Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-01
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~ by Mr.. AND NRS RUPERT EJG IBEi5 S G : a5o1ts

the living room and felt her old lonel1-
mess come back upon her Her task was
/ done and was of no more use to the
world, for, of course, her father had
pointed out to her that her project to
take the funds to Poland in person was
a beautiful impossibility. There were
several million soldiers between her and
Poland, and the price of the voyage, even
| il she could make it, would buy several
thousands of lOaves of bread.
She was in so forlorn a humor that
when DR. Royce took a chair close to
her and poured forth his praises, she &C
cepted them hungrily. He was encour-
aged to the widest hopes by her re-
Spouse and he kept launching his chair
closer and closer.
His head was almost touching hers
when her father had come into the room
with the proceeds of the festival. There
were baskets of bills and boxes Of coin
and the total was thousands of dollars.
| Royce fell back disheartened. He had
forgotten how rich Gloria was. and how
poor in comparison was even his success.
FIe had been on the point of telling her
how long and how deeply he had loved
her, but he felt that such a declaration
would only be a presumptuous folly.
| Gloria could not read his thoughts
but she knew that he had suddenly chill
then she knew how much she missed
him. She was tempted to fall Ill again
so that she might summon him to walt
upon her once more. But her health.
which had broken down when she was
! in the first flush of her affair with
Freneau (for affair" was what she call
ed 1t now, held up splendidly when she
1 'elt sick at heart and weary of life.
For some reason which he did not
= t. NCc
was artificial-Dr Royce happened to
drop in at the country place a few days
later The fact was that he could neither
endure the lack of Gloria nor find a
plausible reason for calling. So he called
and mumbled his reason inarticulately.
| He talked very earnestly about nothing
at all and kept saying that he must go,
but did not go. At length he really
started and Gloria felt that she was
| being marooned once more on the dull
waste of life. So she pretended to swoon
He heard her little gasp and saw her
topping over on a carefully selected soft
spot. He ran to her in great alarm,
tried her pulse and found it normal
chafed her hand and found it warm. He
was bewildered. The symptoms and the
condition did not iibe.
Gloria opened one eye and watched
him unbeknownst He let go her hand
and walked the floor.
She sat up in disgust. demanding
Don't you know what is the matter with
me?"
He shook his, head meekly.
| She cast her eyes up in despair and
said I'm afraid you're too stupid q
doctor to keep in the family. Good-by!
"In the family?' he stammered, won
dering why she said just that. Did you
say in the familyH"
She looked at him with despair in her
eyes and nodded her head.
81 said in the family!" she said.
And, "Oh!" said he.
Then he stared at her so hard that
she closed her eyes and did not see the
change come over his face from be-
wilderment to an eager guess, to rap
turous hope, and reckless courage. She
did not even see him seize her in his
arms and kiss her. But she was well
aware that he did. And she had wo
manly intuition that romance, instead OF
being ended for her, had just begun.
THE END.