Show 1 1 I Gil j f NEA 1926 SERViCE l When hen Bob Dob hathaway come later that afternoon his hi arms amis filled with paper baits bags of delicatessen foods and fruits and a tissue tissue- wrapped tissue wrapped cluster of ot purple and gold pansies for or Jo Joy Faith met him at atthe atthe atthe the door with a finger at her lips an anc fear ear In her great creat brown eyes ces Im terribly frightened about JO Joy she sho whispered I 1 think sho's alsos Mlee now but be very ery quiet darling Her lien temperature Is 15 os-er os osera overa a 11 hundred antI and three and she cries ci It if I 1 leave leao the room for tor or a 11 minute Ill fix Ix supper myself my Dob told her after aCter ho had stooped to kiss her over o the bundles As Faith left lett tho the room sho aho ho rais- rais raised raised rais raised ed her hot brows brow significantly to Hob Bob who followed ed her Into the hall bali Did you find Ind old Phil she ahe asked in lit IL a n careful whisper r her eyes cyca fearfully tearfully on the the closed door or of tho the room where Joy lay sick alck Bob shook his head I l went to the address hed he'd given on his ped ped-diar's ped license and the old eld ld couple named there named I had had never ne heard of ot him bins or EO to they said Claim they've been living at that address s tor for five years ears And inco Its It's only a IL two two room room shack hack Its It's pretty certain old Phil didn't live there as a I boarder But Dut Iv Ive not given up hope yet yet- yet et Listen Faith alth commanded him himIn himin himIn In a 3 startled whisper Faintly at first then In a crea- crea cres crescendo cendo cOndo ot or fear car came camo JOYS JOY'S Joy shrill child lab voice olee pleading Dont let him kill klU Cherry Godi Dont Don't let them hang her or her Jesus You can tak take your our spite outon out outon on me Inc God Godl Please God Ill I'll die sos so's you wont won't bo mad at us no nomore more Ooh oh What In the world orld Is she do do- do Inc do-Inc ins Ing Faith cried as a sho sh ran to the closed door beyond which a achild achIld achild child va was trying to make n it bu bar bar- bargain bar eatn gain with wills a wrathful and jealous God Bob followed her Into the thc room dropping his hla bundles to the tho floor as he ran Joy In itt her faded pink canton flannel nightgown was as kneeling on the tho floor beside her Iler bed bcd her Iter little bare feet startlingly i startling startling- ly white whit against tho dark painted floor her lier small hands clasped and raised heavenward tears slipping from her eyes down thIn cheeks painted rod poppy with Ith fe er Oh darling Faith moaned na as a she aho stooped to gather the be bod body of the loua child II In her arms Faith tell you not hot to get out of o bed 1 Youre You're siCk lick honey you'll make yourself woe orae There now nosy Falth's Faith here She Sh wont won't leave you ou again Ill I'll lie down beside you ou and hold you ou tIght light In my arms But nut Joy writhed out ot of the clasp ot of those comforting arms staring up at Bob with horror haunted horror palo gray eyes eye I want want to die she nbc gasped rasped her breath breath comIng K from Irom rom her congested lungs Gods God mad mild at It us Cora Corll Parsons sAid no so lies Hs mad and lies lie's going to let cm eni kill kilt Cherry to get ret even evea with us u Ive I've been praying all nIght for tor Him to let Cherry out of ot jail And It was cold eold on ou the bare baro floor floor- floor Phe he be- be began began be began gan to sob ob then relaxing In Faiths Faith's arms why she's alsea she so o much worse o Faith groaned And the doctor told me to watch witch her so 10 caret carefully u 11 Oh Bob Dob Im I'm no good for I 1 cant can't save sav Ve Cherry or keep Joy from froni making oh sick oh Bob Bobi Youre becoming hysterical yourself ourse dear Bob warned her hera as al ho knelt lt beside the bed bd You couldn't pos possibly stay tay awake all night to watch her And no one would have o dreamed that sheo take It like lIko this Listen Joy hon hon- honey hon ey ho coaxed taking one of ot her hot little hands and holding It against his hla hi cool check cheek Cherrys not going to be b killed God Isn't mad at the th Lana Ino Lan family at all You belle o Bob dont don't you ou God Is 19 helping Bob Dob to save ave Cherr Cherry Hes He's showing Bob nob and 1 Faith alth the wa way but out well we'll have ha hav to be patient just a little longer Joy gets CIS into front lingo pago headlines s and Faith ralth Cherry in jail Copyright 1927 lH NEA E Service I Inc |