The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-10-13
Sisters
BY
KATHLEEN
NORRIS

Copyright sy KaEhls@n Morris
"AsleepT she asked.

hint of unhappiness. but she did not
stop TO anaIyze it. She went bacK
through his room. and through the ut
tie passage, and rejoined Martin. Inc
freedom of Peters apartment AK
had always taken as naturally as she
did the freedom of her fathers.
"Can't hear US, ehg Martin asked, |
when again she stood b side MN.
positively not!' sire answered
Look here" he said. abruptly. |
.'What brought ME up here is this. |
Who's making love to therryr
Indignant, and with rising color, she
stared at him.
'sWho-what! u
"She's having q nice little quiet fir
tation with somebody, Martin SAID
with significant and warning smile
"Who is it?"
81 don't know who's been taking
to you about Cherry, Martin. AK
said, sharply, "but you know you cant
repeat that sort of rotten scandal TO
mep
81 don't mean any harm-I don't
mean any harm" he assured her, Win
quick attempt to quiet the storm ne
had raised. ''Don't get mad-don
get mad! But happen to know that
there's some attraction that's keeping
Cherry here, and | came up to look
over the ground for myself, do you
see? Come on, now, put me on
AIix made an effort at self-control.
Martin, you're mistaken!" she said,
quietly. you have no right to listen
TO any one who tells you such things
and liz it wasn't that you're Cherry
husband 1 wouldn't listen to you! But
you'll have to take my word for IL
that it's a lie. We three have lived
I'D here without seeing any one-any
one! Cherry has hardly spoken to
man, except Peter and Antoine ana
Kow. since she came
'Who is this George Sewall?" he
asked, shrewdly.
"The lawyer! Oh. heavens, Martin
Why, George was beau Of mine; mes
a widower of fifty, and has just an
nouneed his engagement 10 the trained
nurse that took care Of his boy ]?
"H'm!" Martin commented.
"If any one mentioned Cherry's name
in connection with George" Alix said,
firmly, that was perfectly malicious
SANDER"
"SewalPs wasn't mentioned" Mar
tin said, hastily.
sWhOSe name was mentioned,
then?' Alix pursued, holly.
'Well, nobody's name was men
toned" Martin took great many
creased and rubbed papers from his
vest pockets, and shifted them over
Finally, with fat, deliberate hand he
selected one and put the others away
"This is from my mother" he said
MY aunt, Mrs. North"
"We saw her here, week or TIVE
agol" .Alix said as he paused.
''Well, she was in Portland, and saw
the folks said Martin. "And my
mother writes me this" And aftel
a few seconds of searching he reat
from the letter:
"sBessie North saw Cherry and Mrs
Joyce in Mill Valley, and if / was yol
l would not let Cherry stay away too
long. A wife's place is with her nus
band, especially when she is as prett
as Cherry, and if Bessie is right some
OOuy G1SG l1l1AhS sue pA<LtSt ~ $50
you know it doesn't take much TO star
people talking. 1t isn't like she ha
q couple of children to keep her busy
that's all of that, said MartiI
folding the letter. He eyed Alix keen
ly. "Well, what do you think?" h
asked triumphantly.
'T think that's mean, wicked thin
to sayr she said, Indignantly. M
Martini she said. silencing him, a
he would have interrupted her,
know she is beautiful and young, an
l know-because she's told me-tha
you and she feel that your marriage
a mistake. but if you think
ooh, she said that, did she? Nov
look here with his air of assuranc
by George she had something on hi
mind when she met me today. ST
was fused, all right, and it wasn't a
the surprise of seeing me. either. Fir
she wanted to telephone you-the
she fused over your message"
CHERRY gets futtered very easily
Alix reminded him.
'swell, she was fused all right tn
morning. She said not to mention
to Alix, because she had promise
that 1t should go on time. / thong
maybe she meant that you wanted h
to go herself; no, she said, a no
would de-
81 don't know what you're talkii
about ~ AliH said, puzzled.
"Your note y Martin explained.
what note / didn't write any mo-
Cherry telephoned-"
NO." he said, patiently and p'
functorily, "you wanted-Cherry- to
say good-by = to-those-p people
Misunderstanding That was q
She wrote it; it got there in time
guess. Anyway, l heard the girl $
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