SISTERS
By KATHLEEN NORTHS
,Aut.h?r J, yosiclun'a Wife"
(Copyright, 1010, b Kathleen NorrU)
T THOUGHT you wsro golngr to walk?"
retcr said, nervously. Ho had
nauntered up to them with an air of
Indifference. ,,,.,
"Shall 17" faltered Cherry, fiho looked
, Aix, who had not yet climbed Into
the car, and was pulling on her driving
loves All, toward whose faco the
doe was making eager springs, did not
antviar Interested, so Cherry turned to
Martin. "Walk with us, Mart?" sho
M,,Nlx." Martin said, comfortably, not
"Til be home before you, Pete, and
wilt for you," Allx said. Sho looked
i him Irresolutely, ns If hhe would have
dded more, but evidently decided
ralnst It and spoke ngaln only In ref
"nee to the dog. "Keep Buck with
. iii vou. Poto?" nho said. "Jle's
yo?.'inV too laiy. No, sir I" she re
KiLclfed the animal, .affectionately.
Rvou shall not ride I Well, the dear old
L'hov: does ho want to come
iju. .'--
Bigim
'.n. .1,. tmelt down and put her arms.
. .".he animal and laid her brown
oldfcoir she said, shaking him
nt "tS niS fro. "You've got to stay
'SsrCcr feet and'
HCp,.;.aood.b,
.1. dear. All rigni.
Martin?"
T5fhit into gear and vanished. Ieler
frheyrry stood looking at each other
nrjivp them a good start or Buck will
., S them , "Peter i-ald. his body sway
eaten t"'m;.,n' frf.ntlc Jumping of tho
tho car
slipped
llnally 'U.wVen the columns of tho
dlaanpeiircd bewm ino Ch
reciwoouB. . ",-,,., -him.
"And now ""' ' . w m utes, "there
ChSiy.'n'oVhlnS to ay. We've said
STrne to be nothing to say,
11 .0i';!.Mnr to say!" ftcr echoed.
whatever
we " . : .-,.. -.-. , .,,..-
wrong 1" Cherry
eyes.
"Whatever we
BQ1U Willi m;iif
do Is wrong," he
nuoveW she said on a fluttering
br"We must go!" Peter1 nnswored. And
r',,! .h. ominous fall of a heavy
:ii.;n.V.. thfl words formed In nib
hear :"AIc knows. Allx knows."
Ho thought of tho afternoon, only a
. " "... .jr. when fJherrv's beauty
had SS, .o piiMen and ho reslsUble
an appeal to nun. "" "". v
dJllghtof their luncheons together, when
she had first confided In him, and of
tho days of secret an Intense Joy thnt
her mere noarneis nnd tho lnowledge
that ho would htn her had afforded him.
It had nil seemed so fresh, so natural
to entirely their own affair, until the.
tragic day of Martin's reappearance nnd
the hour of ngonlred waiting at the boat
for the Cherry who did not come. There
had ucen no joyous seu-coiinuenue m
that hour, none In the distressed hour at
the Orpheum. and tho hour Just past,
when Cherry's rarely displayed passion
had wrenched from hlm hla last vestige
of doubt.
But this was the culminating unli.ip
rlness, that he should know, from Allx's
brave nnd gentle and generousi look as
they parted, that Allx know. He had, In
the wild rush nnd hurry of his thoughts,
no time now to analyze what their loo
must mean to her. but It hurt him to
see on her happy face those lines of
sternness and gravity, to seo her bright
and honest eyes shadowed with thai
new look of pain.
It was too late now to undo It : he and
Cherry must carry their desperate plan
to a conclusion now, must disappear
and forget. They had tried, air, this last
dreadful week, they had both tried, to
oxtlngulnh the flames, and they had
failed. But to Peter there was no com
forting thought anywhere. Wrong
would bo done to Martin, to Allx, to
Cherry and more than even these.
wrong to ntmseir, to tno ideal of him
self that had been his for so ninny years,
to the real Peter Joyce.
"If 1 had It all to do over again, 1
should not come here," Cherry began,
breathlessly.
"Ah, If we had It all to do over again !"
looking back half a dozen years, how
simple It all seemed 1 How uncom
plicated life was. In those old days when
the doctor and his girls had teased him,
and consulted him. and mado him ono
of themselves "What a web. Cherry!"
he said, sadly. "If Anno hadn't made
her claim, you would not have been kept
here all theso wicks; If the financial
question hadn't been raised, you must
nave, stayed In Ited Creek, simply be
cause you couldn't well havo done any
thing else."
"And If I had been with Martin, this
horrible business of that girl's letter
wouldn t have happened." she added,
bravely. "Oh. yes that's quite true!"
she Interrupted him. us ho Interpolated u
bitter protest. "Mart has no particular
Principle about It. but ho never would
nave got In with that crowd If I had
"" there. So thut onco more." sho
ended, sadly, "I can say that I have
i?M-i?..a mes? of things. Listen, that's
h. i8? 'n'errupted herself, as the
dogs loud and violent barking reached
!a tT?.S bVl2n& a tur-n m tl10 twisting
road. "He didn't catch them, then."
ine next Instant a woman camo uu
"VJ. road, rnunlng, and making a queer,
torjot "8 that Che""y never
n1Y!..wafi tt 8twger to them, but she
tan toward them, making the odd, gasp-
wihnwlUdyte1s.mUC" dry
ySfth 5,1? h.tr & ' horror
of hr V.mo,,0i' ,nat ,ho flrl,t glimpse
bf.t Z awaken;,va&uely in their hearts,
volcn ?n.e iaw.t.n1cm ho suddenly found
rh.?,.for i hideous a scream that
nnry.'V ltneC8 'alletl her, and I'c cr
Bprang forward with a shout.
train JPBd t,le wommi'H at m, nnd her
frantic eyes were turned to him.
cawlni.mni0(1M,Bll5.crled 1,,a hoarse,
thi hLl'- My God! They're, over
wak.7"in?y . over tne bank!"
fag towL,tw 8h0uled' 'ii8 hcart turn-
"Oh, the car the automobile!" th
woman mouthed. "Oh. n.y God-I saw
J go! I baw U fa If Oh Clod pavn
iurtoh";tuwaV,.R'k0 ,he,,dn ' lei t
iTH e.Wfre "" funnltw now, running
Sid 2bSftr,W" fptfd down 'ho long
ward th.lv.iH c,,1noa. " and on to-
ni!l6.frantiQ noB8 of the dog's bark-
agony. olco twlsted and wild with
wlMli5.Bnartr6 woma wan crying out
wildly; Cherry was sobbing a nraver
al w.as'1r,en,Un0W",ff M,a? ? S
the wird..Pea.vJ.? X1? U,U 0VCr "B'Hn
cannAt K".' u ? .Allx my Clod I It
never nai
Ix!"
a r... :.. "? '
enn , ,k. i. ' "v ny nnew, over
descending BJ?arDeat a"d ugliest of tho
urscendlng preelp ces. crimhlnir ,in,Z
tin :, t.uX'' a"a "1By ".now. Over
nd BtrlkinS. Bapl,?gB , and "'idrbrusu
fallm. lit,.8 y,.,tl10 hea car had
that t . "o. "uVu,aer' A"d Peter saw
feeTiur'' Vol.oaweKdU?taH K
bed 2 thA" alm08t to t'e dry crcek
Wlde th1.' S,3,,0",' A ' on his knees
rong, in it l.l-Hf0 tnat' crect a"d
ten AUr oni orl59d bLU6 B'nBham. had
She naVCl a ,w Bh?rt minutes ago.
4 alfliMrh niJ,un cIear ' the car,
oy wanr'L"08,1 every bono in her
'ace. e.ntfk,tn' by Bomo miracle the
brown haft met 2"? cM where the
b tUrne8Sra"anfan,d bSnt over hpr w'lth th
j"wt"ea'Vfft. d.M .".WPS hla. own
4. "... IUU
caught a BlImnM . f iiiJ,,n.i!Jre,ld.8 "
Peter fnri.mPM " Allx's o d ton le.
orwf ' ifSTei a K5r,hi,n e,a8 to the
Put Ida falo a'Alnsf j,0.108? to hlm Bn(1
hapa she iilid "?J"! her face, and per
own as in im rver 80 ruy been hla
h"n the i 2t,nome"t thflr pa"tlSgH
" long shafttHafrtOnmnMW0d.d,,aPd' B'"t
rnP ith h!afbltter?ncry., B",klnff BUn'
wife I" Alljc-not dcadf My wlfc-my
rtieri?iwia't no'jrnrn,en, "d w""
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I"'; " ; ,; EfiiiN& ' PHBldOfft
' t,
!aficdy' Aftcr a while sorjio sympa
thetic man touched Peter on the arm to
fay that Mrs. Moyd had fainted, and
that If ho would please tell them what
to do about tho other man ho was not
yet dead
Peter roused himself, and with help
from half a dozen hands on all slderf
hu enrrred Allx up to the road and laid
her upon a motor robo that somo kindly
spectator had spread In the deep dust.
All about he heard the quick, horrified
breathing and muttering of tho shocked
and sympathetlo neighbors who had
gathered, but to him there was a brnssy
light In the world and a hideous tasto
pf Inky bitterness In tho very air ho
wreathed, and ho recognized nobody.
Presently ho wbb conscious that a
small, slight woman with disorderly fair
nalr and with her faco streaked with
dust and tenrH was standing beside him
nnd looking down at her, he saw that It
was Cherry.
"Yes, Cherry?" he said, moistening his
dry lips.
"Peter," nho said, "they say Martin's
living Jio was screaming " She
grew deathly pale, and falntnens swept
over her, but sho mastered It. "He was
CaUffht htf thnt lrna'1 h .lrl IUnJ Ua
Is living. Will you tell them tell ono ofJ
thenn tnn lhn, l l. ..it. ...... fl
?an. d.rivo hlm home- I'ou'H tell hlth
that, then I'll get a doctor "
ea. I will," Peter snld, not stirring.
his eyes had the look of a sleep-walker;
ne nodded slowly and gravely nt her.
like a very old man. "You " ho said
to a man who had stopped hla car near
ny and who wa pressing sympathetic
ally close. "Will you 7"
"If you'll sit In the back seat, dear,
and Just rest his poor head," a woman
said to Cherry. Peter saw that they
wore lifting Martin's big, senseless form
1? .1. . hands and carrying It through
tne little group. Thero was a shudder
a? Martin moaned deeply. Peter went
and at on the low bank by Allx again.
6"? . f ted ono of her limp hands, and
nem it. Ah, If in God's mercy nnd good-
he might moan, ho thought, that
on6 B"8nt ray of hope would flood all
iS8wo.rd with llBht for hlm again 1 But
she did not stir.
vi!?ono?" 8ald herry'n heartrending
olce a mere whloper. beside him.
" turned upon her lifeless eyes.
-,,0i,:A'!jt my darling! My own big
";. Cherry sobbed, falling to hei
n?nn-fianfd PftB"""'ately kissing Oie
P Thfu.1 facp' 0h' Allxt dcurcstl"
ptJ ?. wome" about broko Into tears,
nni fL"r'suC,,hln ,mnd close against his
cry. CJ'cbals- wishing that ho might
vnihe-.d.ri0V0 ,hcrFI" he heard a man's
mi wJ '"5 " 'be silence, "and sh
mhfntn ,'0f't nirif of her oar for 'a,
S Innirt Pfn'J J'ou "7-the wheel
fir n ?,1,.tn0.bnnX 0,,Ce 't BOt this
far-no power In God's earth "
mrVl? J!?iZcr !", ,aoU,B rarth!" another
apBii ro.ald '" ""renin conflrmatlon.
to ml - Ch(rry said, "will you conn
ISL.m. as E00n UB J'ou ca7 I shall need
jou. i
sen'ny 8 "8 1 ca"''' llc unswcrcd. ah-
rJw?car drove iiwny. nnd ho hoard
Martin moan ngaln as It moved.
, r?yc,'; said a maw kind olcc close
beslda hlm Ho recognlz'd tho voice
rather llinn the dlstrexbcd face of an
old friend nnd neighbor "Jovcc, my
dear fellow," he urged, affectionately,
tell us what we ma do. nnd we'll Hf e
to It. Pull yourself together, my dear
old chap Now, shall I telephone for an
nil ambulance 7 You must help uh Just
n little here, and then we'll wparc you
iverythlmr else."
"Thank ,ou. I'Ved." Peter answered'
iiner a moment, during whleh ho looked
seriously and studiously nt his friend,
ns If ascertaining through unseen mists
nn narners tne identity nf the sp alter.
inanK you," he said. "Will you
you help
me take my w Ifc homo?
"ou wish It that way?
man said, anxiously.
the other
'Please." Peter answered, simply.
And instantly there was moving and
clearing In the crowd, a murmuring of
whispered directions.
After a while they were at the moun
tain cabin, and Kow. with tears running
down his yellow fare, wan lidnlno tlim
Then Peter and his friend were walking
up over tne familiar trails, he hardlv
knew where. In the late twilight, nnd
then they went Into the old living room
and Allx was lying there, splendid,
sweet, untouched, with her brave, brown
forehead shadowed softlv by lies. brown
hair, nnd her labhes resting upon her
cheeks and her lingers clasped about
the stems of three great, creamy roses.
Thero were other flowers all about,
and thero were women In tho room.
White draperies fell with bweeplng lines
from tho merciful elllng of the crushed
figure, arid Allx might havo been only
asleep, and dreaming some heroic dream
that lent that secret prldo and joy to
her mouth and filled thoso closed eves
with a triumph they had never known
In life.
Peter stood and looked down at her,
and the men and women drew back.
But although tho muscles of his mouth
twitched, he did not weep. Ho looked
long at her, while an utter Mlenro filled
the room, and whllo twilight deepened
Into dark over the cabin and over tho
mountain abovo It,
Something cold touched his hand, and
he heard the dog whimper. Without
turning his hend or moving hla eyen from
Al x'a face, ho pressed his fingers on tho
silky head; hlu breast rose on ono
agonized breath, but ho controlled It.
Buck was as still as his master, sensing
In unfailing dog-fashlon, that something
was wrong.
"So that was your way out, Allx7"
Peter said In tho depth of his soul.
"That was your solution for us nil? You
would go out of life, nwav from tho
sunshine and the trees and the hills that
you loved, so that Cherry and I should
be saved? I was blind not to see It. I
havo been blind from tho very begin
ning." Silence. Tho room was tilling with
shadows. On tho mantel was a deep
bowl of roses that ho remembered' watch
ing her cut was It yesterday or cen
turies ago?
"I wns wrong," ho sah.1. , "But I think
you would bo sorry to have mo facts
what I am facing now. You were al
ways so forgiving, Allx; jou would bo
the first to be sorry."
He put his hand over tho tigerish pain
that was beginning to reach his heart.
Ills throat felt tlilck and choked, and
still he did not cry.
"An hour ago," lw Bald, "If It had
been that tho least thought of what
this meant to you might havo reached
me an hour ago., tt would not havo been
too late, Allx, ono look Into your eyes
an hour ago mlgnt nave saved us nil :
Fred." Peter said aloud, with a bitter
groan, clinching tight thn handa of tho
old friend who had crept In to stand be
sldo him, "Fred, sho was hero, In all
her health and Joy and strength only
today. And now "
"I know old man " tho other man
muttered. Ho looked anxiously at
Peter's terrlblo face. In tho sllonco tho
dog whimpered faintly. But when Peter,
after an endless flvo minutes, turned
iuhlv. It wns to speak to his friend In
an almost normal voice.
"I must go uown nna sen i i.
Fred. 8he took her husband to the old
house ; they wcro living there."
"Helen will stay here," the man as
sured him, quickly. "I'll drive you down
and coma back here. Wo thought per
naps u. few of us could como here to
morrow nfternoou, Peter." ho nddod
timidly, -with his reddened eves lining
again, "nnd talk of her a little, and
pray for her a little, and then take her
, " -.at hMM ln old doctor
"T hadn't thoueht about that." Peter
answered, still with tho nlrof finding
It hard to link words to thought. "But
that.lH tho way she would like It Thank
you and thank Helen for me
"Oh. Peter, to do anything the
woman faltered. "She came to us, you
know when the baby was no 111 day
oeM"-my own sister couldn't have
be"Dldnsruer Peter asked, staring, at
the speaker steadily. "That was like
her "
lie want out of the house nnd got
Into a waiting car, and they drove down
the iwuntalnf Al x had driven him over
this wfcd day before yesterday-i-yes-terday-no,
it was today, he remem-
b"Thank God, I don't fee It yet ail
shall feel It. Thompson!" h taid.
quietly. The man who was driving gave
h5? n,sXt'takeBeBch0day as It comes."
he answered, simply,
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