Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-10

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the letter on thy Way to tile boat. To
morrow, them" was Cherry's only an
swer. "I'm glad it's so soon."
"Good-bym said Cherry, leaning
over the side Of the car to kiss her
sister. Alix received the kiss, smiled,
and stretched in the sun.
"Heavealy day to waste in the city"
said AllX.
~ knoww Cherry said neryously.
She had been so strangely nervous
and distracted in manner all morning
that .Alix had more than once asked
her if there was anything wrong. Now
she questioned her again.
"You mustn't mind me-" Cherry;
said with a laugh. "I'm desperately
unhappy" she said, her eyes watering.
"rd do anything in the world to help
You, Cerise" Alix said sympathet-
ically.
~ know you would, Sis! believe,".
Cherry said, trembling, that there's
nothing you wouldn't give me"'
"That's easily said," Aliy answered
carelesSly, Cor l don't get fond of
things. as you do A1y dear, I'd go off
with Martin to Mexico in minute.
I mean it, don't care a whoop
where live, if only people are happy"
"HOw about Buch?" Cherry said, as
the dog Ieaped 70 his place on the front
seat and licked his mistress ear.
Allx embraced him lovingly.
"Well-if he wanted to go with
you !" she conceded unwillingly. "But
he wOuldn'tw she added quickly.
Cherry, going TO the train, gave her
an April smile, and as she took her
seat and the train drew on It's way, 1t
seemed TO her suddenly that she might
indeed meet Peter, but it would only
be to tell him that what they had
planned was impossible.
But on the deck of the Sausalito
steamer, dreaming in the sunshine of
the soft, lazy autumn day, her heart
turned sick with longing once more.
AliX was forgotten, everything was
forgotten except Peter. His voice, his
i tan figure, erect, yet moving with the
little limp she knew so well, came 90
her thoughts. She thought of herself
on the other steamer, only an hour
from now, safe in his care, Martin for
gotten, and all the perplexities and
dlsappointmentS of the old life for
gotten, in the flood of new security
and joy. Los Angelcs-New Orleans
France-it mattered not where they
wandered; they might well lose the
world, and the world them, from today
on.
$50 that is to be my life-one of
the blamed and ignored women"
Cherry, muSed, leaning on the rail
and watching the plunge Of the re-
ceding water. Like the heroines of
half the books-only it always seemed
so bold and so frightful in books !!
! But TO NE it just seems the most nat
Vral thing in all the world. ! love
Peter, and he loves me, and the earth
Is big enough TO hide us, and that's
oil there is 10 it, Anyway, right Or
wrong. | can't help it," she finished,
rejoicing to fad herself suddenly
serene and confident.
1t Was twenty minutes past, ten. a
warm, sweet morning, with great hur-
rying back and forth at the ferry,
women climbing TO tie open seats of
the cable cars, pinning on their vioicts
ur roses as they climbed. Cherry sped
through il all, beside herself now with
excitement and strain, only anxious TO
have the great hands of the clock drop
more apccdiiy from minute to- min
ute. ana SO round out the terrible hour
that joined the old life to the new.
She WIS hurrying blndly toward the
dock Of the Los Angeles line, absorbed
in her one whirling thought, when
somebody touched her arm, and a