San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-03
INVITES
FRIENDS AND
ANGERSbEN
Murillo Checkmates Her
Effort to Get Pals
to Party.
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what is coming, give meat to the
gossips? That incident is past,
Sandy; I've overlooked it once.
There's no need 10 be continually rak-
ing it in my face
She answered nothing.
In the morning she went out and
mailed these invitations. She had no
sooner done this than she was an
guished with alarm. Murillo had al
ready snubbed Heinie openly. She
began TO fear that he might refuse
her friends admittance to the house.
She could meet any rage he might
visit upon herself. but she quailed at
the thought of sdbjecting these I'M
suspecting friends to insult.
She finally went TO Murillo. She
said to him: Il just want to tell you
that j came back to yod Intending to
do the best / cou1d.'
He closed his magazine, a faint
sarcastic curl to MS moist red lips.
Il think 1 understand perfectly,
Sandy, your reasons for returning to
me-
She flushed. ~ admit it. L had
to come. But / mean to do the best
can; So now. I'm going TO tell
you. Don't think you're God in my
opinion. Don't think you own me
body and soul. You can't tell me to
snub the friends of lifetime and
expect that I'll obey you. 1 won't.
1 think and feel as 1 please and ask
no ones permission
I'm saying this to give you warn
ing. If you do anything to insult
me or my friends, you'll find your
self without wife. And Ill take
care that you shall never see my
child :"
Not a muscle Of his face moved, but
there went over it a notified, bluish
pallor He picked up this maya
zine. turned pages in a clamorous ST.
lence.
She remained standing before him.
Finally he closed the book. In a
voice that he tried visibly to con-
troll: You're very good at making
threats. Don't try to carry out that
laa one. Don't try to carry it
OUT"
The day OF the housewarmlng !;
Sandy was in a state of pitful excite
ment. She was almost driven to ring
up Jimmy and tell him not to come.
She didn't do this. Shed given a def
to Fate and she would not back down.
She told herself desperately: Hell
not dare to test me. He's afraid Of
what I'll do
Now she sat at her dressing table.
She wore black with long string of
crystal beads. Her eyes were very
dark-the faintest color in her white
cheeks.
Murillo. who had been dashing
about everywhere, giving a thousand
orders TO their one maid and to the
caterer. came in suddenly. closing the
door behind him. This unusual aetiv-
ity made him excessively tense.
He watched Sandy, his eyes light
ing with approval. He told her she
looked very beautiful. He was proud
of her.
ran the buffer over her nails, her head
lowered. She was piercingly aware of
his disturbance.
Sandy" he said softly, Il think
we're going to have a wonderful
time tonight
Il hope so.-
I've done everything i could 10
make things pleasant. j hope moth
ing is going TO mar the affair.
:" He came TO a significant
pause.
The blood lesped thunderously to
Ssndy's ears. She wanted to say /:
Don't make scene. Ben, Don't
crowd me to the wall I've warned
you" She found it Impossible to
speak.
When the machines began arriving
she became faint with Apprehension.
Every time the bell rang she trembled.
II she was upstairs with guests she
made excuses and ran out into the hall
leaning over the banisters. And she
was determined to fly TO the door,
flash between Murillo and her friends,
daring him TO belittle them.
By 10 O'Clock she was devastated
with these nervous alarms. She won
dered il Murillo had learned of her
notes and in some dastardly way re-
canted her invitations.
One o'clock. Not one of Sandy's
friends had come. She felt aban-
doned-utterly abandoned.