San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20
Max Violates His Agreement,
and Nora Lee Breaks Off
Their Friendship

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we should stand on our heads TO
= please you?"
e What makes you think that would
! please us? / much prefer you sitting
in angry grace as you are"
I'm not here because you prefer
: it, though" She laughed again.
I'm only here because Max has
abandoned us just when the CONVEX
sation got interesting"
He seized this eagerly: "Yes, which
E theory do you favor, Ida or Bess? Is
Ida justified in her fury against
Life because it failed TO equal her
expectations? Or is Bess wise that
on finding an inevitable end to one
/ earthly joy she merely goes out after
another?"
Nora Lee sighed. 1t dulled the
high fervor of romance to discuss it
with this prosy calculation. But she
said, with flash of insight: Both
were selfish. Both were thinking
only of their own joy-seeking gifts
J just for themselves. We can't 90
? that. l don't suppose Love or Life
are our servants, are they:
DUPEs OF LOVE.
"Just the other way around, most
of the time; at least until this pres
/, emit age. That's why we're all storm
ing against your generation, Miss
Meadows You and your fellows
won't be made the dupes of Love.
Love used to have a trick of roping
all the young people into the ranks
of her service. Shed catch them early,
drop child or two or three into their
laps and before they were aware they
were trapped till the grave released
them. You see, they went into the
adventure in the belief that the Great
Rapture awaited them. But you Of
Today have called for a showdown.
, You want pay before entering"
She missed the sinister implication !:
"Oh, do you mean then that we're
going to make a better thing Of
Love and after while it will really
be as magnificent and lasting as peo-
pie hope?"
A flush spread over the mans face.
he saw the wistful eagerness trern-
bling on Nora Lees lips and was star
tied. She was not posing; she was
staring with misty eyes at some beau
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furnished.
AN. INTERVENTION,
His eyes lowered. They observed
her hand, resting near his on the
card table-a smooth, delicate hand
pale and inviting. His reached
over and covered it: listen, Miss
Meadows" .-
She was amazed. Without moving
she said simply, What is it," She
glanced up. Max and Ida were re.
turning. And Max suddenly jolted
against the table, half oyerturning it.
. He pushed a chair absent mindedly
! between Richard and Nora Lee.
They began to talk of books and
plays. Richard now drank steadily Of
ginger ale highballs. He kept turn
ing to Nora Lee with that flat
tering look when he talked.
She was embarrassed; the zest gone
from the evening, for she knew thai
Max had seen that momentary caress
He would suppose she were now The
type of person who liked this. She
yawned impatiertly and tapped he
foot.
So finally he said, but without
. looking at her: Its after 1. Lett
goI"
He helped her with silent. minut:
care TO the machine. BE said: DID
you enjoy yourself"
She snapped her teeth. Eyes
: did"
That's nice"
Didn't you want me toy
His face was colorless. but his eye
! had an abnormal brilliance. Whel
they reached Sixteenth street, b
drove on until they were in the Pre-
sidio, and climbing a hill so swep
p with fog the trees looked like era!
specters.
He slowed the car, stopped i
against tall bushes, where often the.
7 had watched the straits gleamin
through the branches. Tonight il
the white, drifting mist they saw onl!
, each others faces.
Max slumped until his eyes wer
! on a level with hers. He said cut
: tingly: "Why didn't you advise m
: Of your change in PHILOSOPHERS, Nor
LeeE"
She grew frigid. She curled he
lips with a furious sheer.
"Oh. ] don't mind. Nora Lee.
b knew, Of course, that you woul
b change. but / think your dear pla
! tonic friend might have been warne
. about it.
She was about TO answer hotl
!. when the earneStness Of his fac
f touched her. She laughed softly
Aren't you proud Of yourself for
dear. platOnic friend Could 1 hel
: IL that your friend. Richard. pu
j his hand on mine? II just happene
IS that very second as you came. Nv
is not changed, and the day before
d do you'll be advised! Why, Max"
. She had turned her face upwar
and was laughing in his. Withou
; warning his arms went about he
u roughly. pulled her more closely. II
= kissed her, not as he had previously
N but with swift. burning vehemenct
II He kissed her eyes and her lips an
her throat. She had not strength Q
u calm TO resist him.
re CHAPTER LVI
FLAPPER PHILOSOPHY.
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