Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-27

eyea. shut; to, wish that he had smiled
when no first saw her-he could not
have forced himself to smile now
to wonder how they were ever to
speak-where they were rushing
rushing-rushing-befoFe she turned
Ino:selessly and vanished INTO the dim
room. :
Peter lay there, ana his heart
pounded, 4 moment ago he had been
a tired man., fretted because his wife
forgot to meet him; now there vas
something new in the world. And rap
idly all the world became only q back
ground. only a setting, for this extra,
ordinary scnsation, The hills beyond
still swan in the hot sunlight, the
mountain rose into the blue, but the
light that changes all life lay over
them for Peter.
He said to himself that IT was .awk-
ward-he did not know how he could
enter that door and talk to Cherry.
And vet he knew that that meettng
of Cherry, that the common exchange
ct words and CHANGES, that the daily
trifling encounters with Cherry were
all poignantly siEnificant now.
He felt no impulse toward hurry.
He might slt>s on his porch another
creek. 1t mattered nothing; the hour
wa steadily approaching when she
must reappear.
.Alix drove In fun of animated ,apol-
oSies. She managed thescar, fartashet-
ter than he. and no thought of an ao-
cldsnt had troubled him.
The evening was warm, M Of the
two 'er three warm evenings that
marked the height: of summer oven
In the high valley. There was no,
a breath OF. air in the garden; reses
and wallfloWeFs stood erect In a/sort
Let luminous enchantment. Moonlight
sank through the low twisted branch
es of the nearby oaks and felstangled
with blafk and lacy shade through
the porch rose vine.
Alix sat- on the perch rail, every
revealed as IL by daylight, hut Cher
ry's pale striped gown was only q
simmer in the deepest shade of the
vine, Peter, smoking, rat where he
ifcould not sac her; they had hard
Fly lacked at each athar directly since
the leng, strange look Of this after
noon; they had exchanged hardly q
word.
Town tomorrow Peter" Alix said,
after . silence, during which she had
. Jared s 81 htR eso sen hel : at the h nath
the neon was making through faint
stars. and yawned. 1--WE ret TO 80 in
to a meeting OF the hospital board.
good night, belpysas. I'm dead: Don't
e. 9ut here incoming With Pete all
Peter said to himself that now
Cherry would SO. too. hut az <the
screen door banged Nghtly. after Alix,
striped gown dEd not move in the soft !
Shadow. a sudden reluctance and dis
taste seized. him. He had been sub
consciousiy aware4of her all afternoon;
he had known a delicious warmth and
stir at his heart that he had n an
aly{ed, II indeed it could be analysed.
New suddenly he did not went the
beauty And gloom and charm OF that
feeling touched. His heart began to
peat heavily again. and he knew that
now,
But he had not reckened on Cherry.
She. twiatAd her chair. ana he heard
Q chilA's long. happy sigh.f
'Oh. aMe | tired, tao!" she
hFesthed, reluctantly. ~ hate Il
leave it--hut 1--we beaR alnaast aalaep
for half an hour! You can have ali
The nsenlsht there i, Refer" Her
.taaod niEht!n she said, drooping her
little heAdeto choke Z yawn. a mo
mant later he heard her laughing
with I.Alix. sY
"Xou fool--yeu fool-you foo,Im Pc
ter aid to himself, and Ae feat an
ematior like sshame, a NttlSsIeal com
p~unettonSthat he could 20 utterly mis-
read her iRnocenes. He felt 1t not
eAly wtens IN him, but soRehsw
stairiRg and hurtful - her.
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