Evening star., 1923-03-17

"Well-er-yes. In way. But
she's not your sort, you know"
$50 you said"
Don't be sore, Cherry. ! hardly
know the girl"
Cherry merely laughed.
She meant it to mean unutterable e
Indifference and succeeded. Cherry 5
laugh could be very cOntemptuous at
times. So at last he stopped speaking
and sat in silence, which. as the mo-
ments went on, grew set and sullef.
Cherry, occupied with the wheel,
seemed to have forgotten his exist
ence. They were for the moment as
far apart as the poles. But for all her
placid exterior the spark OF con-
science was flaming, burning her
/ breast. 1t was that woman. she
shouldn't have gone with Bruce Cow
an. She shouldn't have taken her to
place like that. He should have
known better. She seemed to have
glimpses of shadowy recesses in his
spirit.
And Eruce had kissed her. He
would have to pay for that
1t was almost o'clock when she
drove into 18th street. With some
amazement she noticed the lights in
the upstairs windows of the Mohun
house and the group of strange au
tomobiles before the door. Hurried :
ly she bade her companion good night
and took out her latchkey. But the
door opened and a man hurried out.
What is it," she asked. I'm MISS
Mohun."
"Oh. Miss Mohun. I'm Or. Heath
cote--a consultant on this case. Your
father-very ilI-strOke OF paralysis.
Confession.
John Chichester's revelations about
MOhun'S affairs-So Intimately con-
nected with his own-were a severe
blow to David Sangree, and his sub
sequent conversations with George
Lycett provided little comfort TO
either man. Both of them sold Tex
tile Mills in small lots. but the mar
ket continued to fall, and with the
crash Of the Mohun house all that re-
rnained Of Sangree's respectable for
tune was about $4,000 in cash ana
house far uptown which yielded MIN
a small sum monthly. Sangree couiu
not find il in his heart 10 blame his
friend for the position in which he
new found himself, for many others,
sounder business men even than LS-
cett, had been caught In the deciine
in the Mohun shares, waiting as san
gree and Lycett had done for an up
ward turn in the market which never
out Of the confusion which had re-
suited from the disaster many ruf1oTS
emerged, many OF them dangerous
10 the regulations OF some Of the pro-
pers. II seemed. We're bent on giving
due credit to James Mohun himself
for having done all that he could DO
10 stem the tide of misfortune. for
saving sacrificed his personal hold
ings in outside companies, notably
the coppers. in order to protect the
interests OF those who had confided
in him. But all without avail. The
failure was one of the heaviest In
year OF financial perplexities: and II
was clear that the firm OF Mohun q
Co. was completely ruined. The
stroke of paralysis which had afflicted
the unfortunate man seemed to add
a touch of personal drama to situa-
tion which was not without sordld
details.
All Of this David Sangree had read in
the papers after the occurrence, and in
spite Of the difficulties before him-the
complete disruption OF his personal
plans for the future and the obvious
and immediate necessity OF finding some
employment which would eke out a very
slender income-he found himself think
ing of the terrible situation which now
confronted his young friend Cherry.
For, unless Mrs. Mohun had other re-
sources ii seemed very certain that the
family was face to face with the des-
perate expedient of beginning 1ife anew.
In the course of the morning Sangree
learned that the desperate Illness of Mr..
Mohun had prevented an assignment
heaviest of which was the private bank
ing house of John Chichester & Co. had
already demanded the appointment OF
receiver. This meant. he imagined,
lengthy proceedings in which all Of Mo-
huns holdings, or what remained of
them in stocks, bonds or real estate,
would be sold for the benefit Of his
creditors. John Chichester seemed to
loom very large again at this moment.
Scarcely aware of what was in his
ind
out of doors on the second day after the
failure walking rapidly northward
1t was a little curious that this after
noon Cherry's difficulties should seem
more important to him than his own.
From the moment of their first meeting
when he had been aware of the para
dox Of a grudging admira ton of her
radiant personality-he had fallen, al
of avuncular benevolence toward her.
At least this was the phrase which
seemed best to indicate his state of
feeling. But his benevolence. he was
certain. was colored a little with pity,
too. For her very radiance and gayety
ophistocation-an ingenuousness that
was so little artificial, a sophistica ton
that was so little wise. The drab colors
of his own nature had assumed a livelier
hue from his contacts with Cherry and
he had taken care not to sully her
brightness by any of the cynicism which
had come out Of his own experiences
with a maddened world. The amuse-
ment that she always afforded him by
the originality of her point of view Tin
contrast to his OWN had become more
and more delightful. anad the self-suffi-
cheney. which had at first shocked his
sensbiltes, while no longer annoying,
continually bewildered him by its con-
sistency and its accordance with all the
other phases Of her character. 1t pleased
him to consider the drives with Cherry
as excursions into a Golden Age which
he had never seen. Her moments of
silence and abstraction interested him,
too, for in them he saw beauties OF
spirit, usually quite obscured in the
of her splendid gayety-gen-
tie moods, pretty mental reservations
as to her own folly. unexnected cha RI