San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13

would ike, and it wouldn't cost 81
much. | told the woman I'd take it
LurG, its awful to think | can't sa!
10 you. And we will take it! l1u'rt
10 comet But / don't fancy I'm Sucl
catch that you'll want to starSe .ol
mt. II | had a red cent of my own
! would 90 back to California b"
cldsa. Nora Lee. | made a nistakC
thinking that leaving you would make
it easier TO concentrate on my studies
Ii doesn't. I'm just eaten with .C1elI
ness. I'm ashamed to say it bat In
hcnesitk for you. Perhaps | haven
much sand but if you'd say one word
now I'd throw up. the whole works
and come. Id beat the brakes but
Id get there. Shall /?
"Ycu say it may be just as well
for us to be tested? Why? Aren't
you sure of your love? | am.
have been from Iie beginning.
80 | had known when | first sol
Sour wiIc that things would turn ~
lie his l wouldn't have waited. II
is tClIibie to tnlnk of you all alone
t'Iure Are you staying vii Con-
ZIG: l gathered this. ni;Ile give
mt iuii details and write 1t once,
HLw long do you think it Sili be be-
Tor" things are settled!
g! rove you. Nora Lee, as you know,
blt l can't write the way YOU can. |
lnvC your blut eyes and v0u- black
hair, / see your face, and sometimes
=. light l tramp about mere brcar:c
am restless forging for yoT. Please
w;;te now-then l will have an answer
IN Saturday. | never disd1pOint y2L
;: hccp you waiting a minute.
"Icu say you want me 10 succeed
t, &c: 10 the top. Do you, really, CT
10 you want me anyhow? If SO, say
it Ill come. That's what love does.
Ger [ care a hang aboI anything
cas-, Tut you, Nora Lee but you.
louie tie sweetest dear
She went tiptoeing down the hall
to her room. When deeply moved
..G,L Lee walked on her toes IN
talked in soft murmur to herself. She
cid amazed, and feeling fiv" rush
;ng 40 her neck: che dos4T [ know
n, TO sn't know-oh, do Ta"t him
- want him"
CALL FROM MINNA
She became indignant when hot tears
splashed in her hand. She tried to
brush them off. But suddenly she
whispered: III cry If l want! l
have a right to cry!'
She was unlocking the door OF her
mothers room. She didn't know why
she wished TO hide herself in there.
But she sat on the bed and buried
her face in the pillow.
The phone tangled through the
empty house-three times before she
it. 1t was Minna. She
come. Would Nora Lee mind
if she changed the date to tomorrow?
No-Nora Lee didn't care. All
nights were the same.
She remained hours sitting in the
living room-scarcely noticing the
dark. aware only of a panic in her
heart aware only of the feeling
that she were being dropped into a
pit. deeper and deeper. She would
never get out. No one cared. Not
even Dane. No one would reach her
4 hand.
She got up and went to her room
and began feverishly to dress. She
decided that she would go out-some-
vhere-anywhere-
She opened the front door, but she
stopped to take off her gloves. They
were too hot on her wrists, and she
went back to change her hat. This
cherry rcd thing was the one she
had worn on the picnic just about
a year ago-a year since he had told
her he loved her -.
When she returned to the open
door someone stood on the thresh-
old. 1t was Godfrey Bell. her teach
er at the high school. Her face had
an air Of suspense, as though he
were. with the greatest difficulty,
keeping down an inner excitement.
He said, hurricdly: you're not go
ing away. are you, Nora Lee?'
Even in her distraction she no.
ticed that be called her by her first
name and it sounded sorrowful and
sweet the way he said it. Il was
but il doesn't matter. Were you com
ing for a visit =
"Yes-will you let me? I took a
chance that you'd be here. Last
night You weren't. want very much
10 see YOU" He had hold Of her
hand. His was cold and it shook.