Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-27

He becomes cool and she assumes he
married her for her money. She be-
comes very jealous of her husbands
attentions to Mrs. Ruth williams.
wealthy patient. Althea meets Ken
meth Moore and his gaiety attracts her.
Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER NXXVI
a S always when impulse ran away with
~ her Althea regretted her action, her
- - talk with Miss Howard. She felt she
had belittled herself in the nurses eyes and
that it made Miss Howard's presence in the
house still more undesirable harder to bear.
She thought Miss Howard would despise her
for her show of jealousy her tacit ac-
acknowledgement that she loved Peter. But
that the girls heart filled with pity for
her and aching desire to comfort her,
longing to tell her that Peter loved only
her and to make things all right between
them, 'Althea had no way of knowing.
Mabel Howard, in her clean girls heart.
had almost worshiped Peter Graham. MOTT
a girl adores lover, but as she looks
upon someone far above her, almost a God.
He had been so more than kin, so sympa-
thetic, so just. Althea's unwarranted jeal-
ousy, her anger seemed almost wicked.
Then too, she had sort of irarticulate con-
seriousness of the improperly of Althea's
emotion as expressed SO markedly to her, al
most stranger. This analysis of Altheas
action resulted in ar entirely new feeling
in Miss Howard's mind-contempt.
Even if Mrs. Graham really believed all
she said-it wasn't nice to give the feeling
words, to clothe it,
And what Althea had done made her
more pitiful of DR.. Graham. Her SYM
pathes were more keenly aroused. her wish
to please and help him was greater.
She smiled a bit sadly as she recalled
Althea had not even limited that Peter
cared for her. Althea had told her she
couldn't have him, that she loved him, but
never for moment had Mrs. Graham inn
piled that Peter loved her.
How like jealous woman to blame me-
she muttered. Il felt sorry for her before,
now l despise her. She has everything, and
his love besides yet she stoops to accuse me,
only a poor nurse"
Then came the thought:
"She wants to drive me away! She didn't
succeed before, so took this way to shame
me into going, leaving him. 1 won't go!
I'll stay as long as he either wants or needs
me. She shan't drive me away" And in
spite of her soft girlish look, her appealing
eyes, there was strong determination in the
nurses face look of one not to be driven.
Naturally neither mentioned the contre-
temps to Peter. He sensed further strain
in their relations but wisely ignored it. AL
though why Althea should so dislike the
inotfensive nurse who attended closely to
business and kept out of her way as much
as possible he could not understand Althea
was agreeable enough to others, to all her
young friends, even intimate with Mollie
DuIIeI, WHO sui worked IN the STORE, SO III
wasn't snobbishness. 1t was something
personal.
He was gently kind to Althea, but her
sense of failure was acute; the failure to
win his love for herself-even now that the
need Of her, her money, was past ft
"Ill never win his love-never,' she said.
He is getting further away from me every
day. If Aunt Althea hadn't left me that
money perhaps he would have loved me just
for myself, but wanting the money SO he
ont nh 10 h,
didn't think of me. And now it's too late.''
She wanted to Cell him of her love, she
wanted to say to him: 1--WE can be happy,
Peter, like other people-if you will love
me just little" But she never said it
thought, longing, was as far as she got.
A great wave of burning misery enveloped
her at times. She was impatient of herself,
her lack of power to impress Peter. to win
him. She made herself lovely for him,
dressed to please him, yet he noticed
desire for his love, her pride, made her
seem to repulse his slightest advance be-
cause of her instant withdrawal from him.
A withdrawal almost involuntary, caused by
her firm belief that he cared nothing for
her; that whatever of affection he showed
was because of a feeling of duty. And that
kind of affection she did not want.
Nell Blackwell had stopped teasing AL
thea, stopped telling her she would be 1eal-
Gus if Rodney were a doctor with charming
women patients. AS time passed she had
recognized all was not right between Peter
and Althea. Her own happy marriage had
opened her eyes. Now Nell was sorry for
both Althea and Peter, wanted to help, but
didn't know how to. Often she and Althea
were together gossping, but try as she
would by hints, Nell never had succeeded in
making Althea confide in her. One day
Nell was chatting about some people they
knew, a couple lately divorced.
Although AIthea listened with an atten~
ton that seemed to give response, when shA
spoke it was not in answer.
"Men hurt us So" she said.
eve hurt them too" Nell replied, falling
into her mood Women and men, men and
women-they do all sorts of things to each
other; make life either heaven or hell and
all that lies between. I've an idea, Althea,
that all Of the heaven, and most of tina
hell, is because of something within our
selves. We fail to be happy because We
are thinking Of unhappiness"
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