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ATALANTA IN THE SOUTH

fiercely, and frowned down upon the painter, who waited, wondering what Robert could have to say to him.

"Archie," he said at last, dropping his voice to a whisper, "what do you know about Atalanta?"

"Atlanta? Why, it 's the capital of Georgia, man," answered the artist promptly. "Populalation — thousand, founded in — by —, chiefly important from the fact of its being a great railroad centre. It is also widely known from its introduction in a popular Yankee war-song,—


"'So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea.'


The girls are pretty, and the business interests have been looking up lately. That 's all I know about the place. Do you think of settling there?"

"No, no; it has n't anything to do with the city," objected Robert; "it 's somebody in history, I fancy, some girl who ran races and always won them."

"Female pedestrian, eh? I begin to understand you. Don't happen to remember if she was a Roman lady, or a Sabine girl, or an Amazon?" asked the artist.

"No, but you ought to know," said Robert reproachfully. "I have seen her represented in a work of art," he continued. "She car-