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Copyright by Kathleen Norrlt
CHAPTER XIX Continued.
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lie got hack Into (lie motor cnr;
the man who drove them (iilckly to
word the vIU.v talked easily nnd
steadily to Peter, attempting to Inter
est nun in me aaalrH of homo water
company In .Sun Francisco. When thej
cot to the valley n city trnln wns nr.
rlvlnp, nnd Peter saw people looking
at him furtively nnd sorrowfully. He
rcmcmhercd the tunny, ninny times
Allx hnd waited for him at the trains :
lie glanced toward the lilg inadroiie
tinder which she alwayn parked her
car. She i-aH usually deep In a hook
ms he eroded from the train, hut she
would fling It Into the hack Heat and
make room for him hesldo her. The
dog would hound Into the tonneau,
Allx would linnd her hiiKhaml his
mull, tho car would start with a great
plunge toward the uiouuial i toward
tho cool garden high up on the ridge
Cherry looked umall nnd pathetic In
licr fresh hlack, and her lace was
marked hy secret Incessant weeping,
nut the nurbos and , doctors could not
uny enough for her self-control; she
was always composed, always quietly
helpful and calm when they saw her,
and she was always husy. From early
nornlng. when she slipped Into the
flick-room, to stand looking at tho tin
conscious Martin wllh u trouhled, In
tent expression that tho nurserf- cnine
o know well, until night, she moved
untiringly ahout the quiet, shaded
house. She supervised tile Chinese
boy, saw that the nurses had their
hours, for rest and exercise, telephoned,
dusted and arranged the rooms, saw
callers swefctly and patiently, lUled
vases with flowers.
Hvery day she hnd several vigils In
thp slek-room, nnd every day at least
one long tnlk with the doctors. livery
.afternoon nnd evening hnd Its callers';
Alio and Peter were rarely nlone.
Murtln was utterly unconscious of
the life thut flowed on ahout him;
sometimes he seemed to recognize
Ohorry, and would stare with painful
jutentness into her face, hut ufter n
few seconds his gaze would wander
ito tho strange nurses, and the room
thnt he hnd never known, and with
a puzzled sigh ho would close his eyes
again, untl drift hack Into his 'own
Grange world of pain, fever and un
consciousness. Almost every day there wns the
uddon summons and panic In the old
house, Peter going townrd the sick
room with a thick heating at his heart,
Cherry entering, whlte-faced and with
torrlllod eyes, doctors) nnd nurses gath
ering noiselessly near for the last
scene In the drama of Martin's sulTer
Ing. Hut the release did not come.
There would he murmuring among
tho doctors ami nurses ; tho pulse was
gaining, not losing. th apparently
fatal, llnnl symptoms were proving
neither fntnl nor tlnnl, The tension
would relax; ju doctor would go, a
ntirso slip from the room; Cherry,
looking anxiously from one face to
nnother, would hrcathe moro easily.
It was Inevitable, Bhe knew that now
hut It was not to he this minute; It
was not to he this hour I
"My- dear my dearl" Peter snid to
her ono day, when spent nnd shaken
he came stumbling from Martin's bed
aide and stood dazedly looking from
tho window Into thu sonklng October
forest, like n person stunned from a
blow. "My po6r little Cherry! If I
could spare you this!"
"Nobody can spnro me now!" she
whlspored. And very slmplv mid
quietly she added : "If I have been n
fool If I have beftn a selfish, wicked
girl nil my life, I am punished!
"Cherry!" lie protested, henrtslck to
eo her so,
"Wns It wrong for us to love each
ther, Peter?" she usked In a low tone.
"I suppose It was! I suppose It was!
But It never seemed us If" she shut
hor eyes nnd shivered "as lf-r-thls
would come of It I" site whispered.
"Thlsl" he echoed aghast.
"Oh, I think this Is punishment,"
Chorry continued, In the same lifeless,
weary tone.
There wns r silence. The rnhi
.flrlpped and dripped from the red
woods, the room In which they stood
nvna In twilight, even nt noon. Peter
could think of nothing to say.
,,
Ahout two weeks nfter the accident
there wns n chnnge in the tone of the
physicians who hnd been giving al
most, nil their time to Martin's case,
There was no visible change In Mar
tin, .but that fnct In Itself was so sur
prising thut It was construed Into a
definite hope that he would live.
Not na he hnd lived, they wnrned
hla wife. It would be but a restricted
life.; tied to his couch, or permitted,
at best, to move about within u smnll
boundary on crutches.
"Martin I" his wife exclaimed plte
u$ly, when this wns first discussed.
"He has always been so strong so
Independent! Ho wou'd rnthor he
would Infinitely rnther bo dead!" Hut
kef mind wn busy grasping tho pos
4bUItIec too. "Ho won't suffer too
uchr she asked fearfully.
They hastened to assure her thnt
the .chance of his even partlnl recov
ery ivn still slight, but thut In cuse
6b
of his coi vulescence Martin need not
necessarily suffer.
Another day or two went by In the
silent, raln-wrnpped house under the
trees; days of quiet footsteps nnd
whispering, and the lisping of wood
ph. Then Martin nuddenlv wns con
scions, knew his life, languidly smiled
at lier. thajkcd tho doctors for oc
eiislonal ease from pain.
"Peter I'm sorry. It's terrible for
you le.rrlhler' he said In his new,
hoarse, gentle voice, when ho llrst aaw
Peter. I hey marveled anionu them
solves- that he knew that Allx was
gone. lint to Cherry, In one of the
lout: hours thut she spent sitting be
side him nnd holding his big, weak,
strangely white hand, he explained
one day. "I knew she was killed." he
said, out of a silence. "I thought we
both were!"
"How did she ever hnppen to do It?"
Cherry said. ".She was always so sure
of herself even when she drove fast !"
"I don't know," he answered. "It
was all Jlke u flash, of course! 1
never wulched her drive I had such
confidence In her!"
His Interest dropped; she saw thnt
tho tide of pain wns slowly rlslnc
again, and glanced at the clock. It
was two; he might not have relief
until four, In his own eyes she saw
reflected tho apprehension of her own.
"You might ask Peter to piny some
of that that nimbly stuff 'he wns
playing yesterday?" he suggested.
Cherry, only too happy to .have him
want anything, to have him helped by
anything, flew to And Hotcr. Busy
with one of the trays tlmt were really
beginning to Interest and nlease the
Invalid now, she told herself thnt the
house was n different plnce, now that
one nurse wns gone, the doctors com-
Ing only for brief calls, and the denr,
rainillar sound of the old .piano echo
ing through tho rooms.
Martin came from the fiery furnace
changed In soul nnd body., It was n
thin, gentle, strangely pptlent mnn
"O, Mart! I Mind Only for You"
She Said.
who wns propped In bed for his
Thanksgiving dinner, and whose pain
worn face turned with an appreciative
smile to the decorations and the gifts
that mnde his room cheerful,
The heavy cloud lightened slowly
but steadily; Martin had a long talk,
dreaded by Cherry from the first hours
of tho aceldentwltli his physicians.
He bore the ultimatum with unex
pected fortitude.
"Let me get this straight," he said
slowly. "The arm Is O. K. and the
leg, hut tho buck"
Cherry, kneeling beside him, her
hands on his, drew a wincing breath.
Martin reassured her with an indul
gent nod.
"I've known It rlglltgnlong!" he tofd
her, He looked at the, doctors. "It's
no goV" ,
"I don't see why I should deceive
you, my dear boy," said tho younger
doctor, who had grown very fond of
him. "You can still heat me at bridge,
you know, you can read and write, mid
come to the table, after awhile; you
have your devoted wife to keep finding
new things for you to do ! Next sum
iner now a chair out In the garden"
Cherry was fearfully watching her
husband's fnce.
"We'll nil do what we enn to mnke
It easy, Marti" she whispered. In
tears.
lie looked at her with a whimsical
smile.
"Mind very much' taking enre of n
helpless man all your life?" he asked,
with a hint of his old confident man
ner. "O'j, Mart. I mind only for you!" she
snid. Peter, standing behind tho doe
tors, slipped from thu room unnoticed.
Lato that evening, when Martin was
asleep, Cherry enme noiselessly from
the sick-room, to find Peter nlone In
the dimly lighted sitting room. He
glnnced at her, feeling rather than
hearing her presence, ami called her.
"Come over here, will you, Cherry?
1 want to spook to you," '
e i ijr
ntiirIr" Y
Him came, with an Itinulrliti; and vet
not wholly unconscious look, to the
nresiue, nnd he stood tin to erect hor.
"Tired?" he asked, in an unnatural
voice.
"I I was Just going to bed," she
answered. Hesitatingly. Put she sat
uown, nevertheless: sank comfnrtnl.lv
.Into the chnlr opposite .Mb own, noil
stretciied her little feet, crossed nt the
ankle, before her, as If she were In
deed tired.
He knelt down beslde?her chnlr. and
gathered her cold hands Into one of
his own. "Whnl nre you nnd 1 going
to tio?" he naked.
She looked nt him In terror.
"Hut nil thnt Is chnngedl" she snid.
quickly, fearfully.
"Why Is It changed?" he countered.
) iovc you I linve nlwn.vs loved von
since the days long ago, In this very
nouse I I can't stop It now. And you
love me, (jherryr
"Yes, I shall always love you," she
nnswered, agitatedly, nfter n pause In
which sue looked nt him with troubled
eyes. "P.ut but you must sec that
we cannot ennnot think of nil that
now, she ndded with difficulty. "I
couldn't full Mnrtln now, when he
needs me so!"
air .. . . i
;f ue neons you now," Peter conced
ed, "and I don't nsk you to do nnv
thing tlint must distress him now. Hut
in a few months, when his mother
comes down for n visit von must tell
them honestly that you euro for me,"
ue sniu.
Cherry was trembling violently.
"Put how could I!" she nrotested.
"Toll him that I am eolnc nwnv. n.
sertlng him when he most needs me!"
t'eter nnd grown very pale.
"Put" ho stnmmered. his fnce
close to hers "but you cannot mean
that this Is the end?"
She moved her litis as If she was
nbout to spenk: looked nt him hlnnklv.
Then suddenly tenrs came, nnd she
wrenched her hands free from his,
nnd laid her nrms about his neck. Her
wet cheek wns nressed to his own. nnd
he put his arms tightly nbout the Ut
ile snaisen Hgure.
"Peter!' she whlsnored. dosolntelv.
And nfter a time, when the violence of
Her sobs wns lessened, nnd she wns
breathing more quietly, she said
again: "Peter 1 Wo can never drenm
unit dream again."
"Wo shall dream it again," he cor
rected her.
Cherry did not nnswer, for a long
while. Then she gently disengaged
herself from his arms, and sat ciect.
Her tenrs were ended now, nnd her
voice llrmer nud surer.
"No; never ngnlnl' she told him.
"I've been thinking nbout It, till these
days, and I've come to seo what Is
right, as I never did before. Allx
never knew about us, Peter and
that's been the one thing for which I
could be thnnkful In nil this time! But
Allx had only one hope for me, nnd
that was thnt somehow Martin and I
would como to be well, to be nearer
to each other, nnd tfint somehow he
and I would make a success of our
murrluge, would spare well, let's sny
tho family name, from all tho disgrace
nnd publicity of a divorce "
"Put, Cherry, my child" Peter ex
postulated. "You cunnot sacrifice ull
your life to tho fancy that no one else
can take your placo with him"
"That," she snid, steadily, "Is Just
what I must do!"
Peter looked nt her for a few sec
onds without speaking.
"You don't love him," he snid.
"No," she, admitted, gravely. "I
don't lovo him not In the way you
mean,"
"He Is nothing to you," Peter argued.
"As a matter of fact, It never wns
what a marriage should be. It was
a I wa y s n 1 way s n mistake."
"Yes," she couceded, sadly, "It was
always a mistake!"
"Then there Is nothing to bind you
to hlml" Peter added.
"No and there Isn't Allx to distress
now!" she agreed, thoughtfully. "And
yet," she went on, suddenly, "I do this
more for Allx than for any one I'
Peter looked at her in silence,
looked back at the Inst flicker of the
fire.
"You will change your mind after
awhile!" ho snid.
Cherry rose from tho chair, and
stood with dropped head and troubled
eyes, looking down at tho Hnme.
"No. I shall never change my
mind!" sho said, In a low tone that
was still strangely firm and flnal for
her. "For live or ten or twenty or
thirty years I shall always be where
Murtln Is, caring for him, nmusliiff
him, making a life for him," And
Cherry raised her glorious blue eyes
In which thoro wns a pure and an up
lifted look that Peter had never seen
thero before. "It Is what Dad and
Alls would have wished," she finished,
solemnly, "aud I do It for them 1"
Peter did not answer; und after a
moment sho went quietly and quickly
from the room, with tho new air' of
quiet responsibility that she had Worn
ever slnco the accident.
chaptFr XX.
Peter saw, with a sort of stupefac
tion, that life whb satisfying her now
as life had never satisfied restless, ex
acting little Cherry before.
KATHLEEN
NORMS
She spent much of her free time hy
her husbnnd's side, amusing him as
skillfully us a mother. He was gt
ting so popular thnt she hnd to oe
ready for callers every day. Would he
like her to keen nnnnm .... II c.
- -- i r. . mi iui
dinner, w&cn they could play dominoes
ngninr would he like the tnble with
tho picture puzzle.?. . Ue, .would like
Just to tnlk? Very well; they would
tniK.
Martin's day was so filled nml
divided with small pleasures thnt It
was apt to amaze lifm by passing too
quickly. Ho had special breakfasts,
ho had his paper, his hair was brushed
ami his lied remade a dozen tlni ,.
day. Cherry shared I icr mall, u-liffh
was nlwnys heavy now. with him; she
uuieu into the sick-room every few
minutes with smnll mcssniro or clft
With her bare, bright bend, her busy
wnue nntids. her voice all motherly
nniusement nnd sympathy mid sweet
ness, slid had never secaied so much
n wlfo. She hnd tile olensnntest Inlleli
In the world, and she oft on liiiit'linil
The sick-room was kept with exquisite
simplicity, witn such freshness, bare
ness, and order ns mnde It n nlnre nt
delight. One day Cherry brought home
great Vlkory bow of sllverv rrln:i.
nd n dozen drifting goldfish, nnd Mar
tin never tired of wntchlng them Idly
vvnne ue listened to her rendlnc.
cuerrj," Peter said, on n wet .Tnim.
nry day, when he came upon her In the
(lining room, contentedly arranging a
fragrant mass of wet violets, "r thitit
Mnrtln's out of the woods now. I be
lieve I'll be moving nlong!"
Oh, but we want von nlwnvs. Pa.
tori" she said. Innocently regretful.
a no gnost or n nnlned smile flitted
across his face.
"Thank you." he snid. centlv. "Rut
I think I will go." he ndded. mlldlv.
She. mnde no further protest.
"But where?" she asked, svmnn.
thetlcaily.
"I don't know. I shnll take Puck-
start off townrd the big mountnlns.
i li write you now nnd then, of course 1
I'm going home, first!"
"Just now," Cherry mused, sndlv.
'perhnps It Is best for von to tret
nwnyl Now thnt Mnrtln Is so numb
better," she ndded, In n llttle'burst. "I
ao feel so sorry for you, Peter! I
know how you feel. I shall miss he
nlwnys, of course," snid Cherry, "but
I Have him."
"I try not to think of her." Pnu.r
said, flinging up his head.
When you do." Cherrv said, earn
estly, giving him more of her attention
thnn had been usual, of lnte, "Here Is
something to think, Peter. It's this:
we have so much to be thnnkful for,
becnuse sho never knew I It wns
madness," Cherry went on, eagerly,
"sheer madness thnt Is clear now. I
don't try to explain It, because It's all
ucen washed away by the frightful
thing thnt hnppened. I'm different
now; you're different I don't know
now we ever thought we could"
There wus a silence durlnc which
she looked nt him anxiously, but tho
expression on his face did not ulter,
and he did not spenk.
"And what I think we oucht to be
thnnkful for." she resumed. "Is thnt
Allx would rnther she would rnther
Have It this way. She told me tlint
she would be heart-broken If there had
been any actual separation between
me and Mnrtln, and how much worse
that would have been what wo
planned, I mean. She was snared
that, nnd we were spared I see It
now whnt would have ruined both ou'
lives. We were brought to our senses.
and the awakening only came a littlo
sooner than It would have come nuy-
way 1"
Peter had wnlked to the window.
and wns looking out nt the shabby
winter trees thnt wero drlniilnsr rain.
nnd at the beaten garden, where the
drenched chrysanthemums hud been
bowed to tho soaked earth.
"Here. In Dad's homo." Che rrv snid.
coming to stand beside him, "I see
how wicked and how mad I was. In
another twenty-four hours It would
nave ncen too late you don't know
how often I wake ud In the nlirht nnd
shiver, thinking thnt! And us It Is,
I nm hero In the denr old house; nml
Mnrtln well, you enn see thnt oven
-Martin's llfo Is going to bo fnr happier
than It ever was! It's such n Joy to
me," she added, with the radiant look
she often wore when her hiudutnd's
cointort was under consideration, "to
reel that wo need never Worrv nhont
the money . end of things there's
enough for whnt wo, need forever!"
cro BE CONTINUED.)
Tho "Sage of Montlcello."
The "Sago of Montlcello" was a so-
briquet bestowed unon Thomas .Terror.
son, in allusion to the wisdom dis
played by him In pollticnl nfTalrs dur
ing his residence at Montlcello, Va
after his retirement from the presi
dency.
Truth and Inquiry,
Truth never lost ground by Inquiry:
becnuse sho Is, most of all, reason
able. William Penn.
A Saving Grace.
Nothing will cheer up a homely man
more than to tell him he bus character
lu his fuce.
HUNT FOR COUGAR
PROVES SUCCESSFUL
Slaying of Beast Winds Up Career
of Livestock Slaughter in
Washington.
Montesnno, Wash. A slx-ycnr-hunt
for a cougar ended here when the unl
nml was treed and killed. Tho slay
ing of this mountain cat ended u beast
with a notorious reputation for de
stroying hogs, sheep, calves and, in
one or two Instances, cattle.
Handlers nlong North river have
lOllg ntteillpted to end the onrenr nt
this killer, who two or three times
eacli week would Invade a farming
center and malm und destroy live stock
for Hie sake of slaughter. A number
of years ago. In the dead of winter, n
cougar killed thirty sheep and three
cnives on one farm In a single night,
eating hut little of one sheep. From
tracks left In the soft snow It was seen
that each foot of the anlinnl possessed
out three Instead of four toes.
Every winter since this same cougar
with the three-toed feet has boon no
counted for In some locality up or
HUZifU.
Cornered and Killed.
down tho North river, Easily tracked
because of its deformity, many hunt
ers und truppors vainly soucht to lo-
cate Its lair.
This summer a covornhiont hunter
from tho Ilalnler national forest re.
serve, hearing of this cougar, enmo
and brought some trained dogs wiyi
him. From tho Inst scene of enrnago
the dogs tracked the coucur seven
miles Into a rock fastness of the Ta-
toosh range, nnd he was cornered and
killed on a slide of shale.
t Woman Sits on Captive
in Shoplifting Chase.
t New York. Carlos Teres of
J 14 West Eighty-fourth stfeet, t
t welcomed the arrival of Detec-
J tlve Joseph Phefnn on the side- '
walk outside of Macv's dnrmrt-
ment sjore. When, Phelan ar, J
rived Miss Etta Kerwin, a store t
, detective, who had been sitting
' on Teres, got up nnd Teres f
, wnlked to tho West Thirtieth J
street station. t
t Miss Kerwin said she saw J
J xeres pics up four card cases
i valued at $11.70 and start out i
t without paying. She ran after
t him, caught him at the curb,
J whirled him around nnd knocked '
t him down with n smashing right t
hook. Then she snt on the cap- J
tlve and whistled for a police- $
I mail. In Jefferson Market court '
Teres was held In $1,500 ball t
t for speclnl sessions. '
WALKS IN SLEEP; DROWNS
Young Girl Camping With Relatives
Near River when Tragedy
Occurs.
Astorin. Ore. While walklnc In hor
sleep Morna Muy McWaln, thirteen-
year-oid dnugnter of Mr. nnd Mrs.
Douglns McWnln of Knnsas CItv. foil
Into tho Necancum river at Seaside,
near here, and was drowned. Tho
girl had gone with her uncle, hor
mother nnd grandmother to tho beach
resort for the week-end. The party
drove to tho place. Not finding quar
ters at the hotels, the members of
the party parked their car near the
river anil camped for the night. About
2:30 o'clock In tho morning they were
awakened by screams from the little
girl struggling In the river. The
body was recovered several hours later.
TIES WIFE UP EVERY NIGHT
Jealous Husband Afraid She Will
Desert Him and Takes
Precautions.
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nent physician told the police her hus
band, who Is Insanely Jealous, ties
her wrist to his wrist' nnd her ankle
to his unklu each night before retiring,
becnuse ho fours she will desert him.
A fishing line Is used, she suld. She
asked police what to do.
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