Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1923, Page 35

THE HOUSE ' BY GEORGE GIBBS . % Author of “Youth Triumphant™ and Other Successes. % Copyright, 1922, D. Applston & Co. - chuiiaielipil ke Rie R R iR gRle R el N Rl o DR Rl R IR Rl oy WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. CHERRY MOHUN, up-to-dste girl, rich and charming. at onch frritated aud aitracted b | % DAVID SANGRE! 215t and war 3 Tn manners and customs brought out b 4 in Cherry. His modest ler father, war. but inte funds are invested wit INCMOHUN. selt made fnuncial lender. |, Too busy to think of his children be le cultivated lesman_of | it AN, cave-man type, of whom Cherry imagines she' is enamored BOB. MOIUN, son, is a tepically reckless oung: ste | GEORGE LYCETT, elderly chorus, philoso develops. whom Mrs. Mobun in-law “Is It Any Trouble You Are In?" ade a motion as though to but hi ined her abstracted a different “There’s something « g0t to say to you. Cherry. Won't you g wait a moment She looked at him curi MED NOW 5 H 15 GAZE HAD NOT FOR A MO Pavid? No—just you somet hat ought s ud it out this ons + | the parlor they sat on the sc about heard didn’t think that you ou hundred passed through h but she motionle 0 hin bl to know? eIl me." she said quietly t to know."” about_vour broth Bob-—" |t ! Oh, David— > | put his w pgeth “You've had so much troub| muttered, “I hate to & unhappiness. 0 on.” she said ou would know tell you or not been” imprudent—r made a v suppose there's z use in my mine- ing words." N ' gasped Che know Mr, L Brown 5 tha sud- | denly disappeared and with his dis- | Appearance a sum of moneyis miss- ing.” A sound came from Cherry’s —a low. sobbing this revelation un fng at random of had gathered cou dare to look at her and went on with | 5 er difliculty ) “Come in, Mr Chichester. ean’t believe it “I—T'm afra definite. They of | n your brother's as —! with Georg 2 them— | attempts fect signature. Oh, | ’ mned silly of him!" ¢ d have made him do such “Oh, I don't know-—debts, T sup- Pose “Good God! . He mustn't no rea- son why he sh 3 the matter quiet. [ w ott this afternoon him T don't think And 5 0w from me Cherry was now s Don't, Cherry 1 T think the = ranged. if we find“Bob, Dol you know where he is Cherry looked up bewildered, “No— | 1 don't.” ght gpeak of it—I—T don’t think he was,” she gasped haven’t seen him for almost a week.” She struggied for her composure nnd then s ightened with an effort. “But how an such a thing be ar- ranged? 2 It's unbeliev- able “Your brother is very young.” said David gently. “He ]\.13 not been L(tp, ing the best of company. I'm sure! tho whole affair can be kept quiet— | if we can only find the boy “But how? How can we pay back a sum like that?" “Oh. that may be managed,” eaid David. herry turned on him You—David! I won't let you do| that. Never! Never! He did not look at her and only poked gravely with his umbrella into the gravel, but he felt her startled gaze upon him, and then the touch of her fingers on hi rm. “David! Davi was all that she could say. She struggled hard to master her emotions and after a moment she straightened suddenly, her fingers £till on David's arm, and then rose. “I've got to be going home, David ~-home—at once. I'm a little bewil- dered still. Tve got to think what to do—about father.” 1 She spoke, still in 4 daze, her fingers! clinging 10 his arm as they mcross to the subway station with the exercise she ga(hx‘red’ strength and courage. He wanted to! go uptown with her, but she insisted on going alone. The House of Mohun. Cherry did not know how she man- tged to reach home with a manner of outward composure.. She was aware that she suffered tortures of mind and vet was comscious that in the subway car she examined the adver- | tsing signs as usual—the collar ad- | vertisement of the Loy with the straw-colored hair, the food adver- tisement of the ied egrs on the! ham which kad always look 0 up- Jpetizing to her on the way home from downtown—and the others of | soaps, of washing machines, of stock- ings, of underwear. - The unintelligi- bls cries of the guards, the roar of the train, the jostling of the crowds ~-she was congoious of all extérnals— end yet her mdnd hammered persists - ME r I *lfor them. they were at least bl thoughts ! 1 don't} P! throat | | control, but his gaze had not for a I'side. Sounds in his throat—dull rep- OF MOHUN | ] ) ently at the one name—Bob, Bob, Bob. Her brother—he had been such a lov- without real harm in looking—always . immaculate—like the boy in the collar adver —Bob! v ‘did she kuow how si to join her father at th tuble without betraying her His newly found assurance and Lis cheerfulness even made her burden more difficult to bear. How could this news be kept from him? How could she cope with these new diffi- culties alone? Women disstmulate with more skill than men. What Cherry seemed to need most was time in which to think and plan. And so with an effort that was not apparent hun she told him of David gr offer of the position as h istant and of her doubts as he reassured her. “If you must work, I'm better satis have vou with Sungree.” h You'll ‘do well. If you need Lmg up—a few months at night business school—-— I might do that.” she said Sangree | job out of friend “Perhups he i=. But 1 don't thi hell mind having vou about.” n you was altogether scien- looked up from her. pha ntemplated her rice pudd % “Dear old David,” she muttered And then, “Me's the best friend—es ept vou, Dad—that I've got lu.!ned i pleasant litile formality to which they had recently become ace in hand. Jim Mohun talked of his plan: trying to stifl ned on |h.> Dolnt of bur ommented ups while Cherry ow frequer elsewhere. Mohun thought that s silence was the silence of at life had take for them hou fn euch other ommotion in the street they heard clearly ***$*»*i******* window, the lights | in the dusk—the | nd the banging of the door of a limousine, Cherry rose and went ol the window jand John Chichester,” tly. across Jim Mohun's e heavily. “I think 111 ng up, Cherry t before he could. erc Alicia had entered the ““he said l e & apparent to her uauuurr_ knew evervthing about Bob's | cia’s eves were wide and the color spots upon her cheel ted. Cherry glanced at her i t i futher, whose quick eves had aiready | Th the dim hallway. father an ter had a glimpse of Chicheste grave expression “Don’t. Muzzy! Don't led quickly ut Alicia’ Cherry ap- glance passed Cherry said_haltingly. directfy “Something has hap- know all been arrange And then_ with & halted as she heard her i r, calmly in- yne moment, Cherry!” His brows were puckering in an effort at con- centration “It's really nothing. dad—something { {about me that Muzay doesn’t under- stand * she gasped. “Tll tell you| qut, it tomorrow.” No.” he muttered. And then “Walt. please, Cherry.” He secmed row to have himself under perfect moment left his wife's face. “Alicia!” he commanded “Please, dad * whispered Cher hand on his arm. he thrust her gently aside k. Alicial What is_it? terrible has happened— b came into her throat | and choked her There was a ,m,., ment of “Gov on— it something about jCherry?” No, mo. 1t's Bob." she gasped b has——" Her v broke and she turned away wringing her hands. Jim Mohun was leaning forward on his cane—fixed like an image of tone. “Won't you speak out?” he demand ed jerkily. “What of Bob—- The situation was out of Cherry's hands. Her mother turned toward them again struggling for her cour- age and gave her message with des- perate speed. “Bob had taken monc)——forgedvll check. They found it out this morn- ing. Oh, God!” A motion from the man at Cherry's | etitios of Alicia’s words. Cherry saw him moisten his 1ips and straighten | with an effort as his wife went on. “Mr . Chichester came with me—to ask your permission to_straighten | the matter out—to get Bob out of {his srouble—to repay the amount— 5.0 “ve thousanat” repeated Mohun, parrotlike. 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