Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-01
Continued from Last Issue.)

! N I'VE years was long time LOT
II Gloria; but not so long as she told
- herself Her girl soul did not feel
the emotional demands of a grown woman
She could put Freneau picture on her
bureau and find satisfaction in paying 1t
/ worship.
/ In the school she had discovered a
new world. She fought her way to the
fcaptaincy of a basketball team as If 1t
We're the presidency of an Amazonian
republic She learned to fence well and
to box a little. She even took an IN
terest in some of her text books
She thought she was very wicked, but
she did nothing more vicious than hold
chatting dish orgy now and then in her
room And even there some teacher was
sure to hear the muffied laughter and
march in sternly and march all the girls
/ to THERE own rooms. But the seVerest
teachers found it hard to frown into
Gloria's smiling eyes.
Many and many time she told to her
breathless girl audiences the blood
curdling story of her narrowing
experience in the everglades and
the tremendous glory of her res
cuer's valor The magnitude of FIRE.
neau's feat may have grown a little
with retelling. but his photograph was
always convincing proof to the envious
audience.
| Gloria had few sorrows of Importance,
beyond the occasional disappointment her
examination records gave her. The chief
of her disappointments was her broth
er's marriage to Lois. She never had
liked Lois and had never understood her
charm.
Lois had taken little interest in win
ming the approval of women. She had
played a part in winning even David 5
serious interest. She never cared for
him. but she could not resist the wealth
and prestige of his name. She was bit
/ terly disappointed in him when after the
honeymoon was over he expressed his
unwillingness to live on his fathers
money and vowed tthat he would earn
his own way by his own energy. Tho
life of travel and gayety that Lois had
planned was taken from her. She drift
led in the maelstrom of men and women
whose one hunt was pleasure, whose
career was killing time. Freneau was
Lois type to T.
Gloria had a stanch little heart and
she kept her word to her father. She
kept faith. too, with her fiance five years
removed. She fell into the habit of
talking to his photograph. When she
was tempted to forget that she was a
solemnly betrothed young person, she
would find strength in his image to De
austere and to deny herself many of the
| gayeties of the school or of her compan-
ions i'm the gorgeous resting places
where she spent her vacations.
1t was a quaint and bitter irony that
the eyes in Freneau's photograph should
have had SO pious an infuenre, while
| his own eyes were devoted TO casting
such evil spells.
! Unconsciously Lois revenged her hus-
band on Frenau, for while Frenau was
causing Lois to forget her duties to the
partnership she had entered into with
David Stafford her destinations led FIRE.
nau to neglect his duties to his part
nership with Frank Mulry. He spent
! time and money on Lois that should
I have been devoted to the intricate STRAIT
j a gems-not to say ,treasons and spOils-
/ of Wall street.
He and Mulry in the flush of their
| early successes had spread out--had
| established branch offices in Albany,
\ Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, st
\ Louis and Pittsburg. While the tide
\ set their way these branches served as
so many hands to gather in shekels. But
when the hard times came upon the
financial world they served as so many
mouths to feed The office of Frenau &
Mulry became one of those dismal places
where the pay roll is a weekly agony
and where the watchword is everything
| going out and nothing coming in
| She naturally imputed his neglect to
/ some other charmer. She could not be-
lieve him guilty of overwork- She grew
! jealous and their meetings were stormy.
| She kepth is telephone busy to make
i sure that he was at his desk. She be-
1 of her, but she would not be Tilted.
1t was during this crisis that Gloria
i marked off the last month of her five
/ ears ordeal. She was ambitious enough
J to go on and finish her course and get
her diploma. She compressed her last
year of school into half year and
/ graduated all alone in midwinter.
/ She dashed into her room at college
4 for the last time, with her solemn NOR
1 tarboard askew on her head, her somber
black gown flying from her shoulders
and in her hand her parchment diploma
Il lin Latin that she could nearly trans
\ late). She looked like a little Portia
1 for moment.
She threw her diploma in air and her
mortarboard after it. She whipped off
her black robe and began to juggle
books, letting them fall where they fell
| She danced a jig over her scholarly
| past and made haste to pack her things
and dart out to meet her future. ERE
neau" was her spelling of Future"
The journey to New York from school
was as long as the journey to New
DIRK from Palm Beach had been years
ago; only then she had been travelling
away from her romance, now toward it
When her father met her at the train
she Rugged him almost to suffocation,
then asked him how dear Mr.. Freneau
was the last time he saw him.
THE last time / saw dear Mr.. Ere
neau was at Palm Beach," said Pier
pont, who had almost forgotten his
name and had hoped that Gloria had
forgotten it entirely.
AS soon as she reached the house
on Riverside drive and embraced the
old servants and shook hands with the
new, Gloria took her father into HE
library and asked him for Mr.. Freneau's
telephone number. She had found Ere
neau & Mulry' in the book already,
and she said, do you suppose that Mr.
Mulrys Freneau is my Mr.. Freneau?'
Il don't know, I'm sure" Pierpont
grumbled. But il wouldn't be very cor
rect to telephone a busy man. would
it?"
81 suppole not" Gloria admitted.
where's a pen? I'll write him.
How long has it been since you
wrote him last?' said Pierpont anx-
! iously.
why, I've never written him at all.
Gloria answered, shocked. II promised