News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-10-19
Sisters
by
KATHLEEN
NORRIS
SYNOPSIS.
Copyright BY Kathissn Norris

Sis closest friend Is Peter joyce, some
enity, Martin Lloyd, mining engineer,
talls in love with and secretly becomes
engaged to Cherry
CHAPTER II.-Whle the family is
Specializing as 20 Lloyd's intentions. Cher
Ty brings him to supper, practically an
aouncing her engagement to him.
CHAPTER III.-Doctor Strickland feels
Cherry Is too young to marry and urges
her to wait at least 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
Little, lawyer, becomes engaged to Anne,
the wedding being set for September.
some months distant AliX visits Cherry
at Ell Nido and the two girls coax Mar
Sin 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
acl Nido and realizes that her marriage
mas 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 Annes we'd
ding urges her to return to her husband
She makes preparations for her departure.
CHAPTER VII.--Peter Joyce tells Cher
Ty he has had one grand passion" in his
sife, but the woman was not for him. He
does not reveal her name. Cherry rejoins
her husband
CHAPTER VIII.-The young wife's dis
satisfaction increases and there is an al
most open break. Martin has a brief spell
of sickness and something of her old feel
ang for him returns to Cherry.
stricken suddenly with what all perceive
is fatal illness. AliX summons Cherry
to her fathers 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
discharged. With accumulated interest
the amount practically consumes all the
makes it manifest that he will insist on
his wife's claims. 1t means that the two
girls are left with practically nothing.
"Yes-we must think of darling
Alix!" Anne mad said. nervously eager
that there should be no quarrel "It
Uncle Lee intended me to have all this
money, then | suppose must take it,
but I shan't be happy unless things are
arranged so that Alix shall be COM
.fortable,"
"B-but the worst of it is, Alix!"
Cherry stammered, suddenly, on the
day before she and Martin were to
return to Red Creek, II counted on
lla|ing enough-enough to live my own
Rife. AliX, | can't can't 90 back!'
"Why, my darling" AliX exclaimed, |
as Cherry began to cry in her arms,
my darling, it is as bad as all that?
"Oh, Alix," whispered the little sis
ter, trembling, II can't bear it. You
don't know how | feel. You and Dad |
were always here; now that's all gone
you're going to rent the house and |
try to teach snging-and I've nothing |
to look forward to-Ive nobody"
Listen, dear" Alix soothed her IF
they advise it, and especially if Peter
advises it when he gets back, We'll fight
Anne. And then if we win our fight,
I'll always keep the valley house open.
And if we don't, why I'm going to visit
you and Martin every year, and per-
haps I'll have a little apartment some
day. don't intend to board always"
But she was crying, too. Everything
seemed changed, cold and strange; she
had suspected that Cherry's was not
marriage; she knew it now,
and to resign the adored little sister
to the unsympathetic atmosphere of
Red Creek, and to miss all the old
life and the old associations, made her
heart ache.
"There's-there's nothing, special.
Cherry?" she asked after while.
with Martin? Oh, no." Cherry an
swered, her eyes dried and her pack
ing going on composedly, although her
voice trembled now and then. "No,
it's just that / get bad moods" she
said, bravely. ~ was pretty young to
marry at all, l guess"
Martin loves you," Allx suggested
timIdly.
"He takes me for granted" Cherry
said after a pause. There doesn't
seem to be anything alive in the feel
Ing between u.s." she added, slowly. IF
he says something to me, l make an
effort to get his point of view before
answer. If / tell him some plan of
mine, can see that he thinks it sounds
crazy | don't seem very domestic
that's all. IL try. Really, / dol
But" and Cherry seemed to brace
herself in soul and body-"but that's
I'll try again"
She gave Alix long kiss In parting,
The next day, and chung to her.
IN write you about the case, and
wire you if you're needed, and see you
soon p Alix said, cheerfully. Then she
-urned and went back into the empty
house, keeping back her tears until the
sound of the surrey had quite died
away.