NORTH PLATTE STOT-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
Copyright br Kathleen Norrls
MARTIN AND CHERRY.
Synopsis Doctor Strickland, re
tired, is living with his family at
Mill Valley, Just out of Ran Fran
cisco. Anne, the doctor's nloce, Is
twenty-four, Allx, the doctor's
daughter, la twonty-one. Chorry
the other daughter. Is eighteen,
Their closest friend Is Peter Joyce,
an odd, lovable sort of recluse. He
Is secretly In lovo with beautiful
Cherry. Martin Lloyd, a visiting
mining engineer, pays court to
Cherry and wins her promise to
murry him. While the family are
speculating about Cherry and Mar
tin Peter realizes hla love for
Cherry. Martin and Cherry of
course arc eager for an early wed
ding. (CHAPTER III Continued.)
"Lord, don't nsk met" I'eter wild,
gruflly. "I think she's too young to
Marry anyone but the mischief's
lon now!"
'T think I'll talk to her," her father
decided. "Anything Is better than
having her make a mistake. I think
tdie'll listen to mel" And a tiny or
two Inter he railed her Into the Htudy.
It was a quiet autumn morning, foggy
yul warm, with a dewy, woody sweet
ness In the air,
'Hefore we decide thlH thing final-.
Jy," the doctor said, mulling Into her
'tirlght face, "before .Martin writes his
people that It's settled, I want lo ask
yon 10 do something. It's something
you won't like to do, my little girl.
I want ye to wait a while wait a
year!"
It was said. He watched the bright
ness fade from her glowing face. She
lowered her eyes. The line of her
mouth grew firm.
"Walt until you're , twenty, dear.
That's young enough. I only ask you
to Inke a little time to be sure, dearl"
Silence. She shrugged faintly,
Idlnked the downcast eyes as It' tears
tung them.
"Can't take your old father's word
for It?" Dr. Strickland asked.
"It Nn't that, Dud.!" she protested
Vugerly and affectionately. "I'll wait
1 have waited! I'll wait until
t'hrjstmas, or April, If you say sol
Hut It won't make any difference;
lathing will. 1 love him and he loves
rue. and we always will.
"You don't know," Cherry went on,
with suddenly watering eyes, "you
liin't know what this summer of sepa
ration bus meant to us both! If we
jnst wait longer, why, wc will, of
cditrsc, but It will mean that I nm
Just living along somehow oh, I won't
ery!" she Interrupted, smiling with
wet lashes. "I'll try to bear It de
cently 1 Hut sometimes I feci as If
I' couldn't bear It "
A rush of teprs choked her. She
KrojM'd for n hunflkerehlcf and felt,
is she had felt so many times, her
father's handkerchief pressed Into her
. bund. The doctor sighed. There was
jihlhlng more to be said.
So he gave Cherry a wedding check
that made her dance with Joy, and
jJiere was no more seriousness. There
were gowns, dinners, theater parties
and presents; every day brought Its
They Fastened Over Her Corn-Colored
rialr Her Mother's Lace Veil.
new surprise and new delight to Cher
ry. She had her eream-eolored rajah
Hllk, but her sister and cousin per
suaded her to be murrled In white, and
It was their hands that dressed the
llrst bride when the great day came,
and fastened over her corn-colored
luilr her mother's lace veil.
It was a day of soft sweetness, not
ion brightly summery, hut warm and
tftlll under the trees. Until ten o'clock
the mountain and the tops of the red
woods were tangled In scurfs of white
fog. then the mellow sunlight pierced
It with sudden spectacular brighten
ing and lifting.
At twelve o'clock Charity Strick
land becamo Charity Lloyd and was
triced and toasted and congratulated
"fitilll her lovely little face was burn
ixiji with color and her blue hvh were
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bewildered with fatigue. At two
o'clock there were- good-bys. Cherry
had changed the wedding satin for the
cream-colored rajah silk then and wore
the extravagant hat. It would be
many years before she would spend
twenty-five dollars lor a hat again, and
never again would she see bronzed
cocks' feathers against bronzed straw
without remembering the clean little
wood-smelling bedroom and the hour In
which she had pinned her wedding lint
over her fair hair, nnd had gone, de
mure and radiant and confident, to
meet her husband In the old hallway.
She was confusedly kissed, passed
from hand to hand, was conscious with
a sort of strange aching at her heart
that she whs not only far from saying
the uhuiiJ heart-broken things In fare
well, hut was actually far from feel
ing them. She laughed at Allx's last
nonsense, promised to write wouldn't
say good-by would see them all soon
was coming, Martin and so u last
kiss for darling Dad and good-by and
so many thanks and thanks to them
all!
She was gone. With her the uncer
tain autumn sunshine vanished and a
shadow fell on the forest. The moun
tain above the valley was blotted out
with fog. The brown bouse seemed
dark and empty when the hist guests
had loitered away and tins last caterer
had gathered up his possessions and
had gone.
The doctor had changed bis un
wonted wedding finery for his shabby
old smoking Jacket, but I'eter still
looked unnaturally well dressed. Allx
stepped down to sit between them and
her father's arm went about her. She
snuggled against him In an unusual
mood of tenderness and unlet.
"He nice to me!" she said, whim
sically. "I'm lonely!"
"Il'iu!" her father said, significant
ly, tightening his arm. I'eter moved
up on the other side and locked his
own arm In her free one. And so
they sat, silent, depressed, their shoul
ders touching, their somber eyes fixed
upon the shadowy depths of the forest
Into which an October fog was softly
and noiselessly creeping.
CHAPTER IV.
Meanwhile the hot train sped on
and the drub autumn country flew by
the windows, and still the bride sat
wrapped in her dream, smiling, mus
lug, rousing herself to notice the
scenery.
When Mnrtln asked her If she liked
to be a married woman, traveling with
her husband, she smiled and said that
It seemed "funny," For the most part
she was silent, pleased and Interested,
hut not iulte her usual unconcerned
self. After dinner they had a long,
murmured talk; she began to droop
sleepily now, although even this long
day had not paled her cheeks or vlsl
bly tired her.
At ten they stumbled out, cramped
and overheated, and smitten on tired
foreheads with a rush of icy mountain
air.
"Is this tho pl-l-ace?" yawned Cher
ry, clinging to bis arm.
"This Is the place, Haby fllrl; HI
N'ldo, and not much of a place I" her
husband told her. "That's the Hotel
MelClnloy, over there where the lights
are! We stay there tonight and drive
out to the mine tomorrow. I'll man
age the bags, but don't you stumble!"
She was wide-awake now, looking
alertly about her at tho dark streets
of the little town. Mud squelched be
nenth their feet, planks tilted. Heslde
Martin, Cherry entered the bright,
cheerful lobby of a cheap hotel when1
men were smoking and spitting. She
was beside him at tho desk and saw
him write on the regUter, "J. M. Lloyd
and wife." The clek pushed a key
across the counter; Martin guided her
to a rattling elevator.
She had a Meeting thought of home
it Dud reading before the fire, of the
little brown room upstairs, with Allx,
slender In her thin nightgown, yawning
over her prayers. A rush of reluc
tance of strangeness of something
like terror smoto her. She fought the
homesickness down resolutely; every
thing would seem brighter tomorrow
when the morning and the sunshine
came again.
There was a brown anil red car
pet In the oblong of the room, and a
brown bureau, and a wide Iron bed
with a limp spread, and a peeling
brown wasbstand with a pitcher and
bnsln. The boy lighted a flare of elec
tric lights which made the ehocolate
nnd gold wnllpnper look like one pat
tern In tho light and another In the
shadow. A man laughed In tho ad
Joining room; the voice seemed very
near.
Cherry had never been In a hotel
of this sort before. It seemed to her
cheap ami horrible; she did not want
to stay In this room, and Martin, tip
ping the boy and asking for Ice-water,
seemed somehow a part of this new
strangeness and crudeness. She began
to be afraid that he would think she
was silly, presently, If she said her
prayers as usual.
In the morning Martin hired n pbae
ton and they drove out to the mine
Cherry bad had a good breakfast and
was wealing a mw gown ; they stopped
another phaeton on the long, pleasnnt
d.'lve nnd Mnrtln snld to the fut man
hi It:
"Mr. Hates, I want to make you ac
quainted with my wife!"
"Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Lloyd I"
sfild tho fat man, pleasantly. Martin
told Cherry, when they pnssed him,
that thnt was the superintendent of
the mine, and seemed pleased at the
encounter. I'resently Martin put his
nrm about her and the bay horse daw
dled nlong at his own sweet will, while
Martin's deep voice told his wife over
and over again how adorable and beau
tiful she was and how he loved her.
Cherry listened happily, and for a
little while the old sense of pride and
achievement came back she was mar
ried; she was wearing a plain gold
ring I Hut after n few days that feel
ing vnnlshed forever and Instead It
began to seem strange lo her that
she had ever been anything else than
Martin's wife.
For several days she and Martin
laughed. Incessantly and praised each
other Incessantly, while they experi
mented with cooking and ate delicious
gypsy meals.
Hy midwinter Cherry had settled
down to the business of life, buying
bacon and lard and sugar and matches
at the store of the mine, cooking nnd
cleaning, sweeping, and making beds.
She still kissed Martin good-by every
morning and met him with an affec
tionate rush at the door when he came
home, and they played Five Hundred
evening after evening after dinner,
quarreling for points and laughing at
each other, while rain sluiced down on
the porch. Hut sometimes she won
dered how It had all come about, won
dered what had become of the violent
emotions that bad picked her out of
the valley home and established her
here, In this strange place, with this
man she had never seen a year ago.
Of these emotions little was left.
She still liked Martin, she told her
self, and she still told him that she
loved him. Hut she knew she did not
love him, and In such an association
as theirs there can be no liking. Her
thoughts rarely rested on him; sin
was either thinking of the prunes that
were soaking, the firewood that was
running low, the towels that a wet
breeze was blowing on the line; or
she was far away, drifting in vague
realms where feelings entirely strangt
to this bare little mining camp and
this hungry, busy, commonplace man,
held sway.
The llrst time that she quarreled
with Martin she cried for an entire
day, with the old childish feeling that
somehow her crying mattered, some
how her abandonment would help to
straighten affairs. The cause of the
quarrel was a trifle; her father hail
sent her a Christmas check and she
Immediately sent to a San Francisco
shop for a clock that had taken her
fancy months before.
Martin, who had chanced to he
pressed for money, although she did
not know it, was thunderstruck upon
discovering that she had actually (lis
posed of fifty dollars so lightly. For
several days a shadow hung over their
Intercourse, and when the dock came,
as large as n banjo, glided and quaint,
he broke her heart afresh by pretend
lug not to admire It.
Hut on Christmas eve he was de
layed at the mine and Cherry, smitten
suddenly with the bitterness of having
their llrst Christmas spoiled In this
way, sat up for him, huddled In her
silk wrapper by the alr-tlght stovt
She was awakened hy feeling herself
lowered tenderly Into bed and raised
warm arms to clasp his neck and they
kissed each other.
I'he next day they laughed at the
clock together, . nnd after that peace
reigned for several weeks. Hut it was
Inevitable that another quarrel should
come and then another; Cherry was
young and undisciplined, perhaps not
more selfish than other girls of her
age, but self-centered and unreason
aide. She had to learn self-control
and she hated to control herself. Slit
had to economize when poverty pos
sessed neither plcturesqueness nor In
terest. They were always several
weeks behind In the payment of do
mestle bills, nnd these recurring re
minders of money stringency mad
dened Cherry. Sometimes she summed
It up, with angry tears, reminding him
that she was still wearing her trous
scan dresses, and had no maid, nnd
never went anywhere !
Hut she developed steadily. As she
grew skilful In managing her little
house, she also grew In the art of
managing her husband and herself.
She became clever at avoiding causes
of disagreement; she listened, nodded,
agreed, with a boiling heart, and hnd
the satisfaction of having Mnrtlu's
viewpoint veer the next day, or th
next hour, to meet her own secret
conviction. Martin seemed satisfied,
and all their little world accepted her
as a matter of course. Hut under It
all Cherry knew that something young
and irresponsible and confident In her
hnd been killed. She never liked to
think of the valley, of the fogs and the
spokes of sunlight under the redwood
n WU's, of Allx and the dogs and the
dreamy evenings by the fire. And es
pcelally she did not like to think of
that eighteenth birthday, and herself
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KATHLEEN
NORRIS
thrilling and ecstatic because tin
strange young man from Mrs. North'i
had stared at her, in her sticky apron,
with so new and disturbing a smllt
In his eyes.
CHAPTER V.
So winter passed at the mine nnd
at the brown house under the shoul
der of Tnmalpuls. Allx still kept her
bedroom windows open, but the rain
tore In, and Anne protested at the en
suing stains on the pantry celling.
Cherry's wedding, once satisfactori
ly over, was a cause of great satisfac
tion to her sister nnd cousin. They
had stepped back duly, to give bet
the center of the stage; they had ad
mired nnd congratulated; had helped
her In ull hearty generosity. And now
thut she was gone they enjoyed their
own lives again nnd cast over hers the
glumor that novelty and distance nev
er fall to give. Cherry, married and
keeping house and managing affairs,
was an object of romantic Interest.
The girls surmised thut Cherry must
he making friends; that everyone must
admire her; that Martin would be
rich some day, without doubt.
Chery wrpte regularly, now and then
assuring them that sho was the same
old Cherry. She described her tluy house
Don't Imagine It's Serious," Her
Father Said on an April Walk.
right at the mine, and the long sheds
of the plant, and the bare big build
lug that was the men's boarding house.
Martin's associates brought her trout
and ducks, she wrote; she and Martin
had driven three hundred miles In the
supermtendent's car; she wus pre
paring for a card party.
"Think of little old Cherry going
off on week-end trips with three
men I" Allx would say proudly. "Think
of Cherry giving a party !" Anne per
haps would make no comment, but she
often felt a pang of envy. Cherry
seemed to have everything.
Suddenly, without warning, there
was a newcomer in the circle, a sleek-
headed brown-haired little man known
as Justin Little.
lie had been Introduced at some par
ty to Anne and Allx; be called; he
was presently tuklng Anne to a lec
ture. Anne now began to laugh at
lilm and say that he was "too ridic
ulous," but she did not allow any one
else to say so. On the contrary, she
told Allx at various times that his
mother had been one of the old Mary
hind Percies, und his great-grandfather
was mentioned in a book by Sir Wal
ter Scott, und that one had to respect
the man, even If one didn't choose to
marry him.
"Marry him !" Allx had echoed In
simple amazement. Marry him what
was all this sudden change In the
household when a man could no sooner
appear than some, girl began to talk
of marriage? Stupefied, Alls watched
the affair progress.
"l don't Imagine It's serious I" her
father said on an April walk. Peter,
tramping beside them, was Interested
but silent.
"My dear father," the girl protested,
"Have you listened to them? They've
been contending for weeks that they
were Just renmrkably good friends
that's why she calls htm Frennyl"
"Ah I see!" the doctor suld mildly,
as Peter's wild laugh burst forth.
"Hut now," Allx pursued, "she's told
him that as she cannot he whnt he
wishes, they had better not meet!"
"Poor Anne!" the old doctor com
mented.
"Poor nothing 1 She's having tho
time of her life," her cousin said un
feelingly "She told me today thnt
she was afraid thut she had checked
one of the most brilliant cureers at
the bar."
Then Cherry . . . w cry
ing; in tho arm of Alls.
. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
ITALIAN MURDERS
FORTUNE TELLER
Believed Spell Had Been Cast
Over His Family by Woman-
Commits Suicide.
New York. Under the delusion thnt
a spell hnd been enBt over his house
hold by tho woman, I'letro Ccrreseno, n
salesman and futher of four children,
attacked with a razor and killed Mary
12. Hlancha, known as "queen .of
Mulberry street fortune tellers," and
then shot himself dead.
The tragedy occurred In Mme. Blan-
elm's "studio." The woman was found
lying on the floor with her face and
neck deeply slashed.
Cerreseno had been laboring for
some time under the belief thnt the
fortune teller had bewitched him and
Began Stabbing Viciously.
other members of the fnmlly several
of whom have been 111 of late.
He walked Into the Hlancha place,
whipped out his razor, grabbed the
woman and began stabbing viciously
at her head. She struggled In his arms
to a window and began screaming
frantically for help. Pollcemun Fitz
gerald rushed up and found her lying
helpless under the window with the
salesman stnndlng above her prostrate
form.
Fitzgerald arrested Cerreseno and
then hurried down to summon an am
bulance. When he returned he found
Cerreseno's lifeless body stretched
alongside that of the woman on the
floor.
TOTS FIGHT HUGE OCTOPUS
Seizes Boy Whose Sisters Belabor It
With Oars and Rescue Youth
After Fierce Battle.
Eureka, Cal. Word reached here
that a 10-foot octopus was killed
at Samoa, Humboldt county, ufter It
had seized In Its tentacles elght-yenr-old
George Peterson, son of a tug captain.
According to the reports the boy
was stnndlng In shallow water at the
bench when the octopus attacked him.
Two older sisters were paddling
about In n bout.
His screams alarmed the girls nnd
they bent the sea mobster with their
oars.
The octopus lnshed out with other
tenancies nnd wrenched an our from
the hands of the younger sister. The
other girl, using her oar bayonet fash-
Ion, partly stunned the animal, which
loosened Its hold on the boy and
crawled to nearby rocks, where It was
beaten to death.
Catch Snake In Mouse Trap.
Mlddletown, Md. John W. Slgler
cnught a copperhead snnko In a mouse
trap at his home In Locust Valley,
southwest of Mlddletown.
The reptile measured between 2',4
and 3 feet in length. Mr. Sigler also
killed a black snake near his home
which measured 5 feet 0 Inches In
length.
Q
Wakes Up, Finds Auto
Hanging on Bed Post
Delaware, O. How would you
like to bo suddenly awnkened by
a crash and And an automobile
hanging on your bed post7 .
Such was the experience of
Levi Nnckel who resides three
miles northwest of Ashley on
the old Mansfield road.
Nnckel wus aroused by the
noise of the automobile crashing
through the wall of his resi
dence nnd Into his room loomed
and glaring headlights of tho
nutomoblle. The enr collided
with the bed upon which Nnckel
was sleeping and shoved It
across the room to the opposite
wall.
Nackel's house Is located nt
the end of a short detour road
from the state road to tho Mans
field road. The men fnlled to
make the turn at the end of the
roiid nnd crashed through the
wall of Nackel's housa. No one
was hurt.
YOUNG GIRL
FINDS RELIEF
Wants to Tell Other Girls
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ir Tn1 " T nm fliorhteen
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Sand felt drowBV and
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From all Indications there will bo
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Proflteeers In Austria must be en
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Fronco Is going to have a satisfac
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It has been the general experience
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that Japanese sentries are verv cocky
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