San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-23
WEALTH COMES
To DANE AND
NORA LEE
Young Couple Moves to
Larger Apartment as
Good Times Arrive.

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feet, Dane. We've been buried al
most whole year
And you're going TO have every
darn thing you want from now on.
Nora Lee. So forget it,
PROBLEM LINGERS
Her perplexity remained. She lay
awake that night and wcpt because
her. thought was so bewildercd. She
wanted TO keep love-above anything
IN the world she wanted this. She
BALI prayed that some divine voice
would whisper to her the straight.
sure way TO go.
If they took her mothers house
If they banished the bright. happy.
world as Margaret had done. would
they grow close; grow great and
strong together? She fancied Dane
swinging through the garden gate or
coming into the living room and
folding her in his arms. an ever
increasing gladness in his heart as
the years climbed about them.
In the morning she half deter
mined to say: "Well-let us take the
house. Our son may be looking for
a home,"
But she faltered. And that night
ne said: The house is rented
S110-there's luck for you
She gasped and for a few days the
mOurnful sense of loss trailed in the
wake OF every thought; checked every
careless laugh.
But they took the apartment on
the second floor just above their
own. Ii was bigger, with the same
view from the living room; the same
immense fireplace. But now they
had a real bedroom and the entrance
went directly and neatly 10 the
street. They only paid SO more.
Sometimes Nora Lee felt that she
drank its distilled beams because of
the bright radiance that sparkled in
her blood.
1t had been brave and sweet and
tender in those months OF economy
and scheming and worrying over
the mounting debt. 1t had beer
thrilling. often. when the days were
darkest to hear him say: you want
to give me a chance. don't you, Nora
Lee? You know III get by"
Just the same it had been like
dwelling in cloistral seclusion with
staid tranquility flowing about
them. And they were glad, both of
them, 10 shake the dust OF this mo-
nsstic quiet from their feet; to tread
jauntily into SUMMER gardens; to
look at each other with trimming
eyes and say: "And we're the ones
that can do it, eh:"
They had been happy before
now they would be joyous as well.
Their lives would broaden out, grow
rich. deep. splashed with color.
They could fling themselves into
the hot-throb Of living now-give
youth its right. They could go on
He said once teasingly: I'll take
you 10 Yosemite in the SHOWS
THEN 4 CAR
She colored: WAS shallow, then,
Dane:"
Il don't feel mad about that or
anything now, Nora Lee"
"Oh-you're too sure Of me. Then
III have TO attend to that"
They gave little dinner parties. |
Nora Lee could play bridge in the
afternoon: she could have her hair
yhampooed and her nails manicured
without feeling that she was rob
bling a bank.
The day he received the commits
sion for Natalie Herbert's house. !
Dane drove up to the door in a
up for me. Nora Lee"
Suddenly overcome. she dropped
her head on the wheel and burst into |
tears.
You'll spoil me-" she said mist
ly.
That's what l want TO do. wont
be content until / can make you re-
,al-until l send you to the opera in
.rmine and emeralds.'
She looked at him with a sudden,
startled alarm. why should you wish /
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