The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-20
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22S2S2eS2S2a22s&2eSfe22eS2eS2eS2sS2 Martin asked, after a pause
 "Pm not kickingi' Cherry answer | ed, with quick resentment. But I wish I had words to make you real | ize how feel about iti'
 Martin looked gloomily up at her, and shrugged.
 This is a sweet welcome from your wifer he observed. But as she re- garded him with troubled and earn. est eyes. perhaps her half-forgotten beauty made an unexpected appeal to him, for he turned toward her and eyed her with large tolerance you've got much to kick about. Haven't always taken pretty good care of you? Didn't I take the house and move the things in; didn't
 leave you a whole month. while I ate at that rotten boarding-house, 1 when your father died; haven't let you have-how long is it? seven weeks, by George, with your sis
 Cherry recognized the tones of his | old arraigning voice. He felt him. self i1l-treated.
 Nov you come In for this money" he began. But she interrupted him hotly:
 Martin, you know that is not true"
 "Isn't it true that the instant you can take care of yourself you begin to talk about not being happy, and so onl" he asked, without amy par, par, Why, I never cared anything about that money, you never heard me speak of it. I always felt that by the time the lawyers and the heirs and the witnesses got through, there wouldn't be much left of it, any, wayl'
 Too rich in her new position of the with Martin in the old unhappy fash ion, Cherry laid an appealing hand on his arm.
 '.I'm sorry to meet you with this sort of thing" she said, simply, 'I blame myself now for not writing you l just how I've come to feel about 1t. We must make some arrangemen for the future-things can't be as they | were!"
 "You've had it all your way ever Now you blame fne-
 'I don't blame you, Martini "Well, what do you want a divorce for, then?"
 "I don't even say anything about divorce" Cherry said, fighting for time only. ''But I can't go back!' she added, with a sudden force and conviction that reached him at last.
 "Why can't you?'
 .'Because you don't love me, Mar tin, and-you know it!-I don't love
 'wen. but you can't expect the way we felt when we got married to last forever,'f he said, clumsily. DO you suppose other men and women talk this way when the-the novelty has worn off ?"
 "I don't know how they talk. I only know how I feel!' Cherry sa1d' i chilled by the old generalization. Martin, who had stretched his legs to their length. crossed them at the angles. and showed his hands deep ! s~+, 1,;e nfG cfE n a , blue water with so-nbre eyes. What do you want?" he asked heavily.
 q want to live my own life!" Cher : ry answered after a silence during , during which her tortured spirit
 seemed to coin the hackneyed phrase, '"That stuff" Martin sneered, under
 care. get your divorcel" he agreed, , careiessly But I'll have something | to say about that, too" he warned , her. You can drag the whole thing only remember. if you don't like II . much, you did it. It never occurred I to me even to think of such thing!
 you never asked me for anything I , could give you that you didn't get; f you've never been tied down to house
 work like other women; you re n9' tell every shop-girl in San Francisco 3 all about it in the papers, and see I how much sympathy you get! I 'Oh, you beast!' Cherry said, be- F tween her teeth, furious tears in her
 sys sIas pere Ts1er heT as sW they n rose to go = downstairs at Sausalito.
 Martin glanced at her with impa- - tience. Her tears never failed to 2 @Don't cry, for Gods sake!" he
 9oookrs Eane!RT What a1GTt ao f96 s want me to do? For the Lord . sake don't make a scene until you and | have a chance to talk this over
 Cherry's thoughts were with Peter r In her soul she felt as if his arm was r about her. as if she were pouring out = to him the whole troubled story, sure
 that he would rescue and console her - She had wiped her eyes, and some, s what recovered calm, but she trusted 2 herself only to shrug her shoulder as f she preceded Martin to the train There was no time for another
 word. for Alix suddenly took posses - sion of them. She had had time tc F bring the car all the six miles to Sau, r saiito, and meant to drive them direct e to the valley from there
 She greeted Martin affectfonately a although even while she did so hei f eyes went with a quick, worried leoR = to Cherry They had been quarrel I ing of course-it was too bad. Al12 ,. thought, but her own course was !, clear Until she could take her cue = from them she must treat them both : with cheerful unconsciousness of the 2 storm.
 They reached the valley and Martin
 was magma nimous about the deiaYeo - lunch Anything would do for him Q he said; he was taking couple ol . deys, holiday. and everything went
 Kow was chopping wood after lunch s and he sauntered out to the oleck .,ls = with suggestions; Alix; laying m nTe
 for the evening. simply because sht f liked to do that sort of work was was = favored with directions. Finally : Martin pushed her aside.
 Here. let me do that" he said n "Yon'd have a fine fire here, at thai
 rate!" s Later he went down to the old house
 with them, to epend there an hou1 = that was trying to both women. I
 was almost in order now: Cherry hae -l,- l. f,x 1 iaa a