Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-06

up like a pricked balloon. But this
Indifference and utter disregard for.
her feelings made her furious. Wild
thoughts beat in the back of her
mind. Wild threats of telling Bill!
Foster he could choose between his
father and herself once and for all.
and I should like to know why
he can't get anything to do?' was
what she really said. eff he isn't
as young as he once was, he's stlh
hale and hearty enough. 1 don't be-
lieve he's half tried"
Her voice raised in anger termi-
mated in a sudden shrill little
hriek. Then came darkness, and the
plotting out of all irritations and re-
bellions in nothingness.
When semi return
ed. Annie found herself lying flat in
some strange place. A place that
had a cool slippery feel to her crop
ing hand like lounge upholstered
in leather, onl yshe knew there was
not such a piece of furniture in her
house. She tried to open her eyes,
but they were too heavy-lidded. Sud
denly, however, her ears were I'M
stopped to a dull roar of street
sounds and the sharp clang of
gong.
Brace up, man, she's coming to all
right. The cut on her heads only
scalp wound"
Reacting to the urge Of the words,
she made another effort, and this
time succeeded in opening her eyes.
Bills face, white, scared, tragic,
was bending down to hers.
Where-am-I?"
Here in the back room OF the
corner drug store, Annie" Bills
voice seemed to have caught the
waves that were believing up and
down in the little. group of people
that swan before her. IAN auto
skidded into our car, and"
Again the clang of gong cut
through the dull roar of street sounds
and the woman on the leather up
ho1stered lounge still half-dazed,
sprang into sitting posture.
Bill" she cried, her ,shaky hand
fiercly clutching his arm, you won't
let 'em take me to a hospital?"
mot on your life"'
SO she was taken in the ambu-
lance to her home instead. Had one
of the best doctors in the city, and
for two whole weeks a nurse to care
for her Zone of the regular hos
pital trained ones, that get S. day,
she Importantly told the neighbors,
land it didn't cost Bill or me cent.
The railroad company paid every
thing"
But when Anne was up and around
again, apparently as we'll as ever
the very day after she had signed n
paper stating she had received COM
pensation in full fer all injuries,
she began to complain of q mean lit"
tie pain at the base of her spine. She
thought it was cold at first and
put on a porous plaster. But the
pain became steadily worse and it
ended in Annie being in bed once
more, this time fiat on her back and
in a cast.
There was no IS a day nurse now.
The best they could afford was part
time of a practical one who came
every morning and gave Annie her
sponge bath and alcohol rub For
the threatened cut in Bills wages
had fallen-and had been even more
drastic than he feared.
FOOT AUlllc was III tCSIcllI'
suppose, with what cooking Bill can
do nights and mornings, and the
help of neighbors coming in during
the day, We'll manage somehow" she
dismally sighed. But hate to think
what the house will lock like.
There was one factor, however,
she had Observation-Disclosures father.
From the time Annie was laid low
the transformation in the old man
was marvellous. He was constantly
active. He swept, he scrubbed, he
secured. He did the marketing. He
cooked the fastest dishes and
brought them to Annie's bedside on
tray covered with a spotless nap
kin, its china and silver polished to
50 hi~h a degree they fairly glintec.
Annie, who had always snubbed his
offers of help about the kitchen. was
astonished how we'll he ibid every
thing.
And in the sick room he was Won