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TUB NORTFI PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
By KATHLEEN NORMS
HOME AGAIN.
Synopals Doctor Strickland, re
tired, Is living In Mill Valley, near
Ran Francisco. Mb family conslntn
of hlfl daughters, Allx. 21, and
Cherry, 18, and Anno, his niece, 24.
Tlielr closest frlond Ib 1'oter Joyce,
a lovablo sort of recluse. Martin
Lloyd, a visiting mining engineer,
wins Cherry, marrlcB her nnd car
ries her orf to El Nldo, a mine
town. I'eter realises that he loveB
Chorry. Junttn Uttlo woos Anne.
CHAPTER V Continued.
5
"I had no Idea of nil thlsl" the (loo
tor confessed, amazed. "I've seen the
young mnn noticed hint about. Well
well welll Anne, too."
In June came the blissful hour In
which Anne, all blushes and smiles,
could come to her uncle with a duti
ful message from the respectfully
adoring Justin. Their friendship, Hald
Anne, had ripened Into something
deeper.
"JuHtln wants to have a frank talk
with you, uncle," Anno mild, "and
of course I'm not to go until you are
sure you can spare me and unless you
feel thnt you can trust him utterly I"
Anna's engagement cups were
ranged on the table where Cherry's
laid Btood, and where Cherry hnd
tnlkcd of n coffee-colored rajah silk
Anne discussed the merits of a "smart
but handsome hlue tallormilde."
The wedding was to he In Septem
ber, not quite n yenr after Cherry's
wedding. Allx wrote her sister pages
about It, always ending with the em
phatic declaration that Cherry must
come down for the wedding.
Cherry was homesick. Sho dreamed
continually of the cool, high valley,
the scented aisles of the deep forest,
the mountain rearing Its rough sum
mit, to the pale hlue of summer ski"
June passed; July passed; It wan
hot at the "Emmy Younger." August
came In on a furnace breath; Cherry
felt headachy, languid and half sick
nil the time. Martin had said that
he coultf not possibly get nway, oven
for the week of Anne's wedding, but
Cherry began to wonder If he would
let her go alone.
"If he doesn't, I shall be sick I" sho
fretted to herseJf, In a certain burn
ing noontime, toward the middle of
'August. Martin, who had been play
ing poker the night before, was sleep
ing latu this morning. Coming homo
at three o'clock dazed with close air
and cigar smoke, he had awakened
his wife to tell her that ho would bo
"dend" In the morning, and Cherry
hnd accordingly crept about her dress
ing noiselessly, had darkened tho bed
room and eaten her own breakfast
without the clatter of a dish. Now
she was sitting by tho window, pant
ing In tho noon heat. She was think
ing, as It chanced, of tho big forest
at homo and of a certain day Just
one of their hnppy days I only a year
ago, when sho had lain for a dreamy
hour on tho soft forest floor, staring
up Idly through the laced fanlike
branches, and she thought of her fa
ther, with his mild voice and ready
smile; and some emotion, almost like
fear, came over her. For the flrst time
ahe asked herself, In honest bewilder
ment, why she had married.
Tho heat deepened and strengthened
and Increased as tho burning day
wore on. Martin wnked up, hot and
headachy, and having further dts
tressed himself with strong coffee and
eggs, departed Into the dusty, motion
less lurnacc out-of-doors. Tho far
brown hills shimmered and swam, the
"ISmmy Younger" looked Its barest,
its ugliest, Its least attractive self.
There- was u shadow In tho door
way; she looked up surprised. For a
minute the tall figure In striped linen
und the smiling face under tho How
ery hat seemed those of a stranger.
Then Cherry cried out nnd laughed,
and in another Instant was crying lu
AUx's arms.
Allx cried, too, but It was with n
great rush of pity and tenderness for
Cherry. Allx had not young Jove and
novelty to soften tho outlines of the
"Kmmy Younger" and sho felt, as she
frankly wrote later to her father, "at
last convinced thnt there Is u hell !'
The heat and bareness and ugliness
of the mine might have been over
looked, but this poor little house of
Cherry's, this wood stove draining
white ashes, this tin sink with Its
pump, and tho bathroom with neither
faucets nor drain, almost bewildered
Allx with their discomfort.
Hven more bewildering was the
change In Cherry. There was a cer
tain hardening that Impressed Allx at
once. There was a weary sort of pa
tleuce, a disillusioned concession to
the drabnesa of married life.
But she allowed tho younger Hlster
to see nothing of this. Indeed, Cherry
eo brightened under the stimulus of
AIIx'h companionship that Martin told
her that she was more like her old self
than she had been for mouths. Joy
ously she divided her responsibilities
with Allx, explaining the dlllleultlcs
of marketing mid housekeeping, and
Joyously Allx ussumed them. Her vl
tallty Infected the whole household.
She gave them spirited accounts of
Anne's affair. "He's a nice tittle aca
(lemlc fellow," h said of Justin Lit
tie. "If he W it llatlrou In each
hand he'd probably weigh close to n
hundred pounds! lie's a well, a sort
of dnmp-looklng youth, If you know
what I mean I I always want to tnke
a crash towel and dry him off!"
"Fancy Anne with a shrimp like
that I" Cherry said, with a proud look
at her own man's line height. "He
Hounds awful to me."
"He's not, really., Only It seems that
lie belongs to the oldest family lu
America, or something, and Is the
only descendant "
"Money?" Cherry asked, Interest
edly. "No, I don't think money, exactly.
At least I know he Is getting a hun
dred a month In his nude's law olllee,
and Dad thinks they ought to wait
until they have a little more. She'll
have something, you know," Allx
added, after if moment's thought.
"Your cousin V" Martin asked.
"Well, her father went Into the lire
extinguisher thing with Dad," Allx
elucidated, "and evidently she and
Justin have had deep, soulful tltoughts
about It. Anyway, the other day she
said you know her way, Cherry
'Tell me. Uncle, frankly nnd honestly,
may Justin and I draw out my share
for that little home that Is going to
mean so much to us "
"I can hear her!" giggled Cherry.
"Dad Immediately said that she
could, of course," Allx went on. "He
was adorable about It. lie said, 'It
will do more than build you a little
home, my denr!"
"We'll get a slice of that some time,"
Cherry said thoughtfully, glancing at
her husband. "I don't mean when
Dad dies, either," she added, In quick
iffectlon. "I mean that he might build
us a little hoino some day in Mill
Valley."
"flee, how he'd love It!" Allx said,
cnthuslasMenUy.
'1 married Cherry for her money,"
Martin confessed.
As a matter of fact," Cherry con
tradicted him, vivaciously, animated
even by the thought of a change and
a home, "wo have never even spoken
of It before, have we, Mart?"
"I never heard of It before," he ad
mitted, smiling, as he knocked the
nshes from bis pipe. "Hut It's plcasnnt
to know that Cherry will come In for
n nest-egg some day J"
Presently the visitor boldly sug
gested that she nnd Cherry should both
go home together for the wedding, nnd
Martin agreed good-nuturedly.
"Hut, Mart, how'U you get along?"
his wife asked anxiously. Sho had
fumed and fussed and puttered und
tolled over the caro of these four
rooms for so long that It seemed tin
believable that her place might be
vacated even for a day.
"Oh, I'll get along line!" ho an
swered Indifferently. So, on the last
day of August, In the cream-colored
silk and the expensive hat again, yet
looking, Allx thought, strangely un
like the bride that had been Cherry,
sho and her sister happily departed
for cooler regions. Martin took them
to the train, kissed his slstcr-lii-Iaw
gaily and then his wife affectionately.
'He a good llttJe girl, Habe," ho
said, "and write me!"
"Oh, I will I will !" Cherry looked
after him smilingly from the car win
dow. "He really Is an old dear!" she
told Allx.
CHAPTER VI.
Hut when at the end of the long
day they reached the valley, and when
her father came Innocently Into the
garden and stood staring vaguely at
her for a moment for her visit and
the day of AUx's return had been kept
Lato In the Afternoon She Came Down
to Join Them.
a secret her tlrst act was to burst
Into tears. She cJung to tho fatherly
shoulders ns If she were a storm
beaten bird safely homo again, and
although she Immediately laughed at
herself and told the sympathetically
watching Peter and Allx thnt she
didn't know whatwas the matter with
Coprlftht by Kathleen Norrle
her. It was onJy to Interrupt the words
with fresh tears.
Tears of Joy, she told them, laugh
ing at the moisture In her father's
eyes. She Had a special Joyous word
for Hong; she laughed and teased
and questioned Anne, when Anne antl
Justin came back from an afternoon
concert In he city, with nn Interest
and enthusiasm most gratifying to
both.
After dinner she hnd her old place
on the arm of her father's porch chair;
Allx, with Buck's smooth head In her
lap, snt on the porch step beside Pe
ter, and the lovers murmured from
the darkness of the hammock under
the shadow of the rose vine. It wns
hnppy talk In the sweet evening cool
ness; everybody seemed harmonious
and In sympathy tonight.
"Hedtlmel" said her father present
ly and she laughed In sheer pleasure.
Dnddy that sounds so nice ngaln I"
"Hut you do look fagged and pale,
little girl," he told her. "You're to
stay hi bed In the morning."
"Oh, I'll be down I" she assured him,
Hut she did not come In the morning,
none the less. She was tired In soul
and body nnd glnd to let them spoil
her again, glad to rest and sleep In
the heavenly pence nnd quiet of the
old home.
Late In the afternoon, rested, fresh,
and her old sweet self In the white
rullles, she came down to Join them.
They had settled themselves under
the redwoods. Anne nnd Justin, Peter
and Allx and Ruck, the dog, all Jumped
up to greet her. Cherry very quietly
subsided Into a wicker chair, listened
rather than talked, moved her lovely
eyes affectlonntely from ono to an
other. Peter hardly moved his eyes from
her, although he did not often ad
dress her directly; Justin wns quite
obviously overcome by tho unexpected
beauty of Anne's cousin; Anne her
self, with nn undefined pang, admit
ted In her soul that Cherry wns pret
tier than ever; nnd oven Allx wns ef
fected. With the lovely background
of the forest, the shnde of her thin
wide hat lightly shadowing her face,
with the dew of her long sleep and
recent bath enhancing the childish
purity of her skin, und with her blue
eyes full of content, Cherry was a
picture of exquisite youth and grace
and charm.
Tho evening wnB cooler, with sud
den wind and a promlso of storm
They grouped themselves nbout a lire
in tho old way; Anne nnd Justin sit
ting close together on tho settle, as
Martin and Cherry had done a year
ago. Cherry sat next her father, with
her hand linked In his; neither hand
moved for n long, long time. Allx.
sitting on the floor, with her lean
cheeks painted by the fire, played
with tho dog and rallied Peter about
Homo love affair, tho details of whlcl
made him laugh vexedly In spite of
himself. Cherry watched them, a lit
tie puzzled at the fnmillarlty of Peter
beside this fire; had ho been so en
tlrely one of the fnmlly a yenr ago?
She could almost envy him, feeling
hrself removed by so long and
strange a twelvemonth.
''lift (lint nu If mm mw lnnv unlit
titix, "the fact remains that you
taught this Fenton woman to drlv
''-'
hi
your enr, didn't you? And you told
her that she was the best woman
driver you over know, a better driver
even than Miss Strickland; didn't
you?"
"I did not," Peter said, unmovedly
smoking and watching the fire.
"Why, Peter, you did I She said
you did 1"
"Well, then, she said what Is not
true!"
"Sho distinctly told me," Allx re
marked, "that dear Mr. Joyce had said
that she was the best woman driver
he ever saw."
"Well, I mny have said something
like thnt," Peter growled, Hushing.
llx laughed exultlngly. "I tell you
I lonthe her!" ho added.
"Daddy, we have a lovely home!"
Cherry said softly, her eyes moving
from tho shabby books and tlie shab
by rugs to Allx's piano shining In tho
gloom of the fnr corner. It wns nil
homelike and pleasant, and somehow
tho atmosphere was newly Inspiring
to her; she had felt that tho talk at
dinner, the old eager controversy
about books and singers and politics
and science, was well, not brilliant,
perhaps, but worth while. She was
beginning to think Peter extremely
clover antl only Allx's quick tongue a
match for him, and to feel that her
father know every book and had seen
every worthwhile play In tho world.
Martin, whose deep dissatisfaction
with conditions at the "Kmmy Young
er Mlno" Cherry well know, had en
tered Into a correspondence some
months before relative to a position
at another mine that seemed better
to htm, and Instead of coming down
for a day or two at the time of Anue's
wedding, as Cherry had hoped ho
might, wrote her that tho authorities
at tho Hod Creek plant had "Jumped
at him," und that ho was closing up
all his affairs at the "Kmmy Younger"
and hud arranged to shH all their
household effects direct to tho now
home. Martiu told his wife generous
ly that he hoped she would stay with
her father until the move was accom
plished, and Cherry, with u clear con
science, established herself In lier oiu
room. She wrote constantly to her
husband and often spoke apprecia
tively of Mart's kindness.
Anne's marriage took place In mlS-
September. It was a much more for
mal and elaborate affair than Cherry
had been, because, as Anne explained.
Frenny's people have been so geiv
erous about giving him up, you know,
After nil, he's the last of the Littles j
all the others nre Folsoms and Ran
dalls. And I want them to realize
that he Is marrying n gentlewoman !'
Cherry and Allx went upstairs after
the ceremony, as Allx and Anne had
done a year ago, but there was deep
relief and amusement In their mood
today, nnd It wns with renl pleasure
In the closer Intlmncy thnt the little.
group gathered nbout the fire that
night.
Alter thnt, life went, on serenely, nnd
It wns only occnslonnlly that tho girls
were reminded that Cherry was a
married woman with a husband ex
pecting her shortly to return to him.
November passed, and Christmas
came, and there was some tnlk of Mar-
tin's Joining them for Christmas. Hut
he did not come; he wns extremely
busy nt the new mine and comfortable
In a village boarding house.
It was In early March that Allx
spoke to her father about It; spoke
In her casual and vngue fashion, but
The Last of the Littles.
gave him food for serious thought
nevertheless.
"Dad," said Allx suddenly nt the
lunch table one day when Cherry ha
pened to be shopping in the city,
"were you and mother ever separated
when you were married?"
"No " the doctor, remembering,
shook his head. "Your mother never
was happy away from her home !"
"Not even to visit her own family?"
persisted Allx.
"Not ever," he answered. "We ah
ways planned a long visit In the East
but sho never would go without me.
Sho went to your Uncle Vincent's
house In Palo Alto once, but she came
home the next dny didn't feel com
fortablc away from home!"
"How long do you suppose Martin
will let us have Cherry?" Allx asked.
Her father looked quickly at her
and a troubled expression crossed his
face.
"Tho circumstances seem to mnke It
wlso to keep her hero until ho Is sure
that this new position Is the right
one!" he said.
"If I know nnvlhln? nhonr Mnrtln."
Allx said, "no position Is ever going
to be 'be right one for htm. I mean,"
she added as her father gave her nn
alarmed look. "I simply mean that ho
Is that sort of a man. And It seems
to me odd tho wny he and Cherry
take their marriage! Sho doesn't
seem like other married women. And
the thing Is, will she ever want to go
back, If she Isn't rather coerced?
Martin Is odd, you know; he hns u
kind of stolid, stupid pride. He wrote
her weeks ago and asked her to come,
and she wrote back that If ho would
find her u cottage, she would ; sho
couldn't go to his boarding house, she
hated boarding! Mnrtln nnswered
that he would, some day, nnd she snld
to me, 'Oh, now he's cross!' Now,
mind you," Allx broke off vehemently,
"I'd change the entire Institution of
marriage, If It was me! I'd end all
this"
'P"
"The lady? She wai unfor
tunately married before I had
a chance to aik her," taid
Peter.
(TO 1113 CONTINUED.)
Turk as a "Goat Herder."
Tho famous goat herder of prlmltlvo
countries who sells his milk by the Jar
or cup from tho goat skin bag on his
back has his modem prototypo in tho
person of a chap who appeared on the
Howcry snld tho New York Sun.
Slung over his shoulder wns a Inrgo
white metal container similar In shape
to the goat skin bag nnd from one end
of which protruded n spigot. The top
of tho container was gayly festoonod
with flowers and flags and for throe
cents tho peddler would tako n smnll
nnper cup from his pocket and draw a
glass of milk for tho thirsty youngster,
or pusserby. Tho carrier of tho metal
container wore a bright red turban
on his head. Ills trousers were broad
beamed of the same color and bis mus
tncho of tho kind figured In lltho
graphs of the ferocious Turk,
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The mother of six boys and three
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