San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13
Nora Lee, All Alone in
: World, Hides Despair
in Letter to Dane.

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dims and its living color fades ant
it's half vanished before it can b
seized.
But what a world it might BE- il
these golden vitalities were given
chance when the flame and song vert
at their height! Ah-this was the
way it ought TO be.
Nora Lee sat there dreaming. Yes
she would write a book like More s
Utopia" and bring in nightly the
rights of the young and the rights Ct
love
But with us, Dane, love is more
complete. believe, than with others.
What you said that day on Mount
Davidson proves it. 1t is almost. as
though we are already married . e.
so our love ought TO grow strong
or.
The poor pen faltered. Suppose
their love didn't grow stronger? And
all this she was writing was 4 lie
anyhow. He would know that she
was almost insane with loneliness ;
that she was afraid to be here alone !;
that she would die if Sallie didn't
come as she promised; that weeks,
perhaps months more here alone
would simply drive her TO a mad
house; that she sat now listening to
the log cracklc on the fire and was
half frightened to turn and survey
the long, Swallowed room.
LOVE.
"Oh you must study ten times
harder-dou't you dare to stop loving,
and neither will !. l will keep all
the promises / made. Perhaps il Is
better for us to be tested. They
say young love doesn't last, though
| don't want any other kind but
young love
of course the term is already
opened so | won't enter the univer-
Sity now. am going TO business col
Iege TO fill in the time while waiting
to see just what my assets are. j
think il would be exciting to take
position, anyway. Business may
prove a magnificent and thrilling adj
1t was at this sentence that Nora
Lees flucncy baked. She pushed
he pages under the blotter.
For it was not a magnificent and
thrilling adventure TO have less than
300 TO her name =. TO be forced
10 stay on living here because she
Jared not spend money for a room
elsewhere -. and further than this
% know that she might not even take
4 business course: that at best her
funds would last only weeks.
LOAN DENIED.
In the middle Of the afternoon she
had tried at three banks 10 get
on the house. They re-
used fatty. They were calling in
oans. not advancing them.
But she had called at the business
'ollege where Tessie bright, one of
he girls from high school. was now
inferred. The fee was $50 a month;
the books for the course would cost
in all about $50.
So that was not very encouraging.
lunch and csrfare for a month would
e about SIS and K would cost her
mother $50 at least for her living ex-
lenses. At the end of one month she
yould have about SO left.
Yet she decided that she would en-
er the school-at the end of a month
{ this magical something" hadn' I
she would sell the piano and
n this way she would gradually be
tilted for self support.
AWAKENED.
1t was a dismal substitute for the
,lans Of a few days ago. Then she had
nOncy-she had pictured sadly enough
yet with a sigh Of yearning joyful
icss. the little place she and Dane
would have. She would buy it. In the
mornings each Of them would start off
0 spend the day in study. They
would meet in the evening, do their
hopping tOgethcr-cOme home 10 a
right little kitchen md cook chops
nd fry potatoes. There would
,e long evenings when they would at
end concerts when they would read
Ogcthcr-or walk under yellow
pring moon.
she suddenly remembered why all
his was lost. She went over and
melt before the fire. One BY one, look
ng only long enough 10 make sure sh.
lad not been tricked. she took out tn
cttcrs Andrew had written TO her
mother. and tossed them on the logs
ike burning some sweet and beauti-
al spirit Andrews letter would
.e like that. She remembered the
morning they returnc: after that fran
ic yet wOndrous night in the orchard
how princely Andrew had been to
Jane-hov fine his understanding
As she leaned down she fancici
Margaret and Andrew walking
through some 5eavenely lane Of trees
their faces white with sorrow
'rieving because they knew the thing
hat happened. -"
And she had really been begrudg.
ng it 10 her mother-clsc Why all
hat storming as she wrote the letter
- She went back and added ar
lent-trusting lincs-the world was q
kind. happy place oh, all who
would come out right.
She addressed the envelope, and,
grabbing up an old umbrella, went
lying down 70 the corner TO put il
IN pOstbOI.
She stood there peering into the
hole and wondering: What will h.
io?'
CHAPTER XLVII