Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-01-12
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Iaee and the life, Peter!
 |hppy in two rooms-some-
 where-- But nOt-with
 letter, if I hadn't done it-"
 y, as she pushed her plate
 |eaned toward him, was so 1kat Peter, a lighted match
 to a fresh cigarette, put
 down aimlessly and looked
 N at the cigarette, and laid
 too, without the faintest less of what he was doing. was warm, and there was a [1pness on her white forehead, Re Told hair clung to the brim |ro6ping hat. The soft curve
 Inn the babyish shortness of
 p, and the crimson sweet
 little earnest mouth had
 ed more lovely than they q She was youth incarnate, |G flushed, unspoiled.
 3ment she looked down at Y Ind the color flooded her |el Ishe looked him straight in snd smiled. "Welll Perhaps F1Work out right, Peter" she 5 the childish, questioning lGok wrung his heart. She imme- 1athered her possessions to-
 go, but when they stepped , Iny Geary street it was three i Peter suggested that they |W4 to the boat.
 E1et Ali&, on the boat, but she EaSk any embarrassing ques- hX sat between them on the |d4k, blinking contentedly at
 6tin bay, her eyes following |eNhg gulls or the passage of 4f1 mind evidently concerned
 he idle pleasAntness of the
 ind always, for Peter, there
 hme joyous sense of some
 N-something significant
 ecstatic in life.
 |f64t hour he was never quite
 Cherry's company and L. bg alone with her even for r. although her presence al-
 1 him the new and tingling
 read her honest blue eyes
 l t1knew that although, like Twas conscious of the new Ind brightness of life, she Entertained for an instant hg Thought that it was Peters br her that made it so. She N bDerhaps, that it would be the tsh happiness that she had
 he valley, the freedom and responsibility of the old |..kk day she talked in a trou- tain way of going back to akf and he knew why. But So aghast at the idea, and lao was closing Dr. Strick- Hate, was so careful to depart |hhe mornings and return only |-ght, that the little alarm, If At, died away.
 k1et @time that Cherry went in- l NAhx did not go, and Peter, 4he deck of the early boat 2 sked her again to have |r5Mth him. Immediately a s0h her face and he saw her e&quickly.
 R R4he asked him childishly, 1 fIMght into his eyes, "why
 ell Alix about that?" ad to laugh and felt himself E&mble again.
 bllWhat?" he stammered. r having been three hours |l$t weekY'
 know l" Peter said, pol ously.
 silent, and they parted col further reference to meet when Alix had gone to fGed the sitting room sud |S h Cherry hunting for a |sf Rd dropped on one knee, (en3 reach low shelf, and Absorbed in the volume nced to open.
 Fi heard the door open she K Rlmmediately became, very |Aid not speak as Peter |Sai1d beside her.
 he said in a whisper, M to .aers. Neither spoke hile. Cherry was breath R9er was conscious only of |s rH g of brain and senses. |. ::s he'd so, their eyes fixed, esS coming as if they had
 q for endless seconds. [hh' 'l mber the question you morning?" Peter said.
 fmber? Do you remem- Einsf cold fingers still holding |ly q the book she had been ,ua. blindly to the fireplace. |ins le said, in the merest tw
 |ly Peter said, following her, rm y madness making him |eeu or that need to hear bleS lips that she knew, be blic answer that question B not what he said, or PO trying to express; both q in the f1ame If tho,,