The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-10
"SANDY" : s4: ::

ishing and reappearing. She hadn',
the strength either to hold or dismiss
them. Now and then she whispered:
HE may come in here. He sent
flowers-all these flowers" She
grew sick with this expectation.
She was afraid to let the nurse
leave her alone-afraid to open her
eyes.
The door moving softly - someone
standing in the center Of the small
room. Sandy's eyes closed. It was
he. She wouldn't look at him.
He said: ''Shall l stay q moment.
Sandy? Do you want me here p
He had never asked her pleasure
before. She was aware that he suf-
fered.
But the word he called her
drummed dismally in her mind. And
she remembered that he meant to
take the child from her; that he had
told her he wouldn't have her in
his house . moment after two
months-after the child was born.
His saying that and treating her so
had caused all this. She blamed him
for it all.
If the child was taken. she would
charge the death to him!
He came step nearer. She didn't
stir, though she felt his eyes on her
face. Heard his breath catch.
Then he was backing to the door
standing against it, his hands on
the knob.
He went out very softly. Scaldins
tears trickled under Sandy's lids.
They burned little track down her
temples to the pillow:
She felt now, just because Of the
way Murillo stood there that there
was no hope for the child. She felt
her mind flying-flyine from her.
When the nurse came in she
asked. without opening her eyes nor
turning her head: "How is it,"
"Just the same"
"Is someone watching it all the
time ~
Eyes,
"Can't see it!'
Its better if you can school your
self to leave it quiet. 1t needs the
warmth"
. "pid my husband see it"
What did he do?'
"Well-what would you think?
4AC AVOAOu az w. VI SOuISC.
What did he do?"
fellow; he never saw a new baby
After this. Sandy was quiet for
q long time. She slept-in her
dreams she went through it-word
for word. She felt Murillos hands
on her wrist when he came toward
her with his teeth barred, asking:
what about me! What about me!
Act like chippy every chance you
get!"
In her dream, she became violent
against him. She saw herself walk
ing along the beach the day he fol-
lowed and overlook her. She heard
him saying: "Flaunt yourself be-
fore every man you meet. you--!"
When he said that in the dream her
hand flew out and struck him in
the face. Another time, when he
said it she dashed into the waters.
They were frightfully cold. They
swelled about her. The skirt of her
dress rose. It became u weight
around her neck.
She put up her hands to tear it
loose. She sank. She went down
and down. The waters were walls.
They walled her in. She tried to
fight upward-get to the top again.
They sucked her-and sucked her.
Her head swelled with the vast strug-
Cling of her breath.
She moaned in her sleep. Then
she called piteously for the child.
She said: "Let me kiss it. Let mo
touch its face"
No one heard this. She began to \
Try.
Then q hand went over her hair;
} soft, plump hand. A voice mur-
INJURED: "Sandy-Sandy. derlin4l"
Il WAS her mother. Sandy thought
The tears were from her mothers
eyes. She asked, why. are you cry
ng!"
NNo, dear"
AYou saw the baby I"
ssYoe."
Nls It goine to liver
Trust in God. Sandy dear"
'-Oh, mother!"