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I III 01 III III IU Righteous Ire lr CHAPTER Cherry watched her father tather ly 11 As Chichester lc r spoke kee she hC o saW him hirT straighten ht with I some of th the ol and I of ot shoulder and bulk bent and hi nis I Jaw Y His brows browl were eyes It seemed shot e a f to sudden Cherry h fire that in that thai t glance glanco was wal concentrated the righteous I Ire of ot of ot silent recriminations i as as t though ho he had c come to j Judgment gF L upon this man and woman san and van wa I I all an It before them ready But he to governed pronounce himself with Ith an ef effort d- d with witha fort fort and and when hen he he- spoke It It w was s I a an icy civility 1 appreciate ap 41 Thanks he e said tersely I I ap ap predate the meaning of Your our offer But I wont won't take advantage of It it lIe He- glanced at hars his at wire wife who o had ac started r In her fler r chair at the thi deep note in his voice ii And as this is entirely a 11 famil P I matter he went on perhaps Mr wont won't mind mind- Il lie Chichester you yot paused with a a. commanding look I to toV toward to- to V ward vard Oh f the e door I Chichester flU flushed hed uncomfortably Er Er ot of course I understand Then Ther he turned awkwardly Er good r-gooc r good I I night i Air Mr Mohun I S 1 drY I He lie Id d did d not l t move bore noV but to Cherry he rn I seemed to have gathered weight and ana I authority Ho Ito was the man as she remembered ed him in earlier days when I they had first come to New York York York-a a personality a force to be reckoned I with with sh She Sha heard the sound of ot the tho machine departing then her mothers mother's gasp ai at ather ather her side f Jim I You were wre discourteous discourteous un unpardonably un- un pardonably sol so so Especially as na Mr Ch chester Discourteous D Do o has ste been r. r s so He lie I kind kind kind- I smiled lle grimly I r as ns' ho ha e turned rn toward her r. r This Is no notime o oI I it time f for meddlers meddlers meddlers- d r 4 I Meddlers sho sha gasped Mr rr Chit Chi Chi- t chester Is isI is- is I i 1 think I know what Mr r ter tor Is he cut in harshly Im quite I capable of ot settling the personal lat lat- affairs af fairs of ot this family without his help And then sharply When did j you ou hear heal of ot this This This this morning Mr Cliches Cliches' tel tar was Bobs Bob's bondsman Weve We've eve spent t most geo of the day d trying r to find out I where he e Is Mr r Chichester st was v very vera r kind kind kind- And you you t failed to find him Hea Hee J gone Jim she walle walled wailed Im lT 1 afraid out afraid out of ot the city I suppose he i was afraid to face the firm firm firm- Oh Ohl I Mohun hobbled to the window and nd i back his face working with passion passionI Cherry Ch rry caught U at his s arm to try t to tomake I f hf tt dIP make him sit alt down w wb b but he did n not t seem to be aware of ot her He stopped I at last before his wife who was still 1 weeping gently Gone Is he Gone I hope ti to he heaven he never e coC comes back i Dad Dont Don't s speak so Cher Cherry r fa faltered e painfully G lie He h has been ee weak c foolish crazy if It jou OU like but butHe butHe but but- He cut her short snort with a commandIng command command- Ing gesture A Dad I Jim JimI I t A thief That's the name for him hin I Ill I'll Ill I'll have none of your subterfuges My l son eon son son-a a a. thief thief thle-n. a stupid one Into the bargain A thief h and a fool o Cherry y t too o was Sa sobbing b I now Dad Dad 1 please Dad please lease she pleaded He didn't seem to hear hear- her voice Ot Otto or orto orto r to feel the gentle touch of ot her hand ham I upon his shoulder He lie stood leaning r forward on his stick sUck confronting his hit 5 wife who still bent her head at as 9 though afraid to meet his gaze There Ther was a heavy note in his voice now growing in depth and volume at as S though from forces long pent Perhaps Per Per- haps laps his wife recognized some forgotten forgotten forgot forgot- ten te note of ot authority or perhaps she alt a was merely weary or frightened for tor to r she ehe stirred and rose Jim I I-I I I cant can't t stand stan It she muttered I I 1 I think c Ill I'll go to my room No he lie g growled harshly r youl 1 no f Joui listen He e thrust o out a hand It did not touch her but with one look into h his eyes she h shrank ba back to her chair again In obedience b r However iro e this has happened he sn snapped at ather ather her Its Us your fault tault as well as mine mine mine- and you'll share the responsibility It wont won't help either of us to go out of ot the room That's the way youve you've al always always al- al always ways ended our discussions discussions you'd never listen to me en T r talked but youve you've got to listen now now now- Youre brutal she said with an effort at self Because I Ii tell you Ou a few plain truths trutha Its It's time I 1 did Perhaps theres there's time yet to save you from beIng being be be- ing the kind of ot a fool that I was was the the kind of a fool who believes that wealth and social position are the only things to be got out of ot life lite I 1 wanted theOne the one you wanted n the other but U you couldn't g id have what gatt you wanted te unless nl got what I 1 wanted Well Veil I 1 It for you You got t everything n you wanted wanted wanted-so so did I I- I But r in i the getting etli we lost he only thing that matters In Ina ina a 1 family the family the confidence of our chil- chil dren their iren their welfare their love love love- DadS DadI That's not true He went on regardless reverting in his Is obsession to the the- to language language to to the frankness of or an earlier and healthier day Maybe It was my fault tault more than yours 1 I ought to have made you do what I wanted I ought to have made you rou find out what our children were doing loing I ought to have made i you ou live I I I I I I within your our means I ought to have kept the family together But Dut so ought you That was your Our Job as well as mine But nut wo didn't either elther either of ot us We VO were too busy yoU busy you making people think you were better than you me ale Y U were were were- making people think I had more money than I 1 ha had I will not listen to you you you- h her er She lr rose but byi he hobbled in front of ot barring her way Yes you'll listen to to me me he muti muttered muttered mut- mut i last ast Jf I T Its us t ten n years since you ou ou dl did dd ve ye done a a. lot of ot thinking since iv Ive I've I ye been sick about sick about about my f failure failure- the family family about about been you ou Ive I've en hoping that something still sUIl be might fit saved from the tho wreck some som om thing bigger and better than on mere money y and social position I hoped that Bob Hob was learn learning In what life meant as as Cherry has been learning I hoped that you might get tired of chasing your will o 0 the wisp and learn learn Jim what hat your Our duty was waa to us nil she ehe cried hysterically Ive only tried to get a few tow moments of relaxation ot of relief from my thoughts i wrong ve ye ng done dono ne no harm harm done done nothing He lIe laughed harshly It It all the point of ot view I dont don't blame Mr 11 Chichester Almost any man will mako a fool of ot himself when a pretty woman demands It of ot him hint Wh what Wh what do you mean she ashe gasped He shrugged and then dryly but with merciless precision he be told her One night three weeks ago you came home with Chichester from a al drive into the tho country Cherry was i In n bed and asleep You thought I was was too I X wasn't I X heard your voices voces You were saying good night night- i In n Chichester's Ch r rei ei arms arms arms' Dad cried Cherry in horror as she realized that he had known what she knew Alicia's face already streaked with tears went ghastly She stared at him Jim you rou you I X Would have shot him if It I had had a gun Im I'm glad I 1 hadn't He Isn't worth It it He laughed again I went to bed His wife tried to speak fumbled tumbled for the arm of her chair and sank heavily into nto I It it Cherry thought that she had f tainted fainted but at her daughters daughter's touch s she he seemed to withdraw into herself i l listening In terror to the deadly monotone mono mono- t tone one of ot Jim Mohun's voice he as completed completed com com- his Indictment I I Ill do you the credit of saying that I dont don't believe youve you've gone the limit I You haven't got l courage enough I for or I I t that hat I hope he wants to marr marry you I If It f he doesn't youve you've Just made a tool fool I of yourself He laughed again It wasn't pleasant laughter but Alicia I Mohun shuddered as though each harsh note of ot its ridicule had been a I brutal blow Then suddenly he stopped Oh Ill I'll give you your di divorce divorce di- di i vorce he said Perhaps theres there's 1 something about your artificialities artificialities' that a appeals Fel to what's left of ot the Felger wreck k or of him perhaps him ger perhaps Cherry closed her ears to the further I brutality between anguish and de de- de Her mother did not move The I sound of her fathers father's words grew I slower Blower silence f PO poised She d saw on an the him edge start of t taa aa a and deathly fall I Imore I Imore more heavily upon his cane as his I gaze shot past her mother to a figure I that ro had entered t the hallway and heed s stood tood outside sl the d door I in the shadow tad i It was Bob Dob He was gray haggard gray haggard and his hair and clothes were dere derail dered Cherry called his name and j I would have rushed to him but her I father caught her by the arm arm as All 1 cIa cla startled rose and faced him hm I AU-I Muzzy Ive I've got to KO go 0 away suddenly sud SUd- denly dentT said the boy I 1 came to get some clothes clothes- I Bob Bobi Silence The voice of ot th the head of i I the House of Mohun dominated mas dominated mas- mas J I them Bob Mohun l blinking t j foolishly stepped back as his father stumbled a face tace forward toward him his eyes like hot coals his face writhing writhIng writhing writh writh- ing as as' though a hundred hunared devils were working at It it ft lIe He stretched out an accusing arm which ended by groping aimlessly In space a physical a spIrItual spiritual spir spIr- groping upward as though for fot freedom You You ho thundered You darel dare You think you OU can oan wheedle money out of ot your our mother or her friends to help you Ho lie turned to his lila wife and dall daughter Well daughter Well I 1 forbid it De hear henr Not a dollar even dollar even If It I had hael i It t. t You'll take your our punishment lIko a man man like like I took mine I may have been a fool but theres there's no man on onearth onearth earth who can say I was ever in a a. questionable transaction I 1 played playe tho the game lair fair You didn't got that streak of or yellow ellow from my blood blood front from my example He lie paused In a brief terrible effort to regain his breath You My ly son Forger Thief Thiet Youre You're not my son Ill I'll havo have none of ot you Co Gol Leave the house housel Dye hear Go Gol Goi He tried to go 0 on but no words came only came only a strange strange- distortion of ot his purpling face tace And even as Cherry ran toward him he tottered tottered suspend suspend suspended ed edt In the air like a dynamited factory chimney l She caught at him I and as ashe ashe h ug Ihn he fell he dragged I her down w with him I Dad Dadi she ahe whispered In horror and then Dad she screamed For dimly dimly dim dim- ly somewhere In the back of ot her mind came tho the remembrance of ot the doctors doctor's doe doc tors tor's phrase No worry mind Its It's the second stroke stroke- you have hayo to fear tear NEW L LIFE For three thre weeks s Cherry h rry h had keen been I constantly In the thoughts of ot David Sangree He had gone gono to the house as soon as 55 he had heard of ot her fathers father's death Genie was with her quietly cheerful and sympathetic and ready to help hell her in her few melancholy preparations There There- was nothing it seems that David could do for tor the affairs of the household were In charge of ot John Barnett It was from Genie that he learned briefly of ot the facts as far tar as she knew them which had led to Mohun's death death from from Darnett Barnett Bar Dar nett feLt of ot Mrs 1 Mohun's 1 dependence upon John Chichester who had taken Bobs Bob's affair in hand at her request and kept the facts out of ot the newspapers It was obvious that powerful Influences had operated to spare spare tho the boy and the firm of oC Brown PItch PItch- ard which as David later heard from Lycett now flow nad 1 conscience cl stricken IC and n ne had been sent out 1 of town It seemed e to David that Cherry e hail had agreed to all of these et things n because at I Isho she sho possessed no longer any power of ot i initiative e She seemed stunned by the repeated blows and when he spoke to her of ot other things she listened to him but with a It distant gaze as though she sho were trying to pierce some Impenetrable impenetrable Impenetrable Im Im- im- im penetrable veil to find the answer to some ome s question to which there was no answer a He did not learn until later of ot th the tha a alienation of ot mother and daughter nor norf o of ot f Its cause But the continued frequency frequency fre fre- Ire Ire- q quency of ot John Chichester's visits arid t tt the he celerity with which Bobs Bob's unfortunate t affair had been arranged lefto left n no o room for tor doubt as to the real nature nature na na- na- na t ture ure pf Qt f their relations Chichester's manner to Sangree Sangree- when they met was now extremely cordial ordial c an attitude which Sangree re returned returned re- re ct t turned as he had always done with witha withe a c casual air of good breeding But Buthe Buthe dl erot J ice he e had n never 11 liked Chichester r and made no effort to conciliate him reflecting re reflecting re- re fr f perhaps even a slight air of r resentment which he lie had absorbed f from rom Cherry |