Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
THE SUPERIOR SEX
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
An Enthra7timg Romano,

What has gone befOre-John Steele
takes Anne Temple home with him on
stormy night when he finds her asleep
in his taxi. Marcia Steele, Johns moth
err, has always wanted him to marry
Katherine Cleveland, woman in their
own set but when she sees that during
the fight for the girls life, John has fall
en- desperately in love with Anne, she
makes the best of it. Anne has a Sc
cret in her past a mystery that she re-
fuses to divulge. and Marcia is afraid of
the future. When Steele asks Anne to
be his wife, the girl refuses and the next
morning she disappears. She returns
that same night, and tells Steele that
she has reconsidered, and will marry
him. Steele gives her his word never to
ask more from her than she is willing to
give, and week later they are married.
Now go with the story:
CHAPTER XXI.
To Have and to Hold
TN THE days that followed, it seemed to
Steele as though his whole life was made
up of series of impressions of Anne.
Anne, as she looked when she met him for
breakfast each morning, dewy and sweet and
fresh Anne in her tweed suit that made
her look like a fascinating boy with small
close-fitting cap pulled down over her curls.
Anne in the misty trail ing chiffons that left
her slim arms bare to the shoulders, and from
her throat and neck rose like white velvet
What friendship had sprung up between
them!
Never, from the first, had she shown any
fear that he would break his promise to her.
They walked on deck together and on these
occasions he held her arm, and was thankful
that at least she was near him.
When they danced in the salon after din
ner, she was like piece of thistledown in
his arms, and at these times, a fear swept
over him, a fear of what life would be If Ae
should lose her. During these days John
Steele was picking up the crumbs from the
table OF love and was grateful for everything
that came his way. 1t seemed incredible when
he thought about it at all that Anne could
have made so great difference in his atti-
tude toward life. for never before had he
been willing to accept half loaves.
They met people and were forced to be
pleasant, but Steele was enraged when the
eyes of other men rested on Anne's lowell
ness. He could not help noticing at these
times that her manner toward other men
was strangely different from the manner she
used toward him. She seemed to wrap her
self in an armOr Of bright hardness as though
for protection, and the comments she made,
although scint1llating, were sophisticated, and
cynical.
He was fercely glad of this. He was glad
long as she trusted him, for she no longer
kept up her guard. She was as simple and
naive at times as little girl and he learned
much from her quick condolences of Anne
the woman, although he could never pin her
down to anything definite
And so they drifted; through the steamer
trip, and through the hot sunny days of
their stay in Colon and Panama City. The
tropical climate suited Anne, for where 9TH
er women wilted and could not stand the
heat, she was brighter and more witch-like
than ever. But at night when they wandered
on the breakwater and watched the ships
come into the harbor and the stars hanging
in the sky like lamps suspended on chains
she would lapse into silence Steele would
hardly be conscious of the fact that she was
walking beside him, and when he would talk
to her, she would answer in monosylla bles.
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