Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-01

: contented with yo and-Annle.' Ills
hesitation was so slight before her
| panied by a slight flush, something
very unusual with him and always
| noticeable because he was naturally
rather pale, | should not have given
should flush and hesitate before
speaking her name.
Can it be he would rather she
weren't with US and hates to say
| diculous in view of the way he act
terest in her music. But I would
speak of it when we were alone. 1t
was his home and his privilege to
| say who should live in it.,
After Annie had gone to her room
l preached the subject:
Annie here? ~ acted so queer
when you spoke OF being content
with me and her. J couldn't help
rather be alone, would YOU dear
Don't hesitate to say so If YOU fee!
that way"
What in the world are you driv-
ing at, Olive? What has happened
that could have given you such an
ried people would have without An
ME. Get that notion out of your
head at once"
Then, as if he feared he had been
too emphatic he added: Her mu-
sic alone should make her welcome
company she is for you"
Il should miss her dreadfMly, but
I want you to be-happy."
Then keep Annie here as long
as she will stay" he said brusquely
as he switched off the light.
Chapter III
n S THE Gays passtG l sreW more
~ .tau more ABSORBED In my Worn,
N gave 1T more OF my TINS, anu
brought more nome to 40 eve
..4....a. Annie laughed at me.
'-Y4ce d business woman alW"yS
| one. / guess, OnVe. L don't believe
you would be really happy even III
| your lovely nome, IL you uIofl go ~
| that class every day. Watch out OF
frank VIII, get jealous. II was al
! ways Frank ana annie now.
NO. He'll not be jealous. he
| hasn't that disposition. leC as l
| said 1t there came to my nina The
! way he acted d Gay or TWO before
| " nen Mr.. hart ana another gentle
/ man had called. He mad almost
suIAed. But not until they had ap-
/ peared to ue Interested i'll Annie.
What allied me? L wondered. 1t
! couldn't be L was the jealous one.
| That l was becoming jealous OF An
| dismissed IL at once. L loved All
! nle, and she loved me. 1t WASH
| strange that frank was careful 1of
| ner, and wanted her 10 receive onIy
| the attention OF which he approved
I-vet-LaWrenCe Hart was his friend
! and as lar as / had been able TO see
/ irreproachable i'll his actions.
Annie was doing splendidly in her
: work. Her salary again mad been
, raised She was WORKING hard with
| ner music and often said laugninsiy
| that when she tired OF bonds anu
stocks she might try musical COM
tidy for q change. This always
brought q very storm OF protest
she is TOO pretty. All the stage
Johnnies would be running after
her"
Annie could take care of herself, "
| | returned.
No girl as attractive, as pretty
as she IS, can be safe with men OIL
the type who hang, around stage
doors pursuing them.
lone would think you were IN love
with ner yourself and that instead
of Pleading away every day IN d
bond house she was already Oil
Broadway"
Again l noticed that slow flush
creep over his face, gone in mo-
menC as he replied.
Don't talk nonsense, Olive.
About this time it became the or
binary thing for Annie and Franz
to come home together. The first
time | noticed it L said carelessly:
How did you two happen TO come
| at the same time"
~ knew it was about Annie's time
to leave the office, SO L watched for
her in the subway" Frank quickly
replied, then added: II am obliged to
lemain at the office now later than L
used to-" The last was in tone
very near Apologize.
Ii -
in together, usually laughing and
talking gayly. Often [ would be work
ing hard over my work for the next
day. whipping my lecture into shape
or trying to lind ways of 1mpresslng
some certain point upon my students,
At such times l would quietly so on
with my work while Annie and he
sought their respective rooms handy
ing gay words at parting. At other
times l would run out and join them.
Occasionally it came to me with a
shock that Annie was growing love
lier every day. The shock principally
because of her parentage or what
she believed to be her parentage.
spoke of it to Frank.
81 must take it up. She's no more
one of those Fagins as she describes
them than you are. Have you noticed
ne5, tiny hands and feet. her features,
too? They aren't even Irish, let alone
Faglnish. | must try to locate that
precious pair"
| was delighted. Frank never be-
fore had shown much interest in An
nie's parents. I wondered if she had
said anything to him. [ started to
ask. then stopped. Someway | did
| not talk as much of Annie to Frank
| as l did at first. But just the same
| I was pleased to have him interested
| tt clear up any mystery there Nigh;
| be about her.
| "AccoTdinc, +o hnr dissertation thew
were awful, and surely they were
Irish with that name"
'They can't have disappeared So
| completely that well-directed search
won't locate them. I will have hel
| tell me their last address and Their
| I'll go to work"
The next day when they came If
| they were not laughing as usual, but
were earnestly talking together.
went out to meet them.
ooh, Olive. I saw him today"
"Saw wh0?"
MY father-Fa gin"
did you follow him? Do you know
where he lives?"
''No 1t YVES just as / was return
| ing to the Office from lunch. He was
on q car on the rear and L saw hin
| plainly
Wen find him soon if he is il
New York" Frank told US. 81 wa;
| afraid they have moved away. The!
may have and driftcd back. That sor
| usually do"
cHAFrER LII
z WONDER il other women hdv'
ever had just the same feelings
= the same emotions which ofte.
possessed me. II in the ntIs
oG what you had hoped would 10
brightness and happiness you were
suddenly confronted by specie
which determinedly followed you.
m n i[a ma
other girls who are brought Up rs
had been, suffering loss through the
war; doing the work which conston nj
ly brought death and pain near. We
slowly L realized that something wa!
missing in my married life: scmu
thing so elusive I had not yet given
it a name, vet which, if it did no
| make me LnhanpN took mucL Of IL