Show WW I oS Saint S Sinner Two Tw automobiles were w needed to carry cany the ma- ma mats mas ITIn s s of ot flowers whIch I had d como come from from friends and strangers to testify sympathy wits I the the Lane family In their bereave bereave- bereavement bereavement ment I People are ar kind Faith mur murmured nur- nur Inured to Do Bob as ns the tho undertakers undertaker's assistants plied piled tho the hundreds or of wreaths and bouquets bouquet Into the i wafting automobiles They are trying to tell us that they believe In Cherr Cherry But Hut Mother would have been pleased K It she could have known oho he was wu to receive so soI I many flowers Tho The official funeral party was 3 made up of ot members of ot the tho tam fam family ily lIy only except for tor Bob liob wn who would become one ono of 0 tho family upon his marriage with Faith But the unofficial funeral train which was vas lS more than halfa half a milo mile long long- was composed of hundreds of ot cars filled with mor mor- morbid mor- mor morbid morbid bid s sensation seekers elers and with reporters and cameramen The Lanes tried to t l Ignore that long line of ot cars cara to to achieve some sonic small measure ot of privacy in their grief griet A squad of ot policemen ordered by Chief Morehouse to protect the family from annoyance kept the tho crowds at t by bay b y at the gates Kites of the cemetery but hut at least lIast a dozen reporters and an two slipped past the officers who made little or no effort t to detain them and watched the funeral services almost at th the elbows ot of the tho mourners The last rites rite over the body ot of Martha Lane Lano were read by the tho Methodist minister who had elated at the oriel services at the Myrtle Street ho ise Faith shut her ces eyes Jg heavily on Bobs Bob's arm while whilo Her r left hand gripped her fathers father's hot Snared gnarled old fin fingers tin fin fingers gers gels She Sho tried with all her will willpower will will- willpower power to disassociate th the beautiful beautiful beautiful ful words of oC the tho burial service selvlee from the unc lous l professionally comforting voice loice oice of ot the fat tat old preacher who uttered them I am tho the Resurrection and the Life Lite tha lord ord It If only sho she could believe that her mother wes fr free e of ot her body somewhere gloriously well tree well free and looking down upon them with infinite v 18 and loving 10 understanding O 0 teach us to number member our days that we v may apply our h hearts arts unto v But Dut her mother was dead dead and Cherry was in ht prison charged with a terrible l rime crime and she the was left to carry the tho of ot th the family and somehow oh God somehow somehow to save Cherry Her ter ears cars ars strained again to catch a ward wo-d ot of comfort from the tho deep deeply intoned solemn words ot of tho the changeless d deathless d rit ritual ual- ual ual For as is much as It hath bath pleased Almighty Go God l In Ills JUs Providence to take lake out of oC o the world the soul ot of our il l sister Deceased The wort was like a sharp knife turning In her heart The mother she could re remember re- re remember remember member as a cheerful will Ins will Int worker singing about the house scolding and praising three troublesome HIlle children her children her herself self Junior ana 1111 1 an little elf elt called Cherry Cherry Nono Xo No she had escaped from front pain an and l Sorrow Korrow and tho the disgrace or of Cherrys Cherry's trial for murder Sud- Sud Suddenly Sud Suddenly denly Faith knew that she was glad that her he mother was dead If H only she hc have died with with- without without out knowing that the tho most dread dread- dreadful dreadful ful of ot calamities had overtaken the tho child sh she had Il adored lored above everything elfo elso el o on earth curth cu rth or In n heaven heaven- The The grace of ot our Lord Jesus Christ and time the love 10 of 0 God Go l and the fellowship of oC the Holy Ghost be with us ill all Amen Faith open l her eyes ces which had been streaming tears vil unheeded ed 1 and herself to watch m them lower the Iho coffin Into to the grave J When holt the tho first lumps of oC frozen earth clumped heavily upon the box Jo Joy with a wild shriek or of realization and d flung Clung off her fathers father's rs r's com comforting armand armand arm and lid ran before anyone could slop atop h bar r to tho the very cry brink k 0 ot of the grave Slummy Mummy Mummy l I want togo to togo togo go with you Joys Joy's shrill voice I lose oso and cracked crac cd on such agony us as Faith I alth ha hal not dreamed tho child was capable eap of ot It was who reached her Ci first t took the convulsed 11 little body bo ly Into her arme hIm Im goltl going to be b fur Mummy y now darling Ill I'll h b good to you Joy Tomorrow Cherry hrry I Is arraigned arr on ms the Ilio lie charge i of oC murder m u and aud an d her case set t for Trial u-ial 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