San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

there = probably sitting il
the big leather armchair
his feet on the firebox.
From the bay window hi
could see her standing at the
stone bulkhead. BE might look up
and wave, signaling for her to wait
--he was coming along. A hundred
times this had happened in the past.
So Judith paused and opened hel
purse 10 make sure that her keys were
rhere. Then, for no reason at all
she ran back 10 the house. returning
with her heels clicking noisily. He
would hear that. He had often tvit.
ted her because she liked TO clap her
heels when she walked.
No one looked up from the window.
She started down the hill slowly. gaz-
ing at the lights blinking on Fillmore
street. She thought with a panic of
shame: "He heard me. he wculdn I
come. It's all ended. You ought to
know il BY now. He'll never come
running down the hill after you again.
That's all finished. -. -
She could hardly drag her feet
down the long, dingy blocks. .
What dark, obscure canyon this
srreet was at night, with the old
brewery. the grimy. dilapidsted houses
and the dozens of garages, Usually
when Judith went to the library he
came along and then the blocks were
all TOO short, and she never noticed
the ugliness.
Tonight she could have wept about
st. She saw at the window Of flat
that shrieked for paint, and all the
shades torn 10 ribbons, little girl
with her face pasted against the glass.
An angular woman came in sudden
" and clutched the little ones Shout
der. yelling at her: Didn't / tell you
not to hide? Didn't IL and slapped
the unprotesting little face.
Judith stamped her foot. For a
moment she thought Of dashing TO the
door, screaming at the woman, How
dare you. I'll have you arrested y
Tears few TO her eyes.
I'm crying for myself" she thought
cynically.
And a cold, proud judith answered /:
sTe1 the truth, You're crying for
him-because he heard you and hs
wouldn't come"
Suddenly she stopped. asked herself
in terror: "Does he think interfer-
I'd? Perhaps she told him. ~
Her heart fhumped - heavy and
hot. But no, Sandy wouldn't
do that.
The picture Of Sandy as they sat at
The lunch table yesterday came TO Ju-
dith-a sweet, laughing Sandy. breez-
5ng into the office at noon time with
the gardenias on her shoulder snd
"a whole box OF gsrdenias for Ju'
dith.
Yestertay Judith was %. Shed for
gotten about il until Sandy arrived,
ready for a celebration, bringing with
her the exquisite flowers. six pairs o,
sheer, beautiful silk stockings and a
bottle of perfume that cost IS an
ounce. Extravagsnt-she never saved
a cent. what no. tomorrow" she
laughed at Judith's shocked, you
sshouldn'tl You'll end in the poor
Arouse ~
! And yesterday Sandy said: "You
like them. Judy? Oh, Jude, you're
tnot hating me? You're not hating the
fsight Of me?' Said that raising those
.5oveiy, appealing eyes that laughed, yet
filled with tears.
What had Sandy done. Judith won
dered. knowing that for two weeks they
had not been out together? Was It
pended: Did he. too, see the tragic
hfolly of such love as theirs would
PIE; SO he quietly accepted her dis
trissai.
Not like him, Not at al Ike
Douglas Keith,
Judith got down stacks ~ essays,
vailed them about her as she sat in
ivhe reading room Of the library. But
her eyes remained glued on a single
I page that in an hour wasn't turned.
\ He heard her coming down the steps,
ftut he wouldn't come TO the window
Fsnd wave. She was as sure Of this as
I though she had been in the room. And
50. perhaps, he thought she had some
hand in sandy's decision? And he
had become perfectly furious at her
ipterference? He had forgotten all
their years OF Joyous companionship:
These questions turned in Judith's
mind. They killed her with q sick fear
Of his judgment. She could imagine
him telling her 10 mind her own bust
ness. He was old enough TO run his
own show
She saw him standing before her.
the eyes she so loved blazing with an
ger. She got up suddenly, leaving all
the books stacked there, and went from
fhe building shaking from head to
foot.
She thought IN q frozen way: "Iql
ask Sandy what she said" To her
1maxement she found herself crying
crying as she went racing up the dark,
terrifying streets, saying almost wild
": "she could have left me his good
fopinion-she could have left me that!'
When she reached her room, the
closet door was open. In the light
from the hall she saw Sandy standing
lat that little window-Judith's own
little window-stsnding there and gaz-
lang into the kitchen next door.
A guilty flush spread over Ssndy's
checks; her eyes were enormous and
black. She gave e queer. shivering
laugh. and turned her head sharply.
Judith, too. turned away. Judith
Wrought: "God--shs loves him as much
God, she loves him as much" Aud
more terrible than her own pain did IL
<eem that anyone rs beautiful-any-
one a. gays Sandy should bear SUI
fcFinr like tbis-hke this twisting