Evening star., 1923-03-24

have made them il I'd only known what
was to come . But we did make them,
you and 7. and they've got TO be paid.
And the doctors. II will be frightfu-
but he has TO have the best OF attention
its the least We can do for him.
Now and in the future. But
where is the money to come from un-
loss
Cherry covered her ears with her
fingers and rose. her eyes blinded with
tears.
Don say any more. Muzzy. !"
Not about dad: II tf.r1 abou; il.
Really will Hut rot now.
Please. please.
She felt her mothers arm around her
shoulders. but sae turned away. blindly
rushing from the library and upstairs
TO The sanctuary of her own room.
After some days Of deliberation David
Sangree had offered his services as all
instructor in cthnology at the Cniver-
Sity Of Columbia. He had been quite
sure that Bartlett. his old friend and
preceptor. would be glad to have him,
for not long before he had conf1ded to
Sangree that his department needed an
other assistant. The offer had come as
. surprise. but was none the less well
come and within week. though adapt
cd by training and experience rather
10 research than to teaching. Sangree
had taken up his duties in classroom
and lecture hall. The work was not
plenty of time (" carry on at home tho
preliminary studies for his new book
which was 10 deal with the migrations
OF tnc Turkish stocks into Armenia.
he saw littl" Of Cherry and made
no other calls at the 18th street
house. He imagined that with her
new responsibilities she was finding
no leisure to resume her friendships
or to seek the diversions of which she
must be 50 much in need. But he
nf n
her with Genie Armitage. whom he
met twice At small informal dinners
at the I.yCetts and the Warnings. He
knew that things were going badly
with the Mohuns and that Cherry was
facing a problem which would have
dauted II spirit more intrepid even
than hers.
He wanted to see her again and
from day TO day he waited; hoping
that she would write or telephone
him. arranging a meeting or asking
him to the house The nows from
Genie that the Mohun automobiles
had been offered for sale showed the
situation with a defniteness which
Tie moment of concord in which
she had laid her heart bare TO him
Etill sounded sweetly In his memory,
50 sweetly, indeed. that it had given
him the hope of further moments Of
such communion. He wanted to help
her. He knew that she would be
needing advice even such as he might
have to offer her and 1t hurt him a
little that she had turned elsewhere.
At least, he supposed that she had
done so. because he had formed no
high opinion of her brother Bobs in
te1Iigence and initiative or. indeed, of
Alicia Mohun's. and II was difficult to
believe that Cherry was attempting
to cope with her problems alone.
DIR. Sangree sighed as he turned the
key In the door of his apartment and
entered Tt had been a tiresome day.
The future which for few short
weeks had beckoned SO alluringly
now seemed strangely sterile OF pos
sibilities. He saw himself gradually
settling, as DR.. Bartlett had settled,
into gray and colorless middle age,
worn and daunted by small prob
lens, when he might have been able
to master great ones. Six months
ago he wouldn't have thought of the
fugnacities of middle age; indeed he
wouldn't have thought of middle age
at all. 1t might, in u sense, be said
that he was born middle aged with
out knowing 1t. He rarely thought
OF time except as a means to given
end and the years before him had
been allotted one by one to the accom-
plishment of particular intellectual
tasks, made possible by the posses
sion of means which he had proposed
10 devote to the great work that he
had set out to do. Now he could see
quite clearly he was destined to be-
come mere classroom drudge. a
Janger- -on of universities, the event