Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-21
HIS BROTHERS WIFE
BY RUBY M. AYRES
CHAPTER XVII
No Hope

| bell broke the silence. Mary herself
went to open the door. One glance at
the face of the man who stood there in the
wet night told her that there was but little
to hope for. She gave little gasp, and
leaned against the door with feeling of
sick giddiness.
'It's--it's true%' she asked family.
He answered reluctantly that he was
afraid so. Of course, as yet details were
not complete, but it was known that many
of the passengers were drowned.
He could not come In when Mary asked
him to, but he said he would be sure to let
her know if he heard anything further that
night
1T is so kind of you" she told him. 81
have else to help me- Will you
may l know your name?"
He coored boyishly.
"Evans-Henry Evans" He hestated.
And may L know yours?' he asked diff
IDENTITY.
'Mary-Mary Furnival,"
She shook hands with him when he left;
she stood at the door of the flat looking
after him till he had disappeared down the
long flight of stone steps.
Then she went back to the room, and
covered, shiverng, over the fire.
Nigel dead, Dolly dead.
Mary found herself wondering if, some
where on the other side of the mystery we
call death husband and wife had met
Such few days had measured their sep
i ara.1on ahter t, AL and ye-they had never
She rose stiffIy when the fire had quite
died out, and crept to bed
Directly she woke in the morning she
thought of the papers Surely the truth
would be known now.
The little maid brought them tn har
Mary opened them with shaking fingers.
but only last nights news with a few
added details, were printed
But as the day dragged away further de-
tal!S crept out. A brief list of passen gers
ana crew was published at the offices of
the shlpplng company, where Mary WAITING
YEARLY, hour after hour, watched the slow
~ added names with haggard ewes,
somehow all her anger and bitterness
against NigePs wife was vanished Nvinod
out by the mercless hand of Death up"
ana then she saw her name and that of
~ man sue had married, go up at the end
u tne snort incomplete list: Durham Ior
Sho III Mr; ana Mrs. Robert-drowned :"
que never knew how she got ont of tbo
office She felt as if she were waIli H., ' i'
space. i0 WANING IN
For the moment Mary's heart was doaa
a e incapable of further SUFFERING 81
~ ~ as IL she had reached the end of ba.
any more. "e mattefed
mere We're letters waiting for her ,rbou
1ia % 80 odck TO the flat, but she LET them
ton IN me me table unopened She had foran+l
aha indoa;I? Ietnefton and her own misar-
tragedy 0 iolr or OF this fresh
nra vas only hours after their arrival +ho+
acILno, Upeneu those letters. One was = brief
~ Mo Low " ieo Sment from the owner of Tho 49,
wisbog 70 hef own intimation that She
'; i'ne" 10 leaYe; and the other-NTary t,,,,1J
IL over duly. She did not know ~ uui neo
out the postmark- 'ne "lltIh8;
/, Her heart beat little faster az sbo .
'hat; She broke open the fan 0 90"
WIN headlng-'The Red Granoa " '
wy dear child Git began)-"bayida +o,,.
me mat he has asked Won TO co,' }ii9
onu I'VE with u.s. SO | am lust writirar &c
assure you of my very hearty weIcome 80 80
i H. your own sake and dear Nigels. We viii
ana ~ ~ our very best to make you hapnv
"Como n ~ neip you to forget your sorrow.
ba,,in o"e DIS soon as ever you like am
10 liS nigel room prepared for Won
'louSht you would like to have if
Ferhaps you have not heard of ma b.,
a,on What David has told me of YOU, am
sure we shall grow to love each other ",i
Such is my sincerest wish ~
beieVe me, my dear child
ours atfectionateIv
NIGEL AUNT FLORENCE"
aunt Florence! Nigel had spoken Of bor
good of her to write, ~"
90 they really wanted her! There woo
something in the simple warmth Of tha
t 70 mat felt like kindly hands outstretchad
TO grasp her own. Gu
Ngei room! How dear of them to tbin1,
But, of course, it could never ba Nou.
she would have to finish that letter 70 DaHoid
t MnIG th she mad begun only Yesterday. and
She folded the letter from the Red Gronoo
S gu thrust 1t out of her sight in blotter
a cd
mined to forget it,
put the lnsidfous voice of temDtation
walked with her, whispering. ALWAYS whtsnerl
lngi Why not? Why not?"
continued Tuesday Renew vour Suhsc,i,
tlOm now to avoid misSinn q oLn..4. II