News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-02

Martin would wait at that door.
Suddenly she realized that her only
hope of warning Peter was to send
a messenger. But if Martin should
chance to connect her neighborhood
| with the boat, when he met her, and
her sending of a message to Peter
| here
81 think there's a boat at eleven
| something" she said, collectively.
Suppose you go and find out?"
She glanced toward the entrance
Of the Sausalto waiting-room, hun
dred yards away, and a mad hope
leaped in her heart. If he turned his
back on her
What are you going to dor he
asked, somewhat surprised.
II ought to telephone Alix!" Her
despair lent her wit. If he went to
the ticket office, and she into a tele-
phone booth, she might escape him
yet While he dawdled here, minutes
were flying, and Peter was watching
every car and every passer-by, torn
with the same agony that was tearing
her. IF you'll go find out the exact
time and get tickets" she said, "Tll
telephone Alix."
"Tickets?" he echoed, with all Mar
tins old, maddening slowness.
Haven't you got a return ticketY
81 have mileage" she blundered.
"Oh, then I'll use your mileage!"
Martin said. Telephone" he added
nodding toward row of booths, mo
hurry; we've got piles Of time!"
She remembered that he liked a
masculine assumption of easiness
where all trains, tickets, railroad con-
nections, and transit business of any
sort We're concerned. He liked to loi.
ter elaborately while other people
were running, liked to pull out his
big watch and assure her that they had
all the time in the world. She tried
to cali a number, left the booth, paid
a staring girl, and rejoined him.
Busy" she reported.
Il was just thinking" Martin said,
that we might stay in town and go
to the Orpheum how about it? Do
we have to have Peter and Alix?"
Cherry flushed, angered again, in
the well-remembered way, under all
her fright and stir. Her voice had
its old bored note.
well, Martin, I've been their guest
for two months"
I'D just as soon have them !" Mar
tin conceded, indifferently.
But the diverted thought had helped
Cherry, irritation had nerved her, and
the reminder of Martins old, trying
stupidities had lessened her fear of
him.
I've got to send a telegram-for
AliX," she said.
what about?" he asked, less curl
Gus than Inbred.
"Goodby to some people who are
sailing" Cherry answered, calmly.
only don't mention it to AliX, because
l promised it would go earler!" she
added.
Il saw the office back here" he told |
her. They went to it together, and |
he was within five feet of her while |
she scrubbed her note.
Martin met me- Nothing wrong. |
We are returning to Mill Valley. c.
L." She glanced at her husbands he |
was standing in. the doorway of the |
little office, smoking. Quickly she ad- |
dressed the envelope. Don't read
that name out loud" she said softly
but very slowly and distinctly, to the
girl at the desk. She put gold piece
down on the note. Keep the change,
and for Gods sake get that to the
Harvard, sailing from Dock CT, before
eleven" she said.
The girl looked up in surprise but
'oSe Immediately to the occasion |
Cherry's beauty, her agonized eyes
md voice, we're enough to awaken her
;ense of the dramatic. A sharp rap
# the clerks pencil summoned a boy.
George, there's dollar in. that for
on if you deliver it before eeven to
he Harvard !" said she. The boy
eized it, stuck it in his hat, and fled.
"And now for the boat !" Cherry
aid, rejoining Martin, and speaking
I almost her natural voice. They
'ent back to the Sausalito ferry en-
'ance again, and this time telephoned
Xix in real earnest, and presently
)und themselves on the upper deck Of
lie boat, bound for the valley.
Until now, and in occasional rushes
terror still, she had been absorbed 1
! the hideous necessity of deceiving, ]
covering her own traces, of antici-
ating and closing possible avenues 1
betrayal. But now Cherry began
, breathe more easily, and to feel
sing about her, like a tide, the half
'rgotten consciousness of her rela-
onship with this man in the boldly
lecked suit who was sitting beside Z
ar. She had thought to escape the '
acessity of telling him that she was {
IT willing to return to him; she had L
zen wrapped in dreams so great and {
wonderful that the thought of his b
lger and resentment had been as moth :
G to her But she had that to face
wv.
She had II to face Immediately, too.
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