The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-09-29

ley, a short distance from San Francisco
His closest friend is Peter Joyce, some
Trims of a recluse. Visiting in the vi
cinity, Martin Lloyd, mining engineer
falls in love with and secretly becomes
engaged to Cherry.
CHAPTER IL-While the family Il
specializing as to Lloyd's intentions. Cher
ry brings him TO supper, practically an
nouncing her engagement to him.
CHAPTER uI.-Doctor Strickland feels
Cherry is too young to marry and urgeI
her TO wait at least a year, but the CIR
coaxes him into agreeing to an immediate
weodlng and the ceremony takes place
The couple leaving at once for Ell Nido
whore 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 Mil Valley, Justin
Little, lawyer, becomes engaged to Anne,
me wedding being set for September,
some months distant. Alix visits Cherry
at FL Nido and the two girls coax Mar
Anne's wedding.
CHAPTER Win her fathers house
Cherry contrasts the peaceful. happy life
there with her rather sord1d existence at
FL N1do and realizes that her marriage
has been something of a failure. Doctor
Strickland, feeling that Cherry is not be-
ing fair to Martin, in that she is unduly
prolonging her visit after Anne's we'd
ding, urges her to return to her husband.
She makes preparations for her departure.
CHAPTER VII.-Peter Joyce tells Cher
~ ne has had one grand passion" In his
life, but the woman was not for him. He
does not reveal her name. Cherry rejoins
her husband.
(I A DnEND WITT uho 1,- ,ffof. AZ.
satisfaction increases and there is an al
most open break. Martin has a brief spell
of sickness and something Of her old feel
Ing for him returns to Cherry.
CHAPTER X.-Doctor Strickland la
stricken suddenly with what all perceive
Is a fatal illness. Alix summons Cherry
to her father' deathbed. After the doc
tors death it is discovered that years ago
he had borrowed money from Anne's ia
Their and seemingly the debt was never
the amount practically consumes all the
money the doctor left. Justin Little
makes it manifest that he will insist on
his wife's claims. 1t means that the two
girls are left with practically nothing.
CHAPTER x.-Peter Joyce, who has
been on a trip practically around the
world, returns, not having learned of the
Doctors death. He hears of Anne's posi-
ton with regard to the money with deep
disgust. Alix has the home and is maxi
ing a fair living singing. Joyce urges her
TO marry him. She consents and they
have a simple wedding and go to Joyce's
nome to live. ideally happY.
Il seem to be doing things in a
slightly irregular manner she said
TO him the next day, when they had
gotten breakfast together, and were
basking in the sunlight of the upper
deck of the ferryboat, on their way to
the city. Il spend the night before
my marriage alone-in a small coun-
try house hidden in the woods-with
nay betrothed, and propose to buy my
rousseau Immediately after the cere-
mony y
Her voice fell to a dreamy note, and
she watched the gulls, wheeling in the
sunshine, with thoughtful, smiling
eyes. The man glanced at her nee
or twice, in the silence that followed,
with something like hesitation, or com
junction, in his look.
Look, here, Alix-let's talk.
want to ask you something. There's
never been anything-anything to tell
y0u-or your father, if he was here
Peter said, flushed and a trife awk-
ward. I'm not that kind of a man
But there has been that one thing
that one woman
Flushed, too, she was looking at
him with bright, intelligent eyes.
But ! thought she never even
knew"
NO. she never did,"
Alix looked back at the gulls.
"Oh, well, then she said, indif-
ferently.
"Alix, would you like to know about
her7' Peter said bravely. Her name
everything?'
"Oh, no, please, I'd much rather
not J" she intercepted him hastily, and
a pause she added, Our mar
riage isn't the usual marriage, in that
way. | mean I'm not jealous, and I'm
going to cry my Eyes out because
there was another woman-is another
woman, who meant more to you, or
might havel I'm going into it with
my eyes open, Peter. l know you love
and / love you, and we both like
The same things, and that's enough"
Three weeks later he remembered
he moment, and asked her again.
They were in the valley house now, ,
a bitter storm was whirling over {
ne mountain. Peters little cabin 9
'ocked to the gale, but they were warm 8
md comfortable beside the fire; the I
DON vas lamp-lighted, scented by =
sweet single violets, white and v
spilling themselves from a
lass bowl, and by Peters pipe, and c
y the good scent of green bay burn s
ng. The Joyces had had a happy a
ay, had climbed the hills under a ri
,wering sky, had come home to dry c
lOthes and do cooking, for Kow was v
way, and had finally shared an cpl b.
urean meal beside the fire.
Peter was wrapped in deep content; cl
re coznpanlonship Of this normal. tt