Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22
DESTINY'S CHILD.
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

d I HAZEL LIE ~
What has gone before-Courtney
Harrington induces Lorry Granville to
marry him just after she, has discov-
cred that Tom Ransome, the man
she really loves, is unworthy. After
her marriage, Lorry still yearns over
Tom, and when she discovers that she
is to become a mother, she is &uled
with rebellion. Courtneys love for her
is so intense that it frightens her,
and on the night her baby is born she
screams out in her delirium all her
ayersions to her husband. Courtney
resolves to make no further attempt
to hold her, and moves over "a the
club Later he makes an appointment
to see Lorry and make s.-~~e~cSSS@r1ents
for the future To her amazement,
Lorry finds that her fear of him is
dead, and when he says good-by,
she realizes that she loves him. Now
go with the story.
CHAPTER XLIX
The Big Mistake
v N the days that followed Lorry tried to
4 forget what had happened the night OF
= Courtney's call. She tried to convince
herself that she had been overwrought,
not u6TS6ll, DuI she udQ6 Ill GllOII " LA
her days with thoughts of the baby and
to live for nothing but him.
But it was impossible to do this FOR one
thing, Miss Barton the well-trained nurse,
took the baby off her hands for the great
er part of each day After his bath each
morning, which Lorry insisted upon CIV
ing him herself, he slept, he was fed at
regular intervals, he was taken out for
his airing, and altogether things moved
along with such beautiful precision that
Lorry found plenty of leisure time in
which to think.
She loved the baby with all her heart,
she loved him with a consuming tender
ness. She tried to make herself believe
that he was the biggest thing in her life,
but always in the back of her mind there
remained the memory of that moment
when urged by some tremendous force
over which she had no control she had
wanted Courtney to take her in his arms.
She found it increasingly hard to rid
herself of this memory. 1t would sweep
over her several times each day, and each
time the hot blood would rush into her
cheeks, her heart would hammer and she
would close her eyes and try to imagine
him there in the room with her.
This then was love! This was the thing
she had wondered at and agonized over in
the past. Courtney had been right all along,
the very fear that he had inspired in her
had been a part of it. The intensity OF
his love for her had aroused in her a de-
sire to resist him and her vivid magma
ton had succeeded in erecting a barrier
between them. Then, too, she had fancied
herself in love with Tom. How had she
ever been so blind? If she had married
Tom, she might never have known this
emotion that Courtney had finally aroused
in her; she might have gone through life
without ever knowing the TRUTH while
now, even though she had succeeded in
running her hopes of happiness, she knew
at last what it was to love a man with all
her heart and SOUL
Lorry dreaded taking her friends into
her confidence, she dreaded having it
known that she and Courtney had sep
arated. Once having taken that step she
knew it would be irreYocable, but while it
was still secret, she could play with the
idea that something might happen. When
she reached this point in her thoughts her
cheeks burned with shame. That she could
want a man who so obviously did not want
her was humiliating, almost degrading.
She had been certain from Courtney's at
ttude toward her that night that he had
ceased DO love her, and yet the memory
of that look in his eyes haunted her. Sup
pose he still cared? Could she forget her
pride to the extent of calling him back to
her? If she could invent a plausible ex-
cuse for seeing him, if she could inveigle
him into calling on her again--but at this
point all her pride rose in revolt, and she
tried to put the idea out of her mind
One afternoon over at her mothers,
Mrs. Granville brought up the subject her.
self. "Lorry, there is something l have
been wanting to speak to you about; some
thing that happened the night the baby
was born"
The color rushed up into Lorrys face,
and she sat there looking at her mother
out of tortured eyes.
"You were delrious, you raved about
'yOu fpar of I rpalizp that
there must have been something between
you long before I had any suspicion of it.
Lorry tell me the truth, did you marry
Courtney without loving him? Was that
it? Oh, you poor little grill" And tears
suddenly spar6led in Mrs. Grenville's
eyes.
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