Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

I bands survival, Resale had planted
deeper the thorny growths of tor
| turing doubt. To these she mad
added the ranking weed of self-re-
proach, for possible disloyalty, Tor
| spiritual unfaithfulness.
She had nipped in the bud any pos
sibility of Nora accepting adm1rlng
attentions from Newton Findlay, or
of returning his growing interest
in the natural fashion that such in
terest grows.
self-reproachful, indifferent-as the
strength of her real loyalty would
permit.
Nor was there any danger that
this sense of obligation to the one
| passed on would be permitted to
grow less-not unless Rosalie's keen
cold wits forgot their cunning.
Perhaps it is already too late to
rescue Resale from the part of mel
odramatic lady villain into which she
has seemingly been swept by the
current of events above narrated;
It's only fair to try. for really
she was nothing of the kind-at leas'
not consciously. She was, or thought
| she was, what she had formerly
really been, Morals best friend--one
who would not harm her, who only
her doubly dangerous.
| Against conspicuous, not to say
blatant yillainy, average intelligence
| and a common school education is
| usually quite adequate defense.
| A sense of humor, also, is sword
and 5buckler against those who glory
| in their hate.
But how may one suspect the
enemy one knows to be a friend?
The kindly pat on the back-nelther
| girl was demonstrative-the clear,
unshadowed friendship in Rosalie'S
|
| these were not stimulated. Had they
been so, rest assured, Nora would
have known it.
Rosalie had liked Nora from the
beginning and did so still. Reserved
and self-reliant, she admired these
qualities in her companion. She re-
lingness to accept, without full
proof, assurance of things not in &C
cordance with law and nature, as
she knew them, As >! compared wi WIZ
which the young leader Of cult
came so frequently in contact, this
mental balance and insistence on
full proof were welcome and re-
freshing.
Had Morals skepticism indicated.
obstinacy or a narrow inability 70
accept possibilities Of wider knowl-
edge, there would have been no
friendship. But Rosalie's keen pene-
trat1On detected Nora real os'Sol
ness for the truth-its vital import
No fear but that Nora could be
kept altogether faithful.
"And she should be-" Here, at
last, is Rosalie's justification FOR her
own intention to play the part OF
My Lady Destiny. -
"They loved each other and gave
themselves, each to the other. How
can Nora know that Roger does not
claim her? She urged him to the
chance he took.
"That he would have taken it in
any case does not lessen her respon-
sibility. Nora has life at least. Her
good faith is not too much to leave
with Roger, forbidden by fate to
taste the cup of love when it was
lifted to his very lips"
Cold, hard and stern as her doc
trine stood, it is possible that Ro-
sale would have applied it ,to. her
self At least. she quite believed
she would. She was right, she
thought, in demanding as much from
Nora.
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