Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-04-15

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! dropped circles Of hot shadow on the
clodded rough earth Farms dozed
/ under shimmering lines Of dazzling air
and in the village, from ter o'clock
until the afternoon began to wane,
there was no stir. Flies buzzed and
settled on screen doors, the creek
| shrunk away between crumbling rocky
banks, the butcher closed his shop and
milk soured in Tie bottles.
The Turner's ana some other fami-
/ lies always camped together in the
mountains during this season, and they
were Off when school closed, in an
enyiable state of ecstasy and anticipa-
| ton. Cherry had planned to join them,
/ but an experimental weekend was
enough. The camp was in the cool
woods, truly, but it was disorderly,
/ swarming with children, the tents were
small and hot, the whole settlement
| laughed and rioted and surged to and
| fro in manenr utterly foreign to her.
/ She returned, to tell Martin that it
was horribly common" and weather
| the rest of the summer In Red Greek.
Martin sympathized. He had never
cared particularly for the Turner's:
was perfectly willing to keep the
| friendship within bounds.
He sympathized as little with an
| other friendship she made, some
months later, with the wife of a young
engineer who had recently come to the
mine. Pauline RunyOn was few
| years older than her husband, a hand
some, thin, intense woman, who did
| everything In an entirely individual
way. She took one of the new little
| bungalows that were being erected in
Red Greek Park" and furnished it
richly and appropriately, and estab-
/ lished a tea table and a samovar be-
side the open fireplace Cherry began
to like better than anything else in the
world the hours spent with Pauline.
Pauline read Browning, Francis
Thompson and Pater and introduced
Cherry TO new worlds of thought. She
| talked to Cherry of New York, which
she loved, and of the men and women
| she had met there. She sometimes
sighed and pushed the bright hair back
from Cherry's young and innocent and
| Disconnected little face, and said ten
Derby: ION the stage, my dear-any-
where, anywhere, you would be
/ furprel"
And thinking, in the quiet evenings
for Martins work kept him later
| and later at the mne-Cherry came
to see that her marriage had been
/ great mistake. She had not been ready
\ for marriage she would sit on the
back steps, as the evenings grew cool
err and watch the exquisite twilight
fade, and the sorrow and beauty Of
life would wiring her heart.
A dream of ease and alteration and
/ beauty came to her. She did not visu-
alize any special place, any special
gown or hour or person. But she saw
| her beauty fittingly environed; she saw
cool rooms, darkened against this blaz-
ing midsummer glare; heard ice clink-
| ing against glass; the footsteps of at
tentlve maids; the sound of cultivated
| voices, OF music and laughter. She
/ had had these dreams before, but they
were becoming habitual now. She was
| so tired-so sick-so bored with her
1 real life; 1t was becoming increasingly
/ harder and harder for her TO live with
/ Martin. She was always in a sup
/ pressed state Of wanting to break out.
! to shout at him Mazenly: II don't
/ care If your coffee Is weak I like it
weak l don't care If you don't like
my hiatt dol Stop talking about
| yourselfI"
/ Various little mannerisms Of his be-
gan seriously to annoy her; a rather
grave symptom, had Cherry but known
| it. He danced his big fingers on the
| handle of the sugar spoon at break
fast, Sitting the sugar over his cereal !;
| she had to turn her eyes resolutely
away from the sight. He blew his
nose. folded his handkerchief. and then
brushed his nose with 1t firmly left and
right; she hated the little performance
! that was never altered. He had
certain mental slowness; would blink
at her politely and patiently when she
flashed plans or hopes at him: Il
don't follow you, my dearr' This
made her frantic.
She was twenty. undiScipllned and
exacting She had no reserves within
herself to which she could turn. Bad
! things were hopelessly bad with Cher.
ry; her despalrs were the dark and
fearful despairs Of girlhood. prema-
turely transferred to grayer matters
Martin was quite right In some Of
his contentious; girl-ike, she was
spasmodic and unsystematic in her
housekeeping; she had times Of being
I discontinued and seIfish. She hated
economy and the need for careful man
aging
In October Alix CHANGED to write
her a long and unusually cosby let
to- Allx ad a new gown of bIacf
I grenadine, and she had sung at an
! afternoon tea, and had evidently 10
ceeded 10 her first venture. Also ffev
/ had had q mountain climb and en-.
( closed were snapshots Peter had taken
on the trip.