Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-04-01
CHAPTER v-continued.

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n had no idea Of all thisl !" the doc
.or confessed, amazed. I've seen the
Eonng man-noticed him about. Well
4weIl-well! Anne, too"
IN June came the blissful hour in
len Anne, all bushes and smiles.
Dad come to her uncle with a duti-
uf message from the respectfully
Mring justin. Their friendship, said
INC had ripened into something
Aeper.
Justin wants to have a frank talk
Wfth you, uncle" Anne said, "and
II course I'm not TO go until you are
are you can spare me and unless YOU
eel that you can trust him utterly"
Anne's engagement cups were
nnged on the table where Cherry's
xa stood, and where Cherry had
aRed Of a ffee-colored rajah silk
-I1ne discussed the merits of a smart
mt handsome blue tabernacle"
Tie wedding was to be in Septem-
Rr not quite year after Cherry's
Te1ding Alix wrote her sister pages
bout it, always ending with the EN-
hattie declaration that Cherry must
one down for the wedding.
t. Cherry was homesick. She dreamed
- ontinually Of the cool, high valley,
lie scented aisles of the deep forest,
b. mountain rearing its rough sum
dit to the pale blue Of summer skies.
Y June passed; July passed; it was
lat at the Emmy Younger" August
wne in on a furnace breath; Cherry
EN- beadachy, languid and half sick
II the time Martin had said that
ecould not possibly get away, even
or the week of Anne's wedding, but
Merry began to wonder If he would
1t her go alone.
"lf he doesn't, l shall be sick" she
retted to herself, in a certain burn
ag noontime, toward the middle of
ugust. Martin, who had been play
Ag poker the night before, was sleep
IL late this morning. Coming home
1 tfhree o'clock dazed with close air
nd cigar smoke. he had awakened
& IL wife to tell her that he would be
dec" in the morning, and Cherry
8ad accordingly crept about her dress
sSag noiselessly, had darkened the bed
sIpNln and eaten her own breakfast
sHthoul the clatter of a dish. Now
be- was sitting by the window, pant
la&i In the noon heat. She was think
.lig. as It CHANGED, Of the big forest
Ithome and Of a certain day-just
4 line of their happy days only a year
Ig0 when she had lin for a dreamy
Som on the soft forest floor, staring
H. idly through the laced fanlike
RAJ ches, and she thought Of her IA
Jher with his mild voice and ready
nd and some emotion. almost like
Esaf, came over her. For the first time
sae asked herself, in honest bewllder-
/Ftent, why she had married.
"a neat deepened and strengthened
nd increased as the burning day
lori on. Martin walked up, hot and
seas achy, and having further dis
fassed himself with strong coffee and
sS departed into the dusty, notion
ss furnace out-of-doors. The far
rpR IL hills shimmered and swan, the
10y Younger looked its barest,
algIiest, its least attractive self.
Mere was a shadow in the door
ag she looked up surprised. For
glMlte the tall figure In striped linen
~ the smiling face under the flow
fy hat seemed those Of a stranger.
l1en Cherry cried out aud laughed,
nd in another instant was crying IN
1ixs arms.
Il y cried. too, but 1t was with q
reg rush Of pity and tenderness for
Aery, AK had not young love and
'oTt ty to soften the outlines Of the
~ Younger ana she felt, as she
- sly wrote later to her father, "at
Esk convinced that there is a hell!'
he heat and baroness and ugliness
lie mine might have been over
MKed, bat this poor little house of
49,, this wood stove draining
hste ashes. this tin sink with It's
anp, and the bathroom with neither
Msets nor drain. almost bewiIdered
~ with their discomfort.
- more bewildering was the
nAf sc 10 Cherry. There was a Ger
na hardening thar impressed AK at
Hss There was a weary sort Of pa
enc, a disillusioned concession to
1rabness of married life.
~ she allowed the younger sister
Sc nothing Of this Indeed. Cherry
frightened under tie stimulus Of
* eompanionship that Martin told
49, she was more Ike her old self
eE she had been for months Joy
e she divided her responsibilities
19a AK, explaining the difficulties
raettng and housekeeping, aud
ar Sly AliX assumed them Her vi
sss Infected tie whole household
- save them spirited accounts n
As aflar He's nice Ittle sca-
- felise,' She said 80 Justin Lit
Ef 80 raa q e rs--.. g., 1...-f.