Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-15


time and for weeks he laid it to tragic
chance. the same chance which had placed
in Dicks hand the warning letter that had
brought him west. But as time went on the
an, with her tired, dispirited voice and her
ash-colored hair streaked with gray, assumed
other proportions, doomed large ana mVs-
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There were times when he wished that
some prescience of danger had maze MIN
Throttle her then and there so she could not
have raised her shrill, alarming voice Bpt
The had no warning. All he saw was woman
lin a washed-oTt blue calico dress and a Iresn
white apron raising injurious eyes to ms:
II suppose it's all right if she sits IN the
half" Bassett inquired still fighting his los
ling fight. "She can go IN II ne SUITS
| :Right-o" said the doctor, who had been
/ to France and who brought nome some BTU
ish phrases. - ,,4,
alone. The game was up ana ana ne k tr;nd. ~;
Sooner or late -. In a way he trled"to
defend himself to himself. He had done MS
best There was still chance
He was conscious of something strange as
he entered the lobby. me consIaple was
gone and there was no clerk behind the desk.
At the foot of the stairs stood group OF
guests and loungers, looking up, while bell
boy barred the way.
Even then Bassetts first thought was of
| fire He elbowed his way to the toot OF lne
stairs and demanded to be allowed TO go up
but he was refused.
"'In few minutes" said the boy. "No need
| of excitement" -
+ els it fire." 1t
IT don't know myself I've got my orders.
That's all"
| wilkins came hurrying in. The crowd ST.
lent and respectful before the law, opened 10
let him through and closed behind him.
Bassett stood at the foot of the stairs look
ing up. 49,.
no Elizabeth the first days of Dicks abb
! sence were unbeievably dreary. She
"a seemed to live only from one WISH OIL
I the postman to the next. -"
: That part of her grieved sorely, ana spent
itself in small comforting actlons ana httte
caressing touches on bowed heads ana grleI-
stooned shoulders. 1t put away J1ms clotn-
| ing, and kept immaculate the room wnere
now her mother spent most of her waking
hours. .., -.
I But the other part of her was not there at
all. It was off with Dick in some mysterious
place of mountains and vast distance, called
Wyoming. ,. ~
} cause she felt that her loyalty to her people
fhad wavered because she knew that already
she had forsaken her father and her mother
and would follow her love through the rest
of her life, she was touch1ngly anxious TO
comfort and to please them. -,
"She's taking Dicks absence very hard'f
Mrs Wheeler said one night, when she had
kissed them and gone upstairs to bed. she
worries sometimes.
J "She'll be all right he said aloud.
He got UP and whistled for the dog.
.'I'Il take him around the block before
lock up he said heavily.
He lay awake for a long time that night,
wondering whether he and Dick had been
quite fair to Elizabeth. She should he
thought, have been told. Then, If Dicks APP
prehensions were justified, she would nave
had some preparation. AS it was-suppose
something turned up out there, somethlnS
that would break her heart? o.,
/ He had thought Margaret was sleeplngr
but after time she moved, and slipped her
hand into his 1t comforted him. That, too,
was life Very soon now they would be alone
together again, as in the early days before
the children came. All the years and the
struggle, and then back where they started.
But still thank God, hand in hand.
Ever since the night of Jim's death Mrs.
Sayre had been constant visitor to the
house She came in, solid, practical, and
with an ry-day manner neither forcedly
made her very welcome.
She was kindly woman, and she had
ached with pity. And, because of her usual
detachment from the town and it's affairs, the
feeling that she was being of service gave heT
a little glow of content. She liked the fam
lily, too, and particularly she like EllzaoetlN
But after she had seen Dick and Elizabeth to41
| gether once or twice she felt that no plan
! she might make that would solve the problem
for Wallace could possibly succeed. Lying on
the old leather couch that first night, betweeh
her frequent excursions among the waking
family, she had thought that out and aban~
doned it.
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