Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-16
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER T,NTH

" ETER was going to take Miss Howard
back in spite of the fact that she dis
liked the girl and had asked him to get
someone else. For a moment Althea hesi-
tated, then said:
you know | hate to have her in the
house. Let me do your work until you find
someone more agreea be."
Il do not hire nurse simply to be agree
able although that is a necessary charac-
terstic, but to attend to my affairs. Miss
Howard is very capable young woman.
She never made mistake long she
was with me- am sorry you do not like
her, but you see so little of her that can
really make no difference"
at is settled them" Althea asked
Yes, she comes in the morning The
nurse who attended little Glen and who has
since been member of Mrs Williams
household returns tomorrow from long
visit to her old home. She will care for
Doris until Mrs. Williams leaves for Europe.
1T is fortunate for me that it is so arranged
l am neither rich popular enough an
yet to be able to afford mistakes in my Of
flee"
Althea flushed. He was referring 70 ba,
failure to report the call to Mrs Williams
She wondered if it had been another of hix
patents II it would have been so heinous
laut. However she said no more, bit
turned away, angry and hurt -
refer would keep Miss Howard regard.
less of her feeling
AS she turned away Peter speculated .,
he often had before upon the cause of he
dlsnklng the gentle, kind-hearted girl he
had FOUND so efficient. And as before, !
couio reach no conclusion. No thought that
Althea might be jealous came to him. That
would indicate a fondness for him whicha
aid not exist. 1t was one of the unaccount-
able things in the feminine make-un -.
hao Althea given him reason for hey
dislike OF Miss Howard he would narhan.
nave listened to her, agreed to get someona
else, but her dislike without an oyrraa..d
cause seemed to him utterly childish ana
unreasonable. ny
win an impatient shrug she dismissed
But Althea brooded over it because n ws.a
one more proof of her husbands indifference s
feter ala not want her. He did not need her I
~ was only his decency that made him keen
ms marriage VOW, and only his innate tact
,hat Kept him from letting her see how littIs
~, wanted or needed her. If there was any,
thlng in the world she was sure of if was ~,
Heter would like to be free-a free mar
one oldn believe he would ever saw 81 nm
less she wronged him, she would have to taxa
Ho ini'l@liVe; put II he felt she wanted ia
CD D. mn ms freedom she would be happy.
but she didn't want to be free and 81.
c , give him his freedom in any other
way. Ihelr marriage lacked much that
peners mad, yet it was marriage-thev
belonged to each other s
Free! Althea smiled bitterly at the
word. She who went on day after day
snatch1ng at such crumbs as fell Ter wav.
for there had been a few, very few.
precious interudes. Short trips in the car
lnto the country where the change relaxed
anu lreshened them both. And now and
again dinner, the theater or opera Jitt1e
moments of happiness, as against homr.
When she named with jealousy; DAYS when
Sne hardly saw him and when she did h.
was aostracted, unaware of her presence.
que mao Kept her own friends had her
nfnt rrrnIa
Joining them when he had time, and never
interfering 9,g with her pleasures
1hey told me Aunt Althea never dfd
tnlnss IKE anyone else" she said once ia
"a STH, ana she didn't, | guess, not even
IN oyng and leaving that money the way
sue sue, olu' Peter might -he-would
haVe-learned to love me-he seemed IA
Almost a., that time he was doctorine Mo,liaa
lneh the Idea of the money for his work
en MN forget he was beginning to care
him get on" ~ neip
Ihey were growing farther and farther
apart He paid no attention to her wishes
regarding Miss Howard and no slightest in
terest IN, or jealousy of Kenneth Moores
frequent visits and attentions Nothing she
dld meant anything to him. ar
but Althea was not always gloomy AZ
times she would almost dazzle Peter with
her sclntillating brightness. She would Joke
ana laugh-a cynical vein running through.
pernaps-untll he would be puzzled as to
what had caused tibet change And sba
seeing, would tease him by her wild
hilarity. -.
Physician as he was he heard the false
note in her laughter, knew it for a form Of
hyster1a But why should she, a healthy
strong woman have even hysteria in its
most simple form? Was she so unhappy
with him that she couldn't control herself
He took to watching her more closely than
ever before and finally laid this tempera-s
mental phase to Kenneth Moore, his nfu-
ence over her, her liking for him :
Continued Tuesday. If your time is abou$
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