Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-06
CHAPTER Xiv
The Fight Goes On

r the days that followed, 1t seemed to
Gloria that she was only half alive.
Manning stopped work on woman Eter-
nal" knowing well that Gloria would find
lit impossible to come to the studio, but
Gloria knew Of the outside world only vague
ly, for she saw no one.
People called. The rumor about the co.,
ony that the Templetons were planning a
divorce npped in the bud. To be sure
Vera Vamp insisted that Gloria's presence
in the Templeton house really m cant moth
ing, and there were a few others who were
inclined to agree with her
| "Gloria's wise" Vera insisted with
shrewd smile. she knows the value of,
publicity. When it gets noised abroad that
she played the devoted wife during her hus-c
bands illness, the public VIII be crazier
about her than ever. Don't tell me she
isn't bearing that thought in mind. I know
a thing or two"
But for the most part, the colony was
friendly and quite genuinely concerned The
big house on Mansion Boulevard was fra,
grant with flowers. Each morning Gloria
attended to these herself, Ginger following
her from room 10 room like small puppy.
1t was comfort having Ginger, It was al
most like an established bond between Rolf
and herself.
The days dragged, and each time that
Gloria saw Rolf, she felt that he was weak
err He had wasted to a shadow Of HIM
SELF. There were purple rings beneath his
eyes, and always the scorching fever burned
IN MN, until it seemed if he could not
possibly live through another day.
Oxygen tanks were set up in the corridor
outside of Rolfs room. Gloria saw these
with an omnous sinking of the heart all
though DR.. Irwin quick to reassure her.
we may not need them at all, but it's
J JnsC as well TO nave them handy in case we
should he explained.
Gloria nodded, not believing him in the
least. " '"0
mere came day when il anything ha
seemed worse. Always before Gloria had
oeen able to quiet him by holding his hands
and speaking soothngy to him as she wou1d
nave TO child. Once he had even looked IN
INTO her eyes, smile in his own, and she
had caught the whisper, I'm fighting" On
that day she had allowed herself to hone But
today she could not reach him at all
through the long hours she sat beside him
listening to him call her name over and over 3
once she thought that he had stopped BREATH
ing She cried out in sudden fear and Miss
Mitchell hurrying over to the bed had pushed
up his pajama sleeve, and given him hyper-
dermic. After that the labored breathing had
begun again, and although Gloria held his
hands tight, striving with all her soul to.
pierce his brain with the consciousness Of
her presence she could not reach him.
That night DIR. Irwin insisted that Gloria
have dinner and go for short walk She
! protested, but the doctor was adamant, and
she had to go. When she returned she was
almost afraid to enter the house. Her knees
shook under her lest she be greeted with the
news that it was all over. She did not dare
to think that would happen to her then
But she found things very much the same,
and again she took up her watch beside the
bed. AS the time passed, it seemed to her
that he could not go on living like this His
labored breathing must stop, the strain on his
heart was too much to bear, but each time his
breath caught in his throat he would choke,
but still go on breathing. 1t seemed mtracul-
and somehow cruel In all her life, Clio
ria had never any one suffer like this.
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