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“THE GATES OF SILENCE” * > .4 Story of Love, Mystery and Hate, with a Thrilling Portrayal of Life Behind Prison Bars THE SWEETHEARTS' HOLIDAY ON THE WATER IS SPOILED BY NEWS OE \ T’P \OEDY. 1 i ! I v t f g .4 a., ,■• ■• --- * ... Mbf / M x> .■/MftTOBrSF' » ml* gpag f* 111 *". KK . -,-' x. MWfl WS Os - g^uta.l* ll jr < * \ . r<iyw-':/\ x ' ■ A cGjgigrx. <c -'-'X; itffcdrfSrXilfßNmfXLlllK- vßßrjg - V *T r" \ ?•• •. -’ Mwk I*-' An exclamation made h°r turn. \ / \> | • .z X n,_c r. . . X\ \\N XJ \\ 5 Kimmington s fact was ghastly. A'i \\ v ? l r ’ \ y^^jSr-MfrtßC *1 The hand that held the letter \\\ ’y/ja TV ”jSz \uSr *&U 4S z Wfex _ The Secret and Its Shadow, Ratty, did I ever think that one day I would have the right to ask you to be my wife'.’" .lack Rimmington'? voice was very tender as he bent over the girl sitting in the stern of the punt among the gayly stripped cushions ' Yesterday I bad only hopes and dreams, yesterday 1 was only a poor beggar wincing whenever your name was mentioned, dreading every day tn hear your engagement to Paul Saxe Today I can go to your father and ask for you without fear of refusal." The girl laughed, tilting her face to his A charming oval face, framed in hair of that brown which is laced with gold, and eyes of a soft sea-gray that were full of laughter, “Oh. Jack.'' she said. "It's all fright fully nice and wonderful; but I wish you'd come down out of the clouds and explain You don't forget that Mr. Saxe | is a millionaire of sorts, when you claim to be his equal?" Her tone was one of tender mockery, but her eyes were questioning What had happened since yesterday to make this man she loved, this semi-penniless engineer, ready to ntake claim for her to her father, who had treated him with such slightly veiled contempt'.’ Betty Lumsden was very fond of her father, but her fondness did not blind her to several unpleasant facts regarding him - his love of money, the ugly ambition which filled him that she should make a match which would enable her to out shine in evert way the elder sister whose marriage to Anthony Barrington, the art ist. he had so thoroughly disapproved, rtpfore tier marriage Edith had been 'his favorite "but to be worth while with those we love doth work like madness in the brain. " and Sir George Lumsden's dislike of his wealthy artist son-in-law was rapidly approaching a mania Rimmington Lent and kissed her. "By no manner of means.' he said. ' I forget nothing. 1 don't even mean to pretend that 1 am in reality Saxe's equal; though, after all, for all his pretensions, do any of us know exactly what that means? only w hereas yesterday 1 was a poor man. in a week's time I shall be a rich one. ! didn't mean to speak today, only the madness swept over me. Betty, at touch of your hand, the look in your eyes ' Words of Love. Their lips met. and the flood swept him again. I I love you, Betty Betty, I love you. | The words lovers have whispered from I the beginning of time sounded divinely new in their ears. „ : "But I still don't understand, Jack." yp e drew away from him, the first to | sj a k .. Rimmington's face changed a little, bit- i ting there in the punt, his head outlined | against the exquisite varying greens of , the trees that stretched upwards from the > riverside in serried ranks, he looked ad mirably in tune with the Thames-side scene Like it. he was typically English and g od to look upon, with his tanned skin and clear-cut face I'm afraid I can't explain today, dear,” he said "The secret is not wholly mine, but in 1 week's time—then I. shall come rind claim you before the world. Only a . r . -.> . [ only ask your patience for a wee 1 d< n t think like secrets," Betty sa; i. her voice a trifle plaintive 1 sirnpl loath® err. " Rimmington sa. t. promptly. But this ona is inevitable It sounds as though I were trying to tantalize you, | but when you know you'll so thoroughly understand His voice took on a coax ing note. And. after all the whole thing iay be through before the week is out. i .<-j thing is •» little nebulous at pres r • I didn't even know I have to leave | '.veybourm' till the mid-day post ami ; ;,en 1 r.aiited up for all 1 was worth, p’ T’m’e wcrs s<*me I ’ii'i!' 1 . t pvph c he slipped his han«i into the of his flannel coat and drew out t w letters. “< )ne from nnor old Toby. * . r.o. though, it isn't Do you mind ! open it?” •.rfy nodded and turned away She a'-w fed a certain embarrassment --. . ,-o- Tod- Rimmington s name was t • red. Jack Rimmington'? younger . -rceedinglv charming brother, who ? . >ft England so precipitately six ago. and whose name, by some ... / nnsent, was never mentioned m *.4 Red House, where Jack lived with : i ritanic old unde and aunt, who ’he oldest relations for any one him tn have Per eyes wandered It was ver> still ?.t-v in that private baekw.ver, where i irs .<-ked ud ni t e *ky, showing like lozenges of vivid blue through the lazily-moving foliage. The sun slanting through the willow under neath which the punt was run made a flickering, leaf-fretted patterns on her gown. The air was full of scented warmth. She was absolutely and entirely happy as onl\ ’he woman who loves and knows herself loved can be. An exclamation from the man at her side made her turn. Rimmington’s face was ghastly. The hand that held the open letter shook. "Has anything happened? oh, Jack, what is it?” “Tob>.” he said. ‘Poor old Toby!” She caught another low-muttered word “fever as he turned awa>. his mouth working Rimmington could have said no more. A sickening sense of reaction swept over him To have been sitting here full of life and the hopes and joys of life—and all the time the letter which told of Toby's death lying unopened in his pocket! While he held the woman he Invert (’lose to his heart, cold Mother Earth had been Hasping Toby tn her chill breast. Tobj ’he very childish name was like a hand about his heart strings. “Jack I’m frightfully sorry.” The girl’s voice came to him. almost start ling him for the moment even she had been blotted out. Her hand stole round i Ids with a soft, warm clasp. “Yea; it's pretty awful to feel that while you are a true follower of Isaac ’’•A *0 Walton, stop chasing the almighty dollar, and, for a short while, take S&gj up the pursuit of happiness along the s' 6,000 miles of trout streams in Colorado, where the climate makes men over in a XE-p fortnight. <0 \ ML ■ wMjly Jmh-C' '\ ' W OjirWA? ' r wWw ■ ■ ' x ‘'' • / A. A trip to Colorado is hut a few hours / of pleasant traveling if you go via the Frisco Short Cut to Colorado j The Kansas City-Florida Special is equipped for the comfort and convenience of Colorado vacationist*. Splerfdid electric lighted Pullman, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Birmingham and \ Memphis to Kansas City and Colorado without change. Modern electric I lighted chair cars and Fred Harvey dining cars. A vacation in Colorado la an economy. Railroad fares are very low. Hotel and Boarding House rates are reasonable. Send for beautiful book on Colo rado and full information about low fares A. P. MATTHEWS, District Passenger Agent j 6 North Pryor St., Atlanta, G*. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY, MAA’ 27. 1912 one's been so happy one's brother's been i murdered.” he sa!d. “Murdered !'\ A startled note beat in the girl's voice. It recalled Rimmington to himself. “No, e not that, little girl. Betty. I'm a brute e for frightening you. only this news has - thrown me off my balance: but it was < moral murder!” he added, doggedlx “The r men who hounded him out to. that death trap in West Africa are as fully respon sible for his death as though, the*’ had s put a bullet through him.” A new tone had come into his voice r rendering it hard and bitter. ’ almost ° unrecognizable as that of the man she i loved. Betty glanced at him appre hensively and saw his face changed also , the face of a stranger, filled with a sudden malignant hatred He turned on ' her almost sharply. 1 “Did you believe him a blackguard, like , i the rest?” “Toby? Why. he was the dearest ■ . boy “ . t The girl's eyes had a bewildered sur- ; e prise. f “Yes. one of the best; you'll hear li him called ugly names- 1 k.now what n >our father will say of him.” n ”<)h, father! You mustn't’ mind him. r .lack He doesn't mean half that ho r says. But fell me about Tony if it h won't hurt you very much. I’d love to - know You see, 1 uhderstand a little ! what you feel. dear. He was to you e something like what Edith is to me- And I - that —well. it's, pot tQ be put into .words. L 1 But I'd give my life to save her from the 1 shadow of a heartache.” The Old Story, e He looked at her gratefully ? * ♦ e-- ’ j > ’’< ‘h, It’s the old story of a foolish bo> and his money and how he fell among thieves.” It was.a story painfully new to the ears of the girl who’listened, this tale <*f the boy -with his jipssion f<>r life and his y fatal eapacilA for making friends who had Outrun the « unstable so hopelessly aijd come to final, irretrievable grief over the York meeting just a year ago. Rset IT TODAYI The ffrpat distribution is now in progress, and all leaders who have been clipping the headings should get their books today. The <icor«rian wants everybody in Atlanta and vicinity to have this MODERN $1.50 At las. and must urge you to call early, for such an offering can not last long. 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Betty 1 swear the boy had pulled up : straight and was working )tk<?_a s’aye t- I make and save, to pay his debts debts of | honor! he went to the money sharks. ‘They sucked him dry. and when they’d | done with Ism i do.'i't know why. I sup pose had an .idea my mu le was a rich man they turned the screws on h i‘m.' ’ To Be Continued Tomorrow. DON’T KNOW THEY HAVE APPENDICITIS ■< Al.my Atlanta■ ..people,*have ctironi .app-’HG 1/ itis tyhich is not fry painfull and think- it is just bowel or stomach - 'trouMP. Some have dnrtnred for > #«••• ,• for gas on the stomach, sour stomach < or constipation and Jacobs' Pharmacy • 'ompany states If they nill try simple ’ buckthorn bark, glycerine', etc., as Com pounded in Adler-i-ka, the German ap " pendi- itis TOmedy, they will be sur- I prised a't the QI'ICK benefit A SIN t. GEE I)(SSE stops these troubles IN ST A XT I. Y CONTAINING Machinery of Our Government AT WASHINGTON. D C. 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