The Washington times., 1922-10-20

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Sundter, ,oealthiest man Of the
South, Us told to Martha Randolph,
o. the Atlanta Georgian.
News Service and the GeorEian
Company.
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CHAPTER vi.
ATLANTA. Ga, Oct. 2O.-Of
course I knew nothing of these
subterranean attacks of the
Gambler family while 7 awaited
Mr. Gambler in Reno, other than
the news he sent me in his letters.
They perturbed me the, very
slightest. l had implicit conf
dence in Mr.. Gamblers character.
l believed him firm of purpose
and honorable of intent. Believ-
ing those things, could see little
to worry about.
Then on the morning after he
was supposed to have left At
lanta for Reno, l received a tele-
gram from him. He simply in
formed me that eventualities had
prohibited his leaving Atlanta at
that time, told me to be of good
cheer, and expressed undying
affection.
Fatal Letter Comes.
This telegram was followed by
letter. That letter contained the
dynamite that tore to shreds the re-
gard 1 had for Mr.. Candler's char.
acter and opened my eyes to the
depths to which my foes wo1ld'
descend to forward their conspiracy.
Mr.. Gamblers letter told me that
he had received information from
source he could not question, which
made 1t impossible for me to ever
be the mistress of the Gambler home.
He professed that his heart was
broken. He declared that he did not
believe the reports. He asserted.
however. that they had been broad
casted over Atlanta and that thfs
Aperson would preclude by ever being
received socially IN the city that he
practically owned. He pleaded that
he was acting for my happiness, that
he couldn't bear to bring me to At
lanta to see me snubbed and insulted.
What manner of a man he con-
ceived himself to be who would
permit his wife to be inSuIted or
snubbed, I can't imagine, but that
was his pitifuI plea, the wall OF the
weakling. I know then that the
man had promised to Join in
wedlock was not the strong, virile
character I had so fondly imagined.
but q senile jellyfish. who either
wouldn't or couldn't fight for the
things and the woman he professed
to love.
OF course, I was enraged. When
was first told of the Gambler
objections to our marriage I had
hastened to urge Mr.. Gambler to
had written him that 1t was broken.
You are cruel" he wrote me.
while pledging his undying love
and loyalty.
Again when he wrote me that his
family was making my life hell
on earth" answered that I
thought It best that we see no more
of each other.
Pleaded for Love.
Again he wrote pleading for my
love and companionship. And now
when had acceded to his requests.
TO had been haned practically on
ais way tc the altar by an inform
III L.
his or her identity.
wrote Immediately demanding
iohe name of my accuser and the
nature of the accusation. Mr..
Gambler finally wrote an abologetic,
half-hearted letter in which he said
the information had been given him
by q person under pledge Of secrecy,
and that he could not violate this
pledge, as though a man who had
Violated the pledge to the woman
who had consented to become his
wife couldn't violate a word given to
a miserable and anonymous and per.
jured spy and informer.
The information, though, he said.
was that while was in Atlanta
attending the Confederate reunion I
had invited two travelling men to
come 70 my rooms in the Piedmont
hotel for immoral purposes.
b.. The Ignomy or II.
Imagine the ignomy Of it-and the
absurdlty. The lady named by
General Van Zandt, commander-in
chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, to guard over the fairest
girls of the Southland, who had been
made the sponsors and maids to lend
the beauty and charm to this gather.
hg of the heroes of the gray; this
lady, surrounded night and day 10y
girls and matrons, by badged and
uniformed cavaliers of the highest
social station in the South. had gone,
ont of her way to. solicit two travel
ing men to see her clandestinely In
n hotel that was crowded to suffoca-
tion In rooms that were never oc-
cupied by less than four persons at
one time.
And this was the sort OF infor-
mAtion( that a man who had been
hbnored by my acquaintanceship
had been willing TO accept as strong
enough to break ties, which he
told me were dearer to him than
life itself. =