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This Sale will Run until ENTIRE SJOCK is Sold
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1.; i s Strictly a CASH SALE.
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
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really going to leave him?” the older
sister questioned.
“I don’t kqpw what I’m going to
do!” Cherry half sobbed.
“But, dearest—dearest, you’re only
twenty-four; don’t you think you
•might feel better about it as time goes
on?” Alix urged. “Now that the
money is all yours, Cherry, and you
can have this nice home to come to
now and then, isn’t it different?”
Cherry was looking at her steadily.
“You don’t understand, Sis!” she
said.
“I understand that you don’t love
Martin,” Alix said, perplexed. “But
can’t people who don’t love each other
live together in peace?” she added,
with a half smile.
“N-n-ot as man and wife!” Cherry
stammered.
Alix sat back on her heels, in the un
graceful fashion of her girlhood, and
shrugged her shoulders.
“Think of the people who are wor
rying themselves sick over bills, or
sick wives, or children to bring up!”
she suggested hopefully. “My Lord, if
you' have enough money, and food,
and are young, and well—!”
“Yes, but, Alix,” Cherry argued
eagerly, “I’m not well when I’m un
happy. My heart is like lead all the
time; I can’t seem to breathe! Peo
ple—isn’t It possible that people are
different about that?” she asked
timidly.
“I suppose they are!” Alix conceded
thoughtfully. “Anyway, look at all
the fusses in history,” she added care
lessly, “of grande passions, and mur
ders, and elopements, and the fate of
nations—resting on just the fact that
a man and woman hated each other
too much, or loved each other too
much! There must be something in
it all that I don’t understand. But
what I do understand,” she added, af
ter a moment, when Cherry, choked
with emotion, was silent, "is that Dad
would die of grief if he knew you were
unhappy, that your life was all broken
up in disappointment and bitterness!”
“But is that my fault?” Cherry ex
claimed, with sudden tears.
Alix, after watching her for a trou
bled minute, went to her and put her
arm about her. “Don’t cry, Cherry!”
she pleaded sorrowfully.
Cherry, regaining self-control, re
sumed her work silently, with an oc
casional, sudden sigh. Site had opened
the subject with reluctance; now she
realized that they had again reached
a blank wall.
********
Three days after their talk in the
moonlit garden Peter found chance
to speak alone to Cherry.
“Are you ready?” he asked.
“Quite!” she said, raising blue eyes
to his. _ ...
It’s tomorrow, then, Cherry!” he
said. .
“Tomorrow!” He saw the color ebb
from her face as she echoed him. This
was already late afternoon; perhaps
-her thoughts raced ahead to tomorrow
afternoon at this time wheii they two
would be leaning on the rail of the
little steamer,- gazing out over the
smooth, boundless blue of the Pacific,
and alone in the world.
“Tomorrow you will be mine!” he
said. $
“That’s all I think of,” she an
swered. And now the color came up
in a splendid wave of flame, and the
face that she turned toward his was
radiant with proud surrender.
Ele told her the number of the dock;
they discussed trains.
“We sail at eleven,” said Peter, “but
I shall be there shortly after ten. I’ll
have the baggage on board, everything
ready; you only have to cross the
gangplank. You have your baggage
check; give it to me.”
They were waiting in the car while
Alix marketed. Cherry opened her
purse and gave him the punched card-
board.
“I’ll tell Alix that I have a last
dentist appointment at half-past ten,”
she said. “If she goes in with me,
we’ll go to the very door. But she
says she can’t come in tomorrow, any
way. I’ll write her tonight, and drop
the letter on the way to the boat. To
rporrow, then!” was Cherry’s only an
swer. “I’m glad it’s so soon.”
♦ ♦♦♦**♦•
“Good-bj I”- said Cherry, leaning
over the side of the car to kiss her
sister. Alix received the kiss, smiled,
and stretcheo in the sun.
“Heavenly nay to waste in the city!”
said Alix.
“I know!” Cherry said nervously.
She had been so strangely nervous
and distracted in manner all morning
that Alix had more than once asked
her if there was anything wrong. Now
she questioned her again.
“You mustn’t mind me!” Cherry 1
said with a laugh. “I’m desperately !
unhappy,” she said, her eyes watering, i
“I’d do anything in the world to help
you, Cerise!” Alix said sympathet- I
ically.
“I know yod would, Sis! I believe,”
Cherry said, trembling, “that there’s
nothing you wouldn’t give me!”
“That’s easily said,” Alix answered
carelessly, “for I don’t get fond of
things, as you do! My dear, I’d go off
with Martin to Mexico in a minute.
I mean it! I don’t care a whoop
where I live, if only people are happy.”
“How about Buck?” Cherry said, as
the dog leaped to his place on the front
seat and licked his mistress’ ear.
Alix emN^e€a him Joyihgly.
“Well—if he wanted to go with
you!” she conceded unwillingly. “But
he wouldn’t!” she added quickly.
Cherry, going to the train, gave her
an April smile, and as she took her
seat and the train drew on its way, it
seemed to her suddenly that she might
indeed meet Peter, but it would only
be to tell him that w.hat they Had
planned was impossible.
But on the deck of the Sausalito
steamer, dreaming in the sunshine of
the soft, lazy autumn day, her heart
turned sick with longing once more.
Alix was forgotten, everything was
forgotten except Peter. His voice, his
tall figure, erect, yet moving with the
little limp she knew so well, came to
her thoughts. She thought of herself
on the other steamer, only an hour
from now, safe in his care, Martin for
gotten, and all the perplexities and
disappointments of the old life for
gotten, in the flood of new security
and joy. Los Angeles—New Orleans—
France—it mattered not where they
wandered; they might well lose the
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world, and the world them, from today
on. O
“So that is to be my life—one of
the blamed and Nignored women?”
Cherry mused, leaning on the rail
and watching the plunge of the re
ceding water. .“Like the heroines of
half the books—only it always deemed
so bold and so frightful in books!
But to me it lust seems the most nat
ural thing W all the world. I love
Peter, and he loves me, and the earth
is big enough to hid^ us, and that’s
all there is to it. Anyway, right or
wrong, I can’t help it,” she finished,
rejoicing to find herself suddenly
serene and confident.
It was twenty minutes past ten, a
warm, sweet morning, with great hur
rying back and forth at the ferry,
women climbing to the open seats of
the cable cars, pinning on their violets
or roses as they climbed. Cherry sped
through it all, beside herself now with
excitement and strain, only anxious to
have the great hands of the clock drop-
more speedily from minute to min
ute, and SiO round out the terrible hour
that joined the old life to the new.
She was hurrying blindly toward the
dock of the Los Angeles line, aosorbed
in her one whirling thought, when
somebody touched her arm, and a
In Utter Confusion She Looked, Up.
It Was Martin!
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E. A. BROWN,
CHAPEL HILI., N. C.
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: senseless x-.u^^ ‘A laug^"- at noth
ing, or almost nothing.
I One evening, when in the sitting
I room there was no other light than
that of the fire that a damp July eve
ning made pleasant, about a week
after her arrival, Cherry spoke for
the first time of Martin. She had
had a long letter from him that day,
ten pages written in a flowing hand
on ten pages of the lined paper of a
cheap hotel, with a little cut of the
building standing boldly against a
mackerel sky at the top of each page.
Ele was well, he had some of his din
ners at the hotel, but lived at hope;
he had been playing a littlepoker and
> was luckier than ever. He was look-
ing into a proposition in Durango,
Mexico, and would let her know how
it panned out.
Peter had been playing the piano
lazily when the letter was tossed to
Cherry by Alix, -who usually drove
into the village every morning after
breakfast for marketing and the mail.
He had seen Cherry glance through
it, seen the little distasteful move
ment of the muscles about her nose,
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