Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11

her self-control 80
What do you want of me?" she
moved. '' %
He laughed, sat up, stretched out
poth arms with a sigh of satistac-
ton. The color came back to his
beds edge; and she stood erect and
stepped aside for him to rise.
no dlZzlness remained; he tried
ooth feet on the floor, Strengthened
hlmSelt, cast gaily malicious glance
at her, and slowly rose to his feet.
Scheherazade" he said, isn't it
hear of a would-be murderess and
her escaped victim being on such
cordial terms? Did your"
He was gong through a few calls
themes, gingerly, but with increasing
abandon, while he spoke.
! feel fine, thank you. L am en-
It's delightful paradox, this situa-
ton. It's absurd, it's enchanting, it's
incredible! There is only one more
thing that could make it perfectly
impossible. And I'm going to do it,
And he deliberately encircled her
waist and gissed her.
She turned white at that, and, as
he released her, laughing, took a step
or two blindly, toward the door;
stood there with one hand against it
as though supporting herself.
After few moments, and very
slowly, she turned and looked at
him; and that young man was scared
for the first time since their en-
counter in the locked house in Brook
hollow.
Yet in her face there was no anger,
no menace, nothing he had ever be-
fore seen in any Womans face,
nothing that he how comprehended.
Only, for the moment, it seemed to
him that something terrible was
gazing at him out of this girls fixed
eyeS-something that he did not re-
cognize as part of her-another being
hidden within her, staring out
through her eyes at him.
For heavens sake, ScheheraZade
-" he faltered.
She opened the door, still watching
him over her shoulder, Shrank
through it, and was gone.
He stood for full five minutes as
though stupefied, then walked to the
ships officer face to face, already
lifting his hand to knock for admit
lance.
Mr.. Neeland?" he asked.
Captain Vests compliments, and
he would be glad to see you in his
cabin
Thank you. My compliments and
thanks to Captain West, and L shall
call on him Immediately"
They exchanged bows; the officer
turned, hesitated, glanced at the
steward who stood by the port.
Did you bring a radio message to
Mr.. Neeland.
Yes SIR
yes, l received the message" said
Neeland.
THE captain requests you to bring
this message with you
with pleasure said Neeland.
SO the officer went away down the
corridor, and Neeland sat down on his
bed, opened the box, went over care
.uliy every item of it's contents, re-
locked it with a grin of satisfaction
and, taking it with him, went OH
to pay a visit to the captain of the
FOlhynia.
The bearded gentlemen in the state
room across the passage had been
listening intently to the converse
ton, with his ear fiat against his
keyhole.
And now, without hesitating, he
went to a satchel which stood or
the sofa in his stateroom, opened it
took from it a large bundle of papers
and a ten-pound iron scale-weight.
Attaching the weight to the papers
by means of a heavy strand of cop
per wire, he mounted the sofa and
hurled the weighted package into the
Atlantic Ocean.
"Pig-dogs of British" he muttered
in his golden beard, you may &c
dive for them when The Day dawns'
Then he filled and lighted a hand
some porcelain pipe, and puffed it
with stolid satisfaction, leaving the
pepper box silver cover open.
Der Tag" he muttered in his
golden beard: and his clear eyes
swept the starlit ocean with thc
pensive and terrifying scrutiny of a
waiting eagle.
Go Be Conttnued)