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ry-my little sister there can he no
happiness for you there And Peter
Peter is left behind TO me. who can
is tearing his heart My two loved
ones. and what can | do to help them y
She had come up to the cabin to do
the usual last little daily fussing
among the ducks and chickens and to
bring Peter, If Peter had not gone into
town, back with her to Cherry's house
They had all dined in the old Strick-
land house the night before, and be-
cause of sudden rainfall had decided
to spend the night there, too. The
Chinese boy who had been helping the
sisters with their housecleaning had
been persuaded to cook the dinner and
get breakfast, and the evening about
the old fireplace had been almost too
pOignantly sweet.
But suddenly, at about ten O'Clock.
Peter had surprised them all by get
ting to his feet He was going up to
the cabin, he said-must go. in fact.
He would rather walk, please, he told
Alix, when she offered to drive him
up In the car Bewildered and little
apprehensive, she let him go. To Cher
ry, who seemed to feel suddenly sad
and uneasy, Alix laughed about it, but
she was secretly worried herself. and
Immediately after breakfast the next
morning decided to run up to the cabin
In the car and assure herself that
everything was right there.
Cherry, who had not slept and who
was pale, had come out to the car,
her distracted manner increasing Alix's
sense that something was gravely
amiss. She started on her trip with
a heavy heart, but the half-hour's run
soothed her in spite Of herself, and
now she reached the cabin in much
more cheerful mood.
Peter was nowhere about, and as
she plunged into the work of house
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and farmyard she supposed, without
giving the matter a conscious thought,
that he had gone to the city.
Mis- Peter not go train Kow an
nounced presently.
b All Alix's vague suspicious
awakened.
"Not go train?" she asked with a
premonitory pang.
Kow made large gesture. as indi-
eating affairs disorganized
Him no go to bed," he further
stated. Boss come late. He walkin
on porch"
"He came in late and walked on the
If to herself. where Mr.. Peter go
now?' she asked. "He have some
coffee?'
mo eat" the boy answered. He
indicated the direction of the creek,
and after while Alix, with an icy
heart, went to the bridge and the pool
where Peter had first found Cherry
only few weeks ago.
atC was Vaguely III
the low and lisping stream, and Alix
felt a great pang of pity when she
saw him. He came TO her smiling,
but as Cherry had smiled, with wan
and CHASTITY face
Peter, you're not well?" Alix said.
Il think-I am a little upset." he
answered. They walked back to the
house together. Alix ordered him to
take hot bath, and made him drink
some coffee, when, refreshed and
grateful, he came out to the porch
half an hour later. They shared the
little meal that was her luncheon and
his breakfast
He followed her to the car and got |
In the front seat beside her.
You're awfully good to me-" he |
said, briefly. when they were going
down the long grade
Alix did not answer Immediately and
ne thought that she had not heard
She ran the big machine through the
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He had In the Wild rush and hurry
Of his thoughts no time now to analyZe
what their love must mean TO her. but
1t hurt him to see on her happy face
those lires of sternness and gravity,
to see her bright and honest eyes
shadowed with that new look of pain.
1t was too late now to undo it he
and Cherry must carry their desperate
plan to a conclusion now. must dis
appear and forget. They had tried, all
this last dreadful week, they had both
tried, to extinguish the flames, and
they had failed But to Peter there
was no comforting thought anywhere.
Wrong would be done to Martin, to
Alix, to Cherry-and more than even
these, wrong to himself to the ideal
of himself that had been his for so
many years, to the real Peter Joyce.
Listen that's Buck 7" said Cherry,
as the dogs loud and violent barking
reached them from beyond a turn In
the twisting road. "He didn't catch
them. then"
The next instant a woman came up
the road, running and making a queer
whimpering noise that Cherry never
forgot She was a stranger to them
but she ran toward them, making the
odd, gasping noise with much dry
mouthfng, and with wild eyes.
Horror was in her aspect, and hor-
rOr was the emotion that the first
glimpse of her awakened vaguely in
their hearts, but as she saw them she
suddenly found voice for SO hideous
scream that Cherry's knees failed her,
and Peter sprang forward with shout.
He gripped the woman's arm, and
her frantic eyes were turned to him. |
"Oh, my God - she cried in a hoarse, |
cawing voice. my God They're over |
the bank-they're over the bank |"
"WhoY' Peter shouted, his heart |
turning to ashes.
"Oh, the car-the automobile" !" the
woman mouthed. "Oh my God-I saw
The Wolf Point herald., 1921-11-03
CHAPTER XVIII.

Saturday came, perfect day that
filed the little valley to the brim with
golden sunshine. Alix. driving alone
to the mountain cabin, stared in the
morning freshness at the blue over
head and said aloud, "Oh, what day
of gold !"
The dog, sitting beside her on the
front seat. tapped his tail in answer
TO her voice. and she laughed at him.
But the laugh was quickly followed
by sharp sigh.
Saturday." she mused, land Mar
tin expects Cherry to go with him on
Monday Expects her to go back with
ence with man she hates oh, Cher
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the Sound of human voice twisted
and wild with agony.
The strange woman was crying out
wildly; Cherry was sobbihg prayer.
Peter, without knowing that he spoke
at all, was repeating over and over
again the words: Not Alix-my God
1T cannot be-she has never had an
accident before-not Alixp
A last curve, and they knew. Over
one of the sharpest and ugliest OF the
descending precipices, crashing down
through the saplings and underbrush
and striking the trunks of a score OF
trees on its way, the heavy car had
fallen like boulder. And Peter saw
that it was Alix's car, and with great
cry he sprang over the bank and, slip
ping and stumbling, followed its mad
course down almost to the dry creek
bed in the canyon, and fell on his
knees beside the huddled figure that,
erect and strong, in its striped blue
gingham. had been Alix only a few
short minutes ago.
She had been flung clear of the car,
and although every bone in her body
was broken, by some miracle the face,
except for a deep cut where the brown
hair met the tanned forehead, was un-
touched. And as he caught her in his
arms and bent over her with the Bit
terness of death stopping his own
heart, soft, thick braid loosened and
fell like the touch of her hand upon
his own, and it seemed to him that In
the tranquil face and in the very look
of the closed and fast-shadowing eye
lids he caught glimpse Of Alix's old
smile.
Peter forgot everything else in the
world He held her close to him and
put his face against her face and per-
haps she had never so truly been his
own as in this moment of their part
ing, when the quiet autumn woodland,
shot with long shafts from the sinking
sun, rang with his bitter cry:
"No, Alix-not deadl My wife
my wife,!
There were other men and women
gathering fast now, and the whole lit
tie valley was beginning to ring with
the tragedy After a while some sym
pathetic man touched Peter on the
arm to say that Mrs. Lloyd had
tainted, and that if he would please
tell them what to do about the other
mamie was not yet dead
Peter reused himself, and with help
from half dozen hands on all sides
he carried Alix up to the road and
laid her upon a motor robe that some
kindly spectator had spread in the
deep dust.
Presently he was conscious that
small, slight woman with disorderly
fair hair and with her face streaked
with dust and tears was standing be-
side him, and looking down at her,
he saw that it was Cherry.
eyes, Cherry?" he said moistening
MS dry lips.
Peter" she said, they say Mar
-ins living-he was screaming" She
grew deathly pale and faintness swept
over her but she mastered it. He
vas caught by that tree" she said.
And he is living. VIII you tell them
tell one OF IneSe men-LnaL ii ne
viii help me, we can drive him home.
f you'll tell him that, then I'll get
ioctor-"
"Yes, I will" Peter said, not stir
ing His eyes had the look of a Sleep
walker, he nodded slowly and gravely
II her. like a very old man, YOU
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/ "Shall IY faltered Cherry. She
looked at Alix, who had not yet
climbed into the car and was pulling
on her driving gloves. Alix, toward
whose face the dog was making eager
springs, did not appear interested, so
Cherry turned to Martin. walk with
us, Mart?' she said
Nix" Martin said comfortably, not
stirring.
"Ill be home before you, Pete. and
wait for you." Alix said She looked
at him irresolutely, as If she would
have added more. but evidently de-
cded against it and spoke again only
In reference to the dog. Keep Buck
with you, will you, PeteY" she said.
Hes getting too lazy. No, sir" she
reproached the animal affectionately.
"You shall not ride Well. the dear
old Bucky-boy, does he want to come
along?'
And she knelt down and put her
arms about the animal, and laid her
brown cheek against his head.
you old fool" she said shaking
him gently to and fro. you've got
to stay with Peter Old Buck-r'
Suddenly she was on her feet and
had sprung into her place.
Hold him, Pete!" she said. Good
by. Sis dear! All right. MARTINI
The engine raced the car slipped
smoothly into gear and vanished. Pc
ter and Cherry stood looking at each
other.
"Give them a good start, or Buck
will catch them," Peter said. his body
swaying with the frantic jumping of
the straining dog. But to himself he
said, with a sense of shock: "Alix
knows!"
Buck was off like rocket when he
finally set him free; his feathery tail
disappeared between the columns of
the redwoods Without speaking, |
Cherry and Peter started after him.
"And now that we are alone togeth-
err" Cherry said. after few minutes,
"there seems to be nothing to say
We've said 1t all"
Nothing to sayl" Peter echoed.
"Alix knows" he said in his heart.
Whatever we do, it all seems So
wrongl" Cherry said with watering
eyes.
whatever we do is wrong" he
agreed soberly.
But we go?" she said on a fiutter
ing breath.
1--WE must go" Peter answered.
a. fon - q |
heavy bell-tongue, the words formed
in his haart "Alix knows. Alix
knows"
He thought of the afternoon, only
few weeks ago, when Cherry's beauty
had made so sudden and so irresist-
ible an appeal to him, and of the in
nocent delight of their luncheons to-
gether, when she had first confided in
him, and of the days of secret and
intense joy that her mere nearness
and the knowledge that he would see
her had afforded him. 1t had all
seemed so fresh, so natural, so entire
ly their own affair, until the tragic
day of Martins temperance and the
hour of agonized waiting at the boat
for the Cherry who did not come
There had been no joyous self-conf-
dence in that hour, none in the dis
tressed hour at the Orpheum. and the
hour just past, when Cherry's rarely
displayed passion had wrenched from
him his last vestige of doubt.
But this was the eliminating unhap-
piness that he should know, from
Alix's brave and gentle and generous
look as they parted, that Alix knew.
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She Ran Toward Them-Horror Was
in Her Aspect.
it go | saw it fall oh, God, save
them-oh, God, take them; don't let
them suffer that wayp'
They were all running now, running
with desperate speed down the long
road about the curves, on and on to-
ward the frantic noise of the dogs
barking, and toward another noise,
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CHAPTER XIV.-Joyce urges Cherry
TO leave Martin and go away with him
to some remote part of the world where
finally consents, feeling that Alix will for
give, and Peter makes arrangements for
their journey.
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CHAPTER VIII.-The young wife's dis
satisfaction increases and there is an al
most open break Martin has brief spell
of sickness and something of her old feel
Ing for him returns to Cherry.
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Prince Albert IL
sold in toppy red
bags, tidy red fins,
hondsom pound
and half pound tin
hur1idors and in the
pound crystal glass
h u m id or with
sponge u1oisteHer
top.
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CHAPTER XIII-Mrs. North, Martin
LIoyd's aunt, has her suspicious concern
ing Peter and Cherry and the lovers feel
the danger of the situation.
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CHAPTER K.-Doctor Strickland Is
stricken suddenly with what all perceive
is fatal illness. Alix summons Cherry
10 her fathers deathbed. After the doc
tors death it is discovered that years ago
he had borrowed money from Anne's fa-
ther and seemingly the debt was never
discharged. With accumulated interest
the amount practically consumes all the
money the doctor left. Justin Little
makes it manifest that he will insist on
his wifes claims. 1t means that the two
girls are left with practically nothing.
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CHAPTER X.-Peter Joyce. who has
been on 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 max
ing fair living singing Joyce urges her
to marry him. She consents and they
have a simple wedding and go to Joyces
home to live. ideally happy.
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CHAPTER II.-while the family is
speculating as to Lloyds intentions. Cher
ry brings him to supper, practically an
nouncing her engagement to him.
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CHAPTER with his two daughters,
Alix and Cherry, the latter just eighteen
Strickland, retired, is living at Mil Val
ley, a short distance from San Francisco.
His closest friend is Peter Joyce. some
thing of a recluse. Visiting in the vi
cinity, Martin Lloyd mining engineer
falls in love with and secretly becomes
engaged to Cherry.
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CHAPTER xv-The day of their de-
parture arrives. Peter had gone into San
francisco, where Cherry was to meet him
on the steamer. Actually on her way to
the boat Cherry meets Martin, who has
left his situation at Red Creek and is on
his way to her Terrorstricken, she man.
ages to get word to Peter and goes back
to Alix's home with Martin. On the way
she musters courage sufficient to tell him
the truth about her feeling for him. Mar
tin processes himself unable to under
stand her grievances.
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CHAPTER XII. = Martin and Cherry
leave Ell Nido and go to Red Creek, a
change somewhat for the better, but
faction. She visits Peter and Alix, and
while there comes to a realization that
she loves Peter. Though she has never
known it, Cherry is the woman whom
his grand passion" He has never
ceased to love her, and the situation now
becomes tragic.
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CHAPTER xII.-Peter confesses his
love TO Cherry, and she admits like feel
ing for him. A situation bordering on
hidden guilt is created In the doctors
Bible Alix finds receipt for the money
he had borrowed. Anne's claim falls to
the ground and Alix and Cherry are
financially Independent. Heartbroken over
their tragic position, Peter vainly seeks
a solution which shall make for the mu-
tual happiness of Cherry and himself but
there seems no way.
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CHAPTER VII.-Peter Joyce tells Cher
ry he has had one grand passion" in his
does not reveal her name. Cherry rejoins
her husband
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CHAPTER III-Doctor Strickland feels
Cherry is too young to marry and urges
her to wait 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 FL Nido,
where Martin is employed.
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