San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-19
Nora Lee and Dane Face
First Financial
Crisis.
CHAPTER XIII

he stood at the door
watching with a slow, mus
Ing smile as she drew a wet
comb through her hair and
deity set the waves with
her hands. 'I'm always the
one to kneel, Nora Lee. Ever
think about that?"
It took her a moment to
steady her lips. swell, you
should be! You're always the one to
SIM
He laughed: "Oh, of course" Then
he came up and took her hand, loving
its soft velvet touch. "You're not
finding marriage so easy, are you!
Sometimes you're darn sorry you took
me?"
She drew the sharp, black brows
together, and hesitated.
He went on softly: "And all morn
ing you've been ready to fly the coop,
haven't you? You've been wondering
what on earth there is to keep you
here?
PRICE OF LOVE. :.
sOh, no-but sometimes it's rather
hard. IL / didn't care so much, you
wouldn't have this power to hurt me-.
1 could twitter everything you say
aside. That's why it is better for the
girl not to love"
@You're not wishing you didn't love
me? OF course it's hard when two
people with different wills try to walk
the same road step for step. We're
bound to get out OF tune once III
while. But when people want to
make a 20 Of it the way we do they
can't back down befoE every little
stone that gets in the way. Don't hold
things against me, Nora Lee"
A sudden boyish eagerness dwelt on
his sweet. stubborn mouth. He said
impulsively: II couldn't hold the
slightest thing against you. I'll come
three-quarters of the way any time
to meet you, Nora Lee.
REASON FOR TEARS. =.
She flushed and let herself soften
With trembling, glad relief in his arms.
She, too, would go three-quartcrs oil
the way: do her part; keep love high
and sweet like this.
1t was worth Quarrels and econ
omies; debts and monotony. She took
IN her hat-a new summer hat. IL
cost $25. She always paid that
much. She couldn't get thing to suit
her for less. And Dane said; "Oh,
buy the one you like. Well pinch
somewhere else"
She remembered this now and
glanced at his ell-brushed, well'press-
ed suit. Shiny in spots. The tears
that had been coming in relays all
morning, sprang now hotly to her eyes.
He was doing all the pinching; all the
fighting. She was doing the taking
and the quitting.
Early that evening, they drove
through the park-n cool, fragrant
night toward the end of May. They
stopped near the lake. The trees
shivered gently, throwing rhythmic,
dark shadows on the waters.
REPENTANCE.
She rested her head against his
shoulder, wishing TO cry because the
day had been so sweet; because her
heart was humping with so much ten
derness and because he looked SO lean
and brown and strong and gentle.
He pushed the hair from her fore
head and kissed her and said in . gulpy
sudden way: Il hope l never say a
thing to hurt you again, Nora Lee.
You've given up an awful lot for me-"
She was abashed and longed sud-
denly for chance to sacrifice; to
prove herself worthy. She would never
complain again even to herself. An
hour like this was worth all pangs of
birth and death.
How simply in a moment Of SUI
preme emotion, we vanquish life. We
are gods. mighty in our power. We
look in the face of hardship, trouble,
suffering. And we laugh. What are
n.