The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-09-30

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..He Was in the engine Room and He
Kinder-Fainted."
engine room and he kinder-he
kinder"
..Fainted? Cherry asked sharply.
turning little pale.
well. kinder. Lawson made him
ny down., Joe said And he's COM
ing home when the wagon comes down,
II three o'clock. He says to tell you
hes fine I"
-Oh. thank you, Joer Cherry said
She shut the door. feeling weak and
frightened. She flew to unpack her
bag. hung up her hal and coat. dark
ened the bedroom and turned down
tile bed waited anxiously for Mart's
return
She was deeply concerned over the
news from Martin, Cherry met his
limp form at the front door, and
yhisked him into a cool bed and put
chopped ice on the aching forehead
and got him, grateful and penitent, off
to sleep.
For day or two Martin stayed in
bed and Cherry spoiled and petted
him, and was praised and thanked for
every step she took. After that they
took little trip into the mountains
near by, and Cherry sent Alix post
cards that made her sister feel almost
pang of envy.
But then the routine began again,
and the fearful heat of midsummer
came, too. Red Greek baked in
smother of dusty heat, the trees In
the dry orchards. beside the dry road,
dropped circles of hot shadow on the
clodded. rough EARTH Farms dozed
under shimmering lines of dazzling air
and in the village. from ten o'clock
until the afternoon began to wane.
| there was no stir. Flies buzzed and
| settled on screen doors, the creek
] shrunk away between crumbling rocky
] banks. the butcher closed his shop and
| milk soured in the bottles
The Turner's and some other fami-
lies always eamped together in the
mountains during this season, and .ney
We're off when school closed. in an
L IAFittbAS E1zAklSS tALA dhA4NAB0-
ton. Cherry had planned to join them,
but an experimental weekend was
enough. The camp was In the cool
woods, truly, but 1t was disorderly,
| swarming with children, the tents were
small and hot, the whole settlement
/ laughed and rioted and surged to and
/ fro in q manenr utterly foreign to her.
She returned, to tell Martin that 1t
was horribly common" and weather
i the rest of the summer In Red Creek
Martin sympathized. He had never
cared particularly for the Turner'S !;
was perfectly willing to keep the
friendship within bounds.
/ He sympathized as little with an
] other friendship she made. some
/ months later, with the wife of young
engineer who had recently come to the
mine. Pauline Runyon was few
years older than her husband, hand
some. thin, intense woman, who did
everything in an entirely individual
way She took one of the new little
bungalows that were being erected in
Red Greek Park" and furnished it
richly and inappropriately, and estab-
lished tea table and samoyar be-
side the open fireplace. Cherry began
to like better than anything else In the
world the hours spent with Pauline
Pauline read Browning, Francis
Thompson and Pater. and introduced
Cherry to new worlds of thought She
talked to Cherry of New York, which
she loved, and of the men and women
she had met there She sometimes
sighed and pushed the bright hair back
from Cherry's young and innocent and
disconnected little face, and said ten
derby: "On the stage, my dear-any-
where anywhere, you would be a
furore i'
And thinking. In the quiet evenings
for Martins work kept him later
and later at the mine-Cherry came
to see that her marriage had been q
great mistake. She had not been ready
for marriage. She would sit on the
back steps, as the evenings grew cool
er, and watch the exquisite twilight
fade, and the sorrow and beauty OF
life would wiring her heart.
A dream of ease and alteration and
beauty came to her. She did not visu.
alize any special place. any special
gown or hour or person. But she saw
her beauty fittingly environed; she saw
cool rooms. darkened against this blaz
Ing midsummer glare; heard Ice cIink
ing against glass; the footsteps of at
tentive maids; the sound of cultivated
voices, OF music and laughter. She
had had these dreams before. but they
were becoming habitual now She wa!
so tired-so sick-so bored with he
real life; 1t was becoming increasingly
harder and harder for her TO live witt
Martin. She was always In sup
pressed state of. waptlpgatn break out