The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-03-16
CHAPTER xVl-Continued.

stop TO analyze It, She went back
through his room, and through the lit
tie passage, and rejOined Martin. The
freedom of Peters apartment Alix
had always taken as naturally as she
did the freedom Of her fathers.
Cant hear us, ehT Martin asked,
when again she stood beside him.
positively mott" she answered.
"Look here" he said, abruptly.
"What brought me UP here is this.
Who's making love to Cherry"
Indignant, and with rising color, she
stared at him.
"Who-what !"
"Shes having q nice little quiet fir
tation with somebody" Martin said,
with a significant and warning smile.
"Who is it?"
II don't know who's been talking
to you about Cherry, Martin" Alix
said, sharply, hut you know you can't
repeat that sort Of rotten scandal TO
mel"
81 don't mean any harm-I don't
mean any harm ~ he assured her. with
a quick attempt TO quiet the storm he
had raised. Don't get mad-don't
get mad! But l happen to know that
there's some attraction that's keeping
Cherry here, and l came up TO look
over the ground for myself, do you
see? Come on, now, put me on! :"
Alix made an effort at self-cOntrOl.
Martin, you're mistaken" she said,
quietly. You have no right TO listen
to any one who tells you such things,
and if it wasn't that you're Cherry's
husband / wouldn't listen TO you But
you'll have TO take my word for it
that it's a lie. We three have lived
up here without seeing any One-any
one! Cherry has hardly spoken TO a
man, except Peter and Antoine and
Kow. since she came! -
"WhO is this George Sewall?" he
asked, shrewdly.
The lawyer! Oh. heavens, Martin !!
Why, George was beau of mine; he's
a widower of fifty, and has just an
nOunced his engagement to the trained
Him" Martin commented.
"If any one mentioned Cherry's name
In connection with George AliX said,
firmly, that was a perfectly malicious
SANDER"
"Sewalls wasn't mentioned" Mar
tin said, hastily.
"Whose name was mentioned,
then?" Alix pursued, holly.
"Well, nobodys name was men
toned" Martin took a great many
creased and rubbed papers from his
vest pockets, and shifted them over.
Finally with fat, deliberate hand he
selected one and put the others away.
"This is from my MOTHER" he said.
my aunt, Mrs. North"
1--WE saw her here. a week or two
ago. Alix said as he paused.
well, she was in Portland, and saw
the folks" said Martin. "And my
mother writes me this" And after
few seconds of searching he read
from the letter:
bessie North saw Cherry and Mrs.
Joyce in Mill Valley, and if l was you
! would not let Cherry stay away too
long. A wife's place is with her hus-
band, especially when she is as pretty
as Cherry, and if Bessie is right, some
body else thinks she's pretty. too, and
you know it doesn't take much TO start
people talking. II isn't like she had
a couple of children to keep her busy
'Thats all of that" said Martin,
folding the letter. He eyed Alix keen
ly. "Well, what do you think?" he
asked, triumphantly.
81 think that's a mean, wicked thing
TO say" she said, Indignantly. mo,
Martin" she said, silencing him, as
he would have interrupted her, IL
know she is beautiful and young, and
| mow-because she's told me-that
you and she feel that your marriage is
d mistake. but if you think"
cob, she said that, did she? Now,
look here" with his air of assurance.
by George. she had something on her
mind vixen she met me today. She
was fused, all right, and it wasn't all
the surprise Of seeing me, either. First
she wanted TO telephone yOu-then
she fused over your message"
Cherry gets 1uttered very easily p
Alix reminded him.
"Well, she was fused all right this
morning. She said not to mention it
to Alix, because she mad promised
that It should go on time. / thought
maybe she meant that you wanted her
to go herself; no, she said, a note
would do"
81 don't know what you're talking
about !" Alix said, puzzled.
your note" Martin explained.
"What note didn't write any note.
Cherry telephoned-"
'NO," he said, patiently and per-
functOrily, you wanted-Cherry-to-
say good-by - to-those-peOple-
whO-were-saiilng That was all.
She wrote IT; it got there in time, |
guess. Anyway, ] heard the girl say
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