San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
WOMAN COMES
To MAR JOY
Of SANDY
Heroine Refuses to Listen
to Ramon's Explanation
of Her Presence.

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though he fought against suffocation.
"Sandy-please-Im not to blame"
She made a quick movement to
spring from the car.
"No-don't do that. I'll take YOU"
He lurched down heavily, sitting with
his hands gripping the wheel, his face
bloodless and rigid.
He seemed unable TO move except
for the oppressive breaths bursting in
long. rasping intervals.
4 "Start-oh. please START
you can't mean this. I'll tell
you"
She clapped her hands over her ears.
Let me outlet me go."
"Oh, Sandy-sit down-Ill start.
He sent the car with a wild shot
down the road. And suddenly he
leaned forward with a hoarse sound
like sob and began driving like a
mailman.
Sandy sank against the seat and
hid her face. Hes going to kill us.
He's going to dash up to death.
! don't care,"
The machine tore through the dark
ness, careening over the ruts like
crazy thing. They went dizzying down
the grade between Carmel and Mon !
tcrey. The pines, long quivers OF
black, retreated hastily to the forest. |
Shadows doomed and thronged and
clashed. They rushed together in
black angles with the white road nos |
ing between.
You'll kill u.s. she murmured
family. distraught images going helter-
skelter through her mind. Image of
herself running down the steps of Mu-
rillo's house, stumbling along the road,
covering in the bushes. sinking with
aching relief in Ramon's arms. Her
self, again. rushing through wind ana
rain calling him back to her because
tree kept tapping on the window
pane and the dog whined against her
knee.
Images OF the two of them standing
on the rocks in the midnight on the
edge OF dark, troubled waters, two be-
ings alone, the world shut out.
And now the two of them flying
through the tumultuous, clashing
shadows; flying through blackness ana
havoc 10 their deaths.
"Stop-oh, STOP" she protested,
shutting her eyes against his blanched,
rigid face.
And suddenly she felt the car slow
ing-coming to a pause.
He turned with an almost imper-
cepuble movement, confronting her
with that gaunt, beseeching smlle.
She thought, sick with panic: Hes
going TO talk oh, Lord, now
hes going TO talk
do / deserve this. SANDY"
Don't lie TO me. RaDsn."
I'm not lying to you. I'm not to
blame"
Il saw. l heard"
"Oh, what did you hear? ] only
thought to save yOu in the first mo-
ment. I'll tell you
This half admission that he knew ;
the girl in tie purple kimono made
her suddenly weak with the sinking !
and weight dropping on her heart.
Ramon knew her! So he'd brought
her,tOo. 10 that house, And they
also had stood against the poetic tree .
in the midnight.
4 soft whimper ran 70 her lips. She
shrank from his look.
1T was two years ago, Sandy"
Il don't want 20 hear. Drive on.
You've got 10 hear
NO. What does il matter now! It
doesn't matter, l tell you"
He went on like one driven. BE
fore / went 70 Honolulu. I've not
heard from her in two years. God.
if ghost opened that door u wouldn't
have been more shocking
He took her hand, reached for the
other. pressed his face against them.
4 didn't know you then, Sandy.
didn't dream Of you. Never dreamed
I'd meet you. II was two summers
ago.
His face was icy against her burn.
ing hands. But she didn't try 70 re-
lease them. She kept saying: "No-
don talk. You only make it worse"
Two summers ago she was visiting
friends. II found her fascinating
In a month it was over. went away.
We wrote two or three letters. for
got her. I've scarcely thought Of her
since We parted. She was in New
York. Now she's come back. She says
she wrote 10 me. | didn't receive IT.
She came here. Sag something
won't YOU even speak TO me, Saudyt7
She let her head lie back against
the seat. Unable 10 think; almost mn
able 10 breathe, she ANSWERED Drive
me back. ] want 10 get home
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