Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 41

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1923 i X : x : § X ¥ "HOUSE BY GEOR - Author of “Youth Tril.p' Copyright, 1ML, D. Appleten & Ce. Am e mazed by changed in by the war, but interested in Cherry. modest ested with her 313 MOHUN, a self-mude fina Too busy o' thiuk of his chlidre f N, who has successfully cuitivated e of life. OW motorcar _salesman. of au_ tpe. of whom Cherry imagioes . 13 & typleally reckless | ster. E LYCETT, elderly chofus, philoso- zing as the story develops. HN CHICHESTER, whow Mra. Mohun would like to call soo-in‘law. 3 the days went on Cherry noted that he put his disappointment in her mother's :insufiiciency behind him. He gained in strength daily, his jaw tosk a firmer angle and his brows were tangled in | girls: Dicky Wilberforce, Horace Gm- ’~’f07 which her iother had reared GE GIBBS bamt” und Other Successes. 1lly giggle of the fortgnate child was he mensure of Cherry’s incapacity. She was ashamed. Nothing that had happened to her before hud so much s t »|lowered her in her own estimation. This was an jmpartiul Judgment ol the world uporr her inefiiciency. was useless—ft only for the career her—marriage. She Was &n excres- cence on the great body of soclety. a parasite, with meyther brains ner talents to make her way alome. It was & cruclal moment, and “Genie met it with an invitation (v an afternoon at the Wetherill¥ coautry place in the Pocantico hills. SyNyis had asited for her especially and a1l the eold crowd was going to be ghere. The | alternative waus & xlonmy’dsfmflm in her room face to face W her im- potence, so Cherry accepte In the {mood of the moment she woukl have married any man who asked hex. | Bylvia's welcome wnd the plaisant familiar faces of the old crowd were !balm to her wounds; Gloria Toyme. | Phosbe Macklin und one or two ol\er thought. There was somathing con- ' braith, Teddy Waring, Jack Spencer. M structive now in his attitude toward life. His family felt it, though they could not see why they should begin to hope. But Bob, who treated his mother rather badly if he happened 10 be out of humor, now learned the - meaning of his father's sharp look of reproof the decision in his quiet They awed him a little, for @ man who had come back “You know how much I've always cared for youw, Cherry,” he began. from the dead in 4 new guise with which Bob was unfamiliar. As the sick man gal in strength and reached a physical condition which would warrant his taking up the thread of affairs, men came to 152 nt of theC ting L) with friendly offe iled himselr. ! if any one! something in himself that others | was good to £ee them all together again. Almost she was ready to believe that she had never been nway from them. Dicky was quite sober and now pro- 1 fessed himself to be & person with serl- |ous {deas of life. He had actually gone into business. Was this true? Dear old was it that he Ifteen—? Shy had used to keep count, She looked at him with a new interest. for he seemed [to have tuken u new siature, w new brightness by contrast to the shadows 1ot her own troubles. He had always | been handsoifle, joyous. picturesque, and { toduy his sober pretensions became him. ¢ asked her to marty him for the }sixteenth time. Cherry” vowed, she would accept him. He lost no monients in bringing about & resumption of their friendship and led her forth from the squash court, where Teddy and Jack were violently hurling to and fro, into the quiet loggia at the side of the house, & place propi- tious for confidences. The afternoon was balmy, the follage alrcady sending forth its tendrils at the first breath of ng —altogether a time for the renewal of old affections. Cherry held her breath. 3424 2456 2 2 22 2 26 X 2o » {1ips twisted in the old familiar boyish !emite. You know how much TI've always c: > " he began. 22 think of you as one of the best friend: got in the world.” Tm—I'm glad of that. Dickey.” “Well been an awful rotter at blume ¥ou for not having wanted me. You wyre perfectly right. But I have taken aNprace. 1 suppose it's because it sn't S0 easy 10 get s it was. And I don’t really think about it at all Hauven't touched 4 drop for a mon! “That's fine oy You. Dicky.” T thought you's like 1o know because. did_use to tell me I ought to stop.; s Phoebe that gnade me—-"" Phoebe—: i T suppose she ught 1o tell you, all good ils, aren’t we, sed to He, gasped Cerry. “but She paused, as Quinprehen- n't the world will make a beaten | Phioebe wants it, too. path to his door. one_ except a constructiv, v us could ha ceded, and only under pres- sure of abnormal conditions. A bad failure, but an honest one. As the | ried downtown that Jim | Mohun had made w brave fight amd | was pulling through men remembered him with kindness and wished him { well. Other men, his business asso- Ciates, with ambitious plans which | needed a direc came seeking | him for ad .Barnett, & former dir of the unfortunate Textile Mills Company. with an idea of buying a piant in the Kensington district of Philadelphia; Harvey Mat- thison of Pittsburgh, a friend of ear- lier days, who believed that with health Jim Mohun might still rise again. 3 These v § wWere very encouraging to Cherry if only because they en- abled her father to resume his touch with the world. But, much as she Delleved in him, it scarcely seemed possible that th immediate financial return to their slender means, which, as figured, would be exhausted before the beginning of the next winter. And so meanwhile, as she found the opportunity, she went downtown Jooking for work. As ehe had told David Sangree, her peace of mind de- pended, & it had always done, upon | The high speeds at which she moved. And it was better to be hunting for 27ob ‘and be refused than to it as Yo mother did bemoaning her fate. Sangroe tried to help her, enlisting the aid of George Lycett and one or fwo of his other friends #nd relatives in trying to find something that she could do. ®But Cherry was now to make the astonishing discovery that, in epite 57 2l the money that had been spent fpon her cducation. £he knew very rd gesture. The words came in a je hisper as though forced from her against her will. But in a mom. gratulating him quiet things a woman do her felic grin of a boy who has just won the prige in u spelling bee. And Cherry, wearing a ballet dancer's smile, presentiy sought out Phoebe, em- bracing her after the manner of their kind, with quiet expressions of pleasure If she had been too guessed the lever—and too proud—to let that happ “I'm_so_glad you appr darling,” #aid Phoebe gently. D w when—Phoebe and Dicky—— Lucky though that neither of them guessed what had been in her thoughts. That would have been rather horrible—almost the feeling that eves nst her—everything fail- To be continued tomorrow. At the Theater. From the London Passing Show. “Do look at that awful creature in the green frock. Take the glasses.” b daren’t. I've left my rings at ¢ "UNDLRWOOD | \ little indeed. At her finishing school they had taught her that ladies al- ways wrote an angular hand (rather stylish), but in Cherry’'s case little more than an illegible scrawl. Her smattering of French, her smattering of the plano were of little value now. She didn't even Know enough to play at the movies, Her English was pass- able but instinctive, Her arithmetic Tad never been impressive. Any ear-old graduate of & busi- ho0l was better equipped than she. Twelve dollars a week was the Dbest offer that she could get—as a saleswoman behind the counter at & \large department store. Cherry's Topes had soared higher than this and she realized with dismay how little $60 & month would contribute the common store of money in the le household. She must do better than that, much better—a hundred a month at least. But how? She kept the secret of her disappointments from her father, who might. ®he thought, disapprove of her efforts, She visited some of the matrons of | soclety, wealthy women, who had asked her, to their parties. They greeted her warmly. 2 “Why, Cherry., you dear child. So 1glad to see you. But when, in matter-of-fact terms. she explained the object of her visit and expressed a hope that she might find & position as soclal secretary to some one, they merely recommended | that she call on Mrs. So-and-So. They always seemed to be just on the point of going out and in'a great hurr: ot 10 be rid of her exactly, but to sug- Rest possibilities elsewhere. The fm pression that they sought to convey \Wwas that they were very Kind, but very busy. And they rather overdid their parts. At times Cherry grew desperate. There were many moments like that which she had shown David Sangres when the pendulum would have made & swing if she n't had it under " Several times she called up Sangree, and they had 1ks along the riverside. He swith her and so nicely balanced ‘tween seriousness and jest that he met her moods, bringing her out of the depths of despair into the shal- Jows of humor, where he held her with a reasonable philosophy. She had flashes of bitterness which he bore with a shrug or else with stern- ness, but having given vent to her feelings she was always contrite and repentant. His was still the avun- cular attitude, and to his credit it may be said that Cherry never knew how deeply he cared or how keenly e was watching her. ‘Genle Armitage more than once carried her off bodily to some gayety or other, several times to luncheon and a mutinee. 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