Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
THE SUPERIOR SEX
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
An EnthrGIHng Romance

takes Anne l0mpl6 NOME Win Hill OH ."
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 own
set, but when she sees that during the
fight for the girls life John has fallen
desperately in love with Anne, she makes
the best of it. Anne has secret in her
past a mystery that she refuses to d1-
vulge, and Marcia is afraid OF the future.
When Steele asks her to marry him, the
girl refuses, and the next morning she
disappears. When she returns that same
night she tells Steele that she has re-
considered, and will be his wife. Steele
gives her his word never to ask more
from her than she is willing to give, and
a week later they were married.-NOw go
on with the story.
CHAPTER XXIV
Anne Evades an Issue
NNE stubbordly refuses to search her
"A thoughts for an explanation OF her feel
4 ings But she resolved to spend as lit
tie as possible of the money Steele gave her,
on herself certain amount must be paid
out regularly, and she would deny herself
things in order to do this, that was as far as
she would go in the analysis of the matter.
When Steele had given her that first hun
dred dollars she had inclosed all but $25 OF
it in an envelope and on the first day Of their
arrival in Colon, had posted it back to New
York. This done, she had given herself up
to the enjoyment of everything, and she
hadn't remembered the money until she had
opened her purse that morning to pay for
the beads and found out that she hadn t
enough If she hadn't admired the beads, he
wouldn't have insisted on buying them for
her, and, of course, he believed that she mad
frittered all her money away on foolish lux
uries. She writhed at the thought, for al
though Anne had married for money, it was
not because she herself wanted it, she hadn
been selfish in the matter and she didn't want
Steele to believe that of her.
And of course, he had miSun derStOOd her,
they had both played at cross purposes.
II not trying to buy your love- mad
been the words he had used. And at the
thought, her cheeks suddenly hamed and she
sprang up quickly, resolved not to think any
more about it.
She knocked on the door of his room. Her
heart beat in her throat as she heard his hur-
ried footsteps crossing the floor. The next
moment he had flung the door open and they
stood facing each other,
81 think it was you who misunderstood
she began bravely. "TOu see I don't want you
TO have a wrong idea of me. I didn't mean to
be extravagant and careless about the money
you had given me, that was all.
Her small face was anxious, but before the
look in his eyes her own fell. She was sud
denly amazed to find herself trembling, and
this fact disturbed her. Always in his pres
ence she had been mistress of herself save
for the first time when his strange proposal
had terrified her.
But, almost Immediately. Steele had recov-
cred himself, and his next words were gay.
FWeII. now that We understand each 9th
or Wen never speak of the matter again.
Suppose We go for drive. Would you like
that?'
Her response TO him was immediate and a
rassion Of gratitude toward him rose up III
her heart. How ridiculously easy he had
made it for her! He had been willing to ac-
cent without further questioning the eXplana'
ton she had given him; he had deliberately
set aside the issue.
It was with relief that she turned back to
her own room to get ready for the drive, and
for the rest of the afternoon she was unusual
ly gay and excited. But back in her thoughts
there fingered something that she was trying
desperately not to remember 1t was the
look that his eyes had worn when he had
looked at her. 1t had been gone in an instant,
but in that brief space Of time she had trenl-
bled before it. and something had risen IN
her to meet it, something that she had never
experienced before and did not want to face.
No, what she wanted was to be free and
untrammeled. She wanted to be able to
look at him straight in the eyes calmly and
coldly and without trace of emotion OF any
kind She already had mission in life and
many things to forget, and all she asked OF
| the future was that it spare her any further
! suffering. Surely that was little enough TO
! ask.
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