News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-08-31

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of utter establishment The child was
beauty.
Her eighteenth birthday Martin
had been shown her birthday gifts
books and a silver belt buckle and a
gold pen and stationery and handker.
chiefs. A day or two later she had
had another gift; had opened the tiny
Shreve box with sudden hammering
at her heart, with presage of delight.
She had found silver-topped candy
jar, and the card of Mr.. John Martin
Lloyd, and under the name. In tiny
letters, the words "Oh, nudge |" The
| girls laughed over this nonsense APP.
preciatively, but there was more than
laughter in Cherry's heart.
from that moment the world was
changed. Her father, her sister, her
cousin had second place, now. Cherry
/ mad put out her innocent little hand,
and had opened the gate, and had
passed through it into the world. That
hour was the beginning, and it had led
her surely, steadily, to the other hour
tonight when she had been kissed,
and had kissed in return.
'So-we walk home with young
men" unused the doctor, smiling.
Look here, girls, this little Miss Muf-
fet Will be cutting you both out with
that young man, If you're not care
fulw
Alix, deep in her story did not hear
him, but Anne smiled family, and
family frOwned as she shook her
head. She considered Cherry suffi-
GENTLY precocious without Uncle Lees
ill-considered tolerance.
He would have had them always
children, this tender, simple, innocent
DR.. Strickland He was in many
ways child himself. He had never
made money in his profession he and
his wife and the two tiny girls had
had a hard enough struggle sometimes.
Anne and her own father had Joined
the family eight years ago, in the
same year that the Strickland patent
fire extinguisher, over which the doc
tor had been puttering for years, had
been sold 1t did not sell, as his
neighbors believed, for a million dol
lars, but for perhaps one-tenth of that
sum. 1t was enough, and more than
enough, whatever 1t was After
Anne's father died 1t meant that the
doctor could live on In the brown
house under the redwoods, with his
girls, reading, fussing with new in
vention, walking, consulting with
Anne, laughing at Alix, and spelling
his youngest-born.
1t was a perfect life for the old |
man; it was only lately that he begun |
lneasily to suspect that they would |
some day want something more, that
hey would some day tire Of empty |
forest and blowing mountain ridge,
md go away from the shadow of Mt.
and into the world.
Anne, noW-was she beginning to
ancy this young Lloyd? DR.. Strick-
and was surprised with the fervor
With which he repudiated the thought.
This young engineer, who had drifted
lready into dozen different and dis
ant places, was not the man for staid
title Anne.
What did you want to see Mr..
lloyd about tomorrow, DadT Cherry
Interrupted his thoughts co ask.
1.-THE rose vine. What did he say
bout coming over, Cherry?"
Cherry remarked, between two rend-
lg yawns, that Mr.. Lloyd was coming
yer tomorrow at ten o'clock, and
eter, too
peter won't be much good" Alix
Cherry looked at her re-
you're awfully mean to Peter, late
'w she protested Her father gave
ar a shrewd look with his good night
ISIS, and Immediately afterward both
re younger girls dragged their way
. to bed. {
Alix and Cherry shared a bare, t
room tucked away I'M S
er brown caves. The walls were Of
NV pine, the latticed windows, In ;
iUSdIOW IdSulOll, Opcueu iltO llio |
agrant darkness Of the night. The !
IDS were really hunks, and above her c
INK each girl had an extra berth, for q
caslOnal guests. There was scant e
ettiness in the room, and yet it was n
IL of purity and charm. The girls, a
re all their neighbOrs, were hardy, | b
ed to cold baths, long walks, simple a
,urs, and simple food. In the soft c
astern climate they left their bed J b
ON windows open the year round; "
ey liked to wake to winter damp
ID fog, and go downstairs with blue a
ger-tips and chattering teeth, to o
arm themselves with breakfast and
e fire. 81
Alix rolled herself In a gray army Fl
anket, and was asleep In some sixty Il
conds. But Cherry felt that she was Fl
ating in seas of new joy and utter m
light, and that she would never be t.
,epy again. D,
Anne and the doctor sat II
idly on, the man dreaming with d fC