Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-19
A WOMAN OBSESSED
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER TK

II ELIGHTED to get Off so easily, grateful :
| to Muriel for her forbearance and feel
49, ing little guilty also. Bruce was very
tender and gentle at breakfast. When he left
he said he would get tickets for a new play
for that evening, MurieI made no objection.
she had been quiet, but that was her usual
manner.
Tom Mason told him Ann was not feeling
very we'll. He said she {ried>to do too much.
Immediately Bruce thought of Lulu and his
determination TO speak to Ann. He left the
office with Tom and drove him home in his
roadster. -
Wont you come in, Conway? Ann VIII
be glad to see you.
For minute, yes.
After chatting while he asked:
ANN. didnt 1 hear you complaining once
that you could get no one to help you-do
plain seWing?"
"Y3s / guess you did. It's almost impossi-
BILE to find anyone willing to sew
Would you try girl who has no expert
but who needs work?
'Of course [ would if she can sew. I'd be
delighted to-"
Bruce was bit embarrassed but he went
on carelessly as he could:
"A girl came to me for room, Miss
Hammond. She wants work and | thought
perhaps you might use her"
Send her along or tell me where she lives
and I'll send for her. I'm ever so grateful,
Bruce. for thinking of me. I'm tired out and
if she is at all capable it will be great relief.
l wish you could stay to dinner, but l suppose
Mrs. Conway expects you" 49,
Eyes, / must be going. This is Miss Ham
mond's address," he scrubbed it on card and
laid it on the table.
Had he been wise? Would Muriel hear OF
his interest in Lulu because of what he had
done? He was almost tempted to go back and
ask Tom and Ann not to mention his part. in
the matter, then flushed as what they might
think If he did come into his mind. Muriel
saw little of them and held herself so aloot
shat no harm was likely to come of it. He de-
cided to say nothing. Lulu might not suit
Ann. But he had kept his promise to try
help her. a0"
Before he went home he called Lulu she
surprised him by telling him she had at last
found job.
sure 1 make good I'm trying to fix up
my clothes so I'll make good appearance"
Got all you need, Lulu?'
Eyes, I think can get along"
eff not call on me"
Turning back Bruce told Ann he had met
Miss Hammond, that she had a position and
wouldn't be able to come to her. II thought
| would come back and save you the trouble
of writing he added.
Just my luck, Ann walled, but thank
you just the same, Bruce"
why didn't wait day" Bruce grumbled
to himself, but soon forgot all about Ann in
his delight that Lulu, unassisted has found
something to do.
She'll make good or I miss my guess, he
said as he reached home, tickets for the show
in his pocket sat
And two more people knew of his interest
in Lulu Hammond. fsT
All day it had insistently been in Murie's
mind that Bruce had deceived her. All day
she had thought of the dark-haired Lulu
Hammond as the cause When she honestly
tried to think Bruce never had lied to her
something seemed to whisper. He did last
night"
She was actually unhappy, yet for the first
time she tried to hide her feelings from
Bruce. She must know if he had deliberately
lied TO her. III else receded before this one
idea. He WAS late for dinner, but she asked
no questions, neither did she speak Of any
thing to disturb him, before they started for
the theater. The play an enjoyable COM
edy Bruce laughed heartily and turned to
her for appreciation.
cts very amusing" she said in answer to
his look the curtain was lowered
Il thought you would enjoy 1T" he replied,
and if she wished he were a little more DEM
onstrative he thought it was only her quiet
way and made no remark He was too glad
to have had such peaceful evening to be
critical. Hopeful always, he thought perhaps
Murel was coming around" at last, as he
put 1T. He wanted to believe that she had
made up her mind to be more amiable and he
wondered if he dared propose having Tom and
Ann and few others for dinner some night
soon. They all had been so kind and he had
done so little in return really nothing at ALL,
AS they left the theater he proposed bite
of supper at a nearby restaurant. Usually
Muriel objected, saying she would rather have
something after they reached home. But she
made no objections and again he thought,
she's going to be different She sees she
has been wrong"
Muriel herself could hardly have explained
her acquiescence, yet she realized she had'a
dim hope that she would confirm her siIs-
pcions or dispel them. However. Mr. Long
worth, his wife and Elizabeth were the only
people in the room Bruce seemed to know.
Muriel flushed angrily as she noted the friend
ly way Elizabeth responded to Bruce's greet
ing. Perhaps it had been Miss Longworth,
not Miss Hammond, he had been with.
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