News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-16
SYNOPSIS.

AK and Cherry, the latter just eighteen
Strickland. retired, is living at Mill VAL
ley, a short distance from San Francisco.
HiS closest friend is Peter joyce, some
cinity, Martin Lloyd mining engineer,
falls in love with and secretly becomes
engaged to Cherry
CHAPTER II-While the family Is
specializing as to Lloyd's intentions. Cher
ry brings him to supper, practically an
nouncins her engagement to him
CHAPTER III.-Doctor Strickland feels
Cherry Is too. young to marry and urges
her to walt at least a year, but the girl
coaxes him into agreeing to an immediate
wedding and the ceremony takes place
the couple leaving at once for Ell Nido,
where Martin Is employed.
CHAPTER IV.-The honeymoon days
over, Cherry begins to feel a vague dis
satisfaction with Martin and the monot-
ony of her daily life.
CHAPTER Vat Mill Valley Justin
th nte a laWyer becomes engagea to Anne
some months distant. Alix visits Cherry
at Ell Nido and the two girls coax Mar
tin into allowing Cherry to go home for
Anne's wedding.
CHAPTER Win her fathers house
Cherry contrasts the peaceful, happy life
there with her rather sordid existence at
81 Nido and realizes that her marriage
has been something of failure. Doctor
Strickland feeling that Cherry is not be-
Ing fair to Martin. in that she is unduly
prolonging her visit after Annes we'd
ding, urges her to return to her husband.
She makes preparations for her departure.
CHAPTER VII-Peter Joyce tells Cher
~ he has had one grand passion" in his
does not reveal her name Ch her i,- retoins
her buSha IA ava --'''-'o Ae'oi""
"e' N0'0""'
CHATTER Ola Vlll.-The young wife,s dis
mos opeo breaE Nsrin int has ag1e brief smell
OF SICKNESS ana something OF her OLD feel-
err, r, ~ .
stricken suddenly with what all perceive
Is fatal Illness. Alix summons Cherry
to to-! her fathers deathbed After the doc
he had borrowed money from Annes ia
Their and seemingly the debt was never
discharged. With accumulated interest
the amount practically consumes all the
money the doctor left. Justin Little
makes 1t manifest that he viii Insist on
girls are left with practically nothing.
CHAPTER X.-Peter Joyce, who has
been on a trip practically around the
doctors death. He hears of Anne's posi-
ton with regard to the money with deep
disgust. AliX has the home and is max
ing fair living singing. Joyce urges her
to marry him she consents and they
nave simple wedding and go to Joyces
nome to live, ideally happy.
CHAPTER XII. Martin and Cherry
leave Ell Nido and go to Red Creek, a
change somewhat for the better, but
Cherry retains the old feeling of dissatis-
faction. She visits Peter and Alix, and
while there comes to realization that
she loves Peter Though she has never
known it, Cherry is the woman whom
Peter had in mind when he told her of
his grand passion" He has never
ceased to love her, and the situation now
becomes tragic.
Gi a Ali-fe'er ionies Siea faai
ing for him. A situation bordering on
nq h gu as Is crertea n r. me he eS
he mad borrowed. Anne's claim falls to
e se e .a}I anu AtlH ana SmGrlS o aae
their tragic position. Peter vainly seeks
ass s9peIoh Wnfh S barr ah nd t b} se hui
there seems no way
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YIoyd's aunt has her suspicious concern
ing Peter and Cherry and the lovers feel
'''e u"isei u TIC s''0a ''o"'
CHAPTER XIv.-Joyce urges Cherry
10 IeaVe Martlh anu 20 away o W1'n ,,i nun
they can live their lives together. She
aay G9n9sts. feeling t Ia AIN VIII or
their journey.
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parture arrives. Peter had gone into San
Francisco, where Cherry was to meet MIN
the boat Cherry meets Martin, who has
left his situatlop "a at Red creek ana ana Is on
ages to get word to Peter and goes back
to Alix's home with Martin. On the way
1he truth about her feeling for him Mar
tin processes himself unable to under
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