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The Atlanta Georgian
SUNDAY READING
With Saturday's Georgian „f
June 8, 1907*
and News
SUNDAY READING
With Saturday's Georgian of
Juno 8, 1907.
VOL. V. NO. 290.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 8,1907. PRICE:
the ghost of lochrain castle
A Thrilling Novel of Love, Intrigue, Tragedy and the Mystery of a' Famous Diamond
By MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON,
Author of "Tho Lightning Conductor
Etc., Etc.
Illustrated by
GEORGE KERR and F. NANKIVELL.
CHAPTER IV.
The First Day.
F.ifpcth hoped that during her hour
:. n ,l a half with Mr. McOowan ahe
-,,i K ht clean further news of Captain
oxfurd and his mysterious mldulght
adventure, but nothing was said on
the subject,-and she was kept steadily
at work taking down letters from the
manager's dictation. He spoke rapid
ly, as If to test her skill, but though
she was nervous at first, through over-
anxlety to give satisfaction, she made
no mistakes, and at 10:15 exactly Mr.
McGowan stopped, declaring himself
very pleased with his new assistant.
"Mr. Kenrlth will be ready for you,'
he said, "and I trust you are not tired,
as I should not like him to bo kept
walling.”
Elspeth answered that she was not
tired in the least; and five minutes la.
ter she was knocking at tho door of
.Mr. Kenrith’s private sitting room,
carrying her own small typewriter In
Its leather case.
"Cone In!" said a voice on the other
side—a voice whose tones had lingered
in her memory; and suddenly, though
the girt had been calm and composed
a moment ago, her heart began to beat
very fast, os It had beaten In the
strange, dark watches of tho past
night.
“How silly I am," she thought “I
suppose It must be that I'm wonder
ing how he will feel about yesterday,
llo may be vexed that I’m tho same
girl who traveled In the carriage with
him yc.-terday, and I heard alt the talk
about his Jewels and about Captain
Oxford."
She opened the door rather slowly,
and instantly met the eyes of John
Kennih. who sat facing It at a writing
i.dile Hut, Judging from Ills expres
sion. he ivas rather pleased than an-
* no, oil to tlnd that he had already met
l io new secretary. He referred to the
piurney, asked If she was not tired,
and was so sympathetic and pleasant
ih.ii before they began work together
llie girl felt ns If they had known each
other for a long time.
She could see that In beginning to
dictate for his new book, he was al
most as shy ns a boy, and his embar
rassment made him seem younger than
ho had yesterday. Tactfully, she put
him at his ease by trying to make him
think of her as u machine, and soon
lie tnrgot self-consciousness and warm
ed lo his subject. Klspcth, too, grew
Interested In his clear way of explain
mg the great scheme the Northern
millionaire had thought out for tho
lament "f mankind, and he must have
to. n what she fell In the glowing eyes
which dwelt often on his face.
I was afruld this would be dull bust-
f'.-x for a young girl," said Kenrlth at
hut. "but I believe you must care some
thing for Socialism."
“It’s one of the most absorbing sub-
jots in the world," answered the girl,
"and I have thought a lot about It.
since I came to live In London alone
and got on os best I could; but I never
really understood much about It—until
cow."
"Thank you,” said Kenrlth, smiling
his pleasant smile. "That Is a pleasing
cunipiiim nt for an aspiring author, at
work on Ids first book." And he would
cot go on until Elspeth had told him
something ubout her life In London,
lb asked hor questions, and she was
■ed .n to answer as If he bad been an
01,1 hiend, for she felt, even If she
eould not have deflned, the difference
between this man’s Interest in her and
that shown by Trowbridge.
In spite of the Interludes of talk,
however, they managed to do a good
o;al of work, Elspeth typing from
kenrith’s dictation so quickly that her
augers flow over the keys of the small
and almost noiseless machine. When
it was nearly half-past twelve Ken-
nth stopped her, saying that they had
lion,, enough composition, and he
''"Uhl Hire to hear what he had writ-
b ti, if she did not mind, from her lips.
He believed that he could judgo of his
work better in that way.
Elspeth was only too pleased to do
f* ae asked, for not only did she like
!" rea <> aloud, but she herself was anx-
nus to know how tho sentences she
tud taken down would sound. They
uid not gone far, however, when the
reading was Interrupted by a knock at
tho door, and again Kenrlth called,
"Come In," but not so readily, Elspeth
thought, as he had done when waiting
for her to begin work. .
Quickly the door opened, and Lady
Lambart, looking very handsome, and
almost girlish. In a youthfully made
white dress, stood on the threshold.
She had had a charming smile on her
Ups for Mr. Kenrlth, but It frose at
eight of Elspeth sluing cosily at his
table with sheets of manuscript in her
hand.
"Oh, r am so sorry to Interrupt you.
I didn’t dream you were working," she
sold. "You know you told me lust
evening thnt If I wanted a book to
come to your sitting room and choose
It when yours have been unpacked.
Hilary and I have nothing worth read
ing, so I look you at your word, but—"
"There Is no ’but’.’’ Kenrlth assured
her, pleasantly. “Miss Dean and I
had really finished, and our time for
work Is over. My man has filled the
bookcase with the contents of my
boxes, you see, and you have only to
choose.”
Lady Lambart came In, Ignoring
Elspeth, though Kenrlth had spoken
her name In a way to make a bow a
gracious act. The girl rose, and, hav
ing replaced her typewriter In Its case,
would havo gone quietly out of tho
ronrp without a word, had not Kenrlth
sprang to open the door for her.
‘Thank you very much. Miss Dean,”
he said. “You have been splendid,
and with such kind help os youn 1
shall look forward to my hours of
work here, even more than 1 had ex
pected.’’
His words, so evidently spoken to
show Lndy I-nmbart, as well as the
girl herself, his appreciation, touched
Elspeth, and warmed her heart, but
she was not to leave the room with