San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-11
Dane Gone, Nora Tells
Herself That She Is
Done With Love

I
yival-going about like a Sister OF
Calamity. Billie's so relieved she's
ready TO kiss the highbrow's feet. Gosh,
the next thing Minnau marry and
make the old girl a grandmother.
Won't that go tough on Bill:'
DOMESTIC ILLUSIONS.
Connie sped from living room to
breakfast nook, grabbing up table
cloth. napkins, silver-chatting gaily.
By the time Mickey arrived the table
was set and Connie greeted him with
the sweet. wifely air of one who had
been preserving fruits or sewing fine
seams the whole live long day.
Mickey ran his hand over her shiny
brown bob: Isn't she wonder, Nora
Lee? Con could make fortune as a
chef" He lifted covers from steaming
raviolas.
Connie winked. saying affably:
run along, sweetie, you'll have time
to shave"
He frowned: "We're not dragging
out tonight, are we? I've got to work
up that Grayson case or the old man
will raise the roof"
my dear boy, isn't the day long
enough for toll? They're all alike,
these husbands, Nora Lee! Wild or
tame, the minute they marry. they try
to plant you deep like a cold pota-
to-"
MICKEY REPORTS.
Mickey grinned uneasily. His eyes
had a puckered look. Come along,
Nora Lee, and fix the buttons on my
shirt" He linked his arm chummily
in hers. Now out with it, What
are you and Dane fighting about:
Don't be stiff-necked, Nora Lee. What
ever il is, he's eating his heart over
ii. Listen-meet me tomorrow and
we'll stroll along Montgomery street
and bump into him. Ill be the Great
Reconciler."
"These cuffs are terribly stiff, Mick
ey. Why should we walk along Mont
gomery|
pass his office, of course" He
glanced up, puzzled: Say-didn't
you even know he'd moved: Have
you two been at outs for a month";"
A sharp, delirious gladness chased
the blood to her head. Moved a
month ago. Then perhaps he never
had received her letter? He hadn't
scorned her impetuous love?
At ) o'clock the next day, Nora Zee
passed the new building. A real es-
tate office with maps of the city ad-
Joined. She stood in the angle OF the
window and waited. She intended to
walk up TO him and say abruptly
Dane, ] want TO know If you got my
etter. ! have a right TO know this :"
TO SEEK TRUTH.
She would see the truth flash in
his eyes. If he had received it she
would turn haughtily and leave with
out another word.
But if he hadn't? If he was really
eating up his heart with hunger for
her-oh then-why. then they would
have love; love so ineffably dear and
beautiful. Love that transcends all
joy and is worth all pain; that turns
its face with glad, unreckoning
bravery to sorrow; that marches with
high head and dauntless eyes into sac
rifice and battle-that kind of love
that brings a shine to the eyes Of a
scrub woman and power to the heart
Of a slave it would be theirs
She would throw aside everything
and cleave that kind of love into her
soul. She would never think Of Rich
ard Carlisle again.
At half past five Dane Herrick
came. Tears flew to Nora Lees eyes.
No other fellow in all the world had
such a clean-cut youngness about him.
There was a stern thin look about his
mouth as though he, too, had suf-
fered-that sweet, stubborn mouth.
She was unnerved with joy and
paused a moment TO still her lips.
He stood in the doorway, his hands
cupped over a pipe he was lighting.
Then he would walk out. She would
rush up to him. They would laugh,
fling themselves into each others
arms
He stood there a moment. She
watched shivering with half-fearful
eagerness.
Moments are short. Before this one
was ended it became eternal with its
pain. And Nora Lee was running
from the things she wanted, cowed
with a mortal hurt.