Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-27
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| Royce studied her with uneasy adj
miration: her father. tossed his hands
in despair
| Royce thought a moment, then beck
oned to Gloria and said Come with
me-"
Gloria followed him out wondering
! ly.
Entering the corridor Of the build
| ing. Royce pressed the elevator button
marked: up" He guided Gloria into
car that stopped for them. 1t was an
express and shot them UP to the for
tieth floor. Alighting, Royce led her
out to the roof. 1t was surrounded by
a high wall, but a carpenters ladder
CHANGED to be there, and Royce set it
up that Gloria might mount and see
across the parapet.
| Wonderingly. Gloria allowed Royce to
help her up. She shuddered as she look
ed down into the depths of the vast
| canyons Then, in great seriousness,
Royce spoke He stood on the ladder
with her and pointed in circle, begin
ming at the east and turning south, then
west, then north, as he spoke:
| you say you saw a man kill Freneau!
| l say it was delirium. If 1t were true,
you don't know his name, his country, or
his motive: you would hardly know his
face if you saw him again. No one
knows who he is. He may have taken
q ship across the ocean yonder. If he
is in that city, among those millions,
how can you hope to find him? Look!'
The marvellous eXpanse of the harbor,
the rivers and bridges, and finally the
enormous city, terrified Gloria, but she
pounded her little fist on the parapet and
shook it at the infinite sky above her in
registration of her vow.
"I'll find him somehow! Somewhere!
Some when!'
Royce started at her and loved her
more than ever, hopelessly, helplessly.
She leaned on the parapet and gazed
off into space.
CHAPTER XXI.
Aroused from it's winter sleep,
Davids country house was aglow
with good cheer Gloria, her IA
ther. DIR. Royce and David and Lois had
come up to play for a little, to throw
OF the family tragedy and the formal
Guties Of their city life. and to forget
> them boisterously in the open.
! For men and women resting in the
shadow of a crime they behaved
strangely like children turned out in
the yard to play after rainy days i'm
Drisonment. They ran through the
house shouting hilariously to one an
other as they found their skates and
wraps for a trip to the frozen swim
ming pool. The dogs added greatly t.
the excitement by loud barkings OF
"Ccme on OUT and by remark able giAt
.Gr getting in the way.
No one played harder than Gloria. She
was trying to convince the others tina
; she had put the mourning off her ninc
az we'll as hel body She wanted Il
! find out what ier people were concea-'
ing from her. and Why.
} The Stafford family lark was soon in
, vaded by neighbors. A toboganninl
party from another country house ap
} peared. There were no invitations oil
only mumbled words, for ceremony haC
no place among flying snowballs. ant
dignity could not he kept up after q
bump on the ice. ~ ~,
, Gloria found herself the victim Of
the attentions of a large, jovial mar
whose playfulness was little too
: heavy for her liking. She was about t.
! snub him when someone casually al
} luded to him as Frank Mulry.
Gloria staggered in the snow at meet
!, ing thus by chance the man she haC
} tried in vain to overtake in town. Null
~, never imagining who she was
thought that she had slipped on the icy
, snow; he put out his hand to catch her
| MulrN was always ready Tor HHlallOu
) Preparedness was Mulry's motto.
Gloria studied him a moment. Thii
was the partner of her murdered lover
lie was too amiable of mien to be &C
cusable of such a crime. She acquitted
: him of wishing to do away with Fren
eau. In fact, the papers said tina
: Freneau's death had nearly wrecked tn
! firm. Nulry did not look bankrupt
Gloria did not know that her father haC
given large sum of money to Freneal
few days before his death and tina
MGlry was living on that.
There was shifty fiippancy in
, Mulry's eyes and manner that
made Gloria. distrust him. She felt
| a little added distrust of her dead
!. lover for having such a man as a part
? ner. The hateful proberb about birds
of a feather" ran through her mind Xix
: a tune. In any case. here at last wa
the man she sought, and she was lmpa
tient to question him. There were 10
= many people on the crest of the hill t
permit fconverastion there. SO 81
/ dared him to a toboggan ride.
He accepted She got aboard and h
z steered. They swooped like descend
ing airship. But at the foot of the hill
} the toboggan careened and slid then
) deep into the drift before it capsized.
; Mulry, for all his bulk, was agile an
he was soon helping Gloria to her feet.
THANK you million times, Mr.. Mui