Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-28
Continued from Last Issue.)

III independence Dis SOOll 90
- she reached her room. It
began with: I'm too old to have a
governessi'
Thanks" Miss Sidney snapped.
You're more than WELCOMED"
Gloria snapped back. 81 want one
thing understood. This is the last
time I'll stand being treated as a
child. I'm not one. At my age my
grandmother was the mother of my
father, and if you don't change your
treatment Of me I'm going to run
away and marry the first man
meet"
People who are always going to
do things never do them" said the
governess, with the primness of
copybook. but If you're so old and
wise suppose you prove it first by
doing your algebra lesson. It's very
simple
They never made my grand
mother learn algebra" Gloria pro-
tested.
They never taught her to run
an automobile either"
That's another thing. My brother
has a car of his own and l haven't
even a pushmobile. Half the girls
of my age have their own motors.
can run one as we'll as any of
them. It's a shame that my father
won't buy me one"
Perhaps if you learned your les
son he might reward you with
car"
This rainbow of hope brought the
end of the storm. Gloria beamed
and ran to slip out of her bathing
suit and into her luncheon frock.
The governess almost smiled as she
wrote the problem on the blackboard
she used for Gloria's lessons. When
Gloria came back Miss Sidney
pointed to the figures.
Its very simple, my dear" she
said. You have only to multiply
plus by plus b.
But"
Work it out yourself, dear, and
call me when it is finished"
Gloria stared at the problem and
felt herself slipping back into child
hood at breakneck speed. She had
no more idea of what it all meant
than a newborn babe. She put on
pair of big tortoise shell spectacles,
but they made her look younger
than ever and gave her no help. She
could see that foolish a plus b, but
she could not see why anyone should
want to know what would happen
if you did such a eDolish thing as to
multiply it by itself.
When the blackboard blurred be-
fore her eyes she moved to the win
dow and stared at the glittering mer-
riment of the crowd. Everybody
was at play except Gloria; people in
bathing suits, yachting flannels, golf
toys, tennis things, bicycle clothes,
motor gear. They streamed along
the walks, the sand, the piazzas, sat
in wicker chairs, or rolled along in
automobiles.
By and by Gloria saw Lois Free
man come in from the links. When
Dick Freneau sauntered up Lois de-
serted her father at once. Gloria
did not like the sway she ogled Mr..
r'reneau. Lois used the same lam
gushing expressions Gloria had seen
her working off on David.
Gloria wanted to run out and warn
poor Mr. Freneau that Lois was .
such lovely, trusting eyes; it was a
crime to lure him on. Gloria medi-
tated: "They say he's a broker
whatever that is. l wonder what
broker breaks-hearts probably, if
Mr.. Freneau is a sample. o dear,
this awful algebra"
She stood pouting at life in gen
eral and study in particular. She
turned back to her task and stood
in so melancholy a posture that
DR.. Royce, passing her window and
seeing her, paused to study her for
moment as if she were in painted
figure in a painted scene. He
thought she was painted splendidly
we'll She was so pretty that she
made his heart ache. 1t ached for
himself and then for her, the poor
little prisoner. He tapped on the
window
Gloria turned and recognized her
visitor. Her eyes twinkled with
affection. She did like DR..
Royce David had presented
him to her. DR.. Royce had grad
uated at David's college; they were
members of the same fraternity.
"You ought to be out in the sum-
DR.. Royce suggested.
Gloria was shocked at the idea.
She pointed to the blackboard: I'm
in Jail for a thousand years. 1t will
take me at least that long to do this
hateful problem"
Royce could not enter her room 20
go to the blackboard, so he asked her
to bring the blackboard to him.
She fetched it joyously and gave
him chalk and said: There isn't
any answer, though"
He was too polite to say, why,
this is the easiest thing in the
world but he showed that it was
for him by the speed and smiling
ease of his chalk work.
In moment the riddle was solved.
Gloria understood it a little less than
before, but it meant a release from
captivity, and she was so entranced
that she flung her arms about him
and gave him a resounding kiss and
called him "a wonderful, marvellous,
angel man.
. To her it was a kiss of childish
gratitude for the help of older WIS
dom. She hurried the blackboard
TO the easel and began to copy the
doctors neat figures in her own
scrawl.