Show el av LIM A W KATHLEEN NORRIS kr CHAPTER XV IS swept along by a pash passionate rient cent that seemed actually to ter oer cherry lived through tue tte next nest idree daya allx alix noticed tier bw mood ind na asked her more than apoe albat aused it cherry would phwe a hot bot heek to hers smile with eyes tun fun of plo jain and flutter away she was well ell she was quite au all tight right only bh ebe inas as afraid martin would soup grion tier her loon und and sw six mout H ant io fo go to r 1 cusp suspecting ting something aneisa alix tried to win vin tier her coadye iris arioni ar ilni martin but bruy bru y and watz a sort of and Impat impatience lonce cefic cawed biml to mm 1 I not go back bach to him shoo said hard ami with thoe th grit ail f bring more absorbed la in ahat ae arrs rs doing than what M W atta maytea luct flo do you mean thai yon tell are am really nally n ally going to leave him the older sister questioned orieL 1 I 1 dont know what rm fin to 10 io to cherry hafif sobbed mut but dearest dearest only twenty four dont you yoa VU li W art ilat feel better about it as time in goes m n alix alii urged now elie tooney money Is all yours chem and you pou van can have this nice home hoine too to fatine to now anti and then it different cherry was looking nt at her you tou dont under slap hitoe ald sold 1 1 I understand that you dielt lwft love martin allx alix said but entity people who m to dont love each other live gether in peace ceacer T she save added with a half balf smile annot Nn ot as man ahr stamm fied vied alls tat back on oil her beet ix elfi im hi ae un braceful crace ful fashion of her niwa ano and her shoulders think of the people wt am dwor fring themselves sick ivr tas 16 or tick sir kIes wl ea or children to brang up 1 ac he suggested hopefully my afy imi if yoni yon giue enough ni ony and lood fx and arp youn and well 14 r tex tes but allx alix cherry arned meri tm JEU not dot well afen rm rin tit nn liapin SY avy heart beart Is in like alk lad bead all the time lime I 1 cant seem to br eathel veople people p ie lilt tt at possible rosAl ble I 1 th that at people are che aided 1 I surcie athey are alls conceded anyway to look k lit at fill au the fu furj sj la in Vig story bory slie she a added zed carelessly lof t grande passi till N and murders and elope and uie the fate of catlone r r tang om aa just faw fart fact that it man enna und and gromala n hated baell other tort too muto or loved each other too much 1 there be something in it all mat I 1 dont bedel stand put but what aliat I 1 do under she addel added after a li nii ment when alien Cli stieny erry choked with alth emotion was wa silent lant Is that dad I 1 would on die of grief if he yn yen were an happy that your life vm w all broken up tip in di find but Is that roy my fault cherry ex claimed with sudden budden tetera tetira AIM ater after watching her flex for or a trou brou on oled minute went to her ard ar d put tier her prin irm about her dont cry cherry die te sorrowfully borro fully Cli crry erry regaining olt re sunned her he h e work silently with an occasional cas catt ional lonal sudden bagh slie she tind had crenel the subject with reluctance now blie realized that they had find aola reached a 1 blank u ovall all three dais after their in hi the moonlit garden peter foulad chance to io speak lilune to cherry are arc you ready y it tie hahnl quite Qu Itell 1 site she bald calsing blue eyes 10 his bis its tomorrow tc morrow then Cli Ot oberry erry be aalde aid tomorrow ow he ataw me color ebb from rout tier face as slie she echoed him titis was already late perhaps p tier thoughts roved raced ahead to tomorrow liften noon at this time ciril tro would bo be leaning on oil the elie raji of tile the little steamer gazing caring oot over ortt the smooth Bi boundless ts endless blue of UK tle and alone in the world you will alit be mine he be faid ald all I 1 think 0 of she an shered and now the color came up in a i splendid mate of fie nerie riye and the lh face that she turned toward his hill was radiant with proud surrender lie told her tile number of uie the dock they discussed trains we sell sail at eleven said price but I 1 smaill be there shortly alsor tva ten IT il laae the on boord board every everything ready you only have to enniss th toi have your boag gage check clie cli give it to me ine they bere waiting malting la in the car WIMP while all aall cherry opened ber burte and gave him the pur punched iVied cardboard ill tell allx alli that tant I 1 have n haiat dertl dt appointment at half past ithe fold ald if sho she goes in with ue tile nell itell go to tle the very dotty ME khe says the she cant come lo in anyway ny ill m write file her toul fht gitt and drop tf tte e fetter on the way ay to hant bont tomorrow then vies Cher oliero cherrys Cl iero rys otay in awer im glad so 60 goodby good by t ald sold cherry norr nor it r lie flip side ride a of the cut cur to uw fear bw fils sister tvr allx alix received the kiss st smiled and stretched lit in the sun heavenly neav caly day clay to waste in the city said alls 1 I cherry cl crry sold said she had icen been so strangely rie ond and distracted in manner till all morning that alft all had more than once asked tier lier it 1 there was anything an thing wrong now kow she questioned tier her again you mind me cherry sald paid with a laugh lm im de the she said lier her eyes watering td rd do any anything tiling in in the worm orld I 1 10 heir belp you cerise alls alix said et locally 1 I know you TON would SIS I 1 belleve 11 ahrn y sold cald that theres nothing y you tra give iner me I 1 easily said alii for I 1 dont g get ga A fond of if things as you do sly my dears dear lid id go oft off with mth to maxice in ji a nit ni nute bitite I 1 mean it I 1 I 1 dont n whoop I 1 live lire if only people we happy how about buck cherry said a the bog aig leaped to ills his place on the front seat and licked Ws V 9 ear bear allx alli embraced him hills well if he be wanted to go with your you she pile conceded ua ly but lie he ll 1 she quickly cherry going to tile gave tier lier nn an april and ire as she took tier her seat bent rind the train drew drebon tin its any m av it seemed loher to lier suddenly lathat she might indeed meet reler peter but itt it would only be ie to tell him that t they had plinked was but on the deck of the Sau sausalito stear roer dreaming jn in the sunshine suri shine of the F aft lazy 9 autumn da daly y liter ihor heart tunic 1 sick with jongling tonce more alix alii was wae Sor forgotten gotten aveo everything thang inq wa forgotten except peter ilis ilia voice h hs s tail erect yet moving aitu the ulue little limp sale knew so BO well weh come tto no tier lier thou tt she rh hought ought vf hersti her setT tr on the other steamer only an hour from now ito hn his care martin furin forin I 1 01 firl ir y L ap it I 1 utter contusion she looked up it was martina gotten and all the perplexities and di disappointments of the old lle life forgotten in tin tilt lod of new security find and joy LOS anielee Anie leg new orleans france it not where they wondered if ley ey might ivell lote loie the world and the world them from to lay on 00 so that Is to be my lily life one of the and lio of cherry arlu mused cd le leaning arting oil on elie t ie rail und and witching the lounge ot of tle me it le ceding jiin r like the lie her heroines olnes of halt half the books only it always seemed freemel ko iio bold lind end so ul in books but to me it just juit jui t seems the most not natural tiling ming lit in nil fill the zoild I 1 luo ioe peter slid and he be blowes me ane and the earth Is s big enough to hide us and all there Is to it anyway right rl ht or wrong I 1 cant help it oge rejoicing to find end herself sud suddenly lenly wrone and confident it ana to minutes past ten a worm beet alth grent great hur reng back and borth tit at the ferry women dwoinen climbing to the open wats of die cable cars cara lit hi their violets r robes roi es as they climbed cherry spell it all herself lier now with nith and strain t only anxious to ine aie the grent great faulls of tile the clock drop ore speedily from minute to to ta anti and so round out the terrible hour lint liliya tile old life to the new he be wits hurrying blindly toward the dock of itie ithe los angles line absorbed in her one whirling hirling thought when somebody some boly touched her arni and a voice terrifyingly unexpected slid and yet familiar addressed tier her and a hand band was laid on tier atrin in utter confusion vile looked up it t asit martin kartin who ho stopped her for a few dreadful seconds fronds a sort of vertigo seized cherry wild fand she va unable to collect her thoughts or to speak even eren the most casual words word of she had been so BO full of her extraordinary errand that she was as tk b mildered wil dered and sick kick at t its interruption ner ler henn heart thundered her throat wait wa end and her kas acl s iff where itts whit what bc is how much had she betrayed gasping trying to smile she looked up at hill while the ferry place girled about her and pulses drummed in her cars she had automatically glen ghen will liim tier her hand build now he kissed tier lier hollo llo ollo cl clerry erry v here filiere you going fur for the HIP elrd time 1 I came caine into town to bhoj she fall faltered faKer ered cd you what allot she had not really been Intelli KlI gil le lc anil and slie site felt it t with a pillig of if fright ile he must not suspect the ilic steamer m vas as there only in a short block peter ieler might pass mein a c hance word m ord might lie be fatal he must ROE not suspect im aig site she told said distinctly with try dry ills I 1 ikc lkc and site she managed aged to smile rull well martin sald said to see me oh martin roll fild tier her fluttered it voice lee even in the crier panic or of it in art and soul ale know knew that for safe tys sake she find ills vanity iro im going to tell you something that will mill surprise you your he said im through with tile lied creet ai k people peo martill cherry almost vol teles sl SI e boca from a a flower vendor to a neus hos looked at the cans cam the people she die must caust not mat faint I 1 sue lie must not faint well but where are tau going home i 1 I was going to the darta a gln uie but its not anti inti they hal find turned and were batu Ilig across to the ferry she kaew that there was no way in which she escape e cape him what did you my die ghe gherald aid sald 1 I ed you aben rne rhe mem sest t boat left lefi for ajl 11 valley we ve can go find conf at cherrys chernys Cher rys thoughts vere spinning ale sl must main veter ieter somehow some liow it was twenty minutes of eleven by the ferry cloctt clock twenty minutes of eleven in twenty tle me hont bont would favl sue she tho ight desperately of atie waking room up bairs slie site talat tal ht alerd the necessity of fro fron n it rut put it had but one rw door mild and martin mould bould wait malt at that d door oar S she realized that her only jioie of warning peter ieter wa matt to fernl a i tes lessen wilger ger iut but it if siaion aill should I ill to connect tier lier net orlist trite boat wl wi en ell lie met tier lier ani and her ln r tending of a ines message sage to reter peter hrry lic ri 1 theres a boat at beven som thins billing oil ling she said paid collectively colleiti vely sulo SU pale you go and lind tin out butr sie glanced sl axed bonard board tle me eitran e of cie t ie San room a lion dred yards aray and a marl mad hopp hope leaped in her heart if lie he turned his lad act on her what vt aliat liat are you going to dol do he askild surprised 1 I ought to lione aft tier her despair lent tier her wit if lie he went nent to the ticket onice and she into a telephone brolli she ghe might escape him film bet etl I 1 willie he dawdled here in bere ere flin fling and peter ieter was watching ei eiery ery c car or all and d eiery passer by torn lorn with the same agony that win tearing tea rint har if go tin find out the lie exact tinie time and get tickets site she mild bald ill tel elhone horie alix aft 3 7 c lie he eel koed with all martins old ild maddening slown ss S ilaena IIa Ila ent on got a ticket 1 I haie mileage leage she he blundered 01 1101 tin thin n ill use your e martn marln sold said telephone tel lie added toward a row of bolilis boo ilis ha no diuri t mee ev got piles of of atme slit sir blat ilia lie liked illel a masculine of aasne s alit re all lra ira ns tlc lets acts ralmond ral raI rond road con necal ns till am transit business bubness of ana nil sort vere m re co boici ici lied lie liked to lul ter elaborately maille other bere ere running l runn ng liked to pull out ills big tb and assure ht her that they had ull oil ilie elie lime fine lit in world slie she tred to call a nuin number bei left the lie booth paid a staling girl and rejoined hlin almy she ilie i lie reported 1 I was just ali martn martin bald aid that ve me might stay in to 11 still and gi 94 to tile all how about it do me e line to have love peter ieler and alix AIX cherry flushed underfed unger fed olain li iain in tile ilie v vell ell my may under all tier right and str stir II 11 tier r oice loice hail had is ol 01 oil I 1 bored note ne marelu mm aln ine ie been their guest for to mo nilis id just us its soon ine 1 ae them martin maetin evi ceded lut tile thought had hell 41 had lemed tier and the llie re reminder minter of Blar martins tins old trying had lessened tier her fear ol of him I 1 av ive got to send seid a te telegram legrum tor for I 1 allx aft she said abut about hii he asted asked less curious him ill bled bied Got goadby otIlly to some keople who are balling ailing I 1 cherry un unwired I 1 only lont jont mention it to allx alix because be causi I 1 I 1 promised it would go earlier bile I 1 added I 1 1 I efaw the hock heit be told her they went to it together anti and i he was kas within live five feet of her while site elie scribbled her note mit ma mittin tin met me wrong I 1 we an am et turning to still mill vall C I 1 L L site sie glat i lanced ived at her burband hu annd lie hi aas as sis tiding in the doorway of the I 1 m little ittle e awing quickly baill buill adt 0 dreamed sed the lie envelope dont reab rein that name out loud she said but ery cry slowly and distinctly to tilt the gli gail I 1 at the desk she put a gold pe down on the nota keep the change nn ant for or gods take eake get that to the lI harvard arvard soiling sailing from dock CT 07 befonti eleven she sold sall tile the girl looked up in surprise bu roto roe immediately to we tle occasion Cher chernys cherrys rys beauty her agonized eyet ani voice were enough to aNn awalen len hei bet sense sene of the dramatic A sharp ral rai of the clerks pencil summoned a boy george theres a dollar lit in that fui foi you if you deliver it before eleven tt te the harvard 1 said site she the boi seized it stuck it in his hat an I 1 fled and now for tile the boat cherra sold said rejoining martin ln and in almost tier her natural voice thel the went back to the Sau sausalito ferry en trance again and this time telephoned allx alix in real earnest and found licin elves on tile upper deck oj the bout boat bound tor for tile valley until now and in occasional rui hc of terror still ah she had been in the hideous of dece deceiving of covering her own traces of 0 9 antiel footing and closing possible avenues of betrayal hut but now cherry begar to breathe mure easily anil and to fee rising about her like a tide the halt half forgotten consciousness conscious ness of tier her rela afon with this man in in in the elie boldly checked suit who ulio was as sitting beside be side her she had thought to escape the th nece necessity sity of telling jilin that site she wat wa not willing milling to return to ham site she had 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