San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04
CHAPTER LXXIII
DANE WRITES HE'S COMING.

Danes letter brought the youn.
brown face with it dark eyes, laugh
ing and tender, so touchingly near sh
could almost feel his lips whispering
Get your goat when l play music
don't /? I'll remember that"
Coming home. Two weeks more
Nora Lee held the letter in her hands
1t troubled her like a little, sensitive
living thing throbzing against hel
palms.
Across the Berkeley hills YELLED
sunlight wavered under the powdery
rain. The light came and went, shad
owed in mystery and a cloak OF silver
Oh. the mist is cool against ones face
She would have liked to feel it falling
on her heart
GONE TWO YEARS.
~My Dear, Wild Gypsy Thing
Home. Two weeks more. I've just
read over some of your last letters
aid ! got to wondering if you're as
glso to have me come as / am to be
coming. In this two years-sometmei
il seems like twenty-your letters are
81, that have kept me to the grind.
sometimes they were just like you. !
could hear you laugh. l could see you
stamp your feet. Other letters seemed
cider and clever and different. They
make me feel ss though there must be
en- awful lot of you, dear Nora Lee,
that ] don't know. And / wonder II
that unknown part of you is going TO
lie me. Is It? It's got 10.
Il think about your eyes. Are they
a blue and your hair as black? l
rover dare think of your lips. l
want to kiss them SO. Dear Norry
Lee, please look your very sweetest.
for I've such a picture in my mind
you'll have to 90 some TO equal II
I'm dying for the sight OF you.
II see you mostly in that cherry
colored hat-the one you wore that
Sunday It was mighty lucky for us
the car got stalled wasn't it? Stars
and almond petals and you, dear
sweet I wish could tell you what i
felt when you looked up. your eyes
all tears, and you said that ! could
kiss you. Do you remember all the
things you said? I've thought of them
-often-almost every day. Then ]
wonder how it happened that we met,
that was SO darn lucky and that you
can really care for me. You do, Nora
Lee? With all your very heart!
~Iet's get married in February and
20 down there to that orchard on our
HONEYMOON. I'd like to live that nigh;
again. III get q job as soon as ] ar
rive. So what about it? You won't
mind starving in such delightful com
pany, will you?
EN- wire just when I'm to arrive
And You do this. will you? Come as
far as Vallejo Junction 10 meet ny
train. Manage it somehow-please
Because all my folks will be at the
pier to meet me and III bust If have
to hug the whole darn family first.
1.-TWO weeks-answer tonight and
may get the letter before ] leave. Go.
ing to marry me, Norry Lee?
your LOVER"
The WAS THE ONE"
II the train was arriving then, Morn
Lee would have dashed to it; would
have laughed and wept and gone off
to the nearest church-marry him :
oh. without a moments hesitationi he
was the one-the only one
She went tiptoeing to her room and
took up his picture. She looked at the
young, clean-cut face; the mouth try
ing 10 look stern and ever so man-of-
the-world like: the rugged jaw and
tender eyes. 'Oh." she murmured, her
heart flushed and half wild with love
and tenderness and many, many re-
gretx.
Did she remember that night and
the dawn that came up family like