Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
THE SUPERIOR SEX
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
An Emthrdlhmg Romance

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What has gone before-John Steele
| takes Anne Temple home with him
I stormy night, when he finds her asleep in
! his taxi. Marcia Steele, Johns mother,
! has always wanted him to marry Kath-
crime Cleveland, woman in their
set, and she is afraid that John may be-
| come unduly interested in the stranger
! During the battle for Anne's life, Steele
falls desperately in love with her. but
! when he asks her to be his wife, she re-
fuses. Marcia, unknown to John, has ar
ranged for Anne to take a position
| governess, but in spite of the girls re-
fusal to marry him, he refuses to let her
go. The morning after his proposal of
marriage, Anne disappears but tells
Steele she has reconsidered and will be
his wife: Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XXX
Marcia Plays the Game
GGVXTE are going to be married immedi-
wv ately," Steele merely announced
the fact to his mother, but she
knew by the tone of his voice that it would
be useless to argue. The die was cast; he hao
made up his mind and nothing would change
him.
Marcia had come home late that evening
to find her son waiting for her in the library.
Quite simply he announced that Anne had re-
turned, and, Woman-like, Marcia pressed for
details.
What did she say, what excuse did she
make?" she asked exctedly.
81 did not ask for an explanation, but she
has promised to be my Wife
"You didn't ask her to explain, you don't
want to know where she was what reason
she had for returning?"
He shook his head.
|, 81 want her" he said, almost tOnelessly.
eve wanted her from the first, that's all that
Matters,
In her own room Marcia gave way to tears.
She rarely cried, partly because she was too
proud and self-cOntained to yield to emotion,
but there was also another reason. Crying
played havoc with the face and Marcia wished
to remain we'll preserved.
But tonight she threw discretion to the
winds and wept openly for long time. Then,
after it was all over she bathed her eyes with
cold water and faced the situation.
eff we knew where she had been today,
ran her thoughts, wed have the key to the
whole situation" But how to find out that
was the question and it was useless to ex-
pect Anne ever to throw any light on the
mystery.
John is so infatuated that he doesn't even
realize she is marrying him for his money, -
was the next thought that struck her. "And
am powerless to do anything about it. If
I told him the truth he'd laugh and say lie
didn't care"
And then like a flash the idea occurred to
her to go at the thing differently, to veil her
hostility and open her arms to Anne. If she
succeeded in winning Anne's confidence in an
uIOueuL Tic girl LulS III UIuIL' OUT
something. 1t wasn't probable, but there was
a chance and it was certainly worth trying.
So it was that on the next morning, Marcia
met Anne with a face wreathed in smiles. She
took charge of the entire situation as though
she had approved from the very first, and
suggested that she and Anne go shopping i'm
mediately after breakfast.
Steele entered the room to the sound of
his mothers gay laughter and Anne's face
that she raised. to his wore the old pixie-like
expression. Her response to his good morn
ing was shy, but she seemed happier than she
had been since he had known her, and again
he was eXultant. He would make her love
him slowly and by subtle methods he would
force her to come to him. He had sensa-
ton of power, that driving force that had
made him figure to be reckoned with i'll
the business world he would bring to bear on
Anne. She would never know it, she would
never be in the least aware of it, but she was
his and some day she would love him.
At the Thought, even in the calm brightness
Of the morning sunlight, his pulses leaped,
and his eyes as they rested on the small head
with its clustering curls of taffy-colored hair
held the look of conqueror in their cold,
usually inscrutible depths.
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