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

for Hong; she laughed and leased
and questioned Anne, when Anne and
Justin came back from ar afternoon
concert in she city, with an interest
and enthusiasm most gratifying to
| both.
After dinner she had her old place
on the arm Of her fathers porch chair;
Alix, with Bucks smooth head In her
lap, sat on the porch step beside Pc
ter. and the lovers murmured from
the darkness of the hammock under
the shadow of the rose vine. 1t was
happy talk in the sweet evening cool
ness; everybody seemed harmonious
and in sympathy tonight.
Bedtime !" said her father present
~ and she laughed in sheer pleasure
"Daddy-that sounds so nice again y
But you do look tagged and pale,
little girl" he told her you're TO
stay in bed in the morning"
"Oh, I'll be down I" she assured him.
But she did not come in the morning,
none the less. She was tired in soul
and body and glad to let them spoil
her again, glad to rest and sleep in
the heavenly peace and quiet of the
old home.
Late in the afternoon, rested, fresh,
and her Old sweet self in the white
| rufiles, she came down to join them
They had settled themselves under
the redwoOds Anne and Justin, Peter
and Alix and Buck, the dog, all jumped
up to greet her. Cherry very quietly
subsidized into a wicker chair, listened
rather than talked, moved her lovely
eyes affectionately from one to an
other.
Peter hardly moved his eyes from
! her, although he did not often adj
dress her directly; Justin was quite
obviously overcome by the unexpected
beauty of Anne's cousin; Anne her
self, with an underlined pang, admit
ted in her soul that Cherry was pref
| tier than ever; and even Alix was af
fected. With the lovely background
of the forest, the shade of her thin
wide hat lightly shadowing her face
with the dew Of her long sleep and
| recent bath enhancing the childish
purity of her skin, and with her blue
eyes full of content, Cherry was a
picture Of exquisite youth and grace
aad charm.
The evening was cooler, with sud
den wind and a promise OF storm
They grouped themselves about a fire
in the old way; Anne and Justin sit
ting close together on the settle, as
Martin and Cherry had done year
ago Cherry sat next her father, with
her hand linked in his; neither hand
moved for a long long time. AllX
sitting on the floor. with her lean
cheeks painted by the fire, played
with the dog and rallied Peter about
some love affair, the details Of which
wade him laugh vexedly IN spite Of
himself. Cherry watched them. lit
tie puzzled at the familiarity Of Peter
beside this fire; had he been SO en-
tirely ore Of the family a wear agof
She could almost envy nm. feeling
herself removed hy SO Log and
strange a tweiyemonth.
BE that as it may my dear" said
AliX, ''the fact remains that you
taught this Fenton woman to drive
your car didn't you2 And you told
her that she was the best woman
driver you ever knew. a better driver
even than Miss Strickland; didn't
your"
u did not" Peter said, unmovedly
smoking and watching the fire.
"Why, Peter, you did She said
you dld|
well, then, she said what is not
true"
she distinctly told me" Alix re
marked, that dear Mr.. Joyce had said
that she was the best woman driver
he ever saw"
We'll, ! may have said something
ike that" Peter growled. flushing
Alix laughed exultingly. Il tell you
I loathe her!" he added.
Daddy, we have a lovely home !"
Cherry said softly, her eyes moving
from the shabby books ana the shah
by rugs to Aliz's piano shining in the
/ gloom Of the far corner. 1t was alI
homelike and pleasant, and somehow
the atmosphere WIS newly inspiring
10 her; she had felt that the talk al
dinner the old eager controversy
/ about books and singers and politics
/ and science, was-weIl, not brilliant.
perhaps. but worth while. Size was
beginning to think Peter extremely
clever and only Alix's quick tongue a
match for him, and to feel that her
father knew every book and had seen
every worthwhile play in the world.
Martin. whose deep dissatisfaction
/ with conditions at the Emmy Young
er Mine Cherry wen knew. had en-
tered into a correspondence some
months before relative to a position
/ al another mine that seemed better
10 him. and instead Of coming down
/ for a day or two at the time Of Anue,s
wedding, as Cherry had hoped lie
might wrote her that the authorities
I at the Red Geek plant had Jumped
/ at him, and tha be was closing up
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