San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-04
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81 Peek, employee of the FAN
Deal Five 4 Ten, quarrels with her
policeman sweetheart, Michael Cur.
tbs. That night a storm comes ur
and Sallic volunteers to take down
n washing left out that night by Ma
Brennan, with whom Sallie lives. As
the girl starts down the yard, q
crash shakes the earth and some
thing strikes her a blow on the
head.
When Sallie regains conscious
ness she finds herself in strange sur
roundings, richly furnished. She is
waited upon by a French maid who
calls her Mademoiselle Alva and
tells her that her mother, Madame
Copeland. will be in shortly to see
her. When Madame appears she
kisses Sallie and tells her that she
was injured in train wreck and
that Cousin Wheeler saved her life.
Madame Copeland tells Sallie she
is being cared for by DIR. Qualters. Now
go on with the story.
While she stood there with the
warm sunshine streaming in upon
her face and turning her hair to spun
gold man cantered slowly along the
dirt road beyond the wall on beau
tiful bay horse and Sallie gazed adj
miringly at both mount and rider until
she realized that the latter was star
ing fixedly up in her direction. APP
parently straight at her window
She dropped the curtain but through
its folds her eyes followed him and
just before he disappeared into a
clump of trees he turned in his sad
die and lifted one arm. He didn't
exactly wave but it looked like a
sort of signal. nevertheless.
Sallie turned just as the door OPEN
cd and Therese hurried in.
"Why are you out of bed?" she
demanded sharply. The change from
the Difference of her former manner
was unmistakable and Sallie lifted
her eyebrows.
whats the idea?" she retorted.
II sJess / can look out the window
if 1 want TO. theresa"
> The mention of her name brought
a quick flush to the woman's sallOw
cheek.
"But mademoiselle must not rise
until the doctor has comet" Her tone
was respectful enough now, yet in
sistent. You see, Miss Alva. 1t was
not wise,"
Fer Sallie's treacherous knees had
begun to give way beneath her and
she was forced TO reach out to
chair-back for support. She per-
mitieG Therese to lead her to bed
aud ADJUST the covers about her,
then closed her eyes YEARLY, indif-
ferent to the maids departure.
That sudden flash of authority
had revealed to her the difficulties of
her present predicament and she
afford to waste any time
worrying about it. Folks didn't go
around adopting strange girls out of
railroad wrecks for nothing and the
fact that Mrs. Copeland was so I'M
deniably the real thing showed that
she must be pretty desperate herself
10 take such a risk. ss't
For some reason Sallie was to be
palmcd eff ON somebody as her step
daughter Alva; that was clear but
it was equally certain she couldn't
get away with it, not unless Sallie
fell in with the scheme. and there
was a swell chance Of that,
All she wanted now was to get
home to Ma Brennan and her job at
the Fair Deal. Here she was in New
York, where she didn't know soul.
without clothes or money and in the
hands of two women who were evil
IDENTIFY determined to keep her for
awhile at east, but meantime Ma.
Brennan would be crazy with worry,
likely that she'd run away
on account of that quarrel with
Mike, and she'd lose her job if she
-lidn't show up mighty quick.
The door opened again and a mousey
little woman entered with a rattle of
her stiffly starched white uniform and
a professional smile on her lips. She
bore a great bunch of pink roses and
advanced to the bed.
"My patient is much better this |
/ hear" Her voice was
brisk tut soothing. and she did not
stare rs searchingly as the other wom-
en- had done. "These came for you
just nov and / knew you would want
10 see tlerG."
She laid the huge sheaf of roses on
the coverlet and Sallie glanced in
at them until she saw
that a card was poked in among
them. Drawing it out she read the