Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-01
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER IXXII

- a fair one.
1--WE couldn't expect her to fall in
with our ideas at once he said after Althea
had detailed their conversation. perhaps
she never will. But to have gained so mucn
looks like a good beginning. She under
stands that during the year we are TO take
charge of Doris; financially, and when she
sees what we can do for the child it Will be
an added reason for her to accept us per-
manentIy. | am very glad, Althea, it has
worked out so well-more for your sake than
for my own, although [ love little Doris.
SO it was settled.
Mrs Howard came at once and under her
capable management Altheas household
cares were all lifted. In matters that might
have proved embarrassing, Mrs. Howard
proved herself so tactful no embarrassment
was felt From the day she came she had
Jane serve her meals in her own room
Althea had fitted up with day bed so that
it was like sitting room In other mat
tiers, too she had shown her GOOD sense
Both Peter and Althea congratulated mem
selves often.
With Miss Howard too, Althea became
more friendly. She never had believed
Peter cared for her; had thought 1t all ON
Mabels part. And one day she overheard
conversation between Mabel and her
mother that led her to believe the nurse 8
affection for Peter simply that caused
by gratitude, not the love of woman for
man.
Mabel had said
told him So He has been so good to us.
To Doris. We never could have afforded
that operation, the private room in the hos
pital, all the things he procured for her. Ii
it wasn't for him she would perhaps have
been lame all her life-and not lived very
long 1 know he feared she wouldn't"
1--WE all love the doctor, Mabel. And
his wife also. | glad to see you are
friends with her. 1t one of the things
that made me afraid to say I'd come here
l., o,oh chQ
Perhaps [ have wronged her." Mabel
replied. 'It seems as though I must have.
She has been an angel to Doris. 1t may
just have been her way, yet [ have always
felt there was something personal she had
against me- but what never could imagine"
'Well, we won't fret about it any more.
Perhaps she may come to like you better"
vt was this conversation that made Althea
think she might have been mistaken in
Mabel Howard. That her actions, the ex-
pressions of affection she had overheard,
were but the manifestations of the girls
thankfulness because of what Peter had done
for Doris.
SO gradually her attitude chaged and she
took pains to make Mabel feel comfortable
and happy when she snatched time to visit
her little sister. She had changed her
boarding place and was quite near and
whenever Peter and Althea were out for an
evening she spent the time with her mother
and sister. Then one day she told Althea
that at the end of the year, about seven
months distant, she to marry young
doctor, one Swho was just becoming estab-
llshed. She had met him In the hospital
when she was nurse, he an inferno
After that the last feeling against her left
Althea and she became interested in the
romance of her husbands office nurse,
helped her to plan her wardrobe, etc.
To Peters delight Althea had given up
the very gag crowd she had taken up with
through sheer restlessness They no longer
seemed to interest her. But they went out
with their older friends and entertained
them often. Entertaining was easy with
Mrs. Howard to look after things and even
if Peter called away it was not so en-
barrassng as from a restaurant dinner.
Then, too, he would often return before The
guests left.
Nell Blackwell and her husband were still
their most intimate friends and Nell often
declared Althea was a changed woman since
Doris had been with her.
There's nothing like a child in the
house., she said, hugging her small to
her. "They make different women of all
of us. | was thoughtless, careless,
thinking only of having a good time until
my boy came to us. He makes SO many
things thought necessary not seem worth
while"
Molie Butler, Altheas old roommate, no
longer was salesgirl. She had married
a well-to-do farmer and had gone west. AL
thea received glowing letters in which she
showed in every line her love for the man
she had married. She wrote:
John isn't bit like any city man, but
he is good all through, and spoils me. We
are very happy, have nice home and that
is all that is necessary, isn't it? At least
it seems so to me-"
Yes, Althea thought, that was all that
was necessary. Mollie had the love of her
husband, knew he married her for herself.
not for some Interior reason.
IF only / could say much" she said.
CONCLUDED Thursday