| Show w Saint Sinner Faith and Bob Dob and Jim Lan C were five minutes late tor for th opening of the afternoon session Li of court Examination ot of a tales tales- man was going forward when when they the y took their seats scats Hell do Faith heard Chert Chere I murmur to Churchill He lIe looks look 5 like Dad Pad And he says sats he has haa a daughter Just my age Hell He'll Hell He'll al- al always a 1 ways be What thinking What it if It was my girl Did you bring me mea ro roa ma a paper darling she asked of cFaith Faith her golden eyes as wide wid e and eager Iager as a childs child's Please look as it If you ou cared care a about Chris being Ill III Faith beg beg- begged be begged ged In a whisper r The reporters AU a are v all a you A A 1 O S J critic Criticising Ising you OU in their stories s jumpIng to conclusions which are aC a ai C going coins to hurt you Cherrys Cherry's small coral mouth sel ac s t stubbornly and she shook her tic r head slight slightly But Faith was was re- re relieved rc i- i to see that almost InstAntly y I the expression changed register register- registered ed concern concern cherry even manag manag- managed managed managed ed a couple of ot great round glist- glist glistening ening tears which slipped dow down n her as cheeks cheeks as white and fine tine and an a smooth as petals ot of a gai-denit gai L The lovely little mouth trembled tremble d convincingly Im thinking of o Muggy Mussy she au auto sh whispered brol brokenly enly to Faith to the tho only thing that can ca camake I make me mo cry cr Listen darlin darling 7 S Send nd Chris Chris a pot of ot lilies with Wit v h m my name on the card Think of c It Faith lilies Faith lilies for tor Chris I t hope hop he will realize how Ironic that Is I And Ill I'll write a note to go with wit h them And be sure to tell teU the re- re rc i porters that Im I'm doing it The Tho business ot of a jur jury went tediously on With al almost most comical ferocity Tom Torn Dan Bar B I- I Ining the district attorney tough for tor the accepting of old men ot ota it a approximately Ralph Cluny's age agi 5 old men who were widowers or c cally r bachelor And who would woold ally visualize themselves in itt th the predicament of ot the dead dad man man- murdered man mone money murdered for or their money by b up scheming gold diggers Just aJ a 3 persistently though far Car more mor S suavely Stephen Churchill tough it to exclude such and an anh strove to fill tHi the jury box with wit h middle-aged middle married men lathers father 5 of sons eons and daughters of ot IOme- IOme some somewhere I where near Cherrys Cherry's and ChrIs Chri age At four tour o'clock the panel lad ha l been exhausted and the judg had ordered the clerk to draw In i li 1 open court and the sheriff to tn t 0 summon jurors to appear In Incourt I Ir n court the next morning Tuesday morning Tuesday r January at 4 4 at ten o'clock Judge Judg e Grimshaw then charged the seven en jurors who had been tentatively Iy y accepted not to discuss the tho case enor or to form torm a conclusion and and or- or ordered tIered dered court adjourned Swallowing tier her distaste for the ordeal Faith Falth lingered in the he courtroom near neal tho the press tables after aCter she had kissed Cherry good good- goodbye goodbye bye With apparent reluctance she submitted to being ed answering questions as they Uley were peppered upon her by the themore themore he more than 30 representativeS ot of the tho press Is li It true tr that your sister Cherr Cherry Is going to divorce her h husband a girt girt girl reporter asked bluntly cried Ot Of 0 course not noU Faith d with well assumed Indignation She Is very much grieved over his Illness and has commissioned me meto meto nto ie to send him flowers in her name nan and to give him when I I call on him at the hospital this afternoon a letter she wrote in court to day Would you let us print the let let let- 1 tee ter a young man asked brusque brusque- brusquely ly Might do a a II lot to check cht these rumors that are going the I rounds that she and Chris are on the tho outs cuts she like 1 I 1 dont don't think would Quid that Faith stammered Then n after aCter a a bit more persuasion she i he handed over the tho fervid love note which Cherr Cherry had scribbled on a sheet torn from her lawyer lawyers lawyer's rs r's memo pad She did not explain that the note Dote would never be de- de delivered livered tha that If It Chris Wiley read reIt It at all he be would read It In the columns of ot the tho newspapers Her tier cheeks were ere still BUll burning with shame when she entered the he hospital and asked to see Beo eo Chris Chris- Christopher Christopher Wile Wiley her sister Bister sisters sister's husband ot of a night Tomorrow Faith visits ts ChrIs in 10 lug I lie he hospital hO and ami for tor the first time betrays Cherrys Cherry's Chers trust Copyright 1927 NEA Service The inn |
