The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-12-01
SYNOPSIS.

taiis In love with and secretly becomes
engaged to Cherry
CHAPTER I-while the family il
specuiating as to Loyd's intentions. Cher
" brings MIN TO supper, practically an
nouncing her engagement to him.
CHAPTER HL-Doctor Strickland feels
Cherry Is too young to marry and urges
ner to walt at least year, but the girl
coaxes him into agreeing to an immediate
Wedding We ane,, ana the ceremony takes place.
where Martin is employed.
CHAPTER Iv.-The honeymoon days
over, Cherry begins to feel vague dis
satisfaction with Martin and the monot-
ony OF her daily life
CHAPTER Vat Mill Valley, Justin
xSttle. lawyer, becomes engaged to Anne,
some months distant AK visits Cherry
at M Nido and the two girls coax Mar
TN into allowing Cherry to 60 home for
Anne's wedding.
CHAPTER Win her fathers house
Cherry contrasts the peaceful. happy life
there with her rather sordid existence at
nl Nido and realizes that her marriage
Strickland, feeling that Cherry IL not be-
ing fair to Martin, in that she Ii 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
~ he has had one grand passion" In his
hfe but the woman was not for him. He
does not reveal her name. Cherry rejoins
her husband.
Z CHAPTER vIII.-The young wife's dis
satisfaction increases and there is an all
most open break. Martin has brief spell
Of sickness and something of her old feel
ip3 for him returns to Cherry.
CHAPTER K.-Doctor Strickland is
stricken suddenly with what all perceive
II fatal illness. Alix summons Cherry
tors death 1t Is discovered that years ago
ne had borrowed money from Anne's ia
ther and seemingly the debt was never
discharged. With accumulated interest
the amount practically consumes all the
makes ii manifest that he viii i'i insist 'ea on
his wife's claims 1t means that the two
girls are left with practically nothing.
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 Joyce's
home to live. ideally happy.
\ CHAPTER XII.
Cherry had a fiat now in Red Creek
"Park." It differed from an apart
ment because 1t had no elevator, no
janitor, no steam heat. These things
were neither known nor needed in the
crude mining town; the fiat building
itself was considered rather ques-
tionable innovation. 1t was wooden
building, three stories high, with bay
windows. Cherry had watched this
building going up, and had thought 1t
everything desirable. She liked the
clean kitchen, all fresh white wood
work, tiles, and nickelplate, and she
liked the big closets and the gas-log.
She had worried herself almost sick
with fear that she would not get this
wonderful place, and finally paid
twenty-five dollars for the first
months rent with fast-beating
heart. She had the center floor.
But after the excitement of moving
in died away, She hated the place.
'She had enough money to hire maid
now, and she had a succession Of slat-
ternly, independent young women in
her kitchen, but she found her freedom
strangely fiat.
Now and then play, straight from
"a triumphant year on Broadway
came to town for one night; then
Martin took his wife, and they bowed
to half the men and women in the
house, lamenting as they streaned
out into the sharp night air that Red
Greek did not see more such produc-
tions.
The effect Of these plays was to
make Cherry long vaguely for the
stage, she really did not enjoy them
for themselves. But they helped her
to visualize Eastern cities, lighted
streets, restaurants full Of lights and
music, beautiful women fitly gowned.
After one Of these performances she
would not leave her flat for several
days, but would sit dreaming over the,
thought OF herself in the heroineS
role.
One day she had q letter from Alix;
1t gave her a heartache, she hardly
knew why. She began to dream of her
own home, OF the warm, sweet little
valley whose breezes we're like wine,
Of Tamalpais wrcathed In fog, and OF
the ridges where buttercups and pop
pies powdered q child's shoes with
gold and silver dust. She began to
hunger for home. Nothing that Red
!. Greek could offer shook her yearning
for the remembered sweetness and
beauty Of the redwoods, and the
great shade Of the mountain. She
I wanted to spend whole summer with
4 Alix.
She Nwas athirst for home, for old
scenes and old friends and old emo
tionsl she had only to hint to Alix
to receive a love letter containing a
fervent invitation. SO 1t was settled.
with q sort Of feverish brevity Cherry
completed her arrangements; Martin
was to use his own Judgment 10 the
matter Of boarding Or keeping the fiat.
Some of their household goods were
stored Cherry told him that she
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