San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-16
Nora Lee breads Day Of
Reckoning That
Must Come.

Must Come.
CHAPTER xLVIII
BUY me a pony?"
"Yes."
1.-TWO ponies?"
"Yes!"
can a train an a otero-
biIe?"
"Yes!"
Gleeful bubbling sounds.
II like you, daddy-a orful
lot"
To Nora Lees half waking mind,
the sharp, quick voice of the boy and
the deep toned quiet Of the mans came
from the adjoining room, mingling and
pulsing like pain one tries to for
get.
Perhaps Dane was holding the
child-his brown, shapely head low
cred as he made little figures in clay
to delight the boy.
THOUGHTS WHIRL
Nora Lee clasped her hands over
her eyes and tried not to think; tried
not to weep because the father loved
the little fellow, yet had betrayed
him; not to cover because the crush
ing moment of farewell must soon
arrive.
But round and round whirled the
blurred, distorted thoughts; back and
forth filed the prodding regrets; fears
beat and beat on her heart. Oh, why
does the past always creep upon the
present, why does the present need to
fade into cruel and aching futures !
II there were only this moment
those two in there happy with each
other and she lying quiet and nerve
less this moment perpetuated
into years
Slowly she wiped the tears that
trickled under her closed eyes. She
wondered in torturing, bcfogged
way IL Dane were sorry If he would
have wiped out that night and the
scenes that must have preceded it.
TREASON, SHAME
She wondered pathetically why
things had happened as they did. They
had started ont so bravely and with
such high and shining dreams. Oh,
they were the young and mighty ones
to turn a laughing face and bid Life
let loose what storms it would. They'd
breast them.
But they lad failed. Imperceptibly
they had drifted apart. And suddenly
there was this bald mountain of trea-
son and shame risen between them.
They could never clasp hands over it
or round it. They were irrevocably
parted now.
He was no longer hers. Once they
had climbed hills and snatched dear,
stolen kisses: once ne told her with
young sobbing joy: "I'd rather die,
Nora Lee. than live to see the dav
when you and I would cease to love-"
She answered with youths blind, ex-
allied faith: "That day can never
come"
1t was here now. He brought it.
He himself brought it to her. Why
had he done this? Why had she let
him do it? Why lad she not stool
imperious, strong, sweet. and said 70
him: "No, The love is also mine. You
shall not, dare not hurt it," Why had
she not-subtly as a woman must
maintained the sole and happy DOM
nation of his heart?
LOST FIGHT.
S5e shivered and pulled the covers
10 her chin. She. too, had failed. She
had watched him passing from her.
She had felt piercingly the charm
and power Of Natalie Herbert. All
and she had bought clothes to use as
weapons against Natalie's vital int!
lect; Natalie's glowing spirit
She shrank now. recalling these vaip
and futile efforts. Why had she been
stupid like this? She who was one.
so vivid. 20 tingling and colorful
thing? When they were married, life
sparkled in her veins with the sam,
high glow that it sparkled in his. Whv
and how had she sunk from these in
tense heights? Why had she not kept
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