Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-08

not wholly unconscious look, TO the
dreside, and he stood up TO greet her.
"Tired?' he asked, in an unnatural
voice.
II was just going TO bed" she
answered, hesitatingly. But she sat
/ down, nevertheless; sank comfortably
into the chair opposite his own, and
stretched her little feet. crossed at the
ankle, before her, as If she were in
| deed tired.
He knelt down beside her chair, and
gathered her cold hands into one Of
his own. "What are you and l going
to dor he asked.
She looked at him in terror.
But all that is changed she said,
! quickly, fearfully.
why IS it changed?" he countered.
II love you-I have always loved you.
since the days long ago, in this very
house, l can't stop 1t now. And you
love me, Cherry :"
YES, I shall always love you" she
answered, agitatedly, after a pause in
which she looked at him with troubled
| eyes. "But-but-you must see that
we cannot-cannot think Of all that
now" she added with difficulty. 81
couldn't fail Martin now, when he
needs me so :"
He needs you now" Peter Conced-
ed, "and I don't ask you TO do any
| thing that must distress him now. But
| In few months, when his mother
comes down for a visit you must tell
them honestly that you care for me, "
he said.
Cherry was trembling violently.
'But how could II she protested.
"Tel him that l am going away, de-
sorting him when he nest needs me y
Peter had grown very pale.
But" he stammerad, his face
close TO hers-"but you cannot mean
| that this is the endf"
She moved her lips as If she was
about &c speak; looked at him blankly.
| Then suddenly tears came, and she
| wrenched her hands free from his,
and laid her arms about his neck. Her
wet cheek was pressed to his own, and
he put his arms tightly about the lit
tie shaken figure.
"Peterr she whispered, desolately.
4 And after a time, when the violence OF
/ her sobs was lessened, and she was
breathing more quietly, she said
again: peter We can never dream
that dream again"
1--WE shall dream It again." he cor
rected her.
Cherry did not answer for a long
while. Then she gently disen.aged
herself from his arms and sat erect.
Her tears were ended now, and her
voice hrmer and surer.
No; never again. she told him.
I've been thinking about it. all these
days. and I've come TO see what is
right, as / never did before. Alix
never knew about US, Peter-and
that's been the one thing for which
could be thankful in all this time But
Alix had only one hope for me. and
that was that somehow Martin and
to each other, and that somehow he
and l would make a success of our
marriage would spare-well let's say
the family name, from all the disgrace
and publicity of a divorce"
But, Cherry, my child" Peter ex-
p0stulated. You cannot sacrifice all
your life to the fancy that no one else
can take your place with him"
That she said, steadily, lis just
what l must dor
Peter looked at her for a few sec
onds without speaking
You don't love him." he said.
mo" she admitted. gravely. a
don't love him-not Ia the way you
mean
HE is nothing to you" Peter argued
"As a matter of fact, it never was
what marriage should be. 1t was
always-always-a mistake"
Yes" she conceded, sadly, at was
| always a mistaken
Then there is nothing to bind you
TO him !" Peter added.
/ "No-and there isn't ak to distress
pow." size agreed. thoughtfuHy. "And
yet" she went on. suddenly, Il DO tbs
more for Alix than for any one
Peter looked at her IN silence
looked back at the last flicker Of the
| fire.
You VIII change your mind after
awhile" he said
Cherry rose from the chair. ana
stood with dropped head and troubled
eyes, looking down at the flame.
mo, / shall never change ms
mind r. She said, Ii a low tone that
was stjll strangely firm and final for
her For five or ten or twenty OF
thirty years l shall always be where
Martin is, caring for him. AMUSING
him making a life for him" And
Cherry raised her glorious blue eyes
IN which there was q pure and an up.
iifted look that Peter had never seen
there before 1T IS what Dad ana
Alix would have wished" size finished
! solemnly. sand do il for them !"
Peter did not answer; and after a
moment she went quietly and qutrkg
from the room, with tie pew air y
/ quiet responsibility tlat She had worn
ever since the accident.