What is "cherty"

Usage examples of "cherty".

I decided it was at me -- which meant old Cherty Stevens had not got past her.

He had made a fool out of Cherty in a poker game a week back, and Cherty had threatened him.

He found an empty room on the third floor of the house next to the doctor's house, and he locked Cherty up there.

And since Cherty was claiming loudly that he hadn't done it, and that whoever did would go finish Wilkins off during the night, we had taken the job of sitting on the stairs all night to keep him safe.

We found the sheriff in a little room at the top of the house, glowering down at Cherty, who was squatting by the little fireplace, grinning.

The sheriff kicked at a piece of wood that Cherty was feeding into the fire and stalked to the door to think or fume.

But it was the alley that had the most interest to me, because even though a killer could have got in a lot of ways, Cherty could only have got out through that window on the alley.

I would go check eventually, but I had the feeling that if there was any sign of how Cherty had managed it, it was lost in those ashes with the chairs.