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Thursday, September 8, 1932 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. r LEAP YEAR BRIDE By LAD It A LOU DHOOKMAN (Copyright 1033) (By NBA Bervlce Inc.) HKtllN IIBHE TODAY Cherry . DUon, pretty IQ.year-old-old daughter or wenlthy par-, enta, falls In love with Dan Phll- lipa, newspaper reporter. She quarrels with' her father about Dan. leaves home and, taking ad vantage of Leap Tear, asks Dan to marry her. They are married and for the first time Cherry finds out what It means to lack money. Her struggles with housewoork are discouraging. Dixie Shannon, movie critic of the News, Is friendly with Cherry. She meets handsome Max Pearson, who also, works on the News. ' One morning several weeks af ter her marriage Cherry receives n letter In the morning mall. NOW OO ON' WITH TUB STOKY CHAPTER XXII Cherry did not need to look at the slgnaturo of the letter. She had rec ognized her mother's handwriting. Something slipped from her fin gers and dropped to the floor as sho opened the envelope. A nar row, folded strip of pale blue paper. Cherry picked it up, unfolded It. She read: "Pay to the order of. Cash WOO." A check from the First National Bank for $5001 Oh, what would Dan say? Five hundred dollars would pay all their bills and leave a balance with which to start a savings account. It would buy the new suit Dan really needed. Five hundred dollars why It was a for tune. . . Cherry turned to the letter. "My dear Cherry," her mother had written, "It has been a long time since I've heard from you and I have been so worried. Sarah Is badly crippled with neuritis and unable to leave the huube. I have no means of reaching you except to send this note because of promises I made your father. He Is bitter refuses to have your name men-1 tlonedand the situation la very , hard. "I can not endure the thought that you may be In want, perhaps ! actually suffering. The. enclosed check Is to buy anything at all that you may need. . Consider It a wed ding present If you wish although T certainly never thought my daugh-! ter would be married without ' either of her parents ' present and by -a Justice of the peace 1 Cherry, darling, the last month has been a terrific strain on me. I can only wait and pray that some time this terrible trouble may be lifted. If only I could know you are well and not In need. Day and night I think about you. May God keep youl Your Loving Mother." Thoughtfully Cherry studied the check. Five hundred dollars seemed a lot of money now. Two mouths before It would have been only the price of a few dresses. How had her mother managed to Bend such a sum? Cherry knew hor father scrutinized household accounts, paid all the blllB. It must have required Bchcmlng and Mrs. Dixon was not the Bort to scheme. - "Poor Motherl" Cherry sold to herself. "I'll write her aud send the letter to Sarah. I dgp't want her thinking Dan and I are poverty-stricken, going around In rags " All at once tho figures on the check stared back at her accusingly. Five hundred dollars FIVE HUN DRED DOLLARS 1 "You can't take itl' a small voice In the back of her brain was : insisting. "You aren't starving or cold" or heloless and vou can't ad mit to your mother or anyone else. that Dan aoesn c maxe enuugu w take care of you. You. .can't accept this money and admit . your mar riage isn't a success!" ' Cherry sank to tho davenport. There were all the things which that money could do for her and Dan. It could hardly have come at ft more opportune time the rent to be paid, Dan's new suit, the money he had borrowed. "Take It I" a socond voice, equal- lv far awav. seemed to argue. "Ac- copt It as a wedding present. You wouldn't even have td tell Dan I" Ahl There Is waul She had known all along what was holding her back from accepting the money. She had known Dan would never agree to take money from her par ents. Dau was proud and bitter still over things her father had said on the only occasion when the two had met. This 600 was real ly her father's money though It was her mother who sent It. - "You can't do It," the first voice argued. "It's your loyalty to Dan that's at stake. You can't do the. one thing you know he wouldn't want you to." Well, there was no use sitting there staring at the check. Tho breakfast dishes were to be washed and the laundry sent. Cherry had r. full day'a work ahead. She got to her feet, folded the check and slipped It baok Into the envelope. Then she placed It in the top draw er of the big chest. Sho would de cide what to do loter. The dlBhes were waiting, stacked on the shelf that sorved as a kitch en table. Cherry drew a pan of steaming, sudsy water and began to ply the dish mop.' After . the dishes wore washed and put away she began energetical ly to clean the living room. She worked as though getting that room clean were the one Important thing In the world. It wasn't of course. No matter how hard Cherry worked It was the check of which she was thinking. Those two per sistent voices, the one arguing that she should keep It, the other that sho should Bend It back, continued their duel. She finished with the living room, shn collected the laundry and put It out for the driver. Just before. STEAM IS NOT y VISIBLE i.g.fim.'iHa It's clearly visible, when you enter the Red & White store that the proprietor takes a real interest in maintaining a clean store with a well - selected, or derly stock of high grade products. Managed and own-r ed by a worthy citU zen of your commu nity. You'll like the enthusiastic, per sonal service. LOOK AT NEXT WEEK'S AD FOR I'UOOF OF THIS STATEMENT Specials for Friday and Saturday, September 9 and 10 Creamy Delicious Nutritious Itlil) & WHITE WHEAT CEREAL PEANUT BUTTER STRAWBERRY JAM IIED WHITE 24 II). 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She took paper and pen and Ink and sat down at the table. Five minutes later she folded the check Inside the note she had written and sealed them both In an en velope. She addressed it to Mrs. Sarah O'Fnllon. and finished it with a stamp. "Tho re!" the girl sighed aloud. "It's settled lM She was so eager to have the whole thing oft ner mind that, without waiting to eat, she slipped on her hat and coat and walked to the corner post box. Another week and . It would be June. The sky was deep sapphire today, the clouds like down. Sun shine shimmered baok from, window panes and the white pavement. Cherry walked slowly, enjoying the fresh air. She had dropped the letter Into the box and started back un the street when a. noisy police ambulance passed. A minute later Cherry caught her breath. The ambulance had halt ed m iront ox her homel Tho girl walked faster. The am bulance was backed to the door now. Two men entered the bouse and a woman came out the door. Cherry began to run. "What Is It?'1 she asked the man In the driver's seat. "What's happened?" "Don't know, ma'am. Emergency call." A group of youRstors. 1 attracted by the noise of tho ambulnuce. formed ah inquisitive soml-ciiclo on the sidewalk. Cherry rushed up tho steps, The woman by tho door was another tenant whom she had seen but never before spoken to, "What's happened?" the girl asked, "It's Miss Jamleson," the other told her. "She hus that llttlo room on tho top floor, Took some kind of poison." " "Oh, how horrible!" "It'll be a mercy If she doesn't live," Cherry's informant continued somberly. "She's been out of work. Hasn't paid her rent for three weeks. That's why the Janitor hap pened to go upstairs and knock at her door. Believe me, I know what It's like to be out of work with no friends I" Tho door opened and the two women stepped aside. Two men bearing a stretcher came out. There was a figure on the stretcher, entirely covered except for the polo face with its frame of dark hair. The eyes were closed but the face wus contorted as though from pain. Instinctively Cherry dvow hack. The crowd of watchers on the side walk hod increased. Chorry wanted to tell them to go awoy. That poor girl surely in her suffering Bhe wus entitled to privacy I They were tak ing her to a hospital to try to savo her 11 fo. Would sho live? If tho doctors succeeded would she be grate ful to them? "It'B so . terrible," Chorry said oroKomy. jjets go msicic. Tho other woman followed her. Mr. Bergman, the Janitor, Blood In the cut ran co hall. ''Well, it's , too bad," he said. "It's a bad thing to have happen In an apartment. I hope they wonl get a lot of rumors started f' ; - "Do they think she'll get well?" Cherry asked. MY. Ik'iumim Inclined his head skeptically. "Who knows? She ain't been eating much for a long time I guess. The doctor said she had a chance. That's all. She hasn't looked so well for a couplo months, "Hasn't she any friends? Isn't thero anyone at all to help her?" Tho Janitor , shook his head, "Not since she's been here," he said. "I've never seen her with anyone. The note she left said thero wasn't anyone to notify." "But. it doean't seem right 1" Cherry began. The other woman put a hand on the girl's arm. "Thoy'll do every thing that can be done for her at the hospital," 6ho said. "It's charity cases like this ono and rich folks that get the best care. They'll save her If there's any way to do it." Thoy were right of course. Thero was nothing for Cherry to do but go upstairs to her own apartment. Lunch was waiting there but she knew she could not eat. "This is where you live, Isn't It?" tho other woman said when they had reached the second floor land ing. "You'd better llo down for a while. Look sort of worn out. , Would you like me to bring you a cup or tear" Cherry thanked her hut refused. Tho woman said she was Mrs. Mo reau. and lived on tho third floor. Cherry promised to come up to bco her some afternoon. The apartment had never seemed such A refugo. Cherry entered, closing tho door behind her, The familiar room with Its bright colors aud comfortable furnishings .had never looked so attractive. Oh, why had she and Dan considered them selves poor I They were young. Thoy had health. They had each other. Throughout the- afternoon Cherry was unable to rid herself of the memory of Miss Jamleson's white face. At 4 o'clock she went down stairs to ask the Janitor's wife If thore hod. been any report from the hospital. "If sho lives through the night," Mrs. Bergman told her, "they say she'll get well. The goor 'girll Yes, it's too bad too bad 1" Thero was nothing to be gained for Miss Jomltriou or anyone else by standing there and discussing what had happened. Cherry went b,ack to the second floor. -, Dinner was ready, waiting to be put on the table when Dan arrived at 0 o'clock. Cherry heard him whistling in the hall and ran to open the door. "Hello, darling " she began, but the words died on her Hps, Dan Phillips entered, his face alight with excitement. "Hello, Cherry. Wait till you see what I'vo got for yout" ho exclaimed. (TO BE UONTINUKU) RALPH WILSON SEES HAPPIER" DAYS IN 1933 WELLESLKY, Mass., Sept. 8 OF) Ralph D. Wilson, vice president 'of the Babson statistical. . org aatutkui, ' sees happier days for the business world In 1033. "The depression would be over at once," he told the 10th annual na tional business conference, "If It were possible for iu to reduce at one. fell swoop tho cost of governing our- ' selves 16 per cent." f He predicted that "business has struck rock bottom" and added "a sharp rise in the commodity and security markets indicates that the worst 1b over." "The total volume of business in 1033 should bo greater," he BftWl, "than that of 1033. 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