Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-02

the Spanish MAN, is betrothed to Rosa
mund Godolphin; but because of per
sonal enmity growing out Of land dis
putes the marriage is opposed by both
Rosamunds brother, Peter, and he-
guardian, Sir John Killigrew. Oliver, in
censed at ST Johns reference to him
as a pirate, engages him ~ a duel
and defeats him. He then proceeds to
Godolphin Court to give Rosamund
true account of the affair before she
~~should hear a garbled version from
her brother. At first Mortified and angry,
she finally realizes that oliver had jsst
cause for his action.-NoW go on WITT
the story.
\ CHAPTER H-Contnucd
~ HE looked at him again, and now she
sss> was smiling wfstfulIy through her tears.
~ and you will bear with Peter?" she
implored him.
he answered. 81 swear that, too. Do you
know that but today he struck me?'
"Struck you? You did not tell me that!'
''My quarrel was not with him, but with
the rogue that sent him. l laughed at the
blow Was he not sacred to me?'
HE is good at heart, Noll,' she pursued.
''In time he will come to love you as you
deserve, and you will come to know FRAT he,
too, deserves your love-
"He deserves it now, for the love &s bears
to you
"And you will think ever thus during the
little while of waiting that perforce must
lie before us?"
81 shall never think otherwise, sweet.
Meanwhile I shall avoid him, and that no
harm may come should he forbid me Co.
dolphin Court III even. stay away. In less
than a year you will be of full age, and none
may hinder you to come and go. What is
year, with wi such hope as min. to still i'm
patience?'
She stroked his face.
cart very gentle with me ever, Noll,'
she murmured fondly. Il cannot credit YOU
are ever harsh to any, as they say
Heed them not" he answered her 1
NAV have been something of that, but you
have purified me, Rose What man that
loved you could be aught but gentle.
He kissed her and stood up.
81 had best be going now" he said. 1
shall walk along the shore toward Iretusls
Point tomorrow morning. If you should
chance to be similarly disposed
She laughed and rose in her turn
81 shall be there, dear Noll.
"'Twere best so hereafter he assured
her, smiling, and so took his leave
CHAPTER I'LL
The Forge
~ TR DIVERS wisdom in being the 11rst
49, to bear Rosamund the story OF that
~ davis happenings was established anon
when Master Godolphin returned nome. he
went straight in quest OF his hlster' anu III
frame of mind oppressed by rear ana sor.
row for Sir John, by his general sense OF
IL
hy the anger begotten Of all this, ne was
harsh in manner. and disposed to hector
madame" he announced abruptly DIT
John is like to die.
The answer she returned him dld not Vena
to soothe his sorely ruffled spirit.
81 know" she said. "And | believe him
IN deserve no less Who deals in calumny
should be prepared for the wages OF IT,
He stared at her in long, furious silence
then exploded into oaths, and finally IN
i hon
nounced her beWitched by that foul dog
TreSSilian.
1T is fortunate for me- she answered
him composedly, that he was mere oeioie
Won TO give me the truth of this affair.
Then her assumed calm and the anger
with which she had met his own all Tell
away from her.
ooh. Peter, Peter she cried in anguish,
81 hope that Sir John will recover | am
distraught by this event. But be just, | i'm
plore you Sir oliver has told me how nara
driven he had been" . -
Gle shall be driven harder yet, as Gods
my life! If you think this deed shall go
unpunished-
nlored him to carry this quarrel no turther.
She spoke of her love for Sir Oliver and an
nounced her firm resolve to marry MIN IN
DESPITE of all opposition that could % MADE
all Of which did not tend to soften her
brothers humor. ct because of the love
that ever had held these two in closest
bonds he went so far in the end as to say
that should Sir John recover he would not
himself pursue the matter further. But IL
Sir John should die-as was very likely
honor compelled him to seek vengeance OF
deed to which he had himself so very
largely contributed.
Il read that man as if he were an open
book" the boy announced with calloW boast
fulness "He has the subtlety of Satan, yet
he does not delude me. 1t was at me he
struck through Killigrew. Because he de-
sires you, Rosamund he could not1as he
bluntly told me-deal with me, however |
provoked him, not even though | went the
length Of striking him. He might have killed
me fort, but he knew that to do SO would
place a barrier 'tWiXt him and you. Oh, he
is calculating all the fiends of hell! So,
to wipe out the dshonor which l did him.
which he shifts the blame of it upon KILL
grew and goes out to kill him, which he
further thinks may act as warning to
me- But KiligreW dies" And thus he
rambled on, filling her gentle heart with
anguish to see this feud increasing between
the two men she loved best in all the world.
If the outcome of it should be that either
were to kill the other she knew that she
could never again look upon the survivor.
But Sir John KilligreW did not die. He
lowered between this world and better one
for some seven days, at the end Of which
he began to recover. By October he was
abroad again, gaunt and pale, reduced to
half the bulk that had been his before, a
mere shad Of a man.
One of his first visits was to Godolphin
Court. He went to demonstrate with Rosa
mund upon her betrothal, and he did so at
the request Of her brother. But his remon-
strances were strangely lacking in the force
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