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Show THE PROVO HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1921. But Tfs luSl IHtTa ojj iiiUejSSI- centered way," she added, "It was here, and she wanted It. Well I let Hong go, and as soon as I can rent OOs house, I'm going to New Tort" . "Why New York, my dear girir "Because I believe I can make. a living there, singing and teaching and generally struggling with lifer she answered," cheerfully. "Cherry gels most of the money they are always somewhat In debt, and I imagine that the reason she Is able to have a nice apartment and a maid now is because she knows it Is comingend I get the house, and enough money to keep me going eay, a year. In New York." !Do you want to go, Alix?" he said. affectionately "Yes, I think X do," she answered. But her eyes watered. "I do In a way," she added. "That Is, I I6ve my singing, and the thought of making a success Is delightful to me. . But, of course. It means that I glve up everything else. I can't have borne life, and SIMPLE "AND RICH If r 7s S' fek ' When coats Tift 1 i : (Continued trom last issue.) SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER. I. With; fcls'twodaugh- ters, Alix the Utter just eighteen years old, and hlaniece Anne, Doctor Strickland, retired is Uving at Mill Valley; a short distance from San Francisco. His closest friend Is Peter Joyce.. something of a recluse, in the vicinity, Visitjng Martin Lloyd, mining engineer,, tails In love with and secretly becomes engaged to Cherry, CHAPTER II. While the family is speculating as to Lloyd's Intentions, Cherrr brings him to aupperrpracti. cally afanounclng her engagement. to are at once simple, rich tier answer all the re. td distlnrtlte needed tormake them in the model shown here Ihi season's Dew yigaa has used the Lw to the be t advantage and has alrement jsj, and conservative (odnced anor-guiand trimmed .enough' jrtain Up, criticism. without Wh to pass r - tim, ' to ceremony .takes place, the couple leaving at once for El NIdo, where Martin is employed. CHAPTER IV The honeymoon days over, Cherry begins to feel a vague dissatisfaction with Martin and the monotony of her daily life. CHAPTER V. At Mill Valley, Justin Lille, lawyer becomes - engaged- -; to Anne,the wedding being set for September, some months distant Alix visits Cherry at El Nido and the two into allowing girls coax Martin Cherry to go home for Anne's wedding. -j CHAPTER VL In her f atner'e house Cherry contrasts the peaceful, happy life there with her rather sordid existence at El Nido and realizes that her marriage has been something of a failure. Doctor Strickland, feeling that Cherry Is not being fair to Martin, in that she is unduly prolonging her visit after "Anne's wedding, urges her to return to her husband. She makes preparations for her : ,. departure. -' CHAPT2R VII. Peter-Joy- ce Hells had has he paspne "grand Cherry sion" in his life, but the woman! was not for him. He does not reveal her name. - Cherry rejoins her-- husband. CHAPTER VIII. The young, wife's dissatisfaction Increases and there is an almost open. bres, Martin has a brief spell of sickness and something for him returns to of her old feeling ' " . Cherry: CHAPTER IX. Doctor Strickland is stricken suddenly with what all per ceive is a fatal Illness. Alix summons Cherry to her father's deathbed. After the doctor's death it is discovered tnat ago he had borrowed money yeajqr"Mile's father and seemingly Hhe from debt-wa- s never discharged. With accumulated Interest the amount practi cally consumes all the money-- the doctor left" Justin Little makes it manifest that he will insist on his wife's claims. It means that the two girls are left with practically nothing- - service when it. We don't gim-yo- u fyou.w jeopardize your business or Comfort by depending on 'the weather for our ice f have 'we always your support are doing our best and we to it. need We J ': reciprocate. ICE & COLD PROVO STORAGE CO. Phone 508. Good Buys in Used Cars Some EASY TERMS Truck, new Ford 14on tires, new body; just for hauling fruit.. Ford . Roadster, right ,:- - runs - like BuickixJouring Car .new :top, new haulei-- A 0ne paint, snap.---- over- -' just -- -- Indian Motorcycle, Aeap. more good, de-uuawe cars irom $200 up. iWe have m MOTOR Company Open Sundays and Eves, Ask for Mr. j Strickland teeiBCiieTrFTB:too"bUn'"Oa"'to'arVjr and urges her to' wait at least a year, but the girl coaxes him into agreeing to an immediate wedding and the are doing oiir utmost We CHAPTER HI. Doctor .Phone 74. Burns. Utah. Provo, "He must have been going to call some one," said Alix, after a while, "they said he never Buffered at all. This was January, tie last day, and Cherry got here the same night. He knew us both toward morning. And that that was all. Cherry was here for two weeks. Martin came and went " " Peter in"Where Is Cherry now ; terrupted. "Backat Red Creek." Alix wiped her e'yes "She hates It, but Martin had a good position there. Poor Cherry, it made her 11L' : "Anne camel" ,. course." of Peter and "Anne Justin, 8 Lcou!dnot understand Alix's jexpres- sion. She fell silent, Still holding his : ?r anOBTookffiTKtte fire r -- m ' The Autumn Quarter of ne University of Utah wjJl Pen September 22. Students are urged Agister promptly.- Increased ' to Facilities. Enlarged Faculty. ; Largest 6tudent body in fe history of the institu-:-o- n assured. , . .Courses fjools ool in home "J Ee looked at ber with a great rosb of admiration and affection. She was clever womnot enly a pretty and with this her black, in an; but. plain new aspect of gravity and dignity, and With new notes of pathos and appeal in her exquisite voice, he realized that she was an extremely charming " ' an. to her, he Before he sald,good-b- y had asked her to marry him. He weU remembered her look of bright and Interested surprise. ; "D'you mean to tell meou have a forgotten your lady love of the hoop-sklrtdehad ihe and ringlets " ' '; manded.' had told her, frankly. Peter "No," "I shall always love ber, in a way. But she Is married; she never thinks of me. And I like you so much, Alix; and 1 like our music and cooking tramps and reading together, Isn'tthat a pretty good basis for mar.' 5 r ohejUversit of Arts and Sciences. wlofEducatioru: i- - ' rmger- - : TMol"' AUx bad answered, decidedly. Perhaps if l aere madly in love with you "I 6hould say yes, and trust to little fingers to lead you gently, and " "T" " so jSkrTTTT!! :Jx '1. -- iMofSfedidiie. .SA , on" Sxtension , ' Division Send for ;VEijsrry ' Catalogue. 0F mm Lake City. ; He' rememberedTendlng the eonve?-satloa.Jpne of ffls quick moods of irritation against her. If she couldn't take anybody or anything seriously be had said. Poor Alix she was taking life seriously Veuotigh tonight, Peter thought, as he w atched ber. I " "Tell me about Cherry," he said. "Cherry, Is welltbut just a little thin. a. and heartbroken now, of course. Martin never seems to stay at any one place very long, so I keep hoptng 7 "Doesn't make good IT-Ite- r said, shaking bis bead. . "Doesn't seem toi It's partly Cherry, I think." AUx said bonestlr.:"She was- - too young, - really." She" sever quite settles down, or takes life In earnest. -- But he's got a contract sow for three years, and so she seems to be resigning, herself, and she has a -mild, I believe." T "She must love him," Peter submitted. AUx looked surprised. I suppose "Why not?" she smUed. when yoe've had ups and downs with a man, and been rich and poor, and slck and well,-anhave lived in "half edosen different rlaces. you rather take hlA for granted 1" she added. "Oh, you think it works that way?" Peter aSke&Twltb a-- keen look.' "Well, don't you think so? Aren't V lots of marriages like that?" "You false alarm. You quitter 1" he answered. AUx laughed, a trifle guiltily. Also she flushed, with a great wave- of - splendid young color, that made ber face look seventeen again. "Your father left AUx?" Peter asked presently- - with some hesitation. "That." .she answered' frankly, "is where Anne comes in I" "Anne?" "Anne and Justin came straight over,r Alix went .on, "and they .were really lovely. Doctor Younger and George Sewall were here every day ; you. and George were named as execu tors. I was se mixed np lb policies and deeds and overdue taxes and In terest and bonds" "Poor old Alix, If I had only been here to help you 1" the man said. And for a moment they looked a little con . . sciously a.t each other, "Well, anyway," the girl resumed hastily, wbea It came to reading the will, Anne and Justin sprung "a mine under lis . It seems that ten years ago, when the Strickland patent fire extinguisher was put upon the mar ket, my adorable father didn't have much money he never-di- d, have, So Anne's father, my Un somehow. cle Vincent, went into It with him to the extent of about three thousand r ior yearsfottf-oand the-alle- y five juiy way, 111 bave to glveaU Jhat Peter. And . rn twenty-seven- , up. And Td always rather hoped that my f music was going to be a domestic vShe stopped, smiling, but be saw the pain la ber eyes. George SeWaU most kindly asked me to moth er bis small son " she resumed, cas ually. "But although he is the dear-e-st ' " ' . ariety" -- good-night- 1 .,. Peters the silence, whistled ex-- , , presslvely. V-exclalmedr-nVbat "Geerusaleffl he. does It come to?" At "this Alix looked very sober; gazed down at the fire and shook her In head." -- "All he bad ; she answered, briefly. Peter was silent, looking at ber In stupefaction. "Almost, that Is," AUx amended more cheerfully. "As It - was we should have had more than thirty thousand apiece. As It Is, Anne gets it all, or If not quite all, nearly all." "Gets I" he echoed, hotly.' "How do ,'. you mean 7 "It seems to be perfectly Just," the girl answered, rather lifelessly. But immediately she laughed. "Don't' look so awful, Peter. , In the first place, the house. In Cherry and I still 1 the second place, I am singing at St. Raphael's for five hundred a year, and singing other places now. and then, !"" -- o? Any way. Jm. glad. ypuTe home again, Peter t" she added. "Home again," he answered, "I should lope I am and n"00 tool Has time, high half-angril- hlg-ri- hla !?ot ' . J S - too, that i thikik Kr. in w "vtxajv1 rw iiin r '.iGrr"n.Tfi-TfiT- " steyy )" -.- i e -- - .:..';.,....; - atthe ii .ill ! ii r w rvji - r - - not going to cry my eyes out because there w as another woman Is another SBSZSS5SUEUIIIIEnZ3SZESZXZ:ZZZZZ:: woman, who meant more to you, or I'm going Into it with might have M my eyes open, Peter. I know you love H me, and I love you, and, we' both like H H 1 the same things, and that's7 enough." B Three weeks later he remembered the momenta and- - asked her again. B They were In the valley house" "now, M and a bitter storm was whirling over m the mountain. Peter's little cabin rocked to but they were warm and comfortable beside the Are ; the I I W i A She Was Now Beside the Old Square Piano. with her eyes stlU smiling on him, putting back' the hinged cover. And a moment later her hands, with the assurance and ease of the adept, drifted into one of the songs of the old days. "Do you remember the day we put the rose tree back, Peter?" she asked. "When Martin -- wasalmosta stran-gpr- ? And do you remember the day w e made biscuits, ovetuby ihe ocean Tf "I remember aHthe-daysr-it- fr an swered, deeply stirred, "We didn't see all this, then," Alix still playing" softly;- "- "Anne muxoi Tlaimlng everything for her husband, you and I here talking of tad's death, and Cherry married" She sighed. --"She's not happy?"T '" . . quickly. "j. "She's not unhappy," she toTd him, with a troubled smile. "It's just one of those marriages that don't ever get 'anywhere, and don't ever stop," she added. "Martin bas faults, he's unreasonable and he makes enemies But those, aren't faults for. which s woman can leave her husband.- - Oh Peter," she added, laying, a smooth warm hand on bis, and looking into his eyes with her honest eyes, ''don't go away again I 'Stay here In the valley for a week or two, and help m get everything,- worked out, and thought out I've been so much alone!" "Dear old AUx 1" he said, slttlnp single violets, white and purple, spilling themselves from a glass bowl, and by Peter's pipe, and by the good scent of green bay burning, i The Joyces bad bad a happy day, had climbed the hills under a lowering sky, bad come home to dry clothes and do cooking, for Kow was away, and bad finally shared an epicurean meal beside the fire. , Peter was wrapped in deep content; the companionship of this normal pretty woman, her quick words and quick laugh, her music, her glancing, bright interest in anything and everything, was the richest experience of bis life. She had said that she would change nothing In his home, but ber clever white fingers had changed everything. There was order now, there was charming fussing and dust' tng, there were flowers in bowisrand books set straight, and there was Just the different little angle -- to itlanond desk and chairs and tables that made the cabin a home at last. She wanted bricks for a path; be bad laughed at her fervent, "Do give me a whole carload of bricks for Christmas, Peter 1" She wanted bulbs to pot He had lazily suggested that they open the town ; house while carpenters and painters remade , the cabin, but she nad protested hotly, "Oh, do let's keep it Just as U always was !" SmUlng,be gave ner nerway, (Continued Wednesday.) ' 8 ha - . - - . M M ... . hj. i of Royal Bread M H H " Bread is the mainstay of health and strength. g first place at every meal because it is the FOUNDATION food, and furnishes dynamic power to meet the wear and tear of daily tasks. Generous bread eaters always have plenty of ' vitality and robust strength. 7 There's no danger in eating too much bread f in fact, that's hardly possible', because bread is good and jfuou lor you. Why not enjoy an extra slice or two at each meal? And don't forget the Royal Baking Company of --Salt Lake buys $100,000 worth Utah county hard wheat flour annually. '''.'-- .V Ossa JESPTZE5ZZ?yssssb -- M M ' Qre&i deserves II Ii M M M M n M M II II M M M g M II II 11 - M M M H Ma i It M that made Item mother qnh bdr.q 'gg; Th3 broad M M H H M M M M Sold by Your Neighborhood Grorer. AlwnvaJ Pt-cBZZZZZZZZZZ8ZZZZSZZZZZZZZZZZZZZXZZSZZSZZZSZZZZZSI r v A k7Jia LlusicStuden ts Attention CREPE AND BEADS n NEW AND SECOND-HANORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS BOUGHT AND SOLD. D 'Don't get the impression that ours is a secondhand store. We are here to serve the public. Since music teachers in Provo have been asked by students about second-han- d instruments, we willingly .go put of our waylo accommodate: them. Liberal allowance for old instruments in exchange, for new ones. -- r.-.-- n , Keep this in mind sheet music:. -- . .. -- -. . that ' we have all the very latest : ..; . . ,.. -- X Columbia Music aEl Jewelcry Compaiiy It 'appears that georgette crepe and seed beads were made for one another, and it Is useless to try to keep them apart In the new blouses for PHONE 99. fall and winter they- - show their for each other as set forth in the model pictured here. Beadj in twr. colors make a rich and very tasteful embellishment for this blouse. ,......, fit-.e- ss NEW MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. IH II Hereafter The Herald Will Be Delivered by Carriers for k Thirty Cents a Month. Payable to The Herald Collector Monthly. The collector will call once a month upon- those who desire to pay each month. You may however, payby the ye .crmi-aanuall- y if - on the bench beside , her and She putting hlg arm about her. down dropped her bead on bis shoulder and frJt j"S hnr11slice I ' -- If have, another the-gal- e, mm you prefer, so Ley sat, e. verjr ftjjJJ. AUxJs land wenT to ber own t boul'jr, fingers tightened on deep, conutw Usgjjd slie breathed bretiUis like ajftll-j- , 1""" "feomeDouy oujut t0 wlre Mrs. , . ' . .. , . j 3'-ut- t anj' 'Nobody gets anything :.' until the estate is cleared a year or There are some more from now. thines to be "thankful for," Alix added, Grundy, galdt ftfter dashing the sudden tears from her aWbil' TsyesTand one Is that Wad never kw 7 "We will defy Mrs. Grundy, my dear,". Peter said, kissing the top of " "I caq?t tell you how surjyed 1 am a soft brown braid, "bytrottlng off " . hand in hand tomorrow and getting at Anne," Peter 6alL . all Alix .confessed. w( ourselves marrled. Wliy, Alix, be gave werej" J'Well, yeL INT YOU "No, she never did t" AUx looked back gulls. "Oh, well, 'then " she said, ; "Ha 1" Peter ejaculated, struck. " "Which, of course, Was only ,a little while before Uncle Vincent died," Alix went on, with a grave nod. "The agreement lay In' Dad's desk all these years fancy how easily he might But have burned it many's the time he didn't. - George Sewail earf-that. Anne Is rights TheyVebrokenhe , -- r knew" s, "Well. Will."" m soom4nrR AUx's sweet V- , . Jil fn -- hes-itate- They bad a written agreement thenr giving Uncle, Vincent a third interest In the patent, should it . be sold or put on the market--" 35, , and clothes and family dinners with the Sewalls," she ended, a little drearily. "I wanted I wanted things In the bid way they were " she said, ber voice thickening. "I know I know!" Peter said, r sympathetically. "Arid for a while there was silence In the little bouse, while the rain fell steadily upon the dark . forest without, and soaked branches swished about eaves and Windows. "Can yon put me up tonight?" he asked, suddenly.' He liked her frank pleasure. ' -1 - thlnk-Cne-rry r- - Kather was made up fresh last Monday,' she . told him. v ; She had risen, as If for and was now beside the old square piano, where she bad placed the lamp. , "I haven't touched It since " she said, sadly, sitting on the stool, and . " - CArl & "Three thousand Peter, who bad been leaning forward, earnestly attentive, echoed In relief. . ' "That was all. Dad had "about three hundred. Dad did all the work, Unand put-I- n his three hundreaS-an- d cle Vincent put in three thousand and the funny thing is," AUx broke off to sayr musingly, "Uncle Vincent was perfectly splendid about ItiLmy- self remember him saying, 'Don't worry, Lee. I'm speculating on- - my own responsibility, not yours.' ' "Well?" Peter d prompted, as she . Ey CON'DO TRUE - 1" '.' OFHEVERETT o be doing things in a slightly Irregular manner," she said to him the next day, when they bad gotten breakfast together, and were baklnglBthe sunlight of the upper deck of the ferryboat, on their way to the city. "I spend the night tefore my marriage alone in a smaU country house hidden In the woods with my be jrothecC and propose to buy my trousseau immediately after the cere- -' - " mony V voice fell to.s dreamy note, and she watched tbe gulls, wheeling In the- sunshine, with thoughtful, eialHnt eyes. The man glanced at ber once or twice, In the silence that followed, with something like hesitation, or his look. 1 uVoSt, here, - AUx let's talk. want to ask you something. There's never been snythlng anything to tell you-s- r your father, If be was here," Pe:r said, flushed and a trifle awk liv. ! ward? "Pm not that kind of a man. i But 'there has been that one thing T that one woman" Flushed, too, she" was --looking , at u i- -ii him with bright, ttteulgenf eyeS i vim "But I thought he never even . - .. OUTBURSTS ; she said, and . 1 ..... 1 Itr Peter exclaimed, rathlndlf ' er struck. "Great Scott I his father Is ferently. one of the richest men In San Fran "Alix. would you Uke to know abouH . cisco." her?" Peter said bravely. "Her name" -"T kn6wlt,T"AUx'agreedrAtid'be and everything?" 7 is one of the nicest men," she added ZJ!&ir-xplease. Jd mucaTather- "But, of course, he'll never really love not !" she intercepted htm"hastlly, and ut-- U rsala.. And feltoh, htfttfriBaBse'tffiriBad 'Our biftf- l ieil too urea ana aione anu 'tisaal the isn't riage marriage, in that to enter upon congratulations way. I mean' I'm .not Jealous, and I'm - . H seem to "SewaU did V ; dollars" remember r "He did. wish burst Into tears. " coiT rof. AlexandeV, Hand Waver and Hair gj&e&list,-- . late of . 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