Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-28
CHAPTER XLVI
Discovery

Ais happiness, however, was short
4 ~ lived: She could not hope to play with
~ fire without eventually being burned,
and a week after her visit to Jeffry Arnolds
studio, during which time she had recklessly
cur engagements with the younger set in
order to see him, she and Marjorie were haY-
inc lunch together at a downtown hotel.
Mariorie's face was flushed and her gray
ewes were troubled. In all her friendship
with Jeffry Arnold, she had never seen him
so interested as he had been In Gail Mar
tin. Marjorie had told him all she knew
about the girl. She was evidently an heiress
and she came from Dalesburg, Ill, but this
latest piece of news put different aspect
on everything.
You're sure?" Jeffry's voice was even
and cold.
cob, I'm positive, Jeffry. I took the
trouble to ask questions and there's no doubt
Of it. You see, Mr.. Garfield has been COM
ing to the Thornton for several years, and
he and 1 are great friends. When he ar
rived last night 1 was in the lobby and
after we had been talking a moment he
asked me if I had met Gail Martin. I told
him yes, and then he proceeded to tell me
all about her, how she had inherited $4,000,
and had startled Dailesburg by deciding to
take the money and stake it on her future
happiness. 1t was through Alec Garfield
that she met this wild young set she's trav-
cling with, and, of course, her one idea was
to land rich husband before her money
gave out"
sit doesn't seem like her, does it," Jeffry
went on still in that even tone Of voice.
Marjorfes's eyes grew tender. What chill
dren men we're, after all. Here was Jeffry
Arnold, a man she had thought removed
from the wiles of women, as desperately in
love with this butterfly girl as if he had
been boy in his teens. 1t was incredible.
ooh, I don't know Marjorie said care
lessly. 1--WE didn't know her, that's all. You
know the reputation young Kennerley has,
and she's been engaged to him for some
time. I'll grant that she seems artIess and
sweet, but she's evidently clever. It's the
best story I've ever fallen on, and any girl
who can engineer thing as cleverly as she
did is deep
No word had been mentioned between
Jefry Arnold and Marjorie as to his feeling
for Gail, but Marjorie knew and Jeffry was
| aware of the fact, although he did not say
so. 1T was true that from the first he had
not been able to put the girl out of his
mind and on the occasion of his second
meeting with her, something about her per-
sonal1ty had stirred his pulses and fired his
imagination. From that time his feeling
had grown, and her ready response to the
hre in his eyes, her quick color and the fact
that her eyes refused to meet his had made
MIN believe that she. too, cared In his
heart Of hearts he still believed that he had
parently that wasn't enough for her She
wanted wealth, she had schemed and
planned to annex rich husband, and all
though she was not above a Irritation with
some one who could appeal to her emotions
she was cold-blooded enough to follow it up
by marriage to someone she did not not
love but who had the saving grace of
money.
This was the Gail whose lashes had fallen
when he had probed her eyes with his, this
cold-blooded little wretch who with $4,000
| had stormed the portals of New York's idle
rich and carried off the catch of the season
He had heard tales of Arch KennerIey; his
name was often in the papers for speeding 2
ana other minor offenses He was absolute
young rascal, but wealthy, and with any
woman this was enough to make her close
her eyes to the unpleasant side of his ma
ture.