vibrant with
a amazed reproach.

Nh = LAMAR cried June. her
Wl sweet voice vibrant with
amazed reprOach.
Won't YOU forgive me?" he pleaded.
What was I 10 think: II all seemed
TO Mt in, with such horrible eXactness.
How else could I account for par. OF
the stolen note being found in your
roOm2 And your explanation seemed
so lame-sO unconvincing. The sim
pie truth often does, YOU know. Won't
you forgive me, please?"
"You-you doubted my Word?" muir
INJURED June. incredulously. You actu-
ally thought"
I'm so ashamed he broke in. "5ut
I paid for my mistake / never was
more hideously miserable I'm all my life
than ! was at my air castles-au my
dreams and ideals OF glorious woman.
nOOd-were crashing to fragments about
my ears. I'd have given my right arm
10 md myself mistaken. And. thank
God was mistaken Why. when I
saw that Yelled Woman standing look
ing at US, l could could have kissed
her; for giving me back my faith i'm
you. T.
Please don't say any more about it,"
said june, coldly, Il suppose your pro-
fessiOn makes you look with suspicion
on everyone. The law is supposed TO
believe people innocent, until guilt is
proved. But, with officers of the law.
il seems just the other way around.
You suspect me, because it's your pro-
fession to-
Neither my profession nor anything
else can make me suspect you again."
he urged vehemently. Tell me I'm
fOrgiven-thst l may call on you
that
But, womanlike, she would not sur
pleasure do you get from pursuing her
rUpted his plea TO say:
Mr.. Lamar. 1 don't mean to be i'm
pertinent, but why do you follow such
a profession? Is it a joy to track down
and capture sOciety's poor victims? For
instance, this Yelled Woman What
pleasure do 700 get from pursuing her
from turning her into hunted GRIM
inai? Why can't you let the miserable
creature rest in peace?'
His face had grown very grave as
she spoke With almost a note of So
lemnity in his voice he made reply:
Il know men who loved the man
hunt for the man-hunt's sake. 1t is not
so with me. 1t has never been so. You
ask what. pleasure / get in pursuing
criminals. in thwarting them. in making
the city safe from them. What pleas
ure' does the shepherd get from driv-
ing away the wolf from his sheepfold?
He is not by trade a hunter of wolves,
but a protector of sheep. So that the
sheep may sleep peacefully in their fold,
the shepherd spends cold and wakeful
nights on the hills. often at risk Of his
own life, to kill the wolf that menaces
his flock. We law enforcers are shep-
herds. So that honest folk may be
safeguarded, We spend our lives trail
ing human wolves that seek to prey on
them. That is my mission. Not as
sweet a mission as yours among the
poor and the unfortunate; but a life
that is not ignOble."
II think l understand now" an
swered June gravely, after a moments
silence. land 1 thank you for telling me.
See" she added. I'VE are at at my house
already. I thought the walk was longer.
Won't you come in?''
He wondered at the fervor of the
invitation. and at the worry that awoke,
deep down in her dark eyes. June was
in dire perpleKity. She wanted Lamar
10 come into the house; on the bare
chance that she might be able to alb
stract the coat he so zealously carried or
to exchange It for one of same general
appearance that she had bought two
years earlier In Paris. On the other
hand, she dreaded lest her mother should
/ see and recognize the coat and say some
thing that should reawaken his suspi-
cions. June did not know whether to
be sorry or glad when Max answered
regretfully:
81 wish + might come in. And Pm
going 10 call, just as soon as you'll let