San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-14
Grips Sandy's
Heart as Death Ends
Mothers Suffering.
CHAPTER ".

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he chilly old house. She
made . wood fire in the
tove and set the iron, kettle
Sbver the flame.
+ Waiting for the water to
boil, she stole down the
porch into the old neglected
garden, palpitant with the
1nurmuring hush of the
light. The moon swan in a sea Of
Jade, and all over the vines went q
thost-like, silver lambency.
She moved toward it in a dream
head uplifted, FURNISHED hair in the
moonlight framing her face like a
,himbus. She put out her hands, awed
and tremulous IN the Silly radiance.
This night in spring-this warm,
huiet night and she here. quiet as
the darkness. still as the leaves. She
booked up at the moon now floating
away in luminous clouds. Three years
ago she had so watched the moon in
the mountain garden where Ben Muir
lilo took her the night of her mar.
siage - watched the moon and felt
all happiness; all youth. drifting away
IN 4 golden mist.
She watched it now with smiling
lips and eyes filling. A sadness, yearn-
Eng. pervasive and causeless, EMBODIED
her like the nebulous perfume of the
garden.
March-three months since she and
Ramon had stood here, the rain pour
Ing on them-his wet lips pressed on
hers. Sometimes she awakened at
might with a vision of their two forms
Hrenched and shadowy, confronting
her from a dream. And in the routine
of the old home with the cooking to
be done, dishes to be washed, Isabel
70 be served, the whole episode of the
rottage at Carmel now seemed a ro-
mantle. incredible fantasy.
did it happen? Was it all real?"
khe would sometimes whisper. Then
the mail would bring her a gift-a
brief message.
Ramon was in China. Every few
weeks he sent her some rare, beauti-
ful treasure. Alice would lean over her
shoulder, snap her tongue against the
roof Of her mouth with an insinuat-
ing: "The kid i'll the office again ?
Rich, isn't he!"
Hes got a wonderful job there.
Things don't cost much"
Alice. raising her eyebrows and her
lips: well, far be it from me TO dis
courage your little intrigue, kid! II
you ask my advice I'd say Make the
most Of your opportunities Better TO
have regret in your life than
vacuum
And Sandy would flippantly rejoin /:
mo monopoly on regrets, Ally ole
dear. Why don't you go out and ac-
auire a few"
At such illusions TO her age, Alice
became morbid and shrewish: "Well,
n were % and knew what I know
todayv She Haunted down the hall,
that shouldcr-blade of hers sticking
out pathetic and accusing.
Sandy would fold up the gift, oil
her anxiety, her foreboding and de-
preston returning. Like this morn
ing when there came a shawl from
Cathay-a brilliant thing with back
ground of green embroidered in soft,
rich hues of lavender, blue and tar
nished gold. The green was like a
light against her red hair and shadow
ed eyes.
Ramon's note said: dearest, you
love these glowing things. Your old
one that you got from your unlucky
cousin, that lovely Spanish girl you
told me offs worn to a thread. Be-
sides, why should her unhappy man
ale fall on you? Wear this. And may
The moon shine sweetly through your
xrapevines. May it shine on u.s.. !
love you more"
In a flood of tenderness her thought
rent out to him. She saw him,