Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
CHAPTER XXIX
The Old Love


r ORRY'S time alone was marred some
l what by the fact that Courtney had
IL refused to allow her to leave the apart
ment. She would have been happier and
more carefree anywhere else. If it had been
possible to go home and sleep in her own
little bed once more, she would have been
quite happy, but she determined not to think
about it any more than was necessary and
to make an effort to get over her foolish
dread. Strangely enough, it never .oc-
Cured to her to disobey Courtney. She
might have defed him, she might have rea-
soned that he had no right to forbid her
to go home. but the thought never occurred
to her. Courtney had always demanded and
she had given, therefore she merely accepted
this last edicC of his more trial.
AS it happened it was impossible for Mrs.
Granville to stay with Lorry. She came to
the apartment the first night of Courtneys
absence, but the very next day a telegram
summoned her to the bedside OF her only
sister, who had been taken i'll with pneu-
monia, and although she hated to leave
Lorry alone, she had no choice.
"Why don't you go home, dear, and stay
with dad?" Mrs. Granville suggested. =
Lorry colored furiously. Courtney doesn't
want me to do that; he ordered me to stay
here at the apartment"
There was something so bitter about the
girls speech that Mrs. Grenville was shock
ed. Sudden fear tore at her heart. Was it
possible that Lorry wasn't happy with her
husband? Lorry wasn't given to making
sarcastic remarks; 1t wasn't like her to
speak that way, and that Mrs. Grenville
thought about it, she realized that Lorry
had been acting strangely for long time.
Of course, her condition had something to
do whit, 1t would account for her petu-
lance and her general attitude toward life,
and Mrs. GIenvillel tried to reassure herself
by believing that Lorrys approaching moth
erhood was responsible for everything New
ertheless, when she left she was Ill at ease
and she determined to have serious talk
with the girl as soon as she returned to the
city.
will you ask of the girls to stay
with you, them" asked Mrs Granville. II
don't like you to be alone at this time
Lorry shook her head. you don't know
how I'll enjoy being alone. mother. Coralie
is coming home next week and sometimes
it's effort for to be entertaining I
get tired so easily. I'll just stay at home
and take things easy, and it will be better
for me than if 1 had to be responsible for
any one"
When Mrs GrenviIIe left she held Lorry
tightly to her.
you're happy with Courtney, aren't you,
dear?" the older woman asked, wistfuly.
you're not letting a foolish quarrel make
you unhappy or anything like that?"
"Of course not, mother, Courtney and [
never quarrel Now don't you go imagining
things and worrying about me while you're
gone. Promise met
Mrs Granville smiled, "All right, I prom
Use. And you be good and very careful"
Lorry smiled and nodded but the minute
her mothers back was turned quick tears
welled to the girls eyes. She brushed them
impatiently away. Somehow she cried
easily these days, and in the past she had
despised girls who wept.
"Actually, I'm not the same girl ] used
to be-" she said to herself, as though just
realizing that fact. And then suddenly she
thought of Tom. The old Lorry had loved
Tom, and now as she thought Of him she
realized that she still cared For a long
time she had not allowed herself TO think of
him, but now her thoughts drifted back
over the past her heart ached with the mem
'ory of him. She wondered vaguely where
he and what he was doing. And how
strange it was that no one ever mentioned
his name.
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