San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-07
Nora Lee Determines That
Two Can Play at
Danes Game.
CHAPTER XXXVI

A young girl stood on the diving
board above the immense pool. Her
arms were flung out in the trium'
plant gladncss of a winged Victory
Other girls, their faces winning and
lovely with youth. as even humble
flowers are winning. clambered ur
the narrow ladder. ;heir high. bub'
bling chatter mingling with the
music that drifted down from the
flower-filled lobby.
1t was the opening day of Ma.
tales building, "The Girls Hotel
and Athletic Club And girls-hun-
drcds of them were already in pos
session of the cozy, sun-filled rooms.
Other hundreds, merry and colorful
as n moving field Of peoples, went
swaying through corridors and halls.
Youth, happiness, laughter filled all
the great spaces.
Natalie. radiant as the youngest,
watched the girl on the diving board.
Even her hand, touching now and
then on Nora Lees arm, tingLed
with the vibrance of swiftly
charged current. Half shyly, she
said !: "One would think the triumph
were mine"
Isn't it,"
Her lips moved, but she gave no
answer, a momentary sadness, like
a sigh posing from her eyes.
Nora Lee said: 1T was n won
derful dream that you've realized.
Surroundings like these will alter
the lives of scores Of those girls"
Natalie laughed and pointed to the
far corner beyond the pool, where
n made-slope of powder white sands
cleaned. Especially, that, Nora
Lee! Dane fought it. It's not prac-
teal and the people of Carmel began
to fear We were stealing all their
beach away. But 1 had to have that
feature. What is a swim without a
doze on warm sands afterward?"
Dane. walking just behind them
with Mickey Grant, Connie and Max,
now caught an arm of each: rs she
gloating over me, Norry? We'll not
blame her, will we?"
PRIDE SURGES.
His face was flushed, exuberant
and boyish. An hour ago he said to
Nora Lee: "Gee Whit" then he
snickered and added shecpishly, but
it is kind of satisfaction. We've
only been at it seven years or So!
She had gone up blithely and kissed
him and ran her hand over his thick
brown hair.
And now she felt only a wealth
of gratitude for his success-a great,
warm affection for Natalie and the
part she had played in making his
achievement possible.
She heard nm old lady, passing
through the great kitchen where
girls who wished could do their own
cooking, remark: Now this is a
worthy project. This is just my
ideal of a good work. That must
be very smart young man who
planned this. 1 hear he is young.
Nora Lee heard this and gave a
sharp, gleeful cry of laughter. She
felt proud. Her heart sang with
pride.
The tank was now filled with a
shouting tbrong. Red and blue caps
bobbed on the water. More girls en-
tered, an endless tide of eagerness and
joy.
GAYETY REIGNS
Others were hurrying to the dance
hall, where the musicians now played I;
still further groups filled the dining
room and passed sandwiches and tea
to the visiting guests. Some of the
girls smiled with the welcome Of con-
fident hostcsses-but others had a du-
bious look, as though they expected to
be pinched and awakened and told that
it was all n joke. OF course. this
splendid building, with all its facilities,
couldn't really be theirs to use and en-
joy. almost for the mere asking!
Three Of these girls, and they seemed
exceedingly pretty with their spark
ling eyes and their highly rouged lips.
made n little rush toward them with
heaps of sandwiches and trays of tea.
They didn't know Natalie, but they
were most airily gracious.
Natalie. surveyed them with a touch
of pity: aft they could only know the
wonder of these young years, Nora
Lee the best Of all life for woman. A"
"How can you say thing like that?
They haven't even lived yet"
Yes-they are alive. They will
never be so dynamic with life. Now
they wonder about the right and tho
wrong; the beautiful and the ugly.
Now they struggle TO adjust themselves