The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-17

a@EzEaEzgzsaEzEz9zEzMg .CHAP+TER-with his two daughters. Alix and Cherry, the latter just eighteen gears gs;r old; and his niece. Anne, Doctor ley. short distance from San Francisco. His tbsn closest os friend is Reter Joyce. some einity, Martin Lloyd. mining engineer, aas. falls in love % with and secretly becomes
 CHAPTER II. - While the family is Cherry brings hi@tos supp Upper. precticaiiy announcing her engagement to him.
 CHAPTER I11.-Doctor Strickland feels her to va Wait at least @ arys Year. an6 6ut se the mediate wedding i ana and s the eersmony e1 a takes place, the couple leaving at once for Fl Nido. where Martin is employed
 @tS Marfs fssl fSe monotony of her daily life.
 CHAPTER v-At NH Valley. Justin Anne. the wedding being set for septem, coax Martin in, allowing Cherry to go nome for Anne'S wedding.
 CHAPTER Win her fathers house fhsre with her rather sordid existence at "a Nido and realizes that her marriage sas Rssn of flnre nof 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 depart ure.
 Cherry he has had one grand passion" in his life. but the woman was not for Cherry rejoins her husband.
 CHAPTER VIII = The young wife's dissa atisfaction increases and there Is an almost open break. Martin has brief spell of sickness and something of her old feling for him returns to Cherry.
 CHAPTER -Ix.-Doctor Strickland is stricken suddenly with what all perceive is a fatal illness. A1ix summons Cherry tors death it is discovered that years ago he had borrowed money from Anne's discharged. With accumulated interest the amount practically consumes all the makes it manifest that he will insist on his wife's claims. It means that the two girls are left with practically nothing.
 CHAPTER X.-Peter Joyce, who has world, returns. 'p not having learned i of the the doctors death. He hears of Annes posi- dseus s As as G he hoe snd iln 5 ,Es 3 fasr living sibnging; sbag Joyce a urges tSeT M Have ] simple s Wedding ig ee'S and go to % Joyces hoae te & liye ideally happy; a c,o-r 1esaa Fl N6o and go aafP so Req apq crse ses'fs change sosnewhat for the better, but faetio she vsfs PeteT aad or AS and @ while thers comes to a realizst;on Ia 2; that 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.
 (Continued from Saturday.
 Did you expect me to meet you % she smiled. For answer he looked at her thoughtfuiIy a minute before his own face lighted with bright smile. 'tI don't think I thought of your not i being there" he confessed ''I was i simply moving all morning toward the instant of meeting" He watched her, almost with anxiety, for mo- ment, then turned his attention to the bill of fare. But Cherry was not hun ; gry, and she paid small attention to the order. or to the food when it came.
 Presently they were talking again, in that hunger for self-analysis that at every word, Cherry raising her eyes, shining with eagerness, to his. or Peter watching the little down. dropped face in an agony of adora- tion. An hour passed, two hours, after awhile they were walking, still ! with that strange sense of oneness and of solitude, and still as easily as if they had been floating, to the ferry.
 Alix met them in Mill Valley with vivid accounts of the day; she had been pondering the brief talk with : Anne, and was anxious to have Peter s view of it. Peter was of the opinion that Anne's conduct indicated very clearly that she and Justin realized that their case was lost.
 .'Then you're fixed for life, Cherry was Alix's first remark "Oh, say!'' T Ch Q a a zaI to the old house tomorrow. will you Let's see what it needs. and how , much would have to be done to make it fit to live in!"
 Cherry flushed. staring steadily at : her sister, and Peter. too, was con . fused, but Alix saw nothing. The next them with her down to the old 2 house. Cherry was pale and fighting 2 tears, as they crossed the porch, and fitted the key in the door. Inside ~ the house the air was close and stale, odorous of dry pine walls and of un- aired rooms. Peter flung open a win dow, the girls walked aimlessly about {. through the familiar, yet shockingly strange, chairs and tables that were all coated thickly with dust.
 'It needs everything!" AliX said after a first quick tour of inspection eyeing a greater weather streak or wall. fIt needs air, cleaning, straight ening flowers Gosh. how it does need people,"
 1T can't bear it!'' Cherry said softly, in a sick undertone.
 ~Alix who was rapidly recovering her equilibrium, sprang upstairs with out hearing her, but Cherry did not follow She went to the open front doorway and stood there, leaning against the sill, and gazing sadly out at the shabby. tangled garden tha- had sheltered all the safety and joy and innocence of her little-girl days.
 Peter she said. as he came tc
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