Show I Saint 9 Sinner Simler I Faith who had crept back to he her own bed lay tense and rigid he her wide burning eyes black against th the chalky pallor of her face She mus must think she told herself feverishly think for herself and Cherry too Cherrys Cherry's uplifted tragic little face bathed In the white radiance of self self- sacrifice as she proclaimed the mos most unselfish decision of her spoiled pam pam- pampered pampered pampered young life swam before Faiths Faith's eyes Ill go back to Chris if I hell he'll give me my baby unharmed Noth Noth- NothIng Nothing ing matters but my baby b by Cherr Cherry had said In a queer unearthly voice Selfish Impulsive e adorable and al always al- al always ways wars adored Cherry whose whole lif life lite had been devoted to getting what sh she wanted I she should she should she le let Cherry make what would be a su supreme su- su supreme supreme preme sacrifice for the sake of a an Infant that she had not wanted an and to whom she had played only th the therole therole role of a big little girl with an Intricate cate and lovely toy never the role rol rolof of mother Faith her nails naUs digging into he her palms prayed for help In the battle she was fighting Ever since sh she could remember she had loved Cherry Chen more than any person In the world work Her little sisters sister's Irresponsibility he her selfishness her flashes of amazing generosity her outbursts of passion passion- passionate ate love lo for the sister who had been more a mother to her than the poor heavy bodied he complaining woman who was dead her very waywardness had endeared her to Faith had s ISO so bound the two trio of them together that tha Faith could not visualize life me without without with with- without out Cherry And now Cherry therry exalt exalt- exalted exalted ed by suddenly awakened mother-love mother risen to undreamed undreamed-of heights of self self- sacrifice was planning to give u up more than her life Ufe for her baby What would It mean to Cherry to go back bac to Chris Wiley WHey the man she soe had mar mar- married ned ried on the very day she was to have hav married another man the husband whose conjugal love she had bee been able to endure only one dreadful night nigh nighta I a a night that had hardened Cherry had mysteriously embittered her her ha h hays changed her from a selfish but ador ador- adorable adorable adorable able child Into a opportunist disillusioned dI as to love and deter deter- determined determined determined mined to wring the most out of th the fatuous devotion which she Inevitably inevitably ably aroused In men menI I could persuade her not riot to g go back to Chris Faiths Faith's white whit Up Ups whispered She has always leaned leane on me But did she Faith have any right to make this decision for tor Cherry I It If Hope Hope fragrant fragrant downy exquisite little Hope should Hope should die under Chris' Chris bung bungling ling care could she ever forgive her her- herself hertel herself self tel But to sacrifice Cherry to le leher let lether lether her give ghe herself back to the man sh she despised whose touch she could no not bear whose very name caused her t to shudder with disgust Sleeping darling It was Bob The police have located Chris' Chris car carIt's Its It's In the garage where he always alway keeps It He drove e It In himself a aone at atone atone one o'clock Then they've they found Hope Faith Fait cried sitting up In bed Incredible re relief re- re relief lief flooding her ravaged face No honey Im I'm sorry The me me- mechanic mechanic mechanic says Chris was alone when he drove the car In and he didn didn't notice which way ay he went when h he left the garage gara e. e Faith fell back upon her pillows despair making her face bleak am and white again Have the police pollee gone gon gonto to his apartment Of course Bob answered drop drop- dropping dropping dropping ping wearily to the edge of the bed bee He wasn't there No one had seen him all evening or this morning HI His bed hadn't been slept in You mustn't despair honey After all all hes he's th the baby's father He wouldn't harm her Oh for Gods God's sake dont don't cry like Ilk that I I cant can't stand tl it NEXT EXT Faith determines to sav ve both Cherry and Hope from Chris Chri Chrism WIley m Copyright 1937 1927 NEA Service Inc |