Show THE ygo F T H E NORRIS C STORY so BO fart fail charlotte ry y bawling an orphan at saint alt ea ii konvent school since she ho was wa know almost nothing of 0 her early j bui laas gradually realized that at the school she he has romy blie questions lons whether she he he right to her fathers father name juista marshbanks and emma 11 I 1 1 housekeeper bate keeper for or wealthy mrs birs u s porter in san francisco Francl are artl kais when cherry Is twenty i a secretarial job w with tit but she he goes first to the mansion meeting the i I 1 bonni wite wile fran and his rich 1 amy daughter dau ahter of 0 his brother now dead tad life at mrs porters Vs ei monotonous and cherry li Is 1 7 r kelly C oates coite an artist heya of candy and the he Is brings brines fran to a party i pattern emma tells cherry tt ulster charlotte was cherrys chernys Cher rys r ketly kelly takes cherry along so can an I 1 1619 viett his studio and cherry ts is very much in love soon he be tells cherry detally that fran has promised the sho well not see him any more art erdies leaving cherry 1500 from rom marshbanks that his f fred who was amys fathers ather ilio ila tr her father cherry goes to td fd university and lives with uie the ali a fran asks her to be li kellys ellys sayi nghe he likes her and that she ceded to do the he honorable thing 1011 alil him kelly goes to P ialo alo alto fik its chew to marry him although ditl always be the unattainable i 0 br Her answer Is boshe no she wants in a background cherry libecc pringle cringle work in a vacation dolthea yOL thea take a motor trip to canada 1114 ihen tho way back cherry goes to ai i 1 acoma kt L c con a tt Ulue with be the story P XII ganv 5 vl i hidde n something for to t y y ars ll 11 emma said ay elyj engli 6 to know said emma no k that P you ever can prove ut s ou I 1 iou arent charlotte rawl I 1 igia mt U UJ cherry you ought to that youre amelia marsh J 11 ry 8 swallowed Bw allowed with a dry essay essayed 11 c d to speak failed i said aunt emma she predie Jred kafter after a silence and A 4 ayou lYou say that im e wiled fl t bf aUed her again the oth i an looked at her somberly it ya layou what happened I 1 her unemotional way SIti velve years older thin than he pro mother died when she a 12 she was pretty the way nd aay slighter and smaller W afkind of hair alter after my deoul awe 4 we lived with an aunt I 1 via ahey always kind like Veve everyone adored lottle lottie gh of caunt a died I 1 kept house aall ile and lottle lottie was my sa s1 eri she was six I 1 took her school I 1 did her home her or wr r was john rawlings of syer er do much for us and d and my uncle and aunt i nineteen then gnp ad left married tom haskell 3 co i a father to her she A ito nell 1 id d pretty as a picture cheeld 1 we were driving along 0 gal gnadl bakk lottle lottie squeezed in bet and nd tom on the front ina stano suddenly tid denly a big truck apte on us from the left lad ad at the wheel I 1 was up re st t in two but little lot aal alov I 1 acted by our bodies later I 1 went to the I 1 tried st dorotheaa Doro theas an n old friend of mine there but she ilba I 1 boarded her with a llian an who had three c hil 40 her often every week was old enough lottle lottie e simple little boarding ont summers they biond nd she was happy and p atler and prettier il sh banks your father 0 he e handsomest men I 1 at t weak lie he had mar ellington by this time lovely girl with blue fet t hair but tor for a long aed as it if they and nd it broke her heart IWO aks was married too in the east and they dac ittle boy now and then ry y of course jottie atle nearer me then t school and boarded city but she was e in the marshbanks ie e was eighteen and I 1 ras as sewing in my room i were all under a contin conin in the house for or wile wife was going to have hey ey were terribly acx something would go I 1 en and I 1 was I 1 ing to bed when r opened and lottle lottie he gave me a terrible bell 0 I 1 saw her I 1 knew we croog lehow but I 1 she looked pale and iho he smile or kiss crossed the room and li t my knee and said rouble er what kind of troubled idad and gradually it that I 1 knew I 1 eting her hands and etting nd looking away and heard myself telling i darling ill take care 4 r ry or I 1 I 1 ive hidden so something methin for twenty years emma said quietly of you well get out of this some how when she stopped sobbing and was leaning against me resting her hair against my cheek check I 1 asked her who it was if I 1 knew the man then she told me it was as if a gun had gone off emma went on my throat was thick and my head hurt but I 1 had to keep holding tight to her telling her bar it was all right that wed get through wed get through somehow had she told anyone no nobody nobody she carried that secret for five months to think cherry of the welcome that they were getting ready tor for the marshbanks baby and of the way the world would treat my bottles Lot Lott ties les unwanted little scrap seemed to work like some terrible intoxicating pa poison I 1 so n in me I 1 put her to bed shed stayed at the house often enough there was no comment by anyone and it if fred marshbanks ever had thought of her he had probably put it all out of his mind as a moments foolish mistake months before lottle lottie went off of to sleep and the next morning she was her quiet little self I 1 began to think if I 1 could possibly keep lottle lottie safe up there on the third floor of a big house where else would she be so hidden and so safe I 1 said to the filipino servant bonifacio that my sister would be with me a good deal it was none of his business he care re lottie could come and go in the quiet hours of the day and in the evenings 1 I dont remember that we talked of it much weeks went by lottle lottie expected her baby in january Janu aryl cherry interrupted but we were both born in november amy and II 11 yes but one of you came two months too early emma went on with the story 1 I was golrig going to fred and if necessary bring ir in t his brother for the judge had moved out here then and have them acknowledge his child but it all came out diff differently erent when I 1 came upstairs one wet november afternoon I 1 found her in bed her trouble had come upon her two months too soon I 1 slipped down and telephoned old doctor he had been a friend of mine and I 1 knew he would keep our secret the old madame was out fred home and freds wife was dozing in her room the doctor came in quietly the side way I 1 looked out for that but fifteen minutes before he arrived bottles Lot Lott ties les little littie girl very tiny but healthy eno enough tigh was born there was nothing for or him to do he went away and left her to me and then I 1 had some thinking to do again tor for there any hiding a new baby long four nights later emma continued we heard a good deal ot of laughing lau Ehing and calling downstairs so I 1 made some errand to go down to mrs freds room and then came up and reported to lottle lottie mrs freds father had arrived and had brought he baby everything his prom pram and chair and crib his silver bowl and plate id been opening them up and making a great fuss well old mr wellington went away and the madame went to her room and things settled down As soon as she could be moved I 1 was pong ong to get lottle lottie to a boar boardinghouse ding I 1 knew of so I 1 was breathing easier 1 I settled lottle lottie and the baby oil off tor for the night and went to my room this was maybe eleven I 1 was uh dressed and just getting into bed when I 1 heard the baby cry and went into latties Lot ties room her bed was tumbled and she was gone I 1 ran to the stal and saw lights in the hallway allway li below b low and lottle lottie crossing it then I 1 heard hard lottle latties Lot ties a voice in hi mrs freds room and then fred shouting I 1 dont know h how ow I 1 got down there mrs fred had stumbled back toward her bed and was staring at lottle lottie there was a terrible silence when I 1 got there and then amelia said in a whisper you uel liel 1 I dont lie L ottle lottie said she was so weak she was leaning against a chair and her voice was hoarse and weak too ask himl him the said and its not fair its not fair that your child will have every everything tiling wealth and position and cribs and bowls arid and all I 1 got get is disgrace ll dont fred said oh dont let my mother know about amelia ameila looked at him and her face was like chalk fred it true she said yes ho he said very buic quietly aly its true that was all I 1 heard I 1 got lottie upstairs I 1 was afraid it had killed her she was crying wildly but after a while she sobbed only now and then and I 1 was creeping creedin 9 back to bed again when the old madame called me amelia was having hysterics and tor for a few minutes it seemed as if we bring her around from screaming with laughter she went into real screaming and in a few minutes I 1 told fred to call the hospital and tell her doctor we were taking her there that the baby was coming coining but we have time to move her and when the poor tiny baby came into the world it look as if it could last an hour the doctor was there then and had brought a nurse they had the ambulance at the door and they said amelia was sinking it was only a matter of minutes unless they could get her to the hospital for a transfusion fred had rushed on ahead to have his blood tested and madame went with the doctor and amelia ameila tm im afraid the baby wont live the doctor said to me for yo you were as blue as an iceberg and about as cold 1 I wasl cherry exclaimed in a whisper yes it was you I 1 did what I 1 could with hot water and an eye dropper fixed the crib tearing open the packages of blankets and new beautiful monogrammed sheets laid you in them with a hot water bottle at your feet and ran upstairs to tell lottie and get my night wrapper mrs freds had her poor little baby I 1 said to lottle lottie its a case I 1 think it cant live liva the night through im going down to sit by it and wait until the old mo mad ome comes back then I 1 went downstairs and be gan a long vigil once mrs marshbanks telephoned freds wife was very low how was the baby 1 I had to say something cheerful 1 I said she looked much better it was about five when fred came in id been within hearing of the child all the time but id gone into the dressing room to drink a cup ot of coffee and twice id been out to telephone in mrs marshbanks room he looked deathly taken a pint ot of blood from him saving amelias life he said he came in to fling himself down for some sleep but first he took a look at the baby why my emma ashes small but shell make the grade she looks like a different baby I 1 he said I 1 went over and looked down expecting to see you breathing your very last maybe but instead I 1 recognized nihed d bottles Lot Lott ties les child emmas breath had been coming shallow oid fast as she reached the last phrases now she was perfectly still and tho room was still shed changed them changed cherry said in a whisper lottle lottie shed slipped downstairs while I 1 was out of the room put her own baby into the crib carried you upstairs I 1 dont know emma said whether if id had time to think it if id had my wits about me I 1 have told him then and there but I 1 was like a person struck senseless what it meant to me what it meant to lottle lottie what it would give bottles Lot Lott ties les baby if the other baby died and if lottle lottie be in danger of oh I 1 dont know what arleon maybe if they found out anything they moved their baby to the hospital that first day well all you know all the rest you die every hour seemed the last but it days went by and letle and I 1 took you to the country id told fred after that night that of courie id go he be be afraid hed ever see us again but later he sent for me j and when I 1 confessed that my sister had had a child his child he than made the provision that you know of you grew strong and bi big 9 much stronger sti than amy and I 1 tried the speakers voice thickened there wa a pause adiv all she said and there was another silence TO ne HE CONTINUED |