Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20

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CHAPTER KILT
Sizing Up Woman
p GU, you are Jean Colfax"'
Sadie stammered.

II MISS COlldX COulu IlOl
help smiling, there was
such abject embarrassment in Sa-
dies entire attitude, but the smile
quickly faded, for like Mr.. Phelps
and young Donahue, she disliked Sa
die Immediately. She felt that the
girl had a disagreeable nature and q
very unpleasant personality, and thai
this story had to do with revenge OF
something equally ugly.
Mrs. Howard, wiping her hands on
her apron, fastened to draw up q
chair before the table, and Miss Col
fax sat down.
ute" " she said aid bTriskiy. II Just want
to ask you few questions"
Sadie was thrilled. She did moi
care how late she was for the office
and she wouldn't have objected tc
answering questions all day. Here
she was being interviewed by the
great Jean Colfax, she would be fea-
tured as the woman who discovered
NeiTs wife, and, of course, there
would be all kinds of fattering ref
erences to her. How Sam would open
his eyes when he read the paper and
the neighbors would all stare at her
and whisper.
But Miss Colfax was disappoint-
ingly brief in her interview and tc
Sadie her questions were very
strange.
DO you know Mrs. Neil person
"Sure we do" interrupted Mrs
Howard. "She was an angel when
Jake was sick, and I'll never forget
it,"
Keep out Of this. ma" Sadie said
threateningly. This is my affair."
But instantly her face was wreathed
e,I1n n ri
Colfax, whose delicate brows had
suddenly come together in a frown
Mrs. Howard shrugged her shoul.
ders. She was used to impertinence
from her children, and took it as a
matter of course.
and why are you so eager for
Mrs. Neil to be found?" Miss ColfaS
asked crisply.
Aren't the police looking for
herr" Sadie returned quickly. AND
besides, I don't like her. never did,
she stopped, conscious that her tone
was becoming too bitter, but when
she thought of Harriets wide blue
eyes and perfect features her fury
was so great that she could have
borne to see. Harriet tortured. Per
haps some of this inward emotion
showed in her eyes. for those OF
Miss Colfax narrowed and she rose
suddenly.
udL ) ill, size Sdlu UIlShlys anu
thank you very much"
Sadie plucked up courage as she
saw her wonderful quarry about to
escape her.
when will the story appear?" she
asked eagerly, land will they want
my picture?"
Jean Colfax stared at the face OPP
posite hers for a. moment, and noted
every weak feature of it, the mean
little eyes, the bad complexion, the
Wispy mouse colored hair and the
narrow mouth with it's rather sly
expression. Jean wasn't a newspa-
per woman for nothing and she real
lied that. somewhere under this aw-
full exterior the girl before her was
starved for beauty and admiration
and the other things girls had in
abundance.
Shed betray any one or anything
for praise" thought Jean. tits
tragic"
Aloud she said, "The story won't
We'll let you know If we need a pho
tograph."
Sadie turned to her mother as the
door closed on Miss Colfax's trim
back sort of up-stage, isn't she?'
she remarked, "and 1 must say her
clothes weren't much"
Mrs. Howard was wiping away a
her mothers arm down Roughly.
Now what's the matter with
your"
Mrs. Howard broke out into sobs
at this. I'm sorry you did it, Sadie.
to that woman. 1t sounded so sorta
cruel while you was talkin, and
somehow I just can't help feelin'
sorry for Mrs. Neil.'