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

lall her plans. She felt herself Dorl
for higher destinies and was secret!
amazed that fate in this mood of TEN
porary blindness had so lost sight o
her.
1t was ten days since she had writ
ten the letter TO Dane; ten days since
she had put from her thoughts thu
dream of this wild sweet springtimt
love.
SEEKS MIRACLE.
But a hope that, through some mir
acle. her decision would be repudiatcd
lloitercd and was down there in hel
heart warm and fragrant. Half be
cause of this she remained late in the
schoolroom. If ran, wrote at once
there should be letter waiting now
She was counting on it though she as
sured herself: Il can't hear today-to'
morrow will be the earliest :" Yet
she would be disappointed if the letter
were not under the door and she didn't
want to be disappointed. So she de-
layed. dreading any addition TO the
aloneness that was fast reaching the
hysterical stage.
Each day it became more difficult
to return to the lonely house; each day
the sense Of doom. of living in an open
grave, grew more oppressive.
She had packed away all her moth
er's things. Only the books and few
treasures. she meant to keep with her.
There were the jewel box and brace
let of pearls, an old Spanish chest. the
spinnet desk and a rare Chinese priest
robe of exquisite design. These were
Andrews gifts: these Margaret loved.
Not for fortune would Nora Lee sur
render them.
SORROW LINGERS.
They were stacked in Margaret's
room and the door there was locked.
Nora Lee was ready at a moments
notice to walk out of the house. She
was burning with a restless impa-
thence TO shake off the terrible
chains of love and memory. She
reproached Dayne for this aching
wish 10 leave her with sorrow.
Yet she was always longing for
the time to pass-if two or three
years would only fly by and she
would want to laugh; want to be
gay again.
She put away her books. As she
put the leather cover on the type
writer she glanced about the room
with the fnrtive thought: Il am
the most alone person in the whole
world"
She called up the real estate agent.
She did this every day. He said now
as before: Not yet, Miss Meadows.
But you know these rainy months are
always dull. Things will pick up in
the spring"
spring? l thought it began in Feb
ruary?"
April or May"
KEEPING ILLUSIONS
So she would have 10 continue liv-
Ing alone; continue to coax Sallie or
Virginia 10 spend the nights with her.
But Sallie was entered at the uni
versity: she was now staying over.
And three times in ten days Nora Lee
had been alone. The last time she
read until 8 o'clock and then fell
asleep in an armchair near the fire.
Tonight Minna Paul was coming.
She was 1G, a pretty. knowing girl
who already sat in judgment on her
older sisters. Connie, nearing %,
was old and "too wild" in Nina
opinion. Sallie was stupid, having
failed TO annex a large train Of adj
mipcrs. But she. Minna-well wait
year, They'd sit up and take no.
tice. She cOnfided TO Nora Lee tht
F.I oil ~
awful petting parties; they were
shocked when girls cursed. The
young girls-Of course those out of
their teens were already in the dis
card-Were now keeping their illu-
sIons." II was the very latest.
Nora Lee found Minna rather try
ing, but she was quite willing to
pay for company. She would enter
tain Minna so royalty that Minna
would wish TO come again. SO she
stopped at a bakery on Stockton
street and bought French pasteries.
There would be a fea- Of sandwiches
and chocolate. She put down half
dollar and said 10 herself, Still
forty dollars 10 the good
She was only halfway up the stairs
when she saw the white edge Of an
envelope. She began to tremble: tears
gushed 10 her eyes. He loved her, II
course. He hadn't wasted a moment.
She pulled the envelope to pieces in
her haste. not knowing what she
hoped 10 find therc-what impetuOus
offers; what flaming sweet demands.
II was a long letter-she read on
and on-she felt as though her
breath was getting thin. Suddenly
she realized what she had been hop
ing. Why. that be would brush
aside all her problems; that he would
take them on his own sboulders-that
nc would rush out and burn and STAY;
rob: turn hOldup-aBything 50 long
as he came to her or sent for her.
THEY MUST WAIT.
She had chung To the thought Of
him. He would sec through her. He
would know she was desperate with
ned
But be did not, He thought sL.
was TLdLy going 10 business college
just e. keep her mind occupied until
she lad settled her affairs. AND tIeu
sac would come OF course, that house
Of theirs would bring a neat sum
lloyd have 70 wait but he had found
tine ~ est place where they could live.
L. might be gone in a few months. Per
haps shC could get Mickey Grdat 70
SoTjr her affairs. He knew all 4yout
thc Jaw. n Mickey took charge VI il,
cuIldn she come, anyway:
There was this paragraph that aGe
he- Uy:
Il went out the day I got IDsr
frs. lctter because I thought yJu