Evening star., 1923-04-07
New Life.

For three weeks Cherry had been
constantly in the thoughts of David
Sangree. He had gone to the house
as soon as he had heard Of her ia
theirs death. Genie was with her.
quietly cheerful and sympathetic, and
ready to help her in her few melan-
choly preparations There was moth
ing, 1t seems. that David could do;
Tor the affairs OF the household were
in charge of John Barnett. It was
from Genie that he learned briefly of
the facts. as far as she knew them,
which had led to Mohun's death
from Barnett of Mrs. Mohun's de-
had taken Bob's affair in hand at her
request and kept the facts out of the
newspapers. 1t was obvious that pow
erful influences had operated to spare
the boy and reimburse the firm of
Brown & Pritchard, which. as David
later heard from Lycett. declined to
prosecute Bob Mohun, now con-
science-stricken and terrified, had
been sent out Of town.
1t seemed to David that Cherry had
agreed to all of these things because
she possessed no longer any power Of
tniative. She seemed stunned by the
repeated blows. and, when he spoke
TO her OF other things, she listened to
him, but with a distant gaze, as
though she were trying to pierce some
impenetrable Veil. to find the answer
to some question to which there was
no answer.
He did not learn until later Of the
alienation of mother and daughter,
nor of it's cause. But the continued
frequency of John Chichester's visits
and the celerity with which Bob's un-
fortunate affair had been arranged
left no room for doubt as to the real
nature OF their relations.
Chi 4hesters manner to Sangree when
q 0at yfpaT al. fo1
an attitude which Sangree returned.
as he had always done, with a casual
air of good breeding. But he had
never liked Chichester, and made no
effort to conciliate him, rejecting per-
haps even a slight air of resentment
which he had absorbed from Cherry.
Genie came with an invitation from
Mrs. Gartley to spend a few weeks at
her country place, Walhalla, up the
Hudson, and Cherry. glad OF the op-
portunity for a rest and change of
thoughts. accepted. There was moth
ing to keep her In the house in 1920
street. 1t was no longer a home. II
was just a house. Her plans were
diately accepted an invitation of Mrs.
Pennington to spend month on Long
Island
SanEree went on with his work still
thinking of Cherry The Gartley's in
vited him to Walhalla for the week :
scene had benefited her. She was still
rather quiet. but color had come
back into her cheeks and she gave
him a welcome which left no doubt as
to the warmth of her friendship. She
wanted to go to work at the univer-
sity at once. but David agreed with
Genie that another week at Walhalla
was what Cherry needed most.
David worked hard. but at odd mo-
ments he found himself relaxing in
his chair, his papers before him. his
gaze on vacancy, thinking Of Cherry
Should he tell her how things We're
with him? He knew that she was
greatly changed from the fiamboyant
creature of his first acquaintance;
that Bruce Cowan and Dicky Wilber-
force had passed rather obtrusively
from the field of her sentimental Wis
ion (for she had laughingly described
her disillusionments) that in the rig
ors of the game of life which they
had frequently discussed, she had
found herself at last, a woman grown
aware of the lesser hypocrisies. but
still loyal to herself and full of faith
in ideals which had persisted in spite
Of influences which might easily have
destroyed them. The material rec