The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-07-13

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further with these thoughts. Satur-
day--he was soHslnx to dtnner.
Eight o'clock he would come walk
Her cheeks stained and hot, she
began to dress. She. eaid: Lord, it's
quiet here! wonder Il there's any
mail"
There were xhrse lstters. two
from Alice. The first caseht Sandy
like Z spasm.
"The j's is UP, Sandy" Alice had
this habit Of making a startling re-
mark. following i UP with gosting
slowhcss. She had i sense Ut dra-
mates. extremely irritating to her
listeners. 1.-THE Jig Is up. You're
husband knows you're all right. He
means to &C., you back BY hook or
Wednesday afternoon after he left
here. 1 dashed to your house. get
ting Name to drive me. But he'd
evidently raced back himself, for
he was there. I said to him: Has
Sandy returncd?'
"His face looked rs though it was
starchcd. mo. she hasn't
II said as though dying Of alarm:
We'll have to do something. God
knows what may have happened
"He had murder in his eyes: 4
believe you also know, Miss (get the
Miss) Mcneil! propose to do some
thing very quickly
"'What do you propose to do"
"'That's my busincss!'
"'Wcll, it's mine also
L. al
Mcneil
"No chance, Of course, to get your
things. Better buy some. Unless
Ida can break into your room when
he's asleep. I gave her the skeleton
keys and told her to try it. She's
strong for you.
II left and evidently he went at
once and phoned to mama. She
gave him tho goods--innocently. Of
course She believes you're having
a lovely visit with Judith. gather
from her account that your husband
asked very considerably about her
health and could no do anything for
her. OF course. this touches her
and she gets the wccps telling me
Ben is such good man and why
isn't Sandy happy.
II guess ma asked when you
were coming home. He answers:
I'm not sure. Did she write to
you. mothcr?" Ma says: "Oh. ycs-I
had lovely letter. She and Judith
are having a wonderful time
THAT let's him see the lay Of the
land! He sees that ma hasn't q
suspicion why. when or how you
left. But he's dead sure know all
about it. He told ma he was going
to the city to get you.
II wouldn't put it past him to put
a detective on your trail. Watch
your step. kid. He's n mean hombrc.
It's pretty tough that you're tied to
him for life"
Sandy opened the second letter.
II was sharp 1t set her pulse fly
ing:
'Isn't this red hot? can hardly
believe 1.-THE sanctimonious hypo-
critic! But suppose he'll say you
drove him to it,"
Enclosed was a clipping from the
Santa barbara paper with Sandy's
picture on the front page. Across
the top was the heading. Narrowly
Escapes Death" There followed an
account Of an automobile accident on
Wednesday midnight. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Murillo. returning from Los An
gelcs. were struck BY another ma
chine. BY 4 miracle. il seemed. no
wife were able to proceed homcward
in their own machine.
The information stunned Sandy.
ben 'Murillo driving with a woman
At midnight--passing her off IS his
Wife E&
Alice commented: "May Arliss
rang up your house to find out
about it and your husband tells her
the newspaper made q mistake, that
it was his sister and hot his wife
who was driving with him. Some
abb. isn't it? Wonder who the
dame is? Gosh. if she doesn't get
any more out Of him than you did!
Couldn't you use this against him?
would swear by all the gods that
she was the woman
For reason that she didn't at
first analyze. Sandy felt as though
a weight dropped from her. She
told herself: I'm glad! God-I'm
glad!' She went almost running to
the beach. She rubbed her hands
along her arm as though she were
pushing chains from her.
She was free of him completely.
His infidclity left her free. It dis
solved even the moral ties nc might
still have held.
She looked at the wide stretch Of
waters. Far out a whale sent sill
yer geyscr upward. She thought
"I'm alone. belong to myself
now
These words made her cheeks
burn. She went with q still, tight
cned expectancy back to the house.
She busted it. She put poppics that
she had picked in the glowing field
on the tables and shelves. Now and
then she looked at the clock To-
wards 8 o'clock she kept going to
the door. pccring into tho shadows
At 8 she heard 9, step. She closed
the door quickly, clasping her hands
against her chin. But she pulled it
open. giving quick. frightened
laugh.
Not Ramon. but messenger boy.
was coming up the. walk He had
telegram. Ramon wasn't coming.