Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-01
CHAPTER NIL
Suspense

" UT Anthony didn't succeed in cornering
IS Miriam. For three days he kept up a
~ desperate pursuit, calling her on the
telephone, haunting her apartment, and once
he went to Carson & Hollands and tried to
see her there, but all in vain.
Miss Folwell can not come to you now
the tall, superciIiOus blonde told him. "Shc
is very busy clearing UP odds and ends befor4
she sails"
"Sails!" Anthony said bIankIy
''Why, yes; she's going to Europe for the
firm. you know"
The blood hummed in Anthony's ears and
involuntarly his hands cIenched. SO she was
going to Europe; she planned to escape him
by leaving the city. He remembered duly
that he had promised her trip abroad. They
were to have sailed in the fall on their honey
moon, and he had looked forward to seeing
Europe again through her eyes. Now it was
all over, his dream Of love was dead and the
thought was suddenly agony to him. But
could she go away like this? Could she walk
out of his life withou ia word? 1t seemed in
credible.
I'll wait for her. he said stiffy to the
blonde who was cycling him with rather inso-
lent blue eyes. Anthony not used to this
attitude from women it rather disconnected
him to be treated this way, and her quick re-
ply ooh, I don't think that would be posi-
BILE because Miss FOIweIl left strict orders
that she would see no one" left him with
nothing to say.
Bowling, Anthony turned on his heel and
left the room, but the anger that he felt at
Miriams treatment Of him was nothing
compared with the misery in his heart For
the first time in his life he was uncertain as
to how to proceed; he was circumvented by
q woman, and he felt helpless to do anything
about it.
Acting on impulse, he waited outside the
building, thinking in desperation that he
might encounter Miriam this way. 1t was
sly ND to no tio
Mr.. Breen lurking about downstairs as any
ordinary man might have done, and if An
thOny had not been so miserable he might
have1smiled a the trick fate had played on
him.
He waited nearly two hours, not daring to
move far from the entrance lest he miss her
He consumed countless cigarettes, and finally
when she reappeared he was about to rush
up to her when he saw that she was not
alone. Mr. Carson with her. and before
Anthony knew it the two had entered a taxi
and were Whzzed away.
Anthonys imagination began to play tricks
with him. What reason had he to believe
that Mr.. Carson was not in love with her and
work with her without becoming conscious Of
her loneliness, and how did he now that she
not carrying on some kind of an affair
with Mr.. Carson? He remembered her I'M
willingness to give up her work, but even as
suspicion entered his mind he knew that he
was wrong. Miriam was incapable of wrong
doing Her soul was crystal clear. She had
loved him and he had failed her. Small won
der that she wanted nothing more to do
with him.
That evening he tried again to reach her
at the apartment. The operator reported the
line busy, but when five minutes had passed
and he rang again there came back the mad
dening reply, "They don't answer"
Trusting to chance Anthony took a taxi to
Miriam's apartment, but there no re-
spouse to his ring. Inside, if he had but
known it, Miriam crOuched against the door
trying to resist the temptation Of opening to
him. She was crying softly her cheek pressed
against the cold, hard wood, but she did not
open the door, and after what seemed eter-
nifty she heard his footsteps going downstairs.
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