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

not end it. If she wants to go ahead
with it, she can"
"You mean she can do whatever she
wants to me and I have no rights?"
DEMAND PROOF.
"Well, I'll tell you, Miss, seeing how
things are, she may have an awful
grudge against you. But If Stewart
really made you a present of those
bonds, hold on to them. That's lOtta
money-$15,0 00-and she's got to
prove you stole them. May not be so
easy. She's likely pretty sore and
is trying to throw a scare into you.
Thinks you'll come through TO avoid
a fuss-blackmail proposition. So if
it was me, I'd take my chances"
"You mean you'd take the chance
about being arrested?"
IF it was me and l knew 1 was
clean on the proposition, sure would,
unless she's got something on you you
don't want known"
"She hasn't"
"Then I'd take chance for
$4,000"
Her eyes were scared. She felt as
though they had turned suddenly wild.
She might be arrested, charged with
the theft of $4,000. This might hap
pen whether she returned the bonds
CT not.
The enormity Of this injustice made
her heart flash. Andrew had made
her a gift. Lily Cornish objected. So
she, Nora Lee, was to be assailed,
perhaps arrested, her life ruined more
terribly than her mothers had been.
DARK PHANTOMS.
She stood at the living room
window and watched the detective
swagger down the block. She would
dash after him, beat her fists against
his back, compel him to turn about
and admit the insanity of these
charges.
She would go down and get the
bonds and fling them at Andrews
wife - dare her to bring, a charge.
But no! Shed not turn coward like
that BE a doormat for that vicious,
thin-lipped woman who had sent An
drew to his death and indirectly had
slain her own mother. She'd hide the
bOnds-bury them. Shed go to prison
shut her lips tight-rcfuse to say a
single word.
But when the thought of arrest
became concrete and she saw herself
in a court room, charged as a thief,
she began to walk excitcdly about
the room. 1t was incredible, of course,
1t wasn't going to happen. Any Que
could see she'd never stolen the bonds.
No one would believe such crime
hers.
LAY OF THE LAND"
But if she wished to clear herself,
she'd have to explain how and why
she got them. Shed have to drag
Margaret into it-tell of her to strang-
ers. They would say as the detective
did when he moistened his lips: Il
see the lay of the landw And she
would have to bear it.
She stopped short at her mothers
desk, sick with, fear and grief. They
had gone off at last-Andrew and her
mother. They left her to face such
things alone.
Margaret would have known what
TO do. Andrew would have taken
Lily Cornish forcibly and clapped
hand over her mouth. But she was
more bewildered by this than by
death. She had no idea how 10
meet it.
The detective was on his way back
to the bureau. He was making his
report. They might soon be ringing
the door bell-come for the arrest.
HOUR OF FEAR.
She grew colorless and inert with
fright. They might arrive any mo
ment. They would show her the war.
rant and she would have to go with
them. Miss Sanford would watch in
puzzled wonder. She would talk of
it TO DIR. Ross. One by one the peo-
pie who knew her and knew her moth
er would be whispering.
She ran TO the dining room. 81
have to go away this evening, Miss
Sanford. III pay you now for the
full week, but you may as well 90
us soon as you're ready"
She waited with an unrest SO VIC
lent that it dazzled her while the
nurse packed her things. She list
ened with a burning imputience 20