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Show The Cache American. Lojran. Cache County, Utah Pace Sere n OUR COMIC SECTION TI1E (TORT SO FAR: Aa orphan tinea Uo. aia ol evea, Charloit (Cherry) Ranlinca hnowi almost nothlns about oarly history. Jodfo Jodtoo Marsh hanks, her with Emma Has hell, arrances tor her to leavo Saint Dorothea's, and tells her that Emma hat obtained lor her a secretarial position with tho wealthy Mrs. Porteous Porter, ol Saa Praaciseo, where Emma It hone, hoeptr. She U Srst to (0 to tho Marsh oanks mansion. When tho arrives sho dines alone with tho Ride at rran, hit yonas wile, and hit niece, Amy, are din 1I out. Kelly Coates, aa artist, drops and Cherry leels 111 at onto la her convent clothes. Cherry becomes bitter when th overbears Praa and Amy mah lauthinf reference to her and her clothes. Her turroundlnrs are luxurious when tho Jakes ap her Job with old Mrs. Porter, alter several weeks tho Sods Ilf al wl nOMtOBOUs Now continue with tho story. CHAPTER V So Emma and Ferny propped her up comfortably and arranged the light becomingly, and were barely finished as the clock struck the half-hoCouple were leaving the dining room to dance (or few minute,- after seven, when Dorothy and her mother came in to preen them- downstairs rooms were a scene of arrested her with a hand oo her selves under the old lady's approvwild disorder. arm. ing eyes; to admire her and be "Sit down here a minute," he During this busy, hurried time, praised themselves. And in another messages were constantly coming said, immediately seating himself r three or four mothers downstairs from Mrs. Porter, up to on the landing's top step. "Hows were there, and quite a little re- whose room Cherry ran a dozen it gone? Had any fun out of it? was ception going on in the up- times. Her wanted blandI've seen you coming and going and stairs sitting room. At Cherrys ly to know ifemployer everything was going didn't know whether it was any fun suggestion the arriving guests were nicely, was enthusiastic as to her for you or not Get your candy? to be sent upstairs in detachments; own share of the festivities and Mr. "Oh, it was wonderful she went below at t eight would like another cup of that de- Coates. to find sixty of them about licious madrilene. Ming Wo so rare"Not your first box of candy, I milling enjoying a succession of cocktails, ly made madrilene and she bad alsuppose? and was reminded of old days at ways been so fond of it! Cherry was too dizzy to know Saint Dorotheas and school theatriThe dinner party had progressed what she said by the way of reply. cals as she sent them up in parties to the breast of milk-fechicken She tried to make it grateful. But of six. with Virginia ham and mushrooms merely talking to him confused her. Unexpectedly, Cherry found Amy and to procure another cup of the The lost evening was suddenly Marshbanks in the center of an ad- soup was like returning to sorre aglow with color and light She miring circle, and bated herself for event of the dim past When that was to have her moment after alii the wretched little prick of jealousy was accomplished, Mrs. Porter was In her agitation she said exactly that rose even through her new- delicately picking at some rich con- what she would have wished not to found sense of ease and power. She coction of crab meat and allowed the say. Swallowing hard and with a looked for Fran and Kelly Coates, souo to cool untouched. nervous, quick laugh, she asked, but they were evidently coming latBridge and backgammon had been "Didnt . . . didnt Mrs. Marsh-banlook lovely tonight? er; they were not in sight When set out in one of the parlors now; the time came for her to say to the orchestra concealed behind the For a minute his expression was so odd that she was terrified. He inevitable palms was playing proAmy that if she would please didnt like her saying that! Then he would any four of them go up- vocative dance music. said briefly, "Lovely. stairs and say good evening to Mrs. Conples were leaving the dinBlundering on, in spite of a ing room to dance for a few minPorter, Amy stared at her amusedfeeling that he would not ute. ly, entirely without recognition, and said in an undertone to an adoring were returning to play absently like to talk about her, Cherry said, "I used to think she was almost or frozen pudwith alligator-pea- r boy beside her: "Whats the big idea? Is Nursey ding. Cherry looked into the upstairs well, homely. But when you know telling us to say we had a nice bedroom to find Alma and Hatty her face you see that she's beautiful! time? deep in a muttered conversation. He had folded his arms, in a faThere was a small library known "Theyre doin nothin but makin as the den tucked away under fun of the old lady, said Hatty. vorite gesture of his, and was lookHer champagnes good enough for ing at her seriously. the wide turn of the stairway. The "Fran, he said simply. But the door into the hall was open, but them, and her dinners good enough when Cherry approached it to an- for them, but Oh, aint she a word brimmed with some secret swer the telephone in the hall near scream, and Ain't this a queer old magic for him, and she felt its echit she had no idea that anyone was vault! and Lord, my dear, you let oes reach her, and was chilled. "The me into this; I never would have Randalls are taking her home, he in the room. By added. Tve got to be on my way The voice on the telephone was come.' " Millar J. to back Sausalito. But what An they says, How early can you that of an agitated gentleman who be we get out and go somewhere and kind of time have you had? was bringing a lady up from asked after a moment. added Alma. and had had the misfortune dance?' "Rotten, she said, suddenly hunCherry was the more disturbed to break a spring while driving. to hear the maids views because gry for his sympathy and underThey had sent for a taxi. confirmed an uneasy and standing. It was unwise, it was imWNU Cherrys eyes moved absently to they pulsive, ahe knew it, even as the the open door of the den, and rested ashamed Impression of her own. An ground from beneath away slipped impression that the flattery and Incuriously upon a pair of satin slipkisses that went on in Mrs. Por- her feet. "I hate that Amy! she I PICKED THIS HOUND OUT OF pers that in their turn were resting ters room were not sincere, that said. Y That is, I dont hate her, upon one of the tasseled taborets behind the old she amended it, "but she treats me FIVE AT THE KENNELS -- I KNOW back there ladys that stood before the fire. MY DOGS were patiently resigned sighs and as if I wasnt there didnt count THIS FELLOW IS The wearer of these slippers, whoI suppose so, he conceded with and a good deal of the raisMUCH SMARTER THAN T'OTHERS shrugs, so was in sunk ever she was, a thoughtful look. Give it time," deep of amused and contemptuous a great chair in the comfortable po- ing III Mrs. Porters dinner he went on, with a little stress on u eyebrows. sition she had assumed her heels dance for the debutantes would be the last words, "give it time. Youll were at least as high as her head. behind leave some Amy you day, long remembered, but not with the and then this 'will The firelight twinkled on the slipall seem very gratitude she imagined. The words small-giof veron her swirl the stuff. Patience, Cherry. and pers "horror and "awful and "lousy His use of her his serious milion velvet gown; she was evi- and "just about the limit! would consideration for name, outher dently whispering, for Cherry heard be used more often than more combursts destroyed the last shred of no words distinctly. a felt terms. Cherry plimentary She was tired, exCherry went upstairs with her sudden rush of resentment, of pity her reticence. cited, jealous, lonely; she wanted message that Miss Trotter and Mr. for her employer. somehow to hold him, and blindly Buddy Brown would be a little late, Stepping back into the hall, and to find the detachments coming and going to look down at the lower floor, reached for whatever claim upon his the downstairs to see if the dinner was about over, interest she could find. going between "No matter what I did, she said, -I FA ID FIFTY rooms and Mrs. Porters apart- Cherry was shocked suddenly to 7 I SEE YOU DOLLARS FOR THIS DON'T LET HIM ments, and any serious considerahear the sound of sobbing. Who looking down shyly and fingering the of of HOUND-NOone W ornamental end the Y' brass --A OUT OF YOUR tion of dinner as far removed as was crying? I in WHY held the WAS stair carpet SEE SIGHT EITHER J ever. It came from Dorothys room. rods that CAREFUL WHEN n? Emma said with her usual air of Cherry went softly toward it, and as place, "no matter what I did I would PICKED OUT, stern but repressed annoyance that the door stood open a crack, she never matter to you, I know that! .TEDDY' this would never do, and just as the pushed it further open and went in. Youd never think of me as anybut a girl from Saint Dorodelayed couple arrived from HillsDorothy, her party frock crushed thing minutes past into stringy limpness, was lying theas who didn't count youd go borough, at twenty-twdinner began across the bed crying bitterly. She on falling in love with Mrs. Marsh-bank- s nine, the of course, Cherry flounto take shape and form, guests had a chiffon handkerchief pounded dered on wretchedly. "I know Ill straggled toward the tables and into a wet ball in her hand, and was never be like that dressed that way looked for name cards, and wait- digging at her eyes with it, and all; shes ers began to serve smoking cups of snuffling and sobbing like a heart- and playing bridge and By been in Europe but if I had clothes madrilene. broken child of three. Sam Nichols if husband as was and my money its moment that the The endless evening dragged WNU Feature. It was at this wonderful as Judge Marshbanks I cquple whose privacy she had ob- way to midnight, and the guests beI . . . I know couldn't couldnt served sauntered from the den. gan to disperse. Mrs. Porter, when She stopped in a terrifying siMISUNDERSTOOD SELF DEFENSE Cherry, halfway up the stairs to they came in to say their lence. She could not raise her eyes. find Keno and ask the little Japaprotested kindly. It was early yet! As to his feet rose she got Kelly nese maid to keep an eye open for Why, when she was a girl they had Three men were sitting in the partoo, but still she could not look at a Mst evening bag of silver and often danced right into the morning! him. lor of a country inn, having spent the and them see to hoarse, the But girls pretty amethysts, happened a very good time together. Sudden"Im sorry, she said thickly, come out. She paused on the stairs polite young men were firm. Some a large rat ran across the floor not bear it an incould she when ly exwere their working, they leisurely of the boys to watch them make and scuttled out of sight All three stant longer. ofto had room. keep early They plained; they way toward the dining saw it but no one said a word. They "Well! the man said dryly, on a stopped once in the lower hall, the fice hours. By twos and fours they just waited and waited. surprised breath, as she came to a man speaking earnestly, the woman dwindled away. horrified and frightened pause. And At last one of them could stand Cherry knew that they were all listening with a bent head, giving herself at last to meet his the tension no longer. I know what Tom I understand that John marhim only au occasional swift upward going off somewhere else to dance. forcing I love you more than ife. you fellows are thinking, he shout- ried a rich widow. She heard them promise one another eyes, Cherry saw that he was smilglance. of a sort annoyed indulgence, She heard them laughing, in Bill So he understood, too; but 1 "But just stop and think what a ed. "You think I saw a rat but I Kelly and Fran. Kelly and Fran. to meet later. as one might smile at a forward life you lead and its no wonder. didnt! proved to be a misunderstanding. The sight made Cherry feel first a ing at their evenings entertainment, relief as they child. At the look her soul died little weak, and then heartsick. and their "Whews! ofdarkness within her. Those eyes could never outinto the Scales of Justice Elementary They had come supposedly to keep disappeared Independent hold anything but contempt "How old are you? an eye on the younger crowd, to side the front door. The whole again "The tenor who sang last night re"So your new job makes you infor her. dislike with a and failand ridiculous Presently been "Seventeen. minded me of a pirate." help with the party. They had real- thing had a nod and a quiet "Good night he dependent? of ure, she decided, going downstairs "How so? to be in ly come to seize an opportunity "And do what I time here expect you any get "Absolutely. the descended Then stairs. left her, for the twentieth time that evening "Because he did murder on tha being alone and unobserved togeththree want and leave before I years? eight, closed and he just door was to see if the bridge players were the front er. Of course! Of course! high Cs. when I please after five. "Twenty. gone. All her bright, vague hopes for still at their game. in her life. Cherothtime Two hard. the For first was Fran were playing bring what this evening might littered with ry spent an entirely wakeful night Aint It So She Knows Never Sits? destroyed instantly. Everything was er tables were deserted, "What did de man die of? cigarette ashes and chocolate frills, Her wearied mind thrashed over Recent Father I cant sleep. ' a dull and dreary blank now; CherGuppy Bore Lets have some scribbled scores and tom paper. She and over again the last episode of "De man died eatm watermelreal fun for a change this evening, Doctor Is your insomnia of longry hated every detail of the party, upstairs again for the the party; ber weary standing? ons. dear? dragged herself through the next was returning if in of Emma a she and twisted of will. purpose struggled asking body hour or two by sheer force Mrs. Bore Thats a fine idea. But Yes, suh. Providence sometimes Recent Father No; There was plenty for her to do, could stay up to put out lights, when physical misery that matched the Our baby has bad the colic for the please leave the hall light on if you puts us in paradise befoe we gits ter down stairs, torture in her soul. for the cocktail hour had been a Kelly Coates came j heaven. get home before I do. list three months. (TO BE CONT1NLED) time of great confusion, and the met her halfway, smiled at her and i half-hou- half-pas- p d o p half-defin- Watt s J o M E rl B O D Y S f s T E N o eight-ocloc- MV O k r't G k! good-bye- s, ' i i |
