Justin and I draw out my share for that little home that is going
to mean so much to us--'"

"I can hear her!" giggled Cherry.

"Dad immediately said that she COULD, of course," Alix went on.
"He's going to look the whole thing up. He was adorable about it.
He said, 'It will do more than build you a little home, my dear!'"

"We'll get a slice of that some time," Cherry said, thoughtfully,
glancing at her husband. "I don't mean when Dad dies either," she
added, in quick affection. "I mean that he might build us a little
home some day in Mill Valley."

"Gee, how he'd love it!" Alix said, enthusiastically.

"I married Cherry for her money," Martin confessed.

"As a matter of fact," Cherry contradicted him, vivaciously,
animated even by the thought of a change and a home, "we have
never even spoken of it before, have we, Mart?"

"I never heard of it before," he admitted, smiling, as he knocked
the ashes from his pipe. "If I leave the 'Emmy Younger' in
October, and go into the Red Creek proposition, I shall be making
a good deal myself. But it's pleasant to know that Cherry will
come in for a nest-egg some day!"

"Mart doesn't care a scrap for money!" Cherry said to her sister,
in the old loyal way. Since Alix's arrival she had somehow liked