Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-11
CHATTER Xiv
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| rapidity that nothing short of
- remarkable. In a week she was out
of bed, and with every day that passed she
gained a new radiance fresher bloom,
until it seemed though the old Lorry
with the purple shadows under her eyes
had vanished forever. She was as she had
been before her marriage to Courtney with
an added maturity, a more glowing charm.
1t was as though with the coming of the
baby she had begun her life anew and with
the exception of a conversation With her
mother that had taken place two days after
the baby's birth, she had not mentioned
Courtney's name.
Courtney has moved over to the club
Mrs. Grenville had said as casually as pos
sible and avoiding Lorry's eyes. She won
dered if Lorry had any memory of the
secrets she had revealed in her delirium,
but she had no intention Of bringing up the
subject until the girl was herself again.
He thinks for the present he had better
stay, there" Mrs. Grenville went on, $50
that things won't be crowded here at the
apartment"
Lorry received the news calmly She
asked no questions as to why Courtney had
not been in to see her, nor did she seem
to think it strange that he had left the
house Her thought was for the baby
and when he was with her she was abso-
lutey contented and happy.
After a week the hospital nurse was dis
missed and middle-aged woman was en-
gagged to take her place. Mrs. Grenville,
she ran into see Lorry several times a day,
and marveled at the girls radiant charm
But during these flying visits of her
mothers, Lorry never mentioned Courtney,
and, of course, Mrs. Grenville did not know
that with her departure Courtney had
ceased calling upon the telephone each
morning.
Things went on like this for two weeks
Lorry was utterly absorbed with her baby,
she gave nearly every minute of her time
to him, and at night she was so healthily
tired that she fell asleep the minute her
head touched the pillow. In her new hap
piness and with her strange new strength
she was not allowing herself to think of
the past: she was drifting and it wasn't
till Coralie dropped in one morning all
eagerness to see the baby that Lorry was
faced once more with reality
Her reply to Coralies first question was
glib enough.
Courtney is staying at the club for the
present"
of course, he's mad about the baby!"
Coralle returned, and If she had not been
SO absorbed in bending over the coral-Iined
bass1net she would have seen Lorry stiffen
suddenly and peculiar expression drift
across her face. For the first time she
wondered what Courtney did think of the
Daoy or course, he must have seen it;
ne must have come to the apartment some
Time during her convalescehce. Hurriedly
she made some vague reply to Coralie's re-
marx, but later when she was alone again
80 80 lounu ~ IlHposSiole TO go back to her
coptented state of drifting. The past had
oDtruded itself, things couldn't go on this
way forever and sooner or later she would
nave to see her husband and decide about
what they would do for the future
with the coming of her baby the memory
ol ina tstrange dread Courtney's presence
nau Always evoked in her had faded Fur-
tnermore, she was we'll mentally and
physically as she hadn't been in snonths
ana now as she gave herself UP to thinking
ABOUT the past, Lorry sound her state of
her. She thought of Tom Ransome and
the memory of him was dreamIike and
vague: What had become of the strange
yy " love she had given him; why was
- =, POSSIBLE to think of him now without
that tearing pain in her heart?
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