San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-03
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Sallie Peck, employee of the Fair
Deal Five & Ten, quarrels with her
policeman sweetheart, Michael: Cur
tbs. He calls on, her at Ma Bren-
mans, with whom she lives, but
leaves the house when Sallie tells
him that she never wants to see him
again.
That night terrific rain storm
comes up and Sallie volunteers to
bring from the line in the back
yard some hand-embroidered linen
being done up by Ma Brennan. As
the girl starts down the yard, a
crash shakes the earth and some
thing strikes her a blow on the
head.
When Sallie regains consciousness
she finds herself in strange
surroundings. She is in a wonderful
| bed in a richly furnished room. A
French maid calls her Mademoselle
Alva and tells her that Madame
Copeland. her mother. will be in
shortly TO see her. Sallie is mysti-
fled. Now go on with the story.
Ma Brennan The Fair Deal =
| Mike Salie sat bolt upright in bed
Sitting a scream. What in the world
| had happened to her? A host OF
recollections flashed across her mind
| but soft footsteps were approaching
! outside the door and she slipped
back upon the pillow and closer her
| eyes.
She heard slight tinkle as tray
was set down upon the stand then
! there came the soft rustic Of the
| window draperies and brighter
| light shot across her lids and after
that the footsteps approached her
bed again.
Sallie could feel the hot flush
which had mounted in her cheeks
| but she forced herself TO open her
| eyes once more and meet the gaze
Of those inscrutable ones.
| "The chocolate, Mees Alva." The
maid helped her sit up and rear
ranged her pillows. MADAME will be
here in a moment; she is enchanted
| that you have recovered conscious
ness so sOon."
80 I've been sick. have II" Sallie
4 SlDDeu, HtE GuONOlutt NyNu hNi
companion over the rim of the cup.
"But yes, mademoisclle You do
not recall? 1t was the shock to the
head" The woman was smoothing
the lace coverlet on the bed. DO
you feel nothing. Miss Alva?"
1--WE got fierce pain here" Sallie
raised one hand to her head and the
cup would have dropped from the
other had the maid not taken it from
her. She had encountered bandages
-bandages which fitted down like a
cap almost to her ears! Surprise
overruled caution and she demand
ed: "What-what is it? How
long
Three days. mademoiselle. since
we have returned to New York from
the hospital in that place. But you
must not talk now. You will have
no more chocolate?'
Sallie shook her head dumbly and
there was no stimulation in the limp
ness with which for the second time
she sank back on the pillow.
The woman bathed her face and
hands. brushed back the soft. COLDER
hair about her forehead and then re
moved the tray, pausing for a mo
ment in the doorway but Sallie made
no effort to detain her. She wanted
to be alone. 20 think.
There had been the quarrel will
Mike and the long, sleepless night
with the hateful face of Name Dor
sey floating before her; then the dis
NAL, rainy dawn and Ma Brennan's
worry about the linen. She hat
gone out herself to the back yard t.
bring it in off the lines just as the
fast express came laundering alonl
on the taracks flying beyond thu
rickety fence and then there hat
been a terrible crash! .
Slowly, painfully the girls mint
pieced together her last conscious
impressions and now compete real
ization rushed upon her. The switcl
there at the junction only the lengtl
of two houses away, where the mill
train was overdue and Hughic Rob
bins pa drinking again! There hat
been a wreck and most of it hat
piled on her there in the back var,
between the lines of wet clothes! Sh
must have been mistaken for some