Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
What has gone before-AIthea Cro

inherits a fortune on condition that she
marry before she is thirty-five. She falls
in love with handsome young DR.. Peter
Graham and marries him without telling
him about the condition in the will Even
tually he hears gossps discussing it and
assumes she married him to get posses
sion Of the fortune. He becomes cool and
she assumes he married her for her
money. She becomes very jealous of her
husbands attentions to Mrs. Ruth Will
liams, a wealthy patient, and his kidness
to his office nurse, Mabel Howard. Althea
meets Kenneth Moore and his gaiety at
tracts her.-Now go OH with the story.
CHAPTER XLIH
~ UNDERSTAND that Mrs. Williams visits
the hospital often" Rodney interrupted
H. Althea's musings. 81 suppose you often
see herr"
81 Cont go to the hospital, so | never see
her" The answer was clipped
ooh, thought you shared Peters devotion to
the little cripples!" Rodney replied. 81
couldn't bear to see them myself-unless [
could do something to help them. A crippled
child is so appealing. That little boy of the
Williams was lame, wasn't he?"
Eyes"
"That accounts for her interest. Then
woman with her money can do much to hoh4~
! them
! Il wonder if she leaves him if she will have
| so much money!" Nell broke in
| Il guess she won't have anv troub1e con.
Vlnclng jury she deserves it," Rodney re.
Plleu' Williams has been a pretty CAV dog
anu never taken any great pains to hide IT,"
Altnea changed the subject She felt sha
couldn't stand another word anent Mrs. viii
Ians. They played a game of cut-throat,
Men MADE rarebit, then she walked home
Win her chatting gayly, two happy young
thlngs who made Althea's loneliness stand
out IN her mind like a sharp ugly line
why can't Peter and I be like Nell and
Rodney! Althea asked of her reflection 40
She brushed her hair before the mirror, Then
IeI thoughts reverted to what she had heard.
the new rumor that the Williams were about
TO separate, to her calling Peter by his name
and he calling her Ruth"
suddenly little wry smile just touched her
| Ups. Was it any worse for Peter to call Mrs
Williams Ruth than for her to call Moore
"Kenneth?" 00ie
sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander."
ane qIotea. Yet 1T wasn't the same Peter
was Mrs. Williams physician. Moore was her
irlena. 1t was specious reasoning and She
NheW IL. But she persuaded herself If was
oouhu Fatlents, even of long standing al
ways called their physician doctor" Anv.
tnlng else was undignified
o1a Moore called her "Althea,' too But that
also was different. They were social friande
| equals Thinking of these things, her mind
naturally turned now to Moore: his liking
Tor her that In her heart she knew to he more
IMAM liking. She had tried to make peter
jealous because of Moore, but so far had been
uhSuccesstul-so she thought Proof noel
| 1--WE that he did not care for her! She suf
| fered because of Mrs. Williams. even because
! Oh MABEL Howard. And it was love for Peter
| that caused that suffering. He could not he
SO calm, SO Indifferent to her appreciation of
kenneth Moore if he cared for her That
refer might as successfully hide his suffering
| as did she never entered her mind Tt was
natural for man to show jealousy. she had
seen CLEANS of it in Moore when she had
SHOWN interest in another man before him.
she knew Rodney Blackwell was intensely
| jealous of Nell. SO she compared her ouet
Unconditional husband with them, Judging his
actions by theirs, never thinking that she
made any show of feeling on his part impos-
slble because he still believed she had mar
ried him solely to get the money her aunt
had left
The money she now hated because she felt
Peter had only wantedj that-not her.
| Peter was prospecting. There was no lon
| ger any question of money between them
| yet money lay between them like black
cloud. He had given her a new car for her
{ birthday, keeping the old one, the one she
had paid for, for his own use. He had quiet
| ly, unostentatiously placed to her credit in
! the bank all she had spent Of her legacy in
those first hard months of their life together
when he was fighting his way upward in his
| profession.
Never could he repay her for what it had
enabled him to accomplish, he often thought,
yet he would now willingly have given up the
! advantage it gave him, would willingly have
struggled unaded could he have had her
love her appreciation.
Peter Graham was now a physician, a sur
| geon, of established reputation, yet those who
knew him often wondered at the look of sad
ness in his eyes, the gravity of his expression.
Peter had hoped when first connected with
the Crippled Children's Hospital, that Althea,
! too might become interested in his little pa
| TENTS. 1t might bring them closer. But from
the moment she learned Mrs Williams visited
them the idea was repugnant to her and
Peter, not knowing her reason, wondered at
her Indifference.
"She's not interested in anything pertain
ing to me or my work. he said, discouraged:
Never will be-
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