Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-31
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone befOre-Courtney Her
rington induces Larry GrenvilIe to marry
him, just after she has discovered that Tom
Ransome, the man she really loves, is I'M
worthy. Lorry does not love her husband,
and his love for her is so intense that it
frightened her. After her marriage she
still yearns over Tom, and the knowledge
that she is to become a mother fills her
with rebellion. When Courtney realizes
that he has failed to win his wifes love-
he shuts his love up in his heart, and
for time Lorry is happier.-NOw go on
with the story.
CHAPTER XXVI
Coralie's Wedding
v ORRY gave a luncheon for Coralie. It
took place three days before the we'd
~ ding, and after that there was the
wedding itself, with Coralie, radiant and
pink, checked in the traditional white satin,
and Lorry as matron of honor in the palest
lemoncolored satin, carrying purple liIacs
Ahead of Lorry there trailed six brides
maids in shell pink with rainbow bououets
Of sWeetpeas 1t was a charming wedding,
even to the April shower that occurred
just before it was time to start for the
church, after which the sun came out
brighter than ever and everything looked
fresher and more spring-like because of it.
But after the wedding was over and Cora
lie had departed on her honeymoon, Lorry's
Coralies face just before she had left for
the train. COralies eyes so filled with hap
Ply dreams, and her gay smile that softened
into tremulousness whenever she encoun-
tered Jim's proud look\
COralie would come bbck from her we'd
ding trip happier and more assured than
she had been when she went away. Coralie
was so sure Of everything, sure of her hap
p1ness, secure in her choice of husband,
while she, Lorry, what had she to look for
md to- i
for nothing but disappointment.
Her nervousness returned and with it
the old dread of Courtney that had been
missing in the last few weeks In her
nervousness she began to construe things
In her mind to magnify trifles and at
night She often woke out of a sound sleep
to lie shiyering in the dark for what seem
ed hours. Courtney always stalked through
her dreams, and always he was just about
to swOop down on her. These dreams she
carried with her into her waking hours,
and she came to believe that his extraordi-
nary tenderness, his gentle consideration
would not last. Sooner or later he would
snatch her up in his arms, he would kiss
her lips in the old insistent way, and she
began to wish that she need not see him
at all.
She had taken to breakfasting after he
left for the office in the morning, but there
was always dinner to look forward to, din
ner and the long evening.
True to the promise he had made to
himself, Courtney no longer the lover,
he was not even the husband He was
trying his best to be nothing to his wife
but an interesting friend. This had not
been so difficult at first, for then Lorry
mad given him response of a kind She
had chatted to him of her social affairs,
She mad made an effort to play up to him
put after Coralie's departure she sat
through dinner listless and silent, eating
very little Often Courtney's hands clench1
ed under the table in his effort to keen
from looking at her He longed to take
her IN his arms, to comfort her, to hold
her tenderly against his breast. Sometimes
the faint perfume that emanated from her
as she passed him went to his head like
wine, and the old Courtney. the insistant
IoVer' returned, and had to be fought and
conquered.
. One evening after a particularly long and
trying meal Courtney told Lorry that he
had been called away on business He was
leaving the next day, and he suggested
that Lorry ask some one to come and stay
with her. To his dying day he would never
forget the look of incredulous wonder that
she turned upon him. 1t was so, he FAM
cied, that a prisoner would look upon re-
prieve from a sentence received perhaps at
the last moment, when all hope was gone
He felt that he would go mad if/Ye con-
tlnued to gaze into those suddenly glad eyes
but almost Immediately the look in them
changed, and burning flush crept up to
the roots of her hair. She was conscious
that that he must have seen how enthusi-
and Lorry was not cruel, she did not want
to hurt him unnecessarily
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