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


out telling him about the condition In
the will. Eventually he hears gossips
discussing it and assumes she married
him to get possession of the fortune.
He becomes cool and she assumes he
married her for her money. She be-
comes very jealous of her husbands
attentions to Mrs. Ruth Williams,
wealthy patient. Althea meets Ken
meth Moore and his gaiety attracts her.
Now go with the story.
CHAPTER XII
N HOORE never had found Althea more
M fascinating. She fairly scintillated.
@NA She was the Althea Crosby of Halt
mans Department store, and the Althea
Graham wife of the popular and successful
physician, sure 'of herself and her power over
the she was with.
And Moore, recognizing something new
and different in her, eXerted himself to
please. Not by word did he let her see the
feeling she aroused in him but his looks
were eloquent. But reckless, Althea pre-
tended not to see, though conscious all the
time.
The play had been amusing but it was not
until they visited the supper dance they had
selected that Moore realized she was laboring
under a sort of suppressed excitement. She
couldn't sit still, wanted to dance every dance.
talked a bit wildly, laughed little mors
more recklessly. 49,
There had always been a bit OF her PurI-
tan ancestors in Althea, holding aloof from
the careless manners Of the habitues of the
places she visited, even when with party.
Now no one there seemed more gay, more
reckless. She was having the time of her
life" she told him, laughing up into his
face.
Had Moore known she loved Peter he
might have mistrusted the cause of her
rbo horN ntin f0r ho uyoa
wise in the ways of women, but not for
moment did he believe she cared for her
clever husband. That she was temperament
ally sick he never doubted Yet something
held him back from any expression of his
feeling for her-an intangible something
about Althea's recklessness.
1t was o'clock when she reached home.
AS Moore unlocked the door for her, Althea
laid her hand in his for just an instant, then
withdrew it and said:
Thank you for taking out tonight.
Kenneth, and thank you-for everything
Then he was alone, staring at the door she
had so swiftly entered and closed behind her.
He heard the bolt shot home before hs
turned and went down the steps,
There something wrong tonight" he
said, 'but what was it?''
Peter in the upstairs living room.
reading.
did you have pleasant EVENING"" he
asked, looking up from his book.
Very Althea answered shortly.
Il was late tonight. Miss Howard's sister
will be operated upon tomorrow so
thought I would read until you came in :.
Althea made response.
Il sorry | hadn't asked you where
you would be after the theater. might have
joined YOU"
1T wasn't at all necessary she replied,
hiding yawn behind her hand. Kenneth
was very entertaining"
Peter made further attempts at con-
yersation. but something very like sigh
futtered his lips as he rose, laid aside his
book, and said Good night
Good night" responded Althea.
That Peter had suffered when he heard
her speak of her evening with Kenneth
Moore, suffered the pangs of a jealousy that
had been steadily growing as the passing
weeks and months brought them no nearer
together, was evident from the look on his
face when he was alone. Could he live this
way, see her go out with others again and
again and keep still?
She had not wanted him to join her and
Kenneth. All feeling she ever had for him
was dead. Was it possible to resuscitate it
Silently he fought for some time within
himself for he hated the thought of keepin
her unwillingly-yet he could not let her "a
she neither loves me nor has any intere
in my life-my work." he muttered. Am
cruel to try and hold her? If she had
been obliged to marry to get that none
am sure could have won her love in tim
he said, not knowing he repeating
most her words when she thought
him. That often she had said:
He'd have loved me for myself soon
he hadn't known about that money; Marie
me to get ito help him In his professon
SO each longing for the other, they finalN
slept in their respective rooms and awoke To :
another day Of misunderstanding and fight
Ing with fate because it had been SO unfair
to them.
And each of them being quite up-to-dats Z
personalities had, of course, heard the old
saw that love once dead never be re-
y1Yed; that If man a woman has onca6
tired of them all the fighting in the world
Will not hold them keep them from the
company of some new object of the hearts
desire. They both dwelt often on this
thought, neither realizing that the others
love was very alive and vital thing. The
love they thought dead.
SO Peter let his work absorb him, while
Althea looked about for distraction. And be-
cause work Is panacea, Althea had the
harder part-the more dangerous.
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